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Andrew Lee

@xandrewleex.bsky.social
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land x home x resistance x popular power author: Defying Displacement (AK Press, 2024) instruggle.substack.com

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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"According to court observers, Judge Reed O’Connor said at sentencing that he 'wants to send a message to anyone else with similar ideology.'" My latest for @unicornriot.bsky.social
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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 04/07/2026
important to revisit the words of the Founding Fathers on this day
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"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Smolarek’s letter alleges that PSL is now spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to employ software developers to build an A.I.-powered secret police system with the objective of spying on members of every PSL branch in the country." First as tragedy, etc etc www.geesemag.com/articles/psl...
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PSL's Top Propagandist Resigns, Publishes Tell-All Letter — geese magazine.
A dramatic resignation letter from one of the PSL's top leaders accuses the organization of secrecy, factionalism, and bureaucratic decay. The controversy has reignited questions about the future of A...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New: Activists with the Sunrise Movement Philly chapter are on a hunger strike to further their demands for allocating some of the city budget surplus to local services. An interview at City Hall. More coverage to come. Interview recorded 5/25/2026 #philadelphia www.youtube.com/watch?v=g69G...
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Hunger Strikers Call to "Make Philly Affordable"
YouTube video by Unicorn Riot
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Every single municipal budget in the country is unironically the Dril candles tweet but the candles are police
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Myopic obsession of some in the left with Nordic countries ignores how these welfare states are built on intense nationalism & growing anti migrant racism. Sweden's new legislation includes longer residency period, higher income thresholds, and mandatory language and civic knowledge tests.
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Sweden tightens citizenship requirements for African migrants after earlier promise of $34,000 for voluntary return home
Sweden is tightening its citizenship requirements from 2026, raising income and residency thresholds in a policy shift that is expected to affect African migrants, after earlier promising up to $34,00...
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“May 1st is the only truly universal day of all humanity, the only day when all histories and all geographies, all languages and all religions and cultures of the world coincide,” wrote Eduardo Galeano. “But in the United States, May 1st is a day like any other.” instruggle.substack.com/p/mayday
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The secret history of May Day
The most American holiday of them all
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I know it’s apparently only salient to most American media outlets to talk about oil, but for the few remaining people left with a soul, thousands of people live on this tiny island in only 8 sq miles. This reads like a serial killer prison interview.
After days of conflicting messaging from the White House on how much longer it will continue to wage war on Iran, Trump alleged that US strikes had "totally demolished" most of Kharg Island, and told the network that its military may hit site "a few more times just for fun"
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse. I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders. The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then. 🧵
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
On the anniversary of the release of KONY 2012, I wrote about the first pro-military intervention viral campaign for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy thenewinquiry.com/kony-2012-fo...
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Kony 2012 Forever
the second day of January 1985, the spirit took hold of Alice. She went out to heal the sick, and heal the sick she did. But sickness multiplied faster still, for Uganda was wracked with civil war.…
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“We are the border, the balance of payments, the war. We are a sphere of influence made flesh.”
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We carry the border through the heart of the empire. The purpose of any frontier is to cut things in two. instruggle.substack.com/p/imperial-r...
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Imperial Reproduction
White supremacy and the white family
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troy farah @troyfarah.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
i loved this, never watched ‘Hoarders’ but this essay goes so much deeper. thenewinquiry.com/the-life-cha...
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The Life Changing Magic of Hoarding
American exceptionalism doesn’t spring from the nation’s statehouses but from its garbage cans. The contemporary US is objectively extraordinary in that virtually anyone, including the extremely po…
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Join me, Daniel Drennan Elawar, and @kit-myers.bsky.social next Sunday, 2/22 for Words As Lifelines: BIPOC Adoptees for Gaza #7. Register here: pci.jotform.com/joonae/lifel...
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“Hoarders is, at heart, a morality play. Its subjects are punished for what the viewer recognizes is a profound, if unspoken, sin…The hoarded home is nothing other than moral disorder freed of all restraint.” i used to judge those on the screen while relapsing into my own addiction
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff." My latest for @thenewinquiry.com.web.brid.gy
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Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
"To be poor in the United States is exceptional in that, thanks to the efforts of the good people of Dhaka and Juarez and Shenzhen, you can die in any of these ways at the very same time as you accumulate an immense volume of stuff." @newinquiry.bsky.social thenewinquiry.com/the-life-cha...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If the murder of Renee Nicole Good makes you say “abolish ICE,” but the murder of George Floyd didn’t make you say “abolish cops,” ask yourself why and try to learn from it
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Normal day on X
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is an execution.
