Left Coast Reads 📚🌹
📍Pacific Northwest
📚History. Philosophy. Political economy. Occasional sci-fi.
🌹Trying to show solidarity and keep an open mind. A veces posteo en español también.
- Fan fiction is proletarian literature. The culture surrounding it resists commodification. It's a reappropriation of the ideas, characters, and perceived legitimacy of the capitalist publishing industry. Write that fanfic, girl. The revolution might even have a few real life enemies to lovers.
- I return to my study of fascism because, well *gestures around vaguely* The Nazis, Capitalism, and the Working Class by Donny Gluckstein is a Marxist interpretation of the Nazis' rise to power. #booksky
- Reposted by Left Coast Reads 📚🌹Today, 31 unions & labor organizations representing over 130,000 workers in Portland and OR sent a letter to @mayorkwilson.bsky.social & District Attorney Vasquez demanding that they enforce the law and get justice for the children, elderly, & working people tear gassed by ICE on 1/31.
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- Reposted by Left Coast Reads 📚🌹Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
- Reposted by Left Coast Reads 📚🌹DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.
- Over and over again ICE, CBP, and cops lie. At this point any media outlet which credulously reprints their statements is complicit in a pattern of disinfo and state violence.
- 👇There is no such thing as clean coal. These plants had SO2 scrubbers!Recommended air quality limits for concentrations of SO2 vary quite a bit, but the WHO says the limit for 24-hour exposure is 40 µg/m³ meaning in Helsinki the air would be unhealthy on most days the coal plans ran.
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- I've said this before but I'm seeing fewer and fewer democratic off ramps for this regime. They are speeding past opportunities to adopt a more moderate approach.
- At my bus stop there's a mother and her young son who I see pretty regularly. They live across the street from the stop and wave to the dad through the open front door. It's so cute 🥹
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- Schrödinger's political issue: simultaneously too big to tackle, and too insignificant to be worth discussing.
- A few photos from the book
- The story of the Cuban Revolution often centers on Fidel Castro and male revolutionaries engaged in guerrilla warfare from the mountains. As Carollee Bengelsdorf shows, the truth is more complex. This book tells the stories of the women "clandestinas" who fought against the Batista dictatorship. 📚💙
