[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, toots … you name it]
[Videos]
cisfeminism as sex-nationalism [patreon] – “I gave this keynote for the Brighton University annual CAPPE (UK) philosophy conference.” Sophie Lewis 🖤❤️
“Little Red Barns”: Author Will Potter on How Industrial Animal Agriculture Breeds Authoritarianism [democracy now!] – “This is a corporate versus the people issue,” says Potter, who explains how the exploitative agriculture industry pollutes the environment, abuses animals and partners with law enforcement to criminalize activist movements, all while promoting a “fascist” myth of the “happy farmer and the American countryside.” Potter also offers some great thoughts on the background of why Trump is making “Antifa” illegal.
It’s Revolution or Death Part 3: Reclaiming the World Wherever We Stand [sub.media] – The third installment of the series features an interview with Peter Gelderloos.
[Music]
Adam Buxton vs. Cyriak – Dancing in the Middle – For me, i love the animation more than the music.
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!! – Where do you see a flashmob?! But nice anyway.
[Podcasts]
Wisecrack – Some say it’s the new Baby Reindeer. For me, the jury is still out.
Taylor Lorenz – We Need to Talk About ‘Political Violence’ – Exactly what i wanted to yell all the times during the uproar after the Charlie Kirk assassination. Define political violence. Demonizing trans and gay people is political violence. Spreading falsehoods about vaccines is political violence. Promoting white supremacy is political violence.
FrĂ©dĂ©ric Neyrat – Intelligence artificielle et Techno-fascisme – At times this is an intellectual wank, often the case with lundi.am, but i enjoyed it anyway.
[Toot Threads]
[Pandemic Roundup]
Covid: September 25, 2025
Covid: September 18, 2025
Covid: September 11, 2025
Covid: September 4, 2025
[The Must Read[s] This Month]
MAHA and the End of American Modernity [jacobin] – “Dressed up as a health crusade, MAHA is a proxy for a larger right-wing revolt against science, technology, and public institutions. It fuses lifestyle rebellion with policy agendas that hollow out the emancipatory promises of modernity.” Kernel of truth situation. Of course factory farming and big pharma/food engage in horrendous practices that need to change. But MAHA is in fact a distraction, creating more harm than good.
Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression [crimethinc] – “How to Respond to Donald Trump’s Threats. In a post on Truth Social yesterday, Donald Trump declared that he is designating “Antifa” as “a major terrorist organization.” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm? Everyone should read this guide.” Nothing too surprising in this list, but lists sometimes can give comfort.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit [the guardian] – “What happened between the 1970s I’ve described and the present is feminism: feminism that insisted that women were people endowed with rights, that sex, as distinct from rape, had to be something both parties desired, that consent had to be active and conscious, that all human interactions involve power and that the vast power differential between adult men and children meant that no such consent was possible.” And now we are stuck in the deepest wave of backlash.
Rituals of Ache: In Defense of Human Noise | Napkin Manifestos [substack] – “You can listen to AI churning out questionably pleasing, palatable projections and not hear a thing. Or you can listen to our human noise, singing louder still like Whoville on Christmas until the life returns to the Grinch’s greedy green eyes, until his smile strings twinkling bulbs across the sky, delighting in love notes and rolling out dessert carts. Once the body glows from within, luminous with desire, that human electricity, there’s no going back.” What an amazing writer. Huge Alison fanboy here. In general i am not a fan of noise, but the way it is framed here, yes, we need more of that. Maybe we could use friction instead of noise?
[Articles English]
We Will Never Be Normal. | Laurie Penny [substack] – “But, speaking of personal insults – while what remains of the free press is patiently pointing out that no, Paracetamol does not cause autism, I find it more alarming that a dictator just got up on stage and effectively promised to rid the world of people like me. In the 1930s, eugenicists studied autistic people in order to find ways of eliminating us from the gene pool. The Nazi solution to the persistent problem of people who struggle with sensory issues and find the world loud and overwhelming was, well, exactly what you probably imagine it was. But the mania for stamping out autism has never gone out of vogue. The conversation is still about whether it is possible to cure autism. Nobody has yet asked autistic people if we want to be cured.” Sadly the last part of the article is paywalled, but eventually it will be available.
Ecovillages and Collaboration | Starhawk [substack] – “[W]orking in groups has one essential drawback: it requires working with people. There’s a truth we don’t like to admit: that getting along with other people is difficult. Other people are notoriously annoying, contrary, pigheaded, stubborn, and unwilling to go along with what I think is best. They nurse their grievances, believe ridiculous things, and often refuse to just get with the program. We tend to idealize community, and many of us dream of an idyllic existence in the countryside, with abundant gardens, fruit trees laden with apples and pears, surrounded by like-minded people and good friends sharing resources and supporting one another. It’s a beautiful dream.” People are hard to get along with, grr. Why the fuck does it have to be true that communities are our only hope.
Pussy Riot Members Sentenced to Russian Prison in Absentia [hyperallergic] – Free Pussy Riot – even in absentia
ISSUE 3 – The Siren – “MAGA is still on the roll. ICE raids. Attacks on the Smithsonian and the CDC. Big, bad budget cuts. Tariff wars. Mass firings of federal workers. Parent-child separations. Millions lose Medicaid and food stamps. Extortion of higher education and media conglomerates. The dismantling of civil rights laws. The disappearance of voting rights.” Contains some great satirical cartoons again.
