But also deep organizing draws heavy repression. Look at all the unsolved murders of Ferguson activists. Look at the state of Florida as a whole. There are administrators and leaders still salivating about getting back at students in the UC after the successful grad student strike a few years back

Evil fucking shit

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

PSssssssstt. It's a Global Far Right Power Grab.

AOC: An agency that is attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping five-year-olds and using them as bait, and privately circulating the idea that they can violate the rights of Americans by busting down their doors—they deserve to be defunded, and I’ll take any step in that direction.

Reminds me of the always-red traffic light in Chechnya, and other impossible-to-follow laws in regimes that wish to apply punishment selectively

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It really is insane that this is how we got here. A bipartisan freak out to run cover for Israel, handing the platform to Trump bsky.app/profile/joeb...

Going out on a limb, but I think it's bad for the world's richest man to have his own pet federal judge he can direct all his cases to.

Washingtonian Problems posted this video earlier of what looks like FBI agents shooting flash bangs at people during a traffic stop yesterday (1/21)

Fascists hate actual history.

Something lost on JD Vance—and much of the news media—is that no legal or other reason existed to arrest the 5-year-old child’s father either. Not even the administration has articulated any reason to cage people while their asylum or other cases are proceeding.

The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them. (Published Nov. 2025)

They didn't want to air Sesame Street in Mississippi because it was integrated.

You cannot claim to be a Democrat and vote to finance fascism. Any notion this will shore up your law enforcement bonafides will come crashing down as Americans see that the criminals are ICE and you just upped their weapons stash.

Local journalism may save us.

In 2022 we gave the IRS $80 bn. When Rs took the House they made rescinding that $$ the price of funding the govt. In each funding bill enacted since, large chunks of that were pared back Ds should do that for the ICE money from OBBBA. Paring back that $$ must be a prerequisite for funding the govt

In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her. Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.

median dem elite: 83 years old, fondly recalls calling cops on vietnam protestors in college. likes to remind people that israel is besieged on all sides by “the arabs.” median gop elite: 23 years old, got job because the veep liked their 4chan posts, 3rd son of food processing plant oligarch

It's really interesting that there are always Congressional Democrats in swing states/districts who have to cross the line and vote with Republicans in order to win reelection. Yet somehow, there are almost no Congressional Republicans whom that same logic applies to.

Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since. That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.

I'll be goddamned. They're actually going to pull a general strike.

Today's factoid from the history of US fascism: the guy who hatched the idea to publish Goldwater's Conscience of a Conservative in 1960 (the ur-text of US conservatism) was Leo Reardon. In the 1930s Reardon was Father Coughlin's manager & he'd traveled to Nazi Germany as Coughlin's representative.

Paige a real one

Fucking incredible.

For people asking “why isn’t there a general strike?” earnestly, and not just to be a judgmental prick

I know I will probably get flamed for what is an incredibly cringe and definitely borderline, at minimum, histrionic statement but what the fascist Republican Party is doing with acts like these are the preceding steps to culturicide.

As always, fuck cancer

Adult and three kids taken by ICE (or maybe CBP?) in Chicago today near 64th & Champlain per Kenwood/Hyde Park/Woodlawn Rapid Response. Focus is rightly on Minneapolis *and* it's still happening here.

Even through the most cynical Democrat-consultant-brain lens, “people can’t work and shop and go to school because of the gestapo raids” IS AN AFFORDABILITY ISSUE

There is no version of medical ethics under which this is anything other than lunacy

South Carolina wants to rewrite obscenity law to criminalize "profane" language and gestures. Bill 4123 would require age-verification to access Netflix, music videos, Judy Blume, Michelangelo's David and anything that might possibly be boner inducing. www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025...

Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."

I just think there isn't any other way to say this. He doesn't have any qualms about doing things that are objectively evil because he is an evil person. That's it.

Class break. Mom reminded me our family's enslaver's descendant found our elders (my great-grandmother's people) as a young man decades ago because *he went looking for them.* How many people think that way? "Let me go find those my family harmed and find out what I can do." It's all about repair.

Gavin Newsom has nothing to offer: defector.com/gavin-newsom...

Q: Did you uncover evidence to prove Trump knew his claim the election was stolen was false? SMITH: Yes Q: And Trump claimed it was stolen while he privately acknowledged he lost? SMITH: Yes Q: Yet on the 5th anniversary of J6, Trump still promoted the stolen election theory on a govt webpage

Ok so this propaganda is bad enough- now we’re arresting people for chanting at a church???? And calling it riots? As we parade a black woman out bcz black and riots go hand in hand in white supremacist minds?

I'll say yet again: Trump & his party do something virtually every day that constitutes a more violent & alarming suppression of speech than anything that happened during the entire alleged tyranny of woke. Every day. Yet the entire Free Spech army has just vanished into mist.

Jayapal: Did he spread lies and conpsiracies to his followers to make them believe that the election had been illegally rigged against him? Smith: Yes. Jayapal: Did he pressure DOJ officials to stop the certification of the election? Smith: Yes. Jayapal: Did he pressure Mike Pence...? Smith: He did.

Jayapal: Did your investigation find that Donald Trump attempted to manufacture fraudulent slates of electors in 7 states that he lost? Smith: Yes. Jayapal: Did he pressure state officials to ignore true vote counts in those states? Smith: Yes.

This. When folks from all walks of life are bravely resisting oppression, they are *living* the aspirational vision of America. Honor that. This isn't inconsistent with recognizing America's deeply rooted history of violence. Many on the front lines are chewing this gum and walking at the same time!

the reason the elite are so desperate to vilify hard-working people coming to this country to build a better life for their families, unleashing wave after wave of gutter racism in the process, is to distract from the fact that their incestuous degeneracy causes most of our actual problems

This is EXACTLY the problem.

Important to know that Armstrong is a reverend and that she and the protesters felt compelled by faith as well their commitment to civil rights. This is the state choosing which Christians they will support and which part of the 1A they will defend. Christian nationalism in action.

these are the lengths to which they will go to shield themselves from accountability

It’s a very strange, damaging choice that RFK Jr & the physicians in the Trump regime—Drs Makary, Oz, Bhattacharya, Høeg, Bhattacharya—are making Instead of dedicating themselves to controlling measles—including by doing everything humanly possible to promote vaccination—they’re just sitting it out

A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.

DHS hiding their ICE-should-ignore-the-4th-Amendment memo. DOD and Hegseth hiding the perfidy and firing on shipwrecked survivors war crimes in the Caribbean. The regime knows it's doing blatantly illegal things the American people oppose, and evidently fears public backlash.

the running theme of Trump 2.0: