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William C.

@williamcson.bsky.social
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“Everybody has to die Firdaus. I will die and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.”— Nawal El Saadawi My website 🔗: williamcanderson.info My book 📖: www.akpress.org/nationonnomap.html

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A judge has ordered the release of Douglas Stewart Carter, a 71-year-old Black man who has spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing he did not commit. He spent 41 years in prison.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2026
#OtD 28 Sep 1985 two days of rioting erupted in Brixton, London after police shot and paralysed Dorothy Groce, an innocent Jamaican mother, in her bed. The police did not apologise until 29 years later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1006...
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice piece here. As the kids would say "read theory."
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#tdih 1961, Herbert Lee, a farmer who worked w/Bob Moses of SNCC @sncclegacy.bsky.social to help register Black voters, was killed in broad daylight by a state legislator (Hurst) in Liberty, Miss. 💔 Hurst was acquitted by coroner’s jury on same day. #terrorism🧵
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Sept. 25, 1961: Murder of Herbert Lee
Herbert Lee, a farmer who helped voting rights activists, was murdered by a Mississippi state legislator in broad daylight.
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Kandist @kandistmallett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aye! It’s at 48%! Keep sharing and supporting. I think about all the millions organizations have made on the backs of those who took the streets. It’s shame they have to crowdfund for resources. But here we are so let’s give what we can.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23/09/2026
#OtD 23 Sep 1911 the Organising Council of the anarchist Mexican Liberal Party issued a manifesto declaring war against authority, capital, and the Church. It was later broadcast and published in their paper Regeneración stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9610...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.
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Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029
High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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nonpareil @nonpareil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#BlackZionism #SettlerColonialism #SettlerMovesToInmocence bsky.app/profile/will...
"In this text, William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of the kind from North America and the Caribbean to Liberia and Sierra Leone, he draws parallels with Zionism and argues that state power, by definition, reproduces hierarchy, violence, and settler logic."
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is not a historical turning point. Settler colonial regimes contain from their inception the kernel of fascism that will sooner or later be their defining characteristics. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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'Historic turning point' • Israel moves toward recognizing Austrian party founded by former Nazis
The Austrian Freedom Party's leader gave a speech backing Israel's right-wing agenda that was welcomed by members of the Israeli government. Austria's established Jewish community vehemently rejects t...
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FERAL ORIENTAL 🔞🔪 @sealsona.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
YEPPP like go online and beef with randos all you want but you're using time that could be better spent improving the lives of you and the people you care about.
Those who cannot or will not fight fascism openly turn on each other. Perhaps some are scared, but others seem much more invested in personal power grabs. While people are without power and food in major disasters, they’ll be online beefing. When families are being swept up into facilities and disappeared, they’ll be online beefing. When authorities are murdering people in the streets, at home or abroad, they’ll be online beefing. As the food system breaks down, they’ll be online beefing. As new fascist laws appear, they’ll be online beefing. This is what they do. Factions of the U.S. left fight over symbolic moral claims, self-righteously justifying their own reflection while suffering increases all around them in the very communities they live in.
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Ya Girl, Chimerelda E. Error @chimerror.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
This is so vital to say right now
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Curious Georgette 🐒💀 @heartisthecompass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We will always have critiques of others in our proximity, but it’s wise to be strategic about when and how we raise issues with one another. (imo, better to focus on collective & individual action on human & civil rights threats and violations. Infighting just ain't it for effective anti-fascists)🔥
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omniality @omniality.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“While people are without power and food in major disasters, they’ll be online beefing. When families are being swept up into facilities and disappeared, they’ll be online beefing. When authorities are murdering people in the streets…”
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jordy 🍞🌹 @whobenefits.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Understand that whether you’re on the payroll or not, by engaging in the reality TV-like, cultish, chaotic conflict culture driving the online left, you’re cooperating with and actively aiding authorities.” Just left my job in cybersecurity over the surveillance of it all… This is accurate.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I wrote about how sectarian leftists endlessly fighting online has become one of the most obvious methods to destabilize radical potential in the US. Social media is highlighting a deep disconnect and gaps in antifascist rigor. Read on @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/09/16/o...
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Another way out: Those who won't fight power will fight each other
People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it and not be consumed by timeline wars and leftist influencer rage bait
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sunmushroomgod | country by nature @penz87.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
… do something productive and read this here from @williamcson.bsky.social. learn something.
