U.S. cities like Baltimore are seeing murder rates fall sharply from post-2020 highs thanks to local violence-reduction efforts and pandemic-era investments, but sustaining the gains could be tough as funding dries up. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/10/08/world/american-murder-decline/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #baltimore #murder #crime

Earlier in September, #Trump had described living in Portland [like he’d know] as “like living in hell” & said he was considering sending in federal #troops, as he has recently threatened to do to combat crime in other cities, including #Chicago & #Baltimore.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #RightToProtest #FreedomOfAssembly #authoritarianism #tyranny #Gestapo #AmericanAutocracy #military #USTroops #immigration #protest #resist

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Western Cell Division, 'Opening Gaps and Filling Them Up... WESTERN CELL DIVISION and You', Baltimore: Dialectical Immaterialism Press, 1987

Experimental reflections of multiple-use name identity politics, plagiarism/anti-copyright and Art Strike 1990-1993, grown out of Neoism.

"The provided texts explore themes of cultural reproduction, individual perception, and societal critique within late capitalism. 'Western Cell Division and You' conceptualizes the proliferation of a dominant 'Western Culture' and the potential for 'deviant cultures' to emerge through its divisions, while other sections discuss how plagiarism and censorship can serve as revolutionary acts against established notions of originality and controlled information. The collection further investigates 'Optically Disassociated Reality' (O.D.R.), proposing methods to alter visual perception and challenge the continuity cues ingrained by visual media like television. Ultimately, the sources advocate for a radical re-evaluation of art, identity, and social relations, calling for an Art Strike to dismantle the capitalist commodification of creativity and empower individual 'anti-skills' against pervasive societal structures."

https://archive.org/details/western_cell_division_and_you/

#Neoism #plagiarism #artstrike#KarenEliot#Baltimore

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Western Cell Division, 'Opening Gaps and Filling Them Up... WESTERN CELL DIVISION and You', Baltimore: Dialectical Immaterialism Press, 1987

Experimental reflections of multiple-use name identity politics, plagiarism/anti-copyright and Art Strike 1990-1993, grown out of Neoism.

"The provided texts explore themes of cultural reproduction, individual perception, and societal critique within late capitalism. 'Western Cell Division and You' conceptualizes the proliferation of a dominant 'Western Culture' and the potential for 'deviant cultures' to emerge through its divisions, while other sections discuss how plagiarism and censorship can serve as revolutionary acts against established notions of originality and controlled information. The collection further investigates 'Optically Disassociated Reality' (O.D.R.), proposing methods to alter visual perception and challenge the continuity cues ingrained by visual media like television. Ultimately, the sources advocate for a radical re-evaluation of art, identity, and social relations, calling for an Art Strike to dismantle the capitalist commodification of creativity and empower individual 'anti-skills' against pervasive societal structures."

https://archive.org/details/western_cell_division_and_you/

#Neoism #plagiarism #artstrike#KarenEliot#Baltimore

Hollywood Burbank showed it works — Avelo shut down their base after protests. Tell BWI: NO DEPORTATION FLIGHTS! Let’s keep the pressure on.

#AveloAirlines#BWI#Baltimore#AndrewLevy#ICE#NaziCollaborators#BoycottAvelo#GroundAvelo#USPol

Hollywood Burbank showed it works — Avelo shut down their base after protests. Tell BWI: NO DEPORTATION FLIGHTS! Let’s keep the pressure on.

#AveloAirlines#BWI#Baltimore#AndrewLevy#ICE#NaziCollaborators#BoycottAvelo#GroundAvelo#USPol

Great crowd and good energy at the “No Kings” protest in Baltimore! Sen. Van Hollen just arrived to speak.
#NoKings#Baltimore

Great crowd and good energy at the “No Kings” protest in Baltimore! Sen. Van Hollen just arrived to speak.
#NoKings#Baltimore