#Abolition

1/ One thing twitter taught me is not to RT something (or react to it in any way) without reading it carefully first. Headlines - often not written by or
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time to chill and read some "State and Revolution" (1918): https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/Lenin continues to be astoundingly relevant for our current and future struggles. "In a democratic republic, Engels c
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BREAKING: Seattle City Council moves to abolish the entire Seattle Police Department and replace it with a "civilian led Department of Community Safety & Violence Prevention."They want to replace the
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Since a lot of people don’t know where to start when it comes to educating yourself, here’s a thread of resources (a lot that are by black authors and some
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The desire to literally burn down society and piss on the ashes doesn't come from madness, sociopathy or "degenerate mentality," it comes from making civilized and reasonable requests of that
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THREAD: VSPN is in solidarity with the Minneapolis Uprising. We recognize that one of the best ways to honor the Black liberation struggle in Minnesota and across all of the
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!!!CHANGE THE WORLD, COMMISSION SOME PORN!!!The world is a crazy place right now, and it's time for us to do somethn about it! For proof of a $15 donation to
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"PROOF" that antifa is communist (not fascist)Because of much confusion on Twitter about the meaning of fascism as opposed to communism I'm going to do my best to expose the
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The liberal and the socialist can be friends!I wrote about Teen Vogue's "Bread and Roses" series, and how this is not your grandpa's socialism. Socialists today are concerned more about
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Video thread from Saturday's far right rally. Strap in, there's a lot!We start the program with a thrown water bottle and a polite police announcement asking people not to do
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What I saw boils down to this: The protest was angry but entirely peaceful. The police wanted physical space, and because of the dominionist posture that all American police operate
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a thread on book recs (mostly accountability):yesterday, I retweeted and shared a friend’s thread about How to Be An Antiracist: https://twitter.com/b_tynes/status/1277412194867650569?s=20I agree with every part of it. It echoes many
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A thread: mass hysterectomies at ICE Detention Centers #AbolishICE Whistleblower, Dawn Wooten, a Black nurse who worked at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Ocilla, Georgia describes cruel medical
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after last night, i'm seeing a lot of people expressing despair and wondering how to find hope. i've shared some thoughts on that before, but i think they're worth re-upping
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an argument people make a lot against prison abolition is, "but what will we do with the murderers and rapists?"well, I've been raped, so maybe I can answer that. tw
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Smug elitist cosmopolitans will tell you that General Lee and his army were traitors who fought for literally no reason than to preserve slavery, and they are the worst traitors
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