awkword
@awkword.bsky.social
Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | @tendemands.bsky.social Founder • Work: NWU, Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Mass Appeal, Melina Abdullah, Noelle Cook, etc. • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social • thisisawkword.com
History buffs! Fantasy fans! This one’s for you…
In The Boys, is Homelander Donald Trump? Or, Andrew Jackson?
the-most-important-election-of-our-lives.castos.com/episodes/the...
@garaktailor.com @kennedytcooper.bsky.social
In The Boys, is Homelander Donald Trump? Or, Andrew Jackson?
the-most-important-election-of-our-lives.castos.com/episodes/the...
@garaktailor.com @kennedytcooper.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 4:27 PM
History buffs! Fantasy fans! This one’s for you…
In The Boys, is Homelander Donald Trump? Or, Andrew Jackson?
the-most-important-election-of-our-lives.castos.com/episodes/the...
@garaktailor.com @kennedytcooper.bsky.social
In The Boys, is Homelander Donald Trump? Or, Andrew Jackson?
the-most-important-election-of-our-lives.castos.com/episodes/the...
@garaktailor.com @kennedytcooper.bsky.social
Alex Vitale (@alexvitale.bsky.social) on the “false conflict” between street protest and electoral politics — and what really happens in between: “community organizing for power” and “building campaigns”
youtu.be/WJhtvFJZuhY
@50501movement.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social
youtu.be/WJhtvFJZuhY
@50501movement.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Alex Vitale (@alexvitale.bsky.social) on the “false conflict” between street protest and electoral politics — and what really happens in between: “community organizing for power” and “building campaigns”
youtu.be/WJhtvFJZuhY
@50501movement.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social
youtu.be/WJhtvFJZuhY
@50501movement.bsky.social @generalstrikeus.bsky.social
“… Elusive this lucidness, you float like a butterfly
And every track mark's another note of your lullaby
But you take chances, cause that’s what being a man is
Plus it’s romantic when you ask God for answers…”
🎶
Why we do it. What it does. Through the eyes of an addict.
awkword.bandcamp.com
And every track mark's another note of your lullaby
But you take chances, cause that’s what being a man is
Plus it’s romantic when you ask God for answers…”
🎶
Why we do it. What it does. Through the eyes of an addict.
awkword.bandcamp.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
“… Elusive this lucidness, you float like a butterfly
And every track mark's another note of your lullaby
But you take chances, cause that’s what being a man is
Plus it’s romantic when you ask God for answers…”
🎶
Why we do it. What it does. Through the eyes of an addict.
awkword.bandcamp.com
And every track mark's another note of your lullaby
But you take chances, cause that’s what being a man is
Plus it’s romantic when you ask God for answers…”
🎶
Why we do it. What it does. Through the eyes of an addict.
awkword.bandcamp.com
That time a radical leftist scum went on a Black white supremacist’s podcast… This is the breadth of the opposition.
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
That time a radical leftist scum went on a Black white supremacist’s podcast… This is the breadth of the opposition.
They’re strip-searching children at school
January 3, 2026 at 1:53 AM
They’re strip-searching children at school
“They call me a creep, never said I’m angelic
‘Cause I live on the street, no one knows where I’m headed…
I’m penumbral, a relic, amorphous enigma, a vestige
Praying for you, the reckless, in desperate need for a respite.”
🪽
In 2026: Don’t judge a person by appearance. Do do #mutualaid.
‘Cause I live on the street, no one knows where I’m headed…
I’m penumbral, a relic, amorphous enigma, a vestige
Praying for you, the reckless, in desperate need for a respite.”
🪽
In 2026: Don’t judge a person by appearance. Do do #mutualaid.
January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
“They call me a creep, never said I’m angelic
‘Cause I live on the street, no one knows where I’m headed…
I’m penumbral, a relic, amorphous enigma, a vestige
Praying for you, the reckless, in desperate need for a respite.”
🪽
In 2026: Don’t judge a person by appearance. Do do #mutualaid.
‘Cause I live on the street, no one knows where I’m headed…
I’m penumbral, a relic, amorphous enigma, a vestige
Praying for you, the reckless, in desperate need for a respite.”
🪽
In 2026: Don’t judge a person by appearance. Do do #mutualaid.
“Thinking that through scarcity we have to be concerned that if somebody else is doing better, we’re going to do worse — these are the tactics of the boss… trying to put us in competition with each other”
- @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, pres, @afacwa.org
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ)
- @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, pres, @afacwa.org
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ)
December 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“Thinking that through scarcity we have to be concerned that if somebody else is doing better, we’re going to do worse — these are the tactics of the boss… trying to put us in competition with each other”
- @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, pres, @afacwa.org
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ)
- @flyingwithsara.bsky.social, pres, @afacwa.org
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ)
How cops train to be mercenaries, with Radley Balko, author, Rise of the Warrior Cop
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/2Ef7AgcGPkg)
@radleybalko.bsky.social
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/2Ef7AgcGPkg)
@radleybalko.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
How cops train to be mercenaries, with Radley Balko, author, Rise of the Warrior Cop
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/2Ef7AgcGPkg)
@radleybalko.bsky.social
(from the vault: 2023: youtu.be/2Ef7AgcGPkg)
@radleybalko.bsky.social
Environmental and Indigenous activists were being labeled terrorists years before Trump took office. We tried to warn you, then…
Have you heard of Jessica Reznicek?
