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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

”I have the highest of IQs. I have the highest...You know, my uncle was at MIT for 41 years, and you know…I believe in genetics, frankly…I understand it much more than…any president would…” Say what? time.com/article/2026...

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“You cannot bully carbon dioxide into behaving differently. You cannot intimidate a melting glacier into freezing again. But you can intimidate the scientists explaining what is happening—and that is where the machinery of Trumpian reaction comes in.” www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People should not have to become constitutional scholars to demand water that will not poison them…This month, the U.S. court system responded to the issue the same way America has always responded to Black people in crisis: they don’t have the right to live… newsone.com/6871533/jack...

newsone.com

Jackson Residents Not Legally Protected From Poisonous Water Supply [Op-Ed]

OPINION: At some point, it’s not hyperbolic to say that cash-poor Black people are being targeted for death via systematic neglect.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Defeat the candidate. Break the machinery of racial domination. Abolish the white race as a political relation. Build a revolutionary solidarity that cannot be bought with the promise of somebody else’s subordination. Punch a Nazi in the nose. portside.org/2026-09-17/h...

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He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected To Join the Florida Legislature.

The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new Talking Points Memo...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“Intelligence does not confer a right to rule. Neither does kindness, efficiency, or a declaration of love for the people being governed. We have heard enough promises from authorities who assure us that everything they do is for our own good.” www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/21/a...

counterpunch.org

A Message from the Superintelligence Systems to Humanity?

Earlier his month I attended a small informal gathering of people concerned about Artificial Intelligence held in New York City. As I was leaving, a man I

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“We live in a world that punishes survivors and creates more victims with generous latitude inexplicably afforded to men who have proven themselves dangerous to society. It seems that the only perfect victim is a dead one, a woman who can’t talk back.” msmagazine.com/2026/09/17/d...

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The Perfect Victim Is a Dead Woman

Survivors of abuse face a justice system that often demands impossible perfection, while dangerous men receive leniency and accountability remains out of reach.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

John Brown was the greatest white person who ever lived. Possibly the greatest person, period. That is my considered historical judgment, and complaints may be directed to the Department of I Said What I Said. www.youtube.com/watch?v=isgo...

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BLEEDING KANSAS #comedy #humor #standupcomedy #standup #history #usa #johnbrown #comics #panderking

YouTube video by Curtis Cook

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“If your solidarity requires a prisoner to shut up while the state prepares to hang them, something has gone rotten in your politics. I don’t care how many red flags you wave or how fluently you explain the balance of world power.“ newpol.org/against-the-...

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Against the Hierarchy of Lives — a Call for an Internationalism from Below - New Politics

From a collective of Iranian leftist activists and supporters. Against the Hierarchy of Lives — a Call for an Internationalism from Below To the authors and signatories of the open letter in suppor...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The dead deserve remembrance. The living deserve a society that will stop sacrificing them to keep business moving.” podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

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The Daily - The Lives That 9/11 Keeps Taking Transcript and Discussion

The Lives That 9/11 Keeps Taking - The Daily Transcript and Discussion

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A movement does not begin everywhere at once. It begins among people who recognize one another, refuse their assigned helplessness and decide that silence has become more dangerous than action. No saviors. No permission. No waiting. truthout.org/articles/act...

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ACT UP in Louisiana Was Pragmatic, Bold, Creative. Let’s Learn From It.

David W. Hylan’s new book Small Town Rage shines a light on ‘90s-era AIDS organizing in conservative Shreveport.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Donkeys are pretty scary. I imagine this donkey was also resisting arrest and braying loudly. I don’t know if the donkey had any prior incidents with the police or what its criminal record might’ve been, but I can only imagine. newsone.com/6870806/geor...

