The Dissolution of the American Caste System How to move in unity when the protections of caste no longer protect you.

Now the winds will become a hurricane, and our representatives will stand up. Glad its so, but wish it weren't so color- and wealth-blind. We're becoming scared because we're being stripped of caste priviledge, which in these times equates to physical safety.
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...even after the thousands of stolen off streets were placed in gulags, dozens of brown- and black-skinned citizens targeted, detained and shot, and hundreds of years of slavery by name and by policy.

Those attacks on people of color gave us outrage, but not enough.

I've noted the exceptionalism of white people's perceived distance from the urgency of state militarism, and especially the change since Renee Good's murder.

It took these two white citizens killed in Minneapolis to shake us to a tide-turning pushback...

The Dissolution of the American Caste System How to move in unity when the protections of caste no longer protect you.

Jackie Summers articulates this so clearly and with an artful granularity we need to help us understand. "White" people like me (I look it, anyway) are losing our position, and the winds are shifting.

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When this protest campaign is fully outlined, I’ll let you know. I will expect you to help me promote it widely.  And enjo every. single. moment.

‘Make ‘em laugh.’
- Cosmo Brown

Free the hoagie handler!
Hoagie justice for all!
Free the bearer of good lunches.
Justice for the Sandwich guy!!
My favorite:
“toss a hoagie, go to jail.”

I imagine many different slogans, which could all be interchanged…
A sandwich is not a weapon.
The hoagie guy is not a criminal.
“You can’t hurt a bullet-vested soldier with a sandwich. Unless he’s really really really hungry.”

Manufacture worldwide outrage at how the simplest, silliest, most mundane and ridiculous act of peaceful protest could result in such an overblown response.
It would be kind of like a taunt for federal law-enforcement and proud boy ICE-wannabes.

run like Charlie Chapman from his victim, and be taken down as if he’d used an AK-47 at a parade.
He’s too smart not to have known this. Genius.
We owe it to him to create a massive ongoing protest movement as silly and fabulous as his free speech prank.

And you know, he knew this. This guy, a civil servant , was reasonably outraged. He chose the most mundane, unserious peaceful-ish form of action: bounce like a toddler in front of a fully armed federal agent, forcefully toss a sandwich then

Honestly, that guy’s fabulous action is just made for a meme, but even better for large scale ongoing “outrage number one” on the order of the Epstein files. I mean really, we should keep the hoagie guy and his fling in the news for months. It’s got legs!

So you’d hold up the hoagie or you’d put a hoagie flag on your house. Or just wrap a shoe in butcher paper and carry around instead of a sign.

So I’ve had tons of ideas about creating an ongoing protest movement around the Sandwich guy.
Should we call him the hoagie guy? The sandwich handler. The unarmed man who ran. The tosser of the ham?
Hoagie stickers. Hoagie signs kind of like the number one fingers that you see at sports games.

I may have just created a new term for the MAGA faithful.
No credit needed. Just use and share freely!!!
E.g.:

"CA D1 Rep Doug LaMalfa is a TRUPPET!!!"

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We're still trying to build this space in Chico, CA. Any donations this week will be matched by the national Indivisible org! If you've been thinking about donating, now is an excellent time to maximize your impact!!

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🕐 It’s 1AM. Do you know where your Member of Congress is?

👀 They’re in the Rules Committee trying to sneak through a tax scam that guts Medicaid & school meals.

Because when your plan is this toxic, you gotta pass it while everyone’s asleep.

📺 Watch live: seiu.co/3SJr5rZ

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Rep. Doug LaMalfa Rep. Doug LaMalfa. 25,524 likes · 1,789 talking about this. Official Facebook Page of Congressman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01)

This is what we need in CA D1 to get our Congressman LaMalfa www.facebook.com/RepLaMalfa to talk with us -- and he still may ignore our invitation.
Thank you @indivisiblechico25.bsky.social and partner orgs for giving so much to our community. This is what democracy looks like #bythepeople

Flyer for the CA District 1 Constituents' Town Hall, which will be held Wednesday, May 28th at 4:30

One week to go until the CA District 1 Constituents' Town Hall in Chico!! The invitations have been sent, the RSVP list is filling up... clear your Wednesday evening, District 1, and show up ready to discuss the issues.

Urgent:
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and
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You Are Inside the Collapse The courts, the institutions, the protections—they’re not failing. They’re being dismantled.

I think this substack is great, and right on base with this post. Its not pretty. Timothy Snyder identified it as a coup at the first, and said we needed to act quickly. 2.5 months out we're just starting to go to the streets. I fear for our country now.
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LIVE NOW: Anand Giridharadas on Substack Moral collapse, and revival, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Informative discussion: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
with Ruth Ben-Ghait / Lucid /The.ink on substack.
- Dem revivial will be from the bottom up / Indivisible
- Status of Dem party
- US is #1 $-laundering country
- 'stupid' approach of US Admin
- current protests around world largest ever

A household guide for cyber defense against DOGE attacks A plan for possible worst-case outcomes where mission critical infrastructure in banking, healthcare and telecommunications suffer outages due to a cyber and land attack by state agent: DOGE.

In a worst-case scenario...
a guide to prepare for outages in critical infrastructure caused by an internal agent bad actor: DOGE. Authored by a cyber defense and enterprise systems expert.
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‘Constitutional Crisis’ Is an Understatement It’s the hottest, and most useless, buzz phrase of the moment.

"A recent New York Times article reported that...the country is in a constitutional crisis, but it began by acknowledging, ***“There is no universally accepted definition of a constitutional crisis.”***
See my link to 'small, lonely actions' below ideas of ways to act in this moment.

On the 'what are we doing if anything' front:
1) Dems are putting forward online petitions (which make NO action)and
2) referring to a 'constitutional crisis' is meaningless to most.
We need GUIDANCE in the words we read -- actions IN EVERY article to help us help you! C'mon leaders. LEAD US.

This info is extrordinarily practical right now. And uplifting, and empowering. Worth a listen.
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Annnnddd... I took part in Chico’s NMP demo today. It was heartening to see ~200 people, many with signs. A CSUC professor told of a Valentine's Day letter from campus admin requiring deletion of listed words from research docs including "women", and $200 million in research canceled.

Of course it’s a coup (audio) Miss the obvious, lose your republic

By Timothy Snyder, expert on Authoritarianism and steps toward/actions against.

My learinings: Current iteration of coups is digital
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Latest good reads/listens that taught me stuff relevant to our present moment.

Current admin's illegal actions; historical context, what can be done, current # of and topics of legal actions against T&Co.