Once again, THE QUOTE is spot on.

We’ve covered lots of losing local teams on the back page of this paper. But none with a record as bad as the Chicago DOJ during Operation Midway Blitz: 0 convictions 11 charges dropped 3 no-billed cases 1 jury acquittal

They are the people who by virtue of their race, education, profession, and social status, have experienced the fewest threats to their own liberal rights.

2022-2023: My burrito taxi costs 15% more than it did 5 years ago. This is an unprecedented and unendurable late-capitalist dystopia. 2025-2026: You libs think squads of Nazis kicking down doors and abducting preschoolers is something new? That's just a Tuesday in AmeriKKKa!

The grimness of US history should encourage us. Yes, people used to send lynching postcards. And other people saw that, worked towards building a more just society anyway, and succeeded beyond anyone's wildest imagination. There's more work to be done. What's our excuse for choosing despair instead?

it's never the crazy weird conspiracy theory weapons. they are poisoning you with toxins they are well-documented to have. they are beating you with ordinary sticks and shooting you with ordinary guns the only conspiracy is how they gained legal immunity to do this

Not close to an accurate description of the most famous case of fascism.

I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.

this is really great

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

i mean, maybe, but in this specific case, "filibuster and shut down" would not have any meaningful impact on ICE whatsoever, it'd be the exact kind of performative nothingness people claim to hate

This is why I always emphasize that "the media just likes Trump for clicks and ratings" is not accurate. The Jeffrey Epstein scandal is the worst in political history and instead of sensationalizing it, they repeatedly minimize it and downplay it despite massive public interest

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

One thing that a two party system does is give people a bad idea of what it means to be in a political coalition with someone because everyone wears the same label. You don't have to like these people. You just have to like other people less.

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Radical liberalism was the ideology of the abolitionists, and is in many ways is the bedrock on which the modern American liberal left is built more than anything else.

Because, in the end, Stancil will be fine, but these patterns of behaviour harm people whose names you will never know. The same people who call him a transphobe will also ruthlessly destroy the lives of trans women over a personal beef that gets hyper-politicised in the same game of telephone.

“they should have always wanted to do that” that is not how animal behavior works

It’s very clear that a general strike is the preferred option for these people because they imagine it as an option by which they win by doing less, instead of more

It's genuinely amazing to me how on the ground activists are working incredibly hard to act disciplined in an extremely difficult situation, while online people are whining that they can't fedpost without pushback.

Will has read his theory

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

they are ignoring people's documentation anyway. giving them your documentation is just giving them the chance to destroy it

One thing we really need as a country is to start getting ppl to appreciate MLK & co. as hard-nosed, ruthless political strategists who took on an entire Confederacy’s worth of murderous authoritarian oligarchies and won. And they actively kicked out doomers and edgy weirdos from their movement.

The inevitable conclusion of all of this is and always will be: "elections matter, and the more your opponent is clearly telegraphing their desire to overthrow the social contract & rule by fear, the more they must not win the election."

Every time you tweet in anger about some centrist memo "warning" Dems not to talk about "Abolish ICE," you're just persuading reporters that the memo is newsworthy and getting the memo's authors the media attention they originally set out to get, thus rewarding them for baiting you.

There are many tactics Republicans can & may employ to try to depress voter turnout and intimidate voters. That said, voter turnout can also be depressed by people preemptively declaring the election is rigged. It takes effort to get to the polls, it doesn't help to tell people it's not worth it.

Describing third way as "the Democrats?" that's a blockin'

This is one of my biggest fear and why I think we need to go scorched earth on these fuckers when we have the power. I don't think that Trump has the juice to go full white supremacist dictatorship, but whatever ghoul the GOP summons next might.

To add to this, omnipresent social media is simultaneously a potent weapon against them and a force multiplier *for* them. We can see what they’re doing and be outraged and also they can do this targeted thing in one place and social media makes it feel like everywhere.

reminds me of this banger of bangers from @jum.bsky.social

pretty sure it was the reverend who said this but these people view literally everything through the lens of rape as an aspiring rapist

I think about this Market Urbanism article a lot wrt this. Autocrats first move after putting down urban uprisings is often to suburbanize public space: they widen roads, destroy parks, and basically do everything possible to destroy spaces where people gather. marketurbanism.com/2018/03/12/w...

You are egoistically clinging to an empty distinction between liberals and socialists There are liberals who getting into fights with cops. There are socialists sneering at this from the sidelines Heaven and Earth have been overturned. Get the fuck over yourself (compassionately)

so fucking sick and tired of "nobody can stop ICE and nobody is even trying" like there are not THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN GODDAMN CITIZENS HAULING ASS IN THE MIDDLE OF A MINNESOTA JANUARY to do just precisely that. do not fucking DARE disrespect them with your acquiescent bullshit.

🎵Come out La Migra goons In your stumbling platoons Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas Tell her how despite your guns all you ever did was run from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

Culture flourishes in places with abundant and inexpensive floor space. If you want cool bars, restaurants, art galleries, nightclubs, and theaters, you need (a) lots of cheap housing for workers, and (b) lots of commercial spaces where people can open a small business on a shoestring budget.

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

A large part of the MAGA movement is driven by the same belief that drives many domestic abusers- that if they just hit their wife or kids hard enough, they'll "fall in line" and really, truly, sincerely love them, and the fact they are seeing this *cannot* work is breaking their spirits.

Hashem grant Zohran Mamdani strength, not only for himself, but also because he drives everyone I can't stand to madness Who else can make so many diverse people apoplectic

a reminder, again, that AltNPS is a grifter account run by people who have no affiliation with the National Park Service and indeed who never did have any affiliation with the National Park Service. They have no sources, they have no information, they are purely there to scam you.

who would win: the entire right wing media–industrial–complex one delaware gal

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls. If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.

Weird that this massive public benefits scandal doesn’t seem to move the needle the way a fake video about Somali-run daycares did

I don’t know how you have a civil rights movement if it won’t prioritize its members’ civil rights. And convincing a ton of trans kids their rights didn’t matter, and they should sacrifice them to Send A Message about something else, instead of fighting for their own existence, was absolutely evil.

Washington State residents: they’re trying to pull online age verification bullshittery here too. This bill would require people to upload their ID/credit card to view online adult content. You can complain to your reps here: app.leg.wa.gov/pbc/bill/2112