Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
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Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
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Seems bad
I know I shouldn’t be at all surprised, but it is still shocking to see that the majority of Americans support Trump’s fascistic invasion of our cities. And how support for his immigration policies is “lower” than before, ie 43%. Just a win is not enough. We need a cultural transformation.
Can’t believe I’m only seeing this now. Great piece by @hannahgais.bsky.social
Notably, Bluesky’s fav Mamdani is doing pretty well while Silver’s predictions re appealing to “normal people” may be a tad off
One of my favorite genres of TikTok is when an older folk doesn’t understand how to use it, records something silly, and then the users make it go viral.
Until more Israelis march for both hostages *and* Gazans, the world will continue to ignore them. Acting as if this is simply a case of antisemitism or hating Israelis misses this larger picture.
We had a very explicit disavowal of BLM by the Democratic Party the moment they started harping on “crime” and called for funding the police *more* after COVID hit. Ignoring this, and not correcting for it, is one of the main reasons we are where we are. Same with “tough on borders.”
They will continue his work. Because this is not just his project. It is literally a Project with a plan and a process laid out. Not that the project wouldn’t be dealt a blow. But Republicans are a fascist party now. The fight is against fascism and for democracy, not (just) against Trump.
Thank the good lord that the courts are trying to adapt and hold the line.
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Every step is a good step. Even the imagining part.
I’m enjoying the people in the replies proving the point.
Please read this thread and the one @machete.gay links to in it. Very important to listen to experts in mass shooting and online far right culture.
Begging people to listen to experts on this. Many shooters are lost in this world of nihilistic trolling and so it’s important to be careful about what conclusions you come to. Often, they’re deliberately messing with your assumptions. Anyway, listen to the experts.
Deconstruction requires breaking down more than just a belief in God. If it’s not about what kind of God, the communal values, culture, etc then the work is hardly done.
Imagine a “debate” on rights for Jews or Black people. It’s a mark as to where liberal society is that this is still even framed this way.
Sure
✌️New✌️ Dems
Me when I get what I want
An underrated aspect of Pritzker’s approach is that it is actually based in an ethical approach that is clearly not shaved down by focus groups or advisors. Not as much, at least. That’s how we’ll get there, not constant polling and surface-level thinking.
this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats
They absolutely made a massive impact through (intentional, strategic) posting. Both before, during, and after the 2016 election, well before Musk's takeover.
Either the site was run differently before Musk or it wasn’t. That doesn’t mean it was a leftist cathedral, people like myself were calling this out incessantly, but it *was* run differently. Acting like they’re the same completely erases the point that Musk taking over matters!
I agree, that has not been proven, and maybe it's not possible! But saying that it is IMPOSSIBLE has also not been proven. My entire point is that most of us *do not know*, and it is premature to make black and white points on this. I say this as someone who left behind X as my main platform.
Agreed. But as our platforms almost all shift to far right owners (Meta's rules are now not much different than X's), the question is if we will make better impact by only staying on platforms like Bluesky where we are mostly with people who already agree with us. Maybe! But maybe not!
Trump was on Twitter in 2016, before Musk. So was the far right, and well before that as well. Which is my point: the ground was laid on social media well before Musk's takeover and well before Trump. My point: It has been proven it is possible to move the needle with the rules stacked against you.
Same, this is all I am trying to say, there is no easy answer 😩
Beyond that, if the argument is that the channels ALWAYS favored the right, then what at all is the problem with Musk taking over? Sounds like we were always screwed? Either way, the logic doesn't hold up.
It's all a spectrum. No doubt at all that those things helped, and it wasn't like there was a socialist uber-woke person behind the scenes at any of these places. But there WAS some moderation, if only for appearances. And they successfully got around it. This has been well documented.
It is BIZARRE to say it was a losing tactic! They grew massively due to their infestation of social media and gaming of algorithms. They literally won at least one election because of it! Of all the critiques to make of my post (many legit ones!), this is just truly disconnected from reality.
