This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Whenever I see @msentropy.bsky.social post this kind of stuff it reminds me that we are going to win. Why? Because we are brilliant, relentless, and whenever we get knocked down, we get back up.

Oppression operates through erasure of the historical memory of the oppressed. To produce a perpetual now where the only ideology that is allowed to be relevant is that which justifies existing power.

Activating the anti-Wobbly, anti-Scandinavian socialist discourse from the 1910s Red Scare era in the Pacific Northwest. Rufo has clearly been mainlining some seriously high-grade, well-aged, artisanal American fascism from the deepest recesses of his historical cellar.

So, since the tide seems to be turning and public ire is mounting toward Stephen Miller. I thought I'd take a moment to remind everyone about Christopher Rufo. The brains behind their propaganda campaign and onslaught on education. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Technofascists eradicate the jobs of thousands of creative professionals while visibly allying with christian nationalists to terrorize the general population with propaganda and state violence. "These signs look like they were made by professionals." Something something consequences?

They're not professional agitators. You're turning professionals into agitators. Professional parents, laborers, artists, tradespeople, cooks, desk staff, delivery people. Getting you to fuck off has now become our #1 priority. With all of those skills and resources. Buckle up. Better yet, fuck off.

They picked a fight with *everyone*. I know, they lie and posture all of the time. So it's hard to take them seriously. Then they invaded Venezuela, gutted our healthcare system to invade our cities with impulse control deficient morons. And on and on. *Everyone* is showing up. They will lose.

We’ve just hit fascism level DEFCON 0 - Pam Bondi just said ICE will pull out if Minnesota hands over voter databases. DOJ has now told you immigration was always their excuse and attempt to distract you from the broader goal: Fascist power consolidation by brute force and fear-mongering.

I didn't make this, but it needs a reposting.

It’s time for a National Strike Day to support all the citizens in Minnesota, Oregon, Chicago, Los Angeles, Maine and everywhere else who are pushing back against the ICE Gestapo and the trump GOP. Please repost if you support this.

The event that radicalized me, that took me from having political beliefs to being an adherent of direct action, was watching a friend of mine get beat up by riot cops on youtube during Occupy. A new generation of radicals is being forged in fire right now.

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solidarity forever

I promise you. The endgame for this is work camps for homeless people.

These dancers are a common sight at Minneapolis protests and cultural events. Protesters are gathered around as they wait for the protest against ICE to start in south Minneapolis.

Minneapolis is where AIM began. It's still a hub for Indigenous organizing. The Feds in general and Kristy Noem in particular would salivate over the prospect of cracking down on them and I'd be surprised if that wasn't an intentional part of them targeting MI. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Any lawyers who deal with families and DV able to contact me about possibly helping someone trying to get out of an abusive relationship with a white nationalist?

Because the Muppets represent to me most of what there is to hope for and specifically what the fascists want to kill. (They won't)

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Muppet Family Christmas > A Muppet Christmas Carol

🧵 it's always curious that the DSA doesn't emphasize that they can trace their lineage to the original Socialist Party of America. Founded in 1901, members were city mayors, Congressmen & key figures in both the Civil Rights movement and AFL-CIO.

RIP Meathead.

@sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social I keep thinking of your interaction with shitty theory heads. I found myself sad, not because the leftys and vegans ur dealing with don't objectively suck, but because, IDK, there's loads of conversations I'd love to have about stuff like film crit and liberation.

So, like I've projected for a while that I could see a lot of benefit in translating the more yogic/tantric approaches to dharma into a western cultural frame. This bizarre Deleuzuan Ayn Rand parody of consort yoga with the brainworm whale carcass guy is... a take.

Apropos of nothing: The Starbucks that used to be closest to my apartment was shut down because (I heard thirdhand) its employees attempted to unionize. In that space now is an indie boba/dessert shop open until midnight on the weekends (their bread pudding is INCREDIBLE). I don't miss SBX.

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Emergency 🚨 Food is needed please help out. I feel embarrassed to even post this shit. Venmo: Jasper-Steinline CashApp: $ sideshowguyo7 PayPal: @ isaacjasper Patreon: www.patreon.com/Tinmedia

I will die on the hill that this is one of the most profoundly anti-fascist things you can support. There's a reason we all found out about Mychal because he was targeted by a groyper podcaster on X. And that it propelled him to this is one of internet culture's biggest W's.

Lotta QT's and comments referencing Wallace Shawn's filmography. Not so many pointing out that he has always been a capital "C" Communist of the best variety.

Ego differentiates performative vs. actual allyship & solidarity. Recap / reminder: 1) Ask. 2) Listen. 3) Follow their advice. 4) You’ll fuck up. Accept that. Own it. Be accountable. Learn. 5) Focus on the aim, not your ego. 6) Repeat (forever). It’s not about *you*. It’s about *us*. 9

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.” Idk how this entire chain forgot Johnny

Wait until they find out out about literally every Indigenous culture.

As a leftist YIMBY, I usually find my ideal position recommended nowhere in policy discussions around affordable housing. Landlords have too much power. Housing projects are hard to get approved. Capitalist Dems hate YIMBY, Republican carpetbaggers love it.

The English speaking world spent centuries thinking that the Romans practiced ritual bulimia over a mistranslation of the public exit of the Colosseum. Maybe don't subject the discipline to AI hallucinations.

Jeremy W. Peters identifies the tell-tale sign of “leftist dogma” in @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: pronouncing Haiti’s name correctly

Anybody else notice how the Dems, frantic to replicate Trump's success, look at how much he clearly knows that gamergate paved his path to power, and proceed to double down on their campaign to alienate the online left.

I'm rooting for Mamdani, but the second he wins, the right will do everything they can to wreck his administration. This isn't doomerism. We need to be ready to 'flood the zone', to meet the moment instead of waiting for a fledgling progressive admin in NYC to save us.

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

I mean the particular “regrettable tattoo” at issue tends to symbolize checks notes “steadfastly supporting a genocide” but maybe that’s just my reading of like history or

DOD has been screening for that very tattoo in the ranks since Tom Metzger was the spokesman for the Klan soldiers at Camp Pendleton back in the 1970s, prompting the first military internal inquiry into extremists within.

From nearly a year ago.

Wow did this not become less relevant in 8 Months.

!!!! general strike !!!!

I cannot emphasize enough how critical this work is to our future. Please support this very worthy cause, human, and energy in this world. Thank you. 🖖

I've been saying since I found out Rufo worked for PBS and they fully formulated anti-wokeness that their enemy is Sesame Street. I did not expect an insurrection of muppets. I fully endorse it. Just didn't expect it.

Official submission for the position: Comrades in Lewiston, Maine in 2003. First time antifa/antira militants take the streets with explicit "antifa" imagery. “The first American group to formally use the antifascist label was Northeast Antifascists based out of Boston and founded in 2002...

If you sell your soul to Antifa does that mean you are damned to a non fascist afterlife?

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?