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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20h

Solidarity Against Sadism

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall

Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 6d

‘Like James Baldwin, she thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social) on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 8d

Also in this issue:

@jamesmeek.bsky.social on what AI wants
Neal Ascherson on Asa Briggs
@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde
David Todd on Jean-Luc Mélenchon
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on Gazan antiquities
Stephen Mulhall on Charles Taylor
Yun Sheng on Chinese youth culture...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 7d

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · Aug 13

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hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era

Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.

hammerandhope.org

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · Aug 15

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Aug 15

“An incalculable mix of confidence and consciousness combine in unpredictable ways to give millions of people the belief that they can stop a government on a rampage.” @keeanga.bsky.social

Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era

Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.

hammerandhope.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 25

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 25

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans reut.rs/3H6mYnH

Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans

In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

reut.rs

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stylo [air max] 90 @stylo.bsky.social · Jul 24

very important read and follow @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social who is one of those who Gets It

The Drift @thedrift-mag.bsky.social · Jul 24

“I don’t know why people are so bent out of shape about hope,” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social tells us. “Hope is great.” Read the interview from Issue Fifteen today.

www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

“Politics Is Conflictual”

“Massive changes often unfold on large time scales,” philosopher Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò told The Drift in 2022.

www.thedriftmag.com

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Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social · Jul 14

Please join me this Thursday at noon EST for our second session of The Civic Forum. We'll have a discussion with
@keeanga.bsky.social on race, Black History, and the MAGA movement. Registration link here:

The Civic Forum - S1E3 - Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Rory Truex

Register now for The Civic Forum - S1E3 - Race, Black History, and the MAGA Movement - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor with Rory Truex on crowdcast, scheduled to go live on July 17, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · Jul 4

It's a good thing there is nothing else happening in the world while we spend 3 days talking about the racisms of the NYT

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Jul 2

COMPLICIT:
Airbnb, Alphabet, Amazon, BlackRock, Booking, BP, Caterpillar, Chevron, Christian Friends of Israeli Communities, Company LLC, HP, IBM, Keller Williams Realty, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, MIT, Palantir, Pacific Investment Management, Vanguard
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

UN Expert Exposes Dozens of Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide, Apartheid in Palestine

Amazon, BlackRock, and Keller Williams LLC are some of the companies named in the report.

truthout.org

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵Solidarity with Francesca Albanese.

She is facing a barrage of lies and smears + the Trump Admin is calling on the UN to fire her.

Why? Because there is simply no arguing with her devastating new report on the companies profiting from genocide.

Stay tuned for our interview on @zeteo.com.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Jun 29

True story.

A meme. In the first frame there is a T-Rex from Jurassic Park pictured with the words "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ZOHRAN MAMDANI." In the second frame there is an image of Barney the Dinosaur shrugging along with text that reads "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING DONALD TRUMP."

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · Jun 29

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Jun 29

Mamdani turned up at BAYO at Barclay Center yesterday and said he was going to fight to get Haiti off the travel ban and he said Haiti correctly

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November.

Congratulations, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 25

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jun 25

a former governor scion of a political dynasty losing to a 33 year old is a world historic crashout

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jun 25

Holy shit

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · Jun 12

Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Jun 12

Our Fall 2025 catalog is here!

Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!

Haymarket Books Fall 2025 Catalog!

Check out Haymarket’s Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog, featuring books by authors including: Brian Jones, Rebecca Solnit, Vicky Osterweil, Hamid Dabashi, Alfred W. McCoy, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Keeanga-Yama...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Jun 11

The thing is, even for what most (white) people take as their model of effective protest, contemporaneous polling showed that most white people still felt it was harmful to the cause. In other words, the finger-waggers will never approve of a protest, even if it remains nonviolent.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · Jun 9

While a majority supported the Civil Rights Act of 1965, a year later 85% of white respondents said civil rights demonstrations hurt the cause of advancing rights for Black Americans.

This suggests that the popular perception of how the movement achieved change is deeply flawed.

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Princeton Audio @princetonaudio.bsky.social · Jun 11

In The Straight State, Margot Canaday reveals how the government enforced sex & gender conformity & relegated gays to second-class citizenship.

For a limited time, you can get this compelling #audiobook for just $2.99/£2.99 nearly everywhere you buy audiobooks.

press.princeton.edu/books/audio/...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jun 10

"Tenants in Kansas City are declaring victory after eight months on rent strike—the longest such action in the city’s history...an outcome that lends momentum to efforts to adapt labor union strategies for housing fights."

inthesetimes.com/article/rent...

Striking Tenants Withhold Rent for 247 Days and Win

A victory in Kansas City suggests that the tactics of organized labor can work for tenants.

inthesetimes.com

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