Jacy
@jacy1976.bsky.social
Cold War kid and dystopian fiction fan who regrets taking for granted the years prior to 2016. Foster puppehs, books, tea, and music are my spars of light
It all just seems … rather pointless, doesn’t it?
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It all just seems … rather pointless, doesn’t it?
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Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.
Scenes From the Occupation
As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.
www.chicagomag.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Low-intensity warfare is uncanny. We continue to go to work, bring kids to school, shop for groceries, etc. But our everyday routines are punctuated by random episodes of spectacular violence; war as a way of life.
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Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people.
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Here at Northcenter Town Square where 100-200 community members including families and young children are rallying after a teacher was taken by federal law enforcement from a local daycare this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Tyler and I are out here at the rally where the crowd has about doubled since this first post. Easily 400+ people.
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
Group is chanting “no hate, no fear, everyone is welcome here.”
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Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful.
They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.”
The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.
They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.”
The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.
June 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Mass protests are an implicit threat of potential violence even when they are entirely peaceful.
They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.”
The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.
They serve to keep state power in check by demonstrating “there are more of us than you so fix your shit.”
The state knows this, which is why its agents often respond to them with unprovoked violence.
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Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes
June 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Reshare to scare the data bros and popularism acolytes
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"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."
Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"Here it's also useful to make a distinction between property damage (which protesters in the USA in our era have done from time to time) and harming living beings (which is largely something done by law enforcement in these demonstrations)."
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You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.
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A valuable list. Three concentrations: The Civil War, the Civil Rights Era, and anti-labor throughout. US Gov't has taken this step 14 times w/ main purpose of opposing white supremacists, six times w/ central purpose of supporting them. Trump, of course, joins this latter "tradition."
To back up: Presidents have deployed troops for purposes of quelling unrest or executing the law only 30 times in U.S. history. The Brennan Center has published a guide compiling and annotating those instances. 3/19 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Guide to Invocations of the Insurrection Act
In 230 years, the Act has been invoked in response to 30 crises.
www.brennancenter.org
June 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A valuable list. Three concentrations: The Civil War, the Civil Rights Era, and anti-labor throughout. US Gov't has taken this step 14 times w/ main purpose of opposing white supremacists, six times w/ central purpose of supporting them. Trump, of course, joins this latter "tradition."
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and the White House confirm that the federal government is preparing to federalize the National Guard and deploy up to 2,000 military troops in Los Angeles.
Let’s be very clear—this is not crowd control. This would be a federal occupation of a U.S. city.
Let’s be very clear—this is not crowd control. This would be a federal occupation of a U.S. city.
June 8, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the White House confirm that the federal government is preparing to federalize the National Guard and deploy up to 2,000 military troops in Los Angeles.
Let’s be very clear—this is not crowd control. This would be a federal occupation of a U.S. city.
Let’s be very clear—this is not crowd control. This would be a federal occupation of a U.S. city.
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Hear me out.
In a better world we wouldn’t have to watch fascist billionaires get into pissy fights or be pressured to side between a Nazi oligarch and a pedophile president.
In a better world these people would be in prison or kept from seizing power and hoarding resources.
In a better world we wouldn’t have to watch fascist billionaires get into pissy fights or be pressured to side between a Nazi oligarch and a pedophile president.
In a better world these people would be in prison or kept from seizing power and hoarding resources.
June 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hear me out.
In a better world we wouldn’t have to watch fascist billionaires get into pissy fights or be pressured to side between a Nazi oligarch and a pedophile president.
In a better world these people would be in prison or kept from seizing power and hoarding resources.
In a better world we wouldn’t have to watch fascist billionaires get into pissy fights or be pressured to side between a Nazi oligarch and a pedophile president.
In a better world these people would be in prison or kept from seizing power and hoarding resources.
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I was talking about this with my students yesterday—throughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated.
If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.
If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.
Buffoonery aside, I think a lot of Americans can't process that multiple generations of Germans renounce and revile past actions rather than treat them as an aspect of of their culture that must be maintained.
MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day
MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship
June 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I was talking about this with my students yesterday—throughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated.
If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.
If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.
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🚨 URGENT: CHICAGO ORGANIZER DETAINED BY ICE, SHOW UP NOW!!! 🚨
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
June 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
🚨 URGENT: CHICAGO ORGANIZER DETAINED BY ICE, SHOW UP NOW!!! 🚨
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
A longtime organizer in our Chicago community has just been detained by ICE. And she’s not alone, demonstrators outside have seen 3 people shackled in chains.
📍 GET TO 1930 Beach St., Broadview, IL RIGHT NOW.
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The way people are talking about the current demolition of research funding and HE legitimacy reminds me of the early days of COVID when I (and others) said it would be at least six years before any normalcy. Rage, despondency, rejection…eventually voting for a dictator just to feel alive.
June 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The way people are talking about the current demolition of research funding and HE legitimacy reminds me of the early days of COVID when I (and others) said it would be at least six years before any normalcy. Rage, despondency, rejection…eventually voting for a dictator just to feel alive.
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We need your help! ⬇️
What are your top favorite activist guides / zines / threads / etc? Which ones do you think are critical for people getting started in activism?
We're trying to compile relevant guides (and gauge their usefulness). Please comment below, even if someone else mentions your fav 🙏
What are your top favorite activist guides / zines / threads / etc? Which ones do you think are critical for people getting started in activism?
We're trying to compile relevant guides (and gauge their usefulness). Please comment below, even if someone else mentions your fav 🙏
May 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We need your help! ⬇️
What are your top favorite activist guides / zines / threads / etc? Which ones do you think are critical for people getting started in activism?
We're trying to compile relevant guides (and gauge their usefulness). Please comment below, even if someone else mentions your fav 🙏
What are your top favorite activist guides / zines / threads / etc? Which ones do you think are critical for people getting started in activism?
We're trying to compile relevant guides (and gauge their usefulness). Please comment below, even if someone else mentions your fav 🙏
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There’s another faith-led Moral Mondays protest in front of SCOTUS right now — this one noticeably larger than in weeks past.
The march from a church to SCOTUS, where people will decry cuts to healthcare programs in the GOP budget, is led by pastors and wheelchair users (and some who are both).
The march from a church to SCOTUS, where people will decry cuts to healthcare programs in the GOP budget, is led by pastors and wheelchair users (and some who are both).
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
There’s another faith-led Moral Mondays protest in front of SCOTUS right now — this one noticeably larger than in weeks past.
The march from a church to SCOTUS, where people will decry cuts to healthcare programs in the GOP budget, is led by pastors and wheelchair users (and some who are both).
The march from a church to SCOTUS, where people will decry cuts to healthcare programs in the GOP budget, is led by pastors and wheelchair users (and some who are both).
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Trump is handing a massive contract to Palantir, Peter Thiel’s AI-powered spy firm to build a centralized database on all Americans, combining facial recognition, license plate tracking, ICE targeting, biometric data, and whatever else they damn well want.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump's reported database move sparks alarm: "Dystopian"
According to a recent report, the president aims to compile a database of personal information with the help of tech firm Palantir.
www.newsweek.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trump is handing a massive contract to Palantir, Peter Thiel’s AI-powered spy firm to build a centralized database on all Americans, combining facial recognition, license plate tracking, ICE targeting, biometric data, and whatever else they damn well want.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
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Did you know....
Medicaid WILL NOT cover a prescription if the provider isn't credentialed by Medicaid. Because it has been 10 months and our NPs STILL aren't approved, we aren't just offering free care, we are PAYING for their meds, too. Can you help? wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250...
Medicaid WILL NOT cover a prescription if the provider isn't credentialed by Medicaid. Because it has been 10 months and our NPs STILL aren't approved, we aren't just offering free care, we are PAYING for their meds, too. Can you help? wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250...
Can you help us close our 2025 gap?
To make it past September we need your help! West Alabama Women's Center (dba WAWC Healthcare) is a non-profit free and sliding scale clinic for uninsured, under-insured and Medicaid patients in Alaba...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Did you know....
