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he needs to coordiante with the mayor of Chicago to put state troopers and CPD at the main entry points to Chicago and block their deployment
so sad that we accept all that we do -- most are just plodding along trying to get by -- and that's the way they like it...when the guillotines get brought out it will be a great day of celebration
so good from @heycappello.bsky.social
The Rev took attendance…
when are the good people of America gonna do more than stand on street corners with signs or maybe take a stroll with the signs...when are our leaders gonna call for action....when?
lol--- they're assaulting and kidnapping people and not being prosecuted...why do you think murder will be any different?
and file lawsuits
if only they'd do more than talk
I hope some of your collegaues start acting the way you're talking
so, policies should be written taking into account the personnel in various positions...uh, no.
Dems are apparently "looking for a platform" when the answer is right there: Stop running away from thing that actually help people. Food, housing, healthcare, no genocides, everyone's rights and bodily autonomy protected, a livable world, and all of those things viciously, deftly defended, always.
lotta talk -- let's see what he does
with him backing the corporatists finding a reason to f over a progressive in your own largest city...the marriage might not last too long.
it's never the dem's fault for putting up no policies to help anyone other than the upper classes and the Zionist Israelis
how is this guy keeping his position --- sad
plausible -- if true, the failure to use the tools at their disposal speaks to a cowardice as great as any in history.
plausible -- if true, the failure to use the tools at their disposal speaks to a cowardice as great as any in history.
I see immigrants and immigrant adjacent folks, for lack of a better term, being sent to camps -- I see houseless being disappeared... -- I assume they'l target groups in some type of order -- next could be trans, then LGBTQ, or maybe they'll go after anti-Zionists..or resisters in general etc.
if justice is to be restored Nuremburg type trials for the commanders need ot be held.
which marginalized group will be the first to head to the camps?
My girl Francis used to guard her kittens, whenever they got too close to the edge of whatever surface 🥰
We’re still having discussions about how Zohran Mamdani is a “socialist” because he wants to open one state-run grocery store, meanwhile the US government now controls 10% of Intel. I find this super amusing.
how bout court martials instead -- for violating their oaths
this should be addressed to every sitting dem congress person - you'd think at least one would stand up and call for some mass action...not even one.
start embracing policies like M4A, capping rents, free child care and post secondary training. talk about large cuts to the war machine to fund social programs. advocate for the US to join the rest of the world in condemning genocide. do something that will make Dems electable by the people, please.
"Massachusetts has collected about $1.8 billion from a voter-approved surtax on the state's highest earners through the first nine months of the fiscal year." It's going to be used for education and transportation. See? Equitable taxation benefits everyone. www.wgbh.org/news/politic...
it's hopeful to think there's a resistance organizing that would be able to take advantage of the intel something like this would generate -- seems doubtful, but hopeful.
History will tell the tale of Newsom's failure at the critical moment when Trump deployed troops in CA and unchallenged took his authority over the National Guard away. It will be identified as the last time he could have been stopped. What's going on in DC now was enabled by Newsom's failure
there's a lot of naive people out there. Folks ought to be seriously considering leaving -- especially if they are outspoken critics of the regime...it won't be long until resistors are being joyfully picked up by the masked degenerates and whisked off to points unknown.
As one of the co-creators of Don't Look Up and someone who struggles with an impending sense of doom, this is one of the most optimism-inspiring articles I've read in a very long time.
so that was justified -- but Russia having our nukes in their backyard is just fine -- hypocrite much?
haven't met anyone who can give a good answer to why Putin invading Ukraine is much different from JFK taking the world to the brink of destruction over missiles in Cuba -- can you?
ok -- but we should all be able to see that the people calling for defunding ICE, well before the OD came to power, were right.
I'd never say there aren't any. But I think, with very few, perhaps no, exceptions, there aren't enough who will band together to take over the Dem parties in their areas and push for progressive change.
more of this spirit please
ugh...hate to think so
it's not like you all aren't already on the list....
