#principles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #principles, aggregated by home.social.
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Japan upholds no-nuke principles, Takaichi says
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Japan upholds no-nuke principles, Takaichi says
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@canderson #Quote + comment after:
"...like Joan Westenberg said, in the end it comes down to two things:
keep optimizing for reach, or start optimizing for resonance."
#Mastodon could do this:
1/ more personally #cultivate from it's own #team.2/ #Add voice messages / #WebRTC / #Jitsi live voice rooms (with slightly anonymizing voice mask option to deter recording) BUT still allow the #human #contact and practices to balance out our #principles & practices in 2-way #voice #conversations.
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@canderson #Quote + comment after:
"...like Joan Westenberg said, in the end it comes down to two things:
keep optimizing for reach, or start optimizing for resonance."
#Mastodon could do this:
1/ more personally #cultivate from it's own #team.2/ #Add voice messages / #WebRTC / #Jitsi live voice rooms (with slightly anonymizing voice mask option to deter recording) BUT still allow the #human #contact and practices to balance out our #principles & practices in 2-way #voice #conversations.
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·The Mission: A Spiritual Blueprint Made Visible
The Mission: A Spiritual Blueprint Made VisibleEverything I create — from The Principles of Love and Compassion to Rise Above the Hatred to Rebel With a Cause — is built on the same spiritual architecture:- love as a revolutionary force - compassion as clarity - justice as spiritual responsibility - identity as sacred - difference as divine - truth as healing - rebellion as awakening - art as transmission This is not performance. This is not branding. This is not […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/the-mission-a-spiritual-blueprint-made-visible/
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·The Mission: A Spiritual Blueprint Made Visible
The Mission: A Spiritual Blueprint Made VisibleEverything I create — from The Principles of Love and Compassion to Rise Above the Hatred to Rebel With a Cause — is built on the same spiritual architecture:- love as a revolutionary force - compassion as clarity - justice as spiritual responsibility - identity as sacred - difference as divine - truth as healing - rebellion as awakening - art as transmission This is not performance. This is not branding. This is not […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/the-mission-a-spiritual-blueprint-made-visible/
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Why “The Principles of Love and Compassion” Still Matters
Why “The Principles of Love and Compassion” Still MattersMy first album was the seed of everything I create now. It was the moment I realised that love and compassion are not soft — they are revolutionary.It remembers:- the spiritual truth beneath the noise - the humanity beneath the politics - the dignity beneath the discrimination - the divine nature of difference It was ahead of its time because I was ahead of my time.---The World Forgets Because Forgetting Is […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Why “The Principles of Love and Compassion” Still Matters
Why “The Principles of Love and Compassion” Still MattersMy first album was the seed of everything I create now. It was the moment I realised that love and compassion are not soft — they are revolutionary.It remembers:- the spiritual truth beneath the noise - the humanity beneath the politics - the dignity beneath the discrimination - the divine nature of difference It was ahead of its time because I was ahead of my time.---The World Forgets Because Forgetting Is […] -
Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
-- Albert Camus⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertCamus #Happiness #Principles
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
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Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.
-- Albert Camus⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlbertCamus #Happiness #Principles
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Triathlon #Runners #StPetersburg #Florida
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Outsourcing, Contractors and Medical Providers: The Cost Explosion in civil service
PART 2 — Outsourcing, Contractors and Medical Providers: The Cost ExplosionThe public has no idea how much money is wasted on outsourcing.Inside DWP, HMCTS, and other departments, you saw:- cleaning companies failing to clean - catering companies failing to provide safe food - maintenance companies failing to fix basic issues - medical companies failing to assess correctly - debt collection companies failing to collect - training companies failing to train - casework companies […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Outsourcing, Contractors and Medical Providers: The Cost Explosion in civil service
PART 2 — Outsourcing, Contractors and Medical Providers: The Cost ExplosionThe public has no idea how much money is wasted on outsourcing.Inside DWP, HMCTS, and other departments, you saw:- cleaning companies failing to clean - catering companies failing to provide safe food - maintenance companies failing to fix basic issues - medical companies failing to assess correctly - debt collection companies failing to collect - training companies failing to train - casework companies […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Why my songs and “Rebel With a Cause song” Exist?
Why my songs and “Rebel With a Cause song” Exists is for this reason. Backlash against equality and inclusion and LGBT.Rebel With a Cause is the sound of refusing to bow to systems built on lies. It is the sound of clarity cutting through confusion. It is the sound of someone who has stopped asking for permission to exist.It remembers:- the activists who fought before us - the communities who resisted in the shadows - the people who were punished for telling the truth - the ones who […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/why-my-songs-and-rebel-with-a-cause-song-exist/
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Why my songs and “Rebel With a Cause song” Exist?
Why my songs and “Rebel With a Cause song” Exists is for this reason. Backlash against equality and inclusion and LGBT.Rebel With a Cause is the sound of refusing to bow to systems built on lies. It is the sound of clarity cutting through confusion. It is the sound of someone who has stopped asking for permission to exist.It remembers:- the activists who fought before us - the communities who resisted in the shadows - the people who were punished for telling the truth - the ones who […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/why-my-songs-and-rebel-with-a-cause-song-exist/
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Rebel with a Cause: The Story Behind the Outcast Rebel Movement
Love as a revolutionary force" Rebel with a Cause: The Story Behind the Outcast Rebel Movement : rebel with a cause musicactivist electronic music, UK rebel artist “Rebel with a cause” isn’t a slogan - it’s my life. For over 25 years I’ve stood up for LGBTQ+ people, disabled people and workers who’ve been ignored. My music is the voice of that fight.The album I’m a rebel with a cause - the mixes captures the energy of resistance through electronic and dance-driven soundscapes. […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·Rebel with a Cause: The Story Behind the Outcast Rebel Movement
Love as a revolutionary force" Rebel with a Cause: The Story Behind the Outcast Rebel Movement : rebel with a cause musicactivist electronic music, UK rebel artist “Rebel with a cause” isn’t a slogan - it’s my life. For over 25 years I’ve stood up for LGBTQ+ people, disabled people and workers who’ve been ignored. My music is the voice of that fight.The album I’m a rebel with a cause - the mixes captures the energy of resistance through electronic and dance-driven soundscapes. […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·The queer music outcast universe has finally arrived,
The queer music outcast universe has finally arrived, bringing with it a fresh wave of new music that is set to revolutionize the music scene. This new release is not just a new song, but an audio wave that embodies the spirit of alternative music, with a sound that is both viral and indie. The music vibes are infectious, making it the perfect new anthem for those who crave something different. As part of the underground music movement, this queer music is trending music that is sure to resonate with fans of indie music and alternative culture. With its unique music sound, this new music release is poised to make a significant impact on the music scene, offering a refreshing change from the usual mainstream sound. Get ready to experience the ultimate music experience with the queer music outcast universe, where music lovers can come together to enjoy the best of new music and underground music. https://jayleebenjamin.bandcamp.com LGBTQ+ Rebel Music from the UK - Meet JayleeBenjamin […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·The queer music outcast universe has finally arrived,
The queer music outcast universe has finally arrived, bringing with it a fresh wave of new music that is set to revolutionize the music scene. This new release is not just a new song, but an audio wave that embodies the spirit of alternative music, with a sound that is both viral and indie. The music vibes are infectious, making it the perfect new anthem for those who crave something different. As part of the underground music movement, this queer music is trending music that is sure to resonate with fans of indie music and alternative culture. With its unique music sound, this new music release is poised to make a significant impact on the music scene, offering a refreshing change from the usual mainstream sound. Get ready to experience the ultimate music experience with the queer music outcast universe, where music lovers can come together to enjoy the best of new music and underground music. https://jayleebenjamin.bandcamp.com LGBTQ+ Rebel Music from the UK - Meet JayleeBenjamin […] -
the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·LGBTQ+ Rebel Music from the UK – Meet JayleeBenjamin
LGBTQ+ Rebel Music from the UK - Meet JayleeBenjamin LGBTQ+ rebel music UK : LGBTQ+ activist musician, UK electronic artist, social justice music If you’re searching for LGBTQ+ rebel music from the UK that speaks openly about justice, identity, trauma and survival, you’ve found it. I’m JayleeBenjamin - an LGBTQ+ activist, union representative, and rebel music artist blending electronic, synthpop and soul with movementdriven storytelling. My releases explore themes of equality, […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/lgbtq-rebel-music-from-the-uk-meet-jayleebenjamin/
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the magic and spirit of JAYLEEBENJAMIN singer songwriter, producer, writer, creative director, artist and activist @[email protected] ·LGBTQ+ Rebel Music from the UK – Meet JayleeBenjamin
LGBTQ+ Rebel Music from the UK - Meet JayleeBenjamin LGBTQ+ rebel music UK : LGBTQ+ activist musician, UK electronic artist, social justice music If you’re searching for LGBTQ+ rebel music from the UK that speaks openly about justice, identity, trauma and survival, you’ve found it. I’m JayleeBenjamin - an LGBTQ+ activist, union representative, and rebel music artist blending electronic, synthpop and soul with movementdriven storytelling. My releases explore themes of equality, […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/lgbtq-rebel-music-from-the-uk-meet-jayleebenjamin/
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@taufic At the same time, we have to increase #constructive communication and see who / how we can #trust people and then increment with the right people MORE.
