[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, toots … you name it]
[Videos]
//cw Rape, Vergewaltigung, Rape drugs
Wir finden die Täter | STRG_F EPIC
18th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop (FTW) – Sophie Lewis Keynote – 🖤❤️ An all around amazing presentation.
Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good? – The title is misleading, Fentanyl is indeed garbage heroin.
How to save boys from the manosphere | Judith Butler interview
TANK VS TESLA – So satisfying to watch. Where can i get a tank? Oh wait.
Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering “End Times Fascism”?
InterRebellium – 01. The Estallido Social [kolektiva.media] – “The first of a multipart documentary series, InterRebellium 01. The Estallido Social is a story told through the eyes of anarchist and anticolonial participants of the 2019 uprising in the territories occupied by the state of Chile.” Riot porn at it’s finest.
[Music]
Little Simz – Young – The song is not my favorite, but the video is quite funny.
Eminem – LOSE YOURSELF (Sung by 331 Movies!)
R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix)
[Podcasts]
Viral Persistence / Long Covid Action Project [last born in the wilderness] – “Long Covid Action Project (LCAP) founder and journalist Joshua Pribanic returns to the podcast, along with artist and LCAP researcher Amy Mitchell, to discuss their groundbreaking new book, A National Treatment and Research Agenda for Long Covid. Joshua and Amy detail the impressive amount of collaborative work done to produce this text, and the alarming ongoing threat SARS-COV-2 poses to the global population. In particular, Amy describes her history with various rare medical conditions and ongoing experience with Long Covid, and her involvement with LCAP as an advocate for sufferers and researcher of the disease.” I have some mixed feelings about the initiative. But people do need to hear about cases of Long COVID like the one Amy is going through.
The Roots of Elon Musk’s War On Empathy w/ Julia Carrie Wong – Episodes [tech won’t save us] – “Paris Marx is joined by Julia Carrie Wong to discuss Elon Musk’s recent opposition to empathy, how it comes out of the Christian right, and the relationship it has to previous discussions of longtermism.” Empathy does not care about your feelings of inadequacy, Elon. It is here to stay.
[Toot Threads]
[Pandemic Roundup]
Covid: May 29, 2025
Covid: May 22, 2025
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Covid: May 1, 2025
[The Must Read[s] This Month]
A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles [yale global health review] – “Mutual aid is far from a recent invention. The synergy between COVID and wildfire response is not pre. But the whiplash between an institutional embrace of social welfare policies “during COVID” and the eugenicist logic required to disavow those policies five years later show us both what is present and what is possible for the climate justice movement: we can demand high-level societal realignment in the name of our common welfare, even as we collectively source the knowledge and resources needed to protect our communities in the meantime.” This article had me in tears, thank you so much Violet.
‘Somebody needs to do it’ | Taylor Lorenz – Taylor makes all the right connections. When you guys ripped the masks off your faces, you participated in the ableist process that ended up opening the door for the return of fascism. It’s eugenics, stupid.
Fascism and the Spectacle of Death [ill will] – “As it becomes increasingly difficult to make sense of living in a world premised upon such immense dying, as people cannot so effortlessly blot out the experience of the death which accretes so abundantly all around, another way forward is glimpsed in fascism, that form of society which is premised upon the reorganization of all social life on the basis of death, intensifying a passive indifference towards death such that it begins to transform into an active desire for it. Always already residing as a latent potential within the history of capitalism, fascism unfolds in culture as an expanding aestheticization of annihilation, cultivating a society which is ever more captivated by images of its own desolation, inviting everyone to search for new ways of life in spectacles of death.” Maybe we do have to look to the insurrectionists now?!
[Articles English]
“Are Women Weak Jews?” | Sophie Lewis [spectre journal] – “My eyes have been widening in disbelief about all of this for over five years, as my heart again and again forms the pointless wish that the subject of the revival were a different (better) second-waver: someone like Pat Parker, Amber Hollibaugh, or Joan Nestle. Among the elements I take exception to is the “This is wildly unfashionable stuff! Can you handle it? Are you scared?” tenor of today’s Dworkin marketing. As the “4B” bubble of 2024 showed, there is clearly nothing unfashionable about separatism today.” The 13. chapter of Sophie’s fantastic and must-read (but i shouted about it before) book, Enemy Feminisms.
Wokeness, Terminable and Interminable | Adrian Daub [substack] – “Moral panics are about misallocated attention, they usually deflate by re-distributing that attention. Several thousand headlines about a specific topic or worry become a hundred, then dwindle to a handful. They almost never become several hundred headlines about what the purveyors of the moral panic got wrong, or how this could have happened. This is part of why moral panic-mongering is so seductive: people know instinctively that there is no real accountability at their end.” Devious propaganda to deflect the attention away from the topics that actually matter.