I don't think posting on social media, yapping and filing lawsuits are tactics that are gonna have any effect.
ICE got their unmarked vehicle towed while two masked men pinned a woman face down on the ground. She later needed medical attention.
why didn't Newsom order his guard to not comply with illegl orders -- politics? afraid they'd disobey him....imo, he had nothing to lose -- woulda looked like a real clutch player
where was his energy when the OD put troops on the streets?
true and as this accelerates they will stop accepting Americans in their countries....time to start planning your escape unless you're a MAGA or willing to live as though you are one.
Dems ought to be calling for a showdown in the street. Dem govs need to be ordering their guard forces to not comply with illegal orders and putting their state troopers out to faceoff against those that do. The OD only responds to force...time to also call for a general strike.
it's so wild that we take money out of ATMs every days and buy most stuff electonically -- and we so distrust our politicians that we want to hand mark ballots...we are a really f'd up society.
you're right and the guy with the 4th biggest economy in the word is writing sternly worded letters to him about it....thank goodness.
not when the intent is to intimidate --
a show???? wtaf -- this ain't a show -- call it that when you're down hanging out in AA - aka Alligator Alcatraz
glad you appreciated it -- that'd be v cool to do --- here's a link to a free read of her autobiography -- lotta really interesting activism she was invovled in -- theanarchistlibrary.org/library/moth...
and our elected officials who have control of militarized police forces and the Nat'l Guard are just letting it happen -- it's time to precipitate a showdown before it is too late....
The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.
exactly -- and if DC responds like LA/CA -- with feckless yammering and filing lawsuits that will go nowhere, it just shows him he has a clear path
it seems pretty clear that, in addition to being a distraction, he's testing his limits. And if CA and LA leaders' actions are repeated here in DC...a feckless yammering and filing some lawsuits....well, he knows more assuredly that he has an open pathway to establishing a national police force.
dontcha think the leaders in LA and CA kinda set the tone for how our leaders are gonna respond to the OD creating a federal LE regime....doubt DC mayor is gonna do anything other than watch and maybe file a lawsuit... -- we have no leaders willing to use the power they have to stand up.
if this is true how is Abbott explained?
does anyone think the Epstein files exist within the US gov? Except perhaps in the CIA's offices for blackmail uses, it's highly unlikely.
these people are such idiots
Hell yes! #UnionStrong
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maybe so -- like too many christians are assholes -- the folks you ran into are posers.....communism is not an extremist system by nature -- - at all...now, capitalism...if you want an extremist system....there's one for you.
where is ther nat'l leadership on this -- Pritzker, Newsom, Hochul....great -- but too they should be calling for Schmuner and Jeffries to step down in favor of some leaders with fire in their bellies.
what will happen is that because no one but fringe folks like Kshawma Sawant or Jill Stein are talking about those things & no one listens to them, we may win cuz of backlash -- but when Dems don't deliver, we'll be back to another Trump figure...we ought to push elite Dem to talk about poverty etc.
depends upon if Putin backed down or not I suppose -- facing what he would have faced had we mobilized I don't see it.
4 me, saying out was as good an option as mobilizing. Putin would have established a pro-Russian govt., like we install pro US govts when we go into countries & that would have been that. It was very reckless to do what we did, mobilizing equally so - Ukraine isn't worth the end of the species.
but that woudn't have allowed us to funnel so much money to our MIC...not to mention getting to test weapons out...our leaders are sick, twisted bastards.
the half-stepping we did merits severe crticism...shoulda stopped it or stayed out.
maybe -- but, more likely is that Putin would have backed down without much warfare....maybe Biden would have been criticized by some on the fringes...but, clearly it would have been a much better outcome....and I don't actually think any criticism would have been valid.
simple -- mobilize -- our $1T+ annual spending, not to mention our NATO allies' forces, were orders of magnitude more powerful than what Russia could have mustered...no?
