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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 18/09/2026

“Social democracy for me exploitation for thee” In case anyone wants to understand how evil social democracy and democratic socialism is, this content creator does a wonderful job of explaining it. socdems and demsocs like sanders, aoc, mamdani, etc., are just liberals cosplaying as Socialists.

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White Castle Doctrine @uruzrune.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We can excuse gestapo deporting our neighbors, unsafe food, genocide, destabilizing the world economy, and trans hate, but we draw the line at demolishing a building none of us have set foot in

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Does the courage of August Landmesser echo through time because of his particular refusal to submit to Adolf Hitler, or because he represents a refusal to allow a commitment to a moral universal be betrayed and destituted by a braying mob?

August Landmesser refusing to give the Nazi salute

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not everyone can make a donation. But almost everyone can share a story they believe deserves to be read. That’s the idea behind our Inside Story referral campaign. Subscribe. Invite a friend. Share a story.

A quote from a reader as a part of PJP's reader referral campaign reads: “The inhumanity of prisons survives in darkness. The Prison Journalism Project lets light in and out.” – Thom #PJPCommunity

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I became an anarchist after listening to a free audiobook of The Conquest of Bread. I'm proud to contribute my voice and stumbling French pronunciations back to @audible-anarchist.bsky.social youtu.be/eA96SeuyHec?... this essay is an interesting early analysis of the financiers of the global MIC

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Wars and Capitalism by Peter Kropotkin

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Another journal review request for a paper I am perfectly suited to review, thanks to my publications. Hoisted by my own petard 😫

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 08/09/2026

It's so unfortunate how deep the lack of class consciousness goes in the American working class. How THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND that this is capitalism working exactly as intended, or that they exist under the BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP of the capitalist ruling class, and they can't vote their way out of this.

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

mass shooter administration

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 30/08/2026

Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

any statement like ‘Gen z have no literacy/cannot write/spell/communicate’ that is not also coupled with ‘their means of learning has been eradicated by tech fascism and government removal of funding’ is not worth listening to or boosting. the kids are living under the regime we allowed

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Grandma, where were you during the Holocaust of Gaza?

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PapaJ @michiganpapa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out." B. F. Skinner

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Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also, I never will accept that wearing a mask was impeding anyone’s ’freedom’. I still mask, esp at work when I’m around hundreds of co-eds (who are always sick). I lecture for hours in a mask. I still live my damn life.

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I think one reason that prisons, and by extension the entire criminal justice system, are able to be as barbaric as they are is that prisons and prisoners are for the large part invisible. That's why I think PJP is so important for those inside as well as for humanity at large

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

communism is not why your rent has skyrocketed. it's not why Blackrock is buying up millions of houses. communists are not the CEOs of health insurance companies nor are they building data centers. they weren't in the epstein files or on his island

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Anniversary of a good man murdered by monsters

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Generations from now, learning that your g g g grandpa/ma was a cop, CO, prosecutor, judge, ice agent, DHS, etc will be shameful and horrifying. Like learning your family owned slaves is today

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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

no amount of peaceful protest is gonna stop armed agents of the state from executing people on the street

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My baseline is that advertising is disgusting, it approaches screen smashing existential anger when I'm trying to read a poem online and it's interrupted by the dogshit piles of the internet

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you're part of this massive heat wave, give a thought to all the folks in your community who are stuck outdoors

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Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The Prairieland defendants are political prisoners being held captive by a fascist regime There are raids, subpoenas, indictments targeting anarchists, abolitionists, & anti ICE activists all over the country right now Take this moment seriously. Understand how the state will continue to escalate.

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it" 🙋🏻‍♂️ I am advocating for abolishing this government by any means necessary

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 02/06/2026

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Because the service had been arranged last minute, the funeral home on a busy street in Atlanta could only offer them one hour.
Orlin wore a long-sleeved shirt and a tan vest with a striped bow tie and matching pants.
The clothes concealed his injuries. A new teddy bear was tucked beside him.
Embroidered into the satin lining of his casket was "Principito," or "Little Prince."
His full name was embossed on the coffin:
Orlin Josue Hernandez Reyes.
McCaffrey and Hernandez's sister had to hold Hernandez up as she walked trembling toward her son. Once she regained the strength to stand, she stood over him and stroked his face and chest.
"I never wanted to leave you," she whispered repeatedly. "I wanted to bring you with me.
My son."

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I don't want students to think I'm cool. I want them to think I'm cringe and lame as hell and then in ten years think that I was also smart.

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The Dread Geometry @diabolicaljazz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

So we're 3 for 3 on democrat governors sending the cops to attack protesters against ICE concentration camps. Why would we not view these politicians as fascist collaborators? Or as fascists themselves?

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

2/2 this weekend for "guy in my direct eye line is watching Anaconda (2025) on the plane"

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

One fun thing about conferences is I let a book or two take a trip across the country just to see the sights before going back on the shelf (did not open/read)

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

In the hallowed halls of "every accusation is a confession", none loom so large as American capitalists saying " the communists want to take over the world by force and turn you into slaves with no rights"

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The two kinds of Nextdoor posts in rural GA.

An all-caps rant starting with ATTENTION that says very little and no one asked for

A post with a single word, "Tub". No context, no picture, just Tub

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

My favorite professor's contract wasn't renewed 😑 academia is so stupid

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Happy birthday to John Brown, who knew exactly how to handle the south’s “Peculiar Institution”

John Brown, no beard, arms crossed, looking intense as hell like usual

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/05/2026

#OtD 9 May 1921 Sophie Scholl was born in Germany. Scholl became an anti-fascist activist, helping form the peaceful White Rose resistance group and was executed by the Nazis in 1943. Learn more about German youth resistance to Nazism in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

welcome to the democratic party where a keffiyeh is disqualifying and a totenkopf isn't. please chip in $50 today so we can end fascism

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Trying to find any remaining respect for liberals within me so I can discard it but I'm coming up empty 🤷🏻‍♂️

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Greta Thunberg is right.

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Doing a conference presentation on Marxism cured my depression

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Today in 1977 began the 504 sit-ins by disabled people. The protest was the longest occupation of a federal building and a reminder that our human rights and access protections were not gifts from the ableds, but fought for by us, and in this instance with a big assist from the Black Panther party.

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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

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Charles Barkley: “If you are gay or transgender, I love you!’”

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Thom Ratkos @thomratkos.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Democrats like cia slotkin want polite fascism.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/03/2026

Emily Tucker, the Executive Director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, remains stellar and GOATed. medium.com/center-on-pr...

I was not surprised to learn that I Georgetown, like most American colleges and universities, has succumbed to the pressure to appear part of the “AI” in-crowd (and to the temptation of the resources being made available to those in that crowd). But even though everything I have done in my professional life has been in some way based on the expectation that institutions will tend towards corruption, corrosion and capture, when I think about what this particular instance of that phenomenon signifies for you, the students of Georgetown, I feel very sad and angry. And I decided that the best thing to do with that sadness and anger would be to write to you all directly about why this decision by your university, which may seem on the surface to be an example of garden variety corporate thoughtlessness, should disturb you deeply, and provoke you to fight back.

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