JFC
Yes, I agree with this. It's just a question of potential gains vs losses. I just don't agree the black and white proposition that it's not possible to gain ground there no matter what
For sure, I agree. My point is just to say that the ability to infiltrate effectively (if possible, which IS a question) obviously has upside
1. There are MANY Trump supporters who voted for him and support him because they want him to be a dictator 2. Dictators often have a mix of early supporters, some who think they mean it and support them for that reason, some who think they're "just joking," can be controlled, etc etc
Of course. You are missing what I wrote here. The entire point here is it was once skewed differently, and the far right was able to adjust quite well. Just giving up on potential opportunities because the game is stacked against us doesn't mean we should completely give up on them.
In terms of the literal point I made, the entire post is about pre-Musk, so I have no idea what you are actually responding to other than your own made up idea of what I am arguing
Dude, the far right subverting the platform happened well before Musk came along, bizarre to make this point
No, I'm talking pre-Musk. If you think the far right only succeeded after Musk, you're missing quite a lot!
Okay, THIS I agree with. But the far right succeeded not just with a crapload of people, but with a few who coordinated strategically and were able to navigate and use the tools effectively.
This is it. This is all of it. As long as we are just doomscrolling and using the same brains we used in 2016, we'll be preemptively losing our battles. We need to build imagination, to build inner strength, and to build communal/social/movement cohesion. Now is the time.
Big deal for J Street to be posting this, one of the few major Zionist orgs taking this stand
Pritzker deserves so much credit for his fight against Trump. And bonus, he doesn’t throw other minority groups off the bus for supposed gains. bsky.app/profile/govp...
FIGHTING BACK GETS RESULTS Don’t let the bullies convince you that standing down is the way to protect yourself. They do this so they don’t have to deal with consequences for their actions. They depend on our acquiescence. Standing up is *strategic*, not just brave. Stand up now or it keeps going.
Border Patrol lies about holding an asylum seeker in their custody. Location only found because the legal immigrant shared the location of her phone. Watch them lie through their teeth here. Completely illegal and fascistic.
The examples you give are notable because they’re few and far between. We are also seeing powerful local examples in places like Texas. But again, rare. The Democratic Party is broken, and I don’t think it’s brain rot to point that out. So far it has not done close to what it should have.
Watching progressives fail repeatedly to stand up for more housing, especially near transit, in LA has been an education.
Do not forget how many people validated the “immigration issue” by supporting right wing talking points instead of calling it out for the racism it was. It was not just fascists who got us here. And forgetting that creates the conditions for this to keep happening on a loop.
Nice Jewish boy
“Only 300,000 are being starved!” Incredible stuff
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2/2
Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance 1/2
One of the panels at Socialism 2025 featured a long-time brilliant organizer and comrade Paula Rojas who said at one point: "Some of us in this room will be imprisoned or killed in the next few years." It was a room full of activists and organizers & it seemed to quiet the room.
A Black Lives Matter activist shares that the FBI will be sending more agents there than anywhere else in the country. Very clear this is a message that the fight for liberation is being targeted specifically where people have been standing up. HT @farrahfazal.bsky.social
To me, as someone who tries to communicate about antisemitism and extremism, a big group I need to hear this message spend much of their time on Twitter.
And possible quickly!
I know there is a lot of rightful pointing out the weaknesses of staying on Twitter. But I do think people should acknowledge just how problematic it is to be stuck on platforms where we are not able to go as outside of our bubbles as we’d like. It is an important dilemma to grapple with.
If you’re talking about American fascism without talking about race, you are missing out on its most critical ingredient. If you talk about it as if it came out of nowhere, you are missing what it is. If you talk about solving it without a solution that addresses these, you won’t solve it.
The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.
Any contact with the criminal punishment system at all can destroy your life. You don't have to be convicted and imprisoned for that to be the case. Once again, this is something that too few USians pay attention to or know.
I’m convinced that the reason pundits like David Brooks obsess so much over progressives being the cause of fascism is that if they didn’t, they’d have to face their own part in its spread.
The people who reflexively say that everything happening in the news every day is just a distraction from the Epstein files are allowing themselves to get distracted by the Epstein files from many other things that are incredibly important also.
I, for one, am shocked that giving people money when they don’t have money solves the problems caused by them not having money
I, for one, am shocked that giving people money when they don’t have money solves the problems caused by them not having money
I know this a serious and painful moment in history, but I love the idea of “Calvinball jurisprudence”
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing
Please both keep us updated!
Hot take: suburbs are one of the worst things to happen to America and were one of the major contributors on our road to fascism.
