Camille Winds Down

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity."

- CLR James, The Black Jacobins

Gotta hand it to butch lesbians. I NEVER see men on some "I never thought I'd fall in love with another man."

Doesn't happen, folks.

It's only a butch lesbian serving the full package and then fast forwarding to happily ever after.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/style/stephanie-cassano-bayleigh-pelham-wedding.html

Butch lesbians, opening eyes and brightening lives every damn day. RESPECT.

33 tiny mystical research projects to re-enchant your life and invite numinous encounter into your world.

creative research is fertile ground for the mystic

https://thetwelfthhouse.substack.com/p/33-tiny-mystical-research-projects

CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cia-report-israel-civil-war-collapse?publication_id=2510348&post_id=218950569&isFreemail=true&r=dnzlz&triedRedirect=true

> U.S. intelligence raises fears of civil unrest and state breakdown in Israel ahead of October 27 elections.

Sometimes I feel like life must be better for people with low self-esteem. When things don't go your way, you can at least keep busy blaming yourself and setting yourself on rigorous paths of self-improvement.
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When you feel good about yourself and things don't go your way, you just sit in powerlessness and consternation wondering why the world is so terribly unfair.

If Carney was a real one, he'd join BRICS.
#CANADA

RE: https://todon.eu/@faab64/117263087598318328

Hahaha! Ghana knows how to seize on a moment. I think I still have my Obama fabric somewhere here...I never made a dress out of it or anything. Just keep.it as a collectible

Is America worse than Al-Qaeda?
https://youtube.com/shorts/xDoQNzIl0i0?is=SHfw4k0FrjJIw0TI

As if that is even a question. Hilarious!

#antiimperialism #unitedsnakesofamerica #hasanpiker

From World of Warcraft to Right-Wing Influencer: The Rise of Asmongold - Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/10/800096454/community/from-world-of-warcraft-to-right-wing-influencer-the-rise-of-asmongold/

Gamergate really unleashed so much misery unto the planet

#gamergate #fascism

It's curious that the AI guys didn't *lead* with curing any diseases.

The opening salvo of deepfake porn and school bombings just has us feeling like, "Errr, about those medicines you were offering? Um, we'll pass. We gotta get home. Mom's making her famous meatloaf!"

Ten Years of Trans Advocacy in Jamaica: In 2015, Akilah White and Neish McLean started a blog to amplify transgender voices in a country TIME magazine story had once called the most homophobic place on earth. That blog became TransWave Jamaica, the country's first trans-led advocacy organisation

A decade on, TransWave Jamaica has produced a National Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Health Strategy and become a formal partner in the country's HIV response.

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/BlackFeministWorldsInAction#page/1

#transrights

New York pulls back proposal for new state prison

https://www.wcax.com/2026/09/14/new-york-pulls-back-proposal-new-state-prison/

> Corrections officials in New York are pulling back on a proposal for a new state prison.

Well that was fast. 💪🏾

I don't think people should own homes in places where they don't live and/or have any serious connection.

My mom owns an investment property in a state she's only ever visited once. She was having an issue with it recently and it occurred to me that it could all be solved a lot easier by someone who lived there and was invested day to day in the community.

Capitalism really is about distance, alienation. Invisible worker, owner, landlord, decision-maker.

#capitalism

Being an American is an almost unbearable weight many days of the week.

Maybe trying to deal with grief alone is like trying to get a long sofa from the curb up to the living room of your 4-story walk up apartment. No amount of physical strength will allow you to move it by yourself. You need others to help. It takes paid professionals, friends, or maybe even a friendly stranger or two!

Gays Are No Longer the Critics; They're the Clowns

https://transtrender.substack.com/p/gays-are-no-longer-the-critics-theyre

> Yes, it’s fun to make fun of gay guys (and gay-coded guys) with questionable taste. But really, I just want more for us. I want our representation to live up to the vulgar, fascinating, transgressive sensibilities I see so clearly in the queer people in my real life. I want bushes and bite. I want something that could get you in trouble.

#metgala #queerculture

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/world-news-fqv71h77z/-/a-qqi_FaGIQPOdKLIwDrm76g%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

...but *trans* athletes are the real threat, right? 🙄

WORD OF THE DAY

nosocomial
/nŏs″ə-kō′mē-əl/

adjective
1. Of or relating to a hospital.
2. Relating to or being an infection that a patient acquires while being treated in a hospital.
3. Of or pertaining to a hospital.
"nosocomial atmosphere"

WOW. I could never have figured that out in a million years. Language is wild

Hacktivists Leak DHS Contract Data Exposing 6,000+ ICE Surveillance Contractors - State of Surveillance

https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/hacktivists-dhs-ice-contract-data-leak-department-of-peace-2026/

> A group called Department of Peace claims to have breached DHS, releasing contracts with Palantir, Anduril, Raytheon, and thousands of other companies supporting ICE operations.