I think we can do it online - but we need people to trust and find those strong in themselves like me to talk and #seed a better tree of #communication / #relationship
Even with #anonymous people we have the #logic and #principles that need no #identity attached.
What do you think about that?
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Here are six principles shared by Margaret Wheatley that she has "learned to emphasize" before beginning a conversation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/01/six-principles-of-conversation
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Here are six principles shared by Margaret Wheatley that she has "learned to emphasize" before beginning a conversation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/01/six-principles-of-conversation
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Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.
Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.
#USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal
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Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.
Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.
#USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal
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DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory
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@elsua54 That "tribe" you keep mentioning doesn't exist or isn't like a peice of wood somewhere I can just go find.
It's individuals keeping it alive much like a #individual #samurai keeps it alive - and frankly samurai's are all but dead as a bred species.
Like #Animals and #humans pushed out by cutting their #trees, concreting, asphalting it all - #tribes do not exist much.
Try not to think of my species as common like #Mastodon's #Tech & #Caturday core.
Strong #principles #morals = rare.
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Nothing for Snitches: For a Revolutionary Anti-Repression
“UPDATE: This piece was written and submitted before the authors discovered that Fire Ant had quietly revised their original statement “Manufactured Betrayal,” instead of openly addressing the principled criticism they have received from comrades across the movement. The edited piece, which can now be found on the CrimethInc. website, is significantly altered from the original. It retroactively removes all language pertaining to an “off ramp” for snitches and redemption for the cooperator Meagan Morris. It also introduces new language making the case that Thomas’ and Baumann’s testimonies played a more significant role than Morris’ statements in furthering the state’s narrative. Needless to say, we find such blame shifting absurd, as every cooperator played an essential role in sending their comrades to prison. Despite Fire Ant’s edits, the substance of their piece has not changed, and our critique of their position still stands. The text of their original piece can be found here.“
“The paramount issue is the character and integrity of the movements we are building. We must confront, vilify, and destroy traitors at every opportunity; deal with them as the dehumanized vipers that they are; instill ‘the greater fear.’ The political terms must always be clear: discredit and destroy all traitors.” – Sekou Odinga, Kuwasi Balagoon, Judy Clark, David Gilbert, Silvia Baraldini
In the wake of draconian sentences handed down to the Prairieland 8, each ranging from 30 to 100 years, much has been said about the role of Trump’s NSPM-7 in establishing new repressive tools for criminalizing activism. Less discussed has been the critical role of cooperation—by at least 6 of the Prairieland defendants—in securing these devastating convictions. While the terrain of repression is ever changing, what remains evergreen is our most powerful tool of anti-repression: the principle of non-cooperation with the state.
This statement is a call for unity against the forces that would nip any nascent revolutionary movement in the bud by suffocating its most basic survival instinct with equivocation about the need to keep out snitches. From its inception, the DFW Support Committee has chosen to include the cooperator Meagan Morris in its collective prisoner support effort, against the objections and concerns of many in the movement. Despite this controversy, the “anti-repression collective” known as Fire Ant Movement Defense has lent DFW significant media support, helping them popularize the “Prairieland 9,” despite there only being 8 non-cooperating defendants.
On July 7, 2026, Fire Ant published an essay called “Manufactured Betrayal” in CrimethInc. which serves as a justification for their practice. The piece proposes the possibility of an “off-ramp” for snitches, focusing in particular on Meagan Morris as an example of someone who “restore[d] their commitment to struggle” after informing on their comrades. By publishing this snitch apologia—along with Eric King’s rebuttal “No Way Home”[1] four days later—CrimethInc. has presented the question of if snitches should be welcomed back into the movement as if it is a debate with two sides—it is not.
By taking this position, these formations are setting the precedent that people can cooperate with the state and continue to receive the support of collective movement resources. We can only assume that welcoming snitches back into the fold is a position that DFW, Fire Ant, and CrimethInc. will continue putting into practice.
Meanwhile, those of us serious about building a revolutionary movement must unite around a collective commitment to the principle of non-cooperation. As a political, strategic, and ethical practice that prioritizes the collective movement over the individual, it is our only hope of withstanding escalating repression. Compromising on this principle destroys our basic capacity for self-defense. There can be no revolution without solidarity, and solidarity has no meaning without a commitment to non-cooperation.
