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"For starters, like shark attacks, the number of events attributed to left-wing terrorism this year is so low in absolute terms that it simply does not justify inducing panic with eye-popping headlines."
Correctly Assessing U.S. Left-Wing Terrorism and Political Violence
https://www.justsecurity.org/122278/correctly-assessing-left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-in-the-united-states/

Many people are cheering for the popping of the "AI" bubble. Maybe it's not that simple though
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/

Desire to Pop
Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns everything real, material, consequential into mostly nothing. The abstraction of “a relationship” hides all the love and care and desire it might entail. The abstraction of “the border” hides the violence its defense entails. Given enough abstraction […]

MPAA reveals the why of movie ratings.
This makes it easier for people to chose what rating to aim for when re-writing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/movies/movie-ratings-sex-violence-drugs.html

How Much Sex, Drugs and Violence Can Be in a PG-13 Movie?
The movie ratings board has pulled back the curtain on how it approaches hot-button topics, including nudity, marijuana and guns.

There have to be consequences. Would-be quislings need to start having vivid pictures of what’s going to happen to them •personally• if they collaborate with fascists. I’d much prefer those consequences not be violent; in fact, harsh consequences now are the very thing that •avoid• violence. Professional and personal ruin will suffice. That means •we• have to make it stick.

"GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism."
damn, an _actual_ murder by GWAR!
https://indieweb.social/@jgarber/115250891458503752

Antifa,
at least as imagined by Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters,
simply does not exist.
The president recently signed an executive order declaring antifa a “domestic terrorist organization,”
which is not a legal designation.
His memo was so thick with lies that it would take a week to debunk them all.
Antifa is not “a militarist, anarchist enterprise,”
nor does it use “illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism.”…

How the Proud Boys invented antifa
The far-right gang has been fully absorbed by Trump's White House

You can critique Sorel as much as I do, I just wanted to include "Sorel: Reflections on Violence" in my collection of syndicalist works, so now I bought it.
#Syndicalism #RevolutionarySyndicalism

"The public letter says that the truce makes no reference to the West Bank, where settler violence continues, and the underlying conditions of occupation remain unaddressed."
(An important point that for the most part is ignored by news organizations)
https://www.…

"The public letter says that the truce makes no reference to the West Bank, where settler violence continues, and the underlying conditions of occupation remain unaddressed."
(An important point that for the most part is ignored by news organizations)
https://www.…

I was flipping through the radio stations on the way home this evening and did a double take when I realized that the smooth jazz song that was playing concerned gun violence in the U.S.: https://youtu.be/xjEmUfPp4yE

First gameplay reveal for Hellraiser: Revival (graphic horror violence, etc) #Hellraiser #HellraiserRevival

"what does the Kremlin brand as “traditional values”? While Putin denounces Western modernity as a moral threat, Russia itself contradicts its supposed ideals: children are abducted from occupied territories of Ukraine, domestic violence is normalized, religious minorities are persecuted, and soldiers’ lives are deemed expendable."
The Ugly Truth Behind the “Traditional Values” Russia Sells — UNITED24 Media [from October]
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-traditional-values-russia-sells-11690

All political violence is bad; violence is never a good answer.
From report AG and potus want to hide: "…the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism."
https://www.scribd.com/document/9186184…

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism | PDF | Extremism | Crimes
NIJ-funded research has enhanced understanding of domestic terrorism, particularly the rise of far-right extremist violence in the U.S., which has outpaced other forms of terrorism. The studies reveal that radicalization processes vary by group and crime type, and highlight the importance of community-based prevention strategies. Key findings include the diversity of extremist beliefs and behaviors, the role of military experience in radicalization, and the need for targeted interventions to pr…

Cultures of violence and female resistance: receptions of ancient Greek myths from the 14th to the 21st century, in Europe and beyond
https://ift.tt/Le2NYi6
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I must have missed this - Netflix is possibly going to buy Warner Brothers.
My grandparents lived close to the old Republic Studios, and not far from Universal, Disney, Warner (and the secret Lookout Mountain studio.) The area wasn't called "Studio City" for nothing.
I remember one trip to Warner right after Kent State. Our class went to one of those cool viewing studios (the kind one sees in movies) at Warner to see the rough edit (with extra violence!) of The Wil…

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

@… the graphic in graphic design refers to graphic violence

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!
Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3m32bgggagk2t

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

The alternative to a society with shaming and shunning is a society filled with violence: the violence of racists and slavers and genocidal zealots; the violence of prying those people from power as they inevitably close off democracy’s nonviolent means of removing them.
I do not like violence. I do not want violence.
I much prefer harsh words.

