I'm in the UK and can hardly believe you are sending out warnings of your governments intention to arrest and detain you in concentration camps because you aren't or in some cases are a citizen. People you have to stand up to this. If you need to protest make it Millions not thousands and choose the White house! They can't kill millions!
They have stated a goal of "deporting" 100,000,000 and I don't think they are joking. That's not not really doable, there are not enough places to send them, so where do you think they will go? The problem is that they can, ad do kill millions; they just haven't done it on this continent for a while. They have done what in my opinion were two planned and staged for maximum effect executions and then started asking "haven't you learned yet?" Time to hold still, stop thinking, but not for too long, and then really think.
Stephen Miller, aka Reich Commander Nazi Nosferatu,aka the one running the country, has stated there are too many people in this country (i.e. too many "non-whites") and his ideal is to limit the US to 100,000,000. All whire, of course.
Has his wife had her Ancestry.com DNA done yet, because pretty sure there's gonna be some surprises.
Americans, sadly, believe they have the luxury of burying their heads in the sand, being willingly uninformed and thinking they can sit this one out. I even recently had someone say to me 'oh, I really don't do politics.'. One way or another these folks will wake up too.
I heard that some people don't know what's going on in their own country. This amazes me. How can they not know? Also if they do know why aren't they doing anything about until ICE lands in their neighbourhood. I hear also that the communities that are impacted at this moment like Minnesota and Minneapolis are organising in every way possible. They are making patrols of neighbourhoods to look out for ICE presence. They are blowing their whistles and helping children get to school safely. They are doing grocery shopping for people that daren't leave their homes! It sounds so much like how the Nazis frightened the population during the rise of Hitler. I can't understand that someone can still profess not to know! Do they think that they will be safe? Fascists as is proved come after everybody. P2025 want's to get rid of all black and brown people regardless if they voted for them. ICE knows about the organising against them because they are now trying to say that owning a whistle is illegal, that taking videos on their phones are illegal! Little dick is dying which means that Vance will be up next. He's not influenced by money as much. He's a Peter Thiel convert. With Miller and Vaught essentially running the White House you have reached point of no return. Yet everybody is angry but still going on with their day as if it'll just blow over. Waiting for the day to vote it all away! History shows that when Hitler rose to power the people thought they won't pick on me. Until they did. They unleashed hell on people. They dragged them out of their homes, men women and children and shot them in the street to discourage opposition. I'm scared for Americans that choose to remain ignorant until it's too damn late to act. All communities should be setting up protections. There are more of you than there are of them. Also you guys have more arms per capita than any country in the world. Don't believe you are helpless. That's what they are relying on. That's why they are ramping up the pressure. They don't intend to leave even if they are voted out. Stop lying on that tick in the box to save you. Sorry for ranting but I'm so angry that Americans became so soft that to them this only happens in movies or in crime gangs.
I know that but that anger has to be focused and strategic because these are dangerous times for America. Seek out those who are organised and fighting for the common good. Together you are a POWERHOUSE!
Yes. I am in full agreement with everything you have said and there is action and organization that might not be surface apparent. We still need to do more. A majority of Americans see, or are starting to see that we are on a dangerous road. We cannot rely on getting to the ballot box because either elections will be derailed or subverted. We understand, at the very least, that this will get worse before any sanity returns. We are not naive enough to think this will magically return to 'normal' That ship has sailed I have been warning about this online since 2015 on a different platform until I was permanently suspended. Sadly, many Americans are conditioned to believe that by default, a President acts in our best interests and is truthful, as is printed or broadcast "news" (quotation marks are deliberate). I can see that all of our former allies, who have been gravely insulted and disrespected will reorganize and carry on with life (as they should). The fallout here will be for generations Project 2026 is now in play also with a litany of poison that will further remove American women's rights. It is grave but we fight to keep hope alive and live with courage.
His supporters like to believe that this beam of retribution will never be focused on them but the policy is to assault and detain and ask questions later.
Thank you Florence for taking the time to update me. I apologise for assuming that nothing is being done to counter little dick in as you say P2026. Hopefully this is all just a bad dream by the time 2027 arrives. I'm not a religious person but I do have "faith" that as time goes on people will become more aware of the danger they are in. As you say things will not return to normal as this is a wake-up call that everything you thought about Americans invincibility is now not as it seems. The racism, which is how little dick got elected has to be the first big conversation to be had. Remember Hitler raised an army by lying about German Jews and then incited his base to violence against them. If this racism is allowed to continue then there will always be another "messiah" waiting in the wings with a story of retribution against "other." Little dicks base wanted someone to blame for their lot in life. Unfortunately they found it when little dick started on his campaign of slurs against black and brown people in the country. Returning to "normal" is not an option. America has to cast off the stain in their lives and it can only be done by holding meaningful conversations about it. Also bringing with it real penalties for crimes against minorities. They have lived under this threat for so long. Even though they better themselves and work hard they are never given a chance to "belong" in this society of immigrants. All American citizens are immigrants, even the white ones!