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Another way out: Those who won't fight power will fight each other
People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it and not be consumed by timeline wars and leftist influencer rage bait
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Prism @prismreports.org · 16/09/2026
Online leftism is a powerful system of self-surveillance that effectively captures & counters righteous anger. People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it & not be consumed by timeline wars, leftist influencer rage bait & manipulation by outside forces, warns @williamcson.bsky.social.
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Another way out: Those who won't fight power will fight each other
People who want to fight fascism have to actually fight it and not be consumed by timeline wars and leftist influencer rage bait
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Sassy Black Neighbor Recognizes Your Patterns @sassyblackneighbor.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People reached out some time ago wanting to read the full text of my essay 'The Lingering Threat of Black Zionism' in @thefunambulist.bsky.social and it's now available on @offshootjournal.bsky.social! Go check it out and share if you'd like! offshootjournal.org/the-lingerin...
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The Lingering Threat of Black Zionism
This content is protected against AI scraping. This essay originally appeared in the March-April 2026 issue of The Funambulist titled “The No State Solution.” You can buy the full issue with a number ...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Supreme Court is illegitimate. Period. I don't care how they rule on anything. It is illegitimate.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions for now ahead of midterms.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026
at this point please don’t honor us 😭
one tree with an “in honor of all indigenous people” plaque
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Prism @prismreports.org · 08/09/2026
Despite the guardrails that were meant to keep Germany from repeating its Nazi history, the far-right AfD has brought fascism back to the polls. Last month, @williamcson.bsky.social warned us that governing fascism is a losing game: “Unrelenting oppression has to be met with unrelenting resistance.”
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Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism
Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I can’t wait to read!
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
With news of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) gains coming out of Germany, I’m resharing my last column. I mentioned the AfD as an example while considering the risks of thinking fascists can be pragmatically governed away over time.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apartments designated as affordable are sitting empty as the poorest of the poor in the U.S. cannot afford them
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The poorest in the U.S. can’t find housing even as low-income units sit empty
“I just keep trying to swim uphill,” says Mathew Davis, 49, of the few hundred dollars he earns a month.
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...
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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
This is a very cool use of @tangled.org and a great way to mirror all the NoBlogs content that the Trump admin is trying to censor
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Many activists & organizers use the Signal app instead of regular SMS texting for increased privacy 🧵 Swipe for practical steps to: • limit records • lock your device • protect your identity • verify contacts • avoid scams Save & share with people who use #Signal! #DigiSec #SecurityCulture #OpSec
REMEMBER Signal is safer, not safe scroll for safety tips
COMMUNICATE SAFELY Signal is not permission to say anything. Keep communications in large or not-fully-vetted Signal chats to a bare minimum. Don’t write anything you wouldn’t want authorities to read, or to be read aloud in court. If someone’s phone is taken or accessed, your messages to them may be visible. Anything can be screenshotted! Whether readable for one day or one minute, it can still be screenshotted.
VERIFY PEOPLE & DEVICES Double-check that you are talking to the person you think you are through a trusted second channel, such as an in-person conversation, video call, or a question only the two of you know the answer to. Use Signal’s safety-number verification. Compare the safety numbers or scan the QR code in person when possible; if they do not match, stop using that channel until you can verify the person. Remove people from chats if they—or any of their devices—become compromised, lost, seized, or accessed by someone else.
MANAGE DATA Set disappearing messages for every chat you create or join to 1 week, 1 day, or shorter. Set a default disappearing-message timer for all new chats: Signal Settings → Privacy → Default timer for new chats.  Delete Signal on your phone before traveling internationally. Delete Signal Desktop when you no longer need it, especially before giving away, sharing, repairing, or disposing of a computer. Be careful what you store in chat group descriptions—files, links, photos stored there are visible to everyone with a link to the chat.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/09/2026
"Bottom 60% of households" is a wild phrase
CBS NEWS
The findings? For the bottom 60% of U.S. households, a
"minimal quality of life" is out of reach, according to the group, a research organization focused on improving lower earners' economic well-being.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 31/08/2026
“Louise Vincent was a movement visionary who sought to build the collective power of drug users to demand essential human rights.” @stahlidarity.bsky.social uplifts the trailblazing harm reduction movement sparked by drug user activist Louise Vincent, who died one year ago.
