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For Love and Struggle🌹

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Contradiction-laden commentary on the intersections of left politics, community organizing, music and getting down, from Tacoma, WA writer, political candidate, and DJ Devin Rydel Kelly / Adlib.

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For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · Apr 21

1/4 I'm running for office again, y'all! This time, for the Pierce County Charter Review Commission, District 4, Seat two (yup, it is a loooooong title). I don't even have a website or logo yet, but I've raised a couple grand and I've earned some stellar endorsements. Read on for details!

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For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 13d

Just a little reminder... these are the guys blocking Kimmel for wide swaths of the country...

Sinclair's Soldiers in Trump's War on Media

YouTube video by Deadspin

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For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 13d

I just learned the Seattle symphony is performing the music of Blade Runner the day after my birthday. Part of me says "take my money." Another part of me says "wasn't that just one dude on a Jupiter?"

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 14d

The Copaganda machine deploys rapidly, almost always leaving innocent bodies in its wake.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 15d

LWV? Yeah, you know me!

Devin For The People @devinforthepeople.bsky.social · 15d

I'm honored to be speaking at a League of Women Voters District 4 Charter Review Candidate Forum on October 20th. Join me and my fellow progressive candidates Kate Ginn and Jake Hunter for some real talk.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 18d

These doors ain't gonna knock themselves...

Devin For The People @devinforthepeople.bsky.social · 18d

We had EIGHT folks out on doors today supporting myself, @zevfortacoma.bsky.social and Bronwyn Clarke, all progressive, people powered candidates endorsed by Tacoma DSA and all fighting for working folks. Thanks, y'all!

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 20d

They're back at it...

Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 20d

“In some cases, the government appeared to rely on unverified tabloid reports about Khalil. In others, its claims were factually incorrect because of inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.”

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 21d

BREAKING: Judge orders Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Algeria or Syria, alleging he omitted information from his green card application.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 21d

My friend and comrade @zevfortacoma.bsky.social leading chants at a UFCW local 367 informational picket supporting Marlene's workers fighting for a fair contract. If you shop there, you should probably tell Marlene's you support their workers.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 22d

Pic from "Sneakers," by far one of my favorite movies, and a criminally underrated ensemble project way ahead of it's time. Gonna have to give it another rinse soon (edit: I'm annoyed that his NYT Obit called Sneakers a "popcorn" movie, but he probably would have called it one, too)

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 22d

Robert Redford was the GOAT. One of the only actors with greatness throughout his career. One of the only directors to consistently take up politically controversial content. One of the only Hollywood liberals with anything close to a real spine. He let the world change him and he changed the world.

Pic from "Sneakers," by far one of my favorite movies, and a criminally underrated ensemble project way ahead of it's time. Gonna have to give it another rinse soon (edit: I'm annoyed that his NYT Obit called Sneakers a "popcorn" movie, but he probably would have called it one, too)

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For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 22d

Israel has launched a ground invasion of Gaza City. The atrocities will only intensify from here. This is a Genocide.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 24d

Bam! Least shitty thing at the Emmy's in forever.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 24d

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24d

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 24d

Wow...

Zach Heltzel @zachheltzel.bsky.social · 24d

hmm why aren’t the eight top stories in the new york times about this 🤔

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24d

Hi

ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday

Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere

If you have any national platform at all

Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!"

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

11) They're also harder, not guaranteed to win, and require both democracy and discipline. But that is what's required of this moment.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

10) Moments like this remind me of Mario Savio's legendary 1964 speech at Berkeley, where he makes it clear that real resistance is based on the combination of democracy, voice, solidarity and personal sacrifice. These are the inverse of fascism, individualized violence and overly stylized martyrdom

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For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

9) So hug your loved ones and get to know your neighbors. But then go form a union or join DSA, pronto. We must move forward together. Organize or die. Socialism or barbarism.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

8) It's up to the left to step in, directly acknowledge the contradictions, and offer a vision of a better world, channelling this empathy and outrage into organized, strategic action and resistance, rather than fear, paranoia, or acts of Individual violence.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

7)The right literally revels in this, fully embracing the contradictions. They're trying to make us do the same. They want stochastic violence.

While truly terrifying, all of this also nakedly exposes the rot in the system. Most people crave something different, often with both empathy and outrage

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

6) The contradictions of speech and action under "liberal" Capitalism are always present if you know where to look, but they often operate at a more subtle level. It takes weeks like this to reveal how liberalism's slow creep into fascism can accelerate towards a gallop.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

5) . It's doubly insulting that UC Berkeley was home to the legendary 1964 Free Speech Movement, an important precursor to so much of the 1960s and 70s new left.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

4) Meanwhile, the US-backed, genocidal Zionist state rounded up hundreds of Palestinians in the West Bank, bombed several countries in one day, and murdered two dozen journalists in Yemen, all while UC-Berkely turned over the names of 160 supposedly "antisemitic" student and faculty to Trump.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

3) Some of these very same people immediately called for the execution of his supposedly left, queer or brown assassin, then changed their tune upon realizing the killer was a white, Republican Groyper failson trying to foment hard right violence.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

2) Charlie Kirk, a white nationalist who openly supported state and extrajudicial violence, is being lionized by conservatives and liberals alike as a free speech advocate after his murder.

For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

1) What's most disturbing about this week's events are not any of the single actions or reactions on their own, but the flagrantly obvious contradictions they reveal about what constitutes free speech and what constitutes political violence.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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For Love and Struggle🌹 @forloveandstruggle.bsky.social · 25d

I got the 12 foot Skelly vote on lock, y'all!

Devin For The People @devinforthepeople.bsky.social · 25d

Today's campaign update. Beautiful late summer weather combined with 12 foot Skellies for the win!