[01/30/2021] Bill Gates, Big Pharma and entrenching the vaccine apartheid – The Mail & Guardian

Waiving intellectual property restrictions on Covid-19 vaccines could help the developing world. But India and South Africa’s pleas are falling on deaf ears
— Read on mg.co.za/coronavirus-essentials/2021-01-30-bill-gates-big-pharma-and-entrenching-the-vaccine-apartheid/

Here’s the global playbook being used to crack down on climate protest | Grist

A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.
— Read on grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/heres-the-global-playbook-being-used-to-crack-down-on-climate-protest/

Cruising for Normal | Eric Dean Wilson

Beginning in June, the Amtrak Police Department (APD) had been running a plainclothes sting operation in New York’s Penn Station bathroom—the old one near Eighth Avenue, not any of the new Moynihan ones. Writing for The City, Gwynne Hogan reported a clear “surge” of twenty-three arrests for “public lewdness” during Pride month alone. In the months that followed, around two hundred men were arrested, including, by September, twenty in one day. Amtrak confirmed this as a response to “customer complaints”—which, if true, marks pretty much the first time they’ve responded, and with such exacting force, to customer complaints.

— Read on thebaffler.com/latest/cruising-for-normal-wilson

Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism’

David McNally’s ‘Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History’ offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism’s revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele.
— Read on cosmonautmag.com/2025/12/process-and-totality/

The Turtle Island Liberation Front Warning for Activists | Black Agenda Report

Arrests of members of the Turtle Island Liberation Front are the latest in a decades-long effort to criminalize the left and to make examples of anyone who might fit the profile of being a “designated terrorist.”
— Read on www.blackagendareport.com/turtle-island-liberation-front-warning-activists

ways of making love #2 (for BM)

bird intelligence 
caracols and mouses mistakes 
alphabetization by emotions 
orange peels in tea leaves 
leaving your lover for a while 
coming back disastrously 
teaching someone how to talk to you 
buying bananas for everyone 
even that woman you dislike 
being extraordinarily patient 
spitting in the face of danger 
opening a new account 
fire breathing 
toothpaste deliveries 
quite literally fucking 
lighting some incense 
sweating

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do – Above the Law

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do – Above the Law
— Read on abovethelaw.com/2025/12/ice-accidentally-publishes-a-watch-list-of-immigration-lawyers-which-is-definitely-a-normal-thing-for-the-government-to-do/

Tankers make u-turns after US seizure of Venezuelan oil cargo, shipping data says | Reuters

A tanker carrying Russian naphtha for Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and at least four supertankers due to pick up crude cargoes in Venezuela have made u-turns after the U.S. seized a vessel carrying Venezuelan crude, ship monitoring data showed on Monday.
— Read on www.reuters.com/business/tankers-make-u-turn-after-us-seizure-venezuelan-oil-cargo-shipping-data-says-2025-12-15/