More of this, please.
Also, for those of you who have been asking what the point of the #NoKings protests is: among many other things, this is. It's no coincidence that this letter was published two days after seven million people got off their asses to protest against Trump. More Republicans are going to start turning against Trump because they see that the country is not on his side. Changing the narrative is incredibly important.
#politics #USPol
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-day-as-an-accomplice-of-the-republican-party-miles-bruner
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Trump got pissed at Ontario/Canada anti-tariff ads playing in US markets, so ending trade talks
Note to Carney, appeasement NEVER works with this asshole. Counter tariff the fuck out of the UIS, make a deal with China for EVs and our soy/wheat
And make it clear there will be NO ICE in Canadian territory
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Some leftists have criticized #NoKingsDay2 as useless. Though it was the largest protest in US history, it didn't change anything. I would go further to say that protests like these generally won't change anything. Dictators aren't forced to step down by 2% of the population coming out for one day. If they're forced to step down by protests, those protests are sustained. They are every single day. They are accompanied by general strikes.
We've been watching that happen all over the world. Portland in 2020 gave us a taste of that in the US. The George Floyd Rebellion was the type of resistance that actually brings down dictators like Trump. Occasional protests, no matter how large, can simply be ignored. That is precisely the reason the US developed a militarized police force in the first place. You need more, more than the largest protests in US history, more than Occupy, more than the resistance of the 60's and 70's, more than, and different from, anything we've seen in our lives.
And yet... Each protest has grown, and grown bolder. Some have grown more persistent. If you think of protest as the path to achieve change, you will lose. It is not. But it is a path to escalate. Some people, some otherwise comfortable white folks, came out for their first time. Some people got pepper sprayed for the first time. Some people questioned authority, stood up for the first time, and have had an experience that will radicalize them for the rest of their lives.
Protest is not useful in and of itself. It is training. It's making connections. Authoritarian regimes rely on the illusion of compliance, so visual resistance does actually undermine their power.
Liberals like to teach that non-violence is all about staying peaceful no matter what, that there's some way that morality simply overwhelms an enemy. I remember reading Langston Hughes' A Dream Deferred in high school. I said it was a threat. My teacher said, "you're wrong, he was a pacifist." Pacifism is a threat. If you can spit at me, beat me, shoot me, and I will not move, if I have the strength to absorb violence without flinching, without even rising to violence, what will happen when you push me too far?
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
For peaceful resistance to work, there must be ambiguity. It must not be clear if or when the resistance will stop being peaceful. Peaceful resistance with no possibility of escalation is just cowardice.
My critique then is not so harsh as some other anarchists. If you think that protest alone will work, you're probably going to lose. If you are prepared to escalate, if you are prepared to absorb violence without flinching, then it could be possible for protest alone to topple the dictator. The cracks are already beginning to show.
And then what?
The problems that lead to the George Floyd uprising were never resolved. The problems that lead to Occupy where never resolve. The DAPL was built, protesters were maimed, it leaked multiple times (exactly as predicted). Segregation never went away, it only changed forms. The fact that immigrants have different courts and different rights means that anyone can be arbitrarily kidnaped and renditioned to an arbitrary country. We never did anything about the torture black site. FFS, people can still be stripped of their voting rights and slavery is still legal in the US. The people who control both parties in the US are killing our children and grand children with oil wars and climate change.
Toppling the dictator does nothing to resolve all of the problems that existed before him.
No, #NoKingsDay was absolutely not useless. #NoKings and related protests are extremely useful but they aren't sufficient. But, I think we still need to challenge the movement on two points:
How do you escalate after you're ignored or brutalized?
What do you demand after you win?
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Young kids learn not to conduct like a terrible person but somehow JD Vance thinks 25-35 year olds are "just kids with bad jokes" when they spew endless racist and fascist bs
Wrong little boii Vance, these are so called 'adults' with a terrible mindset that are racist and fascists
If you say such shit in private, you think it in public
After we broke the story of the #ICE lawyer with a white supremacist X account, no one seems to be able to tell us whether James Rodden still works with the agency. Even Congress can't get answers. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-white-supremacist-x-account-veasey-answers/
#racism #fascism #genocide #law #Dallas #NorthTexas #Texas #Immigration #politics #USpol #news #Trump
Never has #Lacan's mirror phase theory been so on point. #Trump is stuck in that 6 to 18 month old time frame, "where an infant recognizes their reflection as a unified "self". This moment is a "misrecognition" b/c the infant identifies w/a stable, external image that contrasts w/their fragmented internal experience of their own body. This process is the foundation of the ego, which forms through this identification with an "Ideal I" or "other". That & #dementia.
