People keep saying "Getting arrested is bad, actually" and while I'd certainly prefer not to be, the administration's entire strategy is built around the idea that I will live in fear of it, and shape my behavior to avoid it, and cry in shame if I am. That is how THEY CONTROL YOU.

the ideal for a social democrat is to do radical shit but come off as nice guy doing normal things

My grandfather is 90 years old, a veteran, the son of an immigrant, and he afraid to leave his house in Minnesota because ICE might kidnap him. Americans will not live like this. We must abolish and prosecute ICE.

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that is absolutely true. I know many people far to the left of me who are fearless beyond measure. I see them every single day here

They existed under an apartheid regime where the government and associated paramilitaries had historically murdered Black people with complete impunity for crimes such as "being a little too assertive in a general sense"

They literally threatened to arrest me yesterday and literally backed down instantly.

These guys are fucking freaks searching for an excuse as to why the Bad Man is still Bad despite very obviously doing Good

it’s so funny that people post this OPSEC shit on Bluesky, a website that is by design trivially easy to scape and data-mine.

Elect more Democrats & keep electing them. It's the only good voting advice left

lfg

I think it's useful to recognize people posting like this as either functional fascists or collaborators, whether they admit it to themselves or not

Oh we're doing Epstein tip calls now. Two things to remember here. First, they're pure bullshit because 90% of tipline calls are pranks or by people who get off on making them. Second, every single one about a Republican, no matter how anatomically or temporally impossible, is true.

Things that I have seen over the last 24 hours: about 6 different versions of "here's the case for kicking out Will Stancil" Things that I have not seen over the last 24 hours: zero proof that anybody "asked him" to stop doing anything

It's crazy how the president is a pedophile and everyone knows it

This is defamation.

hey so the thing is you and your friends spreading this rumor are absolute fucking liars bsky.app/profile/tali...

talia you take one fucking hell of a step back when you in-group defense involves smearing Adam 'the cruelty is the point' Serwer as a clickbaiter

ah the two genders of Bluesky

So I dug around to try to find someone complaining I’d revealed them - I would take that extremely seriously, it’s an ongoing concern I constantly raise with riders and others - but all I’ve found is a bunch of people who already hated me for not being left enough saying this proves them right.

Nothing materially different here from the Nazis randomly abducting people to concentration camps

It is very good for us if this government feels that it needs to arrest news reporters & grandmothers & grade schoolers to show its power, even as it is very bad for us to have this government. They are teaching us not to fear them

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You are a somebody. You are a beloved member of your community and you matter. You are an individual with morals, friends, a family. They are nobodies. They are invaders afraid to show their faces. They want to disappear into the role of Stormtrooper because they are incapable of living free.

If they accept the fraudulent arguments of Wurman and Co., then this is a phony court that is owed no deference

ICE should switch to “we’re actually wearing masks to prevent the spread of long COVID” and instantly watch the opposition collapse into vicious factional infighting

since this is up again let me attempt a translation: you are not trying to be unseen. people trying to be unseen stick out, and unless you do it perfectly it will not work. you are trying to seem basically the same as everyone else, as much as that is possible

Don Lemon was arrested because he’s a black man and Donald Trump is an easily distracted, racist demagogue with an ever shrinking number of non-pedophile friends who is incapable of decency but wants to change the subject. To spin this any other way is to lie.

the activism policing out of Minnesota is some of the most discouraging leftist shit I’ve seen in a while, real bummer stuff

finally got confirmation that there are in fact organizers telling people to use code names on Signal and I just want to talk outside. I'm not going to hurt you I just want to talk. Just a quick talk. Let's just talk. It'll be fast. It'll feel like a lifetime but it'll just be 30 minutes tops. I ju—

The position here appears to be "actions to document and bring attention to ICE kidnappings are getting media coverage that is changing public opinion; and this is Bad because the media should be writing feel-good stories about activists' resilience and kinship instead."

the fact that the government is covering them up, though, means that they don't know which of them are true

really glad that america voted for the epstein party to take control of congress, the white house, and the supreme court www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-t...

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Guys the formal training for rapid response says you should always bring your phone and ID, making you trivially easy to identify. (You need your phone to film anyway.) The idea that the goal is to remain anonymous is actually not best practices at all, it’s like a weird inherited social practice

oh hey i wonder who that sign is for www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

They also do not even have the institutional backing to successfully prosecute their chosen examples. Remember that Sandwich guy was acquitted.

I just learned recently that the reason crabs do that is "safety in numbers" and they think the bucket's safe. They're trying to help. I think that's a metaphor

Elon Musk chatting it up with his friend Jeffrey Epstein five years after he was convicted for child sex crimes 👍

skipping straight past "Italians and Irish aren't really white" and going straight for Swedes. lol

If you are truly concerned that armed agents of the state are going to come to your house and indiscriminately kill you, the first thing you should do is log off of BlueSky dot com

Has the organization of Save Our Street, the rich NIMBYs who want to stop the Summit Avenue bike lane, said anything about the church they hold their meetings in being led by the director of the local ICE field office?

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Of course this fear is what Trump wants

I’ve said it before on here, but once you realize that your fear and your upset are the very things that Trump and MAGA *crave* more than almost anything, including power!, it helps build the resolve to _never_ give them what they want.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

If you are planning to be involved in political action of any type, they have your name. The thing to do is make their lists useless by having so many names on them.

I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?” We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!

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