South Carolina raised a confederate flag over its state house in the 1960s to show contempt for desegregation and Black Americans pursuing civil rights.

Four decades later they moved it to a flagpole at a monument to men who died fighting to preserve chattel slavery.

On 27 July 2015 Bree Newsome scaled that 30ft flagpole, removing that hateful flag. In just days the state decided to take it down permanently.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Bree Newsome's essential, moral, courageous action.

Friends, I don’t know how to explain this any more simply: there can be no such thing as an anarchist prison.

Either there is some coercive institution with a privileged relationship to violence that can put you in a cage, or there isn’t.

Prisons are not some neutral tool that could theoretically be used by a community for self-defense from aggressors, but just so happen to be used everywhere by states as tools of oppressive rule.

They *are* oppressive rule.

“But how will we deal with murderers and rapists without prisons” THEY DON’T DO THAT NOW

Meta aligning with Trump's false narrative that enforcing competition law is a "tariff” 🤢

"the Commission forcing us to change our business model effectively imposes a multi-billion-dollar tariff on Meta while requiring us to offer an inferior service”

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/metas-statement-in-response-to-the-european-commissions-decision-on-the-digital-markets-act/

Given that we're losing a class war, one capital started for profit and is winning, waged via fast military & police as well as slow economic & environmental violence against humanity, it's heartening to see lots of "Assassinating CEOs is good, actually" sentiment.

Just as political polarization has been good (one pole wants fascism!!) it's good when people recognize themselves as under attack, and let each other know. I suspect we're gonna need to see a lot more of that in the decades to come.