Learning self-defense isn’t just about protection. It’s about building confidence, sharpening discipline, and knowing how to respond under pressure. It teaches us to stay grounded in stressful situations—and resist the urge to act out of fear or impulse. Like Robert Williams.

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.”. - Fred Hampton

RT @AliveParanoid: remember when Obama ran on the promise of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, where the US continues to illegally….

If your energy is going into endless Twitter beefs, you’re not building anything. Time and energy is too much of a beautiful resource to waste it being reactionary. So many people are just feeding their ego. It doesn’t build power, it doesn’t build trust, and it sure as hell.

Migraines are definitely back. 😭 I had them consistently from 2009 to 2019. I thought I got past them but seems like they got triggered again last week.

After cardio, always have to hit some nonstop bag work.

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that I can hold a deep love for my people, my community, and my ancestors—without needing to romanticize them. I’ve also learned that truth without grace, without context, and without a clear purpose can do more harm than good.

Tips for resetting nervous system? . I need it.

RT @wretchedmedea: this read really brought into mind this particular excerpt from frantz fanon's 'the wretched of the earth' https://t.co/….

We must build organizational structure, processes, and be intentional about making the time for true healing and community accountability. That means a path back in, not just a fast road out. But let’s be clear: we must build the actual processes and structures that make this.

“Any theory you got, practice it. And when you practice it, you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory, and then it will be corrected theory. A lot of us read and read and read, but we don't get any practice” . - Fred Hampton

But it’s also the only way we build enough power to challenge our real opposition—those with more money, more influence, the media, the state, and the police on their side. Solidarity requires us to remember who the enemy is. It means refusing to turn on the people closest to.

Solidarity is not something to be romanticized. It’s hard. It means bringing together flawed people—across different experiences, class positions, political maturity, and traumas—to fight systems that have harmed us all in different ways. That’s not easy work. It’s.

Solidarity is a discipline—and a struggle—in and of itself. We often discuss solidarity, but rarely do we explore what it truly takes to build and sustain it. Solidarity isn’t just posting the same hashtags, re-sharing each other’s posts, or showing up to the same protest.

Given the conditions of scarcity, propaganda, and isolation we’ve endured, it’s truly a miracle that so many of us remain community-oriented at all. But if we’re serious about growing a mass movement—or even just building tightly knit pods that can struggle together—we need to.

The way our world is built reinforces individualism. From how we eat, to how we move, to where we live—everything is designed to keep us separate. There has been a coordinated disinvestment from public and shared spaces, such as parks, public pools, and community centers,.

And we must remember: the people we exile from our movements—the confused, the messy, the still-developing—don’t disappear. They don’t vanish into moral purgatory. The right is organizing them. Offering them a sense of belonging, even if it’s rooted in grievance and fear.

Just published part 2 of Beyond Liberalism: Toward a Revolutionary Culture. Part Two focuses on what solidarity is all about. Not just shared values or aesthetics, but deep, sustained commitment through conflict, contradiction, and growth. Drawing from the Black radical

RT @blackmenbuild: “Replace moralizing with movement building.”.

Liberalism is full of moralizing contradictions—like shaming others for celebrating the Fourth of July while still BBQ’ing and enjoying the day without any real critique of what it represents. But this kind of posturing—whether from liberals or radicals—doesn’t change material.