a bowl of petunias

i've been thinking about this in re the coming program of delousing the federal government. in particular, i've been dwelling on the program of denazification pursued in west germany.

after victory, we committed to excluding all nazis from government. this... did not happen

one thing i have noticed is a lot of folks do not seem to understand the difference between a presidential election and 435+ legislative elections. i have seen any number of people say that you could subvert the outcome this november by targeting “swing states,” which does not make any sense.

I don't know what it is about idiots who buy newspapers without understanding why they exist or what their business is, but I think gutting books coverage is some kind of canary in the coalmine. These jackasses don't read books, so they assume no one else does either.

Also, the higher the D margin, the harder it will be for federal shenanigans to tilt the results.

Unpopular ex-dictators can suffer worse things than prosecution.

As always, the answer to "what should I do if I'm worried about Rs loudly announcing their aspirations to try & ratfuck elections?" is go volunteer to be a poll worker or an elections observer. That is, if you actually want to so something beyond just wallowing in despair & untreated anxiety online

this email could have been a meeting in a SCIF

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many.

The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

stephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying

the thing is that Occupy - and i learned this FROM THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CURRENTLY BITCHING AT WILL STANCIL for fuck's sake - started organically, then kicked normie women to the curb and got taken over by semipro agitators with axes to grind

House votes to reopen the government–setting up a fight over ICE The Senate and the White House will now negotiate guardrails for ICE and CBP agents after the killing of both Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Side note: None of the spending bills passed in the "minibus" had any anti-trans riders. This includes the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The IT guys will all be robots who live permanently in orbit. Every morning (Pacific time) they will commute to the data centers and perform all the repairs that their AI brains consider necessary. And then they will go back to their storage pod and get refueled and serviced by their robot wives.

Be real though, half of the people you dislike being members of or in cahoots with the pedophile legion of doom and a a good third of all the things you dislike being specifically organised by the leader of the cabal of child rapists in a deliberate effort to do damage is kind of validating, yeah?

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political strug…

One point made in this excellent book is that we talk about Doing Political Stuff as “activism,” done by these niche hobbyists called “activists,” and that separation between “activists” and the broader culture is a *bad* thing.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/29...

The thing about violence is, the more it works, the more of it you have, and the more you need people who are good at it, until in the end you turn around and realise your revolution belongs to the thugs now.

Q: How has your experience with the Weather Underground affected you?
Mark Rudd: The biggest way it’s affected me has been to make me a total pacifist for completely pragmatic reasons: only nonviolence has a chance of being effective. www.satyamag.com/mar04/rudd.h...

“the Avignon House”

I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.

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i was part of protest at the opening of the Nixon Liebrary. As we departed, I serenaded the outer line of police security, to the tune of "We Shall Overcome":
"I am not a crooook...
I am not a crooook..."
and a black police officer (one of very few) actually doubled over laughing.

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Irony is dead.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

My son’s comparative government professor observed that in the UK, whenever a PM leaves power, they always leave in disgrace. The professor considered this an advantage of the British over the American system. (2/2)

AIUI parliamentary constitutions have a limit on how long can pass between elections, so a PM who sees their popularity slipping has an incentive to call a new election before the situation gets even worse. (1/2)

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

For Liam.

The classics are classic for a reason. www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyran...

One thing I love about Markey is that he keeps getting challengers from the right, and he just keeps moving further left.

(Obviously another thing is that he genuinely cares about people and and understands that you have to wield power.)