Nick Walker Hirsch
@dreamseadrifter.bsky.social
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They/them; PhD Student in History of Technology, Science, the Environment, Medicine and Empire; singer, writer, too many hobbies to count; anarcho-communist, but mellow about it; living in Washington, DC
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I guess when you're terrified of everything, everything looks like terrorism.
The one way in which we wouldn't mind the president emulating his heroes
But yeah, honest to God, I look forward to someday getting to go one full week without seeing that rapist pedophile's face or hearing his name.

One week.

No articles, no "what stupid fucking thing did the gibbering fuckwad do today" posts, no mentions whatsoever.

That will be my heaven.
They think they're still on Twitter or 4chan
man, them typing ratio and it not happening is the ultimate sad cringe
BlueSky suddenly being flooded with official, state-run right wing Nazi fascist government propaganda accounts the day before No Kings day is absolutely not an accident.

It's an intimidation tactic and an attempt to silence anyone opposed to the sundowning rapist pedophile they worship and adore.
Abolish ICE, and scatter its ashes.

Every agent is going to Hell.
Masked ICE GOONS kidnapped a whole family outside the Fontana, CA Swap Meet. The family, including a young child, has not been seen or heard from since.
Block list for US government accounts on BlueSky.

Since they're all effectively one big right wing rape squad.
This precisely.

This is not the beginning of a fascist coup. It's the culmination of decades of political decay and neoliberal collusion across party lines.
The audacity of people who pretend that everything that's going on now came down to a vote is astonishing. It ignores the culpability of BOTH parties in setting the precedents currently being weaponized by fascism. It's like nothing ever happened, and all was well with the world before 2025.
Everyone who marches tomorrow is rejecting hopelessness, rejecting fear, rejecting darkness and destruction.

We will be marching on behalf of those who can't march, and telling them openly, in broad daylight: we have your back. We have each other. We have conviction. We have truth. We have power.
The regime is incapable of winning.

They don't have the numbers, or the conviction.

They are weak men, by definition, backed primarily by opportunists who will turn on them the moment it becomes clear they're on the losing side.

They are already crumbling under the weight of their own failures.
My hope is that tomorrow is a breaking point for mass mobilization against this fascist regime.

My hope is that my being there gives hope to people who need it right now, adding one more voice to a chorus of voices, singing so that others can speak.

My hope is that we bring joy to our defiance.
Tomorrow, I'm going to the No Kings rally in DC.

I'm fully anticipating that the regime might try to respond to this peaceful protest with unlawful state violence and police brutality.

They have been telegraphing their intent in order to intimidate us.

I'm not intimidated.

I refuse to be.
@timothysnyder.bsky.social talks about this in the Road to Unfreedom, and I've been thinking a lot about that book in the last few months
The funny (derogatory) part of this is that if anyone took Johnson's constant claims of ignorance seriously, it would be a sign that he was incredibly incompetent at his job.

But in reality the dishonesty is the point. Is a power play to flaunt his impunity from consequences.
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children

MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
"Unlike the last two democratic administrations, which both seemed fine with their republican colleagues' criminal actions."
So why do you keep voting to advance his judicial nominees?
Well you have to understand that Democrats aren't allowed to ever imply that republicans are exactly who they tell you they are.
“Deplorables” was a scandal for years and she wasn’t even in the government yet. This is the White House Press Secretary, whose salary is paid by the American public.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
I'm not mad about No Kings Day, and I do think it will work.

That said, I am 100% ready to fight the liberal centrist geronocracy to the death after we topple the regime, because more of the same will simply get us more of the same.

We can't afford more of the old Dem soporific politics.
fundamentally what the people on this site who are mad about No Kings are afraid of is that it will work and things will get better without them being in charge of how it gets better
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Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated.

My latest in @thenation.com

www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act
The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.
www.thenation.com
No, but they had the illusion of these things, and a lot of public complicity that doesn't seem to be manifesting so much this time.
So things will be really bad for awhile, but I am truly convinced that it will fall apart, and the real long term fight will be against liberal inertia and the cultural alzheimers that allowed this rot to spread in the first place.

We can't allow it to be forgiven or forgotten.
And Trump is dying.

And nobody in the GOP has the cultural cache (earned or not) that he has. Even his supporters hate all of his advisors.

They're worms. Distasteful worms who sound pathetic and tiny every time they speak in public. A bunch of sad-ass cringelords, uniformly embarrassing.
They aren't the gestapo. They want to be, but they lack the discipline, cultural acquiescence and fearsome reputation. They are known broadly to be incompetent cowards.

That's not a recipe for social control or maintaining power. It's a recipe for mass resistance.
Yes, people are afraid of them, but not so much that the same people aren't mobilizing in groups large and small to hound them in the streets and in courts and in every place they show up.

They do not have popular support. They have not managed to manufacture consent to the degree they needed to.
They're desperate and scared, these mediocrities personified, and very much in the minority. They are already facing massive, organized resistance, but also, vitally, disorganized resistance.

Everyone openly hates them, and that's really important! It's how we know they haven't got complete control