On Organizing time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

General strikes don't guarantee anything, nothing does, but they can and have created MAJOR WINS.

Real ones. BIG ones.

Ideally, a strike is part of a larger strategy of other actions-- cross-society, a range of tactics, sustained with discipline over time.

THAT'S how we'll win.

We can.

That makes sense. MMA fighters are required to consent to being kicked in the face.

something's going on behind the scenes in MAGA world and you will not catch ME giving any of these assholes credit for being on the right side of history on even one thing until I understand exactly why they've decided there's more safety in going against Trump on some topic than siding with him

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Todas las veces

Well, the Fox News hosts who were like “Newsom is behaving childishly” looked pretty ridiculous, and that was funny

In this household it’s shenanigans or nothing

Audre told us.

Tear gas everywhere.

Acceptable Losses Whose deaths get to be deemed unacceptable in supremacist America, and whose are deemed necessary? And who does the deeming?

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were.

But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk."

www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

It was surreal. I felt like I was losing my mind. “Are we talking about the same Charlie Kirk?” I kept thinking.

What a Lifetime of Struggle Taught Angela Davis Peter Beinart talks to the philosopher and activist about her upbringing and the Palestinian and Black freedom movements.

Always fascinating

jewishcurrents.org/what-a-lifet...

Nancy Mace tweet: Time to bring back the death penalty superimposed on an image of Mr. Burns tenting his fingers as he talks to a crowd

Smithers whispers in Mr. Burns's ear

Mr. Burns pushes Smithers away

Nancy Mace tweet: We truly belive if Tyler Robinson had ever sat down across from Charlie, the great debater, the man of faith and grace he was Tyler wouldn't have pulled the trigger superimposed on an image of a chastened Mr. Burns speaking to the crowd about a different subject

I borrowed this phrasing in a post on FB, forgetting that I’d read it here first. I blame the fever I’m running. I have no reach so there’s no practical impact. But credit where credit’s due.

There’s a lot here to think about, and I will, later.

why is it always "you should try talking with your right wing family" and not "your right wing family maybe needs to stop voting for people who want you dead

Whale not the only thing with carveable bone, eh?

So, Chicago, thwart. Thwart like lives depend on it because they do.

This was long and nobody'll read the whole thing, but man it felt good to write because, for the time being, LA fucking won.

11/end

Absolutely incredible video of a woman standing up to ICE. This is resistance

1/2

Follow her here:

www.tiktok.com/@dayannj1?_t...

2/2

And I’m as annoyed as anyone about misspelling “desert”. Open dessert sounds awesome, though

In my memory from Trump 1, there’s a photo of the ending edge of the wall beyond which is open dessert. Someone went two panels down+cut a hole in the wall big enough to drive a Jeep through. Just to say fuck you, wall. But I can’t find the pic anymore so maybe I hallucinated it.

Two things can be true:

1) this administration is causing & will cause incalculable damage & death to vulnerable people, and eventually to everyone except maybe the oligarchs. It is a horror show beyond many of our wildest previous imaginings

2) they are bungling fools and they have already failed

Slightly diminish a band:

Exodus

I keep thinking, if you’re losing to the dumbest mother fuckers on the planet then maybe they’re only the second-dumbest mother fuckers on the planet

My least favorite brand of doomerism is talking about how we can’t fix any of this and why offered solutions are unworkable and asserting that the electorate is fixed and unchangeable. “Can’t” is the enemy right now.

I meant “chuck” rather than “cuck,” of course, but the error is pretty funny too

I still buy physical copies of video games because if I can’t rage quit a game so hard I rip the disc out of the console, break the disc, and cuck the broken pieces out a window, do I even own the game?

This entire thread is amazing (and yes, evangelism is spam, and evangelism-based religions also serve to reinforce the emotional control the religion has over believers: they KNOW people will react badly and it increases the feeling of persecution and the in-group identity)