Aaron Hood
@aaronhood.bsky.social
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Husband and dad. Podcast host (@interdependentstudy.com). Educator. Facilitator. Organizer. Occasional musician. (Banner is The Hold Steady at Ottobar in Baltimore in February 2023)
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Imperial boomerang coming in fast
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My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
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It’s new episode Wednesday and today we talk about how Democratic leadership won’t catch up to the base on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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💡 EPISODE 220! 💡

In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Democratic Leadership Still Hasn’t Caught Up to the Party’s Base on Gaza” by @szunes.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com.
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📚 EPISODE 219! 📚

In today’s episode, we discuss the book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead by @biidaasamose.bsky.social (and published by @haymarketbooks.org).
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This piece analyzes the scale, scope, & impact of mass protests & organizing work during both of Trump’s presidential terms, & the need for a more sustained mass resistance rooted in local & regional networks.
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📍 EPISODE 218! 📍

In today’s episode, we discuss the piece "Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era” by @keeanga.bsky.social in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.
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I’m reading my review copy now! It’s really great
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This is normal… for Mussolini.
A screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for fascist education
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in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.
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Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Check out our episode to hear what we learn and take away from this incredible piece in our continued learning and unlearning work and fight for collective liberation. Listen now wherever you podcast!
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This piece utilizes the resistance to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act as a case study to highlight the importance of building an intentional and united coalition of organizers, activists, and organizations in the work and fight against fascism and the Trump administration’s efforts.
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🆕 EPISODE 215! 🆕

In today’s episode, we discuss the piece “Where Was the Resistance to Trump’s Megabill of Debt, Death, and Deportation?” by Shamell Bell in @hammerandhope.bsky.social.
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This book outlines and analyzes the attacks on anticolonial, Black, & Indigenous thought, life, and praxis throughout history and around the world, as well as their impact on how racial capitalism has been able to reproduce itself as a recalibrated version of the racial regime in our present day.
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📚 EPISODE 214! 📚

In today’s episode, we discuss the book The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy by Alana Lentin (and published by @plutopress.bsky.social).
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EPISODE 213! 🔗

In today’s episode, we discuss the first piece in the “Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belt” series in @inquest.bsky.social called “Uneven Expansions”, which features a conversation between @lydiajean.bsky.social, Judah Schept, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, & @craiggilmore.bsky.social.
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Legitimizing anything Pirro says tells me a lot about Ken’s character here
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Presenting a whole lot of business as normal today feels very surreal.
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And we see Trump impose his law and order will on a city that has no federal representation.
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While we also see people starving in Sudan and Palestine and other places around the world.
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Getting normal emails and correspondence at work today is super dissonant as we see the reactions to the DOJ’s guidance on July 29th roll out swiftly in higher ed.
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We read and discussed a really great report from Interrupting Criminalization and @lewispants.bsky.social
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🆕 EPISODE 212! 🆕

In today’s episode, we discuss the report “Shaping Reality: Building Informational Power to Resist Authoritarianism” by Lewis Raven Wallace and produced by @interruptcrim.bsky.social.
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Police don't keep keep us safe. No matter how much money, power, and resources we throw at them, the fact remains that police cannot and will not ever deliver safety.
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They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway

Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking

And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere
New details about police activity after lawmaker shootings raise questions about response
The Minnesota Star Tribune found that Brooklyn Park police waited more than 60 minutes to enter the Hortman home and that several law enforcement agencies were unaware of the situation for hours.
www.startribune.com
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It’d be great if the Premiere Pro text style I created last week would be there when I opened up a new project…