Vance is not only a Theil.convert, but is also influenced. Throw enough money at his morally compromised, zero moral convictions, posturinng preformative Catholicism and he'll do anyone's bidding. Look how quicklu he changed from being right about Drumpf to being his cheerleader.
He's not the only one that switched sides. What I don't understand is that he has two brown children and another on the way and yet he supports this stupid dickhead! There are no morals within little dick's cabinet, they all sold out.
Protests aren't going to work and though we may have "rights" this regime doesn't care. They do whatever they want. They are currently building a database of people who disagree with them. Blue states have to close the bank and stop paying federal taxes, merge economies and make it fanancially difficult for them to afford all the illegal shit they are doing to this country.
The greatest benefit of protests is to make a public statement, to put pressure on state and local leaders and government and I believe, most of all to create solidarity and reinforce for people that they aren't 'crazy' for feeling a deep sense of alarm, and most importantly THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE. It supports the energy of resistance and is an antidote to being home alone feeling despondent.
Does this regime care? Of course not. But it niggles at them, it shows the world we are not accepting this criminal mess and hopefully in some cases the local pressure travels upward (or downward as the case may be.
I don’t doubt it. I will never fully trust a politician. They have to do what the say and set a deadline to accomplish that. If not bye-bye. It’s cynical but unfortunately that’s our lovely yet fucked up world.
I agree that in and of themselves, peaceful protests will not "work" in that they are not by themselves adequate to solve the problem. Aggressively violent actions are worse, and historically, (thinking of WWII) the ones that made the most impact were done by people who knew they were, for the most part going to die anyway.
Protests however, bring awareness, and the power of singing in unison to minor pentatonic scales is not to be underestimated. The awareness (I would like to believe) would bring an eventual willingness to participate in more direct thought still non-violent actions, using control of what people in some cases still have, things like employment, cash, credit and tech skills. The withholding of both labor and capital can have an impact especially if targeted.
Also historically, effective non-violent action is often met with ruling-class violence which in fact it is already happening. The use of indoctrinated proxies with covert state/corporate backing does no make it any less, the actions of those in control. The choices individuals will have to make about their beliefs, the risk they are willing to take, and their basic, not governmentally granted but existential rights, such as the right to defend ones own life, and those around you, is an area best left up to each person, even if discussed in group settings. Yes the rest of the world is looking on in horror and wondering, why we are letting it happen. Again I flash back to one night in my past and the advice "You playing defense now homie, gotta be a little slicker than that." (I know I've use this one before it just seems relevant)
Peace, Dharma, Good Omens, "Smash the Control Machine"
“This won’t happen to me. They will only go after those other people*.” Too many people in the United States do not understand our own history. Our government locked up thousands of our own Japanese-descended citizens during World War 2 under Executive Order 9066 in ten primary camps located across seven states, plus dozens of Department of Justice and Army facilities used to hold community leaders and non-citizens, including sites in Texas, New Mexico, and Montana.
Indeed. The National Socialist Party directly took from the United States history of racial and religious oppression to further their agenda, but the bones of that was already present throughout Europe as well. Laws against minority groups and migration had been written by Emoress Marie-Therese in the Austri-Hungarian Empire. Those were primarily directed at the Roma people, forcing them to take standard “approved “ names and settle (or as some families called it “nailing our feet to the ground”). And prejudice against both the Roma and the Jewish communities… well. By the time we get to 1938 the camps were in full force. What the US (and much of Europe) is experiencing is comparable to about 1936. It’s an ugly pattern to see repeated.
I agree with all you say Ashleigh but the rest of the world has changed to some extent and we aren’t all so prejudiced anymore. Except of course for America. It’s racism is what has enveloped them for two and a half centuries and they won’t or can’t seem to let it go. They don’t even want to have a conversation about it! Therein lies the problem. Like little dick’s way of behaving, ‘don’t look over there, look over here.’ He’s just the latest leader who’s behaved this way that’s also why they have all come out of the woodwork because he gives them permission to act and talk that way openly. When he’s dead and gone they’ll go silent awaiting a new “messiah” to lead them once again.
I don’t agree that “the rest of the world has changed” in any permanent sense. Prejudice does not evaporate because we declare ourselves more enlightened. It reorganizes. It moves through policy instead of slogans. It enters through coalitions, through administrative language, through appeals to order and security.
If we’re looking at Europe between roughly 2019 and 2025, this isn’t just routine electoral turnover. There has been a measurable rightward shift. Not identical everywhere — but real.
Italy is the clearest example. In 2022, Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy didn’t simply gain ground; they formed a government. That was Italy’s sharpest rightward turn in decades. Hungary’s trajectory is longer — Orbán has been consolidating nationalist power since 2010 — but his 2022 re-election confirmed that it wasn’t temporary. It was entrenched.
By 2024, six EU countries — Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and the Czech Republic — had hard-right parties in government. Sweden, long proud of its cordon sanitaire, crossed a meaningful line in 2022 when its center-right coalition became dependent on the Sweden Democrats. That normalization matters.
