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Armed troops are on DC streets, setting up checkpoints, harassing residents + tearing down anti-ICE banners to leave a dildo in a kid's park. In response, residents are forming networks of resistance + mutual aid. Read our discussion w/ @remorahousedc.bsky.social: itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-f...
Way past time, if you ask me.
The Loser Corps! Too dumb to know they're violating the U.S. Constitution!
So gross. There's no reality in which she did a good thing. There's a reality in which she may have been stupid and not malicious, but in the context of the violent invading mob, Capitol security had to stop her and the mob from reaching the legislators and the VP.
I'd join! I want to be a nun for Democracy!😊
I'm pretty sure that the correct term is "deeply troubled."
This is how you do it. Civil resistance on all levels and in all pillars of potential support for the dictator.
Massive police, FBI, and military presence in order to go up and down the escalator and to apprehend a 'dangerous' criminal doing fare evasion. Wow, the people of DC are sooo much safer as a result. Waste of taxpayer money. Waste of space.
"Is there a reason of going up and down the escalator repeatedly?" Zeteo's @premthakker.bsky.social follows HSI and FBI agents as they go after... fare evaders in DC. And gets into a bit of a debate with a police sergeant. Watch/share/subscribe:
for the record, that's about 20x the number of coal miners in the US
I bet if some enterprising investigators did DNA analysis on items in the trash cans of these folks that we discover some darker genes hidden in plain sight!
I wonder if a slow-motion sandwich would also draw a felony charge. Like, no throwing just gently pushing it into an ICE/CBP paramilitary vest until it was one with the Gestapo wannabe.
Are the "free market" aficianados paying attention?? 😁
Exactly. We didn't need tariffs. We weren't suffering from immigrant labor. Local LE was doing fine in D.C. under local control. (Hint: grabbing random people doesn't stop crime or make anyone safer.)
Game sees game.
If you want kids, fight for a country that you'd be happy to raise them in. Don't throw in the towel. Help build a broad movement against fascism and for the end to gross wealth inequality, an end to rule by billionaires and their evil henchmen. Help create a culture of well-being and of kindness.
Voters need to read betw the lines: does this candidate dream of fascism and wealth inequality and impunity? Or are they trying to build a nation in which people can raise their children to be free, educated, kind, and who will oppose racism, sexism, homophobia, and nutty internet science?
Add to this the pretty seriously discouraging prospect of raising a child in a country with secret police that can grab you off the street and a vindictive POTUS surrounded by sycophantic Fox Bimbos who can't solve problems, who can only destroy things.
Yes, wealth inequality, agree. AND, we also need someone to deal with the redistricting issue, and Newsom's doing it, so that's good, right. He's trolling the hell out of trump and that's good, also raising the contradiction to msm for questioning him but not trump's incoherent blurps.
The challenge: figure out what we need right now, not whether someone's eternal scorecard makes them in essence completely this (a hero?) or that (a villain?). In politics things are very dynamic & there are big contradictions. FDR enacted SocSec but he also incarcerated Japanese Americans.
Lalo Alcaraz on the recent ICE/CBP raid on Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, CA. ICE raid took place on the exact spot that Japanese immigrants and citizen children were ordered to report for detention and indefinite incarceration in 1942. Shame on ICE! Shame!!
I understand that the "authorities" are busily sleuthing to find the mastermind behind this resistance strategy of assault with a deli weapon -- allegedly a shadowy figure code named 'BLT'.
DJT must be really afraid of regular people like the "sandwich assailant." The ICE/CBP must be afraid of him, too. To arrest a guy who offered to turn himself in, they needed what, a dozen heavily armed "officers?"
He's never walked the straight and narrow.
If POTUS can throw paper towels at flood victims, why can't law-abiding citizens throw nutritious submarines at unaccountable masked and probably hungry ICE/CBP agents? Gimme a break. That's not a felony. That's faith, hope, and charity!
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CA Governor Newsom's social media posts are hilarious trolling of those of the Orange King Midas, and if the msm was a little quicker, could provide some useful counterpoint to the terrible communiques of POTUS, now obviously in serious mental decline. @nytimes.com @latimes.com @washingtonpost.com
Newsom rightfully goes after the mainstream media's big failure w.r.t. covering the trump regime's incoherent, incompetent, and treasonous personnel most recruited from Blonde Bimbo City at Fox News. MSM can't grok Newsom's trolling of Trump but merely passively accepts Trump's own demented posts?
Governor Newsom on the media’s feigned outrage over his Trump-style posts: What an admission! Where have they been not asking Donald Trump this?
