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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Im sure there are actually horrible ghouls saying nightmarish things online but I actually think people rallying to support cultural institutions with their bodies in the face of the fascist assault on beauty and art is good

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is an excellent explainer!

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

This paragraph is incredible. What cruelty it paints. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy lithub.com/letter-from-...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A drawing by a 5-year-old child in detention:

Drawing in black on white paper of four frowning small stick figures behind bars. One of them has a speech bubble saying “Let s go”.

At the top written in a child’s print handwriting are the words, “I am 5 years old.”

At the bottom left corner is a box with the name of the child’s attorney, Eric Lee.

Source: Maddow

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm the biggest superfan, I can't even tell you! Crossing fingers you get tickets. This piece felt like a return to their roots (after the live video experiments they did recently with Frankenstein and some other shows—which I also liked!). Just black and white and red, with the most amazing score!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

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That Queer Skeletal Writer @falcc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Every one of these announcements reads to me as "we don't have enough people and supplies to occupy more than one city at a time"

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

ICE just executed someone in cold blood in Minneapolis. The agency is frantically trying to spin it but the videos are already out there. Murderous fascist pigs.

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Alexis @offalcute.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Organizers in Twin Cities making rare plea for folks to share broadly: ICE ops have changed & escalated this week. They've moved to a 'flood-the-zone' strategy, nabbing anyone they can from bus stops, the sidewalk, cars, or homes. This means indiscriminate abductions and obviously no warrants.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Another favorite essay of the year: Daniel Yadin's essay in @thedriftmag.com on romantasy and the desire for escapism in catastrophe. It was so funny while speaking to the very real temptation to abdicate agency. Some favorite passages:

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Overall, the essay skillfully connects gentrification, climate catastrophe, and fascism—and shares the artists and community members who make up the "promise of Altadena." The photographs from Gabriella Angotti-Jones are also stunning.

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My student was looking up vocab words, so I got to marvel at how Kelley's use of "bulwark" (as opposed to, say, "defense" or "refuge") creates the corollary image of a "wave" of white nationalism. The language and imagery are so vivid.

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I re-read it with one of my tutees this week and this sentence stood out: "Altadena was the promise of what America could be, the opposite of oligarchy and fascism, a bulwark against white nationalism and racist terror."

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

For today’s newsletter, I shared a “rage tangent” from a longer work in progress about artwashing, genocide profiteers who fund major arts organizations, the false scarcity they create, and how artists in the imperial core can envision liberatory arts spaces. jesseroth.beehiiv.com/p/screaming

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This Sunday, I'm co-leading a workshop on some research I've been working on over the last few years on "artwashing", genocide profiteers who fund major arts organizations, and activists organizing against them. Come check it out at the Seattle Liberation Center from 3pm-5pm!

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I used to write a newsletter, and I've now revived it under a new name: I HAVE A RIBCAGE; YOU HAVE A RIBCAGE. Every Friday, I'll be sending out a new piece of writing. Looking forward to sharing with you! jesseroth.beehiiv.com/p/introducin...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/12/2025

⭕️ BREAKING: The latest Nat'l Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) drafted in the US Congress would require a “continual assessment … of international state arms embargoes on Israel” — with language aimed at filling any “defense capability gaps” those embargoes create, Zeteo reports. This means the...

⭕️ BREAKING: The latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) drafted in the U.S. Congress would require a “continual assessment … of international state arms embargoes on Israel” — with language aimed at filling any “defense capability gaps” those embargoes create, Zeteo reports.

This means the U.S. would explicitly use federal law to step in and supply weapons to Israel whenever other countries cut off arms to halt Israel’s ongoing violations across the region.

Several countries have moved to suspend or restrict arms exports to Israel over its two-year long genocide in Gaza, including Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, and Canada, which froze new export permits while allowing existing contracts to proceed. A group of independent United Nations Human Rights Council–mandated experts, including Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, have publicly called for a full arms embargo on Israel.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 04/12/2025

🇮🇪🇪🇸🇸🇮🇳🇱 BREAKING | Four major broadcasters – Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands – have pulled out of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the EBU confirmed Israel will be allowed to compete despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Despite a wave of pressure and boycott threats urging the...

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The EBU and participating national broadcasters met in Geneva today to debate whether Israel should be allowed to continue participating in Eurovision, with Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain all threatening to boycott.

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Sharing your post. Sending you much care.

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Shared your post. You're in my prayers.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive. Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma. 1/

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I just saw a headline describing the incredible work yesterday of preventing dozens of ICE from doing a mass raid on Canal st as "police arrest and pepper spray dozens of people outside garage". That IS NOT the story!!!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/11/2025

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Tomorrow, a double feature: Shakespeare in Love, then Hamnet (the movie).

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Art in the last 24 hours: Freakier Friday—way better than it has any business being. I cried! Hamnet (the book): Stunning! Also cried! The prose! Giving birth in the woods! The final scene in the theatre! The Substance: So scary. Can't sleep. Very good storytelling. Hated the ending.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I'm sharing your post. Sending you my prayers.

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Lol grammarly just "suggested" I rephrase a James Baldwin quote.

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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

We’re on the right track! Make sure you track your ballot to confirm it is accepted, NOT challenged. Check our links in bio to do so! More votes will be counted on Monday!

A Katie Wilson for mayor campaign graphic that says we're right on track! today we won about 55% of the newly counted ballots. we are within 2% of the incumbent. if the drop on Monday follows the same trajectory, we will be squarely ahead. it's going to be a long weekend. many ballots are being challenged! Make sure you track your ballot at the link in bio. our amazing volunteers will be working to make sure every vote counts.

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Jesse Roth @jesse-roth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

the fuckers are finally dead.

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