Minneapolis has called for a general strike this Friday (1/23). All the major labor unions in Minnesota are supporting it (e.g., AFL-CIO, SEIU). I’ve reposted solidarity strikes happening in LA, NYC, Chicago, and Oakland and looking for more to share Please help us get the word out!

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained

We’ve created a class of people so powerful that those who make the laws are afraid of them. Good idea to have a well-armed, right-wing group of people with privileges no one else has.

Bingo! Dems will NEVER win over those voters bc anti-Blackness is the foundation of our political system. Having Black voters will ALWAYS be coded as anti-law enforcement bc that’s how white supremacist ideology operates.

Meanwhile they are already labeled anti-law enforcement and nothing they can do will change that.

The long tail of the “fund the police” movement is killing free society.

Trying to “compromise” with fascists doesn’t make you look “reasonable.” It makes you look like a collaborationist psychopath. But Vichy Dems gonna Vichy, I guess.

Absolutely imperative that as many of us as possible get out & make public spectacles of disruptive dissent. Need to stretch out this thin mucus line of Secret Police between us & the rule of law as much as we can.

How much of Schumer's and Jeffries' timidity stems from fear of not being invited to visit homes in the Hamptons?

Striking & being unruly in public spaces in solidarity w our neighbors in Minneapolis is something all of us should consider doing.

"British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced slavery merely for the satisfaction of abolishing it" - Eric Williams

Just like many Black Americans, I'm one-quarter "British Isles" without a single post-1865 white ancestor. Black Americans are bidialectal English and AAVE speakers. What our ancestral tongues were, we will never know. The British Empire did that, and the United States is her rogue daughter.

Absolutely imperative that as many of us as possible get out & make public spectacles of disruptive dissent. Need to stretch out this thin mucus line of Secret Police between us & the rule of law as much as we can.

Despite a judge order, they are stopping observers and threatening them with warnings & removal from vehicles. Doesn’t matter what the judge said, they are all in unmarked vehicles with no names and no badges. They’re acting with total impunity because they know there’s no accountability for them

Fuck corporations forever.

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Big flag: Trump says "people will soon be prosecuted" for their roles in the 2020 election. He says the election was "rigged." It was not rigged. But his threat should be taken seriously.

* US civil-military crisis intensifies*

Tbh this is something we need to address across the board. Putting the Connections Crowd in charge of literally everything is a big part how we got in this fascist mess & why ours leaders—across institutions—are reluctant to take action to hold these bad actors accountable.

My policy hot take of the day is that if we want to get out of this authoritarian mess, policy shops need to hire fewer people from elite schools, because those pipelines favor people whose lives have been buffered from the kind of dynamics that would help them understand what's happening.

I think one of the biggest gaps in American civic culture among those opposed to authoritarianism is realistic threat-assessment literacy: the ability to understand how norms erode, how coercion works, and what factors, including resilient institutions, truly deter political coercion and violence.

You know you’re cooked when you’ve convinced the cops that “ the cops are not your friend.”

Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."

Classic fascist tactics.

Two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to "overturn election results in certain states," and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls.

In fairness, selling heroin would be infinitely better than “compromising” with fascists.

The follow-up question is, "and what does that compromise look like?" Who pays the price for your comfort? Your neighbours, be they immigrants, Black folk, indigenous folk, queers? Where you see compromise, we see annihilation. Your peace is our death.

Normie Dems want it both ways: to insist on the reality of fascism and to refuse to fight them fascists

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but saying “we need to compromise” with an openly fascist political party doesn’t make you sound “reasonable.” It makes you sound like a psychopath.

Dr. King on the relationship between colonialism & fascism: "But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."

As @wihorne.bsky.social has emphatically stated, for our defiance to gain the upper hand, we need more, better, and bigger spectacles. Why is it only fascists who seem to have learned from postmodernism when it comes to using power?

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Dr. King on white and black soldiers in the Vietnam war.

Listen to historians.

Dr. King on the relationship between colonialism & fascism: "But one of the greatest things that this war is doing to us in Civil Rights is that it is allowing the Great Society to be shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam every day."

Who among us doesn't pursue fascism at home & colonialism abroad bc we weren't awarded a peace prize for arbitrarily murdering Venezuelan fishermen?

Precisely.

This. We must build a massive national movement & that will require many on-ramps… …but no easy outs for those part of the pundit class or institutional leadership actively pushing collaboration or worse. Embrace institutional shifts, hold leaders accountable. & FUCK that guy specifically.

Rest in peace Victor Manuel Diaz. He was a Latino immigrant kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. He died in ICE custody at Camp East Montana, Texas while facing deportation. We have unjust immigration system that continues to take the lives of our neighbors while tearing families apart. 1/

If enough of us choose to escalate the protests & noncompliance in this moment, I believe this tottering & incompetent regime will collapse under the crushing weight of its miserable & deeply unpopular policies.

If we look past all the hype, AI primarily offers a way to exercise power through opaque mechanisms beyond the realm of accountability.

That's space I occupy every day. How do days keep happening? But if they do, I'll be here I guess.

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

If enough of us choose to escalate the protests & noncompliance in this moment, I believe this tottering & incompetent regime will collapse under the crushing weight of its miserable & deeply unpopular policies.

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

The New York Times thinks that when a criminal tries to steal someone’s stuff and they say no, it’s a “standoff.”