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May your place of work be haunted by the fact that a genocide unfolds a world away, humanitarians are being seized as hostages, despots expand their wars of ego, and a fascist is launching a play at martial law against law abiding citizens on US soil with more to come. Happy Monday Capitalism!

It’s worth noting that our misinformation crisis never helps move the needle towards non-violence or kindness to our fellow man, and only towards worsening fascism and delightful cruelty. When lies can propel martial law but truth can’t achieve any policy we are doomed.

I’m assuming the US is going to start bombing IOF vessels for intercepting ships and taking hostages in international waters? This is what we would do if they were taken by Houthis, yes? How is this different? Oh right, we are Nazis.

Trump is escalating tensions in an attempt to exert the force of Martial Law. Prepping Marines for legal demonstrations while his own forces start fires and shoot at civilians is as fascistic as it gets. We see you.

We are watching a fascist false flag assault on one of the largest cities in the world in one hemisphere while the best among us have been seized by the IDF sailing to end a genocidal blockade in another. - it’s Sunday night and millions prepare for their bullshit jobs as if nothing is amiss.

GRETA AND THE CREW OF THE MADLEEN HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED BY ISRAEL. ALL EYES ON GAZA, NOW MORE THAN EVER.

THE MADLEEN HAS BEEN INTERCEPTED AND IOF IS ON BOARD. THE WORLD IS WATCHING.

Militarized forces are about to brutalize lawfully gathered US citizens on domestic soil. This is fascism. There are no riots, only an occupation by the Emperor’s Men.

All eyes on the Freedom Flotilla. All eyes on Gaza. All eyes on Los Angeles. Across the world people are standing up.

Performative activism is taking roids and jerking off into a mic like a dipshit about being an alpha male and how woke go broke all day to your degenerate base. Real activism is sailing a civilian vessel unarmed into a genocide with material aid with only the conscience of the world as your shield.

Joe Rogan calling for the murder of humanitarians should disqualify him from public discourse, but of course it won’t. We have no scruples as a society anymore. The crueler you are the more emboldened you are encouraged to become by rising fascist tides.

At what point does it become enough for the public to open their eyes? Do the fascists need to get on TV and say “We are starting the fascism today”? Is the footsie they are playing with martial law after having started with a fash salute not enough?

They are “occupying” a US city with a belligerent external military force under orders of the President specifically to incite violence so they can enact martial law.

Didn’t America elect the guy that loved insurrections? The valiant people of LA should flood the streets with MAGA hats as they stand against tyranny so the good people of the National Guard will simply mistake them for peaceful Jan. 6 Freedom Enthusiasts and not pesky habaes corpus defenders.

They fired on reporters. They lit the blaze with flashbangs. They corralled civilians. This is military brutality against us in our streets. The time for theoretical considerations of whether we have a fascism and constitutional crisis is long past. Where are the Democrats? Fluffing Israel.

The chaos in California is coming to you. Aspiring Dictators don’t leave stones unturned. Decide who you are before they send troops to deport or kill your neighbors - …especially you, White Liberals.

President Trump signed a memo to federalize 2,000 National Guardsmen, arguing the deployment is necessary to combat “lawlessness” in L.A. The move comes over the objection of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who said it'll escalate tensions over immigration raids in the area.

Civil War is when people go to war with each other. What we are seeing is more akin to an occupation and execution of the Administrative State followed by an assault on the American People by its own government via the National Guard and a junta-PMC called ICE funded by bitcoin Nazis. Cryptonacht?

What Newsom does or doesn’t do in the coming hours and days to defend his constituents from a tyrant’s overreach could decide the fate of Western Democracy itself.

Everyone needs to understand what’s happening: 1. Trump sends ICE forces into liberal strongholds to agitate the population and sow unrest. 2. Trump allows unrest to fester and escalate largely due to his own belligerent occupying forces

Fascists militarize the streets ASAP once they consolidate power under the guise of restoring order and then never relinquish it willingly. It’s what the Nazis did. It’s what Israel does in Gaza. It’s what Trump is doing in LA. This is how martial law begins and democracy dies.

