Borrowing Leftists' Clothes

0:00This is the language that the diplomats and the bureaucrats and the technocrats have deployed. How do we prevent 1.5 degrees Celsius? And now that's shifting. How do we manage overshoot? We are admitting now on a global scale of the United Nations that we have overshot our goal. Overshoot is not the right term for this. I mean, overshoot is like, you know, it's like when you shoot a basket and you throw it too far and you like hit Travis who's sitting in the stands and like he spills his slushy all over Meredith Snatchos. Like that's an overshoot. This is Apocalypse, man. All right, and welcome to Party Girls. I'm your host Sam Beard and I'm all you've got today. This might be the first time ever that I'm doing in episode a news episode all by myself.

1:09Well, yeah, Jamie's, she's got some some big life plans going on and I wanted to give her the space that she needs to excel at those things and sometimes podcasting, you know, gets in the way of life and sometimes podcasting is life. So without further ado, I've got a little agenda for us today and I'm going to go through the news of the last week. Well, first off, I just want to give a major major shout out to the December 4th legal committee. An entity of which I am the spokesperson along with my co-host who is conspicuously not here today for launching the website for our fourth coming book. Yes, our fourth coming book depose, Luigi Mangione, the right to health and the unfinished American Revolution, which is as you might have guessed about Luigi Mangione, the right to health

2:10and the unfinished American Revolution. Our website for that book has been launched. So pause this episode, take out your phone and go to www.deposebook.com right now and check that bad boy out. Wow, wow, these people know how to make a nice website. All right, cool. So that that's pretty cool. Let me pull it up real quick and see what we got here. You know, there's three things. We've got the book. We've got the artwork and we have the contact and the press. So in case you didn't know, depose our book. Makes a kind of case for why the health care system in America is itself a crime. Connecting the dots between the rise of for-profit health insurance and the nearly 15 million excess deaths in America that is coincided with it. The authors or the December 4th legal committee track the opponents of universal health care back to

3:15its sources. There they discover a little known cover-up that has shaped the law itself. The forced disappearance of our natural right to health. Reclaiming that right changes how we understand our history and reveals what remains unfinished in the American Revolution. The book written by the December 4th legal committee, which is the anonymous collective, which has raised over $1.5 million for Luigi Mangione's legal defense fund. I have released in this book and 100% of the author royalties will be split and donated to grassroots health care initiatives and Luigi Mangione's official defense fund until he is free. So if you don't know how to read like me, you can also pick up the artwork that was launched by this. Another one's again another fundraiser 100% of the proceeds after a cost of production for this painting by the one the only Diana Settles, Shadotana Settles, and I'll go listen to this,

4:18called There are always two worlds. How do you find the questions before there are consequences to not answering them? And this painting, a world historical affair, if I do say so myself, I take my, it literally, I'm looking at a screen rendition of it right now and it's taking my breath away. I really recommend you check out this painting online. There are prints that are available once again fundraiser for Luigi Mangione's official defense fund. And I've always wanted to make it in a Diana Settles painting and I'd like to think that a little bit of me is there too. Okay, so we got our plug in, deposedbook.com, big deal. The book comes out August, sorry, October 13th, 2026. It's had been delayed a few times. As the process of the writing has unfolded, the political terrain and Luigi's legal terrain

5:25have changed. So we've tried to sort of, you know, both not just be responding to the news cycle, but also sort of folding in real events as they happen. Okay, moving on. So I want to start with a report back from a border blockade. As folks might know, the United States borders other countries, including Mexico to the south, love Mexico, and some big bad mother fuckers are trying to build a wall in between Mexico and the US. It's important to note there are a lot of walls there already, but they're trying to finish the damn job and that's not good. So today, or a couple days ago, I guess one this came out, marks the six-week anniversary since a group of courageous land defenders have stood in front of a bulldozer to prevent the death of an ancient sacred grandmother cottonwood tree. Later, these defenders scurried up the branches and established what

6:26activists call a tree sit, which is when you take tree and you sit in it in order to prevent it from getting cut down. With that act, Tierra Libre was created and for the past six weeks, land defenders have been occupying that tree sit and preventing further border wall construction across the San Rafael Valley, resisting incursions of border patrol and other law enforcement, establishing an autonomous commune where people can eat, work, sleep, make decisions directly, and live free lives together. The zone we have created, which for folks who don't know, the San Rafael Valley is a high grass valley in eastern Santa Cruz County in Arizona. The zone we have created together offers hospitality, asylum, and a welcome to all regardless of citizen status in neighboring states. Residents, visitors, and supporters of Tierra Libre come from a variety of backgrounds and are choosing to build a life together in deep harmony with this land, innovate new ways of

