It's trite to point it out, but the central tenent of liberalism is the right to private property. The security structures of the state maintain that right, and consequently powerful liberals *never* want to see any state security structures lose power, because it puts their property at risk.

This type of 20s leads to realizing you never got a lot of humanity checked off and turns you into a bitter freak later in life

A thing you sort of have to explain to folks that think being Democrats and opposing Trump is enough: the reason you didn’t hear about ICE as much in Biden and Obama’s terms is because they were smart enough to NOT do the shock troop routine bsky.app/profile/edit...

It shows that we were right in our opinion that the principal cause of the present crisis… is the lag of the leaders (“ideologists”, revolutionaries, Social-Democrats) behind the spontaneous upsurge of the masses.

Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry

Centrists the moment their masters signal that a mass movement is becoming too powerful

A few Independent Socialist Group members and a comrade from the Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) have been out in Minneapolis supporting the anti-ICE movement. Statement from on the ground: www.socialistworld.net/2026/01/24/e...

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you

“civil rights protestors wanted to get beaten” is an interpretation so widely accepted and repeated that it borders on self-evident truth territory. But it is both misleading and, if you stop to think about it, a pretty fucked up idea to circulate

Accept people coming “leftward” but keep pushing them relentlessly

You cannot be all things to all people and still be a political party with actual values, and voters know this. They want to manipulate the public into voting for them so they can maintain power without affecting change, and voters know this. This is a cynical exercise. This is "playing the game."

Independent Socialist Group's statement in support of Minneapolis's Day of Action tomorrow: independentsocialistgroup.org/2026/01/20/t...

With Friday in mind I'm recommending everyone in the US check out Teamster Rebellion by Farrel Dobbs (and pushing myself to pick it back up and finish it)

Look who just endorsed the January 23 Minnesota-wide shutdown to protest the federal assault! “No work, no school, no shopping.”

Never before in world history have Americans been so viscerally able to relate to the (actually pretty globally common) surreality of a local elementary school overrun by hordes of violent unknowns who don't give a shit if they perhaps-accidentally kill you

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

we saw *makes the entire region a warzone* "don't bring kids to a warzone" in the collateral murder video, in gaza, it's all one thing, we have to stop it all

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

During the 2020 protests Walz and Frey deployed the MPD and MSP to fire on the (mostly peaceful) protestors the *first day* of the protests because of the vandalism of *one building*. Within two days the MN NG was activated. Happy to deploy state resources to protect capital, not people.

I have become obsessed with civil war history for a lot of reasons but, as I have mentioned before, a big lesson was how the liberal faction of the republican party negotiated themselves out of power, in large part, because of their own personal interest in “getting back to business as usual”

Reminder that Walz was MN's governor during BLM 2020

Given MLK Day is coming up and *gestures at the past couple weeks* I am once again recommending this short reading

“We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice. I hear a lot of talk these days about our direct action talk alienating former friends. ... If our direct action programs alienate our friends … they never were really our friends.” - Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

Too many people are trying to differentiate between ICE and police. I will hold your hand as I say this: Police in the US treat marginalized people the way ICE treats everyone. They're far more similar than you want to admit. Defunding the police and abolishing ICE are the same fight.

It's been quite a week. ISG's statement condemning DHS's murder of Renee Good and calling to abolish ICE: independentsocialistgroup.org/2026/01/09/s...

Some resolutions to consider taking up this year: *Go to more protests *Read more socialist literature and labor history *Join a trade union, or get more involved in the one you're in *Join an org if you haven't already (ask me about ISG/CWI)!

The majority of the terrible things that Trump is doing were being carried out by his predecessors, too. The difference is that he isn’t only targeting the underclass, and he’s being loud about being a racist authoritarian. If you’re upset about this, realize that this is what the US has always been

You know if Dems sweep local elections this year they'll do this unless the movement holds their feet to the fire every single day. Fully expecting Dems to try to capitalize on and siphon away any mass anger that erupts this year into their campaigns. Same story as 2018 and 2020. Don't fall for it!

We must push this further than Renee Nicole Good, just like with 2020 and George Floyd, they will blame one bad apple and continue to allow ICE in our streets, we must denounce ICE entirely and abolish it. We cannot allow them to give thoughts and prayers today and ICE budget increases tomorrow.

the obama admin expanded ICE, the biden admin expanded ICE. not sure just voting blue is helping

Ok I’m going to put this as simply as I can. 1. Pete Hegseth wants to murder people. It’s why he sought the job. 2. The admin communicates in bad faith. 3. The purpose of giving a legal rationale is to give “respectable” elites moral cover. And to deliberately waste your time.

If you do not know what protest are going on follow the accounts of the socialist and communist orgs in your area on instagram. It’s unfortunate but that’s where that info tends to be

It turns out there *was* at least one troop/officer who tried to do the right thing by leaking the Maduro abduction plan before it happened. But they made the mistake of leaking to NYT and WaPo who in typical regime rag fashion sat on the information www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/05/r...

the nuremberg laws and holocaust were legal under prevailing international law of the time. the law is just the codified whims of the ruling class. stop arguing or thinking in terms of legality, don't be a lib.

In case anyone needs the motivation to get off their asses today and join an anti-war/"hands off" protest. Capitalism in crisis is vulnerable but it has to be challenged and attacked. Prepare to drive a stake through it or it gets back up like a goddamn vampire

Comrades of mine in the Independent Socialist Group have already published a statement condemning Trump's attack on Venezuela last night, adding to the many voices demanding a stop to this imperialist war: independentsocialistgroup.org/2026/01/03/s...

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

Short answer: we don't yet have a healthy or mature world socialist movement ready to seize power from these ghouls and they have grown far too comfortable knowing we've been set back by a century and a half. We don't have a workers' international and we have to start building one

the best way to safeguard Jewish people and Judaism from being maligned through anti-zionism is by making the VERY CLEAR distinction that Judaism and Zionism are two VERY DIFFERENT things. The only people who don’t want to make that distinction are zionists.

Consider: *Palestinians getting banned on bsky for begging for food and shelter; *Tiktok purchase and muzzling of pro-Palestinian speech on that and Insta; *Firings and expulsions of students, educators, and faculty for mere participation in anti-genocide protests. These are all linked.

I know this reminder is supposed to make struggling people feel "valid" but all it does is reignite my quiet but unquenchable rage

It’s time.

In capital society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole lifetime of the masses into labor time. - Karl Marx

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced