US & Latin American historian, adjunct prof, writer, martial artist (BJJ purple belt & nak muay), dad. Lover of books, movies, combat sports. Hater of fascism.
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11 Jul 2024
Alright baby, lets do it: a thread on fiction for socialists to check out. I'll start w/ literary fic, then get to genre fic.
First: one of the great American novels, possibly my favorite. Follows the Joads, who represent the dignity of working ppl during the Great Depression.
3 Jul 2024
trying to de-rot my brain by reading more. recommendations for *fiction* for socialists? homage to catalonia is already on the list
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Jun 12
"Farmer protests" aren't from the actual people that grow your food, but people that own the land where your food is grown. Their employees grow that food, and those are usually seasonal or migrant farmhands without proper compensation. "Farmers" are really just rural landlords.
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Sama Safi is a 20-year old U.S. citizen and student who was kidnapped by Israeli soldiers from her family home at 3am last week and remains in Israeli prison. She has a chronic health condition and requires daily medication. Her life is at risk—our government must free her now!
Jun 2
💢 Israeli Forces Arrest Female Students in Pre-Dawn Raid on Birzeit University
Israeli forces arrested four female students from Birzeit University in a pre-dawn raid on the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, regional media reported.
The students were identified as Jolan Abu Awad, Natalia Abu Dia, Laila Nail Khalil, and Sama Safi.
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Jun 12
Cardinal Zuppi read the names of every child who passed away in Gaza. It took him 7 hours.
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.0000001% of that would be absolutely life-changing for most people, but the guy (and his entire class) are sadistically selfish parasites
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Would it surprise y'all to learn that Reagan is once again the original culprit here
the fact that we didn’t go all in on solar power the second we discovered it is still so crazy to me
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The future depends on our ability to see guys like this as the enemies of humanity that they are and defeat them by whatever means necessary.
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Jun 11
Actually humans base their civilization on this. Most animals don’t care if they see a crying child of their species, they let them die. The ability to cooperate is what lets humans succeed.
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Jun 11
They fear this
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Dude who directly benefited from Africa’s colonialism: “I really don’t see the issue here”
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Jun 10
México on the right side of history:
-Only country to oppose the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany
-1 of 2 nations to provide unwavering material support to the Spanish Republic
-Only country in the League or Nations that refused to recognize Italian sovereignty over Ethiopia
Jun 9
In 1964 the US forced all of Latin America to cut of relations with Cuba, only Mexico resisted.
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I think what post-industrial neoliberal capitalism has done so well is atomize & depoliticize everyone. No one is happy w/ this shit, but our social fabric is in tatters & w/o that, it's ~really~ hard to create & sustain a movement to challenge everything going on.
Jun 10
Gotta say capitalism is remarkably fucking resilient. This country is about to mint a trillionaire. There’s mass unemployment and the price of everything is sky high. Higher education is out of reach for all but the few while mass layoffs are happening everywhere. The entire stock market is a giant bubble of fake incestuous capital. And yet day to day life chugs along. It’s really mind bending.
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Another instance of white racists harassing black people for opposing apartheid and racial violence
Jun 10
American actor spike lee ignores Israeli woman and then she starts harassing him because of his support for Palestine
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Absolute peasant mentality to look at a fleet of billionaire yachts and use that for pseudo-inspirational grindset content
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Working people never get tax breaks but the most powerful people pay no taxes and on top of that endlessly funnel your tax money into their pockets.
BREAKING: Ohio secretly gave 100% sales tax breaks, lasting up to 40 years, to tech giants for data centers, per Cleveland.com.
The exemptions—signed by Gov. Kasich—give Google, Meta and Amazon at least $600 million each.
Legislators say the contracts can't be undone.
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Jun 9
the sooner you recognize that ICE is just a glorified human trafficking operation the better
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One year since Paramount & Compton kicked out ICE
It’s still Free Gaza, Fuck ICE
8 Jun 2025
💯 - yesterday, it was the Mexican and Palestinian flags being waved around at the protest at the intersection of Paramount and Compton neighborhoods, making the connection of the international struggle
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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands.”
—Anthony Bourdain, American chef, filmmaker, and author, who died on this day in 2018.
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Jun 10
you raped a woman so violently that her tampon was lodged inside of her uterus & it had to be removed with forceps. shut the fuck up
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There is no justifying the continuation of this economic system.
BREAKING: Elon Musk is expected to have a net worth of $1.33 trillion this year
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