M. E. O'Brien
@genderhorizon.com
author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
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M. E. O'Brien
@genderhorizon.com
· Jun 30
Project 2052 — Common Notions Press
Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.
www.commonnotions.org
We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.
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….A thousand liberal moms and grandpas being trained by a couple communists and anarchists they don’t know are communists and anarchists lolllll
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
….A thousand liberal moms and grandpas being trained by a couple communists and anarchists they don’t know are communists and anarchists lolllll
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Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
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i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar...
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ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis - UNICORN RIOT
ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
unicornriot.ninja
December 7, 2025 at 3:59 AM
About 100 Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/ice-tar...
I once saw advertised in public in nyc the chance to buy a portfolio of stocks based on Nancy Pelosi’s trading
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I once saw advertised in public in nyc the chance to buy a portfolio of stocks based on Nancy Pelosi’s trading
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"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.
December 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.
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pinko mag does cutting edge work with lots of incisive writers exploring the futures of feminism, queerness, transness, and communism. you should take a look if you're interested in these things!
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
pinko mag does cutting edge work with lots of incisive writers exploring the futures of feminism, queerness, transness, and communism. you should take a look if you're interested in these things!
Every nonprofit fundraising email with Giving Tuesday in the subject line I just don’t open
I got out of nonprofit work before Giving Tuesday became a thing, and despite trying to consistently donate ten percent of my income I’ve managed to never learn wtf it is
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Every nonprofit fundraising email with Giving Tuesday in the subject line I just don’t open
I got out of nonprofit work before Giving Tuesday became a thing, and despite trying to consistently donate ten percent of my income I’ve managed to never learn wtf it is
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I got out of nonprofit work before Giving Tuesday became a thing, and despite trying to consistently donate ten percent of my income I’ve managed to never learn wtf it is
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pinko 4 ever
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
shop.pinko.online
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
pinko 4 ever
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"the first amendment protects you from bad grades if its a tranny doing it" even a year or two ago this would be the realm of never-read internet tabloids penned by the failson of the owner of your counties most racist used rv dealership, please can we get real for a minute
December 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"the first amendment protects you from bad grades if its a tranny doing it" even a year or two ago this would be the realm of never-read internet tabloids penned by the failson of the owner of your counties most racist used rv dealership, please can we get real for a minute
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This Thursday 12/4 7 PM @ CARA in NYC, Pinko editors Lau and M. E. are excited to join artist Nat Pyper to discuss "A Queer Year of Love Letters," queer liberation history, typography and radical publishing. Pinko Issue 4 uses several of Pyper's remarkable fonts celebrating radical queer history.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This Thursday 12/4 7 PM @ CARA in NYC, Pinko editors Lau and M. E. are excited to join artist Nat Pyper to discuss "A Queer Year of Love Letters," queer liberation history, typography and radical publishing. Pinko Issue 4 uses several of Pyper's remarkable fonts celebrating radical queer history.
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Hey, I know her from Bluesky! 😊
I'm joining this panel on Thursday in NYC about a really cool new book.
This Thursday 12/4 7 PM @ CARA in NYC, Pinko editors Lau and M. E. are excited to join artist Nat Pyper to discuss "A Queer Year of Love Letters," queer liberation history, typography and radical publishing. Pinko Issue 4 uses several of Pyper's remarkable fonts celebrating radical queer history.
December 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Hey, I know her from Bluesky! 😊
Please follow Pinko on this app! It's a wonderful magazine I'm very proud of. As a member of the editorial collective, I just took responsibility for the Bluesky account and it has no followers and I have many. If you like Pinko, please QT the post below encouraging people to follow Pinko.
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
shop.pinko.online
December 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Please follow Pinko on this app! It's a wonderful magazine I'm very proud of. As a member of the editorial collective, I just took responsibility for the Bluesky account and it has no followers and I have many. If you like Pinko, please QT the post below encouraging people to follow Pinko.
I'm joining this panel on Thursday in NYC about a really cool new book.