7:31living and being together and combining our diverse ancestral traditions to form a new life way together. By creating territory free from the colonial notions of private property and centralized authority and control, Tierra Libre has also tangibly and politically declared solidarity with the indigenous lifeways that were once the norm across this land. Each morning, a Tierra Libre begins with a sun-rise ceremony. To greet the sun, is it rises in the east and stand together in prayer and meditation and collective grounding in the source of all life. Days at the camp, as you might be curious, are filled with play, music, ceremony, collective work, meetings, as you might have imagined, to coordinate the days responsibilities, eating together and resisting incursions by the repressive and colonial forces that would seek to end this experiment in joyful collective autonomy. Tierra Libre recognizes the legitimacy of no nation state, neither the United States, nor Mexico,

8:35and declares itself free of external impositions of law, state violence, and coercion. Norms and their enforcement are collectively determined by camp participants and the responsibility to hold one another accountable to these norms is held collectively. Every disillusioned everyone disillusioned with battling for crumbs and a crumbling economy and living at the winds of tyrants thousands of miles away are welcome to join. Tierra Libre is open to all. Every day camp infrastructure improves as more and more people arrive to help bringing new talents, skills, and resources with them. Residents here include engineers, musicians, healthcare workers, lawyers, spiritual leaders, construction workers, farmers and poets, warriors and healers, free spirits seeking a new way to live. This announcement is an invitation.

9:36If you want to help build this experiment come to the San Rafael Valley and join Tierra Libre. So people have been fighting the border wall across the US, Mexico border for years now. The current wave of construction is largely funded by $46 billion from Trump's quote, one big beautiful bill, which was signed as folks might remember in July of last year. The construction is also enabled by a 2005 law which lets the Department of Homeland Security wave or skirt around environmental and other legal requirements that normally would be there for an infrastructure project. As such, it drove an expansion of roughly 700 additional miles of wall across California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, including through national parks,

10:37wildlife, refuges, and tribal lands. This has produced parallel flashpoints beyond the lowcheele, a similarly contested wall segment through the Tejono Oedom Nations reservation and Arizona and the Big Bend and Santa Ana fights that are currently unfolding in Texas. The common thread is a single funding bill which has unlocked rapid waiver enabled construction that is now hitting resistance on three fronts. We're seeing resistance in the form of direct action occupations, indigenous sovereignty and sort of litigation that defends indigenous sovereignty, as well as essentially local property and infrastructure lawsuits meant to sort of muck up the legal mechanations and the progress of the border wall construction. There are a couple of lawsuits that I think are kind of interesting. I don't always find lawsuits interesting and these, I don't know if

11:37I would call them, well, they're interesting because they, I think that they're pretty, it's a pretty clear encapsulation of how the legal, the sort of bureaucratic legal mucking up of the gears of, in this case, border wall construction happen through kind of mundane arguments in court that cause projects to slow down which create, which open up space for, you know, direct actioners and other people to take action in ways that they might find appropriate. So there's two lawsuits that are sort of unfolding right now in September, 2026. The first is the Big Bend National Park lawsuit essentially where construction was proceeding under this June, 2026 waiver. I'll talk a little bit about waivers in a bit because I'm kind of an environmental nerd, which once again exempted the border wall from most federal and state requirements, but it doesn't necessarily

12:42exempt them from park protection laws. So this org, the people of La Junta for Preservation, which is essentially a nonprofit tied to lip in Apache community down there, sued in San Antonio federal court arguing essentially that work on the border wall was destroying sacred and archaeological sites and a judge in response to that granted a temporary restraining order in August or last month, which halted construction through at least September 15th. That has now been, I'd last I checked, been pushed back to September 30th, the restraining orders active until the end of the month, pending further public engagement, which is like one of those things that, you know, I think people who try to push lawsuits in an effort to, you know, battle things that are damaging politically, that's one of their main mechanisms of trying to facilitate change, which is public engagement. And one of the issues that a lot of these folks have with border wall construction is that these

