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this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
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February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
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July 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Most gloves are nowhere near good enough for the temperatures of tear gas grenades.
February 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Most gloves are nowhere near good enough for the temperatures of tear gas grenades.
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Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
Online security theater posting made me really afraid about having my phone or showing my face before going to a no kings protest and then when I got there it was a great time and my mom was taking pictures of everything lol. I felt ridiculous because I almost didn’t go people made it sound so risky
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
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“There’s a grand conspiracy to deny us our natural utopia” is a fundamentally reactionary worldview that’s thoroughly infected the online left.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
I think about this post a lot.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 AM
“There’s a grand conspiracy to deny us our natural utopia” is a fundamentally reactionary worldview that’s thoroughly infected the online left.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
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Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
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The Great Khan senses weakness, he sees the beginnings of retreat and moves to press his advantage.
Sending Tom Homan to Minnesota is like pouring gasoline on a fire.
The chaos is the point — let’s stop sending Trump officials in and start sending Trump’s agents home.
The chaos is the point — let’s stop sending Trump officials in and start sending Trump’s agents home.
Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The Great Khan senses weakness, he sees the beginnings of retreat and moves to press his advantage.
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the U.S. autocratic state is far, far less consolidated than the South Korean one was. that the South Koreans still beat - eventually - their dictatorship should be an inspiration to Americans that they can do the same against a much weaker opponent at present.
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 AM
the U.S. autocratic state is far, far less consolidated than the South Korean one was. that the South Koreans still beat - eventually - their dictatorship should be an inspiration to Americans that they can do the same against a much weaker opponent at present.
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Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
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Even if a situation ultimately escalates to civil war, non-violence is a crucial tactic for determining the state of affairs when the war starts. Political sentiment is no less important when a civil war breaks out and non violence is very effective at changing it.
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Even if a situation ultimately escalates to civil war, non-violence is a crucial tactic for determining the state of affairs when the war starts. Political sentiment is no less important when a civil war breaks out and non violence is very effective at changing it.
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i'm struck by how, in the west, it is obvious to western leftists that nationalism builds itself by conjuring up an imagined past--german romantics going on about the battle of the Teutoberg Forest--a past that is idyllic, unifying, utopian--before all those horrible foreigners messed things up--
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
i'm struck by how, in the west, it is obvious to western leftists that nationalism builds itself by conjuring up an imagined past--german romantics going on about the battle of the Teutoberg Forest--a past that is idyllic, unifying, utopian--before all those horrible foreigners messed things up--
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It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 AM
It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
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I think within a generation we're going to see the kind of backlash to vices like gambling that made the Victorians, well, Victorian.
Been reading Atkinson’s series on the Revolutionary War (which everyone should read) and he notes how when the war with the colonies broke out, Great Britain also found itself overwhelmed with the popularity of gambling on everything to the point of gamblers taking out life insurance on other people
i feel like the on-going polymarketization of life isn't going to end well
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I think within a generation we're going to see the kind of backlash to vices like gambling that made the Victorians, well, Victorian.
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i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view
stop endorsing their world view
stop endorsing their world view
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 PM
i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view
stop endorsing their world view
stop endorsing their world view
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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I’m becoming socially conservative in that I’m becoming a real tightass about civic virtue & honor. Fuck your boyfriend & his husband wearing dogsuits in private if you want, I don’t care at all, but I’m becoming pretty humorless about people feeling they have no obligation to any civic project
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 AM
I’m becoming socially conservative in that I’m becoming a real tightass about civic virtue & honor. Fuck your boyfriend & his husband wearing dogsuits in private if you want, I don’t care at all, but I’m becoming pretty humorless about people feeling they have no obligation to any civic project
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“Liberalism has lost the illusion of controlling the heavens, while actually gaining followers here on Earth…What can be said is we’ve lost the race to cannibalize the corpse of conservatism”
this isn't a 'post-liberal' world - the ideology displaced by fascism was conservatism
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Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
“Liberalism has lost the illusion of controlling the heavens, while actually gaining followers here on Earth…What can be said is we’ve lost the race to cannibalize the corpse of conservatism”
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Dr. King did amazing things, but often we only talk about his successes. Dr. King also had some "failures", and they are important to discuss because we often learn a great deal from failure. And failure can inform or grow a movement, like Albany, Georgia's failure did for Dr. King. /1
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Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
January 17, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*
We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*