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Secret police tend to meet 5 criteria:

-target political opponents & dissidents
-the identity of members / operations are secret
-surveillance operations
-arbitrary searches, arrests, interrogations, detentions, disappearances & torture.
👉 answer directly to dictator 👈

the StasICE, GestapICE, etc.

20.06.2025 01:27 — 👍 937    🔁 399    💬 12    📌 5

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

01.04.2025 02:32 — 👍 1292    🔁 502    💬 47    📌 103

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

13.06.2025 02:25 — 👍 2464    🔁 1025    💬 41    📌 131

A sweet homage to youthful "mistakes" ❤️

01.04.2025 04:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

American “individualism” is more about a lack of collective care and understanding of our obligations to one another than it is true self-sufficiency.

Our culture’s obsession with charismatic savior types in politics (see also: celeb culture) is so much about Daddy coming to care for us / fix it

17.03.2025 14:15 — 👍 341    🔁 75    💬 9    📌 2

LSC Petition Opposing Stopping Gender-Affirming Surgeries for Adults Please click the link to complete this form.

Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center has for some reason made the decision to halt gender-affirming surgeries for adults

The owner of Lavender Spectrum Health has started an online petition that she will be getting to the board of directors there.

form.jotform.com/250698795685...

12.03.2025 21:02 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

10.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 18299    🔁 4803    💬 214    📌 266

If you're looking for a guide to what transformative organizing looks and feels like, then you're looking for Emergent Strategy by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social

#activism #books #booksky #organizing

05.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 79    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 4

I have a friend who is very bashful about sexual topics. At one point we explained what a "Roman helmet" is in Urban dictionary parlance. He was predictablyvery embarrassed.🤭
We don't see each other often any more but once in a while I'll just text "ROMAN HELMET!" As a way to say "I miss you buddy!"

22.02.2025 19:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please read and share. But especially share with folks that might not realize how critical Section 504 is to so many people. I tried to write a simple clear explanation at the break. I hope it reaches some people who aren't already on our side. Gift link: www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

21.02.2025 13:56 — 👍 619    🔁 431    💬 12    📌 31

The linked post, which is from early Nov.—a very different time—is even more important today. As we grapple with hopelessness and fatigue, there is a path.

PS subscribe and, if you can, pay because it builds power and wisdom and vision are hard to find.

02.02.2025 14:42 — 👍 51    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

I cannot, during these horrific times, recommend enough the importance of making pockets of time to just do things that are not related to anything but the joy of being alive and playing. You need it. You do. It will keep you whole. Which we need. We need you whole.

02.02.2025 05:21 — 👍 1741    🔁 619    💬 26    📌 38

The more under resourced we are emotionally, the easier it is to activate us and turn us against each other. The spectacle is a strategy fam. We have to resist with rest, regulation practices and rooting ourselves in our bodies as we fight back

24.01.2025 19:00 — 👍 191    🔁 63    💬 2    📌 3

Any 'zine or newsletter makers?
I live in a small diverse neighborhood of people who all moved in around the same time, so we have somewhat of a community here. I am thinking about making a zine to continue to build our community and bring people together. Advice, examples, warnings welcome!

22.11.2024 20:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0