13:47waivers, which allowed them to once again skirt around any sort of federal state or local laws, don't require the sort of usual mechanisms for public engagement that we see with environmental impact statements, or if they're going to build a tollway, or they're going to build a bridge, or they're going to build even a data center sometimes, things like that, there's protocols, you know, they're going to expand an airport, you know, like there's going to do some infrastructure, there's a whole drawn out, really tedious, from the standpoint of like an entity trying to build their infrastructure, a very tedious, slow process, and from an environmental standpoint, oftentimes these public engagement opportunities, you know, they're kind of rubber stamps, do what does it mean to engage the public if you're just like sitting there listening to them, who's actually taking these public comments into consideration, is anybody actually considering them as anyone being moved by them? It's a little bit unclear, but nonetheless it's a sort of important, I don't know,

14:52ritual or like protocol, that environmentalists hold deer in this country because not every country has these environmental impact, nipa laws and things like that. Okay, so this other lawsuit that's happening is even more peculiar in my mind, and this is a sort of about the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. So this entity, the Hidalgo County Irrigation District number two, you know, the entity in Hidalgo County that oversees irrigation, if you didn't gather that from the name, has sued two contractors, Spencer Construction and Royal Concrete products, claiming their border wall work, these are construction companies that are profiting from Trump's Fash's border wall, their border wall work damaged in irrigation canal on the Hidalgo County Irrigation District's property. No, no, no, don't do that. So a state court has been rather sympathetic to this whole thing, and has granted a temporary restraining order in July, the case has then moved to federal court

15:54and McCallan and judges there have been justice sympathetic repeatedly upholding and extending this restraining order, which prevents construction from continuing. Currently last I checked, it's slated to expire tomorrow, September 10th, so we'll see what happens there. So like I said, I want to talk a little bit about this law that lets them build walls wherever they want. So it's tucked away as these big omnibus bills happen down in our nation's capital, especially when they're in regards to the budget or in regards to national security. Even sometimes with farming and health or education, all sorts of big topics, there's always some fuckery tucked away deep inside one of these things. In section 102 of what's literally the real ID act of 2005, anybody who's ever gone to an airport and doesn't have a little gold star on

16:55their ID, you know, you know, gets plastered about this. But back in 2005, the real ID act came out and tucked away in section 102 is essentially a waver. It gives the secretary of Homeland Security, it gives Homeland Security the authority to waive or once again skirt around any legal requirement that the Department of Homeland Security determines is necessary to ensure the expeditious construction of border barriers and roads. This is not limited, this waver is not necessarily limited to environmental law. As far as I can tell, it virtually applies to every federal, state, and local law that otherwise could slow construction. But some of the big environmental ones that have been, you know, gleefully skirted around by the Trump administration are NEPA or the National Environmental Policy Act, which once again normally requires these environmental impact studies

17:59before any major federal project. The Endangered Species Act, which is pretty straightforward, and the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act, it's important to note that the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act were dividends of the environmentalist movement back in the 20th century. There are all sorts of other things that allow the Department of Homeland Security can waive any sort of requirements surrounding, including like Preservation Act, when he was called the National Historic Preservation Act, which is relevant for archaeological, cultural, sacred sites. And we see a lot of those on traditional indigenous lands, obviously. As well as state and local environmental zoning and land use laws, so these sort of rules surrounding what can be built where can be superseded when it comes to building border wall construction and border roads. And even in some cases, laws that protect national parks, in some cases, in laws that protect

19:03tribal lands, once again, in some cases. It's important to note that issues of tribal sovereignty, those are currently being tested in some of these lawsuits. I think it's a few other, I think important and notable facets of these waivers. It's not a reviewable in court. So the Department of Homeland Security says that they are evoking this waiver so that they can build this wall here without any oversight or any sort of rules that they have to follow. That's not a reviewable in court except on constitutional grounds, although it can be claimed that the Department of Homeland Security is exceeding the waiver's scope and exceeding of the scope can be put in court, which is exactly the work around that people who are against the wall are doing in the Big Bend and the Santa Antelaw suits. Originally, this waiver was passed to speed up wall construction near San Diego,

20:04but has been evoked repeatedly, first under Bush, not really under Obama. He didn't directly evoke this waiver, but he did build a bunch more wall. And then 15 times under Trump 1, I think at least once under Biden, he built more wall 2. And although he got a little bit of flag from the environmentalists, shout out environmentalists for evoking this waiver. And then a lot more times obviously under Trump 2. And once again, this allows them to bypass any sort of review laws or environmental oversight for hundreds of miles of border wall. It's essentially why construction at places like Big Bend were able to start immediately without that year's long environmental review and normal infrastructure project that it would normally require. And also why current legal fights aren't challenging this. They're not saying did the Department of Homeland Security follow environmental law because they don't have to follow environmental law. But instead, there's these sort of narrower questions like, are you trespassing or

