This is what solidarity looks like. #NoKings

A newly-surfaced document published in the DOJ's Epstein database reveals that an inmate once told the FBI that he overheard prison guards talking about covering up Epstein's death on the morning the ... TikTok video by MS NOW

I swear. Julie K Brown of the Miami Herald has done more to uncover the truth in the Epstein files than any federal or state agent.

Below- notes from a prison inmate who heard guards discussing the cover up of Epstein’s death in prison. Source MS now www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8VJ8eTg/

Starting out at 60% against a war is actually terrible. I am old enough to vividly remember a number of US wars since 1990. In 2003, I remember polls that showed that 55% to 60% of people were in favor of war on Iraq. 4 years later, 60% of people polled said that US should have stayed out of Iraq.

It’s not supporting the troops to send them off to kill and die in an illegal war of aggression whose purpose is to make sure that their votes don’t count.

Johan Galtung—Elon Musk, Carpet-Bombing, and Tuberculosis In November 2023, Richard (Tricky Dick) Nixon’s most formidable advisor, Henry Kissinger passed away at his home in Connecticut and left a gaping and wondrous “realist” void in American politics—just ...

Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger, and You!

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How about don’t watch at all.

Arendt—Can Your Nation Live Forever? Should It? I watched a documentary once about the half-life of human survival—a Danish film called Into Eternity, about all of these Finnish scientists who had constructed a deep geological nuclear repository un...

Should your nation live forever? Thoughts on “Origins of Totalitarianism” in 2026.
#Arendt

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How to Compete in Unfair Elections | Journal of Democracy Opposition movements often boycott rigged polls rather than risk legitimizing an autocrat. It is usually a mistake. Here is the playbook for how one opposition seized the advantage.

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How to compete in unfair elections---- for example, America and far-right growth countries' election system, deeply think. Not easy, but please challenge. Authoritarianism and totalitarianism, we haven't guns but have rights vote.

non-fiction: elite capture stokely speaks when dragons fly a taste of power: a Black Woman's story assata tip of the spear soledad brother balagoon: a soldier's story

fiction: friday black stories model home raybearer archangels of funk bluff: poems Black arms to hold you up

some recs for Black history month! (and always!)

Good.

Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

Any beatings or shootings by ICE officers must be preceded by a brief land acknowledgment. Bottom line.

#11: Porch Side Abolition New Zine: "50 Ways To Meet Your Neighbor"

A new edition of the 1 Million Experiments zine is here! It’s terrific as usual and includes a new zine which is a treasure. To jump-start neighborly relations, try one of the 50 (mostly untried) ways to meet your neighbors. Get into some Porchside Abolition. open.substack.com/pub/millione...

Notes on Kindness and Bravery in Minneapolis, Minnesota The following is a one-week compilation of notes on kindness and bravery from the zones of federal occupation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Notes on Kindness and Bravery in Minneapolis,Minnesota
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“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards the attention it demands.

How did “Infinite Jest”—a novel that mourns addiction and venerates humility and patience—become a glib cultural punch line? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Philly DA joins nationwide coalition to prosecute ICE agents who break laws Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has joined a nationwide coalition of prosecutors to hold ICE agents accountable for breaking state laws.

States are coming together to bring state charges against ICE agents. It's about freaking time!

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Kristi Noem AND Stephen Miller must go.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

The movement now has its own “Ohio” thanks to Bruce Springsteen‘s “Streets of Minneapolis”:

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Medical staff in scrubs stand silently in two lines along a hospital hallway, heads bowed in respect. One person covers their face in grief. The corridor sign reads "Intensive Care Unit." Yellow lights line the floor.

Image credited to Garrett Peterson, CRNA colleague of Alex Pretti, of his colleagues at the VA hospital where he worked.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

TEXT: Out on patrol with two friends this morning and I kept seeing the beautiful web being woven in Minnesota right now. Not with new materials but woven with wisdom into what was already here. I could feel this net with my hands, this connection as we passed that group of three on the corner of Cedar and Lake, this connection as we listened to someone doing dispatch while their kid yelled in the room behind them. I thought of this today stopping by a locally beloved Mexican restaurant to grab some food for the family and having the owner step up with tears in his eyes and reflect on how much they feel cared for and then the security guard stepped over and asserted that this is what we do, we care for our own. He said, tell people we have them, we've got them and we will keep them safe. All of the worst stories you read are true and there are more of them than what shows up on social media, but there is also this, everything I am writing here in the same morning, driving over to northeast and a junior high has just done a walk out, they are lining a major road in their "are those pants they look like pajamas" clothes and all are holding signs and I am on the phone with someone and I burst into tears when I pass them. This is a net and I remember this very old fishing net someone showed me years ago, guiding my fingers to feel where the net had been repaired over and over again, like scars in the fibers that strengthen rather than break. ICE is sharp, knives that cut with small knicks and sometimes great full arm thrusts that shove and tear through this connected set of scars and fresh material and there are wounds and this is violence and some of you beloveds are being stopped on the road because of how you are read and I am not being stopped and none of this is ever ok and still, I feel the pull and tug of the net that is larger than anything I have experienced

TEXT: before. Is there anyone in these cities not showing up in some way? I can't remember the last time I saw or heard anyone have words other than how can I show up? There is a net and it has always been here, it is always here, it's just that sometimes it's hard to see and all that is happening in Minneapolis is that some of the confusion is fading and what is visible is the link and weave and stumble and steady between us. May we keep repairing it as it frays, from those outside and from the rising tension we hold within and may this net grow with wisdom and may bodies tired of holding themselves up alone someday feel like they can relax into the steady certainty of something much bigger than the size of their skin.

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

Heartening & worth a read. “. . . More immigrants are with their families tonight because of ICE Watch. . .”

Arendt—Outlaws by Definition “The first essential step to total domination,” writes Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism, “is to kill the juridicial person in man.” When Arendt outlines methods that autocrats use to di...

The irrationality is the point.

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In case you missed it last night:

No, it is definitively not defamation to call Jonathan Ross a murderer, and people who say it is are liars or ignorant or both.

The oil tanker drama is a spectacular reminder the US doesn’t play by the rules The oil tanker drama is a spectacular reminder the US doesn’t play by the rules

The oil tanker drama is a spectacular reminder the US doesn’t play by the rules

Twain—White Saviors A rare piece of good news caught me off-guard last summer.

Mark Twain, Reconstruction, and ICE deportations

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It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

On the blog, I argue that Trump is a literal law breaker: He does not merely violate the law; he and his administration seek to render it inoperative, broken. Examples: might-makes-right military actions; J6 pardons; censure of Sen Kelly; and firing members of independent agencies w/o cause. 👇

if you are lucky enough to be represented in Congress, you should do this