GENOCIDE IS MILD, ACTUALLY! ~President Ice Cream
Erstwhile journalist, habitual whistleblower, now an acid-tongued educator working from home, because schools are superspreaders. Using public records to expose human rights abuses by school districts. Married to a teacher with #LongCovid. Against eugenics.
Walk out, sick out, strike, shut it down.
#CovidIsNotOver
#FreePalestine
#GeneralStrike 🖕😷🖕
When people think of direct action, the mind often goes to anarchists in bloc doing cool acts of sabotage. And that's an example, yes.
But direct action just means that you're acting directly to accomplish something. You're not begging, you're not bargaining, you're not voting in favour, you're just doing it. It's much simpler, and it's a lot more effective than the gaggle of intermediaries want you to realize.
Go do the thing.
@tasinone Nationwide protests in the U.S. against the Trump administration tomorrow
@mls14 When it comes to everyday broke people voting in an election, y'all are like, "Every vote counts!" But, when millionaire Democrats in Congress vote for a Republican bill, you change the tune to "It's just one bill, and a small number voted for it." As for cabinet nominees, why don't you tell us how many Democrats voted against Marco Rubio? Say the number.
Cops do not deserve dogs or horses.
Fucking #AnimalAbusers.
Animals deserve much better lives.
"Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump."
@LukefromDC No sitting down, but also: no so-called "peace marshalls"
There are rumors being spread nationwide about proud boys and Trump supporters infiltrating protests against ICE and that they plan on instigating and escalating to make protesters “look bad” etc. I thought this was really obvious cointelpro to defend peace policing and encourage distrust to anyone in bloc or any direct action, especially ahead of the weekend, but I’m seeing more and more people spread this.
Please please pleaseeeee spread calm and not panic. Rumors like this happen frequently when stuff is popping off and it can cause chaos very quickly.
If there is an active threat or cause for concern from the far right I promise you there are so many Antifascist researchers all over the country paying close attention and you will hear it from them before any random liberal account or org making these claims with no evidence.
We have a friend that’s an #immigration attorney in #LA and she’s losing her shit. Her work with clients is being used to kidnap them. They’re grabbed if they appear for a hearing, regardless of the judge’s ruling. And even if with her help they were adjudicated to live and work in the US decades ago, the record of that fact is used by ICE to kidnap them. So her phone is ringing off the hook *and* all the tear-gassing and gunplay and kidnapping is occurring at her place of work.
Uprising Survival Guide
This short guide covers street safety and other important factors to consider in the midst of the resistance to ICE and Donald Trump's attempt to impose fascism via military occupation.
https://crimethinc.com/survivalguide2025
Print out and distribute!
The liberals decrying "violence" and insisting on "peaceful" protests are undoubtedly nervous about what the regime's reprisal will be, but they're also being obtuse about the threat the regime poses and the fact that guys like Stephen Miller don't need a pretext to do horribly violent, illegal things.
If you're blaming the protesters instead of the state and its militarized enforcers who are kidnapping innocent people, you're fucking doing it wrong.
From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:
Los Angeles immigration raids protests began a week ago on June 6. The Tracker is investigating:
- 32 assaults on journalists
- 6 detainments/arrests of journalists
- 4 equipment damages
- 2 equipment searches/seizures
View our database:
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/?date_lower=2025-06-01&tags=immigration&endpage=2
Israel has nukes. No one talks about it, but everyone knows.
Israel doesn't want to co-exist with its neighbors. It wants to DOMINATE. That's why it insists that Iran CANNOT have nukes. Because then Iran would be a check on Israel and its plans in the region.
This aligns nicely with Western interests in keeping control of the region, hence the US and European support for Israel, no matter how depraved it's become.
With anti-Trump protests ramping up, I’ve seen some misinformation being spread even by people with good intentions. So here’s a quick correction on what the science says about dealing with tear gas 🧪 https://skepchick.org/2025/06/how-to-actually-deal-with-tear-gas/
There is no secret recipe for overthrowing authoritarianism. If there was a solved formula then every oppressed people in the world would do it. It's always circumstantial, multifaceted, and requires a diversity of tactics. It takes dedication, grit, and courage.
Courage.
If you are choosing your tactics because you think they'll give you the best chance of making it out unscathed rather than what will work best towards the greater strategy you're off the mark. That doesn't mean always taking the most risk either, but it means if you are picking tactics out of fear you are, at best, stuck responding and not taking the initiative. Nonviolent tactics will be necessary as a component I'm sure, but never spend half as many words chastising the people fighting alongside you as you do making the case for your shared cause.
Federal authorities must promptly explain both their basis for arresting Isabel Lopez and how they knew where and when she’d be talking to reporters.
Surveilling journalists is unacceptable.
https://www.monitorsaintpaul.com/stories/woman-arrested-after-interview-by-st-paul-journalist,111532
You know what really pisses me off about the people who keep insisting on "peaceful protest" above all else?
They're dismissive of nonviolent tactics. For MLK's movement to succeed there was literally decades of drilling and training of activists. People like Rosa Parks studied theory and praxis, got trained, and enmeshed themselves in groups dedicated to wielding those tactics within a coherent strategy. The same is true for every other org, group, or movement that has been very successful with these tactics.
These nonviolent groups have also always coexisted with groups that employ violence working towards the same goal, and they have traditionally been extremely mindful in how they talk about those groups. A riot is the language of the unheard, after all.
There is a difference between nonviolent tactics chosen for specific reasons within a broader strategic context backed up by hard won discipline and "nonviolence" which is simply a fear of reprisal.
We're currently at the stage where a bunch of white liberal and "moderate" conservative types are being complicit for short-term financial and perceived political advantage because they don't consider the regime a threat.
They would say this entire thread is wildly unrealistic and blows things out of proportion. As long as the risk is contained to immigrants or protesters or homeless people or Black people or trans people, it's fine!
I’m going to cry. My friend in her early 40s who contracted Covid last month driving a bus for graduations just found out she has a heart problem. She never had a heart problem before. The 4 to 6 or 8 or however many Covid shots she’s had didn’t save her. She doesn’t wear a mask because she’s a Democrat who believe believed the Covid vaccine would save her and now she has a fucked up heart.
@mls14 Biden insisted that schools reopen 100 days after his inauguration. They weren't ready, but they reopened anyway. Democrats falsely claimed victory and said that schools reopened "safely," when in fact millions of students and school staff got sick. My spouse, a teacher, got infected twice in their supposedly "safe" classroom. Almost three years later, my spouse has debilitating long covid including a heart condition that has wrecked their life. Boring? Blissful? Get a grip.
@mls14 Biden campaigned on ending the pandemic. Once in office, he instead began the process of ending not the pandemic but nearly every protection everyday broke people had against getting sick. He repeatedly made false statements like, "If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask." He said that weeks before the Delta wave got underway in the U.S., which needlessly killed tens of thousands of people, many vaccinated. He falsely claimed that "the pandemic is over."
