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Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
January 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Brief operational term of art 🧵 to help better define what we're experiencing. What we're experiencing is state terror. I've seen a lot of terms thrown around for what the Trump admin is doing w/ICE, CBP, & other federal law enforcement (LE). The now largely out of use term is state terror. 1/
They are gifting ICE agents cigars, which when lit, explode in the agents face
Tricia McLaughlin: "They are pouring cold water on the ground so that our ICE law enforcement vehicles will slide, crash, and potentially kill them"
January 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
They are gifting ICE agents cigars, which when lit, explode in the agents face
Please don’t tell me these guys aren’t the same as the old Republican Party.
Vance: "If you're in Mpls, and you have a person who came to the US impoverished two months ago and all of the sudden they're driving a Mercedes or a Lamborghini, it is your job as a public official to ask how did that person get so rich so quickly when they're also collecting a welfare check."
January 8, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Please don’t tell me these guys aren’t the same as the old Republican Party.
If you can’t condemn the US imperialist attack on Venezuela without also criticizing Maduro you’re part of the problem
January 5, 2026 at 1:45 AM
If you can’t condemn the US imperialist attack on Venezuela without also criticizing Maduro you’re part of the problem
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We must pass Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s War Powers Resolution that asserts Congress' authorities, and Trump must be impeached. 2/2
January 3, 2026 at 6:38 PM
We must pass Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s War Powers Resolution that asserts Congress' authorities, and Trump must be impeached. 2/2
Cesaire’s “boomerang theory” of colonialism is in some ways more applicable today than it was in the 1950s
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Cesaire’s “boomerang theory” of colonialism is in some ways more applicable today than it was in the 1950s
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To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
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One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs
October 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
One of the reasons they're having trouble concocting a Left Wing Terrorism epidemic is basically nobody in this country has ever met a left wing person. You might as well say we're being invaded by the smurfs
It really seems like so many of the most educated people have somehow never heard of fascism
Opinion | Barnard President: Charlie Kirk Challenged College Students. We Need More Like Him.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 PM
It really seems like so many of the most educated people have somehow never heard of fascism
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Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references)
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
What good is a union in Hell?
“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn't just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life its...
therealnews.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references)
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
“What happens if you build more housing, and institutional investors are buying up 20% of the new stock?” Ocampo said. “It’s like a never-ending cycle.”
You know how the Abundance Guys only talk about zoning laws and pretend corporate power has nothing to do with the affordable housing crisis in places like California?
Here’s how you know they’re trying to trick you into not seeing the whole problem.
Here’s how you know they’re trying to trick you into not seeing the whole problem.
A fifth of California homes are investor-owned as state’s affordability crisis deepens – report
New figures show that the Golden state’s rate of investor-owned homes is 19%, with mountain regions up to 83%
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:12 PM
“What happens if you build more housing, and institutional investors are buying up 20% of the new stock?” Ocampo said. “It’s like a never-ending cycle.”
It’s pretty obvious that the entire point of the Democratic Party, in the eyes of those who run it at least, is to prevent the left from ever attaining power
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s pretty obvious that the entire point of the Democratic Party, in the eyes of those who run it at least, is to prevent the left from ever attaining power
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Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.
Israeli Soldiers Killed At Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.
interc.pt
June 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Israeli soldiers and officers have said they were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians waiting for food in Gaza.
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BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
Israeli forces fire on people waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 25, witnesses and hospitals say
Palestinian witnesses say Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza.
bit.ly
June 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
BREAKING: Palestinian witnesses and hospitals say Israeli forces opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza, killing at least 25 people.
I’ve read enough 20th century history to know that things are bleaker now than in the 1930s because at least then there was a countervailing vision to catastrophe for people to believe in
June 18, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I’ve read enough 20th century history to know that things are bleaker now than in the 1930s because at least then there was a countervailing vision to catastrophe for people to believe in
“Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technological resources while maintaining property relations…The destruction caused by war furnishes proof that society was not mature enough to make technology its organ.” (Walter Benjamin, 1935)
June 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Only war makes it possible to mobilize all of today’s technological resources while maintaining property relations…The destruction caused by war furnishes proof that society was not mature enough to make technology its organ.” (Walter Benjamin, 1935)
Getting cognitive whiplash by switching back and forth from the news and planning my lecture on the Roman Empire
June 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Getting cognitive whiplash by switching back and forth from the news and planning my lecture on the Roman Empire
How is this headline even real?This is the worst shit I’ve ever seen in my life and it’s not even close. The only end I can see is Israel being militarily crushed by some kind of future world alliance (obviously US not part of that)
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials https://on.ft.com/4kMZ2EB
Israel kills 45 in latest shooting of Gazans seeking food, say local officials
Soldiers shot Gazans who were expecting aid trucks, according to the local health ministry
on.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
How is this headline even real?This is the worst shit I’ve ever seen in my life and it’s not even close. The only end I can see is Israel being militarily crushed by some kind of future world alliance (obviously US not part of that)
Whether or not the US gets directly involved in war with Iran will depend partly on how deeply the fuckup of the Iraq and Afghan wars are still felt
June 17, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Whether or not the US gets directly involved in war with Iran will depend partly on how deeply the fuckup of the Iraq and Afghan wars are still felt
Just curious why Cuomo intentionally covering up nursing home deaths from covid after forcing them to accept infected people isn’t a more prominent issue in the mayoral election
June 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just curious why Cuomo intentionally covering up nursing home deaths from covid after forcing them to accept infected people isn’t a more prominent issue in the mayoral election
Gotta hand it to the NYT for this one
May 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Gotta hand it to the NYT for this one
Nothing makes me feel more bourgeois than when I’m shocked by descriptions of poverty in a New Yorker article
May 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Nothing makes me feel more bourgeois than when I’m shocked by descriptions of poverty in a New Yorker article
ARS basically distilling the NYT’s - and by extension liberalism’s - entire worldview
May 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
ARS basically distilling the NYT’s - and by extension liberalism’s - entire worldview
Because we let Bush et al get away with doing this secretly, Trump et al are able to do this openly
May 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Because we let Bush et al get away with doing this secretly, Trump et al are able to do this openly
Feel like this order of guesses says something about me
May 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Feel like this order of guesses says something about me