Mayor Johnson's office confirms that he did, indeed, call for a general strike at the Chicago "No Kings" march when he said: “If my ancestors, as slaves, can lead the greatest general strike in the history of this country, taking it to the ultra-rich and big corporations, we can do it too!”

By and large, the Civil War in the USA was fought between regular armies on fields of battle. The Confederate leadership wanted it that way. The big planters feared giving poor whites the autonomy to wage guerrilla war. But in divided Missouri, officially Union-controlled, a guerrilla war raged...

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

Thanks for letting us know, AIPAC. The AIPAC endorsement, judging by the polls, is the kiss of death for Democratic candidates. So... thank you for letting us all know that Fine is not Fine!

Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.

#IceOUT #SPEAKUP #Illinois ICE Out of Home Depot Rally Saturday, November 1 1 – 2:30pm CDT 8650 W Dempster St Niles, IL 60714 www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

I just attended a town hall meeting with the Mayor of Niles, George Alpogianis, who positions himself as a moderate. He said (and I paraphrase) "the only reason Evanston is restricting ICE from municipal property is because Daniel Biss is running for House, referring to it as "poking the bear"

Project 2029 -- Government Reform The reforms should take the form of *legislation*, not constitutional amendments. Reforms that cannot be achieved through legislation should be shelved for the time being.

Waiting for Pritzker to arrest one single, lone, solitary law enforcement officer for defying the TRUST Act:

To be a judge is peak egotism, to be a Supreme Court judge even more so

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

Liberals: "I want to get rid of Trump!" Me: "I want to get rid of the system that created Trump in the first place." Our goals are not the same. If you remove Trump, but keep the system in place, you'll just end up with another worse Trump in 4-8 years. That's the history of the last half century.

The question is, how rich do you have to be before you become 1) a danger to an open, democratic society simply by having the amount of power you have 2) able to live in a complete bubble isolated from the reality of the rest of the populace. I think the answer for #2 is, not very rich at all

We should have dumb appliances for everything. Except printers. They should make a printer that works.

the mean streets of *checks notes* Bolingbrook.

Trump, that is

"can the president represent the United States pro se," all of the law school hypotheticals are going to come true

This is a Hail Mary to encourage the Supreme Court to endorse Trump setting tariffs himself. Trump really wants to keep being able to do so because it makes such a great corruption opportunity

Jack Dorsey, after endorsing RFK Jr, now wants a guy with a master's degree from MIT who claims chemtrails are real. Sure seems like those meditation retreats in Myanmar are helping you see clearly, Jack

1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information. Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels

By controlling AWS, Beff Jezos controls the internet

Michael Cohen is now a regular on MeidasTouch. You have to ask yourself why they hired him.

Gustavo Petro, a socialist guerrilla turned democratic politician, stating the obvious that is somehow so difficult for anyone in the US media to understand

Capitalist economy as base, for-profit media driving anti-worker fringe movements as superstructure

Brandon Johnson meets the moment. there is a reason why the rich men’s Chicago press hate him so much.

specifically dumping shit on protesting *Tea Party* Americans they would have burned the White House down

Oh look, it's the guy who works for MeidasTouch now... why did they hire him again?

Democracy only works well in societies where the average person is really ashamed of being ignorant

Brown liquid here, Elon Musk’s “hand gesture” there

HEY New York Times, IT WAS SHIT HE DUMPED ON PROTESTERS! If he can post it, the least you can do is write it!

the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted

Meghan McCain's dad is rolling in his grave at her views on Trump.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens? You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate? Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

A lot of revolutionary somethings on this website want to talk about how seven million people did it wrong yesterday and I just think that, maybe, look inward.

Protesters are reporting today that state troopers at Broadview were exceptionally violent last night, lots of baton strikes including at heads and faces. Everyone arrested has been released.

The Grand Army of the Republic marches again @djinnandtonic.bsky.social #NoKings

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

Three cops wrestling a giant cock to the ground in Alabama is the kind of image that stays with you

couldn’t agree with this more. conservatives in casual conversation will say the most out of pocket shit you’ve heard in your life but we’re out of touch if we call them out or judge them for it because they get a benefit of the doubt never afforded to progressives.

Trollery: the best PR strategy since... never. It was never a good PR strategy

More for the “everyone is twelve” file

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

I love it, it looks like No Kings on the Oregon Trail Kalispell has a lot of white nationalists too

Fine is not Fine

The *how* of #NoKings is impeachment. Don't just say No Kings. Say how to get there. Impeach, convict, remove.

Yes, part of the implication of No Kings, especially repeating it, is to communicate both to wavering elites and to MAGA that the will and numbers exist to color revolution the administration if elections are subverted or cancelled.

Yeah somehow everyone seems to think we can’t call for impeachment

On Graham Platner