New Podcast! "28 July 1869: Daughters of Saint Crispin" on @Spreaker #class #history #working
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/28-july-1869-daughters-of-saint-crispin--66814546
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@bradr #TomLehrer favourite: National Brotherhood Week.
"To hate all but the right folks is an old established rule."
#music #obituaries #class #ClassWar #satire
Alt-text for spoken word introduction, which takes up the first 51 or so seconds:
"One week of every year is designated National Brotherhood Week. This is just one of many such weeks honoring various worthy causes. One of my favorites is National Make-Fun-Of-The-Handicapped Week, which Frank Fontaine and Jerry Lewis are in charge of as you know.
"During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood – this year, for example, on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is.
"I’m sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings, and I hate people like that! Here’s a song about National Brotherhood Week."
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" ... and looked over my Lord's lodgings; and Whitehall garden and the Bowling-ally, where lords and ladies are now at bowles ..."
You are at the centre, Sam. High up in the King's administration, at home in Whitehall, now looking at the private amusements of the upper class.
These vignettes have so much cinematic poetry in them.
In the Wake of the Capitalist Crisis: Protests and Riots - And the Need for an Independent Class Expression
This past year we have experienced some of the largest protests in decades in several countries. These struggles have not had a clear class character and have varied greatly in terms of main issues and triggering factors…
Great news! ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ will be released in paperback in January 2026 
This means that the book will soon be available at a more affordable price and I’m glad it will reach more readers. In the new blogpost, I respond to some of the critical reflections from reviewers. Read Part 1 here 
https://alexandrinavanke.com/2025/07/25/paperback-release-incoming-what-critics-think-about-my-book-and-why-it-matters-for-the-class-debate-part-1/
Alexandrina Vanke · Paperback release incoming: what critics think about my book and why it matters for the class debate – Part 1I got a wonderful news from Manchester University Press about The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia. It will be out in paperback in January 2026. This means that the book will be availabl…
https://www.europesays.com/2275276/ Trump administration releases billions in frozen money for schools #BrightonParkElementary #chi #Chicago #class #english #illinois #migrant #Spanish #student #TheWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration
Aurin needs
+ Spread Your Wings, Little Dragon +
(or, we don't need hoards)
Being so poor that not only my life, but that of my chosen family too, are in danger.... Well it's eye opening.
I have a habit of looking deep inside me and so I come to understand some things on a gut level, not merely an intellectual level (we need both, combined).
So anyway... That saying about being careful if you own things or they own you. That's important.
And it's not about how much money or stuff one owns, but how one relates to it.
Sure, if you relate to things in an organic way, you won't be that metaphorical old-school dragon who hoards millions, you'd share. But one can be poor and be owned by money, or capitalist zeitgeist ideas, or free from them. And one can have high income or inherit riches and be either bound or free.
I need stuff to survive and due to capitalism, money is the only way for me to access it (housing and food being threatened for me and fam very urgently https://gogetfunding.com/help-two-disabled-queer-abuse-survivors-finally-achieve-housing-security/), so money stands between me and my freedom to survive currently.
But I don't let the capitalist worldview chain my brain. I know that feeling too, that cold sweat panic of "I need to CLING to my hoard or else I won't be SAFE" like if an old-school dragon was driven by anxiety rather than outright greed.
We don't need hoards. We don't need to gatekeep others from resources to be safe ourselves. No, we only become free if we outright refuse to reduce our own bodies and minds, as well as other's, down to "resources" that are defined by a single number: its numerical value, the price tag on our souls and on the soul of the land and all it brings forth.
(This number will go down to zero or negative as soon as the machine has ground you up and spit you out - we're being disabled at a staggering rate!)
If we stay connected to our own raw, undomesticated aliveness, and grant others theirs, then instead of hoarding dead things, we build up our resilience. We break our chains, spread our wings and lick our wounds. Because we've all been hurt and we all deserve grace, time to mourn and rage and heal.
We don't become safe by buying into the idea that we'd lose our value - and with it our human rights - if we lost our status in capitalism, be it as worker or as capital owner.