21:06did you build this wall that has damaged some irrigation property, things like that? Those things can be contested and that's kind of all that they can contest in court. So shout out to the lawyers who are doing this rather bureaucratic shit trying to slow down the border wall and mega shout out to the folks down there at tier Libre. Once again, there is an ask for people to go down there. I'll link in the show notes the website where you can find out more about them. All right, moving on. So there was a massive maybe 1000 person black block in England on Saturday. Once again, a black block is where all the participants in a protest dress in all black from head to toe so it's to not be differentiated from the people next to them. It's generally deployed by anarchists, historically anarchists and communists and radical leftists around the world.

22:10But this time this black block in England on Saturday was a white nationalist far right black block, which was perhaps the largest of its kind in England. So this poses a sort of new challenge for anti-fascists. On Saturday morning several hundred of these black clad masked up far right activists blocked the port of Dover chanting things like stop the boats and send them back. They appeared to have taken the police and everybody else for that matter by surprise. They simultaneously blockaded all three entrances to the port, entirely shutting it for six hours before marching away through the town and to the train station. There were no arrests and no opposition. The police didn't even respond for the first three hours and when they did show up at one point hundreds of far right activists just walked straight through their very sparse police line.

23:12This is all a very worrying development and hard to see as anything other than a big win for the fascists. Being able to assemble a 500 person strong far right black block without publicly advertising it is a show of strength. Period. The main organizer Danny Tamo described it as quote a warning. He was advertising that they could essentially appear anywhere, anytime without advanced notice and there would be little bit, there would be very little that anyone could do to oppose them. They could turn up in your town the next weekend if they wanted to. The Dover blockade was the first public action by this group Patriot platform, a project built by Tamo that he had been hyping for at least a couple months now. Patriot platform has built off the back of all of the local Patriot groups that have sprung up across the country in England. For those who haven't had the pleasure, Daniel Tamo Thomas is as far as we know,

24:16Tommy Robinson's right hand man Tommy Robinson is the famous ultra right wing anti-Islamic influencer in the UK. So he is Tommy Robinson's right hand man and is also charmingly it convicted. Kidnapper. Initially it seems perhaps Patriot platform was all just another big grift that would collapse or maybe fizzle out like some of Tamo's previous schemes for extracting money from his followers, but it appears to actually be a more serious endeavor as well as no doubt also being a grift. Now he's claimed to have 40,000 people signed up to Patriot platform. This number should probably take in with the grain of salt, but still being able to get several hundred people somewhere unannounced and in a place for 730 AM is not a easy feat. Saturday was a proof of concept.

25:19They pulled it off successfully. They had the numbers to look impressive and intimidating, plus they got top billing on the news. So this success will be a big morale boost for them, and more people will want in on the next action because of the success of this one. This also gives Danny Tamo a lot of individual power as well. He can now command a mini army of gooms. Do you want 300 tough guys at your demo to set off the lefties? Better suck up to Danny Tamo then. They also borrowed the clothes of the left. Dover is a long history of being targeted by the far right as both the place where asylum seekers visibly arrive into the country, and also as home to the nationalist imagery of D-Day, Duncurk, White Cliffs, and Repelling Invasions. So fascists targeting Dover is nothing new. Indeed, fascists attempting to block the roads

26:23in and out of the port at Dover is nothing new either. However, Saturday was different to any previous far right demos in Dover. What was new was the secrecy, the level of organization, and the optics, all of which were massively magnified by the numbers that they got out. Once again arriving unannounced in those numbers and taking the police off guard has not really been done before by the far right and seemed very effective. Similarly, the level of organization and coordination needed to achieve this is new. And finally, the action was clearly attempting to look and act intentionally different from the rest of the far right. It is also obviously borrowing tactics and optics from anarchists in the left. This was a black block carrying out a

27:23direct action blockade for Christ's sake. The even had bust cards quoting Case Law from DSEI protests. Uniquely, for a far right demo, there were no flags, just an army of men dressed identically in black. It's essentially just stop oil, but much more intimidating. Similar borrowing of the tactics and imagery of the left has been seen in other countries, such as in Germany's decentralized black-block autonomous nationalists. In the UK, something similar has been tried by neo-Nazi groups like national action and white vanguard, but literally only in tiny numbers. Hamstrung by their pretty extremist ideology. Danny Tama was pulled off something on a much larger scale. Patriot platform are obviously going for militant image, right? The strategy is clearly not to win