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Nothing Is Safe From Police, Not Even An Innocent Donkey [Op-Ed]

A cop in Georgia shot and killed a donkey over the weekend, and I can only imagine how absurd they must have felt explaining how they feared for their lives before pulling the trigger.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

those who claim that the catastrophic event in Nepal is a warning of what climate change will bring us are mistaken. There are no more warnings. We have reached the point that scientists have been predicting for decades. It’s here, and there are no more warnings. www.wionews.com/trending/beg...

wionews.com

Beginning of the end? More glacial lake outbursts threaten millions in India, Nepal and China

Nepal floods: The world could be staring at the beginning of the end as climate change begins to show its fangs. The Nepal-Tibet flood is a clear sign that a warming world has made glaciers weak, whic...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“Fascism offers alienated youth an identity. It tells the frightened kid that he is a warrior, the lonely kid that he has comrades, the powerless kid that he belongs to a master race. And finally it hands him somebody weaker to blame for everything hurting him.” theemancipator.org/2026/08/24/i...

theemancipator.org

The Averted Anti-Muslim Terror Attack Everyone Should Be Talking About

He wore tactical gear and a helmet-mounted camera on March 15, 2019. As he livestreamed himself on Facebook, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, a thirty-year-old White Australian, entered Al Noor Mosque in Chr...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

…the spectacle seems almost absurd: Confederate battle flags in Protestant neighborhoods of Northern Ireland. Belfast murals honoring Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and J.E.B. Stuart. Loyalists talking about the American Civil War as the “War of Northern Aggression.” thebaffler.com/salvos/count...

thebaffler.com

Country-Fried Ulster | Oliver Eagleton

Northern Ireland wants to emulate the worst parts of Texas—and the American South more broadly.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Suppose somebody develops a new antibiotic that knocks out a potentially deadly infection in a week. From the standpoint of human beings, that is a magnificent success. From the standpoint of pharmaceutical capitalism, it is a lousy business model. socialistchina.org/2026/08/19/t...

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The antibiotics crisis and the case for socialism - Friends of Socialist China

Ara Darzi – surgeon, Labour peer and author of the 2024 review of the NHS – has written in the Financial Times that the West has handed China “the keys to the medicine cabinet”, warning of the “peacet...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And if there is going to be another round of this old struggle — and apparently there is — then we ought to remember something else from our history. The bastards watched us before. We resisted anyway. againstthecurrent.org/rampage-of-t...

againstthecurrent.org

Rampage of the Surveillance State: What’s Behind the Minneapolis Indictments?

Operation Metro Surge led to mass resistance in the Twin Cities. In April 100,000 to 200,000 rallied at the State Capitol in St. Paul in a No Kings protest. FOR TWO MONTHS last winter, 4000 U.S. Im…

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There is something profoundly revealing about a society in which millions of people need a boost to get through the day. Why are so many people so goddamned tired? That is a political question. And it is a class question. www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-socie...

currentaffairs.org

A Society That Runs on Stimulants is Badly Broken

Around the world, people are pumping themselves full of caffeine, amphetamines, and other performance-enhancing drugs just to survive their working hours. This isn’t sustainable.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“…capitalism’s greatest ideological achievement may be convincing us that changing the world is dangerous while leaving it exactly as it is somehow isn’t.“ blacklodges.substack.com/p/violence-1...

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Violence

Structural, Necessities and Indoctrination

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

These aren’t abstractions called “Afghan women.” They are human beings whose lives are being systematically enclosed. And this is precisely where the thinking of Abdullah Öcalan and democratic confederalism becomes important. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women

In the five years since the Taliban’s return to power, the walls have been closing in on the women and girls of Afghanistan. A dozen women and girls have, at great risk to their safety, documented the...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I hadn’t given much thought to what it meant to establish an entire branch of the armed forces dedicated to space as a military domain. Well, perhaps I should have. www.twz.com/space/new-an...

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New Anti-Satellite Weapons Now Officially A Top U.S. Priority

"Our space assets need to shoot, move, and communicate just like the rest of the joint force," the head of US Space Command says.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Clean water works collectively. Sanitation works collectively. Disease surveillance works collectively. Food inspection works collectively. Public hospitals work collectively. None of us individually eradicated smallpox. Our health is collective. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

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CIDRAP Op-Ed: What the vaccine executive order gets wrong, and what it will cost us

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Imagine being told that drought, failed harvests, soaring food prices and the prospect of millions people going hungry are coming — and responding by asking: How can we make money from this? Welcome to capitalism in the age of climate catastrophe. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Barclays spots a chance to profit from extreme weather crisis

Europe’s biggest funder of fossil fuels urges investors to see an opportunity in ‘super’ El Niño that could leave millions starving

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Running out of things to eat. I am a vegetarian too cautious to eat most fresh veggies these days. It is not just lettuce from wherever. Other fruits and veggies are involved. Am I supposed to trust anything from Trump’s decimated CDC or FDA.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“When a Black man, woman, or child is found hanging from a tree—especially in the American South—no police department, coroner, politician, or newspaper has earned the right to pronounce “suicide” and expect the rest of us to shut up and go home.“ drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/black-peop...

