@willstett.bsky.social
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step 1: ban apartments
step 2: now everyone can afford to live in a spacious single family home with a yard and a garage close to school, work, and amenities
step 3: utopia :D
step 2: now everyone can afford to live in a spacious single family home with a yard and a garage close to school, work, and amenities
step 3: utopia :D
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
step 1: ban apartments
step 2: now everyone can afford to live in a spacious single family home with a yard and a garage close to school, work, and amenities
step 3: utopia :D
step 2: now everyone can afford to live in a spacious single family home with a yard and a garage close to school, work, and amenities
step 3: utopia :D
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let’s not forget: there is NO FUCKING REASON for them to be there. there was no crisis, no incident, no event. just a barely-literate youtuber making up racist shit about Somalis
Get them out. They don’t belong here. No one wants them here. They don’t want to be here. Trump probably wants out, it’s a quagmire, let him claim his hand was forced. But GET ICE OUT OF MINNEAPOLIS
February 1, 2026 at 3:29 AM
let’s not forget: there is NO FUCKING REASON for them to be there. there was no crisis, no incident, no event. just a barely-literate youtuber making up racist shit about Somalis
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one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
February 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM
one of the key motions of protest is that it places the adversary in zugzwang: either they abide the protest, and look weak, or attack the protest, and look cruel
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You will not beat the cops - or ICE - in a street fight, but you can bait them into revealing the authoritarian petty tyrants they are, undermining their legitimacy and - eventually - reducing their capacity for force (because no one will join, pay or supply them).
That's how you win.
That's how you win.
February 1, 2026 at 6:32 AM
You will not beat the cops - or ICE - in a street fight, but you can bait them into revealing the authoritarian petty tyrants they are, undermining their legitimacy and - eventually - reducing their capacity for force (because no one will join, pay or supply them).
That's how you win.
That's how you win.
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The current Democratic coalition is every single person who has any idea how society works, any interest in maintaining it, or any scraps of empathy for their fellow human beings, and that's about 47% of the country, tops.
People like to remark that the Democratic party spans from Rashida Tlaib to Bill Kristol at this point but the fact is that's a far too small coalition to reliably win nationally, lol.
January 29, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The current Democratic coalition is every single person who has any idea how society works, any interest in maintaining it, or any scraps of empathy for their fellow human beings, and that's about 47% of the country, tops.
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We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason
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Minneapolis is going to win. Can’t you feel it?
They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them.
It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them.
It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
January 25, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Minneapolis is going to win. Can’t you feel it?
They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them.
It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
They have no support, even the most timid equivocators are quietly shuffling out the back door. All they have is guns. They can hurt us and they can threaten us but there is no road to victory for them.
It’s a quagmire and they’re suffocating in it
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A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
January 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...
Arizona, November 2020
Arizona, November 2020
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If the government is wondering why thousands of people tail ICE and film them it's because you have a propensity to lie!
January 25, 2026 at 7:14 PM
If the government is wondering why thousands of people tail ICE and film them it's because you have a propensity to lie!
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If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
January 24, 2026 at 11:51 PM
If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
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yeah the very grim truth of nonviolence is that the two primary things it does are “demonstrate that violence will not move the opposition, that they can brutalize us and we will not abandon our cause” and “garner wider sympathy via being brutalized by the state”
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
yeah the very grim truth of nonviolence is that the two primary things it does are “demonstrate that violence will not move the opposition, that they can brutalize us and we will not abandon our cause” and “garner wider sympathy via being brutalized by the state”
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If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
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Trials for every ICE member.
January 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Trials for every ICE member.
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Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
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 7:11 PM
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
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If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
If you’re not from here, I need to explain this execution was on Eat Street, a commercial corridor of restaurants and coffee shops that literally everyone goes to. Normies, queermos, weirdos, neighborhood folks. Whatever that place is in your city, imagine ICE executing someone in cold blood there.
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"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
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I've said this before, but "america was always fascist" is simply not an effective messaging strategy for fighting an american fascist movement. you should not cede them control of the national identity! that's what they want!
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.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I've said this before, but "america was always fascist" is simply not an effective messaging strategy for fighting an american fascist movement. you should not cede them control of the national identity! that's what they want!
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school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
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I feel comfortable sharing with you guys that
*whispers*
Beef should be more expensive because the price includes a unfathomable amount of environmental damage
*whispers*
Beef should be more expensive because the price includes a unfathomable amount of environmental damage
No I don’t give a shit about beef prices. But I am realistic about what most voters care about
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 AM
I feel comfortable sharing with you guys that
*whispers*
Beef should be more expensive because the price includes a unfathomable amount of environmental damage
*whispers*
Beef should be more expensive because the price includes a unfathomable amount of environmental damage
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Every year around tax season I'll admit I get a bit pissy in the vein of "Nicolas, 30 ans" because a lot of my tax money goes to the boomer gerontocracy.
January 21, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Every year around tax season I'll admit I get a bit pissy in the vein of "Nicolas, 30 ans" because a lot of my tax money goes to the boomer gerontocracy.
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Training* for ICE is a good idea
*vocational training so they can perform honest work when they get out of prison
*vocational training so they can perform honest work when they get out of prison
January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Training* for ICE is a good idea
*vocational training so they can perform honest work when they get out of prison
*vocational training so they can perform honest work when they get out of prison
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The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
The president is a mad king threatening war against America’s closest allies because he’s got a psychological fixation on an empty frozen island and a Nobel Peace Prize snub and the best the media or opposition can manage is “Trump changes America’s priorities, perhaps for the worse”
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Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.
Here’s a really tense ICE situation in front of my home. One car looped a block 25 times until two reinforcement cars showed up and led me home. Was pretty scary because I was solo - BUT I knew I had backup from thousands of courageous neighbors and observers. Strength in numbers.
ICE threatens me at home - 1/19/26
YouTube video by Will Stancil
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.
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Also, if anyone doubts where the actual, real, normal people stand, this should make it obvious.
January 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Also, if anyone doubts where the actual, real, normal people stand, this should make it obvious.
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there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
there will prob be a global boycott of US goods by the end of his term