HeyJaredBirds Before the Storm
Individual and community preparedness. Memoirs of an anarchist life. Reflections on history.
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General updates and a Cleveland event (opens the original)
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I’ll be speaking tomorrow night in Cleveland, Ohio, interviewing Madeline ffitch about her new book Avalon, Rise (that’s an affiliate link, but at a queer-owned, worker-owned bookstore). The talk is at Loganberry Books, 7pm. Madeline is one of the best authors I know, and this is the second time we’ll be talking together.Madeline is maybe the bravest author I know, because she writes stories about antifascists and cool rural lefty
The Greatest City in Baltimore (opens the original)
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I’ve been more interested in writing these slightly longer pieces lately, and they take more out of me. So I might only post 2-3 times a month instead of every week, we’ll see. Thanks for your support, it means the world to me.This week’s piece is about my trip to Baltimore last weekend, to interview the author Molly Crabapple on stage about her book, Here Where We Live is Our Country, which you can buy from this affiliate link to a queer-owned, worker-owned bookstore. Or get from your library.<
Beyond Climate Optimism, Beyond Climate Pessimism (opens the original)
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I was right about climate change, about its severity and its immediacy.I’ve never wanted to be wrong about something more in my entire life.But we can’t fall into easy traps like optimism. Or pessimism. We can’t let “we’re fucked” be the end of the conversation, but we can’t pretend like we’re not also, well, kind of in trouble. We’re kind of fucked. That’s just got to be the start of the conversation, not the end of it.This summer has been devastating, and it might wind up in history books (if
The Recuperation of Popular Power (opens the original)
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I’ve been writing about Flock cameras, and the fight against Automated License Plate Readers more generally, for a few weeks now on my history podcast. I get to tell the story about how it’s all stolen cars all the way down: the first ALPR-assisted arrest was of a car thief in London, like thirty years ago, and “catching car thieves” is the main justification trotted out by the police chiefs who are bummed that no one wants to live in a surv
Red Clay Brought Forth (opens the original)
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My dog likes looking at the sky with me, but he doesn’t like doing it quietly.As I write this, last night, it’s the blood moon, a lunar eclipse. As I write this, last night, the full moon is losing itself to the shadow of the Earth. We’re sitting in chairs in the backyard at midnight, and my dog is pacing, aware that something odd is happening in the sky. He’s protecting us; he’s on duty. He has as hard of a time not-working as I do.This afternoon, I wrote most of an essay for you about criminal
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