Even where these parties haven’t taken full control, the gains are significant. Portugal’s Chega breaking 20%. Germany’s AfD posting record results and reshaping debate. Poland’s national-conservative bloc maintaining influence. Romania’s AUR gaining momentum. Similar breakthroughs noted in Belgium, Austria, France, and the UK.
This is not uniquely American.
As for Trump — he is not an alien insertion (despite my wishes that the space police would come and take him back to his hoome planet!) into American history. He is part of a long continuum. Every period of retrenchment in the United States has had figures who make explicit what was already present. He did not invent grievance politics. He amplified it. Leaders can give permission, certainly — but they draw from something that already exists.
The danger isn’t that one man exists. The danger is assuming that once he exits the stage, the underlying pattern dissolves. It doesn’t. Patterns dissolve only when societies confront them honestly — and that is difficult work everywhere.
You can see how differently that confrontation plays out in other arenas. The very public trial of Dominique Pelicot in France forced sustained national attention on systemic abuse and complicity. It was uncomfortable, procedural, visible.
Contrast that with the handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s network in the United States — staggered document releases, intense politicization, and a public still divided over whether the full structure has been examined. The fragmentation itself becomes part of the pattern.
And then there is the UK’s response to The Mountbatten-Windsor formerly known as Prince and his documented associations. A civil settlement was reached. He was stripped of his military affiliations, royal patronages, and public role by the King, his brother. The institution acted to distance itself. Yet the monarchy as a structure endured.
Different countries. Different subject matter. The same structural question: when powerful networks are exposed, does the system meaningfully interrogate itself, or does it contain the damage and preserve continuity?
Kyriarchies rarely collapse because one figure falls. They adapt. They redistribute power. They survive unless there is sustained structural change.
Santayana warned that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Hegel observed that what we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. Neither statement was country-specific.
History does not turn on personalities alone. It turns on whether institutions are willing to examine the scaffolding that held those personalities up in the first place.
They will one day and wished they'd paid better attention. I'm fearful that America is sliding into authoritarianism too quickly to fight it off if the fight is not already happening in big numbers. Maybe the Epstein situation will open peoples eyes before it's too late. At least that's something they all do a agree on even if they thought it was JUST the dems who would be going to jail. I don't care what politics these perpetrators follow because this is a crime that knows no affiliation.
Got it! I'm in the UK so I can only read and what I'm hearing is surprising. Some people are doing great things but the majority aren't. This strikes me as being either too busy. or too "I'm not involved" or just plain thinking it will all sort itself out in the wash. That option is suicide for democracy because the democratic system of government has to be fought for every day. A dictatorship like little dick aka trump want's is the final word. If you try to fight back then it will fail because you'll be dead. Like Navalny!
Well, the majority is doing something. It's difficult to get the word out when the plutocrats control the flow of information, and attempt to make it difficult to express our dissatisfaction. The American capitalistic system makes it difficult. Workers simply don't have the same protections elsewhere.
If only 3% had joined that No Kings protest I might believe you because that would be at least one million. Yet only thousands turned out which was diappointing! The capitalist system isn't to blame it's the people you vote into office over and over again even though they do nothing for you. In the 50's you could manage on one wage earner now you can't make ends meet with two! That's the issue. So elect politicians on what they'll do to improve your life and if they don't deliver kick them to the curb. You've got people in Congress and the Senate that have done eff-all for 30 and 40 years but you keep voting for them or don't vote at all which means they win by default because only their personal supporters vote because they get what they want.
Thank you for your insight UK 🇬🇧 our God daughter resides there!! We are fighting every single day and in the streets protesting and asking the same question. Where are the millions. We started the Paperclip Resistance Movement the day after the elections and now millions are wearing paperclips as a symbol of resistance and we’re hoping to have them in the streets if DC
I have a feeling that people are taking this much more seriously. Those that showed up for the no kings protests were already aware but the general population were still in the dark. Christ knows how? Since the killings started they’ve become more able to see where this regime is headed. I know I get angry at how long it’s taken but that’s because I don’t have much patience for people that hem and haw their lives away until it’s too late to act. I believe that because little dick aka trump has pushed the envelope too close to the edge that you may indeed get MILLIONS to stand up at your next protest. Many countries in Europe are demonstrating. Even the Germans, which has got to piss off the clockwork orange no end! Check out the giant effigies they made out of paper and glue! They are amazing. There’s many of them showing little dick in compromising positions lol. They even show his little dick trying to fuck lady liberty. The paper clips show that the old methods can still work to get like minded people to show their allegiance toward each other.
This is such a great post this morning. Extremely helpful!
Reports from Minneapolis also describe undercover ICE agents posing as workers, delivery drivers or even resistance members. Unmarked vehicles is one thing, posing as someone other than an agent is another. Why isn’t that prohibited?
I am guessing it is because they are planted in the crowd to act as crowd inflaming/inciting agitators.
For almost 20 years now, when ever I have gone to a large protest in San Francisco, when it was around a cause in opposition to a federal stance, action, or issue, these young guys all dressed in black would show up. They would always start some kind of trouble.
