Eric Shonkwiler
@ericshonkwiler.bsky.social
Author of novels and when-if.com, a newsletter on preparedness and collapse from an anarchist perspective. Husband of Ruth Awad, baba to dogs and hens.
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I am thrilled to bring you this book, mad that it's necessary, and humbled to be in the company of so many incredible writers and activists @plutopress.bsky.social.
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“Inside a downtown Columbus church on Dec. 18, more than 160 people will be recognized.
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Memorial service to honor homeless people who died in Columbus in 2025
The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless is hosting a memorial service for those who died while homeless Dec. 18 at Trinity Episcopal Church Downtown and via livestream.
www.dispatch.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“Inside a downtown Columbus church on Dec. 18, more than 160 people will be recognized.
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
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When checkpoints go up in a fascist autocracies hardening phase it means violence or kinetic contact is imminent.
In Bosnia, Ukraine and elsewhere the pattern is clear when the forces espousing eliminationist rhetoric and deploying secret police for terror raids put up checkpoints violence follows
In Bosnia, Ukraine and elsewhere the pattern is clear when the forces espousing eliminationist rhetoric and deploying secret police for terror raids put up checkpoints violence follows
ICE is now setting up racial profiling checkpoints to stop people on major US highways. These checkpoints are being seen near Washington, DC on the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy, on the DC/Maryland border.
(12|8/25)
(12|8/25)
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 AM
When checkpoints go up in a fascist autocracies hardening phase it means violence or kinetic contact is imminent.
In Bosnia, Ukraine and elsewhere the pattern is clear when the forces espousing eliminationist rhetoric and deploying secret police for terror raids put up checkpoints violence follows
In Bosnia, Ukraine and elsewhere the pattern is clear when the forces espousing eliminationist rhetoric and deploying secret police for terror raids put up checkpoints violence follows
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pals you gotta quit spotify
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
pals you gotta quit spotify
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Everyone deserves to be warm. There are resources throughout Franklin County and the Central Ohio region for those without shelter. Visit https://www.csb.org/winter-warming-centers for more information, and share this post. #WinterWarmingCenters @commshelterbd.bsky.socialprofile/did:plc:j4532ej3ular43sc6xgrvz27" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@commshelterbd.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Everyone deserves to be warm. There are resources throughout Franklin County and the Central Ohio region for those without shelter. Visit https://www.csb.org/winter-warming-centers for more information, and share this post. #WinterWarmingCenters @commshelterbd.bsky.socialprofile/did:plc:j4532ej3ular43sc6xgrvz27" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@commshelterbd.bsky.social
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@matternews.bsky.social is just a hair away from hitting their fund raising goal for the year. Check out some of the coming opportunities to for you to chip in to help keep local independent journalism alive and well in Columbus!
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An update on our year-end fundraising campaign – Matter News
Thanks to widespread community support, we're now less than $7,500 from reaching our goal with three weeks left to go.
matternews.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@matternews.bsky.social is just a hair away from hitting their fund raising goal for the year. Check out some of the coming opportunities to for you to chip in to help keep local independent journalism alive and well in Columbus!
matternews.org/voices/an-up...
matternews.org/voices/an-up...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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DMDM is selling their FDA-approved 3D-printed tourniquets. Get one at dmdm.icu
Always better to have em and not need em than need me and not have em.
Always better to have em and not need em than need me and not have em.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
DMDM is selling their FDA-approved 3D-printed tourniquets. Get one at dmdm.icu
Always better to have em and not need em than need me and not have em.
Always better to have em and not need em than need me and not have em.
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For over 10 years, Unicorn Riot has been providing community-centered media from the frontlines of social and environmental struggles across the world. Today, for Give to the Max Day, consider supporting our work and helping us reach our $10K goal! Thank you!! 🦄
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November 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
For over 10 years, Unicorn Riot has been providing community-centered media from the frontlines of social and environmental struggles across the world. Today, for Give to the Max Day, consider supporting our work and helping us reach our $10K goal! Thank you!! 🦄
> www.givemn.org/organization... <
> www.givemn.org/organization... <
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Approaching 3 hours since Katie was cuffed and taken by masked federal agents while peacefully protesting and filming today and our lawyers still can’t get anyone to tell us where they actually took her.
Fucking absurd.
Fucking absurd.
November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Approaching 3 hours since Katie was cuffed and taken by masked federal agents while peacefully protesting and filming today and our lawyers still can’t get anyone to tell us where they actually took her.
Fucking absurd.
Fucking absurd.
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“That’s how I’d sum it up: a theory of anti-capitalist transition and strategy for it.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
Interview | Building a world of radical abundance
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
revsoc21.uk
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“That’s how I’d sum it up: a theory of anti-capitalist transition and strategy for it.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
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What these sweeps do to people’s lives is absolutely devastating. I found it difficult to absorb in the space of a single read.
Here's a piece on what sweeps do: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...
projects.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What these sweeps do to people’s lives is absolutely devastating. I found it difficult to absorb in the space of a single read.
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Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
*** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY***
Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy
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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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“We feel that this book acts as a unique kind of archive of what Palestine was, in some ways is, and perhaps can be again.”