Medicaid WILL NOT cover a prescription if the provider isn't credentialed by Medicaid. Because it has been 10 months and our NPs STILL aren't approved, we aren't just offering free care, we are PAYING for their meds, too. Can you help? wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250...
Medicaid WILL NOT cover a prescription if the provider isn't credentialed by Medicaid. Because it has been 10 months and our NPs STILL aren't approved, we aren't just offering free care, we are PAYING for their meds, too. Can you help? wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250...
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the entire series of related stories in the NYT ooze with unnamed sources inside the administration describing what they want to have happen
any “deals” with universities should be treated with the same skepticism as the supposed “deals” with other countries on tariffs
they’re losing and know it
any “deals” with universities should be treated with the same skepticism as the supposed “deals” with other countries on tariffs
they’re losing and know it
I’m not saying this story is false but I am saying it is totally in the interest of the Trump White House to have a story out there suggesting that some universities are looking to acquiesce.
No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms.
The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...
The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...
May 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
the entire series of related stories in the NYT ooze with unnamed sources inside the administration describing what they want to have happen
any “deals” with universities should be treated with the same skepticism as the supposed “deals” with other countries on tariffs
they’re losing and know it
any “deals” with universities should be treated with the same skepticism as the supposed “deals” with other countries on tariffs
they’re losing and know it
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Going out the way he came in (high off his ass)
May 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Going out the way he came in (high off his ass)
And he didn’t even mention the zines he makes!
#northbrook #50501 #Indivisible
#cybertruck #taco #50501il
#teslatakedown
#northbrook #50501 #Indivisible
#cybertruck #taco #50501il
#teslatakedown
Here's the flyer for tomorrow's #teslatakedown Northbrook demonstration. Event page quoted below.
Still working on the Cybertruck piñata but it will be ready for swings from the #muskmasher tomorrow afternoon. I'll have the usual plastic baseballs with Musk's face on them, too.
Still working on the Cybertruck piñata but it will be ready for swings from the #muskmasher tomorrow afternoon. I'll have the usual plastic baseballs with Musk's face on them, too.
May 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
And he didn’t even mention the zines he makes!
#northbrook #50501 #Indivisible
#cybertruck #taco #50501il
#teslatakedown
#northbrook #50501 #Indivisible
#cybertruck #taco #50501il
#teslatakedown
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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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ok I feel completely insane asking this but like
weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
ok I feel completely insane asking this but like
weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"
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This is a great resource for anyone needing abortion pills in the US.
www.plancpills.org
www.plancpills.org
PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
www.plancpills.org
May 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is a great resource for anyone needing abortion pills in the US.
www.plancpills.org
www.plancpills.org
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Read the transcript of the brilliant Mishal Husain’s interview with Elon Musk & see just how annoyed he gets at very simple & basic questions & how he childishly lashes out, & also ask yourself why US media interviewers can’t do interviews like this.
Elon Musk on Political Spending: ‘I Think I’ve Done Enough’
At the Qatar Economic Forum, Elon Musk and Mishal Husain talk about the Tesla backlash, AI regulation and DOGE’s success rate.
www.bloomberg.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Read the transcript of the brilliant Mishal Husain’s interview with Elon Musk & see just how annoyed he gets at very simple & basic questions & how he childishly lashes out, & also ask yourself why US media interviewers can’t do interviews like this.
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He enjoys domination and exercising power over the weak, so he loves the moment where he gets to say “We’re gonna hit you with 50%” and everyone gasps in shock and he gets to watch people suffer and he gets to feel strong. It’s about dopamine and if he stops pushing that button the dopamine stops
the problem with Trump is that he loves imposing tariffs more than just having tariffs, so a couple weeks after any tariff pauses he’ll always get bored want to raise them more
May 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
He enjoys domination and exercising power over the weak, so he loves the moment where he gets to say “We’re gonna hit you with 50%” and everyone gasps in shock and he gets to watch people suffer and he gets to feel strong. It’s about dopamine and if he stops pushing that button the dopamine stops