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Trans Ultraviolence

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Published: April 25, 2025 19:09

Striking back at transphobes of any gender is just as much a part of our transition as taking hormones, wearing new clothes, changing pronouns, surgeries, access to trans social spaces . . .

Trade-offs

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Published: April 16, 2025 13:27

Can we make sure our belief in anarchy and freedom is not just another faith that serves as an alibi and positions us above history nodding our heads? The Enlightenment runs deep, a most dangerous export of colonialism. When we concede to reason(s), we…

On Rubicons Crossed

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Published: April 14, 2025 20:33

When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and officially entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, in 49 BC, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the imperium, and began the civil war that would lead to the…

How It’s Done Here: The Women’s Revolution, Rojava, Part One

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Published: April 8, 2025 20:52

* This is an introduction to a series of essays about the women’s revolution in Rojava. Over the following weeks I will highlight different aspects of, and groups within, the women’s revolution and how western nations could learn a thing or two from them.…

Fascism Minus Kampf

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Published: April 8, 2025 17:52

Or, our enemy confuses the map for the terrain. This is an adaptation of a thread I wrote on bluesky.If there's one thing that has defined President Donald Trump, it is that the man has never faced consequences. He bankrupted a series of sure-thing…

Waiting for the Coup

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Published: April 7, 2025 17:35

Good morning sports fans! It's a great day for us sports lovers, at least if you're a total sicko like me and your preferred sport is line-go-down. Because, thanks to Trump's tariffs, the markets are absolutely on fire. For just one example: Bloomberg is

The stifling air of rigid radicalism

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Published: April 4, 2025 17:14

We are encouraged—and we often encourage each other—to wear our politics and our analysis like badges, as markers of distinction. When politics becomes something that one has, like fashion, it always needs to be visible in order to function.

Should We Care About the Universities?

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Published: April 2, 2025 18:24

The university prepared the way for this assault against its own power. It isn’t the institution that must be defended.

"Liberation Day" is Almost Here

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Published: April 1, 2025 18:30

Yesterday, on March 31, Beijing announced that China, Japan and South Korea would pursue a collaborative strategy to respond to US tariffs. It can be hard, during the rapid-fire changes of the global far right power grab, to reflect on just how…

Tesla Takedown Sticker Pack

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Published: March 29, 2025 19:56

Today there were pickets, protests and direct actions at Tesla showrooms, factories and super charger stations all across the globe, in a massive day of action that saw tens of thousands in the streets, taking it to Elon Musk and his eco-fascist car…