This Thursday 12/4 7 PM @ CARA in NYC, Pinko editors Lau and M. E. are excited to join artist Nat Pyper to discuss "A Queer Year of Love Letters," queer liberation history, typography and radical publishing. Pinko Issue 4 uses several of Pyper's remarkable fonts celebrating radical queer history.
December 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'm joining this panel on Thursday in NYC about a really cool new book.
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It’s still so funny that he just knocked down the White House
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
It’s still so funny that he just knocked down the White House
This Tuesday I’ll be joining this online panel about trans futures and healing, possibly with an in-world interview about Everything for Everyone.
forge-forward.org/event/healin...
forge-forward.org/event/healin...
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This Tuesday I’ll be joining this online panel about trans futures and healing, possibly with an in-world interview about Everything for Everyone.
forge-forward.org/event/healin...
forge-forward.org/event/healin...
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A clarity of thought seemed pervasive through the crowd, not from training together or even knowing each other. I think it was having a shared goal that is inherently disruptive (block ICE) that made the steps to that end collectively understood and embraced.
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A clarity of thought seemed pervasive through the crowd, not from training together or even knowing each other. I think it was having a shared goal that is inherently disruptive (block ICE) that made the steps to that end collectively understood and embraced.
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It doesn’t hurt that there were massive dumpsters full of stuff for protestors to play with but the consideration to grab things at all - those instincts were like the guiding light of god shining down on people. It wasn’t chaos for the sake of it. It was tactical, strategic, intentional.
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
It doesn’t hurt that there were massive dumpsters full of stuff for protestors to play with but the consideration to grab things at all - those instincts were like the guiding light of god shining down on people. It wasn’t chaos for the sake of it. It was tactical, strategic, intentional.
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People refused to go easily with any order. You want us to move back? You’ll have to make us. Even the tiniest thing, like adjusting a barricade to latch into another one, was met with enthusiastic resistance. Cop pushing a barricade into people? Barricade gets pulled away from him.
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 AM
People refused to go easily with any order. You want us to move back? You’ll have to make us. Even the tiniest thing, like adjusting a barricade to latch into another one, was met with enthusiastic resistance. Cop pushing a barricade into people? Barricade gets pulled away from him.
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I saw someone somehow manage to get pulled away from a swarm of cops trying to grab and piled on top of them, pulled away and disappeared into the crowd so quickly that the cop in charge said, baffled to another cop, “How’d he get away??”
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I saw someone somehow manage to get pulled away from a swarm of cops trying to grab and piled on top of them, pulled away and disappeared into the crowd so quickly that the cop in charge said, baffled to another cop, “How’d he get away??”
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Instead, demonstrators spent today jamming up operations for ICE and the NYPD.
Both were caught pretty flat footed and even when they deployed crowd control techniques, nobody really cared?? It wasn’t a surge of surprise and outrage at people being grabbed. It was a hefty “Fuck that and fuck you.”
Both were caught pretty flat footed and even when they deployed crowd control techniques, nobody really cared?? It wasn’t a surge of surprise and outrage at people being grabbed. It was a hefty “Fuck that and fuck you.”
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Instead, demonstrators spent today jamming up operations for ICE and the NYPD.
Both were caught pretty flat footed and even when they deployed crowd control techniques, nobody really cared?? It wasn’t a surge of surprise and outrage at people being grabbed. It was a hefty “Fuck that and fuck you.”
Both were caught pretty flat footed and even when they deployed crowd control techniques, nobody really cared?? It wasn’t a surge of surprise and outrage at people being grabbed. It was a hefty “Fuck that and fuck you.”
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The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The vibe shift today is, I think, due to the fact that New Yorkers were on the offensive instead of the defensive.
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
1/
Usually with protests, demonstrators have to defend the space, defend their right to march, etc. They get beat up and pushed around and antagonized into chaos and trauma.
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This is so toxic and disturbing. Being a communist has been a basis for many rich and fulfilling relationships throughout my life, both within and far beyond any orgs and cadre groups I’ve been a part of. Solidarity is a powerful form of love
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
This is so toxic and disturbing. Being a communist has been a basis for many rich and fulfilling relationships throughout my life, both within and far beyond any orgs and cadre groups I’ve been a part of. Solidarity is a powerful form of love
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set