Trans Day of Remembrance, with info from Quinn:
https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/115582213420127292
A4TE highlights 58 who’ve died this year:

quintessence :blobfoxcofecute: (@quintessence@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image A reminder: today is the Trans Day of Remembrance. For those unfamiliar, this is when we remember trans people who were killed by acts of violence. On a day like this, and in the current broader crisis as well: it can be hard to remember that you are loved and to allow yourself to feel that love. Please take extra care of yourselves today. Practicing both compassion for ourselves and compassion for each other is incredibly important in grief. Although many of us have lost…

Sad that even a match in Tel Aviv, between two local teams, would be marred by antisemetic violence.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/19/tel-aviv-football-derby-between-hapoel-and-maccabi-called-off-aft…

Brock Hoffman on Bringing Violence to O-line | Cowboys Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2UF9S2dDbU

🗡️ Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/landmines-and-violence-in-colombian-amazon-confine-indigenous-siona-families/…

Landmines and violence in Colombian Amazon confine Indigenous Siona families
Siona Indigenous guards in southern Colombia are raising alarm that landmines and armed groups are cutting off their families from natural resources and trapping them in small portions of their territory. It’s been an ongoing problem for decades, Mongabay contributor Jose Guarnizo reported. In August 2024, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expanded its […]

« L’extrême droite, en promettant tout Š tout le monde, voudrait faire oublier la violence de son programme : le rejet des “ennemis de l’intérieur” »
https://www.lem…

« L’extrême droite, en promettant tout à tout le monde, voudrait faire oublier la violence de son programme : le rejet des “ennemis de l’intérieur” »
Si Marine Le Pen et Jordan Bardella jurent avoir rompu avec les idéologies et n’être guidés que par le « bon sens », les courants identitaires et racialistes continuent à être représentés dans leur entourage, décrypte, dans sa chronique, Philippe Bernard, éditorialiste au « Monde ».

#Kirkland #Memorial #FaustianBargain #Deals

On October 18, 2019,
protests erupted in Santiago, Chile,
over a hike in the cost of public transportation.
But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that.
Those in the streets demanded change—real change.
They demanded more rights.
They demanded a new Constitution.
Police cracked down with impunity.
Videos went viral of riot police beating people in the streets.
Chemical water guns.
Shooting rubber bullets at point blank …

The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music
Hasta La Victoria’s music is rock and punk, hip hop, and circus. They have found an outlet to focus their pain and their suffering. To define it, and direct it back. This is episode 72 of Stories of Resistance.

New Flare-Up of Violence Strains Gaza Cease-Fire (Isabel Kershner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-ceasefire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk8.R9lA.wGZzvcQnb5NC&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p20#a251019p20

Nichts hat mit nichts zu tun https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

Are you more scared of: https://mastodon.social/@euobserver/115564641753988876

Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study https://theconversation.com/giving-men-a-common-antidepressant-could-help-tackle-domestic-violence-world-first-study-2709…

Giving men a common antidepressant could help tackle domestic violence: world-first study
A commonly prescribed antidepressant has sparked a reduction in domestic violence reoffending among highly impulsive, violent men.

Ex-Falcons RB Jamal Anderson arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence in Los Angeles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6787170/2025/11/07/ex-falcons-rb-jamal-anderson-arrested-felony-domestic-violence/

Understanding the Link between Animal Cruelty and Family Violence: The Bioecological Systems Model #AnimalRights

Understanding the Link between Animal Cruelty and Family Violence: The Bioecological Systems Model
Violence towards animals and violence towards people are often interconnected problems, and as such, this phenomenon has been termed the Link. Violence towards animals is a strong predictor that the abuser may inflict violence on people. However, it ...

Whenever people are worried about criminals using #privacy-oriented software, I'm wondering who do they mean by "criminals"?
Let me point out that in some countries people verbally opposing the authoritarian regime are "criminals", while rapists become presidents. Or people peacefully protesting against genocide are "criminals", while nazis openly calling for violence are model citizens.
So yeah, if I were to develop such software, I'd rather have it used by "criminals". Because, guess what, true criminals will get their hands on that kind of software anyway.

