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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 44m

Ok the last one in particular has me cackling. Ancient Sumerians: "ACAB!"

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 22h

It's classism. Gentry (like the quoted Natalie Wynn) hate being confronted by those they see as their lessers and hate seeing other gentry confronted too (their status should put them above that!). So any angry demo is automatically bad even if historically it's an incredibly effective tactic.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 17h

trans people “apparently able to feel pain,” surprising new study reveals

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NO GODS, NO MASTERS, BISEXUAL DISASTERS 🇵🇸 🇺🇦🔞 @travisteatime.bsky.social · 22h

What's funny is that you could easily turn it around but we don't even think like this. "The fascists in charge would put all of you in the gas chambers (and live-stream the whole ordeal) but THIS is what upsets you the most? Protestors demanding an end to genocide?" NOBODY even gets that far.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 22h

It's not just classism, of course, but that's one of the main drivers of the kind of pearl clutching nonsense every time a progressive darling has to face even mild confrontation.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 22h

People are taking the streets now from France and Spain to New York City and Arizona—against police, against ICE, against gentrification, against ethnic cleansing and genocide. All of these are elements of a system that treats us as expendable. Find each other and resist. crimethinc.com/meltice

A photograph of someone handling a piece of pavement to outstretched hands.

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Lauren Ortega @laurenortega.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A lot of people really ultimately have the ideology of "society isn't perfectly calibrated right now but with a few small adjustments we can make it mostly optimal without having to drastically overhaul how I personally live." And I'm sadly the person who's going "LOL okay good luck with that"

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Local governments, and the gentry who control them, do not arm, pay and equip local police because they're afraid of them. They do it because they're afraid of the public. Cops are a useful, if sometimes unruly, force for maintaining their power. They were shouting "fund the police" for a reason.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23h

Once more:

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 23h

This exactly. Also, from long experience dealing with local governments, they have plenty of power over the police (nyc mayor in particular is one of the single most powerful local officials in the country) but choose not to use it because cops are useful to them and the gentry like crackdowns.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seeing lots of people go well Mamdani can't do anything about the NYPD because they won't obey him and you do see how this makes your entire political project a joke right? Like if that's true then you just spent all of your time electing a hostage Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 23h

Imagine if Democrats were campaigning on "No immigrants in sports" or "No healthcare for Black children" or "I don't support biological Jews". You know it would be outright evil. Why does your calculus change when those same arguments are made about trans people?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

That’s why it’s not just abolish ICE and it’s not just abolish the concentration camps. Policing and incarceration are integral to system of terror and control.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 09/10/2026

Wow it's almost like there was a reason why pro-Palestinian protestors were demanding Mamdani fire the fucking NYPD police commissioner. There is some real "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" energy from camp "Mamdani never does anything wrong" these days.

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Protestors confront Zohran Mamdani as he comes out for his press conference.

He said that ICE sped out of the hospital. He did not note that the NYPD cleared the way for them.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"So, you can't criticize them when they're running for office. It's not strategic." "Why? They're more vulnerable then." "You have to wait until they win." "...When they're entrenched in office? More beholden to donors?" "Look, conflict and anger makes me uncomfortable. I'm calling the police."

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pretty much an ironclad rule: whenever you hear a liberal lecture any of us under the gun on the need to be "strategic" you are about to hear the absolute most dipshit incompetent version of "strategy" ever conceived.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Canadian military being the ones to finally make a handler/hound program reality would be weirdly appropriate for this timeline.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 08/10/2026

Today is a rare day where Twitter has more useful information than this website on a very important issue, so let's collate some of the ongoing discussions. 🧵 Here are the words straight from the mouth of a student organizer who went from interning for Mamdani to protesting him on the streets:

Wow. A student organizer leading protests against Zohran Mamdani tonight reveals that she previously interned for him.

Now she’s leading chants against the very politician she once worked for, accusing him of prioritizing his own political advancement over the people and movements that helped bring him to power.

She delivers an ultimatum: The protests can stop when Mamdani stops the sale of stolen Palestinian land in NYC and abolishes the CUNY Board of Trustees, which advances Israel’s interests within the nation’s largest urban public university system.

But she makes clear that she doesn’t expect him to deliver. In her view, Mamdani has become just another politician who makes promises to movements and then fails to meet their demands once in office.

What makes her testimony particularly significant is that she isn’t someone who opposed Mamdani from the beginning. She worked for him. She believed enough in his political project to participate in it. Now she’s publicly confronting him.

