This is a point I made in my recent piece for @renewaljournal.bsky.social - when it comes to the current cast of characters who dominate politics, anyone who hasn’t been listening to QAA, True Anon, Chapo, etc is playing serious catch-up. Constant shock @ known stuff. renewal.org.uk/articles/in-...

Anyone up for a Dip in DC today?

Please Sir I dont want to bite you, sir. It's not in my nature, but the hunger overwhelms me. So, a quiet prayer to you. A polite request for a little more. Just enough to survive, sir. Just enough to feed my young. Just enough to live in this box you made for me.

Y’know, Oregon has a particular way of dealing with things that have beached themselves and died…

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

I also have to applaud whoever picked the headline on this Science article by Ben Shouse, explaining the physics involved. Dad Joke Nerdy Science Joke 🤝

Take a look at this insane image the Illinois College Republicans posted and then read their statement about how they're not trying to excuse or glorify violence.

Remember.

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?

I say this honestly and seriously: ICE agents are monsters. The process of dehumanization matches Newton's Third Law: every act of denying humanity, of ginning yourself up to commit atrocities, of convincing and being convinced that others must be subjugated and/or killed, rebounds.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

DHS spending bill passed 220-207 7 Democrats voted in favor: Henry Cuellar Don Davis Laura Gilles Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Jared Golden Vicente Gonzalez Tom Suozzi Massie voted No Andy Harris didn't vote Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn't whipping them to do so

Please read and share this. It shapes all my thinking about the future of the US right now, and it explains why Trump and the GOP are behaving the way they do. There is a near zero chance a Democrat will be sworn in as President in 2029, no matter how people vote. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸

They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident. The industries that illegal immigrants often work in — like landscaping and construction — are far more deadly and dangerous work than being an ICE officer.

I have written on this tactic for over a decade. I hold a research grant on vehicle ramming attacks, and I curate what I believe is the largest database of these incidents, over 500 cases worldwide since 1987. 2/7

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

What will you do when you realize peaceful protests won't stop them?

Let's put Appalachia back to work by creating a jobs program in which they throw ICE agents into abandoned coal pits

That's murder. That person is trying to get out of the fucking way and murdered in cold blood.

This is the video.

Are there laws or aren’t there? They taunt us, they kidnap us, they kill us. Will anyone protect us??

MPR news on the Minneapolis incident

Border Patrol shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis about an hour ago. DHS claims the murdered woman attempted to ram them -- but DHS, ICE, and CBP have repeatedly lied about their officers' overreactions and wanton violence as responses to threats.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

What's so frustrating in this moment of explicit government censorship is how many times groups like the ACLU and others told us they _had_ to defend neo nazis because of the principle of free speech. Now that fascists are in power, none of those principles are protecting marginalized groups.

The contrast between ordinary citizens courageously confronting Trumpist bullying, and billionaires and CEOs obsequiously bending the knee– this spectacle in its clear simplicity provides a lesson we should not forget.

“Now is not the time” has been the mantra of the Democratic Party elite for literally the entire time I’ve been alive - and the prominence of that mantra has coincided with Dems destroying their New Deal coalition, losing power, and handing the government over to MAGA

Medieval story time (that is actually about Alligator Alcatraz merch): Let’s talk about Godwin Sturt and how he merchandized the death of his 12-year-old nephew in 1144.

these stupid assholes think they’re going to be able to have a firefight in the morning, walk away from a cool explosion at lunch and take the family out to chili’s for dinner and I cannot stress enough that is not what civil war looks like

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

It should disturb you and drive you stark raving mad that this very basic and very elementary analysis is excluded from basically all mainstream discussions and debates.

NEW: Evanston has released video + reports surrounding a 10/31 incident where a CBP agent threatened to shoot people + another beat a handcuffed man. We found some disturbing X posts from one of the feds, also seen in other viral videos. His name is Timothy Donahue, and it's now public record:

MIT recently completed the first brain-scan study on #ChatGPT users—and the results are deeply revealing. Rather than boosting brain function, prolonged #AI use may be dulling it. #science #MIT #brainscience #sciencesky www.media.mit.edu/projects/you...

The writers of the Constitition never intended for a criminal tyrant to be president.

It's worrying to see it from the conservative elites and it's also happening to more rank and file right wing posters, too.

One of the interesting things in psychology is that once a person does a bad thing it becomes easier, and easier to do the bad thing. It's the initial doing of the bad thing that is the hardest part, breaking a social norm, crossing that rubicon. And the primary reason for that is normalization

A must-read long form explanation of what to expect if/when antifascism is designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization—leading to "unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism authorities into the domestic political space." Written by the DOJ's former Counsel for Domestic Terrorism. 1/

We applied U.S. intelligence tradecraft to assess democratic decline. The indicators were clear: executive overreach, weakened checks, manipulated elections, and loyalty over law. We must take the risks seriously. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Donald Trump has destroyed the East Wing of the White House the right way. by Ezra Klein

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