Tennessee Counties Adopt Gun Dispossession Measure After Legislative Delay — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing "graphic violence" and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/808545/youtube-graphic-video-ga…

YouTube will restrict more content showing ‘graphic violence’ in video games
YouTube’s new policy will age-restrict more content showing “scenes of torture or mass violence against non-combatants” in video games.

I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol

"Genocide is a process, not an event. When genocide happens, its roots, and the conditions that allowed it, often become visible only in retrospect. If those conditions remain unchanged and there is no accountability, there’s every reason to believe the violence will return, perhaps even worse, especially if it was never fully halted. This is exactly what we are seeing in the case of Gaza"
#GazaGenocide

The Daily Caller's editor at large wrote a column calling for violence against progressive activists and "blood in the streets"; the EIC defended the column (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/media/d…

Daily Caller Opinion Column ‘Explicitly’ Calls for Violence
The column, by editor at large Geoffrey Ingersoll, calls for “blood in the streets” in response to violence against conservatives.

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
-- Morgan J Freeman
https://bsky.app/profile/mjfree.bsky.social/post/3m3hp5gcyik2k…

Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social)
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

Climate change isn't gender-neutral. The 2023/2024 El Niño drought in Southern Africa didn't just destroy crops—it fueled gender-based violence and put women environmental defenders at risk.
COP30's new Belém Gender Action Plan tackles this head-on with gender-responsive budgeting and support for climate action that protects women.

COP30’s Gender Action Plan Needed to Address Climate-Induced Violence - African Climate Wire
Talks underpinning COP30’s Gender Action Plan reveal the fragility of progress in recognising the systems of oppression that affect women, girls, and gender diverse people.

To use violence is to already be defeated.
-- Chinese proverb

Support Indigenous Land Defender Marcos Aguilar’s Family
(original: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSFUcy_jKU7 by zapatistasolidaritynetwork)
On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his anc

Zapatista Solidarity Network! on Instagram: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats and violence. This was a planned political attack from those trying to steal Indigenous ancestral territory. ✨ That’s why we are asking for your solidarity: @semillas_collective is collecting donations that will go directly to Marcos’s family and Indigenous community to support: • His children’s wellbeing (food, housing, education) • Care for his parents • Community protection against further attacks • Legal justice for his assassination 🔗Link in our bio to the fundraiser and the communiqué from the Autonomous Indigenous Community or San Lorenzo de Azqueltán (adherents of the National Indigenous Congress [CNI]) 📣Please donate if you are able. If you cannot, share and help us break the silence. Marcos lives in the land, in his children, and in our struggle. Marcos vive — la lucha sigue. ✊🏽💚🌱 #JusticeForMarcos #Semillas #IndigenousSolidarity #Azqueltán #LandBack #ProtectLandDefenders #NoMoreImpunity #MarcosVive #LaLuchaSigue"
99 likes, 0 comments - zapatistasolidaritynetwork on December 10, 2025: "📢‼️URGENT On November 26, 2025, Indigenous land defender Marcos Aguilar Rojas was assassinated for protecting his ancestral territory in San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. He leaves behind five young children — including two babies — and elderly parents who depended on him. Marcos was a devoted father, a loving son, and a guardian of Mother Earth. He refused to abandon his community despite threats a…

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

So the US had a huge case using high-level informants.
Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence,
fueling his image as a crime-fighter.
That Rubio made a deal was known.
That he reneged on informants was not.
https://

Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social)
So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.

EU: All bark, no bite, and everyone knows it. https://mastodon.social/@euobserver/115564641753988876

I’ve been really interested in both aspects of this post:
1. ICE right-wing fringe groups conspicuously steered clear of protests yesterday in a way that suggests that orders went out (whose?) and/or (I’m guessing “and”) that there’s a sense from those people that they don’t have public support and don’t have free license to instigate violence.
2. Police went out of their way to put on a friendly face. I’ve been getting vibes that some local police resent ICE — “this is OUR turf, beating up Black and brown people was OUR job” — and, contrary to what we and the regime might expect, ICE isn’t always getting free support by default from that quarter.
Caveats: No solid conclusions here, just reading vibes. And even if it is actually true for now, all of this can shift on a dime. Still, sure is notable. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3m3krd3w4s22k

The political right wouldn't stand for something like this coming from the left. So why are they allowing it now?
https://reason.com/2025/09/29/trumps-executive-order-against-political-violence-is-an-un-american-atta…

Trump's executive order against 'political violence' is an un-American attack on free speech
The order lists "anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity" as common threads among "domestic terrorists," though all are protected by the First Amendment.