28:24massive mainstream support, but instead to provide a pull of attraction for those fed up with flag-waving demonstrations and reform rallies. There are lots of very radicalized far right out there, itching for something more to do. They have been fed apocalyptic rhetoric about invasions and civil war for years, but most of the action on offer has been yet another march or another rally. On that front, it may not be a coincidence that this demo was at the same time as the opening for the Reform Party Conference. It poses a clear alternative for anyone frustrated with Nigel Farage's lot, looking increasingly indistinguishable from the Tories. If you want something more radical, you now have a place to come. Farage denounced the action, but they must have known that obviously

29:24that's what he has to do. New hero of the far right, Rupert Lowe, offered more vocal support suggesting that this is what would happen if you allow in all those immigrants. Overall, this is clearly a boost for the street far right and the electoral far right also. If this sort of action is going to be the model going forward for Patriot platform, then there does appear to be a fertile territory of tactics that the fascists have generally not exploited. They have mostly done either point A to point B marches or riots. All the in-between territory of blockades, disruption, etc. they have left to the left. So there's plenty of potential space the far right haven't explored. However, they are currently walking a fine line.

30:25The whole Patriot platform has been built on offering something different to mere demonstrations and promoted with the language of militancy, doing what needs to be done, etc. They have to keep offering things that both look strong, successful, and different to what the rest of the far right is doing. But Danny Tama has also been careful to keep publicly emphasizing that all of this is legal and peaceful. It seems entirely possible that the project could fail by leaning too far in either one direction. If it falls into the category of legal protests that don't feel challenging or militant, it will lose appeal. If it radicalizes into violence or illegality, then people and most importantly, Danny Tama himself might be getting their collars felt. Dover was an example of doing it successfully. They looked militant and scary but took no or rest. They looked disciplined partly because they faced no opposition from anti-fascists or the

31:30police. But it will be a challenge to keep growing the project and finding new targets in this careful terrain of being edgy, but not getting nicked. It is the intermediary space of blockades, direct action, disruption that exists between legal-approved point A to point B marches, and violence that the state is progressively closed to left wing activists over several years. This has resulted in many on the left thinking that if you're going to go to prison for sitting on the road, then it feels like you might as well smash up a factory. The far right seemed to be moving into territory that is new for them but had been progressively shut down for the left. Relevant to this, the main obvious problem on the horizon for Patriot platform is the cops. I imagine the police are going to pay attention when 500 strong far right black blocks roll up into town. They got away with it this time. It's one thing surprising that Kent Police Department at 730

32:33in the morning, but trying that with the met will probably bring a different response. Also in its battle against the left, the extinction rebellion, Palestine action, etc etc. The state has now equipped itself with a massive raft of anti-protest laws which enabled them to send you to prison for merely talking about blocking a road or walking slowly along one, let alone shutting down key national infrastructure like the port of Dover. It remains to be seen if the government will be as fanatical about applying its new laws to the fascists as they have been about applying it to, I don't know, 80-year-olds holding cardboard signs in solidarity with Palestinians were being genocide by the Israelis. The masked up Patriot platform won't look so cool if they just start getting bundled up into the back of police fans as been the case with extinction rebellion and others. They might find it progressively harder to match their initial success under increased police attention.

33:38No sooner were people just attempting to come to terms with the disturbing events in Dover than a new flashpoint erupted in Portsmouth. On Sunday, the day after, lifeboats rescued 150 people in a dinghy sailing towards the Isle of White, and attempted to bring them into Portsmouth Harbor. Danny Tamaugh now had a chance to show off the ability of Patriot platform to function as a sort of rapid response network in some twisted fashion to summon numbers on short notice. He immediately started telling people to travel to Portsmouth and try to stop the asylum seekers, being brought ashore or transported onwards. People did travel significant distances to join the blockade, including neo-Nazis from White Vanguard, or, you know, Alex Urbary's weird national rebirth party. At least a couple of hundred far-right supporters were involved in a standoff with the cops and into the small hours of the morning as they blockaded the coaches trying to take the asylum