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"If British special forces rappelled down into the Rose Garden to physically apprehend President Trump, no American publication would describe it as a mere 'arrest'—no matter which UK laws Trump was accused of violating. We would call it an extrajudicial kidnapping and an act of war."
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Trump's war against the Americas
One president has just kidnapped another.
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Arresting a head of state for illegally possessing machine guns. Incredible stuff. No notes.
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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"They begin by locking undocumented children in cages and end by locking your children in cages and the worst thing is that if we don't stand up to them today, we will deserve it when it happens to us. IT'S UP TO US."
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"Settle your quarrels, come together, understand the reality of our situation, understand that fascism is already here." George Jackson
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 30/11/2025
don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“Oppressed communities often adopt anarchic practices in response to state oppression and neglect: mutual aid and collective organization, mistrust of politicians and bosses and the police…
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
You can be a N@zi congressional staffer or a socialist mayoral candidate, but some still treat anarchism like a dirty word. I break down anarchism as a tradition, strategy, and set of a practices in my latest piece: instruggle.substack.com/p/anarchism
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"In the wake of my adoptive family fallout, I was left with a lingering scepticism about the concept of family in general. And then I met my cousin." On adoption, family, empire, and belonging: psyche.co/turning-poin...
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Even learning these facts as an adult felt dirty, subversive, like a kind of intellectual ingratitude. And there is nothing worse for an adoptee to be than ungrateful." My latest, on family, adoption, and belonging. psyche.co/turning-poin...
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After my adoptive family imploded, I met my first blood relative | Psyche Turning Points
As a Korean adoptee, I’d never expected to meet a blood relative. Then a 23andMe email landed in my inbox
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The only way out of our current crises is mass mobilization through community organizing. But what even is it, and how can we get started? My latest piece breaks down a liberatory, participatory vision of community organizing for real collective power. instruggle.substack.com/p/what-is-co...
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16/11/2025
I just don't think you get to 2025 in the US with people openly and nakedly questioning capitalism with 2/3 of younger Americans supporting socialism without occupy. I'm also aware Occupy didnt come out of a vacuum but it was an inflection point.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15/11/2025
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
keep Andrew’s guides available & searchable at short notice. this one’s on collective self-defense from police munitions including tear gas, pepper spray & bean bag rounds.
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Self-defense from police munitions
As evidenced by the LA uprising, those protesting Trump’s draconian deportation policies may encounter the full range of modern police riot control weaponry.
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A guide on best practices to respond to ICE terror available at instruggle.substack.com/ice
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/11/2025
thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
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Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Important to remember that none of these W. Era neo-cons ever redeemed themselves, they just demonstrated their own lack of basic foresight in their horror at Trump's exploitation of the mechanisms and narratives they championed
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...
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Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Truly fucked up. Huge thanks to the politics editors for running my explainer on gentrification back in 2020. www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
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How Gentrification Happens and What to Do About It
"Gentrification is forced economic displacement."
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staffunionndwa.bsky.social @staffunionndwa.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It’s time for a labor org like NDWA to live up to their values. We will not allow retaliatory & union busting layoffs. We are ready to do everything it takes to win a fair contract, equitable layoffs & SAVE UNION JOBS.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 26/10/2025
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
“The conditions that she’s in in jail are causing her excruciating pain." My latest for @truthout.org on first ever antifa terrorism charges in the US. truthout.org/articles/the...
truthout.org
These Dallas Residents Are on the Front Lines of Trump’s War Against “Antifa”
If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.
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Andrew Lee @xandrewleex.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
For Metropolitics, I analyzed our multi-year fight against the gentrification of Philadelphia Chinatown, the campaign's apparent defeat, and its subsequent total victory. metropolitics.org/An-Unexpecte...
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Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists @cosantifascists.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
RIP @igd.bsky.social! Long Live IGD! The antifascist movement would be far weaker without you. Thank you for a decade of hard and principled work. itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/
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IGD: 2015 – 2025
About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 08/10/2025
If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in war zones—you have to become a revolutionary. crimethinc.com/becomeananar...
There is no more middle ground.

If you care about public health, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about medical research, you have to become a revolutionary. If you care about climate change, labor conditions, the well-being of children in warzones, there is nothing else for it—you have to become a revolutionary.

There is no going back to the way things were, to the future that we once anticipated. The old world is in flames around us.
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