A sense of total injustice is what's bothering everyone.
Republicans have, however, managed to suppress that sentiment in favor of racism, greed, violence & ego.
And that's what you see from Trump, ICE, tariffs & his military invasions of American cities.
Original post: https://

Virginia Democrats have a violence problem (Mark Peake/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/virginia-democrats-have-violence-problem
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p56#a251008p56

A coalition of Chicago journalists, news associations, and others sue President Trump and top officials, alleging repeated 1A violations at an ICE facility (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/dhs-ice-journalists-sue-protest-violence

Chicago journalists sue Trump over "extreme brutality" at ICE protests
Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.

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I wrote this this morning:
"Tomorrow, about 2,600 protests plan to peacefully show the world, the administration and themselves that the United States remains a nation predicated on having No Kings.
Can the president come down hard on these protests with the military?"
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/no-su…

No Surrender
No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been

The best NFL games on TV for the rest of 2025: Defending champs vs. defending MVP https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6808271/2025/11/19/philadelphia-eagles-buffalo-bills-josh-allen-nfl-week-17/

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down... after she received death threats.
https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-violence/

Investigation ‘Ongoing’ After House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down
State law enforcement said Monday that investigation remains ongoing, but so far “no evidence” has been found “to indicate the fire was intentionally set.”

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/12/brazilian-amazons-most-violent-city-tied-to-illegal-gold-mining-on-indigenous-land…

Brazilian Amazon’s most violent city tied to illegal gold mining on Indigenous land
Violence has escalated in the small Brazilian town of Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade as illegal gold mining on the nearby Sararé Indigenous Territory has exploded over the last two years, according to the 2025 Amazon Violence Atlas. Located in Mato Grosso state near the Bolivian border, Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade recorded the highest […]

Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
#USPol

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En vrai, titre putaclicque. Mais je me demande quand même si il n'y aurait pas moins de violence sexuelle dans les églises, si les prêtres auraient accès Š une sexualité partagée.
https://www.lemonde.fr/…

Affaire Bétharram : un Ivoirien dépose une plainte, la première pour des faits commis à l’étranger
Sylvestre D., un ancien enfant de chœur, a saisi le procureur de la République de Pau pour des faits d’« agression sexuelle » commis en 1990 par le prêtre Benat Ségur, alors vicaire de la paroisse Saint-Bernard d’Adiopodoumé, à Abidjan.

Ain’t no violence but state violence.
This time they’re “taking” someone while putting pressure on their neck, possibly making it so they can’t breathe, and then committing a hit and run to evade people peacefully standing filming them with phones.
ice is a clear and present danger to the safety and national security of the American People.
htt…

U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced dumb-ass legislation today
that would allow private entities to play at Pirates🏴‍☠️in the Caribbean
The "Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act"
authorizes felon-president Trump to commission American pirates,
under "letters of marque"
to seize property and persons on land or sea.
Representative Tim Bimbo Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

Patriots of the Caribbean: Lee Bill Authorizes American Privateers to Seize Cartel Assets with President’s Approval
U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced legislation today that would allow private entities to stop drug cartel smuggling and violence. The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Reauthorization Act authorizes President Trump, as provided under the Constitution, to commission American operators under letters of marque to seize cartel property and persons on land or sea. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) introduced the House version of the legislation.

YouTube will age-restrict more video game content showing "graphic violence" and stop creators from directing users to gambling sites involving digital goods (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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YouTube will restrict more content showing ‘graphic violence’ in video games
YouTube’s new policy will age-restrict more content showing “scenes of torture or mass violence against non-combatants” in video games.

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 12 October - 19 October
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Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol

Black People Knew This Would Happen (Alain Stephens/The Intercept)
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When police talk about how we need to fund them more or there will be chaos and violence, it’s less like paying a doctor for treatment and more like paying the mafia for “protection.”
“Nice city you have there. Shame if anything happened to it.”

