Thou shalt not shut down your entire government just to protect billionaire pedophiles.

the system doesn’t fear weekend protests. It fears Monday absences. People want to vent about the broken machine, but they don’t want to admit they are the machine’s gears.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

“Work gives me dignity.” → Translation: this boot’s delicious. “You just don’t get hard work.” → Translation: you’re jealous of my boot. “Capitalism gives me freedom.” → Translation: at least this boot is mine.

What boys should have been taught is a man's attention is more valuable then gold it's the single most valuable substance in the entire universe. A man's attention can build and destroy nations and men give it to women as though it's worthless infinite resource

Trump is STILL doing everything he can to distract us so we stop asking about the Epstein files.

militarily, Russia lobbing drones into random Polish villages is irrational. The Kremlin’s war aims don’t involve NATO escalation, they involve grinding Ukraine down while keeping the West divided and hesitant. So what happened over Poland doesn’t fit their strategic playbook.

Right now, millions of Americans are food insecure while farmers sit on silos of unsold soybeans.

Farmers scream about lost export markets but rarely ask “what do American tables actually need right now?”

The richest 100 billionaires in the U.S. have a net worth totaling $3.86 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is collectively worth $4 trillion. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.

authoritarian logic in its purest form: loyalty equals safety, resistance equals punishment.

An AR-15 and an M4 are functionally cousins. The difference is that the M4 is a tool of state sanctioned violence, backed by logistics, drones, tanks, and the narrative of legitimacy. No regular guy is committing genocide with an ar15. But men with m4s are.

Just watched a cell phone video of a peaceful protester draped in an American flag being beaten by a police officer with his baton. Nothing says America like that.

the only class in America that enjoys solidarity is the wealthy parasites. the rest of us are wage slaves would rather argue over red v blue, left v right, lib v con

you know what the difference between Trump and Hitler is? Hitler wasn't on the Epstein list

If CEO unalivings were a TV show, they would be the number one show on television.

The real headline should be: “Facility housing nuclear waste shows signs of environmental radiation breach officials dismiss concern.”

I’m not an activist, but as someone who reports on people who are, I see some activists sneering at people who are late to a cause they’ve fought hard for. Surely the point of activism is pitching to the centre to make change? Not alienating or mocking those whose minds you surely wanted to change?

Divided we fall doesn’t mean choose a side it means stop letting them give you only two. You’re not uniting by rallying behind your team. You’re uniting when you stop playing their game. We don’t fall because we disagree. We fall because we forget who’s pulling the strings

Maybe if your country is the wealthiest in the world but the richest tenth of the country have two thirds of the wealth and the bottom 50% only have 2.5% of the wealth, you don't have the wealthiest country in the world, you just have feudalism.

Everyone says they’re just going after brown immigrants. I’m like, for now. But if the plan is 3,000 pickups a day, they’ll eventually run out of them and look for someone else.” History shows us State power doesn’t shrink when it runs out of easy targets.

Henry Ford’s old logic: “I need to pay my workers enough so they can buy the cars.” We’re forgetting that lesson.

Didn't think this needed to be said, but I guess it does "Show of presence" is just a modified way of saying "show of force". The purpose is literally to intimidate the population. ICE think if they change that 1 word they can march through a city park like the Wehrmacht down the Champs-Élysées.

They’re not going to release the list. They’re united in refusing to. That’s not dysfunction. That’s solidarity among the ruling class.

The IRS now permits churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit without losing their tax exemption. This move erodes the Johnson Amendment’s barrier between religion and politics. This fits authoritarian tactics. It's about leveraging trust and authority through religious influence

They know showing up to help doesn’t concentrate power. Showing up with guns does. That’s why they choose the show of force in LA over the show of compassion in Texas or North Carolina.

The big beautiful ripoff is the textbook move of a dictator. Inflate security budgets, militarize policing, provoke violence, then use that violence to clamp down harder.

Food for thought

they prosecuted Maxwell for trafficking to whom? The invisible man?

There’s no way she was convicted without proof she trafficked to someone. The “list” exists by definition. It’s called evidence.

A protest no one in power sees or fears is just a parade for ourselves.

In 2010, an estimated $12 billion in one year alone was paid into Social Security from undocumented workers using fake SSNs.

Tens of millions of Americans rely on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, mood stabilizers. The Big Beautiful Bill’s cuts will directly reduce or eliminate access for huge numbers of people. Now imagine millions losing those meds at once....

backed by more money than FBI, CIA, and many military units. that’s exactly how you build a modern-day Gestapo.

ICE with more resources than many militaries, these aren't just enforcement officers, they're a domestic paramilitary force trained, equipped, and funded to operate outside transparent accountability.

This is what the early stages of currency crisis look like in wealthy nations.

Trump ordering military action and getting compliance from the armed forces without Congressional approval is the answer to the question of authority. It’s not theoretical. It happened. That’s de facto authority, regardless of what the legal books say. If no one stops you, then you have the power.

when people ask “Where’s Congress?” the answer is: right where they’ve always been. They don’t want the responsibility. They want to posture for their base, let the president take the heat, and still get their kickbacks from defense contractors.

You're seeing the next Gulf of Tonkin unfold in slow motion.

The reason you’re not seeing the 2A crowd engage is because they know the minute they do, it goes from protest to insurrection in the eyes of the state.

The No Kings march had the right energy in name, but it didn’t stop anything. No general strike. No economic disruption. No refusal of service. It was permitted. The kind the state tolerates because it knows Monday is still business as usual. keep feeding the machine people.

They protest on a Saturday so it doesn't actually inconvenience the machine. It's symbolic rebellion. But come Monday morning? Everyone punches back and then argues over which color tie their favorite oligarch is wearing.

There’s this sick cultural lie that childhood is some kind of golden era for everyone. That it’s full of innocence and love and parental guidance. But for a massive number of people, childhood wasn’t safe, it was war. It was survival. And the perpetrators were more often the not our parents.

If there were a day for people who chose not to have kids, it should honor the men and women who stepped back and said, “Nah, I’m not going to contribute another hostage to capitalism or another pawn to the meat grinder.” Maybe call it "Clarity Day" or "Zero Legacy, Zero Regrets Day"

Father’s Day, like Mother’s Day, tends to glorify the role without accounting for the reality: some people had garbage parents, some are garbage parents, and some people opted out entirely because they had enough self-awareness to not pass on trauma.

Yesterday in Tucson, protesters formed a Roman-style shield wall with paintballs to push back ICE agents: they didn’t just protest, they defended their homes. This is strategic resistance, not chaos.