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🏴Tom Nomad

@creativenothing.bsky.social
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Been doing the anarchy thing for a while, and sometimes write things. theanarchistlibrary.org/category/au… Work on The Beautiful Idea podcast (thebeautiful idea.show) New book, Ungovernability, released on Rupture Press

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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New episode of @beautifulidea.bsky.social just dropped. In this episode I sit down with the directors of the to discuss their new documentary series, The Elements of Mutual Aid (kolektiva.social/@Elememts_of...). thebeautifulidea.show/elemental-an...
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Elemental Anarchy: A Discussion on the Elements of Mutual Aid
Elemental Anarchy: A Discussion on the Elements of Mutual Aid · Zencastr VideoThe concept of mutual aid has become popularized in the past two decades as an approach to everything from disaster respon...
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Library workers in Cleveland are walking out on strike today! There are a LOT of friends and comrades in this specific union local. If you are in the area, come down to the picket line this afternoon, located at the main library branch in downtown Cleveland and bring your black flags!
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's been a minute; been having a bunch of stuff going on. Recently I did a really awesome interview with some comrades about Flock systems, the growing AI fueled surveillance apparatus, and forms of resistance that have emerged. Check it out! kolektiva.social/@thebeautifu...
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thebeautifulidea (@thebeautifulidea@kolektiva.social)
Resistance to flock and surveillance is spreading. Check out our new episode. https://thebeautifulidea.show/cultivating-resistance-to-flock-and-the-expanding-surveillance-state-2/
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If you're in Cleveland on the 21st I'm going to be giving a talk at an awesome bookstore, Mac's Backs Books! Hope to see you all there!
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19/02/2026
“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others” In this interview, Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the January 2026 uprising in Iran, comparing notes about resistance to authoritarianism.
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“A State that Massacres Its Own People Cannot Be a Force of Liberation for Others"
Palestine solidarity activists from the Chinese diaspora speak with Iranian activists in exile about the uprising in Iran in January 2026.
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The Beautiful Idea @beautifulidea.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
ICYMI: Organizers in New Orleans talk about pushing back against ICE. Check it out here!
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 08/02/2026
Today marks one month since ICE mercenary Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good. It was not the first public execution ICE carried out. But because rapid responders caught it on film and angry locals forced ICE to withdraw after, there can be no question about what happened. Resisting makes us safer.
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Minneapolis Responds to ICE Committing Murder
On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent murdered Renee Good. This is an account from a participant in the protests that broke out on scene of the murder.
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The Beautiful Idea @beautifulidea.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"In this episode we talk to a variety of people on the ground in Minneapolis about their thoughts on the filter blockades and other things happening there currently relating to anti ICE resistance." thebeautifulidea.show/minneapolis-...
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Minneapolis Montage: Interviews from the Filter Blockades and More
Minneapolis Montage Interviews from the Filter Blockades and MoreMinneapolis Montage Interviews from the Filter Blockades and More.mp357 MBdownload-circleMinneapolis Montage Interviews from the Filter...
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Report from @crimethinc.com on brutal attack by ICE in #Portland. "ICE attacked with a variety of dangerous weapons, blanketing the area in tear gas and injuring a number of small children. Rather than intimidating the people of Portland, this brazen assault has only galvanized them against ICE."
"On January 31, demonstrators in Portland marched to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Field Office in Portland. In response, without provocation, ICE agents attacked them with a variety of dangerous weapons, blanketing the area in tear gas and injuring a number of small children. Rather than intimidating the people of Portland, this brazen assault has only galvanized them against ICE. In the following account, participants in the demonstration recount the events as they unfolded."
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 01/02/2026
Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike crimethinc.com/2026generals... Participants in the resistance to ICE operations in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike
Participants in the resistance to ICE in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement.
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
New episode is out! In this discussion I talk to a friend from @crimethinc.com about the past year, how we got here, and what strategic horizons may be open to us now. The days have been dark, but the fires burning in the distance are getting brighter. thebeautifulidea.show/fires-in-the...