Protesters and agents have clashed outside an ICE detention facility in Broadview,
where residents have become familiar with the burning sensation of tear gas on their skin.
A single father with no known history of violence was fatally shot by an ICE agent who said the man was trying to run him over.
The sight of agents chasing people and loading them into unmarked vehicles has become common throughout Chicago.
With no immediate regard for citizenshipor legal status…

CFP> Intrinsic Perfection (UHM, 12–13 March 2026) Update of the links
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It's worth remembering that the civil war was a slave revolt:
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South Africa declares violence against women a national disaster after mass protests - The New Feminist
https://thenewfeminist.co.uk/2025/11/south-africa-declares-violence-against-women-a-national-disaster-after-mass-protests/

“We lead by love. This is community. We send no orders, there’s no orders out here, just people defending each other. And we don’t need a f*cking gun to do it. We don’t need body armor to do it. We don’t need to beat up protestors, we don’t need to beat up fake news to do it. We show up, put our f*cking bodies on the line because we don’t f*ck with n*zis. Maybe one day, maybe one day, you can say the same. Community will welcome you back…”
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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 12 October - 19 October
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10 Arrested on Federal Complaints Charging Them with Committing Violence Against Officers and Property During Anti-ICE Rioting (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/10-arrested-federal-complaints-charging-them-committing-violence-against-officers-and
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MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire’
Before Judge’s Home Exploded
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-called-for-violence-against-judge-in-days-before-fire/

MAGA Demanded ‘Holy Hell Fire’ Before Judge’s Home Exploded
Some called for “something to be done” about the judge.

Call for Papers: Constitutionalism and Religious Identity in the Middle East: Historical and Transnational Perspectives, 1850-1950
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A US Federal Judge ordered the release of the people DHS now plans to hold anyway, illegally under both US and International Law.
15 of the people arrested at Broadview yesterday were clergy, peacefully protesting; bringing assistance to and advocating for the downtrodden quite literally _is_ their job.
But DHS/ICE/CBP brings only lawlessness and violence.
DHS and all its components and collaborators are a clear and present danger to the American People and the US Consti…

Bondi: I'll Investigate "Lawmakers And News Anchors" To See If They "Encouraged Acts Of Violence" [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/bondi-ill-investigate-lawmakers-and-news-anchors-to-see-if-they-encouraged-acts-of-violence-video/

A protest does not become a rebellion merely because the protestors advocate for myriad legal or policy changes, are well organized, call for significant changes to the structure of the U.S. government, use civil disobedience as a form of protest, or exercise their Second Amendment right to carry firearms as the law currently allows.
Nor does a protest become a rebellion merely because of sporadic and isolated incidents of unlawful activity or even violence committed by rogue particip…

"Not Guilty"
A not-at-all-subtle reminder to Trump that he's just the president — and that means his power is limited. And: The Seventh Circuit keeps troop deployment blocked in Illinois.

Firearms have been the leading cause of death for Gen Z since 2017,
when the youngest zoomers were kindergarten age and the oldest could not yet legally drink alcohol.
Since 2013, when the last of Gen Z turned 1, more than 64,000 zoomers have been killed by firearms
https://www.the…

Gun Violence Is Gen Z’s Leading Cause of Death
CDC data shows that Gen Z bears a disproportionate share of our national gun violence crisis.

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
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Submit abstract for a special issue of the journal "Global South Literary Studies" on "Political Violence and Literary Responses in South and Southeast Asia since the 1940s"
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“𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿” - Boebert’s poisoned worldview is trickling down to Young Republicans.
In a groundbreaking expose, Politico just released the messages of the GOP's "brightest" rising stars.
What they said is beyond disturbing.
They called for rape, violence, and for their opponents to be sent to gas chambers,
expressed their adoration of Hitler and Nazism,
and called Black people monkeys and the N-word.
𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗲𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. …

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A federal judge in Illinois has ordered the Trump administration to stop beating, shooting at, and generally using violence against journalists and peaceful protesters.
The Thursday ruling comes as ICE and the National Guard tear through the streets of Chicago,
shooting at and arresting journalists, protesters, and immigrants alike.
Judge Sara Ellis, an Obama appointee overseeing this case,
has suspended federal agents from
“using riot control weapons,”
…

Judge Orders ICE to Stop Injuring Journalists Reporting on Them
A federal judge has ordered all of Trump’s agents to stop using violence against journalists and protesters.

Big-Data Insights on the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Texts
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Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video
demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.
“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.
“While we are Epstein and [Ghislaine] Maxwell survivors, we are standing for so many victims of sexual assault and of domestic violence, as well.”

