Disobey

“There’s nothing left in the village,” she said simply. “Most of the people are gone.” I couldn’t make myself believe it. Sole and Tupche sit nearly a hundred metres above the riverbed. No flood in living memory — in centuries, as far as anyone knew — had ever reached that high. I am 44 years old, and I have never once, in all that time, seen the river come for us. I have cousins there, neighbours, childhood friends. Everyone I have ever loved outside my own front door is from that village. I began calling them, one by one. In a place like Sole, everyone is kin to everyone else, one way or another — and where blood doesn’t make the connection, age does, and you call the stranger dai or didi anyway, because that’s simply how it’s done there. Everyone belonged to me, and I belonged to everyone. Slowly, the videos and photographs started arriving on my phone. Nothing had prepared me for what they showed. — Arjun Poudel https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-3/2026/08/27/i-watched-my-village-disappear-in-an-instant

Free Palestine posters seen in Kolkata, Bengal

"In a non-capitalist, non-statist society where people are deeply interdependent and rely on one another to survive, violence is subject to powerful social and material constraints. If committing violence means losing the trust, cooperation, protection, and relationships you depend upon for basic survival, or if you risk retaliation without police or prisons to insulate you from the people you've harmed, there are powerful incentives to refrain from violence in the first place. A psychopath might be willing to risk arrest, trial, and imprisonment to satisfy their violent urges, but they might be far less willing to face an enraged group of people capable of immediately retaliating against them without a state to stop them. The point is not that the absence of police and prisons magically eliminates violence. It is that removing the state's monopoly on violence changes the incentives and consequences surrounding violence." You Can't Build Anarchy by Building Prisons: Against the Carceral Imagination

"Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone’s skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company." https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252

"I would propose that we just rip up the discipline of economics as it exists and start over. This is my proposal in this regard: I think we should take the ideas of production and consumption, throw them away, and substitute for them the idea of care and freedom. As feminists point out, even if you are making a bridge, you are making a bridge because you care that people can get across the river. You make a car because you care that people can get around. So even production is just one subordinate type of care as what we do as human beings is take care of each other." — David Graeber

Fundraiser Update: Cats in Distress: Medicine and Food for Cat Shelter in India

Thank you for donating to this fundraiser. Arlo and Luna are thriving. They have grown, have received their treatment and vaccinations, are eating well and will soon be ready for neutering. Look at them now. 🙂 We request you to donate a little more and take us past our target if you can. Chotey is in a shelter and needs a monthly payment of roughly Rs. 4000 (USD 42 roughly) for his upkeep. Arlo and Luna are grown, they need new litter boxes, food, and neutering. Two other cats, Raja and Sona need to be neutered too. Please donate whatever you can. Zainab and her sister are doing their best to take care of these little goofballs but they need some financial support. Thank you again.

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Fundraiser Update: Cats in Distress: Medicine and Food for Cat Shelter in India

Thank you for donating to this fundraiser. Arlo and Luna are thriving. They have grown, have received their treatment and vaccinations, are eating well and will soon be ready for neutering. Look at them now. 🙂 We request you to donate a little more and take us past our target if you can. Chotey is in a shelter and needs a monthly payment of roughly Rs. 4000 (USD 42 roughly) for his upkeep. Arlo and Luna are grown, they need new litter boxes, food, and neutering. Two other cats, Raja and Sona need to be neutered too. Please donate whatever you can. Zainab and her sister are doing their best to take care of these little goofballs but they need some financial support. Thank you again.

"How did the government acquire the earth and why do we have to pay to live here?"

if at first you don't succeed, find out why

"On 29 July 1900, King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by anarchist, Gaetano Bresci, in revenge for the brutal suppression of a workers' demonstration in Milan which left hundreds dead." King Umberto assassinated

'The shipments, sent between 7 October 2023 and 30 November 2025, included machine-gun components, 155 mm high-explosive artillery shells supplied to Elbit Systems, explosive warheads for the SkyStriker "kamikaze" drones - similar to those discovered amid the ruins in Khan Younis - and armoured vehicle components destined for major suppliers to the Israeli military.' https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/made-india-new-amnesty-report-shows-indian-arms-sales-israel-during-genocide

Believe in yourself!

kill the cop in your head