– The Facts of the Situation –
Fire Ant claims that it is a strategic decision to bring cooperators back into the movement:
“At this moment, thousands of inexperienced new participants are flooding into the fight for liberation. We probably won’t be able to educate all of them before they find themselves in confrontations with the state. Some of them will experience intense repression designed to scare them into cooperating before they fully understand the political implications, the options available to them, or their basic rights. When they find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun, some may well say something they shouldn’t. If we immediately make permanent enemies of everyone who do so, this may further endanger others.”[2]
This, however, is a complete distortion of the facts of Morris’ betrayal, and is the exact opposite of a strategic decision in relation to cooperators. To address the dangerous position of allowing snitches to enter back into the movement that they have betrayed, we must first address how this is a complete minimization of the extent of Morris’ cooperation.
According to her statement to law enforcement, Morris joined the Socialist Rifle Association in 2020 and learned of the noise demo from a Signal chat she joined “years ago after attending a protest.”[3] In another Signal chat that members suspected of being infiltrated, she stated that “if there are 4 or more liberals in a chat, there’s likely law enforcement.” This demonstrates that not only had she been active in movement spaces long before the noise demo on July 4, 2025, but she was also well-acquainted with movement norms regarding antagonism towards informants and agents of the state.[4]
Furthermore, the information law enforcement credits Morris with sharing could only have come from someone known and trusted by others as a comrade. By weaponizing the information she had been privy to in order to save her own skin, she became a willing accomplice in the state’s effort to construct a conspiracy narrative, which relies on criminalizing our relationships to each other.
Contrary to Fire Ant’s narrative of cooperators caving under “repeated torture,” Morris waived her Miranda rights and began snitching on her comrades within hours of her arrest.[5] Law enforcement credits her with identifying Autumn Hill, who was her live-in partner at the time and had not yet been apprehended.[6] Hill was arrested the next day on July 5, 2025, during a raid on the home she and Morris shared.[7] Morris also helped identify Joy “Rowan” Gibson and Benjamin “Champagne” Song, who she claimed to have met online and invited to her home before driving the group to the noise demo.[8]
While Song was still on the run, Morris provided additional information which led to their capture. She helped locate Rebecca Morgan—who law enforcement suspected of transporting and sheltering Song—by naming Morgan’s workplace and linking her identity to her Signal handle. The next day, an FBI SWAT team raided Morgan’s home, where they apprehended Song and took them into custody.[9] However, Morris’ betrayal did not end there.
In a follow up interview Morris requested after her initial statement, she linked the gunshots fired on July 4, 2025 outside the Prairieland Detention Center to Song, claiming that the sound was consistent with a binary trigger he had on his rifle. She also suggested that the shooting was premeditated, and that Song had intended to use the demo as cover:
“I don’t think it was an accident. A person set things up to have cover… I felt disgust and betrayal.”
“My suspicion is Song wanted to do this the whole time. To shoot someone. Have us all there with our guns… [his] jackoff fantasy… and get away.”[10]
Not only did she help deliver Song into the hands of the state, she actively contributed to its narrative of “attempted murder” in an attempt to scapegoat her former comrade. Furthermore, her “admission” to the existence of a coordinated plan serves as the linchpin for the state’s conspiracy dragnet, which attempts to link a loose network of comrades, friends, partners, and unaffiliated individuals in a “coordinated ambush” involving the shooting of a law enforcement officer:
“One of the suspects, Meagan Morris, admitted this was a planned protest of the detention facility that was coordinated online [emphasis ours] with numerous subjects bringing weapons, firearms, body armor, ballistic helmets, face shields, tourniquets and extra magazines and ammunition.”[11]
There would have been no “conspiracy” if not for the cooperators constructing such according to the wishes of the state. Far from a minor misstep which can be reversed via an “off ramp,” Morris’ cooperation was an essential element in the state’s case against the Prairieland defendants, without which her comrades Joy “Rowan” Gibson, Benjamin “Champagne” Song, Rebecca Morgan, and her own partner Autumn Hill might still be free. The extent of the damage she did was only possible because she had been trusted by those engaging in action alongside her. We have nothing to gain and everything to lose by making that mistake again.
– DFW Commitee’s Role –
The DFW Support Committee has decided to include the cooperator Meagan Morris in the court and prisoner support efforts, alongside the non-cooperating defendants. The DFW Committee offered no clarity or transparency as to who had cooperated and when they did so until January of 2026, shortly before the trial began. All of this information, however, was already available in the criminal complaints and other court documents released publicly in the early stages of the case. That cooperation had happened was a known fact, as well as the identities of the cooperators, and what specifically they had done. When slogans like the “Free the Prairieland 19” began circulating from the DFW Support Committee while paperwork revealed that 6 had already cooperated, people were left to wonder whether or not the cooperating defendants were receiving support. Fire Ant entered early on into the effort to gather public support for this case, while themselves being silent about the extent of the cooperation, as well as which defendants were receiving support.