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Fires In the Distance During Dark Days: One Year of Trump 2.0
Fires In the Distance During Dark DaysFires In the Distance During Dark Days.mp3111 MBdownload-circleFires In the Distance During Dark Days0:00/4862.1191881× In this episode we sit down with a member...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026
As federal agents stormed Minneapolis and residents banded together to protect their own, Charles Homan saw a dystopian future become reality. “The federal agents looked more like a platoon of soldiers navigating a hostile foreign capital than conventional law enforcement in an American city.”
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Watching America Unravel in Minneapolis
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
After DHS retreated from Nicollet Ave after murdering ICE observer Alex Pretti, community members flocked to where he was killed, creating barricades for the purpose of protecting the space from federal agents who may want to return to unleash chaos on mourners. 1/
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis Responds to the Murder of Alex Pretti An eyewitness account kolektiva.social/@CrimethInc@...
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
ICE just executed someone else in Minneapolis. This will continue to happen unless we hit the streets with our communities and become completely ungovernable! The time for discussion and demands is over. The time for action for our freedom is now! kolektiva.social/@MNUAF/11595...
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MN United Against Fascism (@MNUAF@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image 🚨ALERT TWIN CITIES🚨 Details still coming in, but there has been another ICE involved shooting. Saturday January 24, 2026 Around 9 am around 7 federal ICE agents were recorded assa...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/01/2026
MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Just dropped our newest episode, full of on the ground updates from Minneapolis. Something has shifted fundamentally, and it is clear that the time for holding signs is over thebeautifulidea.show/ice-vs-ice-o...
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ICE vs Ice: On the Ground in Minneapolis
In this episode, we speak with some organizers involved in anti-ICE resistance at the peak of the show-downs in Minneapolis, one week after ICE agents killed Renee Good, and 20 minutes after Julio Ces...
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Today is an important day in the Rustbelt, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. When I was a kid that story was a constant reminder of the sacrifices the working class makes to keep capitalism functioning, and how easily disposable we are. youtu.be/FuzTkGyxkYI?...
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Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Official Audio)
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/06/2025
This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government. Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
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"Women, Life, Freedom” against the War
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us. A statement from Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists.
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no bonzo @nobonzo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
always against the tanks
an illustration. a family of goats grazes around a tank which has been subsumed with vegetation. vines and grass curl around it. atop, the black flag of the anarchists sits slightly askew. a circle a sits in the background.
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seananigans.bsky.social @seananigans.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
People can write to Arturo at the address below and donate to his commissary via venmo at A_G_Commissary Arturo Gamboa 457904 c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail 3415 S. 900 W.Salt Lake City, UT 84119
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Our friends who have been in contact with Arturo have set up a commissary account for him to get some money on his books.
He seems to be in good spirits, asked for books to read and commissary funds
GA G Commissary is the Venmo they set up if you are able to donateSupport Arturo Gamboa An Antiracist accused of murder
Write to him at:
Arturo Gamboa 457904
c/o Salt Lake County Metro Jail
3415 S. 900 W.Salt Lake City, UT 84119
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Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
The antifascist that was shot by a 50501 protest marshal, and then arrested for the death of the other person shot (and killed) by that yellow vest pos, could use commissary funds.
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Just released the @beautifulidea.bsky.social news roundup for this month! On this episode we have interviews, a summary of the incredible number of actions from this past month, and a discussion of the National Guard in LA thebeautifulidea.show/ice-melts-as...
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ICE Melts as Streets Erupt, Revolt at Delaney Hall Migrant Prison, UW Campus Occupation Against War Profiteers
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea. So much has happened since we started to put this episode together. We've got a lot to cover, so let's not waste any time and dive right into it! On today's episod...
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The new book, Ungovernability, has been released! The book is a collection of 3 pieces: Ungovernability Collapse: A Strategic Proposal A Call for New Lines of Conflict: Confronting the Second Trump Era. @rupturepress.bsky.social
copy of Ungovernability
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 14/06/2025
No kings. And—for the very same reasons—no presidents. tochangeeverything.com
The colorful cover of "To Change Everything—An Anarchist Appeal." There is in fact an upside down crown on the cover.A closeup on the upside down crown on the cover of "To Change Everything."
