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The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago “History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Evergreen school shooting suspect posted online about mass shootings and neo-Nazi views, report says Experts say a teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine...

Far-right and neo-Nazis school shooters have carried out numerous deadly attacks this year - many influenced by and posting on, the same websites - yet the mass media and politicians focus on manufactured fantasies of left-wing violence. www.kunc.org/news/2025-09...

Things are getting even worse on just about every front. People are afraid but we are also getting angrier and angrier. The collapse of the center/left raises the stakes. It was inevitable. Who knows what will provoke the next upsurge? I can promise you it won't be Jimmy Kimmel.

Leadership, in the sense of setting a militant example, will have to come from mass struggle, & it cannot be conjured out of nowhere. We are still following the path set by LA in June. Let a thousand community defense centers & neighborhood assemblies bloom.

This leaves their constituencies, middle class, white collar, civil workers, in a panic. For better or worse this progression is ripe for Zohran & DSA electoralism more broadly. Meanwhile, the grassroots left has been in many places building anti-ICE defense in the shadows.

The center/left cannot & will not now substantially organize as left movements do because they blame the left for what's happening to them, while having severed solidarity between themselves & the people by attacking those movements and failing to have anything credible to offer.

To defend the center/left from political & institutional collapse they would need to borrow tactics from left movements or to rally masses of people to themselves, both of which would require some degree of center/left hegemony. That's gone, largely by their own hand.

Antifa is not an organization, it's an orientation. Anyone can be antifascist. Everyone should be.

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I first thought about this in these terms reading Delany's Dhalgren a decade or so ago. Then reading New Narrative works. I've been having the same thought again reading Dostyevsky's Demons aloud gradually with my partner, and now listening to Kushner's The Mars Room.

I'm not much of a novel reader anymore but an incredible thing about them can be the demonstration that everyday people's conversations are beautiful. Perhaps listening to novels, as I mostly do now, even emphasizes this. The task is to carry this recognition into daily life.

Labor unions and other organizations organized a march to demand the end to the military occupation of DC today.

“Muchas personas sangrando”: migrantes denuncian supuestos disturbios en Alcatraz de los Caimanes Varios supuestos detenidos en la cárcel de migrantes Alcatraz de los Caimanes o Alligator Alcatraz, y sus familiares, se comunicaron con Noticias 23 para denunciarque en esta cárcel de migrantes en lo...

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"Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades."

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Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards. 30. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. 31. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. 32. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. 33. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain. 34. The five elements (water, fire, wood, metal, earth) are not always equally predominant; the four seasons make way for each other in turn. There are short days and long; the moon has its periods of waning and waxing.

Remember that before Bruce Lee said "Be Water," a tactical lesson current era movements have tried to follow since Hong Kong, it was Sun Tzu in The Art of War.

The reality is that the fascists are deepening an armed struggle against the most vulnerable among us. Even if it may not be advised to respond with armed force, community self-defense in the face of a militarized oppressor can perhaps benefit from notions of military strategy.

The quote is from the pamphlet "Categories of Revolutionary Military Policy," which I actually discovered I have had a zine of from who knows when. tderbent.org/articles/Cat...

Organizations that claim to be revolutionary but which refuse to develop a military policy before the question of confrontation becomes a practical reality, disqualify themselves as revolutionary forces. They are already acting as gravediggers of revolution, the quartermasters of stadiums and cemeteries.1

As further national guard deployments loom, along with ongoing DHS human snatching ops, I keep thinking about this sentence from T Derbent (who came to my attention as the author of a history of The German Communist Resistance against fascism).

Lateish last night I completely killed the vibe hanging out in the kitchen with my partner when I accidentally went into exhaustive detail recounting the plot of the film Barbarians which I had then just watched and which had thoroughly struck me with dread.

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes.

One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

My latest in the new edition of Hammer and Hope.

Solidarity with Children front and back covers

Just turned in my final round of proofs. Guess this is happening for real now. Out November 4th:

Mike Davis’s Last Years, A Bibliography in Progress: 2020-2022 With some comrades, I am reading Mike Davis’s Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), as a way to understand the pre-history of our present. Doing so has reminded me that after the great Marx…

Trying to think about the present relevance of Mike Davis's Prisoners of the American Dream, I slid into a detour thru his late writing. It reminded me that when he passed, I'd hoped someone would assemble a bibliography of his uncollected work. Here's my contribution. Let me know what I missed.

“The reason is the organized resistance: the people who literally went to war with them in Paramount, in Compton, in Bell and Huntington Park,” said Ron Gochez, a member of Unión del Barrio, an independent political group that patrols neighborhoods to alert residents of immigration sweeps.

Two things can be true:

1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; &

2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.

When the nat guard/feds kill someone in DC, probably, it's going to go down. Some have called Trump 2.0 a revenge tour for the 2020 Rebellion, seems more correct today (tho not the whole story). Seems at least likely, that he's hoping to provoke, so he can crush, an uprising.

What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban Border Patrol agents used a Penske moving truck to storm a Home Depot, despite a court order barring ICE raids at workplaces.

What Court Order? Federal Agents Keep Raiding LA Workplaces Despite Ban
theintercept.com/2025/08/07/i...

I don't really mean that depth thing as a critique, it's a very comprehensive piece...