This is slavery.

Trump is increasingly worried about his own mortality, and he's trying to use government to create a physical legacy that will outlive him. Which is why every bit of it must be torn down and smashed to bits. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-rena...

George Retes, 25, the U.S. Army veteran and father who made headlines earlier this year after he was stopped and arrested by ICE on his way to work, is speaking out in a new ad campaign launched to combat the DHS’s massive recruitment efforts. www.huffpost.com/entry/george...

Crazy how people fall for this over and over again—Marjorie Taylor Greene is not your ally!

This Nazi passed a bill to imprison trans kids' parents two weeks ago.

The world’s richest man and the GOP’s biggest donor is a gutter white supremacist.

There's a lot of recriminations flying around about past Trump impeachments and I would just like humbly to suggest we consider ways to force the removal from power of Stephen Miller. Could we impeach him? Defund his position? Bar him any access to legal authority? What tools can we conjure up here?

An exceptionally stupid and contingent set of circumstances made Stephen Miller the most influential ideologue in the US. There is no future for the left or liberalism that does not take as a core mission ensuring he is punished for his crimes & no one as hateful as him is ever close to power again.

In 2026, I hope that everyone will take opportunities to be with others however you can (in person or virtual). It offers energy and strength for what will be a rough year ahead.

My father read in the 1980s that there were over 12k unsolved murders in 1946 Germany. When he brought it up to my Bestefar, former Milorg, and my Nonna, sister of a partisano, they both just laughed and said those were the ones they knew about.

I don't know if he will enjoy what eventually happens to Nazis who aren't sent to prison, either.

@jbf1755.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I have gained *so much* insight and moral guidance and courage from Kelly Hayes's work over the years, and her Organizing My Thoughts newsletter has been an especially important and useful intervention as we navigate worsening fascist violence and control in this country. Please help if you can!

I don't believe that the people working with ICE are victims at all. They're awful people helping the GOP whiten America. They're kidnapping people with absolutely no criminal history. They're not telling families where their loved ones are. That's not "I need this job", it's racism and hate.

For example

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

I’ll never forget or forgive Biden & them allowing my friends at Columbia to be assaulted and arrested for simply voicing their stance on a genocide that’s still ongoing. Nor will I forget those Dems who laughed in those peoples faces whilst protesting outside a Dem conference.

I’m only 3/4ths through this book, but I’m wrecked. Lots of people have correctly noted that it feels important, but (a) he’s a damn good storyteller, and (b) it’s hard to read this and not constantly see how the attempt to prop up the violence of western hegemony wrecks all our lives

When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.

The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮

To claim that mass mobilizations "don't work" or "are useless" doesn't negate the fact that THEY HAPPENED and most people commenting on them DID NOT TAKE PART. LOL.

This year produced the single largest mass mobilizations in the country's history. Its entire history. I think that there are people who would say that this isn't true EVEN AS THEY ARE LIVING THROUGH THOSE MOBILIZATIONS. It's something to see.

The whole clip disappointed me including the part where Stewart said he asks people if they’re sick for why they’re masking. It’s like, none of your business?!?! Weirdo behavior.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Saturday.

That makes 32 reported deaths in ICE custody since Trump took power again.

How long until he drops a version of this?

A leaked DoJ memo calls for prosecutors to charge people who film ICE with “domestic terrorism” They don’t want their atrocities documented. They don’t want a historical record. They don’t want the world to know. That’s why we have to keep filming. Keep speaking out.

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You don't need to take my word for it. You can simply ask yourself what you would expect to see from an opposition party that was serious about abolishing ICE right now. Are you seeing these things from the Democratic party or from its voters?

It’s day 25 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities. The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands. We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.

I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.

This entire administration is filled with murderers. They are directly responsible for murdering millions by withdrawing vital aid around the world. They put up Hitler numbers in a few months. A few trans kids is a rounding error for them.

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RFK Jr is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 children in American Samoa from measles because he told them to stop vaccinating. Now, he's trying to kill trans kids. He's a fucking psychopath.

As a former Christian who sometimes misses having a religion, their weird mantle as being the “religious” party needs to be forcibly yanked from their grips. I will not be lectured about religion by a bunch of monsters who starve children and beat immigrants and the poor.

The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells. Americans once opposed this inhumane system. The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.

Don't conflate radicalism, power, and militancy with mere violence. Militancy can mean organizing your community, building networks to exist and survive, to hide people who are being persecuted, to expose and hound the persecutors, and yes - violence at last, if necessary to protect those things.

Your fear of militancy is being used against you by militants.

Don't bring a zinger to a gun fight.

There is no winning the debate with people who are already mobilizing all the force at their disposal to eliminate you. You either appease fascists by ceasing to exist, or you crush them with all the force at your disposal.

Calling out a fascist for taking a hypocritical position is easy. It's also a complete waste of time. Fascist rhetoric is aesthetics— pathos, never logos. You'll never get anywhere pointing out a fascist's hypocrisy. Fascism is not to be debated, it's to be smashed. Get comfortable using power.

I'm ready to be the type of Democrat the Democratic Party has needed this entire time. The type of Democrat who will fight Trump’s authoritarianism by showing up, not with strongly worded letters. The type of Democrat who will fight, not fold.