Many #Trump allies had been secretly rooting for an #acquittal. The talking points wrote themselves: It would have been yet more evidence that the #UnitedStates #justice system was rigged in favor of #Bidens & against Trumps. Tues’s #guilty #verdict was inconvenient to that narrative.
Even more valuable would have been the #fundraising potential.
#gaslighting #ConspiracyTheories #USpol #law #HunterBiden
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/us/politics/donald-trump-hunter-biden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
Nooooow c'mon! Let's go!
Reopen the house, pay your staff and swear in the Democrat to release the Trumpstein files
We'll go from there, I have some ideas
Marimar Martinez was shot by ICE and ended up with seven holes in her body.
A TikTok personality was shot today in South LA.
Tear gas, pepper bullets and chemical munitions are being used in suburban areas.
A 15 year old autistic boy is in federal custody while his Mom pleads for his return, and a 15 year old Chicago girl who had kidney surgery was detained so violently that she ended up back in hospital.
ICE enforcement is shaping up to be a mass disabling event.
My latest looks at how we can protect one another:
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-enforcement-may-be-a-mass-disabling
#ice #uspol #abolishice #fascism #disabilty #ableism #eugenics
I fully support putting ICE agents on the web with their face 🤷
There should be a risk for those who wanna join the Gestapo
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Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.
One of the people CZ hired to lobby for the pardon is Teresa Goody Guillén, a lawyer who has simultaneously represented the Trump World Liberty Financial project. She's also lobbied on behalf of Binance on crypto-related topics.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
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New from José Luis Martínez: Last year, state investigators faced the highest number of paycheck complaints in nine years and a prior internal audit noted that it typically took months just for complaints to be assigned to an investigator. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-workers-wage-theft-complaints-surge/
#labor #workers #poverty #Texas #politics #USpol #news #economy
Squeaker of the House, Mike Johnson is making up all kinds of bs reasons not to swear in Democrats newest congresswoman to prevent her from signing the release of the Trumpstein files
Now the Squeaker is getting sued over it
Ha!
The spawn of #KristiNoem & #StephenMiller: "The Proud Boys haven’t restarted their street fighting tactics during Trump 2.0, despite so many of them getting pardons for the Jan. 6 riot. It’s not b/c they are dispersing; they no longer see the need. . . . In a move reminiscent of how the brownshirts were eclipsed by the formation of the even more intimidating — & official — SS, chapters of the Proud Boys are now encouraging their members to join #ICE."
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/22/how-the-proud-boys-invented-antifa/
wake up babe new $20 bill just dropped
#meme #memes #eastwing #whitehouse #uspol #uspolitics #trump
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The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 in 2024. In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
#Housing #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #AmericanFascistParty #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
“Of all people, you have a #disability so you can relate, I hope.”
Out today from Austin Free Press: Disability rights activists protested outside the Governor's Mansion, for the "liberation" of more people from institutions, marking the anniversary of a key #SCOTUS decision:
https://austinfreepress.org/wheres-abbott-austin-disability-activists-picket-one-of-their-own-at-governors-mansion/
#news #politics #activism #health #HumanRights #disabled #protest #GregAbbott #USpol #politics #law #CivilRights
The dog needs to be walked.
Laundry needs to be folded.
Kids and carpools and bills beckon.
It’s a lot.
Alongside this everyday treadmill, democracy in America needs to be defended and renewed.
No one person can do it all, but doing nothing and being discouraged is fascist gold.
Find your thing. Dig in. Rest and restore as necessary. Go again. And again.
We can do this together. The future is unwritten.
We're here. At this moment.
I dread to find out what our actual cost of insurance will be each month for 2026.
via: The New Yorker Magazine
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“It certainly seems like an issue that could be ripe for litigation because it’s right on its face discriminating against people for sexual orientation or #transgender status.”
Out today, from Kit @oconnell: Emails obtained from the #Texas Department of Agriculture reveal the turmoil caused by Sid Miller's transphobic dress code, which the Observer first revealed last year. https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-transphobic-dress-code-emails/
#news #politics #agriculture #transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #USpol #law
In August, the #Trump admin sent #UCLA a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during the negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the faculty.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-24/uc-publicly-release-trump-ucla-1-2-billion-settlement-offer
Here's the list of demands.
https://ucop.edu/communications/_files/confidential-rule-408-communication-ucla-08-08-25.pdf
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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