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“When a crowd forms, when teargas fills the streets, it makes the kidnappings impossible to ignore. Our neighbors, loved ones, and community members deserve for their disappearance to be met with forceful resistance. When in doubt, escalate.”
“Prevent ICE vehicles from leaving the scene with our community members, fight them if you can, slash their tires ... (turn) an otherwise quotidian reality of life under an authoritarian regime into an event, set apart from the flow of daily existence” 🔥
livingandfighting.net/When-in-Doub...
livingandfighting.net/When-in-Doub...
When in Doubt, Escalate: Tucson Against ICE, Part 2 — Living & Fighting
When in Doubt, Escalate: Tucson Against ICE, Part 2 By Anonymous On December 5, ICE agents carried out multi-agency raids on Taco Giro, a popular local...
livingandfighting.net
December 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“When a crowd forms, when teargas fills the streets, it makes the kidnappings impossible to ignore. Our neighbors, loved ones, and community members deserve for their disappearance to be met with forceful resistance. When in doubt, escalate.”
✍🏽 I’ve been thinking about “The Psychology of Becoming a Border”, how people themselves *become* borders
This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”
This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”
Gazing like a border
What does bordered perception attend to, seek out, surveil?
joeledmartinez.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:04 PM
✍🏽 I’ve been thinking about “The Psychology of Becoming a Border”, how people themselves *become* borders
This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”
This essay traces bordered perception (what it surveils, attends to, seeks out) and how colorist/imperialist visual imaginaries activate & normalize the sensory detection of “removables”
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This was one of the mental choices I had to make before becoming a community organizer over a decade ago because I recognized it would've compromised me and my work.
And yes, there was a great deal of grief involved but that's usually the requirement for resolution.
And yes, there was a great deal of grief involved but that's usually the requirement for resolution.
releasing recognition and returning to illegality’s lessons has been/is a process, but personally v freeing
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
Truly some of the people having the hardest time right now are the ones who anchored their sense of self/self-worth/personhood in these institutions and their recognition
They really intended to spend the rest of their lives getting gold stars from the powers that be
They really intended to spend the rest of their lives getting gold stars from the powers that be
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This was one of the mental choices I had to make before becoming a community organizer over a decade ago because I recognized it would've compromised me and my work.
And yes, there was a great deal of grief involved but that's usually the requirement for resolution.
And yes, there was a great deal of grief involved but that's usually the requirement for resolution.
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Illegality, liminality, the margins etc is actually where true self-determination can be found and forged, in my opinion
releasing recognition and returning to illegality’s lessons has been/is a process, but personally v freeing
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
Truly some of the people having the hardest time right now are the ones who anchored their sense of self/self-worth/personhood in these institutions and their recognition
They really intended to spend the rest of their lives getting gold stars from the powers that be
They really intended to spend the rest of their lives getting gold stars from the powers that be
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Illegality, liminality, the margins etc is actually where true self-determination can be found and forged, in my opinion
releasing recognition and returning to illegality’s lessons has been/is a process, but personally v freeing
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
Truly some of the people having the hardest time right now are the ones who anchored their sense of self/self-worth/personhood in these institutions and their recognition
They really intended to spend the rest of their lives getting gold stars from the powers that be
They really intended to spend the rest of their lives getting gold stars from the powers that be
December 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
releasing recognition and returning to illegality’s lessons has been/is a process, but personally v freeing
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
recognition truly is a mental straitjacket
“Bourgeois coldness ❄️ is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, like AC. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning 🔥”
Henrike Kohpeiß,
Podcast Episode · New Books in Critical Theory · 12/27/2025 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Bourgeois coldness ❄️ is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, like AC. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning 🔥”
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“Since the future is alienated and freedom cannot operate within the dimension of the future, it will be ... an operation of pure destruction. Since the positive is obtained through oppression, freedom will be pure negativity.” -Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“Since the future is alienated and freedom cannot operate within the dimension of the future, it will be ... an operation of pure destruction. Since the positive is obtained through oppression, freedom will be pure negativity.” -Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics
“Western secular ethnocentrism in which the West became the We to the ethnos of all other peoples, who all became The Other
The fundamental split between We & Other began in 16th century when world-market economy was first established, & a world economic system, global in reach, became a reality”
The fundamental split between We & Other began in 16th century when world-market economy was first established, & a world economic system, global in reach, became a reality”
December 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Western secular ethnocentrism in which the West became the We to the ethnos of all other peoples, who all became The Other
The fundamental split between We & Other began in 16th century when world-market economy was first established, & a world economic system, global in reach, became a reality”
The fundamental split between We & Other began in 16th century when world-market economy was first established, & a world economic system, global in reach, became a reality”
“Colonialism established capitalism’s ‘connected diversity’, which is to say, think global, act local.”
“Why capitalism?” Because it’s a system that flourishes on greed, hostility, unnecessary competition, and failure. Four things that humanity has a rare talent for cultivating.
Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.
Yes, failure. Most new companies go bust in their first few years. No other system would accept wastage like that.
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
“Colonialism established capitalism’s ‘connected diversity’, which is to say, think global, act local.”
in due time
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
in due time
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe
we'll finally see
there's barely time
for us to breathe
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What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What a line-up! An @antipodeonline.bsky.social first: a "longread" of 68 pages! Expect a splendid New Year's gift, when the issue goes to print early Jan!