Arpan Roy and Noura Salahaldeen interviewed in @jadaliyya.bsky.social
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46968
Arpan Roy and Noura Salahaldeen interviewed in @jadaliyya.bsky.social
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46968
November 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“We feel that this book acts as a unique kind of archive of what Palestine was, in some ways is, and perhaps can be again.”
Arpan Roy and Noura Salahaldeen interviewed in @jadaliyya.bsky.social
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46968
Arpan Roy and Noura Salahaldeen interviewed in @jadaliyya.bsky.social
www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46968
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“That’s how I’d sum it up: a theory of anti-capitalist transition and strategy for it.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
Interview | Building a world of radical abundance
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
revsoc21.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“That’s how I’d sum it up: a theory of anti-capitalist transition and strategy for it.”
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
@kmilb.bsky.social, author of Radical Abundance, interviewed for @rs21.bsky.social
revsoc21.uk/2025/10/30/i...
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Everything you need to know to prep for a general strike
www.youtube.com/live/u6q-9P5...
youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
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youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Everything you need to know to prep for a general strike
www.youtube.com/live/u6q-9P5...
youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/u6q-9P5...
youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
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if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
if knowingly starving millions of americans while he builds a gilded ballroom isn't cause for revolution then i'm not sure what is
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Memphis is under fed occupation. People with no criminal record are being pulled from their homes and vehicles.
I’ve contributed. 142 families are actively being fed.
You can help sustain this lifesaving work:
🛒 bit.ly/MemphisImmigrantPantry
💵 CashApp: $COLLECTIVEGOOD
💰 Venmo: @THECOLLECTIVEGOOD
I’ve contributed. 142 families are actively being fed.
You can help sustain this lifesaving work:
🛒 bit.ly/MemphisImmigrantPantry
💵 CashApp: $COLLECTIVEGOOD
💰 Venmo: @THECOLLECTIVEGOOD
October 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Memphis is under fed occupation. People with no criminal record are being pulled from their homes and vehicles.
I’ve contributed. 142 families are actively being fed.
You can help sustain this lifesaving work:
🛒 bit.ly/MemphisImmigrantPantry
💵 CashApp: $COLLECTIVEGOOD
💰 Venmo: @THECOLLECTIVEGOOD
I’ve contributed. 142 families are actively being fed.
You can help sustain this lifesaving work:
🛒 bit.ly/MemphisImmigrantPantry
💵 CashApp: $COLLECTIVEGOOD
💰 Venmo: @THECOLLECTIVEGOOD
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The Israeli army is continuing to bomb southern Khan Younis city of Gaza Strip on Wednesday (Oct. 29), despite ceasefire.
Video showed smoke rising from targeted areas behind the tents of displaced Palestinian families.
Video showed smoke rising from targeted areas behind the tents of displaced Palestinian families.
October 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Israeli army is continuing to bomb southern Khan Younis city of Gaza Strip on Wednesday (Oct. 29), despite ceasefire.
Video showed smoke rising from targeted areas behind the tents of displaced Palestinian families.
Video showed smoke rising from targeted areas behind the tents of displaced Palestinian families.
2° in twelve years is the scariest news I've heard since the erroneous "ICE has missiles now," except this is real
Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 29, 2025 ~ Hot times ahead.
"The latest calculations also show that the warming of the Earth’s surface has more than doubled. That table indicates that global warming will reach 2 degrees in about twelve years."
reportersonline.eu/earth-can-re...
"The latest calculations also show that the warming of the Earth’s surface has more than doubled. That table indicates that global warming will reach 2 degrees in about twelve years."
reportersonline.eu/earth-can-re...
'Earth can reach a warming of 3 degrees Celsius within 25 years' - Reporters Online
In the Netherlands there will be elections this week. In the election campaigns, politicians and press are hardly talking about climate, nature, and the food and health systems – the main problems in ...
reportersonline.eu
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
2° in twelve years is the scariest news I've heard since the erroneous "ICE has missiles now," except this is real
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“There was a stretch where I was like, maybe Kurdish literature is all dark and heavy, and maybe it is all about genocide and being a refugee. But, no, that really isn’t the case, which is fantastic.”
matternews.org/culture/word...
matternews.org/culture/word...
Aryan Omar Hassan finds his way home with Henar Press – Matter News
The Columbus-based publisher, which is set to release its first two books next year, hopes to draw greater attention to the more experimental strains of Kurdish literature that have long been overlook...
matternews.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
“There was a stretch where I was like, maybe Kurdish literature is all dark and heavy, and maybe it is all about genocide and being a refugee. But, no, that really isn’t the case, which is fantastic.”
matternews.org/culture/word...
matternews.org/culture/word...
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I realize that a lot of people who follow me mqy not understand the flood reference: in the halo series, the flood is a gruesome cosmic horror horde of zombies. so that’s what they’re comparing immigrants to
Yeah, this is full-hog Radio Rwanda / Der Sturmer tier stuff.
Gives you an idea of whom they're going to end up hiring.
Gives you an idea of whom they're going to end up hiring.
October 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I realize that a lot of people who follow me mqy not understand the flood reference: in the halo series, the flood is a gruesome cosmic horror horde of zombies. so that’s what they’re comparing immigrants to