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If you saw my earlier posts with this same intro header, Tasks for the National Guard in Chicago, they have become the latest Public Collectors zine. I finished it this morning. It's a single folded sheet and I made 425 copies. Get one free on 8/31, 11-6 at the Hairpin Arts Center, at #ZineMercado
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
#kevlarcoward
Seen in Salt Lake City “how to spot an ice agent”
I need this class
RFK will kill you soon enough
No.
AI could have generated something that sounds more like him
Do you know, has he been giving any action items? Practical things to do? I saw him in SLC and he didn’t then.
Human rights are either universal or you don't believe in them. This is one of the few places in our reality that actually is a binary.
Thank you!
I didn’t mean it started with Covid. But it really brought out a lot of fascist thinking. Saw it all the time on Twitter. Called it out every time too.
I think Covid primed us a bit for what’s going on today.
Seriously. “The weak deserve to die” is at the heart of fascism. And I saw it a lot during Covid.
Thanks. Might help my husbands insomnia haha.
Who is this guy and what’s his YouTube channel
People actually watch Maher? Who are they?
How about outlawing the ammunition
Trump takes whole economies
My rep, Celeste Maloy, said in a recent tele-townhall that the cuts to Medicaid were just to get it back into a pre-Covid state, that blue states who had expanded Medicaid were now struggling because of it.
They really, desperately do.
I was just re-reading Karen Stenner’s essay on this. Another term for it is social dominance orientation, but I like to say hierarchical thinking. This was written during Trump’s first term. hopenothate.org.uk/2020/11/01/a...
Yep. Money extraction
Seen in Salt Lake City
“This is the work of a death cult.”
Seen in Salt Lake City “unite to stop the abuse of power”
Thank you for the updates
Seen in Grantsville, Utah
“COMPLICIT LACKEY”
Seen in Utah
Seen in West Valley City
The answer is always to organize locally. Find your peeps. Which I’ve been doing. I just worry that no one is prepared for what is coming. We’re behind the trolley throwing rocks. I want to be ahead of the trolley, with plans in place.
This is excellent. I have been guilty of pointing out the obstacles—there are so many—not to create pessimism, but because I want concrete, practical ideas of actions to take. I see a lot of “time for revolution!” kinds of posts. But what does that mean? How does that play out? 1/2
Seen in Salt Lake City
Oh my I might have to read this
As someone who lives in Utah (and has lived in WA, HI and CA), I’d take it over most states. I also used to say I’d never want to live here. So I get the hate.
Could this list be any more “mediocre white guy is scared and confused”
It really is. I’m always on the look out.
As I was saying, the sticker game in SLC is hot
For me it’s music, not movies.
One accurate way of understanding this is that online extremists have direct contacts with the head of the FBI, who will fire the FBI agents they identify, even though it is against the law. Any principled agents who resist will also be fired. Same pattern holds broadly across lots of the govt
Seen in Salt Lake City “Trump is my favorite rapist”
Seen in Salt Lake City
I think we need to start a fashion trend of people wearing face coverings that make this software obsolete. (Yes I know face masks will work but in some scenarios it makes it obvious you’re trying to hide your identity.) www.instagram.com/reel/DLgFDEH...
given the utter incompetence of kash patel i would not be surprised if they raided michael boltons house
3/ Halimi initially wonders if Musk’s accusation is an April Fool’s joke. After all, the decades of work he had done consulting for U.S. diplomats wasn’t in service of the Taliban; it was the opposite. Little did he know his nightmare was just beginning.
Can’t give people free stuff! Who would join the military?!
#utpol
Seen in Salt Lake City “healthcare is a human right”
It’s funny how oligarchs as well as fascists can’t seem to not eat themselves
Seen in Salt Lake City #abolishice
Seen in Salt Lake City “who would Jesus deport”
Seen in Salt Lake City
Seen in downtown Salt Lake City
Seen in downtown Salt Lake City
Seen in downtown Salt Lake City
I’ve asked her that. Of course I’ve gotten no reply yet.
I keep thinking about what happens next. My rep in Congress said she voted for ICE funding because they need it to figure out who the bad criminals are (she really expected us to believe that). What happens when all the harmless brown people have been deported? This machine will not stop.
That’s @tadstoermer.bsky.social and he’s a good person to be listening to right now.
Seen in Utah “agitate educate organize - power to the people”
DAILY MEMO: ICE Brutalizes and Sends High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids to Hospital @eltragon.bsky.social
I’d like to buy this gentleman a sandwich.
Seen in Salt Lake City “shame on Lee”
There are so many things they could be doing. But they can’t think outside of the box. They’re very much business as usual while we descend into fascism. Leading targeted boycotts Organizing a strike Organizing ICE watch groups Chaining themselves to detention centers So. Many. Things.
Thanks!
How do we stop the oligarchs?
Thank you. I really wish I could be there.
Also youtu.be/WbWhpfXisZw?...
youtu.be/MDBykpSXsSE?...
Thanks to this post I found out my cousin is in a Matchbox 20 music video. I have a little more liking for them now.
it's one apartment, Michael. How much could it be? 2300? A homeless single mother could pay that.
NEW investigation: DOGE-Pilled The full story on the transformation of 23 year-old Luke Farritor and how he ended up at the Department of Government Efficiency--slashing, dismantling, undoing--wielding a résumé that "didn’t pass muster” NO PAYWALL! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Seen in Salt Lake City
Seen in Salt Lake City “we belong everywhere”
This truly is marvelous
(I asked for states with an i in their name)
She’s jumped baby gates before.
I have 10k+ on IG but can’t remember having a hater pop up in comments. So they must be hating me silently. Something I posted on threads today reminded me that for most people, social media is about jumping down someone’s throat.
My 9lb chihuahua could scale that if she was motivated
How is that not satire
#Tonight #Chicago ICE Watch: Rapid Response Training for Allies with ICIRR (VIRTUAL) www.mobilize.us/indivisiblec...
Seen in Salt Lake City
ProPublica is all we got
You’ve obviously never been on food stamps
Downtown SLC library actually has a zine collection and takes donations.
Seen in Salt Lake City
Thank you. I’ve tried thinking of places to leave zines and this seems perfect.
The senate represents land, not people. Every state gets the same number of senators, regardless of population. It means Wyoming has the same representation as California. www.vox.com/2018/10/13/1...
Let’s get rid of the senate while we’re at it
“The weak deserve to die” is fascist thinking and I saw a lot of it during Covid. I called it out every time I saw it. Now here we are.
I was just thinking that too. They can fund raise off of it and never have to do anything. I’m not sure people understand what it’s gonna take to destroy oligarchy.
They’re still operating like this is the status quo. It’s depressing and infuriating
They would never do that
“…as elites extract more wealth from the people and the land, they make societies more fragile, leading to infighting, corruption…and poor decision making by a small oligarchy. The hollowed-out shell of a society is eventually cracked asunder by shocks such as disease, war or climate change.”
The problem is that it isn’t just fascism, it’s oligarchy. And destroying oligarchy requires destroying tremendous wealth, which usually means a lot of people get wiped out. If plague, war or state collapse doesn’t cause that, climate change probably will. It’s all grim.
The walking and driving slowly is the kind of out of the box ideas we need right now.
Detainees at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” are on a hunger strike over what they call inhumane, dangerous conditions. Some haven’t eaten in 10 days. One of them, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized and still refuses food until they are treated with dignity.
That guy beats his wife, no question