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
@udadisi.bsky.social
@samar42.bsky.social @demonicgrounds.bsky.social
#geosky @darajapress.bsky.social
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Some fantastic work by the "Austin Clippies" has resulted in a new tool that lets organizers sign up for email alerts when councils nearby have surveillance technology like #Flock on the agenda! 🏆
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
We put Flock under surveillance: go make them behave differently 😈
YouTube video by Louis Rossmann
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Some fantastic work by the "Austin Clippies" has resulted in a new tool that lets organizers sign up for email alerts when councils nearby have surveillance technology like #Flock on the agenda! 🏆
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
👉 alpr.watch 👈
Quick overview from Louis Rossmann...
#deflock #surveillance #alpr #flocksafety
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“Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon ... in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
December 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“Why did we look up for blessing—instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon ... in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”
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"To map abundance is not a luxury, but an urgent insistence on life.
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
"Abundant-mindedness is a radical refusal of capitalist economies.. Mapping abundance is a profoundly decolonial act.
Fear is inscribed in neoliberal capital.. The crisis for capital is that abundance raises the possibility of a just redistribution of resources"
- C. Fujikane, Mapping Abundance
Fear is inscribed in neoliberal capital.. The crisis for capital is that abundance raises the possibility of a just redistribution of resources"
- C. Fujikane, Mapping Abundance
Review of Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi by Candace Fujikane (Duke University Press)
Employing the teachings of Indigenous cartographic practices to trouble the Western epistemologies of subdivision that underpin private property development, Candace Fujikane's Mapping Abundance for a...
csalateral.org
March 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"To map abundance is not a luxury, but an urgent insistence on life.
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
Envisioning and practicing abundance is a necessity in the face of the deadly consequences of occupation, settler colonial genocidal tactics and corporate-induced climate change." 1/2
- Candace Fujikane, "Mapping Abundance"
“technological escalation has led to the emergence of computational capitalism in our times/ As the world becomes a huge data emporium, tomorrow's technologies of racialization will be more and more generated and instituted through data, calculation and computation”
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“technological escalation has led to the emergence of computational capitalism in our times/ As the world becomes a huge data emporium, tomorrow's technologies of racialization will be more and more generated and instituted through data, calculation and computation”
The research done on "racial identity" or "race relations" by classic/popular/up-and-coming social psychologists is mostly racecraft, and it's been an uphill fight trying to get them to see that. I remember after one of my talks, one asked me "so you're calling us all racializers?"
Well, yes.
Well, yes.
December 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The research done on "racial identity" or "race relations" by classic/popular/up-and-coming social psychologists is mostly racecraft, and it's been an uphill fight trying to get them to see that. I remember after one of my talks, one asked me "so you're calling us all racializers?"
Well, yes.
Well, yes.
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Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.
Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Data Workers’ Inquiry continues its excellent project of amplifying voices of the human labor too often overlooked in debates about genAI. This latest report from Michael Geoffrey Asia is an essential read.
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“to attend to something is to care for… if you understand the attention economy as an economy that's based on the capture and exploitation of attention, it's really also an economy that's based on the capture and attention of human desire, which is the capture of care”
— Dr. Rohit Revi
— Dr. Rohit Revi
Dopaminergic, with Rohit Revi
Podcastaflevering · The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan · 11-08-2025 · 59 min.
podcasts.apple.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“to attend to something is to care for… if you understand the attention economy as an economy that's based on the capture and exploitation of attention, it's really also an economy that's based on the capture and attention of human desire, which is the capture of care”
— Dr. Rohit Revi
— Dr. Rohit Revi
345lbs getting more manageable 🏋🏽♂️
December 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
345lbs getting more manageable 🏋🏽♂️
“when we start to understand that a lot of these people working in law enforcement in the military are government workers, it means we bring into focus more how the economy is actually organized and what role the state plays in its organization, and what are the big functions of government jobs”
This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.
Fascism at the Door, Neighbors in the Street: Abolition in Practice
“I think a lot of us could level up our skills,” says researcher Tamara Nopper.
truthout.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“when we start to understand that a lot of these people working in law enforcement in the military are government workers, it means we bring into focus more how the economy is actually organized and what role the state plays in its organization, and what are the big functions of government jobs”
“insecure fascism organizes conditions under which crisis becomes likely, then retrofits those crises into proof of its own necessity
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
Chickens Coming Home to Roost, II — solutionsforpostmodernliving
When troops are inserted into the everyday — into subway stations, tourist districts, shelters, street corners — is the aim only “restoring order”? Or is there a quieter wager at work: that somewhere,...
www.solutionsforpostmodernliving.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“insecure fascism organizes conditions under which crisis becomes likely, then retrofits those crises into proof of its own necessity
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
places its soldiers & surplus pops into a shared kill zone of political risk. Any rupture (shove, thrown object, pulled trigger) can be narrativized as confirmation”
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"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…”
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…”
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
finally watched the Selena documentary 💗
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
finally watched the Selena documentary 💗
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
love learning her backstory, brings up childhood memories from htown, a true fighter
i couldn't believe what the water had told me
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
i couldn't believe what the water had told me
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
that man and plant had used to talk
man, i’d do anything to hear the redwoods talk
“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”
(un)documentation & (dis)identification
where and for whom is the undocumented immigrant?
joeledmartinez.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“we must make a nondreamer life livable, to pry open eyes to the value of the unseen. we must shake off any doubts we have when we say that we value the life of the “criminal“, that we value the life of those who invisibly survive and thrive in the u.s. in ways that aren’t considered excellence…”