Rev. Magdalen
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Anti-Fascist
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Anti-Fascist
#Resist
#SubGenius
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Rev. Magdalen
@revmagdalen.bsky.social
· Oct 18
I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.
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Jeffries on the arrest of Don Lemon: "The Trump administration has systematically targeted the free and fair press, because they want to intimidate America and oppose anyone who is not willing to bend the knee to their extremism. We are not going to be intimidated."
January 30, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Jeffries on the arrest of Don Lemon: "The Trump administration has systematically targeted the free and fair press, because they want to intimidate America and oppose anyone who is not willing to bend the knee to their extremism. We are not going to be intimidated."
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Just did a press ridealong commute in an away-from-home rapid response network with good press disclosure policies, and the world didn’t end, no one was doxxed, no identities were revealed. I did spend a lot of time lost. It can be done!
January 30, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Just did a press ridealong commute in an away-from-home rapid response network with good press disclosure policies, and the world didn’t end, no one was doxxed, no identities were revealed. I did spend a lot of time lost. It can be done!
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This happened to me yesterday. Two ICE officers abruptly blocked a freeway entrance, got out and illegally threatened me with arrest. All on video, thanks to a journalist in the backseat filming the entire thing. Press makes us safer.
Just thinking of how many ways a few commuters having journalists with them would help.
- The journalist can literally be there when ICE/CBP gets out of their SUVs and starts their action. There's no "OK, what happened before the person with the camera showed up?"
- The journalist can literally be there when ICE/CBP gets out of their SUVs and starts their action. There's no "OK, what happened before the person with the camera showed up?"
January 30, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This happened to me yesterday. Two ICE officers abruptly blocked a freeway entrance, got out and illegally threatened me with arrest. All on video, thanks to a journalist in the backseat filming the entire thing. Press makes us safer.
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Here’s my advice. Also, if you’re not comfortable or sure, just say no. That’s fine! The problem is people trying to promulgate codes of conduct under which NOBODY is allowed to interact with press. That’s counterproductive - in general, respectable mainstream outlets have a vital role to play.
January 30, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Here’s my advice. Also, if you’re not comfortable or sure, just say no. That’s fine! The problem is people trying to promulgate codes of conduct under which NOBODY is allowed to interact with press. That’s counterproductive - in general, respectable mainstream outlets have a vital role to play.
If you honestly think that journalists covering protests makes protesters less safe, then the arrest of a journalist covering the protests should make you say "Great, one less of those dangerous people on the street."
This is where the LARP hits reality. You KNOW it's bad a journalist was arrested.
This is where the LARP hits reality. You KNOW it's bad a journalist was arrested.
January 30, 2026 at 3:47 PM
If you honestly think that journalists covering protests makes protesters less safe, then the arrest of a journalist covering the protests should make you say "Great, one less of those dangerous people on the street."
This is where the LARP hits reality. You KNOW it's bad a journalist was arrested.
This is where the LARP hits reality. You KNOW it's bad a journalist was arrested.
Schrodinger's Journalists are both agents of the government out to dox all the activists, who could never be known any other way, and, somehow, also part of the movement if the government does what they asked for and makes a journalist stop covering the protests.
January 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Schrodinger's Journalists are both agents of the government out to dox all the activists, who could never be known any other way, and, somehow, also part of the movement if the government does what they asked for and makes a journalist stop covering the protests.
I'm sorry but you don't get to claim to care about a journalist getting arrested for covering the ICE protests if you support the "no journalists allowed" rule. Like...what? You got what you wanted, one less journalist covering it.
I don't know how to make you understand that Don Lemon is a warning shot
January 30, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I'm sorry but you don't get to claim to care about a journalist getting arrested for covering the ICE protests if you support the "no journalists allowed" rule. Like...what? You got what you wanted, one less journalist covering it.
And what about THIS? Why would having anonymous self-appointed leaders with zero accountability be SAFER than normal group organizing with bylaws and accountability?
For all we know, the people who made the decision to help ICE get what it wanted are actually ICE agents themselves. They could easily have set up a rapid response signal chat to keep tabs on activists. "No one can know who we are, or question us, it's not safe" would be perfect cover.
