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Millennial left: through years of grinding institution-building we have revived MILD SOCIAL DEMOCRACY… from "unthinkable" to "doomed"

Millennial right: yeah we kind of shitposted herrenvolk democracy into power and if that doesn't work we've got fascism, feudalism, and monasticism on standby

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We need to reappropriate anime and run it so far into the ground that 4chan and reddit think its uncool and stop putting trump hats on anime girls

she’s already the anarchist colors it’s perfect

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Earlier this month, Beltran-Hernandez, 26, began complaining about severe headaches, nosebleeds and memory loss. Last week, she collapsed and was subsequently taken to a hospital. Doctors diagnosed her with a brain tumor and determined that she needed surgery.

But Zuniga told The News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents forcibly removed Beltran-Hernandez from the Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth on Wednesday evening.

“They had her tied up from hands and ankles,” Zuniga said. “She was brought in a wheelchair and is not being given treatment even though her nose continues to bleed and she has told them her head is exploding.”

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“Witches: We Need You!”

Found this out in Los Angeles.

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A hammer pounds away in the living room of a middle class home. A sanding machine smoothes the grain of the wood floor in the dining room.

But this home Pastor Ada Valiente is showing off in Los Angeles, with its refurbished floors, is no ordinary home.

“It would be three families we host here,” Valiente says.

By “host,” she means provide refuge to people who may be sought by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE. The families staying here would be undocumented immigrants, fearing an ICE raid and possible deportation.

The purchase of this home is part of a network formed by Los Angeles religious leaders across faiths in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. The intent is to shelter hundreds, possibly thousands of undocumented people in safe houses across Southern California.

The goal is to offer another sanctuary beyond religious buildings or schools, ones that require federal authorities to obtain warrants before entering the homes.

“That’s what we need to do as a community to keep families together,” Valiente says.

At another Los Angeles neighborhood miles away, a Jewish man shows off a sparsely decorated spare bedroom in his home. White sheets on the bed and the clean, adjacent full bathroom bear all the markers of an impending visit. The man, who asked not to be identified, pictures an undocumented woman and her children who may find refuge in his home someday.

The man says he’s never been in trouble before and has difficulty picturing that moment. But he’s well educated and understands the Fourth Amendment, which gives people the right to be secure in their homes, against unreasonable searches and seizures. He’s pictured the moment if ICE were to knock on his door.

“I definitely won’t let them in. That’s our legal right,” he says. “If they have a warrant, then they can come in. I can imagine that could be scary, but I feel the consequences of being passive in this moment is a little scary.”

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Found this gem while casually strolling around town

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People don’t become fascists because they find their ideas persuasive; they become fascists for the same reason others become police officers or politicians: to wield power over other people. It’s up to us to show that fascist organizing will not enable them to obtain this power, but will only result in public humiliation. That is the only way to cut off their source of potential recruits.

This Is Not a Dialogue   Not just free speech, but freedom itself (via argyrocratie)

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Persepolis (2007), written by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud

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Hey, if y’all are at a protest, please ask for permission before you snap photos of folks. A lot of us who go to these are in danger by virtue of our very existence and appearance, and y’all know Black folks are especially vulnerable given how police treat us at our own protests. If and when this fascist regime decides they wanna start targeting people, no one wants to find out they were tracked down because you wanted to spice up your Facebook or Instagram portfolio with revolutionary photos, alright? Like I’m not saying don’t document anything (but don’t document with your cell phone as those can be easily compromised), I’m just saying be mindful of other protestors out there who may not want their faces to be floating around in your corner of the internet without their permission.

A lot of employers, security clearance investigators, and possibly predatory types tend to use photos like this to further their investigations. You never know who might be in the groups watching and documenting for nefarious reasons so respect other folks’ privacy.

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“What is fascism?” – Novara Media

Know thy enemy

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Just saying.

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One of the first things Donald Trump did when he took office was temporarily gag several federal agencies, forbidding them from tweeting.

In response, self-described government workers created a wave of rogue Twitter accounts that share real facts (not to be confused with “alternative facts,” otherwise known as “lies”) about climate change and science. As a rule, the people running these accounts chose to remain anonymous, fearing retaliation — but, depending on how they created and use their accounts, they are not necessarily anonymous to Twitter itself, or to anyone Twitter shares data with.

Anonymous speech is firmly protected by the First Amendment and the Supreme Court, and its history in the U.S. dates to the Federalist Papers, written in 1787 and 1788 under the pseudonym Publius by three of the founding fathers.

But the technical ability for people to remain anonymous on today’s internet, where every scrap of data is meticulously tracked, is an entirely different issue. The FBI, a domestic intelligence agency that claims the power to spy on anyone based on suspicions that don’t come close to probable cause, has a long, dark history of violating the rights of Americans. And now it reports directly to President Trump, who is a petty, revenge-obsessed authoritarian with utter disrespect for the courts and the rule of law.

In this environment, how easy is it to create and maintain a Twitter account while preserving your anonymity — even from Twitter and any law enforcement agency that may request its records? I tried to find out, and documented all my steps. There are different ways to accomplish this. If you plan on following these steps you should make sure you understand the purpose of them, in case you need to improvise. I also can’t guarantee that these techniques will protect your anonymity — there are countless ways that things can go wrong, many of them social rather than technical. But I hope you’ll at least have a fighting chance at keeping your real identity private.

1. Define your threat model

2. Hide your IP with TOR (VPN providers still know who you are, which is impossible for TOR nodes)

3. Get an anonymous email address

4. Get an anonymous phone number

5. Create an anonymous twitter account

6. Maintaining the Twitter account over time

For an anonymous Tumblr the idea is the same, but you do not need to get an anonymous phone number and you could use a 10 minute email address (activated on tor!).

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can someone tell me how to organize action when i cant even make friends with an opinion

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[G]etting organized doesn’t mean joining a pre-existing institution and taking orders. It shouldn’t mean forfeiting your agency and intelligence to become a cog in a machine. From an anarchist perspective, organizational structure should maximize both freedom and voluntary coordination at every level of scale, from the smallest group up to society as a whole.

How to Form an Affinity Group: The Essential Building Block of Anarchist Organization (via transkafka)

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a syrian refugee girl swings the antifa-action-flag, 25.09. franfurt am main

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Just saying, man.