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 02/06/2025
We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s. "The more you oppress the more we'll resist We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more" -Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
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Tribute to Colin Jerwood
Dedicated to the memory of Colin Jerwood
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Last week we released a discussion I had with the crew over at subMedia about the history of their project, going back to the 1990s rave scene, the future of anarchist media, and their upcoming documentary series InterRebellium! Hope you enjoy! thebeautifulidea.show/interrebelli...
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InterRebellium: A Discussion with subMedia
Join us as we sit down with members of the subMedia Collective to discuss their upcoming series InterRebellium. In this conversation we run down the history of subMedia, beginning in the 90s rave scen...
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
April 19th was the second anniversary of the death of a close friend who was fighting with an anarchist unit in Ukraine. Cooper was one of the bravest and most dedicated people I have ever known. Rest in power Coop! www.solidaritycollectives.org/en/in-memory...
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In memory of Cooper Andrews, Finbar Cafferkey and Dimitri Petrov - Solidarity Collectives
Today has been 2 years since our three comrades, Cooper Andrews, Finbar Cafferkey and Dimitri Petrov
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 20/04/2025
The best memory for me is if you continue actively struggle, overcoming personal ambitions and unnecessary harmful strife. If you continue to fight actively to achieve a free society based on equality and solidarity. For you and for me and for all our comrades. -Dmitri Petrov’s final statement
A photograph of Dmitri Petrov by the memorial holding the ashes of Nestor Makhno at a cemetery in Paris.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Leonard Zeskind will be missed. We had the opportunity to speak with him in 2018. May his work continue to be a light in the fight against fascism and white supremacy. itsgoingdown.org/zeskind-hist...
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Zeskind on the History & Threat of the Revolutionary Right
Centrists and media pundits have long presented the white nationalist movement as simply the home of backwards and "uneducated" people, while in reality, there is a long, and at times, revolutionary h...
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Just put out our monthly round-up, with a long discussion of tariffs and what we have learned about fighting the regime so far. thebeautifulidea.show/people-hit-t... We also just dropped a discussion with Dean Spade! thebeautifulidea.show/a-discussion... @igd.bsky.social @beautifulidea.bsky.social
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People Hit the Streets As Trump's Trade War Heats Up
Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea! We're excited to bring you a jam-packed show today and we have some amazing content planned, so be sure to subscribe to the show and follow us on Mastodon and BlueS...
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/without-th...
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Without the Awful Roar of Its Many Waters
or: False Nonviolence Won't Save You
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Sabotage Distro @sabotage-distro.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hey there! We are Sabotage distro — a project initiated by a group of Belarusian anarchists. We support various anarchist collectives with all profits from the items we sell. Check out our website sabotage.ninja We'd really appreciate your support in sharing our distro.
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Party Girls Pod @partygirls.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Stop Cop City Activist, Luigi Mangione Legal Defense Fund Spokesperson, and Party Girls host, Sam Beard, visited at home by FBI. 🧵
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Penguins Against Trump @penguinsagainstdt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Most birds have a fight or flight response. He forgot we’re flightless birds.
A meme photo of an Adelie penguin holding an AK-47.
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NEW: ‘I have no oxygen’ – Train Crash Leads to Greece’s Biggest Post-War Social Movement On Feb. 28, 2025, more than a million people protested across Greece. In between volleys of molotov cocktails & tear gas smoke, we heard from several participants in Athens. unicornriot.ninja/2025/i-have-...
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'I have no oxygen' - Train Crash Leads to Greece’s Biggest Post-War Social Movement - UNICORN RIOT
During a general strike in Greece, more than a million people protested against the government's handling of a deadly train crash in 2023.
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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
An interview with Anton of @solcolua.bsky.social, a Ukrainian anti-authoritarian and anarchist project supporting comrades resisting the Russian invasion and giving aid to civilians and animals suffering in the war thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04...
SolCol Collage featuring a man leaning on the hood of a car with drone equipment next to him, a cat sitting on a lamp, an FPV operator with a flare under their tripod, a masked & uniformed soldier, someone taking a photo of a large stone statue and "TFSR  4-6-25 | Solidarity Collectives: 3 years into the Full-scale Russian Invasion in Ukraine"
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The gang talks about anti-genocide protesters being hunted by ICE, the rendition of Venezuelan immigrants, and how a journalist learned about airstrikes in Yemen from a Trump admin group chat. @hungrybowtie.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
The gang talks about anti-genocide protesters being hunted by ICE, the rendition of Venezuelan immigrants, and how a journalist learned about airstrikes in Yemen from a Trump admin group chat.