While these concerns continued to circulate as more informed parties attempted to address these formations that were generating support, a story began to circulate that Morris had admitted she had made a mistake, and had re-committed to her co-defendants. When the DFW Support Committee began to attempt to rehabilitate Morris’ betrayal just before the trial, no insight was offered into what her reversal actually entailed in practice. It is still the case, however, that Morris’ actions before this reversal had already stolen people’s lives and aided the construction of the legal fiction of the “Antifa cell” that the state will now use at its will against anyone. The damage cannot be undone.
– No Room for Cooperators –
We have demonstrated that what Morris did was beyond the pale, and that there is no strategic reason for the pro-cooperator position of Fire Ant in the Prairieland case. But what about beyond this case? Can we ever allow someone who has betrayed the solidarity of their comrades to return? Fire Ant offers this answer:
“We must ask ourselves what we can offer defendants who have erred but have yet to decide whether to continue to assist the state. If we cannot offer those who have begun to cooperate any incentive to stop doing so, that all but ensures that once someone starts cooperating, they will become a permanent addition to the state’s arsenal against us.”[12]
The problem with this, however, is that once someone cooperates, they have already become a permanent part of the state’s arsenal against us. Whether through informing on co-defendants, complying with a grand jury subpoena, or helping police identify other targets in order to take the heat off themselves, cooperators hand the state information that can and will be weaponized against the movement indefinitely. Once this is done, deterrence or reversal is not a possibility. In the Prairieland case, the only way to mitigate the damage done by Meagan Morris’ cooperation was for her co-defendants to challenge her credibility in court. By maintaining unity with her and standing trial together, they were left with no avenue to discredit her statements, thus compromising their ability to defend themselves.
Furthermore, cooperation is rarely an isolated incident. When police succeed in pressuring someone to snitch even once, whether by interrogation or other means, that individual becomes their first stop any time they seek information. By levying threats against those who wish to keep their initial cooperation a secret, promising them individual leniency, or using some other form of leverage, the state is able to cultivate longtime informants embedded in movement spaces. Thus, if known cooperators attempt to return to the fold, we must block them from doing so at every step.[13] Not only have they demonstrated that they will betray comrades if given the chance, but we can never truly know if they seek to rejoin with the intent of informing further.
In the case of Prairieland, making a lesson out of Morris and communicating to the broader movement why there is no return from what she did would serve an important function in teaching newcomers that complete social exclusion and disconnection from collective movement resources is the expected minimum consequence for snitching. It would establish clear lines against cooperation and eliminate room for confusion. However, Fire Ant would rather we teach people the opposite lesson:
“We reject simplistic generalizations that frame all mistakes as unforgivable, rendering it impossible to create an off-ramp [emphasis ours] for those who have previously cooperated with the state to change course, make amends, and restore their commitment to struggle.”[14]
Instead of offering clarity, the idea of an “off ramp” opens the door to endless ambiguity and hairsplitting around what constitutes a redeemable snitch. It teaches potential revolutionaries that there is a way back into our movement for those who have decided to save themselves by giving the state the means to take away the lives of other people. It undermines our power to enforce any standards and creates an incentive for opportunists to play both sides. Self-interested people could exploit the movement for their own gain, all the while being easy targets for future pressure by the state. Accommodating such elements would only weaken our movement by cultivating an individualistic logic of cowardice and self-preservation, leaving it defenseless against escalating state repression.
Soliciting cooperation is in fact one of the most powerful weapons the state can use against us, because it undermines the very fabric of solidarity that holds revolutionary movements together. We must prepare all partisans to expect this kind of pressure, and arm them with the knowledge that the only way to protect ourselves and each other is to remain silent and insist on speaking to a lawyer. When we are approached by law enforcement for information, we must immediately inform others publicly of what occurred and what the police are inquiring about, while making clear that we remained silent. When someone fails to do this, they cast suspicion on themselves if the incident is later discovered through court documents or other means, contributing to a destructive atmosphere of paranoia. The only way to protect ourselves against such paranoia is through a consistent practice of transparency and expelling any known cooperators in our midst.
Furthermore, we must teach people to expect that if they choose to join the struggle, jail and prison will always be a possibility. We recognize that what some activists call “torture” is simply the routinized violence of jail, and those who wish to join a revolutionary movement must steel themselves to withstand those conditions, and worse treatment, as Frantz Fanon helped revolutionaries do in the past.[15] Any breath wasted on justifying the betrayal of snitches takes our attention away from those prisoners who demonstrate behavior exemplary of a revolutionary in refusing to cooperate. With this comes an understanding of the contempt with which snitches are treated inside prison, and that those who cooperate jeopardize their own safety behind bars as well as the credibility of a revolutionary movement in the eyes of other prisoners. If we are seen as a movement that provides support to snitches, then we will be rightfully treated as enemies by the average prisoner.
