Anarchists and antifa have been threatened with terrorist designation at least 5 times in the last decade: terrorism is an enhancement mechanism for charges that has been largely ineffective against decentralized movements, most recently Stop Cop City where terrorism enhancements have fallen apart

This is America

the war on cars is the most important war of our lives

Can't catch me napping

Go ahead and mute that guy, your feed isn't going to dry up too much

I'm optimistic it'll fall apart without the leader, those people are nothing if not in-fighters.

Telling that they call Jentelson a former aide to Harry Reid, which was a decade ago, and not Fetterman's chief of staff which was last year.

Spanberger stop campaigning like McAuliffe challenge

You don't have to be an asshole across the board (good to recognize when people are interacting with you in good faith) but giving no fucks about calls to civility from those who argue with lies and bad faith is important as ever these days.

you will never be amenable enough to the demands of a fascist tantrum to make it stop without selling your soul and becoming a fascist yourself. there is no amount of compliance that is acceptable short of absolute indoctrination. the more you bend, the more they push you down. stop helping them!

that’s why we’re seeing widespread harassment campaigns to get people fired. not because people “celebrated violence” but because they were not sufficiently compliant in following the messaging established by fascists.

A land of contrasts

That always turns out well, this safety by proximity thing. /s

Cville- Lisa Torres is unequivocally the School Board member who has one of my three votes. It’s not even close. Lisa listens, deeply cares, asks questions on all sides of an issue, & ensures well-rounded policy. She works for our community, not her own aggrandizement.

Nice sunset happening

Reminder that Axios is trash and frequently pushes the most right wing frame available. Shameful.

I want to say something that may be a little unpopular. It’s definitely something I find frustrating: you don’t have to post on social media about the thing that conservatives are using to target and fire people right now.

There is soooo much slop on FB and insta, it's painful to open those websites. Most of the slop is random eye-catching stuff but apparently there's a whole wave of disinfo as well.

I would never have guessed this would be her newest napping spot 😸

I guess my ideology of wanting more bike lanes and fewer cops is bad, but their ideology of destroying whole swathes of society can't be questioned. (In reference to that screenshot) Absolutely want politicians who stick up for the former and don't kowtow to the latter.

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

I think what’s happening often with the right gets angry about sexual violence is not outrage over the violence and indignity inflicted on women and girls, but outrage over a perceived usurpation of men’s prerogatives. “The elite are doing something you wish you could do and can’t.” Etc

Insightful anarchist analysis of our current political situation

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And again, if we're *only* talking abt the present & inexplicably exclude state violence, we're again looking at a conservative rate of violence that doubles that of left-affiliated actors (who also tend to use less lethal methods.).

The actual function of the school paper is for the student to write. genAI isn't actually an improvement over the old ways of cheating (getting someone else to write it), it's just more convenient. It's not going to outpace knowledge workers because their work is about product, not process.

Passiflora is a cool looking flower, but to have something that can outcompete porcelain berry is wild

It will be painful if the subsidies go away (like my premiums would go up ten-fold!) but the cost of helping the GOP politically is existential and the Dems seem too quick to capitulate. Fight dammit!

This rosebush is temperamental and constantly infested with worms (which I go through and pick off by hand) but I put up with it because these blooms are so worth it!

The strength of a community rising up together is a powerful force.

Christ! 😡

The story of America for the last 2.5 decades is the story of a country that refused to learn a goddamn thing It's really, really sad

Let me tell you how this will go. Community protests to Council asking to remove this funding. Council will say, but the schools are asking for this. Circular argument doesn't resolve and budget for cops in schools passes anyway.

Keep boycotting Tesla

I'm finding Chris is the most fearful of the bunch. Seems extremely concerned about "safety" and thinks cops make things better. Even after hearing Ms Cooper talking about how kids in some neighborhoods are subject to police raids and other forms of overpolicing.

Listening to the school board presentation on the return of SROs, and one thing that caught my attention was that the process of getting the MOU in place is not up for further SB votes. Sure they'll have "listening" sessions but the school admin doesn't really have any checks on moving ahead

I'm not saying this to warn people about how to act on the ground, but to warn you all about how to address this. Scolding folks about how to behave when their community is under siege is not the move. Don't scapegoat victims in advance. Talk about what the pre-scripted fascist narrative will be.

Wat? I just learned shacket is a thing but isn't that just a flannel shirt?

This is happening everywhere (take note Charlottesville.) Police departments are emboldened to push local leadership into adopting more and more draconian measures against people who are homeless.

Peaceful evening repose 😺

This assessment seems to be based on pervasive, but wildly ahistorical assumptions about fascism. There is the idea that fascism wasn’t superstitious and "criminally mad" - yet many of the leading fascists were crooks, quacks, and charlatans who believed in pseudo-science and Volkish hocus-pocus.

Yay! Needed a little levity today

I looked back @cvilleschools.bsky.social timeline on deciding to place police back in schools despite evidence that this move actively harms kids and found that it seems to be based on an analysis conducted by a firm called Navigate360. charlottesvillepublic.ic-board.com/attachments/...

Can anyone near the Corner confirm? Munch munch!

Let’s talked MOOD when we have cops handcuffing 5th & 6th graders at Walker again. Or when the cops are called because a 9th grader didnt turn in homework like happened at CHS. Or when we have a preschooler in shackles like they did at the school where CCS board member Emily Dooley was principal. 😡😡

The thing I don’t get about this propaganda is how absolutely godawful that photo is. Like it’s not attractive, or strong, or even forceful. It’s just badly lit, possibly CGI grampa glowering at the kids on the lawn. Not comforting or inspiring or even intimidating. Pathetic

Tell you what, they did not want criticism of their half-baked plan that they're moving ahead with at full-steam.

Correct. Basically any "FinTech" you encounter is no different from a bookie, loan shark, etc. They're not banks and they're not regulated like banks.

Basically, school admin is solving an administrative problem for them and they don't really want to hear criticism from the community. Majority of school board is complicit. 😡