Tessa 🌹🗽
@aquariusing.bsky.social
30-something. Socialist. American. Political scientist. Polyglot. etc. https://dsausa.org/join • #chingalamigra
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Hi, I'm an American political scientist and activist and I have a message for those outside the US who want to help the people fighting against fascism here.
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On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:51 PM
On the weakness of state terror: once ppl internalize the regime's lawless brutality, that they are no safer in their homes than in the streets (& vice versa), and that their unwavering defiance is what confounds & disempowers the regime, they also realize they have nothing to lose but their fear.
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Why isn’t it working? There are more people out on the streets than ever, the media is turning, and the opposition is getting ever stronger, especially at the state govt level. Protest isn’t a win button, it’s a process.
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Why isn’t it working? There are more people out on the streets than ever, the media is turning, and the opposition is getting ever stronger, especially at the state govt level. Protest isn’t a win button, it’s a process.
Hi, I'm an American political scientist and activist and I have a message for those outside the US who want to help the people fighting against fascism here.
It's too long for one post and I didn't want to break it up, so I have a screenshot of it here -- and I've added alt text.
It's too long for one post and I didn't want to break it up, so I have a screenshot of it here -- and I've added alt text.
January 25, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Hi, I'm an American political scientist and activist and I have a message for those outside the US who want to help the people fighting against fascism here.
It's too long for one post and I didn't want to break it up, so I have a screenshot of it here -- and I've added alt text.
It's too long for one post and I didn't want to break it up, so I have a screenshot of it here -- and I've added alt text.
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Today, Gov. Andy Beshear was joined by Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray and Kentucky Emergency Management Director Eric Gibson to provide an update on severe winter weather affecting the commonwealth.
Read more: tinyurl.com/59jm3mp6
Read more: tinyurl.com/59jm3mp6
January 25, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Today, Gov. Andy Beshear was joined by Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Secretary Jim Gray and Kentucky Emergency Management Director Eric Gibson to provide an update on severe winter weather affecting the commonwealth.
Read more: tinyurl.com/59jm3mp6
Read more: tinyurl.com/59jm3mp6
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Dear America: keep filming ICE.
The only way to *stop* secret police is to *expose* them.
Document everything — peacefully & lawfully — in honor of Alex.
The only way to *stop* secret police is to *expose* them.
Document everything — peacefully & lawfully — in honor of Alex.
January 25, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Dear America: keep filming ICE.
The only way to *stop* secret police is to *expose* them.
Document everything — peacefully & lawfully — in honor of Alex.
The only way to *stop* secret police is to *expose* them.
Document everything — peacefully & lawfully — in honor of Alex.
100%! 🇺🇸🦅 Let freedom ring. Proud of us. It's awful here right now but I love being around so many Americans digging in and fighting for something better -- and THAT makes me not want to be anywhere else right now despite the awful. We're gonna win.
The past few days have confirmed for me something I’ve long believed: the American political system is terminally fucked, but the American people are not.
Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.
Most Americans want to live in a democracy in which everyone has a decent life—the fascists in this regime represent a dying minority.
January 25, 2026 at 4:57 AM
100%! 🇺🇸🦅 Let freedom ring. Proud of us. It's awful here right now but I love being around so many Americans digging in and fighting for something better -- and THAT makes me not want to be anywhere else right now despite the awful. We're gonna win.
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Since @peoplemag.bsky.social is doing such a good job covering this with honesty & the humanity it deserves in spite of this vengeful regime trying to snuff it out, here’s the links to their articles. Give them all the clicks—they earned it.
January 25, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Since @peoplemag.bsky.social is doing such a good job covering this with honesty & the humanity it deserves in spite of this vengeful regime trying to snuff it out, here’s the links to their articles. Give them all the clicks—they earned it.
Like the illegal tariffs Trump puts on our allies, this is yet another extortion play from a deranged man who is, by clear and proper interpretation of it (which SCOTUS fucked up), unconstitutionally serving as president per 14th Amendment (section 3)
Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
January 25, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Like the illegal tariffs Trump puts on our allies, this is yet another extortion play from a deranged man who is, by clear and proper interpretation of it (which SCOTUS fucked up), unconstitutionally serving as president per 14th Amendment (section 3)
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IF YOU THINK THAT MINNEAPOLIS AND MINNESOTA ARE SITTING HELPLESSLY BY - THINK AGAIN. THEY HAVE *ALREADY* FILED WITH THE COURT EYEWITNESS STATEMENTS FROM TODAY'S ICE SHOOTING
(I am including those eyewitness statements for Notes from the Front members. WARNING: They are disturbing.)
(I am including those eyewitness statements for Notes from the Front members. WARNING: They are disturbing.)