Thus, where Fire Ant sees cooperation as an inevitability to which we must accommodate ourselves, we understand that a revolutionary movement must be capable of enforcing a hard line of non-cooperation at every turn.
– Revolutionary Anti-Repression –
This leads us to the question of the role of anti-repression work in the development of a revolutionary movement. We can turn this attack from the state into an opportunity to unite strategically along the political practice of non-cooperation and antagonism to the state and capital. Maintaining the consistency of non-cooperation in practice means that the work of organizing against repression must be conscious of its political character. The logic of the “off-ramp” that Fire Ant proposes is not that of building a revolutionary movement, but of a project of service provision to potential consumers.
Revolutionary anti-repression will not be for everyone. If anyone cooperates, they must receive no support, and be publicly made known to others. In order for anti-repression efforts to be revolutionary, they must be integrated into the effort of building a revolutionary movement. This entails identifying and engaging with cases of repression for political activity and providing support for those defendants. Support can provide material support such as funds for defense, as well as political, by helping coordinate defenses along collective movement principles. Defendants will need to be advised on how to assemble support committees, on the dynamics inside jails and prisons they should understand, and on how the carceral institutions they are engaging with function. This will demonstrate to defendants that revolutionaries can be trusted, and that solidarity is rewarded with solidarity. They will know that they receive this support because they resist becoming a tool of the state. In doing so, they become examples to others who we inform about this case, and to other prisoners inside.
Every political prisoner is a potential comrade. Revolutionary anti-repression must exist in order for defendants to know what their case means practically to the movement supporting them. They must know how the outcome of their case could set a precedent that will affect many others. This must inform the defense strategy that they choose to take. Lawyers cannot be expected to be the source of political clarity. Defendants that work in a tradition of revolutionary anti-repression need to be directly supported enough by revolutionaries to direct their legal representatives to construct legal strategy to accommodate the collective needs of the revolutionary movement. This means that the movement must be organized such that its political lines know how to enhance the efficacy of a defense’s strategy.
These points of tactical engagement in revolutionary anti-repression are at the level of dealing with an active case. However, this work cannot be confined to the exigencies of the courtroom, forced to always operate on the terms set by the state. This is what always keeps us on the back foot, unable to maintain any firm position in developing our forces. A defensive position can be made advantageous if an offensive strategy can be developed within the means of defense. What is learned from engaging in and studying the changing landscape of repression will allow us to develop practices of struggle that lead to the development of offensive capabilities that outmaneuver state repression. We must learn how to turn the weight of the leviathan against itself.
The fact that we are experiencing an influx of newcomers into the movement makes it all the more important that we must hold clear and unambiguous lines around snitching to eliminate any room for confusion. In doing so, we build a movement based on who demonstrates the most potential to become committed and trustworthy revolutionaries, if they are not already. That means prioritizing the interests of those who are able to remain steadfast in non-cooperation with their comrades, and having no qualms of casting those aside who cannot. We have no need for them or their accomplices in this treachery. Simply put, we will find tougher people.
For these comrades who will make up the truly revolutionary struggle, we cannot afford to be ambiguous or cowardly. We will better learn what we must build together to outlast this current wave of repression by preparing ourselves to engage in and enforce non-cooperation wherever we must. There will be cooperators left to fend for themselves in prison, but their own actions have already abandoned the struggle. That is the choice they have made and which has rendered us free of any responsibility to them. We make this choice ourselves because we recognize that the cost of compromise is much higher.
Revolutionary anti-repression cannot end with the support of direct cases of political repression. It begins here in our context, but the objective of state repression is to isolate layers of the population engaged in political activity from the potential mass base that could also become an organized force against the state. The state knows that the conditions for its own existence are those of the antagonistic social relations of capital. They reproduce this antagonism in order to produce capital, and in order to make that process stable, they expand the policing and carceral apparatus to keep the proletarians in line that their society produces, exploits, and oppresses.
Our era of mass uprisings against the police amongst racialized proletarians has shown that this population has revolutionary potential, but the failure of these uprisings to advance further also demonstrates that contradictions exist amongst those very proletarians that are barriers to their development into an organized social force, thus rendering them vulnerable to the eventual crackdowns by the state. These uprisings have emerged amongst specific populations and extended beyond them because of the history of the development of this repressive apparatus against both political movements and the activity of de-politicized layers of these classes. As such, it has created a value of non-cooperation that exists as an ideal among criminalized segments of the racialized proletariat.