WORD OF THE DAY

amanuensis
noun
aman·​u·​en·​sis ə-ˌman-yə-ˈwen(t)-səs
pluralamanuenses ə-ˌman-yə-ˈwen(t)-(ˌ)sēz
1. one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript

The Protopian Prize

https://protopianprize.com/

> The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin Kelly, one of our contest's judges—means an achievable, optimistic future characterized by continuous, incremental progress rather than revolutionary leaps or a static, perfect state. It’s about plausible progress rather than perfection or collapse.

Machineries of Similarity and Difference: AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures (Open Access)

An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, the science, and its politics.

https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6133/Machineries-of-Similarity-and-DifferenceAIDS-from

#OpenScience #aids #research

Deir Al-Balah Holds First Election Since 2005: While the vote was lauded as a step forward, it came in the context of an ongoing genocide and occupation and a recent law limiting which candidates can run.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-deir-al-balah-municipal-election-hamas-fatah-west-bank

“Despite this weakness, no one can deny that what happened was a democratic celebration, but a sad one, from the weight of pain and the absence of hope. The message of the elections is that Gaza is still alive, even if it is in the intensive care unit.”
#freePalestine

PI Briefing | No. 11 | Medicine for Minerals | Progressive International

https://progressive.international/wire/2026-04-27-pi-briefing-no-11-medicine-for-minerals/en/

> From Zambia to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a leaked State Department memo suggests Washington has even considered withholding HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria medicines to force access to mines.

Everyday Israelis Express Support for Genocide to Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFoxL3sOAio

Keep in mind that this was YEARS before October 7th!

#freepalestine #israel #antizionism

Mamdani and the Zionist Shakedown | Black Agenda Report

https://www.blackagendareport.com/mamdani-and-zionist-shakedown

> Progressive candidates rarely remain so after winning public office. Zohran Mamdani is no exception, but his capitulation to New York zionists angered his supporters, and the people he hoped to placate are still working to make him a one-term mayor.

I fear he is gonna expend a lot of energy trying to please these bad faith actors and lose the rest of us by ignoring our *valid* concerns.

Exit and Exception - Boston Review

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/exit-and-exception/

> The Board of Peace was not born of a negotiated treaty, nor is it reflective of customary state practice. Unlike the body established to manage Iraq after the United States’s illegal invasion, the Board of Peace is not recognized as an occupying power and is not subject to occupation law. Instead, with the gift of Security Council authorization, it enjoys its own international legal status.

#freepalestine #newworldorder

Qualities that characterise the current U.S. administration:

* cruelty/violence
* corruption/collusion
* defensiveness
* destructiveness
* hubris/pride
* ignorance
* impatience
* incompetence
* miserliness
* racism/sexism etc.
* restrictiveness

It is odd to me that there is no honest effort to counterbalance any of this. All their shows of supposed beneficence are just veiled collusion or stingy coin drops (e.g. $90 checks to seniors). It is like governance by pre-awakening Ebenezer Scrooge.

Today, the Senate will vote today on their War Powers Resolution to block the use of U.S. forces in unauthorized hostilities against Cuba. President Donald Trump has already ordered an illegal military blockade of Cuba that is causing a man-made humanitarian crisis on the island, and he continues to threaten direct military action. While speaking at a conference in Miami in March, President Trump stated that “Cuba’s next.”

When The Sea Slows

https://amoc2029.org

> An interactive future history of a new era in climate politics.

#climatechange #ClimateResilience

Whoever is training Dario Amodei in his attempts to look less demented should be fired. Every time he smiles, I get chills of fear down my spine

"Most of our aliveness is caught up in the suppression of sorrow.' - Francis Weller
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/167-francis-weller

What Is Terrorism? Hasan Piker’s Controversial Al-Qaeda Remarks Dissected - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/what-is-terrorism-hasan-pikers-controversial-al-qaeda-remarks-dissected-12462410

> "There is no universally accepted definition of terrorism," Geoffrey Corn, a professor at Texas Tech University School of Law and director of its Center for Military Law and Policy, told Newsweek. Corn spent 21 years as a U.S. Army officer, finishing his military career as the Army's senior law of war advisor. "Who gets to decide? **Usually the government condemning it.**"