Kern County, CA: the story of America's deadliest police theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…

It’s clear that Mayor Karen Bass hasn’t realized that his proposed budget cut is not impressive. It’s disingenuous, and we see through it. #DefundThePolice now! And support a #PeoplesBudgetLA

A reminder: #PeoplesBudgetLA won’t stop until the Mayor Karen Bass supports a #PeoplesBudgetLA that will #DefundThePolice. See you in the streets! #BLMLA

. Governor Gavin Newsom tell the CA Judicial Council NOT to rescind the $0 bail order -- #COVID19 is still spreading in jails & people are dying! Rescinding the order & keeping community in cages will mean more spread of virus & death! Do the right thing! #CareNotCages #FreeThemAll

COPS OUT OF BERKELEY! COPS OUT OF DAVIS! COPS OUT OF IRVINE! COPS OUT OF LA! COPS OUT OF MERCED! COPS OUT OF RIVERSIDE! COPS OUT OF SAN DIEGO! COPS OUT OF SANTA BARBARA! COPS OUT OF SANTA CRUZ! Today, faculty across the University of California move to abolish UCPD by 09/01/21.

California’s Desert Fauna Will Never Recover thenation.com/article/enviro…

10/1 teach in. Much more to come. ucrcopsoffcampus.eventbrite.com instagram.com/p/CFm6qpggxL5/…

Saw folks posting these screen grabs, and it's honestly wild to see this. Extremely powerful tool to get their message across to voters. I can't emphasise enough just how much is stacked against progressive causes every election cycle in California and beyond.

"...precisely what feels so intractable about the politics of housing in particular—its rootedness in land—may at this moment actually point to the inevitability of rupture. Wildfires and floods are shifting the earth beneath our feet..." jewishcurrents.org/the-struggle-b…

"The roman god Mercury was the god of financial gain and commerce. He was also known as the god of trickery. " kcet.org/shows/earth-fo…

In 1933, FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which went on to employ 3m workers (5% of the US male workforce!) in projects whose benefit we still feel today: road- and trail-building, tree-planting, firefighting, infrastructure maintenance and more. 1/

"Imagine building your whole worldview around the idea that everything you see is actually a simulacrum...and then watching somebody get shot by a cop in front of you. It’s like the Matrix." Ari M. Brostoff jewishcurrents.org/siege-mentalit…

"These currents of time were being activated because of my attention to them and my desire to be touching them. Things are happening in the past that are affecting further past things. Things are happening in my future that are affecting my past." artforum.com/interviews/tou…

The economic formalism of epistemic chaos: “Extraction operations proceed with the discipline of the Cyclops, voraciously consuming everything it can see and radically indifferent to meaning, facts and truth.” Shoshana Zuboff nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opi…

From Minneapolis to Jerusalem Jewish Currents jewishcurrents.org/from-minneapol… @nanpansky

A Vaccine for Depression? by Nautilus Magazine link.medium.com/Pq99Zdpdrlb

bell hooks in conversation with Lil Kim for the 1997 cover story of Paper Magazine papermag.com/lil-kim-bell-h…

harpers.org/archive/2022/0… via Harper's Magazine

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"She loves to ask questions. She loves to contradict. She loves to work out ideas aloud. Thinking, for her (and in her presence), becomes a kind of luxury experience: divine, beautiful, and extravagant." harpersbazaar.com/fashion/design…