politics

Every authoritarian movement sells a mythologized past. The longing is real. The history is fabricated.

Water scarcity is not a future crisis. It is a present emergency reshaping geopolitics, agriculture, and daily survival for billions of people right now.

Mass incarceration, racial disparities, and brutal recidivism rates aren't system failures. They're system features.

Free access to information, open to everyone, no purchase required. If someone proposed public libraries today, they would be called a socialist.

The word meritocracy was coined as satire, and we built an entire economic theology around the joke.

We treat healthcare like a consumer product when it functions like a road or a power grid.

Abolition is not the absence of safety but the presence of something better than cages.

The modern border regime is barely a century old, and pretending otherwise distorts every immigration debate we have.

Universal basic income has gone mainstream, and that should make you suspicious of what it leaves untouched.

The self-made billionaire is a myth that serves a political function, and it is time to retire it.

Speculative political fiction: How a DSA assemblyman could defeat Andrew Cuomo with grassroots organizing, and what it would mean for American politics.

US citizens have been killed and deported by immigration enforcement. The machine doesn't care about papers.

When 'just following protocol' produces atrocities. The banality of cruelty in American institutions.

Immigration enforcement operates outside constitutional norms. These exceptions are spreading to other domains. The erosion is already here.

Once built, enforcement systems don't stay confined to their original targets. Institutional momentum ensures the machine keeps running.

Some policies exist to hurt people. That's the feature, not the bug. Deterrence through suffering laid bare.

You can't vote your way out of structural violence. The system is working as designed. A critique of reformism without nihilism.

Technology embeds politics. The design is the ideology. There are no mere instruments - every tool shapes what's possible and what's thinkable.

Running your own infrastructure isn't just for nerds. It's a form of resistance against platform dependence. Digital autonomy requires material control.

The difference between giving help and building power. Charity maintains hierarchy while mutual aid dissolves it.

The workers who extract, transport, and burn fossil fuels are the same ones who'll build what comes next. Climate transition requires labor organizing.

The countryside isn't monolithically conservative. It's complicated, abandoned, and organizing in ways that defy stereotypes.

Political boundaries are arbitrary. Ecological ones aren't. What organizing politics around natural systems actually means.

The radical tradition within Christianity that sided with the poor. What happens when religion takes material conditions seriously.

A look at what we as individuals must do to reform instead of more grandiose gestures that would only cause short-term fixes like electing a new president for example.