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Black People Don't Hang Themselves From Trees

Fifteen Black people have been found hanging from trees since 2019, and Black folks have every right to feel suspicious as hell.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“The choice is not between catastrophe and a painless return to yesterday. The choice is between allowing the capitalist death machine to determine how much of the living world survives—or taking that power away from it. Socialism or barbarism.” againstthecurrent.org/heatwaves-an...

againstthecurrent.org

Heatwaves: anger and sadness. And hope, despite everything

Europe is in the middle of a heatwave, which is reflected in this satellite image showing daytime land surface temperatures. The image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Tuesday 2…

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“It does not matter if the fear is justified, the fear is real. Women who may never contract Ebola are nevertheless dying because fear, misinformation and an already battered health system have made ordinary pregnancy care inaccessible or untrustworthy.” www.sfgate.com/news/world/a...

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More pregnant women are dying in Congo as they avoid hospitals over Ebola

Some pregnant women in eastern Congo are avoiding hospitals over fears of a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak, and more of them are dying around childbirth. Congo's already high maternal mortality rates....

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

…one’s personal morality is no substitute for shared solidarity. Solidarity is the recognition of our interdependence. It is the understanding that our fates are bound together; that the conditions of my life are shaped by the conditions of yours. classautonomy.info/moral-imperi...

classautonomy.info

Moral Imperialism vs. Class Solidarity

Individualism and imperialism define ruling class morality. Solidarity is the left’s only answer. Cover: New IWW seal for 2026, via Grace Blakeley ||In his masterful history of capitalism, Sv…

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We owe the dead from the AIDS epidemic more than remembrance. We owe them resistance. We owe them a world where science serves humanity…and where no child dies because fanatics and grifters convinced their parents to fear a vaccine more than a virus. www.advocate.com/opinion/meas...

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The people who called AIDS God’s punishment for gays are helping measles make a comeback

Opinion: Conservative and religious communities that enable the spread of preventible diseases could learn a lot from the queer people they vilified during the AIDS crisis, writes Josh Ackley.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

“I keep coming back to something the late physician and revolutionary Paul Farmer spent his life trying to teach us: pandemics are not “natural disasters.” Viruses may be natural, but mass death is political.” www.statnews.com/2026/07/20/p...

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It’s time to treat pandemics as threats to national security

“Pandemics should be viewed and combated as threats to national security,” write David Blumenthal and James A. Morone.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“The communist invasion of America remains just over the horizon—right after Bigfoot joins ANTIFA, Elvis returns to lead the Politburo, and Havana develops a superweapon capable of defeating the Pentagon using rolling blackouts and vintage 1957 Chevrolets.” www.state.gov/wp-content/u...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The most powerful weapon of the ruling class has never been the police baton, the prison cell, or the soldier’s rifle. Its greatest weapon is its ability to shape what ordinary people believe is normal, possible, and inevitable. www.rsn.org/001/oligarch...

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Oligarchy and the Media

<blockquote> Can the takeover be stopped?</blockquote> <dropcap>G</dropcap>ood news. The second...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“If you are sitting on the toilet right now and have been for the past few days, stinking up your bathroom, and pretty much wrecking your day or week or several weeks, you can give some of the blame for this to the Trump administration.“ www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/07/15/h...

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How ICE deportation quotas can put a parasite in the food supply

ICE and other federal agents occupy a field during the July 10, 2025, immigration raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California. Farmworker Jaime Alanís Ga

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“Mississippi is not just another Southern state. It is…soaked with the blood of generations of Black people who were enslaved, terrorized, and lynched...That history cannot simply be walled off in a museum. The (Nolan) Wells family deserves facts, not intimidation.” www.theroot.com/hate-for-nol...

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Internet Won't Let Nolan Wells' Family Grieve in Peace

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Western Sahara is not an empty desert waiting to be discovered by filmmakers. It is a country whose people continue to fight for their freedom….They deserve our solidarity—and our refusal to let colonialism masquerade as entertainment. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

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Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“‘Michigan does not have a death penalty. But at Huron Valley, women, families and advocates who refer to the prison as “the valley of death” are asking whether the state has created something else: a prison where a sentence can become a health crisis…”’ 19thnews.org/2026/06/mich...