Machine Learning MAGA: Rise of the Christian Cyborg [truthdig] – “The similarities between these worldviews (traditionalists and transhhumanists) are striking. They share the conviction that we are in the end times; the promises of resurrection, immortality and perfect happiness in a heavenly otherworld; and the belief in a superintelligent being whose actions will determine the course of cosmic history. Nonetheless, there remain some nontrivial differences: for example, transhumanists invert the traditional relation between God and humanity. They say that we will create God, and hence be his parents, whereas Christians say that God created us, and we are his children.” The factions will come to blows, eventually, some of it is already kicking in. But too much might already have been destroyed by then.
Mexican Activists Are Building Digital Defenses Against Big Tech Colonialism [truthout] – “In response, Mexican activists are standing up to Big Tech — promoting the use of feminist servers where people can put their safety first, autonomous servers that can help protect communities and activists in danger, and other tools for greater digital agency.” Mexican feminists kick ass.
Trump’s Censorship Campaign Draws on Decades of Infrastructure Built by Big Tech [truthout] – “[W]ithout a strong movement in the streets, reporting on censorship wasn’t enough to stop the purging of these anarchist news sites. Facebook and X quickly became megaphones and recruitment centers for the most harmful far right ideologies. Moderators stood back as far right accounts grew larger and larger, making death threats, celebrating acts of genocide, spreading misinformation and coordinating campaigns of censorship.” The way big tech got in line in this fascist turn is what makes the whole thing feel so overwhelming.
‘I’m doing the work I need to do to live with myself’: Joe Sacco on democracy, genocide, and drawing the truth [the comics journal] – “If an artist can be measured in part by their capacity to look truth squarely in the eye without flinching, let it be said that Joe Sacco is an artist. For more than three decades, Sacco has been perhaps the most prominent and influential cartoonist-journalist in comics. His Palestine, published in 1993, was a probing and ambivalent first-hand report on a people and place trapped in a cycle of war and repression.” The quote in the title sound like a pragmatic stance we could envision as a way forward. But i am still shell shocked.
When and where everything in the “made in Switzerland” song was made (corrections appreciated) – This is why we keep loving certain parts of reddit. Even if some of the debunking is bunk.
Hunger Strike – Basic Guidelines Considerations and Guidelines for Strikers and Support Team | Rupa Marya [substack] – “I compiled this basic information to share with students, faculty, and staff who wish to participate in the Hunger Strike for Gaza and their support team. Please share specific health considerations carefully with your local medical support crew. I hope this education will lead to everyone making informed choices about their health and wellbeing, so they can engage in ways that are careful and considered.” When hunger strikes is all that we can do, better try to have smart guidelines.
Global Climate in April 2025 [ncei] – “For the globe as a whole, April 2025 was 2.20°F (1.22°C) above the 20th-century baseline. This is 0.13°F (0.07°C) below the record-warm April of 2024, thus ranking second in the 1850–2025 period. According to NCEI’s Global Annual Temperature Outlook, there is only a 3% chance that 2025 will rank as the warmest year on record.” This is fine. Don’t look up.
‘I came out as autistic. Everyone said: That explains a lot’ | Laurie Penny [the observer] – “the older you get, the harder it is to mask. For years, I scrupulously avoided every situation where someone might see me overwhelmed by sound, stammering and struggling with keys and cutlery. Noisy pubs. Office jobs. Long-term relationships. I spent years living out of suitcases to avoid managing a household. I hoarded little jackets for every conceivable social situation.” The part about the little jackets is cute. But i so feel you, Laurie. Even my mask wears a mask.
The Long COVID Game [hello, worlds] – “This is a facilitator’s guide for The Long COVID Game, an instructional game on the increasing risks of contracting Long COVID with repeated infections.” If this works, sure.
https://neal.fun/internet-roadtrip/ – Choose the route with other users. Listen to the radio. Sometimes the website honks, though, and that made me jump.
Naomi Klein Interview: Trump, Musk, Pandemic Rage, and Climate Denial [rollingstone] – “This is an openly supremacist project. The supremacist ideas surge when they are needed to rationalize monstrous policies. This accelerated during Covid. For people who wanted an argument about why they didn’t need to do anything — whether it was mask, or get vaccinated, or close their yoga studio, or whatever it was. People started playing with: “Well, what would it feel like to just not give a shit if people die?” And once you play with that, you’re playing with fire.” This part of the interview is great. But then Klein idealizes the pope’s role in the “changes” of the catholic church and that’s just lame. Hold your horses, please. Only time will tell how much these “changes” were worth.
“End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein on How Trump, Musk, Far Right “Don’t Believe in the Future” | Democracy Now! – I am not linking to this for the interview itself, which might or might not be interesting. But because of the way Naomi Klein and Amy Goodman keep coughing at each other, in the same room, without masks. This is the future that the “radical left” wants. This is pandemic denial of the most cynical sort. Amy Goodman has still failed to give a statement about why she continues to cough (it sure sounds like Long COVID, dear Amy, and you would have range to inform people).