34:39seekers to the reception center. They broke through some police lines, smashed some car windows, and tried to block coaches with concrete blocks in the road. After many, many hours, these buses eventually arrived at the processing center in Dover because of a heavy police escort. Portsmouth was messier and a very different thing to the obviously well-planned Dover action, but it shows their ability to get out significant numbers at short notice, our inability to oppose them, as well as how Saturday has boosted their confidence to be able to stop, blockade, and disrupt some of the machinery of immigration and asylum to which they object. The far-right are monitoring live shipping trackers in Danny Tamaugh is now calling for demos across the South coast of England and declaring his ambition to stop any migrants from being able to be landed anywhere. Again, Portsmouth showed a borrowing of tactics from the left. Often it has

35:40been us blockading the coaches and the buses that were used to move asylum seekers in order to stop people from being deported. And this is now being used by the fascists. It poses a new challenge for us. Despite the potential issues we might be able to foresee for this new far-right force, and despite increased attention from the police that we might suspect could be coming their way, we clearly can't wait for Patriot platform to fuck up or rely on the state to take care of them for us, especially when in three years time the far-right might be the state in England. Both Saturday and Sunday's events represent a big escalation and a new challenge for anti-fascists. Without either information giving prior warning to their intentions or the ability to mobilize large numbers swiftly, this form of action is clearly difficult to counter, which suggests some thought should be given to both of these things. Better intelligence and our own rapid

36:41response networks are definitely things that we need to be working on. But further than this, this new threat exists against the backdrop of racist demonstrations up and down the country every weekend. Periodic programs driving migrants from their homes now normalized as barely newsworthy. Tommy Robinson demos can draw hundreds of thousands to Central London, and reform solidly commands about a quarter of the vote. However challenging Patriot platform may be to confront, and, however, dispiriting the overall political conditions, it is also this wider context that they draw from that we need to combat in all its forms, knowing that any blow struck against any aspect of the far-right ecosystem will also impact their ability to operate. So that is sort of what's been going down in England. And I find it pretty concerning. You know, I think one of the things

37:42that the left has done over the last few decades is develop a toolkit, a tackle box, develop a set of skills, a replicable set of skills that can keep people out of trouble while doing the Lord's work while trying to fight against injustice while trying to fight against environmental devastation while trying to fight against racist xenophobic policies while trying to fight against ice while trying to fight against fossil fuels while trying to fight against the police while trying to fight against capitalism. There's been a toolkit that's been developed, and one of the one of these items in the toolkit is the black block, right? And not every protest should be a black block, and you shouldn't show up to every protest in a black block, and you should really only show up to a black block and a black block. But to see that the far-right is now mobilizing this tactic for their own benefit against immigrant populations and migrants who are traveling in trying

38:47to seek asylum in the UK is really disturbing. And you know, it really wouldn't so the way that these things work, like you might be saying, Sam, I live in Brooklyn. Why are you talking about England? I want to know about Zora and Mamdaing or whatever. The way that social movements, and yes, they're a part of reactionary right-wing social movements, I guess, I don't know, but the way that these things work, right, is they inform one another. And we learn from and pick up the tactics and the strategies and the slogans and the ideas of our comrades on the other side of the world, and run with them for our purposes, right? And I'm a little bit worried that this could come over to the US, and I don't really know what we would do if it does, if the right-wing takes... No, no, no, you know, things are a little bit different here, right? Like, like Antifa really is the boogeyman, and the sort of, you know, the outfit of Antifa is the black block. So to see that

39:52try to be reclaimed by the right would complicate the state's narrative of demonizing people who wear black to protests, which they've done during J20. They did that during StopCop City, and they did that in Prairieland, and they've done it many more times too. Like, anyone has ever gone to a protest and seen somebody dressed in all black, be like singled out and chased by the cops, knows what I'm talking about. So it would certainly be a novel development where the right-wing to try to steal that aesthetic here in the United States. It's obviously not a good thing. We don't want, you know, I don't know, I don't know. It makes me pretty sad. It's sad to see how well organized the far right is, the xenophobic right, in England. It's hard to watch that. Right now, it seems like a lot of these, we don't really have this happening in the US right now.

