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Bryan @neon_circuit_@kolektiva.social
· 1w ago
Boosted by @welcome@friends.deko.cloud
Hey everyone, I am Bryan, a queer socialist in East TN (USA). I used to be on Mastodon previously but fell out of it as my feed had become full of news and negativity. I want things different this time. I am trying to build something outside the surveillance economy. I self-host what I can, run FOSS exclusively, and believe in software freedom. By training I'm a Historian (North American Indian Studies), which means I think a lot about colonialism, resistance, and what autonomous infrastructure actually requires. Looking to connect with others doing similar work, share resources, and participate in this space without treating it like a content mill. Happy to boost FOSS projects, mutual aid, movement stuff, etc. I believe in the #NoAI movement. I am not interested in meeting people who promote its use. I enjoy playing videogames, trying to get back into the habit of regular reading for fun, and listen to a lot of music (Acid Techno, Power Metal). I started reading "The Water Knife" by Paolo Bacigalupi. Feel free to say hi! #Introduction #Socialism #NoAI
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'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_ @dirtycommo@anticapitalist.party
· 2w ago
Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
Activism is actually about behind the scenes work. The Lula victory makes me think of all the organisers who must have worked their arses off to get this idea across the line. Activism is not just the rally, it is also everything before and after. Think of the activists and organisers in these next few days, who are doing their best every day. We take a lot for granted here in Australia, where voting is compulsory. Please get out and vote. #activism #socialism #lula #brasil #brazil
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Natalie Davis @NatalieDavis@journa.host
· 4mo ago
ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Wants Police-Style Immunity https://jacobin.com/2026/06/geo-group-ice-trump-immunity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Wants Police-Style Immunity
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ICE’s Private Prison Contractor Wants Police-Style Immunity

GEO Group, a top private prison contractor for ICE, is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging forced labor at its detention centers. It’s using a controversial legal doctrine best known for shielding cops from police brutality claims.

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Brave-Smoke @makouzen@mastodon.social
· 1mo ago
Observations from a guest of society. (the marking on the wall is from the IChing; hexagram #25 - "Without Deceit"/"Forget #Me Not"/"Innocence") https://blurt.media/w/49JjbmywAsBhCYqYxSLtPR #blog #artist #uk #ukraine #usa #linux #gaming #photography #socialism #reading #books #food #politics #music #art #matrix #blurt #bravesmoke #europe #money #life #love #monsterdon #movie #retro #fashion #webdev #crypto #travel
Extricate The System: Greator & Minor III
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Extricate The System: Greator & Minor III

Extricate The System: Greater & Minor Extricate The System: Greater & Minor II Extricate The System: Greator & Minor III

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Natalie Davis @NatalieDavis@journa.host
· 1mo ago
Video Game Workers at Blizzard Won First Union Contracts https://jacobin.com/2026/09/blizzard-microsoft-workers-union-contract?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Video Game Workers at Blizzard Won First Union Contracts
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Video Game Workers at Blizzard Won First Union Contracts

Nearly 2,000 workers at Blizzard, a Microsoft-owned video game studio that makes popular games like Diablo, won their first union contracts earlier this month. Their protections include recall rights and guaranteed severance packages for laid-off workers.

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Serena | ☭ RCP @ComradeSerena@hear-me.social
· 1mo ago
Americans and Canadians live under capitalism and always have. At no point have we had a planned economy with state- or collectively-owned means of production. At no point have we challenged the right that bourgeois currently have to pocket the surplus value of the labour of others. These countries have been capitalist for as long as they've existed. We are not, and have never been, "neo-feudalist", and we have certainly never been socialist. Not even the best booms of the capitalist boom-and-bust cycle can be ascribed to socialism. Neither can any of the concessions that the bourgeoisie has granted us in the hopes of making us tolerate their dictatorship. The way out of the crisis we find ourselves in today cannot be found in the past. It is found in the works of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, in the conscious and organised rising up of the proletariat against the entire bourgeois economic and political system. Even if it was possible to turn back the clock seventy, a hundred, or even a hundred and seventy years, this would only delay the current crisis seventy, a hundred, or a hundred and seventy years. And the same solution would be no less necessary. #communism #socialism #capitalism #USpol #CDNpoli
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Verdant Square Network @verdantsquare@mastodon.world
· 1mo ago
The Uprising Wastes a Good Class-Struggle Story https://jacobin.com/2026/09/film-uprising-peasants-revolt-liberalism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
The Uprising Wastes a Good Class-Struggle Story
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The Uprising Wastes a Good Class-Struggle Story

Instead of inspiring an awakening as filmmakers hope, The Uprising repeats tired liberal calls for “healing” and, when those disappoint, turns to fantasies of individual violence. The real 1381 English Peasants’ Revolt, however, still inspires us centuries later.

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Verdant Square Network @verdantsquare@mastodon.world
· 1mo ago
Texas Wasn’t Always a Right-Wing Evangelical Powerhouse https://jacobin.com/2026/09/texas-christianity-populism-conservatism-evangelicals?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Texas Wasn’t Always a Right-Wing Evangelical Powerhouse
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Texas Wasn’t Always a Right-Wing Evangelical Powerhouse

The Christian right hasn’t always dominated Texas politics. While it claims to represent a deep regional tradition, the state’s modern right-wing evangelicalism is a newer invention — forged in the crucible of elite reaction to populist movements.

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Verdant Square Network @verdantsquare@mastodon.world
· 1mo ago
Frances Stonor Saunders Exposed the Cultural Cold War https://jacobin.com/2026/09/history-saunders-cia-intellectuals-cold-war?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Frances Stonor Saunders Exposed the Cultural Cold War
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Frances Stonor Saunders Exposed the Cultural Cold War

The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her book Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated attempts to censor it, including by her American publisher.

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Natalie Davis @NatalieDavis@journa.host
· 1mo ago
Sweden’s Far Right: Faltering but Not Defeated https://jacobin.com/2026/09/sweden-democrats-elections-far-right?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
Sweden’s Far Right: Faltering but Not Defeated
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Sweden’s Far Right: Faltering but Not Defeated

Sunday’s Swedish election saw the center-left bloc narrowly defeat the outgoing right-wing government. While the Social Democrats are set to lead a new coalition, the once-mighty party has continued to lose its historic base.

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Verdant Square Network @verdantsquare@mastodon.world
· 1mo ago
25 Years After 9/11, the Zombie War on Terror Stumbles On https://jacobin.com/2026/09/september-11-war-terror-trump?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialism
25 Years After 9/11, the Zombie War on Terror Stumbles On
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25 Years After 9/11, the Zombie War on Terror Stumbles On

Nobody seems to care anymore about the fears and threats that originally motivated the war on terror. Yet 25 years after September 11, 2001, that war continues to infect American life at home and abroad, more violently and menacingly than ever.

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