if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Millions of people have are losing their health care right now Right-wing propaganda is consolidating and getting richer The Attorney General is aiding and abetting a massive conspiracy related to a sex-trafficking ring involving pedophilia We could have elected Harris, but we get this instead

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." -- Ariel Durant

If we are seen conceding in advance to a fascist push to discriminate against a minority group, we lose a ton of our voter turnout to depression and despair, even if they still intend to vote. The answer is to focus on anti-discrimination messages and frame them in American Values terms.

I think this commentary is completely misunderstanding Newsom's argument But I very much doubt that the people who hold to this line are capable of hearing the truth This is how Trump/Fox defeated Harris, and Trump/Fox knows it It's such an unnecessary misunderstanding I fear it may be sabotage

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It's about demonizing Somali Americans so MN GOP House Speaker Lisa Demuth can be governor. Demuth, her office staff, & MN GOP activist David Hoch brought in Nick Shirley to make a dodgy video lying about Somali daycares. Stephen Miller used it as an excuse to bring in ICE & CBP.

Then she’s qualified to be the communications director for the Surgeon General NOT the Surgeon General.

the classic 'she has a great personality' defense for a government job. love it

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

Trump's SOTU speech reveals the strategy: using election lies to justify federal interference in the midterms. Local election officials, states, courts and others need to be empowered to stand up to these attacks and voters need information to help navigate around obstacles laid to suppress votes.

Here's the truth behind Vance's words: GOP megadonors plan to seize all the money in the Treasury that currently gets spent on The People That's what they mean by "preserve": they want us to stop making withdrawals so our savings can build before they steal them wholesale A big, beautiful theft

Woman dragged from her car by ICE: I've spent the last month learning names of torn tendons in my shoulders. What I haven't learned are the names of the people who did this to me. This is an ongoing fear & threat for people around this country. And we have not seen accountability

It's felt for months now that the fed govt is doing everything it can, including acts of violence, to make the Twin Cities unlivable. Vance's announcement shows that effort continues even if Trump's thugs aren't killing people in the street rn. I just don't see how this can go on for 3 more years.

the republican party line is, fairly explicitly, "we will kill your children if you don't vote for us because we know you won't kill our children if we don't vote for you," and the appropriate response to the existence of such a political party is to outlaw it

The administration hasn’t backed off an inch from fucking with Minnesotans, and reporting that relies on federal sources to insist otherwise is contemptuous nonsense.

Minnesota superintendent details just TEN MINUTES under ICE occupation

My latest piece. On how the murders of Good and Pretti relate to the murder of a Black Lives Matter founder's cousin. How the concentration camps relate to our carceral system. And how if we don't learn to fight American fascism from the inside out, democracy will never last.

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

"horses became a lot more free. they can do whatever they want now. wild thing to say in a "they shoot horses don't they?" ass world

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.

The Man who destroyed America.

Too late for regrets, you created the situation with full participation and enthusiasm, and were thoughtless of future consequences of those actions.

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store

I don't mean to call anyone out, but the GOP has a history of using underhanded means to choose their opponents for us I think of that every time I see someone ginning up vibes-y reasons to disqualify prominent Democrats This is Fox News' stock-in-trade, so I'm always suspicious of it

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I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.

That they thought it a good idea proves to me that they need to fail. We need data privacy laws in the US otherwise these fuckheads are going to just wait for the next fiscal quarter and silently reinstate it.

There will come the day where Elon Musk will stop talking and it will feel amazing.

I know a lot of very creative and talented people who love board games, and many have been out of work for so long they've given up Kendzior's idea seems like a worthy task to fill the time, and maybe even a good way to get paid

Of course the Roberts Six want to hide Easier to write our death warrants when they don't have to muster a straight face while issuing them We're drowning in fascist propaganda, but even so, Roberts & his pals are eager to remove our "lying eyes" from the process entirely A peak fascism indicator

We The People need a way to disrupt corruption.

The US economy is designed to reward people disproportionately for owning things, rather than doing things.

I have no doubt that Pam Bondi will become infamous for something far worse than merely striking out with a grand jury.

The one Democrat who voted for the SAVE Act, making this his second time voting yea for this bill in the past year, in Henry Cuellar of Texas.

Very disappointed to learn that lavatories don't study lava

If an increasing unpopular leader, known for shaping reality w/ lies, wanted to subvert democracy, would they: A) complain that the polls are “fake news”, B) threaten polling organizations into silence, C) sow distrust in election results, or D) find ways to disenfranchise voters of the other party?

Donald Trump has decided that America is no longer permitted to know whether America likes having Trump as president. You all know what comes next.

In the age of surveillance capitalism, I feel it's far more important to not volunteer biographical information about oneself. Never forget that the people holding the levers of power are unabashed fascists who are pursuing an everything-on-the-menu approach to killing Americans & ending democracy.

Prepare yourselves for 20 more years of this. It is not a sprint, nor even a marathon. It will be an odyssey that most of us have no hope of surviving. Observing, as heroic as it is, is not nearly enough.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

…because Trump was #3 in the sex trafficker business: 1. Epstein 2. Maxwell 3. DJT owned pageants & Mar-A-Lago spa where he could “on the books” hire girls & women, then shipped them to Max & Eps for illegal “off the books” sex work.

The people of Minnesota need their governor to do something more than they need their governor to say something.

If I'm reading this right, Epstein's sex-trafficking ring for pedophiles was a billion-dollar operation. Larger than any company I ever worked for in my entire career.

No group of people has done more to blur the line between incompetent and malevolent than this Trump administration. Somehow, they have managed to leverage that fact for the continuance of both.

All we need to fix this is more training, dawg. Just *one* more step of trainings, bro.

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