Vajra Kilgour
@vajrak.bsky.social
Writer (https://healing-white-racism.com/), translator & interpreter, housing activist, radio active (WBAI.org) | There is no slot in the kyriarchy big enough for a whole human being.
Important thread.
Men aren’t born with a propensity to commit acts of sexual violence. It is socialized behavior, often learned through abuse itself. Take fraternities and hazing as one example. The slightly older students beat the younger ones and the cycle continues year after year. Sports teams, armies, the same.
February 2, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Important thread.
Cycle protests rock @bicyclerepairman.bsky.social
February 1, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Cycle protests rock @bicyclerepairman.bsky.social
Wow, imagine trying to steer this
Milkman
Amsterdam, 1953
Milkman
Amsterdam, 1953
January 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Essential thread.
🧵 Today is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day
The crimes of Nazism were among the worst in the history of Humanity
Many of my own family members were shot and gassed to death in that dark time period
One third of Jewish people completely disappeared from Europe
(1/3)
The crimes of Nazism were among the worst in the history of Humanity
Many of my own family members were shot and gassed to death in that dark time period
One third of Jewish people completely disappeared from Europe
(1/3)
January 27, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Essential thread.
Never say never. Any organizer can tell you that 100% participation in anything is rare (& it does sometimes happen). Also, speaking against your own desire makes you your own enemy. Eyes on the prize - we don't need absolutely everyone on board to win.
But this has always been the crux of the issue - people cannot unite. Decades long propaganda has created social silos. If the 99% saw each other as one community, it would be the end of all oppression, but it’s never going to happen.
January 26, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Never say never. Any organizer can tell you that 100% participation in anything is rare (& it does sometimes happen). Also, speaking against your own desire makes you your own enemy. Eyes on the prize - we don't need absolutely everyone on board to win.
Important thread!
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 In August of 1966, Black children in Grenada, Mississippi were still fighting for the right to attend White schools. What happened next was unconscionable.
Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
🧵 In August of 1966, Black children in Grenada, Mississippi were still fighting for the right to attend White schools. What happened next was unconscionable.
Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Important thread!
Beautiful thread!
With so many of us watching the tremendous mobilizations in Minneapolis, culminating in the call to action against ICE today, I wanted to share some of what I have gathered from talking to comrades in Minneapolis over the past few weeks. A few things stood out:
January 23, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Beautiful thread!
Very helpful thread!
It really doesn't matter *what* the threat is; deep, relationship-based organizing is ALWAYS how you effectively push back against those who would attack your community.
Community and workplace relationship-building is NEVER a waste, it is trust-rooted, and there are no shortcuts.
Community and workplace relationship-building is NEVER a waste, it is trust-rooted, and there are no shortcuts.
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Very helpful thread!
This is an important thread.
Anytime I see numbers showing that Asian people are less underwater than others, I wish we were actually fucking teaching the history of Asian people in this country.
Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
Instead, maybe people are told that Chinese laborers built the railroads in the mid-1800s and then... like, nothing at all.
January 22, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This is an important thread.
This thread!
The level of racism and transphobia and shear callousness involved in people outside the US looking at what the US government is doing to people of color and trans folks here, some of whom are US citizens, and saying “these people are privileged” is intense
January 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This thread!
This, exactly!
Trump is right: White people have been treated badly. But not in the way he says. False claims of white superiority that white leaders have long fed to the masses have failed white poor and working class ppl by distracting them from their own exploitation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:44 PM
This, exactly!
This.
I don't think it matters what we do or don't do as far as the regime trying to cancel elections, martial law, the insurrection act. If we fight back or stay peaceful, they will try it all anyway.
January 9, 2026 at 4:49 PM
This.
Excellent article and thread, thanks!
read this shit
and if you are in a position to make decisions about punditry, stop platforming pundits who aren’t clear-headed about the fact that this presidency is a 4chan op that took the White House, not the coherent outgrowth of a consistent ideology
and if you are in a position to make decisions about punditry, stop platforming pundits who aren’t clear-headed about the fact that this presidency is a 4chan op that took the White House, not the coherent outgrowth of a consistent ideology
Why do analysts keep misreading Trump abroad? The Maduro operation offers a sobering clue.
January 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Excellent article and thread, thanks!
This thread!
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
January 5, 2026 at 12:35 AM
This thread!
This thread!
