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Ⓐ☭ • rent abolition w/ https://baytanc.com/ & https://atun-rsia.org/ • movements + poetry + critique • use my name not pronouns • "there is no situation from which there is no way out" • https://jfprk.wordpress.com/

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Mar 14

In "Convivir, a Synonym for Commune?" my latest on @journalspectre.bsky.social I wrote about @city.bsky.social & Leonardo Vilchis's Abolish Rent & Kristin Ross's The Commune Form, starting from a revived communist theme via @tenantpower.bsky.social—the abolition of the separation of town and country

Most of the first paragraph of the essay linked in the next post, with the quote "in twenty years..." highlighted

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25d

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 26d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Sep 18

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago

“History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Sep 21

Far-right and neo-Nazis school shooters have carried out numerous deadly attacks this year - many influenced by and posting on, the same websites - yet the mass media and politicians focus on manufactured fantasies of left-wing violence. www.kunc.org/news/2025-09...

Evergreen school shooting suspect posted online about mass shootings and neo-Nazi views, report says

Experts say a teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine...

www.kunc.org

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 19

Things are getting even worse on just about every front. People are afraid but we are also getting angrier and angrier. The collapse of the center/left raises the stakes. It was inevitable. Who knows what will provoke the next upsurge? I can promise you it won't be Jimmy Kimmel.

julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 19

Leadership, in the sense of setting a militant example, will have to come from mass struggle, & it cannot be conjured out of nowhere. We are still following the path set by LA in June. Let a thousand community defense centers & neighborhood assemblies bloom.

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 19

This leaves their constituencies, middle class, white collar, civil workers, in a panic. For better or worse this progression is ripe for Zohran & DSA electoralism more broadly. Meanwhile, the grassroots left has been in many places building anti-ICE defense in the shadows.

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 19

The center/left cannot & will not now substantially organize as left movements do because they blame the left for what's happening to them, while having severed solidarity between themselves & the people by attacking those movements and failing to have anything credible to offer.

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 19

To defend the center/left from political & institutional collapse they would need to borrow tactics from left movements or to rally masses of people to themselves, both of which would require some degree of center/left hegemony. That's gone, largely by their own hand.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · Sep 18

Antifa is not an organization, it's an orientation. Anyone can be antifascist. Everyone should be.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 18

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Sep 17

Online SRT lab is in an hour!

QR code in the original poster was broken.

ZOOM LINK HERE 👇🏽

purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/9206239251...

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 4

I first thought about this in these terms reading Delany's Dhalgren a decade or so ago. Then reading New Narrative works. I've been having the same thought again reading Dostyevsky's Demons aloud gradually with my partner, and now listening to Kushner's The Mars Room.

julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm not much of a novel reader anymore but an incredible thing about them can be the demonstration that everyday people's conversations are beautiful. Perhaps listening to novels, as I mostly do now, even emphasizes this. The task is to carry this recognition into daily life.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Labor unions and other organizations organized a march to demand the end to the military occupation of DC today.

Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Aug 28

NO COOPERATION, END THE OCCUPATION

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · Aug 29

BREAKING
"Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades."

www.univision.com/local/miami-...

“Muchas personas sangrando”: migrantes denuncian supuestos disturbios en Alcatraz de los Caimanes

Varios supuestos detenidos en la cárcel de migrantes Alcatraz de los Caimanes o Alligator Alcatraz, y sus familiares, se comunicaron con Noticias 23 para denunciarque en esta cárcel de migrantes en lo...

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Aug 28

Remember that before Bruce Lee said "Be Water," a tactical lesson current era movements have tried to follow since Hong Kong, it was Sun Tzu in The Art of War.

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.

30. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak.

31. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

32. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

33. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain.

34. The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth) are not always equally predominant; the four seasons make way for each other in turn. There are short days and long; the moon has its periods of waning and waxing.

julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Aug 28

The reality is that the fascists are deepening an armed struggle against the most vulnerable among us. Even if it may not be advised to respond with armed force, community self-defense in the face of a militarized oppressor can perhaps benefit from notions of military strategy.

julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Aug 28

The quote is from the pamphlet "Categories of Revolutionary Military Policy," which I actually discovered I have had a zine of from who knows when. tderbent.org/articles/Cat...

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Aug 28

As further national guard deployments loom, along with ongoing DHS human snatching ops, I keep thinking about this sentence from T Derbent (who came to my attention as the author of a history of The German Communist Resistance against fascism).

Organizations that claim to be revolutionary but which refuse to
develop a military policy before the question of confrontation becomes a
practical reality, disqualify themselves as revolutionary forces. They are
already acting as gravediggers of revolution, the quartermasters of stadiums and cemeteries.1

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Aug 26

Lateish last night I completely killed the vibe hanging out in the kitchen with my partner when I accidentally went into exhaustive detail recounting the plot of the film Barbarians which I had then just watched and which had thoroughly struck me with dread.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 24

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.

One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen

Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor @keeanga.bsky.social · Aug 15

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Aug 15

“An incalculable mix of confidence and consciousness combine in unpredictable ways to give millions of people the belief that they can stop a government on a rampage.” @keeanga.bsky.social

Building an Opposition to Survive the Trump Era

Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition.

hammerandhope.org

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madeline lane-mckinley @lalouverouge.bsky.social · Aug 15

Just turned in my final round of proofs. Guess this is happening for real now. Out November 4th:

Solidarity with Children front and back covers

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julian francis park @malcontent.bsky.social · Aug 15

Trying to think about the present relevance of Mike Davis's Prisoners of the American Dream, I slid into a detour thru his late writing. It reminded me that when he passed, I'd hoped someone would assemble a bibliography of his uncollected work. Here's my contribution. Let me know what I missed.

Mike Davis’s Last Years, A Bibliography in Progress: 2020-2022

With some comrades, I am reading Mike Davis’s Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), as a way to understand the pre-history of our present. Doing so has reminded me that after the great Marx…

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Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @melindamagpie.bsky.social · Aug 11

“The reason is the organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them in Paramount, in Compton, in Bell and Huntington Park,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, an independent political group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps.

Melinda Magpie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @melindamagpie.bsky.social · Aug 11

"Some immigration experts and community activists cite the organized resistance in L.A. as another reason the numbers of ICE arrests were lower in California than in Texas and even lower than dozens of states by percentage of population."

Texas, Florida hit with far more ICE arrests than California. But that's not the whole story

California arrests lag behind states such as Texas and Florida, because those states started with more arrests. They also have a stronger record of cooperation.

www.latimes.com

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