"My friend, anarchist Jerry Koch, is the latest grand jury resistor to be jailed and freed because of his silence"

Langdon's "Wordplay" is one of the only art books I own.

Happy to have recently discovered this website. "Christians for the Abolition of Prisons is an organization dedicated to prison abolitionist education and advocacy within the progressive church."

"Office Space" is 'the Matrix' portion of "The Matrix" with every trace of the uncanny evacuated.

"In order to understand the nature of the Syrian conflict, it is essential that we remember the first years of the uprising, and, through remembering what took place between 2011 and 2014, dispel the myth that Syria has always been a proxy war or has always been a struggle between a secular government and jihadis. To ignore the years which lead Syria from a democratic uprising to a bloody proxy war is to read history backwards."

On how BIDs push for the criminalization of homelessness using Denver's urban camping ban and Downtown Denver Partnership as its primary example.

For a book-length treatment of this and similar issues, I recommend Randall Amster's Lost In Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness (2008) which examines the role BIDs play in criminalizing homelessness using the struggles over the sit-lie ordinances in Tempe, AZ, as a case study.

"for the more lonely children of the revolution, who like their politics with a healthy dose of nihilism that alternately destroys and loves itself and the world."

list of folk punk bands on r/folkpunk

"I introduced my anarchist friend to my other friends. This proved to be awkward."

Graeber on the Rojava revolution.

"How a shy, queer Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet’s most toxic male communities."

work is bad.

Really liked this short review, though I'll probably not read the book.

I have a much more positive view of left-libertarianism, but I also always enjoy Alex Strekal's criticism.

Throw all daleks in fountains!

Tim Barker's very good review of a book that seems interesting (especially the COST proposal) but that I'll probably not read.

Jerry would later invest in Apple Computer and become a multimillionaire.