Eventually we learned, we would be marching in the street and someone would say, "oh, here they come again" and fairly quickly seemingly out of no where there would be this swarm of young guys who seemed hell bent on causing trouble. Because many protests happen downtown in San Francisco, what these guys tended to do was break the large plate glass windows that are the street level fronts of most buildings on Market Street. It always seemed to me to be a reason given to the police, should they want to rough up protesters.
I once left a protest early because that action was too close to where I happened to be. I went down a side street and a few moments later one of the guys I had seen breaking a window, came down the same side street passing me while stuffing his black hoodie and ball cap into his backpack and laughing saying, "idiots."
Does this mean it was not some random group of young men taking advantage of the opportunity of a large crowd to get up to mischief? No. However, there has been a pattern of activity and what appears to be coordinated effort around certain types of issues with a long duration and alway a stealthy group of young men who suddenly appear, dressed in black bent on disrupting the peacefulness of the protest.
The caption regarding judicial and administrative warrants needs fixing. Judicial warrants are labeled as “not acceptable”. Administrative warrants are labeled as “must be signed by a judge”
A good follow up to this is how to find local ICE alert lines for your local communities. I've added the numbers as contacts in my phone by community so I can find and text quickly no matter where I am in the state.
This could be the Mother of All Spending Strikes. The government shutdown is an opportunity to hold His Royal Heinous accountable and stop his atrocities, and the fascist takeover of the country. We, the People cannot easily withhold our tax dollars from HRH, but the Dems in the Senate have that opportunity. Do not fund the government until His Royal Heinous is brought to heel.
A U.S. president cannot spend money without an appropriation from Congress, which holds the "power of the purse".
Direct spending is prohibited.
Constitutional power: The Constitution's Appropriations Clause states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
The Dems in the Senate must have a list of demands under which they would vote to keep the government running. Such as, the Congress sets tariffs, ICE only goes after violent convicted felons, no one is deported to a third party country, and so forth. And that willingness to fund the government would be on a week to week basis, to prevent HRH from going back on his commitment.
If congress refuses to authorize appropriations, HRH will not have money to operate his corrupt, inept, sadistic government. A chance for the Dems to prove they’re not the feckless cowards they’ve been up until now.
Everyone—download the 5 Calls app and use it today. It takes minutes to make your voice heard. Enter your city and the app instantly connects you to your senators and representative, with quick scripts on key issues. Voicemail or live person—it’s fast and effective. I’ve already called to demand an end to further ICE funding and to call for the impeachment of Trump and Noem. This is how democracy works. We the People have power—let’s use it! 🇺🇸✊💙
We've seen this before. It has a name and its name is Tyranny. Blue lives = Redcoats. Tumultuously to arms my fellow Americans! We've come full circle in America. Domestic enemies, liars, thieves, & murderers have no integrity, credibility, or honor. They are the domestic enemies our Founders warned us about. When a government of the People, for the People, and by the People turns against the People, it's name is Tyranny. We the People have a duty & an obligation to exercise our Rights & Liberty to overthrow those traitors, & abolish their treason by any means necessary. Revolution is the solution.
We're free people. Protect and defend America, the Constitution, We the People, & Liberty itself by any means necessary.
As you said, it's all about recognizing patterns, yes they may be subtle, but they are there. Look for vehicles that are trying to hard to blend in. and the little convoys of ice ride each other's bumpers so as to overwhelm their target
Yesterday, I drove past a Taco truck in Raleigh, NC. It struck me that if ICE returns, places like that could be easy targets. I started to wonder why we confront ICE directly when we might help more by moving a little farther away and warning our Latino neighbors if ICE is nearby. If you want to sound the alarm, maybe do it near a Hispanic grocery store instead of right in front of ICE agents. Just something to consider
Someone posted a similar thing recently clothing and infiltrating gatherings of protesters and witnesses.
In the murder of Pretti, I noticed what appeared to be an unusually dressed “agent” in a mint to green hoodie(?) and just after that the note about infiltration by agents into civilian groups.
I'm in the UK and can hardly believe you are sending out warnings of your governments intention to arrest and detain you in concentration camps because you aren't or in some cases are a citizen. People you have to stand up to this. If you need to protest make it Millions not thousands and choose the White house! They can't kill millions!
You're right! I'm in MN, and it's horrible what's happening here. :(
They have stated a goal of "deporting" 100,000,000 and I don't think they are joking. That's not not really doable, there are not enough places to send them, so where do you think they will go? The problem is that they can, ad do kill millions; they just haven't done it on this continent for a while. They have done what in my opinion were two planned and staged for maximum effect executions and then started asking "haven't you learned yet?" Time to hold still, stop thinking, but not for too long, and then really think.
Stephen Miller, aka Reich Commander Nazi Nosferatu,aka the one running the country, has stated there are too many people in this country (i.e. too many "non-whites") and his ideal is to limit the US to 100,000,000. All whire, of course.
Has his wife had her Ancestry.com DNA done yet, because pretty sure there's gonna be some surprises.
"...and the gray pantaloon duck white gooseneck quacked 'webcor, webcor'"
-Don ('Captain Beefheart" Van Vliet
Thank you. Yes too many Americans are ignorant.
