Holy fucking shit.

There are forms of power that require consent: laws, rights, institutions, elections, norms, ethics, morality... They only function when all sides agree to a shared premise. We are no longer in one of those moments.

The *entire* purpose of ICE is to trigger massive, violent conflict and create the pretense for greater crackdowns, suspensions of laws and elections, etc. It has no other goal. Step 1 is the abductions. Step 2 is starting to unfold: the conflict with protestors. Step 3 is the police state.

The intentional conflation of online trolling with IRL violence.

Ask yourself: How a man who is so predictable create so much chaos? A system unwilling to recognize its own frailty. An elite resistant to questioning their legitimacy. People wishing things would go back to 'normal'. Waiting for some future moment of clarity vs. moving, now, to confront reality.

a lot of people are being radicalized by ICE this week so please remember that the most important thing when someone comes to any kind of radical politics is to immediately scold them for doing activism wrong as someone who has been doing it much longer

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

Thousands here now. Absolutely enormous crowd. People are chanting, "ICE out! Fuck ICE!" Organizers are taking the street but it's a slow process because there is SO much ice (the water kind). People helping each other up left and right after slipping.

Hitler and his Nazi goons used the "big lie" technique, which involved spreading lies repeatedly to establish a false sense of credibility. Joseph Goebbels oversaw this strategy, altering the German public's perception of reality. All fascist playbook. www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/b...

Warnock is helps folks to understand why elections won't defeat fascism. Only social movements can.

Laws. Aren't. Real. Stop looking to them.

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I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building. Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained. The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Spot the difference.

Institutions have always been bullshit.

They want you to be afraid. That’s why they respond to murder with two thumbs up. Don’t be afraid. As a general rule, never do what fascists want you to do. They want to intimidate regular folks from going out into the streets. So everyone should go out into the streets.

Listening to the MAGA hats talk about regime change ... The EU should host a summit on how to get rid of Trump and restore the rule of law to the US.

The US population is not going to mobilize against fascism unless it starts hurting white people.

Trump just said he's a king. Unbounded by law or the Constitution. Only restriction on his actions is his own morality. If Americans aren't in the streets tomorrow, everywhere, then delete July 4th from the calendar the same way elevators skip the 13th floor. If you're American, this means you.

Americans: You're going to keep letting black and brown people pay with their bodies so you don't have to break out of your day-to-day?

The sad thing is they aren't even good at fascism. It's school play-level sophisticated. And Americans are still rolling over for it.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

counterpoint: Walz was a kind person and effective messenger who was ratfucked by dem establishment because they view progressive reformers as a bigger threat to extraction class solidarity than authoritarianism

That's it 100%. And I can tell you, for non-Americans just the tone of the US national discussion is offensive. It's so damn clear that all those guys opining about war and peace do it from a position of detachment, fully expecting to not experience any of it ever on a personal level.

The level of raw fury from Canadians is like nothing I've ever seen; like there's always been a baseline, kind of smug "oh THOSE guys throwing their weight around" disdain in the background, but now *everyone* is fucking furious.

This guy has it bang on

THIS.

US corporations were the reason for the deal. Heat up the panini press for new double Dutch sandwiches.... US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals www.theguardian.com/business/202...

/Every/ country the US has invaded drive WWII has stopped them. At massive, violent cost. But the US lost in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Lost the War on Drugs and Terror, too.

He learned, with his taxes, that all he has to do is claim it's underway.

It is very important that, as seriously as you take Stephen Miller's inexplicably growing power over millions of lives, you take him exceedingly unseriously as a thinker and planner

Kind of refreshing that they are doing away with the bullshit cover narratives. But still FUCKING insane that they feel empowered to do this.

JFC, people! Who is committing that fucking fraud? Sure as shit isn't socialists. It's capitalists preying on good policy' just like they did during Covid. This whole thing is SUCH a gift to the Right. Why can't we learn... FFS.

There are criminal capitalists who will take advantage of every gov't decision. But the scope of right wing fraud (billionaire donors bribing Trump to take Venezuela's oil) dwarfs anything that could have happened in Minnesota.

The US population is not going to mobilize against fascism unless it starts hurting white people.

Congestion pricing is an unqualified success in NYC. It would be great to see it expanded to every city with decent public transit options. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Over my dead maple-syrup filled body.

Dems should announce that any American oil company involved in looting Venezuela will have its assets nationalized under the next President.

Nationalization is not theft. It's restoration. Capitalism is theft.

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

Le Pen is a nationalist within a nation that has no meaningful chance at empire. So this is convenient cover for their own project.

Remember Musk tried to back out of the purchase. It was an act of ego and dick measuring that forced his hand. He stumbled into its current use. I wish we would stop assigning to genius what's most easily attributed to luck.

Laws, facts, politics... None of that matters right now. Trump plows through them. Focus on building power.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

The irony of Avatar being the top film in the world right now.

Re-upping on what I wrote about war w Venezuela and lessons for any American antiwar movement from the post 9/11 years. theconnector.substack.com/p/war-with-v...

the wall street journal posted this literally 22 minutes into 2026 lmao. the ruling class is so desperate for this man to fail and for all his ideals to be beaten down into the dirt