40:53I'm not 100% sure why. Maybe the right-wing people are just in disarray, relationally, and don't trust one another, and are all clout chasing grifters with bad and the ethics in morals, so nobody wants to work with one another, and they can't coalition builders, something like that. So I don't know. All right, I think the last thing I'm going to talk about today is some good news. We are past the climate tipping point. I'm sorry. A new UN report has basically effectively killed the 1.5 degrees Celsius climate target that has essentially anchored global climate diplomacy since the Paris agreement. Last week, the UN Environmental Program released a report called Limiting Overshoot. God, that's a depressing title. Limiting Overshoot, it's the best weekend muster, and its bottom line is Stark. On the world's current

41:53emissions trajectory, of course, that is CO2 emissions, the best realistic outcome is a warming of about 1.8 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century. UNEP, which is the UN's Environmental Program, their executive director's name is Inger Anderson, and he really didn't sugarcoat it at the briefing where they announced this report, essentially admitting that the world had, quote, climate procrastinated, end quote. Essentially that everyone understood what needed to be done decades ago and simply didn't move fast enough. I mean, come on, Inger Anderson, you know why we're not, you know why we're procrastinating. There are people with names in addresses, names in addresses Inger Anderson. But what makes this notable isn't just the number itself, it's the sort of symbolism behind it. This 1.5 degree Celsius target has been the rallying

43:00cry of nearly every major UN climate summit for a fucking decade now. In Glasgow, in 2021, it branded itself about keeping 1.5 alive. Cool. Last year's COP 30 in Brazil closed with language about keeping the goal within reach despite the fact that global temperatures had already blown past 1.5 degrees Celsius back in 2024. The distinction that matters here is between a single hot year and the long-term average, which if you listen to our show, you know I'm all about that long-term average, which is the actual metric that the target was built around this 1.5 degree. I've never really given a flying fuck about the Paris Accord precisely because when it passed all the way back years ago, every single person who has a brain at all was like, yeah, that's not going to do anything.

44:03No one's going to abide by this. The large multinational fucking petroleum and coal and oil and gas, king of lomerates and the United States government that rides their dick so violently is not going to give a shit about your non-binding Paris Accord. Lo and behold, Trump ditched it, right? So it's like, I'm not like, no, you're not abiding by the Paris Accord. I'm just sort of like, bro, bro, come on, man. You can't even abide by the Paris Accord. That's like the lowest fucking thing you could do. Dude, that's the lowest thing you could do and you can't even do that. Okay. Well, the average we're now projected to cross that threshold, that long-term average, and just a few years, 2030. Oh, man, you ever think like someone says something like, oh, yeah, 1976. And you're like, oh, those 30 years ago, 1976. That was about 30 years ago, you know,

45:09because 1970, 2000 minus 1970s, 30. So that's 70s for 30 years ago. And then I'm looking at the word 20, 30. I'm saying that that's happening in just a few years. And I'm like, dude, 20, 30. That means that I've been alive for 36 years. That's a long time. I don't know. How do we feel about the passage of time? Sound off in the comments. Pro time, anti time, do we will even time? Do you like getting old? Is getting old? Good. Do you miss your youth? Do you have crow's feet? Okay. So this report is really the UN's only, I don't know, scientific and diplomatic apparatus, which formally concedes what the climate scientists have been saying informally for years. This number, this 1.5 that's defined climate ambition since the Paris Accord, it's no longer achievable. Right? Like this, this is this sort of diplomatic, like, it's the language that the diplomats and

46:15the bureaucrats and the technocrats have deployed. How do we prevent 1.5 degrees Celsius? And now that's shifting. How do we manage overshoot? We are admitting now on a global scale of the United Nations that we have overshot our goal. Yeah, overshoot is not the right term for this. Yeah, overshoot, I mean, overshoot is like, you know, it's like when you shoot a basket and you throw it too far and you like hit Travis who's sitting in the stands and like he spills his slushy all over Meredith Snatchos. Like that's an overshoot. This is, I'm a apocalypse, man. I don't know, dude, but it's like, that's what we're talking about now, right? It's like we climate procrastinated now we need to limit overshoot. Dude, can't wait, when, when, when are we going to start talking about things in clear terms? When? Like, like, I'm so sick of reading these fucking news articles that

47:24use terms like climate procrastinated and limiting overshoot, right? Like, like, that's not clear and accurate. You're trying so hard to be like objective that you're like obfuscating the truth, right? And the truth of the matter is that there are powerful entities destroying our planet and destroying our future and destroying our lives in the here and now and it would not be impossible for the people to rise up and stop them. That's the truth is that it is possible for us to do that and for some reason all of these entities, even if they claim that they want to stop them to won't say it and they certainly won't fucking do it and they still put people in trouble when they try to do it. How do we manage overshoot? Global revolution, baby. Global revolution.

