For the curious, the judge was mad that one of the defense attorneys was wearing an allegedly "political" shirt under a blazer and is threatening to sanction the lawyer & start over with jury selection. Abhorrent but totally expected behavior from Judge Pittman archive.ph/4qhcG

Is the word "meta" in gaming really an acronym for "Most Efficient Tactic Available", or is it a backronym/am I getting pranked? I really could have sworn it was an abbreviation of "metagame"

the fantasy of sprinting through neighborhoods wearing predator cloaking tech and smashing every single ring doorbell camera with a fireplace poker. blinding the AI, home by home

NEWS FROM THE BARRICADES: Today, hundreds of community members were able to safely pass through the filter blockade. When ICE Agents tried, they were repelled. For a free Minneapolis, For one another.

In the south side of Minneapolis, community members have started setting up filter blockades- which are make shift roundabouts. The intent is to slow down the erratic ICE driving behavior among other things. Full report to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

Get in losers, we're digging up Baron Haussmann's grave and making cities ungovernable again

Twin Cities: We must keep our foot on the pedal!

If by "speak up" you mean "cut a deal with Tom Homan to let the kidnap squads run at night", then welcome to the Resistance Jacob Frey

The rhetorical move being performed here is the equation of citizenship with (supposed) moral righteousness. "Of course we *now* know that Anne Frank was a good person, so if you think about it, she really *was* a citizen, regardless of what the Nazis said at the time."

You weren't the first and you won't be the last

With the current situation in Minneapolis, let’s not forget the Prairieland Defendants who deserve more eyes and support. They’re facing decades in prison and a hostile judge over holding a noise demonstration outside of a detention facility. www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwpr...

Take a look at who's protecting the federal agents currently at the scene of the latest ICE shooting. It's local and state cops. They answer to the Mayor and the Governor, and they are the ones protecting the people murdering us in the street.

Somebody please contact Gary Larson for comment www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

What's more: every political crisis we create at home is a chance to diminish the reach of US imperialism abroad. If we escalate in enough cities, the US government will be too tied up to intervene in Iran, and the people there can chart their own future without interference.

Yes, this is true, but it's also true that legible above-ground orgs with bank accounts and 501(c)(3) status are always going to be easier to target. This could just as well be a sign that they have limited resources and legitimacy and are going for the low-hanging fruit

For whoever needs to hear this, the government does not need "provocation" to "justify further repression." They are already literally murdering people at random in the full light of day. Good behavior counts for nothing now. All that counts is finding concrete ways to exert leverage against them.

Already seeing videos of people in Minneapolis claiming that someone burning a US flag is a "federal agent". Please get fucking real. Can you really not imagine a single reason why someone might want to burn a US flag right now? And you're gonna hand them over to the cops??

The only acceptable use of the National Guard is for them to directly confront ICE, guns drawn.

this worthless sack of shit is already saying what newsom said about 'taking the bait.' it's shitlib code for 'stand up to fascism too hard and we'll smash your heads in ourselves.' fuck these democratic ghouls

Something that comes up a lot in my head.

It looks like ICE may have shot and killed someone in Minneapolis, and like clockwork, Mayor Jacob Frey's response is to send out riot police to clear angry people from the streets.

I'm not sure if people realize the murder strikes are taking place across a large region. It's quite staggering. www.newsweek.com/map-us-strik...

A statement from the Let Sam Go! support committee

The December 4 Legal Committee’s forthcoming book, Depose: Luigi Mangione and the Right to Health, examines the implications of Luigi’s widespread popularity and the need to remake the U.S. health care system from below. Pre-order your copy today at illwilleditions.com

We have learned that an Atlanta-based activist was arrested by DHS and FBI yesterday around 6pm. Community leaders say this arrest is an attack on dissent, and call for his release. Charges are unknown. We stand ready to support all targets of political repression.

Tracking repression across the country— Raids, arrests, door knocks, and detentions across the country could be connected. To protect our movements, we must be aware of the governments' efforts to stop us. THREAD. SHARE WIDELY.

Oh no Mr. Trump, don't reduce airline flights. The liberals will be so owned

Distributed at a Zohran Mamdani victory party tonight at NYC. Make the "Commie Corridor" real

This is essentially a notice for people to monitor spaces highlighted by TPUSA propagandists on the anticipation of ICE showing up.

this is all happening because 2020 did not go far enough, did not uproot enough, did not transform enough, did not destroy enough.

Democratic politicians say one thing against military dictatorship without throwing in a caveat large enough to drive a truck through challenge Difficulty: impossible

ok I didn't mention this in my piece on friday but one of the things the judge asked about was whether the guardsmen were going to get paid during the shutdown the doj was like "idk" the state of oregon was like "we looked into it and the answer is no"

People rightfully clown on the smug moral righteousness of saying "sunlight is the best disinfectant" but sunlight really is cooking Curtis Yarvin. He was scarier as a malevolent intellectual boogeyman that no one had heard of, but if you actually read his work, the aura dispels pretty quickly

Need a legal historian to tell me if this is the first use of "cooked" in this sense in a courtroom

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors said today they went to a grand jury twice to indict a D.C. woman for assaulting an FBI agent during an arrest by ICE — and were twice rejected. Notably, she faces the same charge as the District's alleged sandwich thrower. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

With resistance to ICE raids, and protests against them heating up, let’s talk about some of the narratives going around about protest, shall we? “They’re trying to goad us into rioting so they can declare martial law.” If we’re afraid to protest, they’ve achieved the aims of martial law. 1/x

Can someone out there please tell Endnotes to fix their invalid SSL cert on their website

RIP Joshua Clover

Very sad to hear Black Window has closed. I had hoped to visit them one day

it is past time to descend on the salvadoran embassies. CECOT is the new Guantanamo Bay. if you organized against School of the Americas, against the US-backed death squad government in the 80s, against the Patriot Act; if you fight against prisons, against ICE, against imperialism...now is the time

It's crazy that we're living in that episode of the Rugrats where Chuckie pushes buttons on a computer and the stock market goes up and down

I have to admit I was wrong: the next financial crisis was somehow not caused by an AI or crypto bubble bursting

Just realized we're living through the plot of Foucault's Pendulum (powerful people being driven insane by a procedural language generator)

Calling the vigilante chuds out of post-J6 retirement to "defend Tesla" might temporarily prevent the dealerships from getting burned down, but I can't imagine any of their business is coming back

I've always been very clear about this: there is no need to correct your opponents' strategic errors just because they are based on misinformation and confusion. If Republicans suddenly want to start doubting the security of Signal, let them do it! Don't explain threat models or OSS to them!

Huge day for people whose Signal display names are just two initials

What a great illustration that universities don't exist for their students but are just several big government-backed endowment machines in a trenchcoat

The real big brained stock market move right now is to find out who TSLA's insurer is and short them