"The Committee to End Pay Toilets in America, or CEPTIA, was a 1970s grass-roots political organization which was one of the main forces behind the elimination of pay toilets in many American cities and states. "

James Pogue's excellent reporting on the intellectual far-right always provides little glimmers of insight, though for the most part I still can't quite make sense of Trumpism. In this article he quotes Sumantra Maitra, of The American Conservative saying "It’s between national capital and international capital." I think that summarizes the outlines of the movement, though the appeals to the cultural right (like the anti-immigration or the general racism) seem to have little to do with giving capitalists more power (or more labor to exploit).

"I’m sure the disinformed and the uninformed were also joined by a large number of misogynists, racists, white supremacists, and Christian nationalists, who truly believe in the program Trump is about to unveil. But a lot of Trump voters just haven’t been paying attention. And that includes a lot of Mormons. I refuse to call them Latter-day Saints, because there is nothing saintly about ignoring everything their religion teaches them, including specific instruction in the D&C about electing “honest men and wise men” and “good men” (D&C 98:10). None of these words describe Trump."

Good commentary from Matt Duss, former foreign policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders.

"In defending the militarist status quo, Democrats ceded the anti-war lane to Republicans. As they enter the political wilderness, it’s time to reckon with what they got so wrong"

"You have a culture where you are fifty times more likely to get shot who have somehow convinced themselves that their attitude to guns keep them safer..."

I had to log in to Quora to upvote this one

Good interview with Eugene from Hoods Hoods Klan -- antifascist Ukranian football hooligans fighting against the Russian invasion.

Here's also a short documentary about these guys from a couple of years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsodbPkjO3c

Adam Gadahn was a good writer

Good expose of the Red Guards Austin.

See also: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/

"These extremely online young Christian men want to end the 19th Amendment, restore public flogging, and make America white again."

Good 2018 talk by Cory Doctorow on the impossibility of crypto-anarchy (or at least of crypto-anarchy alone).

Vera Ivanovna Zasulich (1851 – 8 May 1919) was a Russian revolutionary. She was friends with the nihilist Sergei Nechaev, tried to kill the governor of St. Petersburg, and co-founded the first Russian Marxist group.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

"There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

"To vote is to abdicate. To name one or several masters for a short or long period means renouncing one’s own sovereignty. Whether he becomes absolute monarch, constitutional prince or a simple elected representative bearing a small portion of royalty, the candidate you raise to the throne or the chair will be your superior. You name men who are above laws, since they write them and their mission is to make you obey."

Black originally wrote this in 1982. It could have been written today.

"the immiserating orderings of society have never been voted away, but that electoralism—for all the plaintive promises that we can both rabble-rouse and ballot-box—has regularly served as a mechanism of capture for potentially transformative social movements."

Some history on the anarchist tradition of abstention candidates

"As to the anarchist position that universal suffrage did not legitimize authority, it is worth taking seriously. ... Even if we disagree that authority is never legitimate and Dewey’s self-aware public has been achieved, not all uses of authority — especially when it comes to state violence — can be justified by the vote. To do so would be to treat suffrage as a mythical unquestioned good rather than a reasonable choice."

This is an audio documentary series. I've listened to the first two episodes. It is well produced, and I understand Trump a tiny bit better now.