The man who didn’t move a finger on Jan. 6 to defend the highest office is deploying the National Guard where unrest is sowed by his own belligerent occupying force of ICE mercenaries. This is how democracies Fall.

If the moral rot of living in a society propped up by giddy genocide and escalating fascism doesn’t eat at your soul you may not be fully awake. If you have reflected on these things and still feel nothing, accept that the road to antifascism sometimes ends in the self-discovery of evil.

As ICE besieges LA, recognize that this is a pilot run at using military force to bring disloyal economic zones to heel under the Regime. The first shots in the fight for the soul of this nation are already being fired with tear gas and riot gear at civilians. They are the Emperor’s hit squad.

A country that insists protesters objecting to militant occupying forces in their communities are terrorists, but the belligerent occupying forces are just good people with feelings is a fascist country. We all have families. We all have fear for our safety. From ICE. Abolish the ICE Gestapo.

Mary Miller, a Republican congresswoman from Illinois’s 15th District, saw a Sikh religious leader deliver the morning prayer in the U.S. House, assumed he was Muslim, and posted that it was “deeply troubling” and “should never have been allowed” because America was “founded as a Christian nation.”

🔴 At least 22 Palestinians have been killed across Gaza since the early hours of Saturday, medical sources told Al Jazeera. Fifteen bodies were received at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, and seven more were brought to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

🇵🇸Palestinian Ministry of Health - Gaza 🔴 Daily statistical report on the number of martyrs and wounded as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

Freedom Flotilla Coalition Press Release: While enroute to Gaza, 'Madleen' responded to a mayday relay from a Frontex drone in the Central Mediterranean. ‘Madleen’ immediately contacted Greek and Egyptian authorities. However.../2

Gaza awaits the Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel Madleen.

I do not mean to diminish the incredible damage done to science research since January 20, but this exact "brain drain" has been happening across higher ed since at least 2008, and esp. in the arts and humanities as those departments were cut first and overrun by adjuncts roles - that was a warning!

It’s so easy to become numb to it. All the suffering. It’s so ingrained, persistent, normalized. Even the ones who’ve been shaken from sleep can feel themselves drifting back, the tide of it all washing over like white noise.

The dual loyalty to a rules based world order that rots the Neoliberal heart of the West was introduced the day we decided to hang Nazis in Nuremberg while building an anti-socialist world with them across multiple hemispheres. Every Gazan child’s fate was sealed that day. Evil comes full circle.

White Western Christofascists abide the brutality of Israel’s Zionist settler colonialism because even though many of them are Nazi-aligned antisemites, their faith in apocalyptic prophecy and their interest in the pilot of a Judeo-Christian ethnostate in contrast to BIPOC sovereignty comes first.

The irony of being a Leftist in the West, where we have been demonized for being staunchly anti-fascist by conservatives and liberals alike, and where we now face a totalitarian police state hellbent on suppression and detention of any resisting their settler colonial and ethnic cleansing projects.

The simple truth of Gaza is this: If you time and again state you cannot wage a war against terror without the slaughter of civilians - that there is no other way - you are admitting that your war is not against terror - it is against civilians. And a war against civilians is a genocide.

Democrats plan is now to allow your life to get bad enough that you rise up and defend democracy for them while they go on book tour.

The people that should be leading the charge defending democracy from fascism and the world from genocide are instead defending Israel from op-eds while our collective coffin is nailed shut.

The fact that Democrats are saber rattling at Iran while domestic fascists dismantle the Administrative State, habeas corpus, and free speech protections piece by piece as they actively fund a genocide is directly the result of their utter coopting by lobby interests and Zionist ideology.

Our ability to compete with China on the global stage now rests entirely on the assertion that a stoned 22yr old can write regex perfectly

When you want Americans to be arrested for helping America's allies fight America's enemy, that can only mean one thing: You are one of America's enemies.

When the head of FEMA admits under oath they are unaware of hurricane season, do you think you live in a safe country? It’s not immigrants making you unsafe. It’s not terrorists. It’s Trump’s know-nothing cronies running our nation and the world like a ship of fools.

Liberalism too!