[CW: prison rape, coercive rape]
1. Geo Group operates private prisons
2. Government is appalled at the "stunning indifference" to constant sexual abuse by guards of children as *young as 13*
3. Governors start trying to end private prisons
4. Geo tries to keep its prisons and grow ICE facilities
🤷🏿♂️
1. Geo Group operates private prisons
2. Government is appalled at the "stunning indifference" to constant sexual abuse by guards of children as *young as 13*
3. Governors start trying to end private prisons
4. Geo tries to keep its prisons and grow ICE facilities
🤷🏿♂️
December 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This thread!
Reposted by Vajra Kilgour
Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 12/29/25 8:00 PM BUH-BYE
Eric Adams HELLO @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 2025 is a wrap! We'll share our thoughts as we exit the Adams era and start the Mamdani years. And what a year 2025 has been. We want to hear from you as well! Tune in.
Eric Adams HELLO @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 2025 is a wrap! We'll share our thoughts as we exit the Adams era and start the Mamdani years. And what a year 2025 has been. We want to hear from you as well! Tune in.
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Housing Notebook @wbai.org M 12/29/25 8:00 PM BUH-BYE
Eric Adams HELLO @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 2025 is a wrap! We'll share our thoughts as we exit the Adams era and start the Mamdani years. And what a year 2025 has been. We want to hear from you as well! Tune in.
Eric Adams HELLO @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! 2025 is a wrap! We'll share our thoughts as we exit the Adams era and start the Mamdani years. And what a year 2025 has been. We want to hear from you as well! Tune in.
This thread!
Again, this take is why Trump is president today. 🤷🏿♂️
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
1. The year in which cops killed the most people? During Biden years.
2. Mass incarceration (ramped up under Reagan using Biden policies) was finally turning around and decreasing under Bush, Obama, and Trump. Under Biden, it increased again.
The Biden years were really good years; outside being very personally unlucky, if you couldn't make it use of that labor market, and those conditions, then that's kind of a fucking you problem.
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This thread!
Reposted by Vajra Kilgour
It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Forever renters: For many in Greater Boston, the American dream of homeownership ‘no longer exists’ - The Boston Globe
Home prices in Greater Boston have surged far faster than incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for many.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It's annoying to see the hand-wringing over a small number of wealthy people making empty threats to move because of tax increases, when there are actually people leaving desirable places en masse because they can't find affordable places to live
Another excellent and necessary thread.
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️
🧵 On April 8, 1911, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history struck the Banner Coal Mine near Littleton, Alabama.
128 men were killed in an explosion. Most of them were Black. (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
🧵 On April 8, 1911, one of the deadliest industrial disasters in U.S. history struck the Banner Coal Mine near Littleton, Alabama.
128 men were killed in an explosion. Most of them were Black. (cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
December 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Another excellent and necessary thread.
Both not surprising and totally enraging.
“Internal department data obtained by ProPublica shows that more than 1,000 racial harassment investigations initiated in previous administrations still are open. Most of those complaints involve harassment of Black students.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Both not surprising and totally enraging.
Truth. Essential thread.
Weekend reading:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
My new piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist
steady.page
December 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Truth. Essential thread.
This. One hundred percent this!
1. Contrition.
2. Admitting that past atrocities were the cause of systemic racism today.
3. No more whitewashing history in our schools.
4. Public condemnation of hate groups in America.
5. Land expansion to Indigenous nations.
6. Reparations to Black American descendents of slaves.
2. Admitting that past atrocities were the cause of systemic racism today.
3. No more whitewashing history in our schools.
4. Public condemnation of hate groups in America.
5. Land expansion to Indigenous nations.
6. Reparations to Black American descendents of slaves.
December 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This. One hundred percent this!
This thread! 😂
'let people enjoy things' applies extra when the things are dumplings
November 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This thread! 😂
All the more impressive considering that Sharon Begley was a truly decent and lovely human being.
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
All the more impressive considering that Sharon Begley was a truly decent and lovely human being.
Another great thread.
Have you ever heard that Oregon has the ugliest, most racist white people? It's because of welfare
In 1850, the US tried to build an all-white state. But only single white men showed up, so they had to create the biggest land welfare program in history.
I WISH I could make this shit up.
In 1850, the US tried to build an all-white state. But only single white men showed up, so they had to create the biggest land welfare program in history.
I WISH I could make this shit up.
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Another great thread.