Then consider joining me in Twin Cities Tenants, the TCDSA tenant organizing project that I helped start.

A better world is possible. If you agree (and want to fuel that hope in dark times), it's time to get organized!

“I thought Slazinger had said some things which were worth considering, but that, on the whole, he had made the country sound a lot worse than it really was, and that ours was still far and away the best one on the planet.

What do I myself make of that reply nowadays? It was an inane reply.” (4/4)

“. . .’Being an American means never having
to say you're sorry.’" (3/4)

“. . .He talked about bridges falling down and water mains breaking because of no maintenance. He talked about oil spills and radioactive waste and poisoned aquifers and looted banks and liquidated corporations. ‘And nobody ever gets punished for anything,’ he said. . .” (2/4)

Heyy I just quoted some Carol Becker nonsense in my recent bsky thread. I haven't read up on the lawsuit but kudos to you for standing up to her. Out of curiosity, can you countersue for defamation and wasting your time with a frivolous lawsuit?

What's the game? Looks fun.

This year we are in chains. Next year may all people be free.

everything so their neighbors' children might be a free people in a free land.

I hope each one of us can help those future ancestors look back and say "I know altruism is real because people risked everything to dismantle the system that would have erased my heritage and future."

But some of us will survive; in time, descendants of survivors of this genocide will know they're also around because even in the face of terror and seemingly overwhelming strength (the entire developed world backing and bankrolling a colonial mass atrocity), many more stood up and risked

but what came to mind for me is "if that was true, I wouldn't be here." My Yiayia survived the holocaust because brave people risked their lives to do what's right, with no chance of personal gain.

Millions have died from choosing to do what's right and stand up to fascists.

Carol Becker, Minneapolis conservative crank and (I think) landlord, once told me that a human right to housing (or any economic need) couldn't possibly work because humans are not naturally altruistic.

This idea is demonstrably false from history to evolutionary biology;

us not healing harm from centuries of racist psychological warfare, and not addressing the violence that created the property regimes billions now suffer under.

This is why fascists try to erase history and social progress, as Trump is doing now.

the idea that Jews can only be safe if they terrorize their neighbors from a violent ethnostate is one of those absurd contradictions that, once you pull it apart, starts to unravel bigger lies in our society. the greater international system of extractive racial and colonial capitalism relies on

To quote RLM, the empire shows us its weak spots. The blockade, and the places of violence and cruelty, are some of them. Keep shining a light into the darkness. Keep hope.

The whole system of extractive colonial capitalism relies on lies and violence and the hypocrisy,

a right to the city, specifically by creating new structures that let us realize a human right to housing. If you wanna talk about how transforming our housing (and especially it's ownership models) to respond to polycrisis and climate crisis and create flourishing urban communities, hit me up!

I'm a tenant organizer, among other things, in a masters degree about Urban Management studying how to decommodify housing and create housing commons instead of extractive, destructive housing systems we have now; I'm a certain kind of expert on this one aspect (re-commoning urban land and creating