The instinct towards a liberal appeal—forgiveness by the Democratic Party, individual redemption over collective resistance—and away from one of the most basic codes of honor amongst those engaged in illegality, reveals a politics oriented towards individualism, and a composition influenced by middle class values whose intended audience are those who share the same, and not those surviving through proletarian criminality. Needless to say, we are not making an appeal to victimhood or proposing a posture of deference to all who are victimized by capital and the state. We are saying that the normalization of snitches would only amplify the effects of the counterinsurgency that is already devastating radical movements, as well as the criminalized segments of the proletariat where we see an expression of latent revolutionary potential. This culture and strategy of non-cooperation has emerged because it is necessary for the survival of formations that are antagonistic to the state. As comrades have recently said, “the codes revolutionaries live by exist to keep a movement alive long enough to find possibilities of emancipatory horizons.”[16] The development and victory of our revolutionary forces depend upon our solidarity.
— Communists and Anarchists for Revolutionary Anti-Repression
Endnotes:
[1] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/eric-king-no-way-home-an-anarchist-ex-prisoner-s-response-to-fire-ant-movement-defense
[2] https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/07/manufactured-betrayal-a-statement-from-fire-ant-movement-defense-on-solidarity-and-betrayal-in-the-prairieland-trials
[3] page 5: https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gov.uscourts.txnd_.406323.1.0.pdf)
[4] https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-4th-federal-trial-day-8/#witness-lynette-sharp-cooperating-witness-in-handcuffs-and-striped-jumpsuit
[5] https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-4th-federal-trial-day-8/#witness-lynette-sharp-cooperating-witness-in-handcuffs-and-striped-jumpsuit
[6] page 2: https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Cofer_Luster_motion-to-exclude-meagans-testimony_2026-01-22.pdf
[7] https://yournews.com/2026/01/21/6233321/two-transgender-defendants-in-texas-ice-protest-case-describe-misgendering/
[8] page 6: https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/gov.uscourts.txnd_.406323.1.0.pdf
[9] page 21: https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/complaint-morgan.pdf
[10] https://prairielanddefendants.com/court-notes/march-4th-federal-trial-day-8/#witness-lynette-sharp-cooperating-witness-in-handcuffs-and-striped-jumpsuit
[11] page 25: https://prairielanddefendants.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/JohnsonCounty_Probable_Cause_Affidavit.pdf
[12] https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/07/manufactured-betrayal-a-statement-from-fire-ant-movement-defense-on-solidarity-and-betrayal-in-the-prairieland-trials
[13] See the case of Suzie Savoie in the Green Scare wave of repression and successive attempts that had to be made to continually remove her from related spaces after her cooperation: https://anarchistagency.com/an-anti-snitch-oral-history-of-the-seattle-wto-protests/
https://itsgoingdown.org/snitch-suzie-savoie-swarmed-and-deplatformed-in-southern-oregon/
[14] https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/07/manufactured-betrayal-a-statement-from-fire-ant-movement-defense-on-solidarity-and-betrayal-in-the-prairieland-trials
[15] For information of Frantz Fanon’s work in helping prepare revolutionary combatants for withstanding torture, see: https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/fanons-revolutionary-gaze
[16] https://freepeppyandkrystal.noblogs.org/in-defense-of-dignity/Submitted Anonymously
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39 Principles for Designing Human-AI Interaction, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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39 Principles for Designing Human-AI Interaction, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
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#MissKittyPolitics
It's not an unreasonable thing to say, and the way #Capitalism works, if #Principles of #Humanity are in place, and you can call it #Socialism if you want to, is that the needs of the state, which INCLUDES all of the #Human #Rights of each individual, are met first.
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I’ve managed to boil down what I think are the most important aspects of stylized character modelling into 6 principles… #character #modeling #principles #style #art #b3d
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New piece is up. A short one on what it actually costs to live by principle, and why the honest move is rarely the easy one.
🔗https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/signals/2026-07-05-a-word-to-those-who-read/
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New piece is up. A short one on what it actually costs to live by principle, and why the honest move is rarely the easy one.