@hungrybowtie.bsky.social @iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-9-271194170/
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 01/04/2025
Those who seek to oppress us are not invincible. Whatever power they acquire, whatever technology they employ, they make mistakes, they overlook vulnerabilities. And they are motivated by bigotry and greed, which are not the most powerful forces in the human spirit. crimethinc.com/ActionResour...
A photograph of a police officer in riot gear, blinded by mud, during clashes at la ZAD, an autonomous zone in France.
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
For a little while now I have been working on a primer on the use of software defined radio for anarchists, and the building of custom emergency radio scanners. It is VERY rough, but let me know if you find it useful: git.thecreativenothing.org/tom/SDRPrimer
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SDRPrimer
This repository contains a quick, and unedited, guide for anarchists interested in learning about radio and building a customized police scanner.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Elites like Musk and Trump push the conspiracy theory that "Soros" is behind protests, because it's central to their ideology that there is no genuine, grassroots resistance movements that oppose them, that everything is an AstroTurf grift, animated by a cabal. itsgoingdown.org/george-soros...
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Soros, ‘Globalism,’ and Grassroots Revolt: How the Right Uses Conspiracy Theories to Appear Revolutionary
In the 1990s and into the early 2000s, a global movement against corporate globalization and neoliberal capitalism developed, with anti-authoritarian and anarchist politics at it's head. In 1994, the ...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 25/03/2025
Clashes continue in Indonesia as people protest the law reintroducing military control of civilian affairs. This footage is from Surabaya where a thousand people confronted police, displaying signs reading “Reject the Military Law” and “The Military Should Return to the Barracks.”
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 24/03/2025
As the Trump administration dehumanizes and brutalizes immigrants, make sure your neighbors know that you consider them an integral part of your community. You can order stickers here: crimethinc.com/stickers/imm... Or download the design as a poster to print here: crimethinc.com/posters/immi...
A sticker reading "Immigrants welcome" with an image of boltcutters cutting barbed wire on a pole by a road in the forest.A sticker reading "Immigrants welcome" with an image of boltcutters cutting barbed wire on a pole.A sticker reading "Immigrants welcome" with an image of boltcutters cutting barbed wire on a mailbox.A sticker reading "Immigrants welcome" with an image of boltcutters cutting barbed wire on a sign in the New York City subway.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
First they came for decorum and I said nothing because honestly fuck decorum
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New book manuscript, Ungovernability, just went off to @rupturepress.bsky.social! The book is being released by Rupture Press and Active Distribution, and is open access (so free online when we get it released). Physical copies will be printed and it all should be ready for release in early May!
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🏴Tom Nomad @creativenothing.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We just released a long discussion I had with Adam Greenfield, author of Lifehouse. We talk about new horizons in radical thought, prepperism, and how to address a dying planet. Hope you enjoy! thebeautifulidea.show/the-long-eme...
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The Long Emergency: A Discussion With Adam Greenfield
The Long Emergency0:00/3882.6241× Welcome back to The Beautiful Idea, a new project from a collective of several anarchist and autonomous media producers scattered around the world. We’re bringing yo...
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Looks like 50 year old Richie Rich fell into a vat of Joker acid while listening to Baked Alaska raps from 2016.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Tech elites, fueled by an ideology that embraces capitalist monarchy, helped Trump win the election. Now he's ramming through mass infrastructure projects to fuel AI - which will only accelerate jobs lost to automation. The future is here, you just weren’t invited. itsgoingdown.org/good-night-t...
Headline, "Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism" with X logo with Nazi salute.
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It's Going Down [Unofficial] @itsgoingdown.org.web.brid.gy · 14/02/2025
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Resistance Forms as Trump Takes Power; Report on Festivals of Resistance
In our following episode, we speak with folks around the country about this unfolding reality. First, we catch up with Mia Wong, a journalist at It Could Happen Here, a daily podcast on Cool Zone Media about everyday resistance and the current crisis, then we speak with a participant in the publishing collective CrimethInc, about... Read Full Article
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