No matter what lip service many pay to opposing “authoritarianism,” they continue needlessly to appease the fascists, each conquest increasing the power arrayed against all of us. They’re walking us off a cliff instead of fighting with every (or even any) fiber of their being.

“An error was made 20 yrs ago. By 2000, social movements had learned how to shut down entire cities, outflanking& outmaneuvering police. When the anti-Iraq war movement started, those tactics were set aside for peaceful mass marches.. those orgs preferred 100k ppl carrying signs”

Read @awalkerinla.bsky.social on the priorities in Olympic LA: the city's first capital improvement plan focuses exclusively on projects related to the LA28 Olympics (not rebuilding fire-decimated public infrastructure to set climate-resilient standards, for instance)
www.torched.la/the-road-ahe...

I just received the first copy of Copaganda! It will be sold anywhere books are sold. I try to explain the role of the media, the police, and academia in how we got to this authoritarian moment.

Mexico is a cradle of civilization that has some of the most self- sufficient people on the earth. My guess is that the tariffs are gonna hurt U.S. citizens more than anyone.

and consider how CM Traci Park is aligned with Caruso and here echoing of Trump messaging and the way media has been propping her up, you can see how far the tentacles of this beast goes

Rick Caruso has named other board members to his nonprofit with close ties to the Trump administration, including Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale.

Lonsdale also started the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank that develops anti-camping bills which have been passed by several states

But for now, just notice how rising authoritarian state violence and surveillance, which brings massive profits, is framed as a natural "response" to "crime." Once you start noticing how ideological and distorted this is, you can read the news differently.