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
That's Little Tokyo! The CBP conducted their presser in the very spot Japanese immigrants and their citizen kids were assembled to be shipped off to a concentration camp! And the CBP guy claims they're there to make Californians safe. They arrested the guy who brings strawberries to a cafe there.
Well, we know that the GOP/Confederacy has an unspoken tagline: "Hypocrites R Us." So, JD !! Your 7th vacation in 6 months!! Being the evil veep is a cushy job, I guess, when you don't have to worry about following the Constitution or respecting the rule of law.
This President doesn’t want to serve the people, he wants to rule the people. I’m not kissing his damn ring and neither will millions of Americans.
You can "like" someone a lot and still, they're not really qualified to be president. No celebrities. No "influencers."
Beto and his organization powered-by-people is working the grassroots to empower the working people of Texas to defend democracy. Help him fight back against this disgusting power grab!
"Trying to silence me": Beto O'Rourke responds to Texas AG's threat to arrest him
The Trump administration practically claims authority "to use the military anywhere, anytime, for any purpose." That's "absolutely unprecedented," says the Brennan Center's @josephanunn.bsky.social.
Good ad. Hit him where it hurts. In the facts.
Jenkins: Trump strips medical care from millions of Americans, realizes he can’t actually hold onto power because the American people are furious. So instead of trying to convince the public to let his party keep control of the House—they come up with this scheme
What a desperate weirdo. What a pen-wielding stick figure of an AG. What a puffed up sycophant. Don't attorneys pledge to uphold the law and the Constitution of the U.S. and of their states? How far this guy has fallen.
I don't think so, fascist sycophant of the Orange Midas.
"Hands Off DC" is now on streaming platforms, including Spotify (stream), Apple Music (buy), YouTube (listen), and more. Below is the full track. It's NSFW, but I think it captures the understandable outrage about what happened Monday. I hope you'll share it widely!
I think that's true. They just looked down on them. "Papists."
"U.S. Rep. Lateefah Simon of Oakland described Israel’s recent attack on aid seekers as 'devastating, deplorable and unacceptable.'... “'Gaza is all but leveled. The folks are sick and starving there,' Simon said. 'We should be ashamed of ourselves....we cannot be complicit in an endless war.'”
I see stuff that says Sarsour does not support either Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.
www.motherjones.com #MotherJones current issue:
Who are the left-wing billionaires?
I'd like to question fear-mongering, Islamophobic Democrats whether they supported the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans based partially on accusations of "emperor worship" as part of Shinto. I wonder what they'd say esp. since FDR was a Democrat.
I've never heard of Linda Sarsour using any kind of anti-Semitic language or sentiment. Remember that being critical of Israeli govt policy and/or expressing solidarity with Palestinians is NOT anti-Semitic. Many people are critical of Israel and in solidarity with the people of Gaza.
It's a valid comparison. U.S. politics was dominated by WASPs - White Anglo Saxon Protestants -- and Catholics and Jews were reviled in WASP strongholds.
Too bad there are so many racist Americans steeped in racism for generations. Some of this reminds me of how my U.S. born parents and their immigrant parents were smeared with the accusation that they worshipped the emperor of Japan, and this was enuf to remove and incarcerate them, too.
Abortion isn't a topic in Australia, thank God! It's legal & not an issue at all. Abortion is between a doctor and their patient, and all about the mental & physical health of the woman. Not anyone else's business. I don't recognise America anymore. It looks like it's being run by the Taliban.
Pay attention to Robert Reich. Income inequality is something that we have to fight before, during, and after trump.
Rallies and demonstrations are not enuf. We need to build a broad civil resistance movement of many orgs made up of many people who are connected in-person. This is a protracted struggle. We cannot turn this around overnight. SM will not win it. The internet won't win it. Join an organization.
We need people who have never been in 3rd spaces (social/political spaces other than home or work) to join a local organization. Financially supporting nat'l grps is good, too, but we need to build the broad in-person democratic movement that is connected to others.
Full of truths that make anti-immigrant paranoia look as stupid as it is. Immigrants make for a vibrant economy.
There's no future in becoming an ICE goon. After you deport all the immigrants, trump will make you pick lettuce in some other state for your healthcare (no pre-existing conditions!)
![Join ICE! Like the Gestapo, but for cowards. Do dogs hate you? Need cash to spend on a punisher skull tattoo instead of child support? Can you only get hard to the sounds of children crying? Hoping to die alone and unloved? [Drawing of a masked ICE agent wearing a MAGA hat and doing a Nazi salute.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zyii664fvr54yhg3w5f554o6/bafkreiaa6budntrkk4hwty3qwznhjx77al4he2f7cw4rm7mo7xhh35wrla@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Little Orange Midas.
