Reminder:

This is MAGA.

Saying “Now is the time for peace” after we bomb a country is so us 🇺🇸

Authoritarian Occupation: Los Angeles and the Next Chapter of Our Lives We've entered a new chapter in the crisis. Time to get up to speed in a hurry.

We are in the middle of an existential battle with an authoritarian regime.

Stop calling for “decorum.” Stop blaming the people defending themselves for the violence and abuse. Stop kicking the can down the road and get into the fight.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/authoritar...

Something doesn’t have to be unprecedented to be bad. What’s happening in LA is not unprecedented. That’s what makes it worse, actually.

Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

Assault on nonviolent citizens

A yellow banner saying FUCK ICE with No Human is illegal underneath

In case anyone needed a visual refresher

Detroit showed solidarity with Los Angeles today — a protest in unity following yesterday’s ICE raids in California. With the National Guard now in L.A., it’s clear: concerns about federal force are resonating well beyond the West Coast.

In the average 2A community, "standing up for yourself" as a bigot and christofascist, you'll receive standing applause. Stand up for actual human rights (2aforall) and you'll find yourself receiving death threats/stalked.

Traditional 2a spaces are not your friend if you believe in actual rights.

2 arrested with arsenal and Nazi paraphernalia after base robbery were ex-military, prosecutors say Investigators say two men arrested in Washington state with an arsenal that included explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord last weekend.

Two men arrested in Washington state with an arsenal that included dozens of guns, explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord last weekend, investigators say.

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

In my new piece from @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social I talk with @swordsjew.bsky.social about the rise of Christian nationalism, how it has changed politics, and how our current crisis has its roots in the 40 year assault the Christian right has stages on American democracy.

Today at 4:30PM ET! All-New #EconomicUpdate "#Tariffs, the Working Class, and #Resistance" with
@profwolff.bsky.social and David Van Deusen! Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=J4E_...

YouTube video by InRangeTV 9066: An Immoral & unAmerican Executive Order

9066: An Immoral & unAmerican Executive Order
youtu.be/J4ks_1qr98M

70 Michigan students are facing deportation. No explanation. No due process. Just revenge.

This is Trump making good on his threat to punish student protestors—and using immigration as his weapon.

Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s already here.

Happy confederate surrender day to all that celebrate 🏳️

Dig them up and tell them ☠️ again.

Frozen Four CLINCHED! with picture of Western Michigan celebrating

For the first time in program history, Western Michigan is heading to the #FrozenFour! 🐎🎉

#NCHChockey // #BroncosReign

Graphic highlighting Western Michigan's 2-1 win over UMass to send the Broncos the school's first-ever NCAA Frozen Four appearance. Fifth-year captain Tim Washe scored the game-winning goal.

Western Michigan is going to the #MFrozenFour for the first time in school history! Fifth-year captain Tim Washe with the game-winning goal.

#collegehockey | #NCAAHockey

Republicans want to designate #TrumpDerangementSyndrome a form of mental illness. But as with all things GOP, this is an acute case of projection.

Sure, #TDS is very much a thing. It’s a MAGA thing.

A thread:

YouTube video by InRangeTV Community Defense Saves Lives - Abolitionists & the 1860 "Race Riots" in Grinnell, Iowa

Community Defense Saves Lives - Abolitionists & the 1860 "Race Riots" in Grinnell, Iowa
youtu.be/Q3pwUgq2Mkg

Next weekend we are going back on a humanitarian mission. We need your help to make it happen urgently.

Details:
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An image of a Black person with a beard squatting against a natural background of mountains and desert. The person is wearing brown pants, black boots and a black shirt and a black and beige beanie. In yellow it reads Black Beyond Borders, William C. Anderson is a writer and activist from Birmingham, Alabama. Workshops4Sudan. Tuesday March 18th 8:15-10:15 pm virtual (via zoom).

Donate and sign up if you can. I’m looking forward to talking about this! www.sudansolidarity.com/events/black...

“The primary competitive pressure facing unionized auto workers in the U.S. comes not from Canadians but from non-union automakers in the American South.”

Find Out: A New Podcast Taking on Right-Wing Media The left keeps losing the media war. We’re done playing defense. I’m launching Find Out with five co-hosts to fight back.

🚨 NEW: 1/3 - The left’s media strategy is failing, and the right is dominating online spaces. We’re done playing defense.

I’m launching Find Out Podcast with @itsluke7, @Ohh that’s RICH, Zak Kimball, Tim Fullerton, and Resistor Vic—a podcast that fights back.

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some guy in a black mask shoves a journalist? weeks worth of news reports on the new radical left. Members of Elon Musk's DOGE team have ties to a network of Nazi terrorists who trade child porn? Can't report on that, best wait to see if anything develops.

Primary Sources: The Secret Slave Revolt That Started the Civil Rights Movement The story of the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer and Emmitt Till begins with a national slave revolt.

What if I told you Martin Luther King, the Underground Railroad, Medgar Evers, John Brown's raid, Emmett Till's murder, Muhammad Ali, Fannie Lou Hamer, the Emancipation Proclamation, Rosa Parks and the Tuskegee Airmen all have the same origin story...

A nationwide slave revolt started it all.

A snipe hunt is a very real hunt for a very make believe bird.

Democrats 60 years late on talking to Real People at gun shows. Why do they think they can out-Republican Republicans with Republican Lite?

I’m doing an open (free) course online this summer on the Public History of the American Revolution—what it (including the Constitution) really was, what it has been twisted into, and why knowing the difference matters today, right now, as a tool of resistance.

#publichistory