What would repealing the patriot act look like practice? How would the actual process of dismantling the post 9/11 security state actually progress?

Why would you do that? Why would it matter what they think or have to say? Why would you provide them an audience?

*holding up Greg Bovino by the scruff of his neck* damn son where’d ya find this one

The Maple Grove police have made at least one arrest and deployed pepper spray. Did not see what precipitated this "None of these are ICE! Calm down," one protester says "It doesn't matter!" another replies

you don’t have to say racist policing. it’s like saying atm machine.

Greg Bovino seen leaving Minnesota after his demotion (photo: AP)

It's not "getting it" if you are still only reacting to what is put right in front of your face instead of understanding that the present is a product of the past, whose inertia weighs on our future like a thousand suns

I think the best way I can describe what counterinsurgency is as the techniques used to destroy the social fabric of a people. It kills a population’s capacity and will to function independently from the imperialist system. The result is behavior which is used to justify ever escalating force

Rather than pat myself on the back for being right, I will reflect on how a lot of people I found really annoying were even more correct than I was, as we all should

Recs for accessible writing on the importance and value of studying theory? Today is going to be the first I hold “office hours” in my apartment building’s community room, trying to coax coworkers into a study group.

Drunk cop with an inexplicably bloody nose shouting weird shit at the press in a bad Bane impersonation voice *was* on my 2026 bingo card.

Building fire alarm went off at 04:00 and I can’t get back to sleep fuck me.

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes Picrew Avis

If you are a normal person you should say insane terroristic things to waste the surveillance states money. Just one dude for one hour even looking into you is already a waste of their salary

It’s -2000 degrees below zero. You just flashbanged yourself twenty feet from the front desk. Three hours sleep cause locals who hate you bang garbage cans outside your room all night. The Home2Suits has fallen and you’re not getting that signing bonus for another 4.5 years. Ass. It’s all ass, dude.

Dude is shit faced

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

bring back john brown and put him in the halo suit

Yup here we go. I’m so grateful we have the armed agents of the State to protect to us from the armed agents of the state. Foh

At least hundreds of thousands of Americans are going to need to be re-educated and deprogrammed to produce a populace capable of reproducing a socialist political economy. “Jail” and “prison” are institutions designed to repress and dominate. What we need are places of healing and reconciliation.

I have absolutely no qualms with killing these people if it’s the most functional and least cruel course of action, but it’s just not. If we can’t break out of the binary of either killing them or punishing them with lifetime imprisonment we haven’t solved the root issue

Am I on the discover tab? Why am I being flooded with pseuds incapable of understanding the difference between the expediencies of armed conflict and the process of peace and reconciliation?

There are an innumerable number of potential courses of action between “tolerating values and behavior incompatible with the society we’re building” and “execution”

The struggle against the political police requires special qualities; it requires professional revolutionaries. And we must see to it, not only that the masses “advance” concrete demands, but that the masses of the workers “advance” an increasing number of such professional revolutionaries.

I want to live in a world where I don’t have to constantly post this.

The people most adamant about killing fascists are rarely able to stomach the logical conclusion of their own position.

The highest-level capitalist cybernetic systems— the deep state; the real, material entities which require metaphor, magic, and spirituality to begin to conceptualize because they don’t fit neatly into the common understanding of individual purpose and intent— are using ICE and Trump as a heat sink.

Reddit doesn’t stop being a cognitive warfare operation because it agrees with you.

don't do this, subscribe to @racketmn.com

"But moral principles don’t exist only to guide immediate action. They structure how we understand legitimacy, accountability, and the limits of state power."

Which is the better deterrent: Videos of their carcasses being hung from bridges, or a new video of them- healthy, safe, and comfortable- every six months giving huge shuddering sobs of “I’m so sorry I’m sorry please I’m so sorry”?

First shot was fired into ground by pig who grabbed Alex’s gun. Haven’t seen this discussed enough.

You have clearly never spent time with people who work out of a vehicle

Hold on guys I think I found the new moderate position

So like 9/11

Just as we proved able to remain revolutionaries, proved able to work under terrible conditions and emerge from them, so shall we emerge now because it is not our whim, it is objective inevitability that has arisen in an utterly ruined country

Based on these videos, the first shot was fired into the pavement by the pig who disarmed Alex Pretti. This raises the question of whether the shot was intentional. If you interpret the triple take he does as surprise, then maybe not. It’s not impossible it’s performative, though. The question of

at a ptsd conference in 1975 navy shrink thomas narut revealed military assassin training programs that took troops including prisoners with reputations for violence & instilled dissociation via bombardment with snuff films & gore porn. remarkably similar technique, now in every town in america

I bet the staffer that came up with that was very proud of themselves. Wonder how long the meeting about this post was. Billions of dollars to his name and still a coward

We can put them in rooms with 8k panels for walls and floors. We can deprive them of sleep for days. We can put VR headsets on them. We can make them think they were released when they take the headset off. We can make them experience anything until it unbreaks whatever’s broken in them.

I do the same thing that ICE, FBI, NSA, and whatever COINTEL/counterinsurgency program you can or can’t name does. It’s the same shit, just fantastically more complex. Believe me when I tell you that you can’t kill them all.

I’ve spent 20 years grappling with incandescent wrath. My entire life I’ve fantasized about killing these people and their masters. Wanting it doesn’t make it right, and, more importantly, it doesn’t make it functional

Fuck executions. These people need to suffer. They need to get their minds fixed. They need to be made to be able to feel guilt, and then live for decades completely disempowered and shamed by our benevolence.

This is also around the corner from MCAD and the MIA, and is pound for pound one of the most artistic, creative, energetic neighborhoods in the entire city.

the agent who disarmed Pretti fired Pretti's gun into the ground @chadloder.bsky.social, note the pavement impact

Three apartments worth of people on their balconies here are heckling agents down below. One person has produced a white board that says "ICE can suck my dick." "Fuck you all! Kill yourselves!"

the only reason MPD cops haven't joined up as ICE agents is their MPD salary is better

This is pre-positioning to return to the acceptable level of state sponsored death squads before this ICE surge. Deeply cowed, complicit mindset.

It is morally indefensible to have borders that exclude free movement

Re: Europeans talking about “America is a monolith, and I blame each individual American”, sure, fine. Why don’t you do anything about him, then? A European doesn’t stand to lose any less by making an attempt. Come on over, buy a gun, shoot your shot.