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One way to help is to support Powered by People, Beto O'Rourke's organization, a large voter registration grassroots group that is being attacked for supporting the DP lawmakers, by Paxton, the corrupt GOP/Confederacy AG of Texas.
Watch the full interview with @genefortexas.bsky.social and subscribe to support independent media: youtu.be/VD9o9ejC-hs
@genefortexas.bsky.social on Greg Abbott: "To have a governor just bend the knee so casually-- to lick the boots with such energy, it's so unbecoming of a Texan. There's no independence... you're just another bootlicker."
Gives Mandani a chance to easily demonstrate the "what TO do" side of campaigning. They could co-author a textbook on campaigning!😁
Somehow, very not surprised by this news. He doesn't present as either smart or honest.
Hahaha
Techno-fascism, while fostering massive arrogance, turns out to be stupid, like regular libertarians.
After the DOGE purge, reality is setting in. It turns out, workers are actually needed. The FAA just announced plans to hire at least 8,900 air traffic controllers. The National Weather Service is bringing on hundreds of new staff, just months after losing more than 500 people.
Corruption? Check. Pedophilia? Check. Complete lack of moral character in multiple dimensions? Check. Throw these GOP/Confederacy goons out!
This person speaks for so many of us!
popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs
Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.
GOP Rep. Bryan Steil holds an in-person town hall event and is greeted with boos Why are they wearing masks? And why are they unidentified?
Beautiful poster by Leland Wong.
It’s about damn time
I often rec the Stockdale Paradox, not the bastardized version for bus. mgmt -- the essence in that we must face reality, no matter how brutal, but never give up the determination that we will prevail. It's not optimism (which can kill your spirit) but it's the spirit/brain that can keep fighting.
Yes, they do. It's very likely that the people needing more aid are the people who didn't vote for trump. And we can't let a U.S. institution die because of annoyance at some demographic. Eyes on the prize.
FEMA: an example of "mutual aid" nation-wide. We SHOULD care about the people of our country even if in other states, and FEMA is a way to do that. "Everybody for themselves" is NOT the way to go. We care and we want to put our money where our mouth is, not give taxpayer $$ to billionaires.
Very true. And to beef up the ranks of the unidentified thugs in ICE.
Two can play that game.
Progressive political work includes making sure that we have welcoming, supportive spaces for boys and young men, and that we accommodate who they are. Let's not forget them. We need them on our side. Pls don't just monku or complain about your personal situation; think about how we can improve.
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Trump’s authoritarian regime is propped up by key pillars of support. We can crack those pillars by refusing to cooperate or comply with requests, demands or orders. Watch the full training: youtube.com/live/yqhFZjH... Join the campaign to train a million Americans: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
The U.S. Department of Defense was seeking 12 Guard members to assist inside federal immigration detention facilities, according to a governor’s aide, who added that the governor’s denial was “divorced” from politics. www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero - Two years ago, we invited all 100 senators to work in the fields. Only two of them accepted: Alex Padilla and Cory Booker.
An old school communique.
DP: please pay attention to the "blow them out of the water" part. We are in serious $hit and need inspired commitment. Seriously.
Did she ask Zaid to temp store her Jewish space lasers ("Here. Hold these.") while she flexes her anti-genocide muscles? Does she wonder why the deep state -- if it can change the weather for political purposes -- why it doesn't just go in there and bring tacos to the Gazan masses?
Great story. Illustrates the humanity of the people, of baseball lovers, of kids, of people who care about kids -- basically everything that ICE is poised to destroy.
Because Gazans, having had their entire community bombed out of existence are all busy creating AI videos and photoshopping photos in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the world? Who would believe that $hit?
Alternate theory: they'll find a sticky, oozing, fetid mass of horror, throbbing with contempt and hatred.
Cult or extreme individual hatefulness? Hmm.. such a mystery.
Thank you! Good strategy: Congress-check. Electoral politics - check. Other institutions - check. Mass non-cooperation - check. People, pay attention. This is what we need.
TOMORROW: We want to train you how to lead a local resistance movement in your community. Join the next One Million Rising call to learn strategic non-cooperation strategies to fight the rise of fascism in our country: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
I saw him on a podcast being interviewed. It said that he'd recently converted to Islam. I don't follow him so I don't know what he said before or since. Butch Ware, professor, right?
I know very thoughtful Muslim Americans who were deeply offended, religiously and politically, by his assertion/threat that Muslims would go to hell if they didn't vote for his ticket. Being correct/incredible are not main criteria. What does he represent? Is he running as a Green?
Did you try this all by your lonesome? When was this? You must have a lot of friends and associates from that effort. Do something now given the current conditions, which includes young people who want to change things who were not involved in your previous efforts. Don't give up.