48:29All right, I got one more piece of news for you. Another good one. Long time piece of anarchist infrastructure, no blogs is shutting down. We have talked about no blogs on this show. Many of times, specifically during the StopCop City movement, there was Defend the Atlanta Forest at noblogs.org, which was a report back for, you know, direct actions that happened in support of the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement. So no blogs, the anarchist blogging platform that is hosted activists and movement content for over two and a half decades is shutting down for good. It's run by Autistici in Ventati, an Italian hacker collective and it's provided free, privacy focused digital infrastructure, email and hosting chat, all of fucking works man, to activists since 2001. On August 26th, the US Treasury Department designated AI, which is the

49:31I'm sorry if you're listening my Italian friend, out Tistici and Ventati, AI, that's what I'm going to call it, AI. This is the good AI, not the bad AI. They designated AI as a specially designated global terrorist. Oh, that's quite the title, alleging the collective supported groups like Antifa and the PKK. AI is disputing that characterization as you might imagine, but the designation alone has triggered some pretty serious legal and financial exposure. Their Italian bank, for example, immediately cut off their account. And things got messier fast. Just two days after the sanctions hit, the autistici.org domain went dark, flagged with a server hold status, excuse me, at the registry level, that's not good. Around the same time, no blogs itself got hit separately by an actual security breach. Someone exploited a software vulnerability to gain privileged access into face no blogs homepage.

50:37So you've got a global terrorist designation and a hack landing almost simultaneously, which made it genuinely hard to untangle cause from coincidence in the first few days of this mess. AI initially framed the outage as temporary while they worked to patch things up. But last week, they announced that they're closing down entirely, citing the ongoing legal and financial risk of operating under a US terror designation. Their farewell statement reportedly said that every day they've been online after August 26 was a small victory. But they've been forced to stop. A wind down period ending on September 25th. It's a pretty stark case study in how a sanctions designation can functionally end a piece of internet structure that we've been relying on for a long time. I'm going to read their thing that they published three days ago.

51:37AI shuts down. Stay human. The day we discovered that we've been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as possible. That we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free privacy-friendly autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. Stay human is not an empty phrase to us. It means above all that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity. We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists, and agencies that take extra legal courses of action. The possibility that our work

52:37may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us or even have something to do with us leaves us no choice. AI is shutting down. The Autistici and Ventanti collective is shutting down and will discontinue all of the services we provide. There is no weasy way to announce or explain this. Every day we have stayed online since August 26, 2026 has been a victory, but we are now forced to stop. None of us holds heroic gestures and martyrs in high esteem. Therefore, we demand no sacrifices, not from us, not from anyone else in this political climate continuing to offer our services and dangers, our users, and anyone who is a part of our communities and a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate. Under these circumstances, we are no longer able to maintain our original mission, offering secure and non-commercial digital tools. These 25 years have been amazing.

53:39It's been an incredible ride. Now, turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other, and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human. We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes, and websites along with technical recommendations, but keep in mind that just as the Autistici domain org was made unreachable without previous notice, and the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict. Notably, their statements over. Notably, notably. Notably. It took 11 days from their designation as a terrorist organization to getting their finances completely frozen and then choosing to shut down entirely. No shade on AI at all for making what I'm sure is a very hard choice under a lot, a lot, a lot of pressure, but it is a bad sign. It is a bad sign that it took less than two weeks for our

54:42enemies to destroy a 25-year-old piece of critical infrastructure for revolutionaries around the globe. We should expect our enemies to be emboldened by this. We should anticipate more attacks soon, or unless there is major pushback. His also points to the compressed timeline that we're living in. It's hard to rally support and mobilize a strong counteroffensive in under two weeks, but that may have been the only thing that could have changed, or at least delayed this outcome, worth thinking about as we move forward. But I will close our episode today with this. Back in 2013, two private email providers were hit with data requests from the federal government related to the investigation of Edward Snowden. They both opted to shut down, disband, and delete all of their data rather than cooperate.

55:43At the time, this was understood as a huge flex against the state and a principled stance, indeed. You can threaten our money, our brand, and infrastructure. But we're fine to just burn all that because it wasn't our source of power. Those people simply reconvened under different banners to work on the next generation of anonymous private email, which is a part of the story that led to a little known platform called Proton Mail that you or some of your friends might use today. Until next week, party on.