🔗https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/signals/2026-07-05-a-word-to-those-who-read/
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The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck
https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about
#HackerNews #YAGNI #KentBeck #SoftwareDevelopment #Agile #Principles #Programming
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The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck
https://newsletter.kentbeck.com/p/the-cost-yagni-was-never-about
#HackerNews #YAGNI #KentBeck #SoftwareDevelopment #Agile #Principles #Programming
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/eu-faces-fierce-criticism-plans-host-taliban-brussels. Rightly so! This absolutely flies in the face of EVERYTHING the #EuropeanUnion is supposed to stand for - but then, so is its #treatment of #migrants & #asylumseekers, so what else is new, @EUCommission? The systematic #betrayal of #liberal #democratic #values & #principles in #Europe seems very much par-for-the-course these days.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/eu-faces-fierce-criticism-plans-host-taliban-brussels. Rightly so! This absolutely flies in the face of EVERYTHING the #EuropeanUnion is supposed to stand for - but then, so is its #treatment of #migrants & #asylumseekers, so what else is new, @EUCommission? The systematic #betrayal of #liberal #democratic #values & #principles in #Europe seems very much par-for-the-course these days.
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PRODUCTHEAD: Who doesn’t love a good manifesto?» AI is forcing us to adapt how we work in the face of greater information flow
» However, this doesn’t mean we abandon the fundamental guiding principles of our discipline
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PRODUCTHEAD: Who doesn’t love a good manifesto?» AI is forcing us to adapt how we work in the face of greater information flow
» However, this doesn’t mean we abandon the fundamental guiding principles of our discipline
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“Calvin And Hobbes And The Price Of Integrity”, The Republic Of Letters (https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079
#BillWatterson #CalvinAndHobbes #Art #Comics #Integrity #Principles #Artists
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“Calvin And Hobbes And The Price Of Integrity”, The Republic Of Letters (https://therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557079
#BillWatterson #CalvinAndHobbes #Art #Comics #Integrity #Principles #Artists
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Open-Source AI Agent: Integrating OMO with OpenCode—Principles and Practices, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2026/integrating-omo-with-opencode/
#translations #opencode #ai #aiagents #principles #bestpractices
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Open-Source AI Agent: Integrating OMO with OpenCode—Principles and Practices, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):
https://frontenddogma.com/posts/2026/integrating-omo-with-opencode/
#translations #opencode #ai #aiagents #principles #bestpractices
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/13/right-false-reality-toxic-images-riots-belfast-southampton. It is only-too-clear that neither #Burnham nor the rest of the #LabourParty have any answers to the onslaught of the #farright, & are Hell-bent on appeasing #ReformUK & #RestoreBritain #voters - jettisoning their #principles in the #process, @ZackPolanski, @thegreenparty.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/13/right-false-reality-toxic-images-riots-belfast-southampton. It is only-too-clear that neither #Burnham nor the rest of the #LabourParty have any answers to the onslaught of the #farright, & are Hell-bent on appeasing #ReformUK & #RestoreBritain #voters - jettisoning their #principles in the #process, @ZackPolanski, @thegreenparty.
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#Mozilla, why are you playing along with Google's devious game and #betraying the #principles of #free #software?
source: omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/mozill…
Nonetheless, the appearance of ‘device attestation’ in Firefox’s mobile codebase has raised eyebrows in the #FOSS #community, including from #mobile projects based on the #Android Open Source Project (AOSP) codebase, like #LineageOS and #GrapheneOS, which omit Play services.
Given that Firefox’s entire USP on Android is that it’s an open-source, privacy-respecting alternative for those avoiding #Google (and open-source, privacy-conscious users often run non-stock Android) it’s a move that, short of further explanation, rubs some the wrong way.
#news #software #security #ai #technology #cybersecurity #Firefox #browser #future #smartphone #api #evil #economy #bigtech #fail #floss #opensource #principle #opensource #ethics #surfing #web #www #freedom #alphabet surveillance #tracking #power #privacy #root #rooted #question #aosp
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Simple #gestures and #actsofkindness keeps Kasese Humanist School flourishing. #sharing with others is among the #principles of #humanism
This morning 🌄 I shared some #pencils with some #nurseryschool children who had worn out pencils at our Rukoki campus.
It's a small gift 🎁 but means a lot.More information about our school project:
https://www.kasesehumanistschool.org/With Science, we can progress
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Here are six principles shared by Margaret Wheatley that she has "learned to emphasize" before beginning a conversation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/01/six-principles-of-conversation
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Here are six principles shared by Margaret Wheatley that she has "learned to emphasize" before beginning a conversation
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2010/01/six-principles-of-conversation
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A useful summary of "directions in making large scale change happen" used by The Horizons Team at National Health Service England
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A useful summary of "directions in making large scale change happen" used by The Horizons Team at National Health Service England
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81: The unifying principles of product managementA recent tweet by John Cutler provoked some interesting reactions. It got me thinking about whether there are underlying principles of product management that apply in all contexts.
#prodmgmt #principles #productManagement #usersFirst 📖 Read more: https://imanageproducts.com/81-the-unifying-principles-of-product-management/