Americans, sadly, believe they have the luxury of burying their heads in the sand, being willingly uninformed and thinking they can sit this one out. I even recently had someone say to me 'oh, I really don't do politics.'. One way or another these folks will wake up too.
One of my close friends says that often. I am flabbergasted.
I heard that some people don't know what's going on in their own country. This amazes me. How can they not know? Also if they do know why aren't they doing anything about until ICE lands in their neighbourhood. I hear also that the communities that are impacted at this moment like Minnesota and Minneapolis are organising in every way possible. They are making patrols of neighbourhoods to look out for ICE presence. They are blowing their whistles and helping children get to school safely. They are doing grocery shopping for people that daren't leave their homes! It sounds so much like how the Nazis frightened the population during the rise of Hitler. I can't understand that someone can still profess not to know! Do they think that they will be safe? Fascists as is proved come after everybody. P2025 want's to get rid of all black and brown people regardless if they voted for them. ICE knows about the organising against them because they are now trying to say that owning a whistle is illegal, that taking videos on their phones are illegal! Little dick is dying which means that Vance will be up next. He's not influenced by money as much. He's a Peter Thiel convert. With Miller and Vaught essentially running the White House you have reached point of no return. Yet everybody is angry but still going on with their day as if it'll just blow over. Waiting for the day to vote it all away! History shows that when Hitler rose to power the people thought they won't pick on me. Until they did. They unleashed hell on people. They dragged them out of their homes, men women and children and shot them in the street to discourage opposition. I'm scared for Americans that choose to remain ignorant until it's too damn late to act. All communities should be setting up protections. There are more of you than there are of them. Also you guys have more arms per capita than any country in the world. Don't believe you are helpless. That's what they are relying on. That's why they are ramping up the pressure. They don't intend to leave even if they are voted out. Stop lying on that tick in the box to save you. Sorry for ranting but I'm so angry that Americans became so soft that to them this only happens in movies or in crime gangs.
Many of us are equally angry. 🙏
I know that but that anger has to be focused and strategic because these are dangerous times for America. Seek out those who are organised and fighting for the common good. Together you are a POWERHOUSE!
Yes. I am in full agreement with everything you have said and there is action and organization that might not be surface apparent. We still need to do more. A majority of Americans see, or are starting to see that we are on a dangerous road. We cannot rely on getting to the ballot box because either elections will be derailed or subverted. We understand, at the very least, that this will get worse before any sanity returns. We are not naive enough to think this will magically return to 'normal' That ship has sailed I have been warning about this online since 2015 on a different platform until I was permanently suspended. Sadly, many Americans are conditioned to believe that by default, a President acts in our best interests and is truthful, as is printed or broadcast "news" (quotation marks are deliberate). I can see that all of our former allies, who have been gravely insulted and disrespected will reorganize and carry on with life (as they should). The fallout here will be for generations Project 2026 is now in play also with a litany of poison that will further remove American women's rights. It is grave but we fight to keep hope alive and live with courage.
His supporters like to believe that this beam of retribution will never be focused on them but the policy is to assault and detain and ask questions later.
Thank you for your long and thoughtful reply. 🙏
Thank you Florence for taking the time to update me. I apologise for assuming that nothing is being done to counter little dick in as you say P2026. Hopefully this is all just a bad dream by the time 2027 arrives. I'm not a religious person but I do have "faith" that as time goes on people will become more aware of the danger they are in. As you say things will not return to normal as this is a wake-up call that everything you thought about Americans invincibility is now not as it seems. The racism, which is how little dick got elected has to be the first big conversation to be had. Remember Hitler raised an army by lying about German Jews and then incited his base to violence against them. If this racism is allowed to continue then there will always be another "messiah" waiting in the wings with a story of retribution against "other." Little dicks base wanted someone to blame for their lot in life. Unfortunately they found it when little dick started on his campaign of slurs against black and brown people in the country. Returning to "normal" is not an option. America has to cast off the stain in their lives and it can only be done by holding meaningful conversations about it. Also bringing with it real penalties for crimes against minorities. They have lived under this threat for so long. Even though they better themselves and work hard they are never given a chance to "belong" in this society of immigrants. All American citizens are immigrants, even the white ones!
Vance is not only a Theil.convert, but is also influenced. Throw enough money at his morally compromised, zero moral convictions, posturinng preformative Catholicism and he'll do anyone's bidding. Look how quicklu he changed from being right about Drumpf to being his cheerleader.
He's not the only one that switched sides. What I don't understand is that he has two brown children and another on the way and yet he supports this stupid dickhead! There are no morals within little dick's cabinet, they all sold out.
Protests aren't going to work and though we may have "rights" this regime doesn't care. They do whatever they want. They are currently building a database of people who disagree with them. Blue states have to close the bank and stop paying federal taxes, merge economies and make it fanancially difficult for them to afford all the illegal shit they are doing to this country.
