From 2017 “With love, your Eastern European friends”: YEAR 1 Under Authoritarianism What to Expect? *** 2. They will divide and rule. Their strength lies in unity, in one voice and one ideology, and so should yours. [more following] verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...

This is a years-long task, and it is early. If you plan to/have to stay,what can you/should you be doing now? Build your tribe. Gather resources you will use. Finish grieving your idea of the world of the past. Decide for yourself in advance how far you are willing to go and what you will sacrifice.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

If you’re not a radical by now you’re part of the problem.

Agreed. Time we all started evangelizing for The Enlightenment

Folks on the Right believe the buffoonish caricature of us on the Left because they want to. The fantasy version of the world is their safe place, fellow believers their tribe, and they won’t be convinced by our side until they let themselves. And I have no idea how we get there.

Nazi Germany wasn’t Nazi Germany until it was. Everything was normal, life went on until it didn’t.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

We’ve tried truth to power. Time now for power to power. For most movements, internal reckoning only comes after defeat. We owe them that.

If we just let the wealthy live tax-free unregulated lives, this would all be over, because they are willing to burn down the house with the rest of us inside if we don’t.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, if two of us have a contract, and you break it constantly, if I still follow that contract, it doesn’t make me principled, it makes me a chump. Conservatives have been breaking the contract for the last 40+ years. There is no consensus to be had.

If we are to believe this president won the election legitimately, our country is broken and must be remade. If we believe this president actually lost the election but was fraudulently installed anyway, our country is broken and must be remade. Grieve that fact and then let’s get on with it.

That is all…

Let me say this—a sustained protest movement must be non-violent if only because the other side has more dedicated personnel and weaponry. Rescuing people who are in the process of being abducted and disappeared is an entirely different enterprise. A can of corn is about .60 and lands like a brick.

Our new reality and it ain't pretty.

Reversing what has happened in our country only gets us the country that produced it to begin with. We must replace it with something better.

When the “Big” bill comes back to the house for reconciliation, if the Ds don’t pull out some ugly malicious devious Machiavellian parliamentary tactics to stop it, then it is time to label them as loyalists to the regime and be done with them.

STARVE THE COWARDS.

Being right, being passionate, being empathetic, being persuasive, being the righteously oppressed, it isn’t enough to win the day this time. Disruption and disobedience would be a really good starting place, and we can’t wait for the leaders to lead.

this is media theory class folks. please watch. it isnt 1992 anymore.

We should all starve the national democrats of money if they’re just going to make speeches and send strongly worded letters. If they won’t put their literal ass in jeopardy for us, let them earn a paycheck from someone else.

My unpopular take: cramming politics, society, govt, into oppressor or oppressed is foolish and counterproductive. Using this as a lens is thoughtstopping. Being a victim doesn’t equal being virtuous or good. This strain of thought is why gaining power feels repulsive. The Right has no such qualms.

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

Most right- wingers have been bamboozled, and their gut level response to anything Left or Democratic is based on a cartoon-straw-man image they’ve been sold. This means they simply aren’t able to listen until they have been beaten soundly. Save the outreach until this regime dies. Gain power first.

Please stop writing “we need a national strike” without explaining how you’ll deliver it. It seems like a simple idea, but is actually such a complex political outcome under our system that it may not be possible. We’ve been working on it for months, and every new pathway leads to 50 new challenges.

It is time to start dismantling the propaganda machine. Any legacy media (ABC, NPR, WaPost, etc) that bends the knee, cancel your subscription, don’t click their links, stop feeding them. #TheAtlantic #TheGuardian, #Meidas are doing it much, much better.

Advice and a shot—your Appropriate Measure for this week.

The purpose of non-violent protest in a democracy is threefold: weaken the government’s moral authority to act for the majority, slow the flow of human capital in support of the government, and strengthen the resolve of resisters elsewhere. Violence undermines all three.

These are the local law enforcement agencies that have asked to join ICE teams and are “pending “ :

These are the local law enforcement agencies that have signed up with ICE to do their work.

A return to the previous reality will never happen. Our mission has to be creating a system better than the ones that came before.

This is illegal. And if it’s not illegal, it should be. We have to fix this now.

People are only brave when they have to be. What would it take for YOU to be brave

Add 4 gallons of drinking water to your grocery list. Do it now while you’re thinking about it. Do I need to tell you why?

“How might we be in international solidarity [with resistance efforts against authoritarianism in countries like Turkey, Hungary and India]?”

For the idiots who post "Well this is what the pro-Palestinian deserves," Im simply blocking you. This is about free speech--not any one issue. The right is using this playbook today with Palestine and will then implement it on issue after issue where they want to silence dissent.

“It’s like the writer Karen Russell said: “ ‘To be a true historian you had to mourn amply and well.’ And that meant seeing this history.” Feeding Ghosts p56 by Tessa Hulls. If you’re mourning, that means you’re watching.

"There is no motive which induced me to put my life at hazard through our Revolutionary War, that would not now as powerfully operate on me, to put it again in jeopardy in defense of the independence of the judiciary." -Alexander Hamilton

Habeas Corpus=“Haul me to Court” and make the govt prove they have the right to hold me. Suspending Habeas Corpus means the govt doesn’t have to tell anyone why they have you.

Instead of the administration’ reinforcement of the cliche of the “elitist leftist,” maybe folks at @harvardkennedy.bsky.social could loudly give advice on maximum disruption to “throw sand in the gears.”

Manufactured Polarisation: Disinfo’s Divide-and-Destabilize Playbook Some disinfo campaigns don’t take sides. They take hostages. 🧵 How disinfo targets both ends of a debate to erode trust, not win arguments. #EUDisinfo2021 #NarrativeWarfare #CognitiveSecurity

“Protestors in #Minsk have adopted a different protesting technique and instead of one large gathering they are now grouping in local boroughs. This way there is not enough riot police to go around all boroughs. #Belarus” Consider this tactic as part of a greater strategy.

Upper middle-class old white guy here. Feeling the fear and powerlessness, but I now believe this immersion in fear is a baptism. I read “fascism is just colonialism felt by white people.” That gives the last 5 mos meaning, bc the hardest lessons hurt the most. But therein lies truth. And freedom.

Secret footage of Schumer, Jeffries, and the DNC plotting to save America. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

The Wisconsin oath of office: “I, the undersigned, who have been elected (or appointed) to the office of ...., but have not yet entered upon the duties thereof, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wisconsin…”

URGENCY “The United States is now pursuing policies similar to those of China’s Cultural Revolution. Considering how destructive the Cultural Revolution was to China, I think that if things continue this way, the United States will decline more than we can imagine.” #Resist

If you’re looking for another canary in the coal mine, NPR calling millions of protesters this weekend “not newsworthy” and 60Minutes bending the knee gives you two. This revolution most likely will NOT be televised, at least by the legacy media.

The difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism is a Pope who advocated for our most marginalized and a woman who considers him evil for doing so.

If you combine this kind of publicly available identity info + micro-level access to financial/social security info + ICE- adjacent govt contractors, 1984 looks adorable in its naivety. We can’t worry about being identified; they already know who we are.