something that i've been thinking a lot about in events at home and abroad, in both the direct and indirect violence of the state is the constant pressure from power to make you accept that life is cheap and how important it is to always be guided by the conviction that it is not

this sounds platitudinous but in reality all the major political conflict of the last few months - related to the pandemic or not - is the reaction of power to the idea that it matters if people die

anyway i know a lot of us got paid this week, here are some legal and bail funds if you still have cash to spare https://twitter.com/pissgoblin69/status/1266726019467272193

obviously a lot going on in the US, but if you're in the UK please consider taking the steps outlined in this thread to help get justice keyworker for belly mujinga, killed by covid after she was spat on at work https://twitter.com/Directoromok/status/1266524426893484035

every time i feel the urge to, or make some kind of, remotely theory-adjacent tweet on current events i give some money away to an on-the-ground cause. i'm hoping if enough people who can do this we may eventually end up with basically no discourse and maximum redistribution