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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Honestly, if our economic system doesn't take care of the elderly, the disabled, and others in need while those in care work (like nurses) live in poverty and have no free time, then what is even the point of having an economy?

"I think that we should take the ideas of
production and consumption, throw them
away, and substitute for them the idea
of care and freedom.

We need to care for each other that will make
each other more free? And who’re the people
who are providing that care? And how can
they be compensated themselves with
greater freedom? To do that we need to like,
actually scrap almost all of the discipline
of economics as it currently exists."
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- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The problem of Labour abandoning socialism and now being the Starmer-Party. #Reform

The Reform party have made big gains in the UK.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Imagine people could make up their own minds about what it was that they would pursue.

The 1% who rule the world may have turned the pursuit of money and power into a kind of pathological game that are ends in themselves, but for the rest of us, having money, having an income, being free from debt, has come to mean having the power to pursue something other than money.

We all want to ensure our loved ones are safe, and taken care of. We all want to live in healthy and beautiful communities but beyond that, the things we wish to pursue are likely to be wildly different. What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to pursue it and what sort of commitments we wish to make to them in the process?"

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

And they must be crushed for the sake of humanity and the world as we know it

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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

#OnThisDay in 1898, Bertolt Brecht was born. He did not write for art’s sake, but to challenge injustice, expose fascism and inspire change. His plays demand an active audience — and his socialist critique remains sharply relevant today.

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair/ With a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.” Leonard Cohen

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

As a society, we need to stop treating people in debt as if they are criminals who committed a crime.

The wealthy have a million ways to wriggle out of their debts, and as a result, when government debt is transferred to the private sector, that debt always gets passed down on to those least able to pay it: into middle-class mortgages, payday loans, and so on.

The people running the government know this but they’ve learned if you just keep repeating, “We’re just trying to behave responsibly! Families have to balance their books. Well, so do we,” people will just assume that the government running a surplus will somehow make it easier for all of us to do so too. But in fact the reality is precisely the opposite: if the government manages to balance its books, that often means you can’t balance yours.

– David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

They want you to feel hopeless and believe that nothing can improve.

"Hopelessness isn’t natural.
It needs to be produced.

If we really want to understand this situation,
we have to begin by understanding that for
decades we have seen the construction
of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the
creation and maintenance of hopelessness,
a kind of giant machine that is designed,
first and foremost, to destroy any sense
of possible alternative futures."
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- David Graeber

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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I’m just a simple man, but it’s almost like this global “competition” for “markets” and economic “growth” has led us to irreversible climate catastrophe and environmental disaster, not to mention ceaseless conflict, human exploitation, and war.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Always worth a post

i am running into a new year
By Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

New story day! "Phantom View" is about a son caretaking for his father, and discovering a blurry person in all their family photos that he has no memory of. The same figure is in all his dad's paintings--and the figure may be in the house with them right now.

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Phantom View - Reactor

A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father try to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.

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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

AfD here, but presumably would be same in other countries too: "mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

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chuck @whatexactlyisup.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

added alt-text bc this is my favorite 🤍🤍

Screenshot from the show Andor with quote: “And then remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.
And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance, will have flooded the banks of the Empire's authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this. Try."
The photo is a man wearing a red hat, looking a little run down and full of hope, spirit, and grit.

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Meg Adams (ArtbyMoga) @artbymoga.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Hey so I’ve had some folks reach out and say they’re “tired” of my political comics. So here is a fun little fall comic to get us back in the mood 🎃🍂✨

Carson holds up a carved pumpkins with a face on it, he says, “I used a stencil”. Meg holds a pumpkin and a knife, I used my voice”. The pumpkin reads “free Palestine”🇵🇸

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Monique H @dramatherapyonline.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

"But we are supposed to honor and respect a liar because… civility. Yet, when it comes to dead black bodies, there are no calls for reverence and dignity."

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 12/09/2025

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

It does not have to be this way.

Police can ruin lives just by doing their jobs. Landlords can make us homeless just by evicting. An employer might fire you if it's good for the bottom line. It seems that Capitalism wants us to be decent as children but then expects us to be corrupt and awful to each other as adults. Perhaps a system that delivers on the potential of that pro-social behavior we are taught as kids is a better system than the one we live under

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

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AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Ursula Le Guin: “The shift from denial of injustice to recognition of injustice can’t be unmade.... Once you see the injustice, you can never again in good faith deny the oppression and defend the oppressor. What was loyalty is now betrayal. From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude.”

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Recognition in the genocide.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” The first part of this James Baldwin quote gets thrown around a lot, but it’s the second half that stick with me.

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The Bearded Halfling @thebeardedhalfling.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

The world needs to be filled with less people who think: "Well, one day I might be a millionaire." And instead more people who think: "One day I might be a refugee."

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Monique H @dramatherapyonline.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Thinking of this by Henry J Garrett today. Free Palestine, Slava Ukraini.

An illustration by Henry J Garrett, of a white pill box on a blue background. The label reads: "Dehumanisation, for those times when empathising with suffering isn't convenient"

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DiEM25 @diem25.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This isn’t a heatwave. It’s a warning. The EU is gutting the Green Deal and ramping up military spending. Read our program for a just green transition. Join our movement to fight against climate inaction: gnde.diem25.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

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‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

The reading for Starmer's Cabinet today: "Blessed are the peacemakers ..."

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Monique H @dramatherapyonline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Feeling so much safer now that 38 men have self-reported that the manosphere isn't dangerous *sarcasm*. Not all research is ethical or reliable, and there needs to be higher standards for research which potentially can impact vulnerable communities through shaping legislation

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The likes of CNN and Foxnews paint the police as a noble force protecting us all. David Graeber explains what the police are really about.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it.
Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"Man of the people? We think not.." meme via @spottednews.com

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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Ikr? 🤷‍♀️🙄💥

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

“If there is need for a ‘study of the historic continuity of a single culture’, why can’t this be African? [...] Why can’t African literature be at the centre so that we can view other cultures in relationship to it?” - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (1938-2025) 🕯

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87

Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

That is in fact what this administration has done.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

they will stand there with their boot on your throat and the weight of a whole regime behind them, complaining that it's such a difficult time to be wearing boots.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has designated the Far Right AfD as an extremist threat. The party could now be disbanded (but won’t be). But expanded surveillance powers can now be used and civil servants may be barred from joining.

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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Go to where your suffering is aligned with your capacity to meet it. You don’t have to go to death row, or live in a monastery. You don’t have to sit with the unsheltered, if that’s not your work. Go to where you can care safely and deeply & broaden that capacity over time. Roshi Joan

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16/04/2025

Friends, many of us are finding it hard to feel hopeful. And that’s ok. When you can’t feel hope, do hope. Hope is getting out of bed. Hope is telling jokes, writing that paper, smiling at a stranger, permission to rest. Hope is a practice. What does hope in action look like for you? Goodnight 💚

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Rights should never end where borders begin. 🚸⚖️ 💯 @unhcr.org #HumanRight

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Monique H @dramatherapyonline.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

"There is a reason totalitarian states so often ban singing and dancing and it is the same reason those communal habits have died out in the US. Bringing them back is resistance...Reaching out and connecting with each other is resistance." #heathermarsh #bindingchaos www.patreon.com/posts/us-occ...

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