Epstein survivors push for release of files in new PSA, say fight isn't political
Several women who survived abuse by Jeffrey Epstein have come together for a public service announcement video demanding that Congress release all files on the accused sex trafficker.“It’s a call to action,” one of the women, Danielle Bensky, told NBC News on Sunday.

The Rise and Fall of Imitation as a Rabbinic Literary Technique
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Zoe Weissman came to Brown from Parkland, Florida,
where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018.
“Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,”
says Weissman about surviving a second school shooting in her young life,
“my most predominant emotion right now is, honestly, anger …
because we are the only country where this happens, a…

“We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence
The two victims in Saturday’s mass shooting at Brown University have been identified: freshman Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov and sophomore Ella Cook. We speak to another sophomore, Zoe Weissman, who came to Brown from Parkland, Florida, where she was a student at the middle school adjacent to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting that occurred there in 2018. “Because I’ve already processed all the grief and the sadness before,” says Weissman about surviving a second s…

LECTURE: "To Everything a Season: Nostra Aetate Sixty Years On" (HYBRID)
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omarhas warned that Donald Trump’s repeated personal attacks and dehumanising rhetoric
are fuelling a climate of political violence that could have dangerous consequences.
Speaking days after the president called for her to be thrown out of the country,
Omar said Trump’s incendiary language reaches “the worst humans possible” and encourages them to act.
“We’ve had people incarcerated for threatening to kill me,”
“We have people that are being…

USC Levan Book Chat—Maya Maskarinec, Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
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We warned you MAGA would use Charlie Kirk’s senseless killing as a pretext to go after their political enemies. 
A few weeks later, and here we are…
🚩JD Vance promised to go after nonprofits and leftists orgs he blames for violence
🚩Stephen Miller vowed to use Homeland Security and the Justice Department to “disrupt” these groups 
🚩Trump threatened to slap a domestic terror label on 𝘢𝘯𝘺 group he chooses
That’s the entire White House ready to brand any Democrat-a…

Mobilize now to STOP Trump's internment camps
Trump’s internment camps are here—and dozens more are in the works. Join our STOP THE CAMPS national coalition to expose this crisis and make sure every American knows what’s coming.

CFP: Ecclesia laborans: Reproductive Labor and the Hidden Work of Liturgical Performance, 1350–1600 (conf 6-7 March 2026, abstract deadline 3 Nov 2025)
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TALK> Lecture by Prof. HAMADA Tamami 濱田瑞美 (Yokohama University of Art and Design) - 敦煌石窟薬師経変の図像と題記
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LECTURE> Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley
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The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
India’s largest Hindu far-right organization,
initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year
Squire Patton Boggs,
one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S.,
registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures

Exclusive: India’s largest far-right Hindu organization hires U.S. lobbyists for congressional influence campaign
Squire Patton Boggs lobbied U.S. lawmakers on behalf of the RSS, a Hindu nationalist group linked to discrimination and violence against Muslims

“Surely Bury: Jewish and Catholic Law, Responding to Suicide, and the Work of Catholic-Jewish Studies:” Fall Shapiro Lecture at Catholic Theological Union – Ranana Dine PhD
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Increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensionsin the nation’s third-largest city.
“They are the ones that are making it a war zone,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday on CNN.
“They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it’s a war zone.”
U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained
in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounter…

Immigration agents use increasingly aggressive tactics in Chicago, alarming activists and residents
Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city. That includes storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept and deploying chemical agents near a public school. About 1,000 immigrants have been arrested since an immigration crackdown started last month in the Chicago area. But U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and c…

Brian RUPPERT (Kanagawa University) - Subjugation (Chōbuku 調伏): The Rite of Turning the Dharma Wheel (Tenpōrin hō 転法輪法) and the Construction of Japan as a Kami-Buddhist Multiverse
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Breaking Cycles of Violence: Psychohistorical Perspectives on Individual and Collective Healing
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Archaeologists in Peru have found new evidence showing how the
oldest known civilization in the Americas adapted and survived a climate catastrophe without resorting to violence.
A team led by the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Ruth Shady, 78,
concluded that about 4,200 years ago, severe drought forced the population to leave the ancient city of Caral, and resettle nearby.
In the new settlements, they left intriguing friezes depicting victims of a famine with message…