I don't think anyone showing up to public appearances in a referee uniform is any kind of nutjob - unless they are a real ref and or don't use a whistle to punctuate their comments - that would be crazy

The theory of DHS, ICE and Trump is therefore this, that they may vilify others as much as they please, but that others may not vilify them.

The next two minutes of video show me offering to walk off with him since he's not being detained. He declines, because he "doesn't want to be rude". Less than two minutes later, they place him in cuffs with no explanation and stuff him into a car with NY plates.

Opsec is for when you’re doing someone you don’t want people to find out about. We want people to know there are millions and millions of Americans that are ready to defend democracy, whatever the cost.

People saying MLK talked about the white moderate 🤝 People saying MLK had a dream Not knowing what MLK was talking about

Lol this thread is pretty funny

What this post is ignoring is that the commandos from code pink are a sophisticated infiltration force, unmatched in modern history. For the night of the fight, they are gonna just keep tabs on Madea Benjamin and Jodie Evans so they don't pop up and scare DJT

It'd be much more effective if that reverend getting pepperballed in the face was visibly atheist instead and turned to the camera and said "I'm the same kind of communist as you"

Damn even the rizzler knows this is fucked - yes this guy is the rizzler - no I will not be taking any questions at this time

I’m sorry but I think folks can often be too harsh with Sarah. 95 Ds voted YES bc of leadership, why single her out so often? She got elected statewide in Delaware. Her path is challenging and this time is terrifying. I think the disagreements w/ her can be less personal. I care about her safety.

Will some journalist ask this guy what he thinks about DS2 visas?

Why did she vote to honor a man who called for Joe Biden to be executed along with endless racist remarks?

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Not to mention 2020, where the last wave of resistors to web culture were finally forced online, completely uninoculated to the slow creep of radicalisation (AND enshittification) the rest of us have built up a tolerance to. It must have felt like snorting a line off the Ark of the Covenant.

Courageous shit right here

Ehhhhhhh that seems fucking bad

For the first decade of the Red Scare there was deep bipartisan consensus that the government should not only rooting out communists from the government but locking them up and every public and private institution should help. There’s nothing like that level of support today.

People should get a demo of Palantir Foundry before they give out protest opsec advice. That's the last thing I'll say about it.

But it didn't happen overnight, and there was a window of opportunity where the state didn't have capacity for that, and the worst you faced was an overnight detention. Yet that was enough to put enough people off for the protests to never have a critical mass or be consistent.

"I would only make myself visible if it is completely safe and is also guaranteed to make a difference" is the view that most in the Russian opposition had adopted, and everyone can see the result.

This is a good point. Again - if you don't want to sign up that's fine and in some cases is probably smart. My broader issue wrt this discussion is that blanket rules don't help people understand the mechanisms of state repression. It just creates a boogie man. One that's both omnipotent and

A lot of people seem to not understand that both courage and cowardice are contagious and also believe that their acts of cowardice are acts of courage

generally speaking, and with the glaring exception of november 2024, the more directly democratic an institution has been, the better it has checked Trump (eg grand and petit juries); the more elite and insular, the less effective (the Senate, the Supreme Court, big business)

The thing about *effective* hybrid-regime censorship is that it starts by targeting people who are saying genuinely unpopular things, and you do that for a few rounds to create a social norm of "Free speech don't real".

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

92% of Americans say it's very or somewhat important that the media in the US can report the news without government censorship. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...

The light bills are too damn high!

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives were warning tiktok was dangerous because it was used to manipulate how young people think, then they did a one day stunt taking it partly offline before it came back "thanks to trump" showing 0 search results for political terms active earlier/elsewhere

If Joe and Hunter were in a father son sack race against Max and Sidney - I think you've got to be ridin with Biden.

People are just speed running this - ready to feel afraid to engage in basic free speech.

Guys you can't say you don't like our pedophile president with your real name - you gonna get put on a list! Wtf is this shit man.

And yet, we must reject the projections of inevitability and strength coming from the Trumpists. Being lawless doesn’t make them omnipotent. America is now existing somewhere between democracy and fully established autocracy. Preemptive obedience and surrender is the fastest way to dictatorship.

The inability of some on the left to distinguish between broad based family friendly symbolic protests planned nationally on a schedule and spontaneous protests or direct action demonstrations isn't helpful. Your grandma should sign up to attend the protest and go with all her friends - it's fine.

Blue sky labeled this post as "self-harm" which man ......

Nor even "an end to impoundment and rescission so that the budgets passed by Congress actually mean anything."

YOU PEOPLE CANT HANDLE A REAL ROTTEN TOMATO!

@postleftwatch.bsky.social the cross over no one asked for - that we all knew was coming

Someone actually could have an entire weekly show that just collects funny public meeting comments because these types of things always have at least one funny moment

For no particular reason, I’ve been thinking about the guy who obsessed about killing racial justice protesters, searched online about killing racial justice protesters, & told friends he may kill a racial justice protester. Then he killed a racial justice protester. And Gregg Abbott pardoned him.

“He already has the power to make federal agents show up at your door if you type your name into a box on your computer” is a paranoid delusional fantasy, and encouraging people to hold it helps it to become closer to true.

truly one of the most unintentionally funny things i've ever seen someone post online about themself

Evil even by ru standards

I feel like I’m losing my mind listening to right-wing politicians talk about how political violence is wrong and people who promote it should be rooted out and destroyed

@drhspoliticalcafe.bsky.social I forgot to post this earlier but basically anytime someone says "full armor of God" - it takes everything in my body not to yell "Jesus chroooustttt put on - full armor of God" and then just break into the robot because this video lives rent free in my brain.

Since we’re talking about political violence, know this: “The murder rate for Black politicians in Reconstruction was 2,317 per 100,000. This rate is 20 times greater than *any* *other* demographic in the United States as of 2020, where the highest homicide rate was less than 105 per 100,000.”

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

How long before Elon returns and demands that everyone email him with their social security number and an essay eulogizing CK?

So far most of the admin's efforts to rip the wiring from the walls looking for the liberal Wizard of Oz have failed badly and turned off normal people what they think exists doesn't and the collateral damage finding it will undo them