"The library of the future isn’t a warehouse for books. It’s a gymnasium for attention. It’s where communities go to practise different modes of understanding." aeon.co/essays/what-... via @aeon.co

“They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.” Tacitus #trumpregime #MAGA #Republicans #Trump

Whirlwind Jesse Welles

DHS keeps touting a program that offers free plane tickets and “exit bonuses” to immigrants who self-deport. But last fall, we spoke to a dozen immigrants who said they followed Trump's instructions, yet never received the promised assistance. ➡️ Read their stories: https://propub.li/3Zeb4xF

"when we've been here 10,000 years and nothing's ever seemed so clear what's keeping you from being near you? the kingdom is within you" Jesse Welles www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-FO...

"That structure needs to be dismantled. Fully. Cleanly. But dismantling is not the same thing as abandoning responsibility." Robert L. Arnold #ICE #Resistance On The Seriousness of the Message open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

“When people are stripped of rights and due process, removed from public view, and confined beyond meaningful oversight, escalation is not speculative; it is predictable. We are past the warning signs.” open.substack.com/pub/oliverkorn…

Creation as resistance. Melissa Dalton-Bradford #resistance #beauty www.tiktok.com/t/ZThkLPxor/

#Minneapolis #GeneralStrike Friday Jan. 23rd

"crazy men with bloodshot eyes shoot their rockets in the sky drunk with power high with rage and all the treasure all the blood all the gold and all the guts would never make a bit of change new men in the same old cage" Jesse Welles www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUEI...

BREAKING: Illinois and Chicago sue DHS over 'militarized' immigration-enforcement tactics

In America now you can be shopping with your toddler one moment and fleeing with her in your arms from a secret police attack the very next.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social "If not resistance now, then when?" open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Demonstrations in Iran now involve millions and have spread to every major city, including those believed previously to be loyal to the clerical regime. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

#RenneNicoleGood #ICE

Good vs. ICE Jesse Welles #RenneNicoleGood #Minnesota #ICE www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0C...

Same script…different country

Tad Stoermer: Democrats engage in ritual not opposition, more interested in their own positions than actually exercising power www.tiktok.com/t/ZThdShX5A/

Masks Off Jesse Welles youtu.be/AR15xWFtu-s?...

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

"It’s a strip mall built on top of a landfill built on top of a cemetery of those exterminated to make it all happen. Land of the branded, home of the complacent." Strategic Value Realization by Oliver Kornetzke open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...

“In any conversation, respect is like air. When it’s present, nobody notices. When it’s absent, it’s all anybody can think about.” Joseph Grenny

Nothinfh Left to Gorgive Us by Oliver Kornetzke open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...

The Reagan National Defense Survey,released Thursday,found that the majority of Americans favor sending lethal aid to support 🇺🇦 This confirms what we've known all along:that so many US people firmly stand with us.Friends, we're beyond grateful. Thankful to everyone supporting Ukraine on all levels

Every Western European country scores higher on the global ranking of freedom and democracy than the U.S. does, according to Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit that ranks countries according to measures such as election process, rule of law and individual rights.

Inbox: Aramis Furse, 32, died on Rikers early Sunday morning. He’s the 14th detainee death this year so far. In April, Laura Swain, a federal judge overseeing DOC said she’d appoint a “remediation manager” to takeover potentially large parts. But she hasn’t selected a candidate yet.

In Ukraine the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the president’s closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patel’s FBI investigating anyone in Trump’s White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

This glorious part of a glorious thread.

don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job

Putin declares victory. www.bbc.com/news/article...

What the fuck, man

On this day, 122 years ago, Edwin S. Porter's 'The Great Train Robbery' (1903) was released in the USA.

Musk's app now removing community notes on the posts of Putin's propagandists. "For my friends EVERYTHING. For everyone else, THE LAW".

⚡️Czech president says Europe may need to shoot down Russian aircraft, drones violating NATO airspace

There’s Never Been A Just War Jesse Welles #MarkTwain www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrus1Ngs/

"Pay attention to the patterns of power grabs, infighting, the disintegration of the rule of law. See Macbeth. And I, Claudius. And the wealth and power imbalances just before the French Revolution. And yes, read Nineteen Eighty-Four. Again." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

The Department of War Jesse Welles www.tiktok.com/t/ZTryqjwdc/

Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful. So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. Stay for the ending about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social surrealist campaigning... Enjoy!

On Sarah and Andrew Robert Arnold (defiance13) www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrrHRSLv/

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.

This is a pro death march. People, especially kids, will get sick and some will die. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Zionism 2025: Pay a Nazi a monthly stipend to call other Jews "court Jews"

On Who Healthcare Serves Robert Arnold (defiance13) www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrYmUXKg/

“Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

This is disgusting. Swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags are symbols of hate. We cannot let the Trump administration normalize hate.

Fuck these Nazis and white supremacist asshats infecting the US government and armed services www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

On What We Should Be Protecting Robert Arnold (defiance13) #EpsteinTrumpFiles www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM3XQjSe/