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I don't care about randos torching shopping carts. The police are using state power to attack journalists

Don't care about randos torching a car. The police are using state power to try and kill people

Street action to block ICE from illegally and violently invading residences and businesses is as peaceful as it gets. If the formal political system, including courts, cannot stop this violence, the final check on abusive power is mass action.

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

In case you think people shouldn't be fighting the government, this is what preceded. The government is committing crimes/violence against people. If not now, when?

I really, really need people to understand that as a function of supremacy, normal everyday people lie constantly about their intentions—to everyone, but perhaps to themselves most of all—and most often in service of protecting their ignorance and complacency, rather than any coherent ideology.

Just a reminder of the kinds of people we are dealing with

The real tragedy of young men today is not that they're being held back from success by a bunch of woke scolds. The real tragedy is that they're being told that success & happiness come through escaping all constraints, dominating & controlling others, & suppressing all vulnerability or weakness.

I think Jon is more bothered by the mentions here than on X/Twitter because at least there he can say they're all just nazis. Stings harder when it's ostensibly your peers

So California has @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom cozying up to fascists and stepping on the homeless like they aren't people and we've got @schiff.senate.gov and @padilla.senate.gov rubber-stamping to crime currency used for crime. And this is the "opposition" party?

You mean moving more right on something, like say, immigration, does nothing to gain favor among conservatives but craters the support from your own party? Interesting...

one of the most important things a political movement can do to gain public support is to make sure each individual segment of its coalition feels like a political pawn to be embraced or jettisoned at will

Ccing @thebulwark.com to maybe answer these 🤷🏾‍♂️

They never support their central premise/s. 1. What are the positions that dems/mods/reps disagree on? 2. Why are moderate so turned off by dems they disagree with but not as much by republicans? 3. Why can't/don't/won't the mods compromise with dems and what would that look like?

This is a very consultant-brain type of thinking bc swing voters aren’t “centrists” by any meaningful sense of the world. Their most salient ideological characteristics are, like, a general disinterest in “the news” and a loose and absolutely incoherent set of political beliefs

I've never felt more seen...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

What's odd here is that she could have said she wished more people would *want* to talk on a plane. Instead she says she just wants people to feel forced to have a conversation with her

BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month. The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Here's @notalawyer.bsky.social on 'The Free Press' conservatives attempts to rebrand "It serves mostly as a way for well-to-do conservatives to reassure themselves that their reactionary tendencies stem from something more respectable than the base bigotries and conspiracism of the MAGA movement"

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere

This administration sent 200+ fathers, sons, and husbands to be tortured in a foreign prison for the rest of their lives. 9 in 10 have no criminal record. None received any due process. If you *aren’t* outraged, you need to check your fucking humanity.

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

“How can you joke at a time like this?” Because I need to laugh or I will die

My expectations for this country are low but this shit truly makes me feel shame for being apart of it

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

HOLY SHIT. I grew up two stoplights over from Flower Mound. I never in my life would’ve expected to see a protest like this there. WOW.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

This is true for all images/video btw folks. I tend not to follow people who habitually skip the alt text

Downtown Los Angeles showed up #HandsOff2025