#kabas

[l5-gbsdehorizon]

Voor het eerst Kabas verkend.

En al goed wat Kwetons verdiend!

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[sentientsky]

just a friendly reminder that, just because slavery was formally "abolished" in the so-called united states* in 1865, enslavement itself is still ongoing in the form of incarceration, which disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous people

(*i say "so-called" because the US is a settler-colonial construction founded on greed, extraction, and white supremacy) recommended readings/resources:

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

"How the 13th Amendment Kept Slavery Alive: Perspectives From the Prison Where Slavery Never Ended" by Daniele Selby

"So You're Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist" by Mariame Kaba

"The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration" from Democracy Now! [VIDEO]

[fanzines]

New York City’s Black Zine Fair is raising funds for its May 3rd, 2025 zine fair at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn. Please donate here.

The zine fair celebrates Black, independent publishers in New York City and is free and open to everyone!

It provides a much-needed platform where Black zine makers and independent publishers can connect, share their work and celebrate Black history in a space that’s theirs.

[zegalba]

Katsuhiro Otomo: 'Kaba' Artbook (1988)

[sneakystorms]

It's so ass backwards... When you kill someone it should be on you to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that they posed a danger to you, and not on the other side to prove that you were in no danger... There is more proof needed to CHARGE a cop for murder (not even convict, just bring to court to determine if they're guilty) than to commit murder in the first place

[lilcommissionsopen]

カイバ

[photographss-world]

Birazcık çocukluğumuza gidelim dedim keyifli mutlu pazarlar olsun inşallah 🤗☕🫖🌹

[vitagraphia]

Mariame Kabe // Art by Olly Costello (2023)

[elwenyere]

-- Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, from Let This Radicalize You

[explvrer]

'hope is a discipline' - mariame kaba on dismantling the carceral state

[shealwaysreads]

If anyone is looking for things to read, Haymarket Books is giving away 10 free ebooks - a really diverse group of brilliant writers and thinkers to inspire and inform at a tricky fuckin time in the world! You can get books here - though you might need to register 👍

[justinspoliticalcorner]

John Knefel at MMFA:

A new memo issued by the Trump administration directing the federal government to temporarily cease disbursing billions of dollars in funds appears to draw on arguments made by Russ Vought, the president’s selectee to run the Office of Management and Budget. Vought was a primary architect of Project 2025, a sprawling effort organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and staffing recommendations for President Donald Trump’s second term. In addition to that role, Vought is also the founder of the Center for Renewing America, a MAGA-aligned think tank that has spent over a year arguing that the president can unilaterally refuse to spend funds allocated by Congress, an authority known as the impoundment power that was severely curtailed by Congress in 1974.

The new Trump administration memo was issued by Matthew Vaeth, acting director of OMB pending Vought’s confirmation vote. The document calls for federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.”  “The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve,” the memo states. Although the two-page memo doesn’t use the term impoundment, law professor Steve Vladeck argued that the Trump administration is claiming “the unilateral power to at least temporarily ‘impound’ tens of billions of dollars of appropriated funds—in direct conflict with Congress’s constitutional power of the purse, and in even more flagrant violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.” The existence of the document was first reported by journalist Marisa Kabas and later confirmed by The Washington Post and The New York Times. (OMB issued a follow-up memo claiming the freeze does “not apply across-the-board” and withheld funds are “not an impoundment under the Impoundment Control Act.”)

The direct effects of the memo are unknown given its scope and vagueness, but they could be detrimental even if the pause is short-lived.

“Experts said the memo as written was poised to bring a rapid halt to scores of federal functions, from assistance to homeless shelters to financial aid for college students,” the Post reported. “Health grants distributed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state aid for disaster reconstruction, might face delays.” The memo appears to exempt Social Security and Medicare recipients, and it says the halt “does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.” It isn’t clear whether Medicaid recipients will be affected, although some early reports indicated that payments had been disrupted.

Project 2025 architect Russ Vought had his handprints all over the federal funding freeze.

See Also:

HuffPost: The 50-Year-Old Law Trump Is Challenging To Create Chaos

The Guardian: Trump move to pause federal loans and grants rooted in Project 2025

Ahmed Baba: Trump’s Funding Freeze Power Grab Causes Chaos And Legal Firestorm

[lotussokka]

inspired by my own tags on this excellent post

[pasteldenatas]

Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariam Kaba (2023)

[ohoh0hmy]

[mindofserenity]

Home truly is magnificent ‎سبحان الله