This is how the state manufactures an excuse for its violence. How it justifies its actions by smearing its victims. How it sets up the idea that if a victim did something either illegal or that is deemed immoral by some people, they deserved what was done to them.
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
This administration is A LOT of shitty things...but the shittiest thing it is is a barely disguised (if at all) White Nationalist Attempted Takeover.
This administration is racist as hell. They don't care about anyone, but they're scared of and particularly hate POC.
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
The black community is well versed in this. The goons thought a wallet was a gun. They thought a cell phone was a gun. They thought a can of beer was a gun. They thought pulling out their ID from a pocket was a gun.
It's never been good in this country.
I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now.
I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.
Let’s shut this whole fucking country down. Stop the ICE murders. Boycott USA is you are abroad. We don’t need a World Cup or a rock band’s tour, we need justice and serious fucking help.
I feel like everything is hopeless and there is nothing to look forward to. How do I function day to day with the hell that is happening in our country?
My college friend passed away yesterday from metastatic breast cancer. She was 49. We were texting just the day before. I’m not in the inner circle where family, colleagues, and best friends are, but she was truly a wonderful people and teacher and I am bereft.
You don't have to agree with him on every issue but you have to admit that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is absolutely locked the fuck in on our nation's balls. He is focused, he is determined, and he is going to figure out what is going on with/in America's balls, and woe unto anyone who tries to stop him.
When your party appointed 2/3 of the Supreme Court and you still can’t get the rulings you want, there’s a high probability that’s because what you’re trying to do is f*cking illegal.
Pete Hegseth is a pretty despicable human being, on top of the other, many deficits he brought to the Pentagon
But you should be even madder at the 50 senators who knew Hegseth was an alcoholic, a serial abuser of women, and a poser massively unqualified for the post and yet voted for him anyway
People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.
A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.
If people, who you perceive as lower than you socially, start getting better jobs than you and start earning more money than you, you’ll vote for the devil himself to set it right.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”
It seems like every person in the WH Admin is someone clearly represented in the DSM-5. Every single one. Mentally disturbed people are ruining/running this country.
Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?
When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified.
But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*.
They love it.
Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.
The fall of Rome seems so much less exciting now that I realize everyone was kinda just working their regular jobs and paying bills and stuff the whole time
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