January 25, 2026 at 2:14 AM
IF YOU THINK THAT MINNEAPOLIS AND MINNESOTA ARE SITTING HELPLESSLY BY - THINK AGAIN. THEY HAVE *ALREADY* FILED WITH THE COURT EYEWITNESS STATEMENTS FROM TODAY'S ICE SHOOTING
(I am including those eyewitness statements for Notes from the Front members. WARNING: They are disturbing.)
(I am including those eyewitness statements for Notes from the Front members. WARNING: They are disturbing.)
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Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
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Again, in a moment where everyone thinks countries are going to shift to credible int'l cooperation with 🇨🇳 instead of us, I'll note that everything everyone is <rightly> worried about in 🇺🇸 (aging personalist authoritarians, corruption, debt, repression, concentration camps, etc.) is far worse in 🇨🇳:
Xi Jinping has, in effect, hollowed out his entire military leadership. A former CIA analyst calls his latest moves “the most stunning development in Chinese politics since the early days of Xi’s rise to power”
What Xi Jinping’s purge of China’s most senior general reveals
A purge of the military high command, unmatched since Mao’s death, may affect China’s ability to fight
econ.st
January 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Again, in a moment where everyone thinks countries are going to shift to credible int'l cooperation with 🇨🇳 instead of us, I'll note that everything everyone is <rightly> worried about in 🇺🇸 (aging personalist authoritarians, corruption, debt, repression, concentration camps, etc.) is far worse in 🇨🇳:
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approaching the rally at Hancock Park, near DHS buildings in downtown DC
January 24, 2026 at 10:57 PM
approaching the rally at Hancock Park, near DHS buildings in downtown DC
Can you please ask him to get the other kind of "ice" out of our communities? Cut any/all ICE contracts we have in Frankfort, too. Veto any bills the statehouse presents to you requiring ICE cooperation.
Good news, Kentucky — the President has approved an emergency disaster declaration for this weekend’s winter storm. This means federal aid is immediately available. This will help us protect lives, and I am grateful for this crucial support.
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Can you please ask him to get the other kind of "ice" out of our communities? Cut any/all ICE contracts we have in Frankfort, too. Veto any bills the statehouse presents to you requiring ICE cooperation.
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Rosen and Cortez Masto have already said they'd vote no. Call the rest.
Senate Republicans need 60 votes 2 pass the DHS funding bill. R’s only have 53 so they will need 7 Dems to vote with them.
Dems who may potentially help them:
Congressional switchboard 202-224-3121
Fetterman (PA)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Rosen (NV)
Sheehen (NH)
Hassan (NH)
King (ME)
Durbin (IL)
Dems who may potentially help them:
Congressional switchboard 202-224-3121
Fetterman (PA)
Cortez Masto (NV)
Rosen (NV)
Sheehen (NH)
Hassan (NH)
King (ME)
Durbin (IL)
January 24, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Rosen and Cortez Masto have already said they'd vote no. Call the rest.
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The NBA postponed a game because the United States government is killing its citizens.
Can’t emphasize it enough.
Can’t emphasize it enough.
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
January 24, 2026 at 8:03 PM
The NBA postponed a game because the United States government is killing its citizens.
Can’t emphasize it enough.
Can’t emphasize it enough.
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It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.
January 24, 2026 at 6:40 PM
It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.
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It's tough for folks to internalize the fact that a murder like this is the exact opposite of a sign of regime strength. Galvanizing millions of Americans into a stance of "They might murder me and that's *exactly* why I'm going to keep getting in their faces," does not end well for fascists.
Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.
January 24, 2026 at 4:44 PM
It's tough for folks to internalize the fact that a murder like this is the exact opposite of a sign of regime strength. Galvanizing millions of Americans into a stance of "They might murder me and that's *exactly* why I'm going to keep getting in their faces," does not end well for fascists.
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It's time to identify those 23 people and begin the pressure on them. This administration will not stop, even if the courts order it. That much is clear.
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
It's time to identify those 23 people and begin the pressure on them. This administration will not stop, even if the courts order it. That much is clear.
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He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
January 24, 2026 at 6:28 PM
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
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It is important to keep repeating this, because these 23 people continue to get complete free passes every day while the fascism & incineration of American national security keep happening.
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It is important to keep repeating this, because these 23 people continue to get complete free passes every day while the fascism & incineration of American national security keep happening.
I'm gonna be so fucking for real, if you told me even 6 years ago that being pro-2A and pro-'states rights' arguments would not only be me, but also the *true* side of the Constitution and US Democracy, and no longer a right wing 2010 Tea Party lunatic talking point, I wouldn't have believed you.
January 24, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I'm gonna be so fucking for real, if you told me even 6 years ago that being pro-2A and pro-'states rights' arguments would not only be me, but also the *true* side of the Constitution and US Democracy, and no longer a right wing 2010 Tea Party lunatic talking point, I wouldn't have believed you.