(from the vault: 2023:
youtu.be/1ZDXJjFa7Gw)
Have you heard of Jessica Reznicek?
(from the vault: 2023:
youtu.be/1ZDXJjFa7Gw)
December 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Environmental and Indigenous activists were being labeled terrorists years before Trump took office. We tried to warn you, then…
Have you heard of Jessica Reznicek?
(from the vault: 2023:
youtu.be/1ZDXJjFa7Gw)
Have you heard of Jessica Reznicek?
(from the vault: 2023:
youtu.be/1ZDXJjFa7Gw)
Shot 22 times at age 22 with a 22 caliber pistol… and from a NY city hospital bed, Hezues rose.
True story:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6xmzx...
True story:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6xmzx...
December 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Shot 22 times at age 22 with a 22 caliber pistol… and from a NY city hospital bed, Hezues rose.
True story:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6xmzx...
True story:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/6xmzx...
SOON, IT MAY BE ILLEGAL TO HAVE A… ZINE
Daniel “Des” Sanchez is facing *federal charges* for “transporting a box that contained ‘Antifa materials’”:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
So whatever you do, don’t download and distribute these:
drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
Daniel “Des” Sanchez is facing *federal charges* for “transporting a box that contained ‘Antifa materials’”:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
So whatever you do, don’t download and distribute these:
drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
December 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
SOON, IT MAY BE ILLEGAL TO HAVE A… ZINE
Daniel “Des” Sanchez is facing *federal charges* for “transporting a box that contained ‘Antifa materials’”:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
So whatever you do, don’t download and distribute these:
drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
Daniel “Des” Sanchez is facing *federal charges* for “transporting a box that contained ‘Antifa materials’”:
theintercept.com/2025/11/23/p...
So whatever you do, don’t download and distribute these:
drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
“Corporations dash for cash on our backs while we sleeping
Continuing tradition, trash the earth as it weakens
While we work the double shift at check out lines, on weekends"
Continuing tradition, trash the earth as it weakens
While we work the double shift at check out lines, on weekends"
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“Corporations dash for cash on our backs while we sleeping
Continuing tradition, trash the earth as it weakens
While we work the double shift at check out lines, on weekends"
Continuing tradition, trash the earth as it weakens
While we work the double shift at check out lines, on weekends"
Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis
www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...
Classic Karen Slayer. Watch til the end.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Classic Karen Slayer. Watch til the end.
Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
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According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops?
..
According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
..
According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.
“… About the raping, murdering, civilized aristocrats
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
November 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“… About the raping, murdering, civilized aristocrats
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
Scramble For Africa, like rats trample through trash
Assailants for cash, plus control and domination
Political plans, to stranglehold the population…”
(2012! What’s changed?)
“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“If just bad guys can take lives, system’s broken”
Even Fox News ain’t happy
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Even Fox News ain’t happy
From 👮♂️ Eric Adams to 🚙-less Muslim Zohran Mamdani, who’s so anti-Semitic he saved an historical Yiddish bookstore…
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
From 👮♂️ Eric Adams to 🚙-less Muslim Zohran Mamdani, who’s so anti-Semitic he saved an historical Yiddish bookstore…
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
Yeah, in a New York Minute, everything can change — well, except the built-in police state
Did You Know???…
The conviction of police deputy Sean Grayson for the murder of Sonya Massey is *the first time in US history* a cop was convicted of murdering a Black woman
The conviction of police deputy Sean Grayson for the murder of Sonya Massey is *the first time in US history* a cop was convicted of murdering a Black woman
November 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Did You Know???…
The conviction of police deputy Sean Grayson for the murder of Sonya Massey is *the first time in US history* a cop was convicted of murdering a Black woman
The conviction of police deputy Sean Grayson for the murder of Sonya Massey is *the first time in US history* a cop was convicted of murdering a Black woman
99% of us on the wrong side of their doors
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
99% of us on the wrong side of their doors
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
They get tax breaks, we pay twice, and fight their wars
And we wonder why they cut scholarships and aid
It’s designed to keep the status quo, we’re the new slaves
WE’RE SHUTTING IT DOWN!
“Blackout The System has called for a nationwide boycott, urging participants to refrain from working or spending money from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2 as a protest against a damaged government and economic system.”
www.blackenterprise.com/economic-bla...
“Blackout The System has called for a nationwide boycott, urging participants to refrain from working or spending money from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2 as a protest against a damaged government and economic system.”
www.blackenterprise.com/economic-bla...
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
WE’RE SHUTTING IT DOWN!
“Blackout The System has called for a nationwide boycott, urging participants to refrain from working or spending money from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2 as a protest against a damaged government and economic system.”
www.blackenterprise.com/economic-bla...
“Blackout The System has called for a nationwide boycott, urging participants to refrain from working or spending money from Nov. 25 to Dec. 2 as a protest against a damaged government and economic system.”
www.blackenterprise.com/economic-bla...
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem represent “a growing list” of senior Trump-administration political appointees now living on military bases — “where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest”
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem represent “a growing list” of senior Trump-administration political appointees now living on military bases — “where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest”
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Wonder why
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"I think we do an immense disservice to ourselves by playing off the fascists as just idiots. The media fed us that crap.
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"I think we do an immense disservice to ourselves by playing off the fascists as just idiots. The media fed us that crap.
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."
Meanwhile, bro is getting ready to send in National Guard to destroy marginalized communities.
So no, let's not... They know what they're doing."