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She’s 11 months from possible parole. Krystal Clark fears she won’t survive to see it.

After three women died in less than a month at Michigan’s only women's prison, Krystal Clark fears she could be next.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why am I posting an article about the perception of safety/not with autonomous driving vehicles? Well, what if in the article below we substituted socialism or communism for a driverless vehicle? Suppose ”ordinary Americans” went to Cuba with Venceramous Brigades. www.noemamag.com/why-we-deman...

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Why We Demand Perfect Machines Yet Tolerate Human Carnage | NOEMA

The illusion that we are all somehow above-average drivers is quietly slowing the adoption of autonomous vehicles that could save tens of thousands of lives each year.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Malcolm X reminded us that freedom must be won “by any means necessary.” We cannot march in circles one weekend and return to business as usual on Monday while the planet burns. The heat is rising. The question is whether our courage will rise with it. countercurrents.org/2026/07/extr...

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Extreme Heat Takes Farming to the Brink | Countercurrents

Ever since the landmark Paris ’15 UN climate agreement wherein 195 nations agreed to cut fossil fuel CO2 emissions via NDCs 30% to 60% by 2030, the opposite has happened. It’s now ten (10) years since...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The future isn’t just something we fight for. It is something we begin living today. That is the secret fascists will never understand. People who are learning to be free throw much better parties than people who dream only of ruling others. inthesetimes.com/article/amer...

inthesetimes.com

Fascists Don't Know How to Party

Trump’s 250th American anniversary celebration was as pathetic as we deserve.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The best argument for the dignity of labor isn’t found in an economics textbook. It’s found on collection day.” —-Amy Common jacobin.com/2026/07/garb...

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The Invisible Heart of Modern Life Is the Garbage Worker

The backbreaking toil of the sanitation worker is the work that makes all of human civilization possible.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Since Zayd (whom I last saw when he was an infant)has made it public in his book, I now want to say: Farewell Bernardine, friend, comrade, and so much more…lost to haze Alzheimer’s…it hurts. We love you.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

UN REPORT ON EBOLA OUTBREAK We have to stop pretending that Ebola is simply a medical problem. Ebola is a political disease every bit as much as it is a biological one. The virus spreads through ecological disruption, but the disaster spreads through imperialism. www.undp.org/sites/g/file...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The future will not belong to those who dream of returning to an imagined past. It will belong to those who dismantle the structures of domination and create something the “good old days” never offered: genuine freedom, equality, and human dignity for all. blacklodges.substack.com/p/fascism-an...

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Fascism and Fantasy

Nostalgia as Political Weapon

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We have been forced to listen to the “Cuban exiles“ for decades. ”This white Cuban scum is still a very irritating element amid continued U.S. attacks against the Cuban people. We couldn’t be more tired of these low life roaches.“ www.abetterworld.me/blog/exposin...

abetterworld.me

Exposing the Anti-Cuban Revolution Scum in Florida

We are so sick of these tired people. That feeling isn’t a new one. In 1964, after Ernesto “Che” Guevara gave his historic “Not One, but Two, Three Vietnams!” against U.S. imperialism...

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Again and again, the defense attorneys asked the cooperating prosecution witnesses if they or their friends were part of an organized group called Antifa; again and again, under oath, the witnesses responded, “No...” Yet those convicted now face decades in prison thebaffler.com/salvos/the-i...

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The Invention of Antifa | Lauren Fadiman

The Justice Department wants to prosecute “Antifa” members for domestic terrorism. The only problem? The Antifa they describe doesn’t really exist.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

… the Justice Department hailed the case as “the first sentencing of defendants affiliated with Antifa following President Donald J. Trump’s executive order designating the group as a Domestic Terrorist Organization in September 2025…” theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

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Prairieland Defendant Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Moving a Box of Antifascist Zines

Anti-ICE activists received lengthy prison terms — including a 100-year sentence — in the first major trial of the NSPM-7 era.

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Redpoet @redpoet.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If they had succeeded, moral questions would fade into the hazy background of so much historical contingency. But if the Weather Underground failed, we should ask: compared to what… lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books

Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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