The actual history of successful civil rights movements in America is largely getting the shit emasculatingly kicked out of you by lesser, meaner men until state repression peters out, & then in the flush of victory people tell FANTASIES of heroes leaving the wicked in broken heaps the "right" way.

The kitten has been a jerk at meal times to the older cat. He just shoved her away from one of the plates but she had started in on the one with slightly less food. He’s a jerk but he’s not that bright.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Heard from a public school staffer. ICE agents follow school buses on their afternoon routes & target some parents picking up kids from bus stops. If ICE knew anything abt particular parents, they'd go to homes. Seems they're just leveraging kids' vulnerability & mixing with racial profiling.

It's"the American story that we're good, because we beat the Nazis, is largely jingoistic cold war propaganda" -- yeah, a little true, but so is Great Patriotic War mythologizing

At a calendar call in Cook County Circuit Court, a party requested a continuance because a witness lives in Minneapolis and did not feel safe to travel. Continuance was granted without discussion.

I don’t think this guy knows many Jews because the way I find my fellow Jews in a crowded place is by yelling out “Stephen Miller” and seeing who boo’s the loudest

I have a theory that the general epistemic crisis has led to a lot of very online people getting used to communicating primarily through oughtposting and kind of forgetting how to deal with isposting

That describes my grandparents who made bath tub gin during prohibition. I am sure they lit a cigarette and poured a drink on December 7th, 1941 after turning on the radio.

The death spiral for any mental disorder is when you start believing that nothing at all can ever get any better, and that all advice is useless.

I mean, get the name & address of the random Minnesotan who was interviewed saying "It's fucking nuts!" and "I gotta work in the goddamn morning just like everybody else" and at this point he might out-poll Newsom.

One of the many ways the Left Behind books are poorly written is the Israel stuff in the backstory. Some alliance of evil nations sends bombers that will completely wipe out Israel (dunno where they get all the planes) and the literal Hand of God swats them out of the sky.

The Insurrection Act does require an actual insurrection. The violence in Minneapolis is almost exclusively one-sided. People yelling at you, calling you names, and recording you on a cell phone isn’t violence. And if the courts let Trump say it is, we’re in a lot of trouble.

Renee Good Suffered Multiple Gunshot Wounds talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

I genuinely think this is an universal thing literally nobody loves their country as much as a person who heard an American express a mildly negative opinion about it

Only an actual moron would think that being regifted the Nobel Peace Prize is an accomplishment.

they can jail us and they can kill us but there is no universe where they can make me or any of my neighbors ashamed of what we are doing

Absolutely not. It’s an unamerican demand.

It's everywhere and I'm not giving up on this one. Extirpation of the groyper-infested is the only way forward.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

As a child I would happily die of a combination of famine and AIDs saying “at least I didn’t contribute to US soft power, ACAB includes CIA” My only regret would be that you wouldn’t do the revolutionary act of putting a flag in your bio or username to show how much you cared about me in return

This is important and, also, not not new. There were reports of this in LA, Portland, and Chicago, at least, as well.

2026 ME: Hey guess when Kyrsten Sinema and Aaron Rodgers are basically the same person now 2019 ME: Oh awesome 2026 ME: Actually no, it's terrible

"Mileikowsky" is the gateway drug of Khazar theory and later its Mark of Cain.

You are missing the point. The whole "Mileikowsky" thing (a name he never had) is a habit picked up (unknowingly, for most) from antisemites, the idea is that Jews are being deceptive about their ancestry. It's a pity that we have to make one of the worst Jews on Earth the focus of the fight...

Logging on to Bluesky:

Congratulations on discovering theophoric names I guess.

That and most Americans' understanding of authoritarian systems comes from dystopian sci-fi movies and not from reading about real-world attempts at regime consolidation.

The other thing is, in 2020, the locus of anger was internal, which is destabilizing. But this time, we ARE UNDER ATTACK. We are INVADED. All my neighbors are friends. All the feds are the enemy. No one wants to turn their rage on local streets or businesses; we are, specifically, protecting them.

Impeach him. Impeach him instantly

whichever ice guy filmed me following you through midtown in that black explorer, DM me to share video plz

"Jews control… the colleges, the nonprofits, the movies, Hollywood, all of it." - Charlie Kirk, 2023 “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

Absolutely not. It’s an unamerican demand.

I would like to live in a country where statements like "people are vermin" & "we should attack our NATO allies" & "we shouldn't have elections" immediately ended presidencies.

i desperately need to know if this baby is ok because i’m going to lose my mind, you know?

Note the difference in actual standards: A Jew is expected to know the content of Christian scripture, a Christian is expected to know the names of other people’s scriptures. And in any case this was still an interviewing technique known as “having the subject clarify for the audience”

This would be fun to explain in open court

The import of this ruling: Foreign citizens in the United States—including green card holders—can be arrested for political speech and imprisoned for months or even years before being given a meaningful opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and imprisonment.

Once this abates I wish very much to visit Greenland, which deserves all your tourist cash after this bullshit

And I wish people would remember that nonviolence does not mean acquiesce or compliance.

If someone gets black bagged for writing an op-ed then what is the incentive for them to not throw a Molotov cocktail as well?

Calling out the Minnesota National Guard would be consenting to their being ordered to active duty. It would remove the one and only impediment to Trump and Hegseth being in charge of the Minnesota National Guard

I still don’t know that most regular soldiers and marines are gonna want to start firing on civilians in US cities no matter what the orders, but putting them in proximity to each other is gonna massively ramp up the chances that even just a handful *do* pull the trigger.

There are two kinds of people: the ones that run away from the Ethiopian restaurant, and the ones that run towards the Ethiopian restaurant.

I am fascinated by the constant effort to make Trump appear more popular than he really is

Europe’s natural state is not peace. It’s wars both big and small.

While I think this is true in a pretty real sense, I would prefer that everyone behave in a way that doesn’t give the DHS thugs an excuse to engage in unrestrained violence against us. They do actually have assault rifles and our community resistance gets a lot harder if they start using them freely

Don’t pile on the person I’m yelling at. I’m just dumbfounded by some people.

The Greenland thing is emblematic of the unique way the American Empire is failing: we perfected empire! We don't even have to occupy what we want, we enter into nice agreements because we're so strong, but this is too complex for the people now running us.