The greatest benefit of protests is to make a public statement, to put pressure on state and local leaders and government and I believe, most of all to create solidarity and reinforce for people that they aren't 'crazy' for feeling a deep sense of alarm, and most importantly THAT WE ARE NOT ALONE. It supports the energy of resistance and is an antidote to being home alone feeling despondent.
Does this regime care? Of course not. But it niggles at them, it shows the world we are not accepting this criminal mess and hopefully in some cases the local pressure travels upward (or downward as the case may be.
I agree you're right this regime is beyond listening to anyone. Money is all they care about.
The dems are getting their pockets filled as well.
I don’t doubt it. I will never fully trust a politician. They have to do what the say and set a deadline to accomplish that. If not bye-bye. It’s cynical but unfortunately that’s our lovely yet fucked up world.
I agree that in and of themselves, peaceful protests will not "work" in that they are not by themselves adequate to solve the problem. Aggressively violent actions are worse, and historically, (thinking of WWII) the ones that made the most impact were done by people who knew they were, for the most part going to die anyway.
Protests however, bring awareness, and the power of singing in unison to minor pentatonic scales is not to be underestimated. The awareness (I would like to believe) would bring an eventual willingness to participate in more direct thought still non-violent actions, using control of what people in some cases still have, things like employment, cash, credit and tech skills. The withholding of both labor and capital can have an impact especially if targeted.
Also historically, effective non-violent action is often met with ruling-class violence which in fact it is already happening. The use of indoctrinated proxies with covert state/corporate backing does no make it any less, the actions of those in control. The choices individuals will have to make about their beliefs, the risk they are willing to take, and their basic, not governmentally granted but existential rights, such as the right to defend ones own life, and those around you, is an area best left up to each person, even if discussed in group settings. Yes the rest of the world is looking on in horror and wondering, why we are letting it happen. Again I flash back to one night in my past and the advice "You playing defense now homie, gotta be a little slicker than that." (I know I've use this one before it just seems relevant)
Peace, Dharma, Good Omens, "Smash the Control Machine"
“This won’t happen to me. They will only go after those other people*.” Too many people in the United States do not understand our own history. Our government locked up thousands of our own Japanese-descended citizens during World War 2 under Executive Order 9066 in ten primary camps located across seven states, plus dozens of Department of Justice and Army facilities used to hold community leaders and non-citizens, including sites in Texas, New Mexico, and Montana.
I wish Americans and Israelis could understand that trump and Netanyahu isn’t copying the Nazis, the Nazis and Israelis copied the Americans!
Indeed. The National Socialist Party directly took from the United States history of racial and religious oppression to further their agenda, but the bones of that was already present throughout Europe as well. Laws against minority groups and migration had been written by Emoress Marie-Therese in the Austri-Hungarian Empire. Those were primarily directed at the Roma people, forcing them to take standard “approved “ names and settle (or as some families called it “nailing our feet to the ground”). And prejudice against both the Roma and the Jewish communities… well. By the time we get to 1938 the camps were in full force. What the US (and much of Europe) is experiencing is comparable to about 1936. It’s an ugly pattern to see repeated.
I agree with all you say Ashleigh but the rest of the world has changed to some extent and we aren’t all so prejudiced anymore. Except of course for America. It’s racism is what has enveloped them for two and a half centuries and they won’t or can’t seem to let it go. They don’t even want to have a conversation about it! Therein lies the problem. Like little dick’s way of behaving, ‘don’t look over there, look over here.’ He’s just the latest leader who’s behaved this way that’s also why they have all come out of the woodwork because he gives them permission to act and talk that way openly. When he’s dead and gone they’ll go silent awaiting a new “messiah” to lead them once again.
We may be looking through different lenses.
I don’t agree that “the rest of the world has changed” in any permanent sense. Prejudice does not evaporate because we declare ourselves more enlightened. It reorganizes. It moves through policy instead of slogans. It enters through coalitions, through administrative language, through appeals to order and security.
If we’re looking at Europe between roughly 2019 and 2025, this isn’t just routine electoral turnover. There has been a measurable rightward shift. Not identical everywhere — but real.
Italy is the clearest example. In 2022, Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy didn’t simply gain ground; they formed a government. That was Italy’s sharpest rightward turn in decades. Hungary’s trajectory is longer — Orbán has been consolidating nationalist power since 2010 — but his 2022 re-election confirmed that it wasn’t temporary. It was entrenched.
By 2024, six EU countries — Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and the Czech Republic — had hard-right parties in government. Sweden, long proud of its cordon sanitaire, crossed a meaningful line in 2022 when its center-right coalition became dependent on the Sweden Democrats. That normalization matters.
Even where these parties haven’t taken full control, the gains are significant. Portugal’s Chega breaking 20%. Germany’s AfD posting record results and reshaping debate. Poland’s national-conservative bloc maintaining influence. Romania’s AUR gaining momentum. Similar breakthroughs noted in Belgium, Austria, France, and the UK.
This is not uniquely American.
As for Trump — he is not an alien insertion (despite my wishes that the space police would come and take him back to his hoome planet!) into American history. He is part of a long continuum. Every period of retrenchment in the United States has had figures who make explicit what was already present. He did not invent grievance politics. He amplified it. Leaders can give permission, certainly — but they draw from something that already exists.