January 30, 2026 at 3:23 PM
And what about THIS? Why would having anonymous self-appointed leaders with zero accountability be SAFER than normal group organizing with bylaws and accountability?
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This is suspiciously similar to the way in which the unaccountable and largely anonymous leaders of Occupy managed to get Putin everything he wanted.
This is suspiciously similar to the way in which the unaccountable and largely anonymous leaders of Occupy managed to get Putin everything he wanted.
January 30, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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This is suspiciously similar to the way in which the unaccountable and largely anonymous leaders of Occupy managed to get Putin everything he wanted.
This is suspiciously similar to the way in which the unaccountable and largely anonymous leaders of Occupy managed to get Putin everything he wanted.
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has anyone pointed to any real examples of harm that will caused? do we know of a single child that got abducted specifically because of a reporter, or somehow caused ice to hurt someone they wouldn’t have otherwise? because all i’ve heard so far is squelching jerkoff noises
January 30, 2026 at 1:01 PM
has anyone pointed to any real examples of harm that will caused? do we know of a single child that got abducted specifically because of a reporter, or somehow caused ice to hurt someone they wouldn’t have otherwise? because all i’ve heard so far is squelching jerkoff noises
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What you need to understand is that I kind of can’t. I’ve been blocked out. I can try to do other, similar-ish things but this nonsense is making it much harder for me to touch the grass I desperately want to touch. It’s frustrating!
Just keep doing what you're doing irl.
January 30, 2026 at 12:58 PM
What you need to understand is that I kind of can’t. I’ve been blocked out. I can try to do other, similar-ish things but this nonsense is making it much harder for me to touch the grass I desperately want to touch. It’s frustrating!
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OUR SAFETY COMES FROM OUR NUMBERS, NOT OUR ANONYMITY
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:06 PM
OUR SAFETY COMES FROM OUR NUMBERS, NOT OUR ANONYMITY
THIS. Minneapolis Rapid Response not only did what ICE wanted and made Stancil stop following them, they handed Trump a pretext for cracking down even harder. If they kicked a lawyer and the press out, because they want total secrecy, they must be plotting terrorism, he'll say.
It drives me nuts that groups all about legally observing and reporting, act like they are doing something wrong and have to be sketchy and operate in secret. You are doing a legal thing! don’t obey in advance and start acting like you’ve already lost your rights!
January 30, 2026 at 2:23 PM
THIS. Minneapolis Rapid Response not only did what ICE wanted and made Stancil stop following them, they handed Trump a pretext for cracking down even harder. If they kicked a lawyer and the press out, because they want total secrecy, they must be plotting terrorism, he'll say.
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It drives me nuts that groups all about legally observing and reporting, act like they are doing something wrong and have to be sketchy and operate in secret. You are doing a legal thing! don’t obey in advance and start acting like you’ve already lost your rights!
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM
It drives me nuts that groups all about legally observing and reporting, act like they are doing something wrong and have to be sketchy and operate in secret. You are doing a legal thing! don’t obey in advance and start acting like you’ve already lost your rights!
What happened to Stancil is so triggering, because it's exactly like what happened in my own local group. People who got positions of power because they volunteered for them when the group had like a dozen people thought that meant they were unaccountable rulers for life, even when someone got hurt.
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
What happened to Stancil is so triggering, because it's exactly like what happened in my own local group. People who got positions of power because they volunteered for them when the group had like a dozen people thought that meant they were unaccountable rulers for life, even when someone got hurt.
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Federal agents arrest Don Lemon over Minnesota church protest.
This is fascism.
The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
This is fascism.
The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Federal agents arrest Don Lemon over Minnesota church protest.
This is fascism.
The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
This is fascism.
The former CNN anchor has said he was not demonstrating, but reporting as a journalist, during the interruption of a service inside a St. Paul church earlier this month.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...
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If you're okay with ICE, you need to get a new moral compass. The murders, assaults, kidnappings, disappearances are un-Constitutional, illegal & violate human rights. BUT it's
the daily instances of child endangerment and abuse that should stop EVERY person in their tracks. DEMAND AN END TO THIS!
the daily instances of child endangerment and abuse that should stop EVERY person in their tracks. DEMAND AN END TO THIS!
MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it
(H/T longtimehistory)
January 30, 2026 at 8:16 AM
If you're okay with ICE, you need to get a new moral compass. The murders, assaults, kidnappings, disappearances are un-Constitutional, illegal & violate human rights. BUT it's
the daily instances of child endangerment and abuse that should stop EVERY person in their tracks. DEMAND AN END TO THIS!
the daily instances of child endangerment and abuse that should stop EVERY person in their tracks. DEMAND AN END TO THIS!
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The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system
President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 30, 2026 at 5:39 AM
The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.
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This man is extremely unwell. He is a delusional maniac who lives in a complete fantasy world, constantly posting fantastically insane nonsense like this he sees online from imbeciles who are even more deranged than he is. How the country and our leaders are numb to this is terrifying, seriously.
January 30, 2026 at 5:01 AM
This man is extremely unwell. He is a delusional maniac who lives in a complete fantasy world, constantly posting fantastically insane nonsense like this he sees online from imbeciles who are even more deranged than he is. How the country and our leaders are numb to this is terrifying, seriously.
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The article. No pay wall.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
Opinion | America Doesn’t Do Fascism
Trump is far more interesting than the dictator living in the liberal imagination.
www.wsj.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:30 AM
The article. No pay wall.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
"American public figures have a duty to think better of their country than to believe it capable of putting a fascist in the White House."
Read Federalist Papers 68, 10, 51. Our founders assumed that evil men versed in "the little arts of popularity" WILL be elected.
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The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
January 30, 2026 at 7:24 AM
The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."
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Whoever kicked Will Stancil out of these networks is working for ICE. They may or may not be formally employed by ICE, they may or may not know that they are working for ICE (& vice versa), their ideological loyalties may or may not be to ICE. But they are working for ICE and doing what ICE wants.
It appears to be an irreversible decision and I’ve been notified by private, anonymous messages, so there’s not really any kind of internal dialogue or appeal process I have access to.
January 30, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Whoever kicked Will Stancil out of these networks is working for ICE. They may or may not be formally employed by ICE, they may or may not know that they are working for ICE (& vice versa), their ideological loyalties may or may not be to ICE. But they are working for ICE and doing what ICE wants.
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Will Stancil is a litmus test for whether or not you understand how to build a strong and effective movement for political change.
If you care more about the cool kids' club zeitgeist than about what he's actually accomplishing for the cause, then you're a wrecker putting your clique over results.
If you care more about the cool kids' club zeitgeist than about what he's actually accomplishing for the cause, then you're a wrecker putting your clique over results.
January 30, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Will Stancil is a litmus test for whether or not you understand how to build a strong and effective movement for political change.
If you care more about the cool kids' club zeitgeist than about what he's actually accomplishing for the cause, then you're a wrecker putting your clique over results.
If you care more about the cool kids' club zeitgeist than about what he's actually accomplishing for the cause, then you're a wrecker putting your clique over results.
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Stancil raises an important point—rapid response groups are large enough to need bylaws and to hold votes on policies. It makes no sense to have them be governed by the admin of a signal group just because they got there first.
The local rapid response policy, which I first learned today when I was permanently removed, is “No press allowed ever.” I just think this is incredibly short-sighted and almost intrinsically self-defeating. Who are we observing FOR?
January 30, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Stancil raises an important point—rapid response groups are large enough to need bylaws and to hold votes on policies. It makes no sense to have them be governed by the admin of a signal group just because they got there first.
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like, you generally can not run a very public operation that consists of "explicitly film adversary while personally on scene" and "make lots of noise to alert potential victims of adversary" and have conventional opsec against said adversary and that's before " recruiting is a QR code we give out"
January 30, 2026 at 2:36 AM
like, you generally can not run a very public operation that consists of "explicitly film adversary while personally on scene" and "make lots of noise to alert potential victims of adversary" and have conventional opsec against said adversary and that's before " recruiting is a QR code we give out"