Spanish Cycling Protests Reject Israeli Sportswashing – “The Vuelta a España, Spain’s premier cycling stage race, saw the participation of team Israel–Premier Tech, organized to promote Israel’s reputation. Thousands of protesters disrupted the race on Saturday[sic] to decry the team’s sportswashing of genocide.” It was Sunday, but fine, detail.
Germany’s “Reha” clinics aren’t set up for Long COVID. And patients are reporting harm [the sick times] – “By forcing affected people into inappropriate, unsafe rehab and worsening their conditions, instead of alleviating the economic burden, advocates and people with the disease say the German system is paradoxically making this crisis worse.” The German state bullies people into this.
COVID Competency Exam – “Adaptive assessment of COVID-19 knowledge vs. misinformation” I made one mistake. You?
Charlie Kirk Doesn’t Deserve What’s Happening To Him [techdirt] – “Kirk didn’t have “ideals.” He had invective. He didn’t cherish “open discussion.” He just managed to turn his “change my mind” shtick into a profitable extension of his innate bigotry. He was just one of hundreds of Trump-associated semi-celebrities who think the First Amendment should protect them from being criticized for being racist, sexist, or… you know, cheering on literal insurrection attempts. But those rights shouldn’t be extended to anyone who disagrees with them.” I think this is a significant contribution precisely because it was written by someone who did change his mind after growing up in a christian-conservative bigoted household.
Assessing the Global Temperature and Precipitation Analysis in August 2025 [ncei] – “Globally, August 2025 was the third-warmest August in NOAA’s 176-year record, with a temperature 1.93°F (1.07°C) higher than the 20th-century baseline. This is 0.36°F (0.20°C) cooler than the record set in August 2023 and tied in 2024. The January–August global surface temperature was the second-highest on record behind 2024. According to NCEI’s Global Annual Temperature Outlook, it is very likely that 2025 will rank among the five warmest years on record, with less than a 1% chance of ranking as the warmest year on record.” Who could have anticipated this? No one (rofl).
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites [bbc] – “We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked “reply all” – inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members, some of whom were working in Gaza.” Nazi bikers near the food distribution sites certainly will no help.
Banksy Mural of Judge Beating Protestor Removed by Courts Service [artnews] – “On the morning of September 10, the latest work by the artist was gone after a masked man was filmed scrubbing the image off the wall. Two police officers stood nearby.” What a farce.
A revolution is sweeping Europe’s farms: can it save agriculture? [nature] – “Momentum is building for regenerative agriculture, a set of approaches that could help farms to weather the changing climate and make them more profitable.” Let’s see what they mean by “regenerative”, another one of these buzz words.
Help for Long COVID – Find care providers who understand Long COVID – “A resource for people struggling with the lingering effects of COVID-19” So far, almost no information about Switzerland.
“Mockery of science”: Climate scientists tear into new US climate report [arstechnica] – “More than 85 climate scientists declared the Department of Energy’s new climate report unfit for policymaking in a comprehensive review released Tuesday. The DOE’s report cherry-picked evidence, lacked peer-reviewed studies to support its questioning of the detrimental effects of climate change in the US and is “fundamentally incorrect,” the authors concluded.” There we go.
[Articles German/French]
Hier spricht die Antifa [taz] – “Per Dekret will der US-Präsident nun gegen seine Gegner vorgehen. Eine Einordnung und Stimmen aus US-amerikanischen Antifa-Gruppen.” Naja.
Brainrot Morde oder wie man einen Abgrund ĂĽberwindet | Berit Glanz [substack] – “Die Veränderung der Welt durch Internetkultur betrifft mittlerweile eben nicht mehr nur Einzelpersonen, die einfach mal Gras anfassen sollten. Internetkultur ist keine Nische mehr, die man wahlweise ignorieren oder als obskuren Quatsch verlachen kann – wie es beispielsweise noch bei GamerGate vor zehn Jahren der Fall war. Es fĂĽhlt sich wirklich unfassbar an, dass man das 2025 ĂĽberhaupt noch benennen muss. Das Internet ist in den letzten Jahren zentraler Teil einer Radikalisierungspipeline geworden, mit unterschiedlichen Phänomenen, Subkulturen und Referenzrahmen.” This article went viral, even if it mostly is a re-hash of the article on Garbage Day.
Hierzulande darf Geld alles [daslamm] – “Dieser erstmalige Vergleich entblösst den Eisberg unter der neuen Schweizer Transparenz: Nicht nur bleibt ein Drittel der Spenden weiterhin anonym – mangelnde staatliche Parteienfinanzierung, hohe Schwellenwerte und fehlende Obergrenzen erlauben zudem, dass Geld in der Schweizer Politik ĂĽberdurchschnittlich viel Macht hat.” Transparency my ass.
[Older articles, still great]
Relationship Anarchy. Dreaming In the Belly of the Whale [catileptic] – “Relationship Anarchy is what we can do to imagine another future. It’s bringing ideology back into our beds, and at our dinner tables, as care and solidarity. As communication. And, more than anything else, it’s a lot of patience. Because tension is inevitable, patience must be there to embrace it.” A nice overview of polyamory under the anarchist framework.
Introduction Sketching Fascism’s Long Arc | Naomi Klein – “Naomi Klein opened the teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945. Instead, she argued, fascism is a recurring logic rooted in imperialism, settler colonialism, and racial supremacy – systems that long predate European fascism and that continue to shape global politics today.” The teach-in has an impressive line-up of speakers.
R.I.P.
Assata Shakur – They never caught her.
Way too many in Gaza and all the other wars.
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