The animal rights movement is disproportionately non-white and working class. While there are bad actors within it, the undeniable reality is that no amount of vegan bigotry can ever compare to the industrialized racial violence of the animal commodification complex.

I hope all the climate protestors were able to get work off for what’s sure to be (I hope) the can’t-miss disruption event of the season!

The interactions in the courtroom of the #SonomaRescueTrial read like a parody at this point. Judge also scolded Defense for “burdening” the court reporter by asking all these questions which said reporter had to write out.

This is why, despite the interconnectedness of different types of oppression, I choose to focus my life on nonhuman animals

If wars can be started by lies Peace can be started by truth. - Julian Assange quote projected onto Naples landmark FreedAssangeNapoli

I’m not sure the prosecution in the Sonoma Rescue Trial had quite the “gotcha” they were going for when they submitted Matt Johnson impersonating meat company CEOs on live TV into evidence 😂

Tonight Wayne Hsiung lost his freedom, but two other earthlings got theirs. More to come. ✊♥️🌎🦃 Sonoma Rescue Trial

.Vox deputy editor Marina Bolotnikova wrote 3,500+ words about the Sonoma Rescue Trial, covering the judge’s baffling rulings, the ties between county law enforcement and the farm bureau, unique challenges in this #RightToRescue case, and most importantly, what this verdict

The way I see it we can spend our one life killing other beings or saving them. I’m too far gone now to be able to understand why which of those options is better is a controversial question.

the betta rescue challenge 🧵

The National Chicken Council wants plant-based meats to be "labeled in a way that clearly explains ... how they were made." Which is a principle I agree with ... and would love to see applied to factory farmed chicken.

"Become Ungovernable" Pasteup spotted in Brunswick, Victoria

Nearly 20 years today the DOJ kicked in my door and arrested me for my role campaigning against this company. Today the DOJ levied the largest ever recorded fine in an animal cruelty case against this same company. The arc of the universe is long. justice.gov/opa/video/anim…

We are learning in real time that the loudest elements of the American Left are truly uninterested in corporate power or economic policy. It’s incredibly clarifying, and likely one of the reasons the American Right has been able to pretend it is the populist brand.

This is an important comment. Dems listen too much to "the groups" is being coded as an anti-leftwing view, but it's about a broader culture of coalitional cowardice that often doesn't have a strong ideological view one way or the other. It just doesn't want anyone inside the

Years ago I was shocked by images like this of Korean farmers burying pigs alive during an FMD outbreak. Right now, US egg factory farms are killing millions of animals by an even crueler method: baking them alive. Brooke Rollins could end this with the stroke of a pen.