
Mahmoud Khalil and the Repression That Was, Is, and Will Be
Do not wait until this violence comes to your doorstep.
Do not wait until this violence comes to your doorstep.
These conditions are a preview of the standards Trump hopes to impose on society as a whole.
Musk views empathy as a “bug” that threatens his political agenda. This framing is instructive.
“This kind of repression, part of its intention is to isolate people,” says organizer Nikki Marín Baena.
We must resist the impulse to settle in, and that will sometimes mean unsettling others.
Many of us are suffering from a kind of social atrophy.
We must prepare ourselves and our communities for the escalating threats we face.
“We need to challenge ourselves to be ready to let people be better,” says Margaret Killjoy.
"This is about the algorithmic entrenchment of administrative violence."
To fight the inhumanity of our enemies, we must nurture our own humanity, and cherish what makes our existence meaningful and worthwhile.
Why would a billionaire raid the National Treasury? To get richer.
“At the end of the day, we protect our students, period,” says educator Silvia Gonzalez.
This is a war on reality itself – and on any shared understanding of it – waged to make fascist myths dominant.
The message should be clear among all people of conscience: We will not cooperate with the fascist, anti-trans agenda.
Let’s develop the practices and build the infrastructure we need to stay in the fight.
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
Kindness is essential in these times, and it will continue to be.
I would rather cultivate possibility and inhabit my hopes for what could and should be than allow my life to be defined by monsters.
“We live in chaotic, disastrous times, but amid that madness, we can still find each other and fight for each other.”
To survive together in these catastrophic times, we must enliven our connectedness. Anything less is a slow-motion surrender.
"To Musk, a warped, deluded, ego-obsessed man, we’re cattle."
“We have the opportunity to create joyful new traditions that celebrate equity and mutual care,” says organizer Holly Krig.
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One might call this development “a morbid symptom” of a late-stage sickness.