the party is dead. unless it embraces what people want instead of what their corporate overlords want they will never recover...they might win in the midterms (if we have them) as a backlash but we're not Trump isn't a winning strategy longer term.
for me, the fact the we, the only remaining superpower, didn't stop this from the start and avoid over 1/2 million deaths and 10s of billions in property damage, not to mentions millions of soliders with a lifetime of PTSD... leaves anyone defending our 'position' in quite a fix.
being anti-war isn't the same as being pro-Russian - just sayin.
and in Cheyenne WY they are trying to build an AI center that will gobble more power than all the residences in the whole state....elected officials permitting these projects are killing us for capitalism
there are no saviors when the system is broken -- and the Dems are just as guilty of breaking it as the GOPers...we need real progressives to be put in power who will tax the rich and provide people with affordable healthcare, childcare, eldercare,education, housing and food.
In a red rural area went to a potluck for lefties last nite -- 1 topic discussed was how to deal w/ppl who you know are 'good- hearted' but are supporters of the OD. It was all I could do to keep from saying I never knew a Nazi could be good-hearted.
if you want a fighter for avg working class ppl check out Kshama Saawant. Among other things, as a city council member in Seattle she won the first $15 min wage in the country and she's now running for congress and won't fight just for her constituents, she'll fight for us all www.kshamasawant.org
great post
Some warned that Dems breaking from the New Deal & embracing neoliberalism — deindustrialization, financial dereg, gutting the safety net, destroying unions & legalizing corruption — would convince the working class *both* parties are bad & that wouldn’t work out well for Dems. Now here we are.
I worked for the feds for 26 years -- as Snowden demostrated to us, we hoover up so much data and we have so many people analyzing what's hoovered up that, to me , it's absurd to believe there was large scale fraud with no indications of it.
if the Dems, holding all the levers of power in the country with the largest and most sophisticated intel organization in the history of the planet couldn't tell between election day and inauguration day that the election was stolen...they don't deserve to govern.
what do you propose they say/do about that stuff...for me, if kitchen table stuff means M4A - capping rents - prohibiting corporations from buying residential housing, stopping the kidnapping of our neighbors....yeah, that what they oughta be talking about vice wringing their hands.
As with Biden, the OD's mental decline makes one wonder who the key people are that are pulling his strings...I keep seeing headlines that say he wants this or that -- f, all he wants is someone to change his diapers....who's running the country and putting in place these f'd up policies...
I hope somewhere people are keeping lists of who these kidnappers are so that when sanity returns they can be brought to justice.
huggy bear lives
There's an entire generation of young Americans who've been economically screwed in all the ways Bernie & his staff said. There are some embittered, aging, very online MSNBC-addled libs who can never forgive Bernie & his staff for not being polite enough to Democrats about this crushing reality.
call for some action....civil disobediance -- a strike -- or how about tha tthe Dem promise policy changes to benefit the working class...oh, what ever happened to abortion rights.....stop yammering in platitudes and call for action.
has zero chance -- but good to try I s'pose.
Dem elected officials should be promising that if/when they regain power they will try every ICE official who has participated in kidnappings -- and they will do it a the state level to ensure no future tyrants can pardon all of them.
Israel and the USA -- 2 peas in a pod -- run by white supremecist genocidal degenerates.
got a 20+% increase to our homewoner's policy this year - I keep wondering when politiicans will deal with housing affordability -- think that getting corps out of residential housing is one step -- but then I wonder how long before individuals can no longer afford ins and only corps can own.
and when elected leaders like Mamdani propose to do something about it most elected Dems back pedal way from him -- time for a new party.
15M bucks paid out over the Prince Andrew allegations leads me to say there are no maybes about it
Chomsky has been talking and teaching about this memo for a very long time -- good to see you talking about it.
Normalize calling for the prosecution of ICE Agents.
any red lines?
daily abuses of POC -- life in the USA
a couple years ago there were about 10M people working in employee owned operations....we need more of that
We outnumber them 99 to 1.
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