Had a difficult discussion with some Israeli friends, and it just kind of hit me during it that so many will criticize Netanyahu endlessly but in the end agree with and justify everything he does in Gaza. Just real no functional difference. Exhausting because the cognitive dissonance is so real.
I don't think people appreciate just how much this stuff affects our society! Loneliness epidemic stuff, for example. Which could help reduce the rise of fascism. A lot I wish we discussed more!
Cities in America being filled with cars while cities around the world use more "old" technology like trains is a reminder that the tech we use is a choice. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it requires replacement of what's better. But American capitalism tries to convince us otherwise.
It's the point. To prove over and over that they are immune and that we are vulnerable. That they are inherently innocent and that we are inherently "criminals." That they matter and that we don't. They want us to be infuriated, exhausted, and debating them. Anything but fighting.
Excuse me, now's not the time to criticize the party! Also, earlier wasn't the right! And also, in the future!
What I mean is that they justify those efforts by claiming it is “modernization”
Cities in America being filled with cars while cities around the world use more "old" technology like trains is a reminder that the tech we use is a choice. Just because something is new, doesn't mean it requires replacement of what's better. But American capitalism tries to convince us otherwise.
You can be Jewish and still promote antisemitic conspiracy theories. This is a good example. It frames Zionism not as a political movement, but as a global scheme to control the West. It describes Palestine as a decoy and uses terms like “hypnotic spell,” all of which echo old antisemitic tropes.
Never trust a politician. Fight and push them to do the right thing, and don't let them take credit when they finally do.
I just found out my friend Ahmed in Gaza lives in Gaza City. He does not want to evacuate. I am spending my day crying as I see how this may be one of the last days I speak to him. I am sharing this so you see, this is one of millions. Every life there is affected by this. Every single life.
Reporters should be challenging them much more strongly, not validating the fucking crime narrative by trying to make it a debate about that. Focus on the fascism, the racism, and the LIES.
Damn, most undercooked chicken nuggets I’ve ever seen
Civil War never ended
The clearest lesson of recent history is that the more groups become self-interested, the more quickly they implode. We're more connected & integrated than ever. That's what's causing a reaction. But it's also impossible to change without destroying yourself. The only solution is embracing it.
Anyone who truly believes we should yell about left and right wing antisemitism would also care if one gets more attention and the other doesn’t. Yet the response we often tend to hear is the opposite: as if calling attention to inequity means we are diminishing antisemitism.
I apologize for sharing something that’s happening!
You should yell about both. But if one is heard more than the other, that puts Jews (and democracy, and other minorities) in danger as well. So yelling about the inequity is also part of the work. And I find it weird that you won’t complain people targeting you?!
Love this line so much. But: this can also apply to optimism. The idea that we will magically be saved is imo not that far from thinking it’s magically impossible to achieve a solution. Either way, the emphasis is on inaction. The focus thus needs to be on action, not just the opposite of each.
As we continue to obsess over discussions about left wing antisemitism, far right antisemitism continues to explode. The incidents are largely overlooked. They don’t fit the narrative for those most tasked with this fight. And they don’t get the clicks for media. But they are happening regardless.
This is open and unabashed anti-Muslim & anti-Palestinian bigotry. This is what happens when we talk about antisemitism in a vacuum and only prioritize one group at the expense of others. The only way to fight hate is together. Fighting bigotry against all is the way we protect ourselves.
stop antisemitism is an astroturfed anti-antisemitism group run by a right-wing extremist, liora reznichenko, with the money and guidance of adam milstein, an israeli-american trump donor convicted of tax fraud who is so extreme he was banned from aipac one year for his racist vituperations
Yeah, this is the biggest question. I think it's possible that seceding may provide new leverage and opportunities. Such as setting up systems for "refugees," of red states with infrastructure to help them relocate. Having more negotiating power with red states etc. In theory, it could help more.
Hahaha well you got the idea!
That's what I meant by the post 🙃
"Whoever actually said it." It was a neo-Nazi
🫠 Applies to many atm...
The irony
Neo-nazi quote bro
We are watching in real time what happens in a world where a country thinks it can live on its own, survive on its own, and fight only for its won. Spoiler: It will end very badly. Individualist, hierarchical thinking always does.