Graham Inscoe

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career. The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams. My "bad days" are his wildest dreams. My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive. It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

And there’s overlap!! You’d be surprised at how many drunk Fins with guitars and pirate makeup have a thing for Boney M songs

Sometimes I forget how hellacious a drug sleep deprivation can be. But here I am, still up after an all-nighter to get a cat to surgery, and instead of raging about the world or numbing the despair I’m just listening to disco and Finnish folk metal and actually enjoying myself

The Oglala Sioux Tribe is still trying to locate four members kidnapped by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week, and many Native people in the Twin Cities have felt scared to leave the house to go to work or get groceries. startribune.com/ice-detaining-…

its clear to me that the goal here is to keep escalating until something gives and people push back. and then use that as a means to implement martial law and engage in mass repression. Minnesota is a testing ground.

HONK

What is the point of having a sprawling national security state if they can’t find out who did a mass shooting in broad daylight five days ago?

Nautical themed expansion?! Silksong saying Plasmium was discovered near salt water? I’ve been saying for years that Lifeblood/Plasmium is probably related to isopods/real-world hermit crab blood. Just throwing this out there because I love when a crackpot theory comes together

It's so silly how American politics is just nonstop fake revolutions now. Millions flooded the US streets for the "No Kings" protests over the weekend to oppose a monarchy which does not exist without making a single tangible demand. Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn't disrupted in the slightest. People held up some signs saying the president is orange and that if Kamala were president they would be at brunch, and then went home. The whole thing was just one big pep rally for the Democratic Party, designed to accomplish nothing beyond getting American liberals excited about the prospect of someday voting for Gavin Newsom. A bunch of boomers showed up to dance around and hold signs and feel as though they are fighting the power in their feely bits, while drumming up support for the same status quo which gave rise to Trump in the first place. You see the same fake revolutionary astroturf zeitgeist on the Republican side. American rightists are constantly pretending they're fighting some kind of populist rebellion against an oppressive establishment even while their party controls every branch of the US government. They act like Trump is ending the wars and fighting the Deep State even as he stomps out free speech on behalf of Israel, rolls out a Palantir surveillance system, pours weapons into facilitating Israel's genocidal atrocities, bombs Iran and Yemen, ramps up for war with Venezuela, and perpetuates the horrific proxy war in Ukraine. It's two plutocrat-owned warmongering imperialist parties whipping their respective bases into the mass delusion that they are participating in a heroic act of revolutionary defiance by voting Democrat or Republican. They get everyone fighting a fake revolution so that nobody thinks about fighting a real one.

The Israeli government has illegally abducted over 450 participants of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including nearly two dozen U.S. citizens. We must demand their immediate release and their protection from abuse and torture in Israeli detention. End the siege and genocide of Gaza now.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱JUST IN: Zohran Mamdani, the leading Democratic candidate for New York City mayor: "If Netanyahu comes to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next year while I am mayor, I will move to honor the ICC arrest warrant issued in The Hague against him - just as I would against Putin. He is responsible for the genocide in Gaza. A New Yorker told me that 85 members of his family were killed in Gaza... I must respond to the requests of the city's residents."

“We did not want to fight the oligarchy, because we assumed the oligarchy would save us” has to be the one of the best summations of the failure of the neoliberal project possible.

There were major protests for Congo against Apple (which also works with Israel) on the day of the release of their latest unnecessary iPhone in multiple cities in the US, London, and Japan, but you'd never know it looking at news feed of major media outlets. #FreeCongo

When you attack one party member, we all roll initiative. ⚔️ This sticker design is up for pre-order and half of the proceeds will go to the ACLU to help immigrant families.

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

one has to wonder why the prime minister of fucking israel is so invested in mourning an american podcaster

a sudden culture war is really convenient for everyone who really wouldn’t want a class war

fundamentally the right doesn’t care about “free speech” or “comedy”. the right cares about the ability to make disparaging comments about marginalized people without consequence as a way to assert superiority.

feel good :)

Defending the stripping of a constitutional right with an ambiguous “we are in a kind of wartime” is nuts. “It’s kinda war vibes right now!” what the fuck are you even talking about