Her speech speaks to a broader frustration among people who placed their hopes in electoral politics as a vehicle for advancing Palestinian liberation. For some, the experience hasn’t strengthened their faith in political institutions. It has deepened their distrust.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

("Safe" tbc, in the electoral sense, districts the Dems don't regard as competitive. Their safety for our actual lives and communities is a very different matter).

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Democratic party is increasingly, literally embracing "civil rights are decided by state and local governments" when it comes to trans people. The history on this one ain't subtle, y'all.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This one's an ironclad rule, y'all. Revering politicians never goes well.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

Never ever, ever venerate politicians. Any of them. For any reason. It will never work out well and encourages some of the worst traits in both individuals and the wider culture. This seems obvious, but charisma, propaganda and media all work for a reason.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So, from long experience: revering individual figures in politics and organizing is always a catastrophic mistake. Every last time, no matter who it is or what they've done. At best it cultivates an unhealthy dynamic for all parties involved. At worst it creates an environment ripe for abuse.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yes, mentioned later in the thread. I'm referring to the public stance of the Dems (e.g. McBride's "different districts" approach).

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Wolf 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.sleeplesswolf.com · 07/10/2026

I’d also add, it’s not even strictly true, given trans children and young adults increasingly struggle to get care in even blue states

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And increasingly, it's not even true in those blue districts either.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like what Cook PVI score is required before we get healthcare? Y'all got a chart?

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Trans people only get rights if they live in safe blue congressional districts" is an openly segregationist stance and I'm sick of anyone pretending otherwise.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(it is because annie andrews is transphobic)

A spokesperson for Andrews' campaign said the Democratic candidate has also been clear that she does not support biological men in women's sports or performing gender surgeries on minors.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As our beloved @pressonsouth.bsky.social fellows begin to publish their work, I thought I'd share some of their excellent reporting here in a thread, starting with this story from G. Samantha Rosenthal about North Carolina being the center of anti-Zionist organizing in the South:

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Jewish anti-Zionism in the American Bible Belt

Southern Jews aligned with the pro-Palestine movement are building “a Judaism of liberation” in the heartland of Christian Zionism

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Untitled Anarchist Seagull Channel/Hyperpolyglotting @uaschyperpolyglot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

'I don't think trans people's lives matter enough to be an election issue' is not the rousing defence of trans people some liberals seem to think it is.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lived here for 20+ years and this stereotype ain't true. The gentry here are awful, as they are elsewhere too. Asheville also has no shortage of working folks — especially trans working class folks — and very active mutual aid and radical groups. The solidarity after Helene didn't come from nowhere.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Republican: here's a cyanide sandwich Democrat: here's a crushed glass and ham sandwich Trans person: could I get the ham sandwich with no crushed glass please Democrat: this is why you deserve the cyanide sandwich

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hire trans people, support trans people, let trans people thrive.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Techbro fash armies cut to pieces, ammo running dry because of botched supply, "ai"-run artillery barrages annihilating their own troops in hallucinatory frenzy. Falling to queer militias whose mentats perfected logistics coordinating their polycules and could basically run normandy in their sleep.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As "ai" makes its cultists even less competent, grounded and skilled, those of us who staunchly refuse it are going to seem goddamn superpowered by comparison. So...hear me out: anarchist mentats. In seriousness, skill sharing's fun, good and more important than ever. Y'all should do it.

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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey folks it’s been a while since I posted this crowdfund and now that my disability backpay has run out (pretty much all of it went to moving, woof) I really could use some help getting the rest of my wheelchair paid off. Donations and boosts are both very appreciated 🙏 ko-fi.com/butchanarchy...

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Tacticool Girlfriend @tacticoolgf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

None of this started on October 7th. It's been continuous, and so must resistance be if we're to ever curb these horrific atrocities. These years will rightfully define us.

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synapsid (Scary) @synapsid.wtf · 07/10/2026

update your unwritten rules notebook: it's against the harassment rules to speculate on if it is ethically necessary or not to do an action you haven't done

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thread. The kicker is that it also appeals to plenty of bog standard liberals and centrists for similar reasons.

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Whenever I hear "experts" used ambiguously, I always assume it's folks with an axe to grind. I think of how Robert Putnam spent most of Bowling Alone talking about a loss of community but ignored labor conditions entirely and complained about children born out of wedlock. It was published in 2000.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh... (Somehow I restrained myself from keyboard smashing).

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Somehow the fact their strategies have so catastrophically failed that historians will be picking over the specifics for centuries doesn't ever seem to deter them, however.

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