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One year after drug use activist Louise Vincent’s death, the movement she sparked struggles to pick up the pieces
Under Vincent’s leadership, the National Survivors Union blazed a trail for harm reduction, uplifted sex workers and mothers, and reframed drug use as a human rights issue
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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
For @readlux.bsky.social, I wrote about Epstein as meme, joke, and posthumous career-maker (for some men) lux-magazine.com/article/epst...
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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Can we sit with the discomfort that may bring, that revolutionary desire sent her out of her mind,” writes @tianareid.bsky.social in her essay about a sobering exchange between former Black Panther Party member Dale Rascoe and Kyera Singleton. Read and listen: offshootjournal.org/a-taste-that...
A collage background with black-and-white headshots of Tiana Reid, Kyera Singleton, and Dale Rascoe in front of text: A Taste That Lingers - Tiana Reid on Kyera Singleton and Dale Rascoe.
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Fascism keeps coming back to life over and over. And over and over, people respond by acting as if they have to work with it and be nice enough to let it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them. Well, you cannot bargain with death, and fascists deal in deadly methods."
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fascists who have no intention of compromising communicate through violence. Reflecting on the Confederacy and the rightward shift in Germany, I wrote about the dangers of thinking you can work around the far-right's relentlessness for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/08/27/f...
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Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism
Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them
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Michelle @catfi9ht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Unrelenting oppression has to be met with unrelenting resistance. Fascism being met with tolerating politics will only help it expand further."
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Fascism keeps coming back to life over and over. And over and over, people respond by acting as if they have to work with it and be nice enough to let it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them.” - William C. Anderson
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Prism @prismreports.org · 27/08/2026
What does “governance” do for people who use it as a synonym for concessions? Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism, writes @williamcson.bsky.social in “Another way out.” Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them.
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Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism
Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An open letter in the Guardian generating more backlash and anger than Black people being systematically abandoned without power for weeks in Gary, Indiana is US leftism in a nutshell 🎪
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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Read a stunning and beautiful essay by Jessica Lynne following her conversation with the last editor of the Black Panther Party newspaper, revolutionary author, and activist JoNina Abron-Ervin. offshootjournal.org/what-should-...
Headshots of Jessica Lynne and JoNIna Abron-Ervin against a blue abstract background. Text says "What Should My Living Look Like? by Jessica Lynne with JoNina Abron Ervin."
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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thank you to our contributors: Mahdi Sabbagh, Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin, Ashanti Alston, Tiana Reid, Jessica Lynne, JoNina Abron-Ervin, Kyera Singleton, Dale Rascoe, Adam Barkan, Eunsong Kim, Grayson Lee, Carrie Nakamura, and William C. Anderson.
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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"We were honored to receive these writings, as well as those recorded conversations and their transcripts, which we’ll preserve in our growing offshoot archive. All of this and more will be made available to you for education, enjoyment, and application." offshootjournal.org/offshoot-iss...
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offshoot issue 1: intro
offshoot A Community of Sense One could say that Black radical critique in the Americas began with the body, in the senses. By way of the terrors of the middle passage and what awaited on the other si...
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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Before Black August ends, offshoot would like to present you with our first digital issue: senses. We gathered a handful of our favorite writers, thinkers, and artists to put in conversation with Black radical elders we’ve been working closely with. offshootjournal.org/offshoot-iss...
White text against a black background reads: 'offshoot, Issue 1, SENSES'
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 18/08/2026
Missing our event last Saturday with Ashanti Alston and @williamcson.bsky.social? You can now stream it at youtu.be/GeGg75lAcGY 🎬 @akpress.org
youtu.be
"Anarchist Panther" Book Launch
YouTube video by Firestorm Books
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Libertarian Socialist of Portland @lumpyspacepdx.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Join us as we discuss The Nation on No Map by William C. Anderson. 8/29, 1-3pm @ NW Library (2030 NW Pettygrove Street Portland, OR 97209) Community Room 1H. Come even if you haven't finished the book!
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“We are repeating past mistakes based on petty nonsense. We are regularly falling apart. If we do not want the failure of all this to keep falling on us, then we should move out of its way.” - William C. Anderson
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We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism’
Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic”
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is important!
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