The danger isn’t that one man exists. The danger is assuming that once he exits the stage, the underlying pattern dissolves. It doesn’t. Patterns dissolve only when societies confront them honestly — and that is difficult work everywhere.
You can see how differently that confrontation plays out in other arenas. The very public trial of Dominique Pelicot in France forced sustained national attention on systemic abuse and complicity. It was uncomfortable, procedural, visible.
Contrast that with the handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s network in the United States — staggered document releases, intense politicization, and a public still divided over whether the full structure has been examined. The fragmentation itself becomes part of the pattern.
And then there is the UK’s response to The Mountbatten-Windsor formerly known as Prince and his documented associations. A civil settlement was reached. He was stripped of his military affiliations, royal patronages, and public role by the King, his brother. The institution acted to distance itself. Yet the monarchy as a structure endured.
Different countries. Different subject matter. The same structural question: when powerful networks are exposed, does the system meaningfully interrogate itself, or does it contain the damage and preserve continuity?
Kyriarchies rarely collapse because one figure falls. They adapt. They redistribute power. They survive unless there is sustained structural change.
Santayana warned that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Hegel observed that what we learn from history is that we do not learn from history. Neither statement was country-specific.
History does not turn on personalities alone. It turns on whether institutions are willing to examine the scaffolding that held those personalities up in the first place.
I couldn't agree with you more too many people don't get it
They will one day and wished they'd paid better attention. I'm fearful that America is sliding into authoritarianism too quickly to fight it off if the fight is not already happening in big numbers. Maybe the Epstein situation will open peoples eyes before it's too late. At least that's something they all do a agree on even if they thought it was JUST the dems who would be going to jail. I don't care what politics these perpetrators follow because this is a crime that knows no affiliation.
And how many of them will ay "I was just following orders" ?
All of them! Except the one who GAVE the orders! they disappear to Argentina or somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty.
Oh, good. You got the reference. :)
Natch!
Well, if you have been paying attention we are doing something.
Got it! I'm in the UK so I can only read and what I'm hearing is surprising. Some people are doing great things but the majority aren't. This strikes me as being either too busy. or too "I'm not involved" or just plain thinking it will all sort itself out in the wash. That option is suicide for democracy because the democratic system of government has to be fought for every day. A dictatorship like little dick aka trump want's is the final word. If you try to fight back then it will fail because you'll be dead. Like Navalny!
Well, the majority is doing something. It's difficult to get the word out when the plutocrats control the flow of information, and attempt to make it difficult to express our dissatisfaction. The American capitalistic system makes it difficult. Workers simply don't have the same protections elsewhere.
If only 3% had joined that No Kings protest I might believe you because that would be at least one million. Yet only thousands turned out which was diappointing! The capitalist system isn't to blame it's the people you vote into office over and over again even though they do nothing for you. In the 50's you could manage on one wage earner now you can't make ends meet with two! That's the issue. So elect politicians on what they'll do to improve your life and if they don't deliver kick them to the curb. You've got people in Congress and the Senate that have done eff-all for 30 and 40 years but you keep voting for them or don't vote at all which means they win by default because only their personal supporters vote because they get what they want.
Thank you for your insight UK 🇬🇧 our God daughter resides there!! We are fighting every single day and in the streets protesting and asking the same question. Where are the millions. We started the Paperclip Resistance Movement the day after the elections and now millions are wearing paperclips as a symbol of resistance and we’re hoping to have them in the streets if DC
www.thepaperclipresistance.com
Join us📎🙏Many have from around the world!
I have a feeling that people are taking this much more seriously. Those that showed up for the no kings protests were already aware but the general population were still in the dark. Christ knows how? Since the killings started they’ve become more able to see where this regime is headed. I know I get angry at how long it’s taken but that’s because I don’t have much patience for people that hem and haw their lives away until it’s too late to act. I believe that because little dick aka trump has pushed the envelope too close to the edge that you may indeed get MILLIONS to stand up at your next protest. Many countries in Europe are demonstrating. Even the Germans, which has got to piss off the clockwork orange no end! Check out the giant effigies they made out of paper and glue! They are amazing. There’s many of them showing little dick in compromising positions lol. They even show his little dick trying to fuck lady liberty. The paper clips show that the old methods can still work to get like minded people to show their allegiance toward each other.
Please double check the caption under the image of warrants. It is confusing!
Thank you! We removed the caption :)
Exactly same. Your images for warrants appear reversed. Thanks Joan for sharing my observation.
I was about to post the same!
Good reading, Joan!
This is such a great post this morning. Extremely helpful!
Reports from Minneapolis also describe undercover ICE agents posing as workers, delivery drivers or even resistance members. Unmarked vehicles is one thing, posing as someone other than an agent is another. Why isn’t that prohibited?
https://substack.com/@adamzarnowski/note/c-204959021?r=2leu0e&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Yes! And why aren't they being arrested?!
I am guessing it is because they are planted in the crowd to act as crowd inflaming/inciting agitators.
