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build these. i'm not joking. the more I read history the more I read how often hiding spaces save lives.

From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.” It sounds fierce. It feels righteous. But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless. The Gestapo was a secret police force. No warrants. No courts. No lawyers. And no appeals. People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything. The knock on the door was the sentence. ICE isn’t that. Not even close. ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials. Its agents file reports. They seek warrants. They lose cases. Judges stop them. Lawyers challenge them. Some detainees go home. That’s not tyranny. That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse. You can hate immigration policy. You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad. You can work to have the law changed if you wish. That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do. But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil. You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor. And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize. In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight. This one hasn't yet. It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses. That difference matters. Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history. We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with. And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

Oh that is the worst because you know you're about to lose a whole day or more to it; I always brush through that feeling trying to tie up all loose ends as quick as possible

On the Redo do Beach fishing pier there was a taco place that I forget the name of, but in 1999 I'd get 6 fish tacos and 2 Coronas for $12. The sunset over the Pacific was free. I miss that in the same bone deep way I missed NJ pizza when I was out there. Maybe it's still there? I have no idea

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...

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Philly folk punk show this Friday, come on out. "Hard times require furious dancing"

On Princeton's move out day, we call it hippy chrtostmas

Philly folk punk show tonight!

Last week, we talked about one particular incident of vehicular violence on protesters. But where does the tactic come from? Who is doing it? And why?

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www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

dear media:

no one needs to hear about the complex inner life and conflicted humanity of Trump supporters, thanks.

at this historic juncture they have precisely one relevant characteristic:
they are fascists

and for society to endure, all fascists must be crushed

There are lots of good step-by-step guides

EFF's is solid: ssd.eff.org
Digital Defense Fund is excellent specifically for abortion related privacy: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides

Wired has a guide: www.wired.com/2017/12/digi...

But the first step is just committing to yourself to take a step

Dr. Fucking Phil is rounding up immigrants on tv because we are living on the inside of a dystopian fucking MadLibs.

The raids are focused on deep blue cities in blue states. Because undocumented workers "make up a remarkably large sector of the U.S. economy," these raids are a "de facto economic attack on blue states."

Trump and everyday anti-fascism beyond punching Nazis The goal of everyday anti-fascism is to increase the social cost of oppressive behavior to the point where those who promote it see no option but to hide.

Getting a white supremacist realtor fired for racist posts is a great example of "everday antifascism".

"The goal of everyday anti-fascism is to increase the social cost of oppressive behavior to the point where those who promote it see no option but to hide."

this this this

i'd even go further and warn people to watch for people who seem to think posting is the most important form of political action, that it only matters if it happens on their chosen social media platform. they're not allies but engagement farmers.

it’s round two, you hashtag resist people really gotta stop using bizarre nicknames for Trump. “Orange Drumpf” etc didn’t hit in 2016 and it extremely does not hit now

The Report That Musk, Zuck & Bezos DON'T Want You to See A scathing OXFAM report exposes how billionaires really "earn" their wealth.

Wow. 🔥🔥🔥

This new bombshell Oxfam report is exactly what billionaires don’t want us to know:

Apparently 60% of global billionaire wealth comes not from entrepreneurship…

…but from inheritance, corruption, cronyism & monopolies.

Share the truth:

"They (the opposition party) had fought the election campaign of 1933 in a dreadfully humiliating way, chasing after the Nazi slogans and emphasizing that they were "also nationalist."

"One night, six storm troopers fell on a "dissident" in his bed and literally trampled him to death, for which they were sentenced to death. Hitler sent them a telegram of praise and acknowledgment. Nothing happened. No, something did happen: the murderers were pardoned."

"Each attempt was frustrated and veiled by those endless, useless, vain discussions in which we attempted again and again to fit the events into an obsolete, unsuitable scheme of political ideas."

" At the time, while I experienced them, it was not possible to gauge their significance. I felt, intensely, the choking, nauseous character of it all, but I was unable to grasp its constituent parts and place them in an overall order...

Yes, having spent a lot of time reading Yu Hua and Ma Jian and Murong Xuecun recently, among others, I've learned it's as... complicated over there as it is here in the US

Studying up:

"the real mystery of the Hitler phenomenon began to show itself: the strange befuddlement and numbness of his opponents, who could not cope with his behavior and found themselves transfixed by the gaze of the basilisk, unable to see that it was hell personified that challenged them. "

FACTBOX-Tainted blood and poverty fuel AIDS in rural China Build the strongest argument relying on authoritative content, attorney-editor expertise, and industry defining technology.

I am surprised that they are surprised:

www.reuters.com/article/econ...

Also, um, STFU and stop posting everything publicly. Cuz, um. Ah.

We have already lost so much of our people's history, it's important to preserve what we have before we face another supremacist onslaught.

Soup For My Family Pigeon Pit · Feather River Canyon Blues · Song · 2022

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No executive order has the power or the right to tell you who you are. F*ck that noise. Surround yourself with love, and when you’re ready, get back in this fight.

We need you. 🫶🏽