Every day there is a new, even easier litmus test for where we stand on this administration, its agenda, the decades long strategy that put them in place, and the systems and institutions that failed to stop them from getting here.

And some folks (and their orgs) keep failing them, again and again

And you know what the talking heads seem to rarely use 'violent' to describe? The systemic destruction of families through ICE detentions and deportations. Breaking a window is framed *primarily* as violence, but taking a grandparent away from their kids or sending someone to a work camp isn't.

Which is that some people deserve to die, and are not real Americans or human beings, and any kind of violence can be enacted against them to maintain the racial and gender hierarchy of this country, and that violence is encouraged from regular citizens to the federal government.

So I just have such a hard time playing this game of pretending that political violence here is just a neutral force that is emboldened by the assassination of politicians as much as it is by burning a Waymo car. Because I’ve lived here for a long time and have seen what this country believes.

They’ve bombed abortion clinics, killed doctors, sentenced women to death over unwanted pregnancies, killed trans and queer people for asking for rights. There’s literally no kind of political violence that I’ve not seen come from the right in this country, and it’s never engaged with seriously.

There has never been a time in my life where right wing political violence has been seen as anything serious or wrong. At the most they joke about the victims. Paul Pelosi was attacked in his home, and Vance and his cohorts turned into jokes about him being gay.

I’ve seen the state and its agents pretend that destroying a car in retaliation for them ripping up one’s community be described as unimaginable violence even as police officers with Nazi tattoos, gun down an increasing number of minorities every year.

I’ve seen progressive politicians threatened, stalked, and abused by citizens and their fellow politicians, and it’s mostly a joke. I’ve seen activists assassinated, protestors feel the force of the state and its legal apparatus, and women/children/minorities murdered in the name of supremacy.