Muntjac Issue 2: Insurgency & Counter Insurgency – Muntjac Magazine – “We intended to publish this on Mayday but we were too busy slacking. Huge thanks to everyone who wrote in, it means the world to us that you’d trust us with your ideas, hopefully this collection inspires a new wave of troublemaking.” It’s a zine about troublemaking.
[Articles German/French]
Rüstungsdeals zwischen der Schweiz und Israel: Eine innige Partnerschaft [woz] – “Der Bundesrat behauptet, mit Israel bestünden keine Kooperationen im Rüstungsbereich. Das ist nachweislich falsch. Besonders eng ist die Beziehung zum Waffenkonzern Elbit Systems, dessen Waffen im Gazakrieg Zivilist:innen töten.” Sneaky, evil Switzerland, i despise you.
Prozess: Hat sie RAF gesagt? [woz] – “Nach dreissig Jahren im Untergrund steht Daniela Klette vor Gericht. Vorgeworfen werden ihr Raubüberfälle. Doch im Prozess geht es um viel mehr: Um die Rote-Armee-Fraktion, der Klette einst angehört haben soll. Und damit um einen nie aufgearbeiteten Teil der deutschen Geschichte.” A great summary of the Daniela Klette trial with the history of the RAF interwoven. See bellow for a linked article by Garweg that goes into that history even deeper.
“Diese Männer sind nicht zu Ende geboren” [zeit] – “Eine riesige Masse von Leuten, die vorher im Dunkel saßen, können sich heute übers Netz verbinden und für jede Scheiße, die sie schreiben, Millionen Klicks und eine imaginäre Macht kriegen, die sich politisch in Wirklichkeiten umsetzen lässt. Auch die Strategie Flood the zone with shit geht nur dank der Elektronik. Man darf über jeden irgendeinen Blödsinn verbreiten, vollkommen egal, ob das stimmt, und kommt damit durch.” An interview with Klaus Theweleit on why he refused to grant interviews for the last three years.
Schwarze Geschichte : Der Tag, an dem Philadelphia sich selbst bombardierte [woz] – “Bei einem Bombenabwurf auf die ökoanarchistische Gruppierung Move brannte die Polizei vor vierzig Jahren ein riesiges Loch in ein Wohnviertel von Philadelphia und tötete elf Menschen. Das Unrecht wühlt die Menschen bis heute auf.” The way the MOVE houses were bombed in Philly continues to shock me.
Abolir la familia, la perspectiva de une superviviente [el salto] – “¿Cómo llevamos nuestras experiencias de redes de apoyo mutuo al centro de la sociedad? ¿Cómo cambiamos nuestros imaginarios para qué nos veamos capaces de confiar en estas redes?” Well worth the read in Spanish, or find it here as a machine translation: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/05/20/abolishing-the-family-a-survivors-perspective/. Family abolishment as seen by someone who was heavily abused and neglected.
Selbsthilfe bei Long Covid: Meine Demo im Liegen [taz.de] – “Community, Aufklärung, Forschung – all das klingt wie eine gelungene Solidarisierungspraxis, nach einem Lehrstück in Selbstermächtigung. Doch es gibt auch die andere Seite: Das Engagement macht eine Lücke sichtbar, eine Leerstelle. Alles, was rund um #LongCovid seit fünf Jahren getwittert und gepostet wird, ist Ausdruck eines strukturellen politischen und medizinischen Versagens.” We, the people who suffer and have no energy, are also the ones who are meant to do the advocacy?! That’s absurd.
Die Schweiz ist drauf und dran, Überwachungsstaaten zu kopieren [republik] – “Die Vorlage klingt, als wäre sie vom Kreml verfasst worden: Geht es nach dem Bund, müssen sich Schweizer Internetnutzer künftig mit Ausweis oder Telefonnummer identifizieren. Der Zeitpunkt dafür ist denkbar schlecht.” Switzerland might get one of the worst surveillance laws, ever, under a social-democratic federal councilor!? Yet again: “Wer hat uns verraten?”
[Older articles, still great]
Militante Linke – Burkhard Garweg: Welt bewegt sich auf Kipppunkt zu [nd-aktuell] – This is the article mentioned above in the article about the Daniela Klette trial. Garweg with historic contextualization and some auto-critique of the RAF.
UNREST Feature Documentary From 2018, but still relevant. Or even more so.
Vaccine: The Human Story – A series reminding us of the human side of vaccination produced by Annie Kelly of QAA podcast fame.
COMMAND Z – “Funny Thing About The Future. It’s never going away. Or at least not anytime soon. But what to DO with it? Or ABOUT it? These questions—and many more—can be answered with a few clicks. But be warned: with every answer will come more questions, because, hey: IT WERE EVER THUS.” Silly in parts, but also quite entertaining.
R.I.P.
Sebastião Salgado
José Mujica
Margot Friedländer
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Header Photo: When the duckies were finally tucked in, i finally found some time to work on my tan