For almost 20 years now, when ever I have gone to a large protest in San Francisco, when it was around a cause in opposition to a federal stance, action, or issue, these young guys all dressed in black would show up. They would always start some kind of trouble.
Eventually we learned, we would be marching in the street and someone would say, "oh, here they come again" and fairly quickly seemingly out of no where there would be this swarm of young guys who seemed hell bent on causing trouble. Because many protests happen downtown in San Francisco, what these guys tended to do was break the large plate glass windows that are the street level fronts of most buildings on Market Street. It always seemed to me to be a reason given to the police, should they want to rough up protesters.
I once left a protest early because that action was too close to where I happened to be. I went down a side street and a few moments later one of the guys I had seen breaking a window, came down the same side street passing me while stuffing his black hoodie and ball cap into his backpack and laughing saying, "idiots."
Does this mean it was not some random group of young men taking advantage of the opportunity of a large crowd to get up to mischief? No. However, there has been a pattern of activity and what appears to be coordinated effort around certain types of issues with a long duration and alway a stealthy group of young men who suddenly appear, dressed in black bent on disrupting the peacefulness of the protest.
The caption regarding judicial and administrative warrants needs fixing. Judicial warrants are labeled as “not acceptable”. Administrative warrants are labeled as “must be signed by a judge”
A good follow up to this is how to find local ICE alert lines for your local communities. I've added the numbers as contacts in my phone by community so I can find and text quickly no matter where I am in the state.
Bring His Royal Heinous to Heel
This could be the Mother of All Spending Strikes. The government shutdown is an opportunity to hold His Royal Heinous accountable and stop his atrocities, and the fascist takeover of the country. We, the People cannot easily withhold our tax dollars from HRH, but the Dems in the Senate have that opportunity. Do not fund the government until His Royal Heinous is brought to heel.
A U.S. president cannot spend money without an appropriation from Congress, which holds the "power of the purse".
Direct spending is prohibited.
Constitutional power: The Constitution's Appropriations Clause states, "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law".
The Dems in the Senate must have a list of demands under which they would vote to keep the government running. Such as, the Congress sets tariffs, ICE only goes after violent convicted felons, no one is deported to a third party country, and so forth. And that willingness to fund the government would be on a week to week basis, to prevent HRH from going back on his commitment.
If congress refuses to authorize appropriations, HRH will not have money to operate his corrupt, inept, sadistic government. A chance for the Dems to prove they’re not the feckless cowards they’ve been up until now.
Everyone—download the 5 Calls app and use it today. It takes minutes to make your voice heard. Enter your city and the app instantly connects you to your senators and representative, with quick scripts on key issues. Voicemail or live person—it’s fast and effective. I’ve already called to demand an end to further ICE funding and to call for the impeachment of Trump and Noem. This is how democracy works. We the People have power—let’s use it! 🇺🇸✊💙
So literally, Trump’s secret police.
We've seen this before. It has a name and its name is Tyranny. Blue lives = Redcoats. Tumultuously to arms my fellow Americans! We've come full circle in America. Domestic enemies, liars, thieves, & murderers have no integrity, credibility, or honor. They are the domestic enemies our Founders warned us about. When a government of the People, for the People, and by the People turns against the People, it's name is Tyranny. We the People have a duty & an obligation to exercise our Rights & Liberty to overthrow those traitors, & abolish their treason by any means necessary. Revolution is the solution.
We're free people. Protect and defend America, the Constitution, We the People, & Liberty itself by any means necessary.
Thank you as always @The 50501 Movement
Was able to channel some positivity today. Some thoughts on how we take the wins where we can. And learn from them. ⬇️
https://mdavis19881.substack.com/p/taco-trump-ii-he-caves-in-europe
Do not call this a “Democratic-forced shutdown.”
This is 100% a Republican shutdown.
Republicans are the ones insisting on pushing additional Homeland ICE funding with no accountability or protections for Americans.
If the government closes, it will be because Republicans chose ICE money over keeping the government open — just like the last shutdown they owned.
This is a Republican Shutdown. Period.
will no longer buy these brands, i will not support they who support nazi thugs
As you said, it's all about recognizing patterns, yes they may be subtle, but they are there. Look for vehicles that are trying to hard to blend in. and the little convoys of ice ride each other's bumpers so as to overwhelm their target
Yesterday, I drove past a Taco truck in Raleigh, NC. It struck me that if ICE returns, places like that could be easy targets. I started to wonder why we confront ICE directly when we might help more by moving a little farther away and warning our Latino neighbors if ICE is nearby. If you want to sound the alarm, maybe do it near a Hispanic grocery store instead of right in front of ICE agents. Just something to consider
one commonality betw the vehicles pictured: ALL AMERICAN MODELS. is this a thing? (oh except for FBI Director's BMWs?! grrr)
Someone posted a similar thing recently clothing and infiltrating gatherings of protesters and witnesses.
In the murder of Pretti, I noticed what appeared to be an unusually dressed “agent” in a mint to green hoodie(?) and just after that the note about infiltration by agents into civilian groups.
These mother fucking demonic monsters .