One of the most radical things you can do is to directly and defiantly relate as Alive. I don't know how else to describe it, even though I am explicitly talking about things and clouds and rocks as well as critters and growing things and people.
But if you try it, you'll feel the difference between seeing something as a ware to be bought and sold and speculated with, versus keeping in mind whatever you know of its life, its circumstances, its past, present and potential relations to other things and places, to people or cultures or land. Or its lack of relations. Its displacement and dispossession from the land and people and cultures that gave it form.
Looking forward to reading this when it’s out:
Bourgeois coldness by Henrike Kohpeiß
'Bourgeois coldness refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one of the most advanced affective and aesthetic forms of preserving the structure of the colonial status quo. It creates an affective shelter in the world, unencroached upon by the immediate consequences of its many catastrophes. It functions like air conditioning – a complex technology which reliably stabilises the climate until those inside consider it natural. Bourgeois spaces – institutional and affective – stay cool and pleasant. But outside it’s burning.'
Divided PublishingBourgeois ColdnessBourgeois coldness refers to an affective strategy that offers an explanation for how self-preservation works. Bourgeois coldness is one...
If they'd gone to the right schools we'd have never heard of their crimes....it's always about Class here.
Sky · Woman dubbed 'gangster granny' jailed for running UK-wide cocaine operation
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The #DOJ has argued that #Trump's order conforms with the #Constitution & has asked Laplante to find that the plaintiffs cannot sue as a #class.
#SCOTUS’ ruling did not address the legal merits of Trump's order, which the Republican president issued as part of his hardline #immigration agenda on his first day back in office in January.
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Judge Laplante agreed the plaintiffs could proceed as a #class, allowing him to issue a fresh judicial order blocking implementation of #Trump's policy nationally.
The question of whether to issue an #injunction was "not a close call," he said, noting #children could be deprived of #US #citizenship if Trump's order took effect.
"That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone," he said. "It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”
https://www.europesays.com/2232002/ New Zealand demolish Ireland to secure semi-final spot · The 42 #class #ireland #IrelandRepublic #NewZealand #Rugby #SemiFinals #WorldU20Championship
EUROPE SAYS · New Zealand demolish Ireland to secure semi-final spot · The 42 - EUROPE SAYSNew Zealand demolish Ireland to secure semi-final spot · The 42
Meet The Star-Studded Guests Of Billboard Philippines’ P-pop Rising Class Party
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The process to certify a class can often take months. A snr White House ofcl told Reuters the #Trump admin will be watching #class certification decisions closely & plans to aggressively challenge them to prevent “abuse”of the process.
The govt says the named class plaintiffs in the New Hampshire case are too different from one another to be able to proceed as a #ClassAction. They include an #asylum seeker & someone on a #StudentVisa.
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#ClassActions must follow what is known as #Rule23, which requires the plaintiffs to meet several elements including proving that the proposed #class members suffered the same #injury. Conservative #SCOTUS Justice Samuel #Alito warned lower courts against certifying nationwide classes without "scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23.”
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On July 2, US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington determined that #Trump's denial of #asylum to migrants on the southern #border exceeded the president's #authority.
He then certified a #class that covered all individuals subject to the presidential proclamation on asylum & issued an injunction to protect the class -- effectively a nationwide injunction.
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The plaintiffs are asking US District Judge Joseph Laplante, who previously issued a more narrow #injunction blocking #Trump's EO, to go further this time by allowing the plaintiffs to sue as a #nationwide #class & issuing an order blocking Trump's ban from being enforced against members of the class.
At least one other #judge has already followed this formula.
Frenchtastic food truck offers students a taste of France https://www.diningandcooking.com/2168303/frenchtastic-food-truck-offers-students-a-taste-of-france/ #CadenMeines #class #food #FoodTruck #francais #france #French #FrenchFoodRecipes #FrenchRecipes #Frenchtastic #learning #MSHS #Recipes #students
Dining and Cooking · Frenchtastic food truck offers students a taste of France - Dining and CookingMARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - On Thursday, Marquette Senior High School students got a taste of France.