@itsjohn
Pre-order my White Supremacy: A Short History. https://www.cambridge.org/gq/universitypress/subjects/history/global-history/white-supremacy-short-history Anti-fascist. Views are sure as hell not my employer's, I assure you.
ICE detain U.S. Army veteran—a 50 year old woman with major health issues.
20 plus armed agents stormed this residential neighborhood to arrest her at gunpoint.
Her crime? Kate just took part in a peaceful protest—evidently her 5 foot tall stature intimidated these agents.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
it’s not a war, it’s bit of “kinetic occurrence”
/s
“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke
#OtD 5 Mar 1943 a strike broke out at the Fiat Mirafiori plant in Turin. The strike spread and, within a week, 100k workers were out. Authorities arrested 850 workers but were forced to concede. Learn more about the Italian resistance to fascism here: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...
Almost literally doing he said, she said
“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.
this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.
boltsmag.org/north-caroli...
This gets to a lethal internal weakness in fascism. The top people seem to believe their own bullshit.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
WCCO YouTube thumbnail of Bovino launching gas grenades into Mueller Park. headline: "did you see feds commit crimes in Minneapolis?"
Hennepin County Attorney debuts new evidence portal. Submit evidence you may have of federal agents conducting lawless rampages.
www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/20...
Note: this is different from the now-closed portal for evidence related to the Renee Good and Alex Pretti murders.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
that guy needs to be prosecuted now
Red, black and white poster for the film Bridge on the River Kwai
At 8:30 PM on Saturday night we have ICE in the quarry parking lot and they start driving off erratically through the City the minute people go up and try to talk to them. Their lawlessness and terror continues so please continue to be out there looking out for your neighbors and staying safe.
> @covie93.bsky.social
Worse than worthless
I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”
Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.
No better metaphor for what association with Trump gets you than the guys who won Team USA's first gold medal since 1980 being forever remembered as the sad losers who were served cold McDonald's and bottled water at a lunch Trump didn't even bother showing up to.
I'm exercising my pointer finger for when Trumpist regime comes crashing down. I'll name names of capitulators 'til I die.
It'll not make me very popular, though. They will still be in positions of power and influence.
The model is post-Vichy France. They'd ALL secretly been in the Resistance ; )
If I can bother you with something that is not SOTU commentary:
I wrote about how to situate the radicalism that defines today’s Right in the history of Modern Conservatism - and how Trumpism came to dominate rightwing politics and identity so easily:
ACLU MN reported yesterday that the federal government filed sworn statements that there are 970 agents in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge & that 407 agents will remain here in March. It’s important to note this is on top of the 190 agents that were already assigned before this surge started.
Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”
They pulled a Target.
what even is the fucking point
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“God’s Punishment” was right there, you humorless scolds.
this i think is key for how we approach protests. you may get arrested. the government will make up anything it wants. and then you will go to court and win because these chuds are morons.
THEY ONLY WIN WHEN WE ARE TOO SCARED TO EVEN FIGHT
