Remember way back in 2015, there was an exercise called Jade Helm 15, and the far right was convinced Obama was turning empty Walmarts into secret detention camps?
Maps, Facebook posts, panic about military takeovers. An ordinary special operations training exercise became a full-blown conspiracy. Nothing happened. No camps. No mass detentions. A big nothing-burger and we sane people knew nothing would happen.
Now, less than a decade later, actual billions are being spent on warehouse-style facilities for potential mass detention tied to "immigration enforcement."
And the same kooky people who once screamed about imaginary camps are either silent or cheering.
So when it was a made-up fear under a Democratic president, it was "tyranny."
When it’s a real policy under Trump, it’s suddenly “law and order.” It turns out the panic was never about government overreach. It was about who they wanted to be in charge of it.
They told us Democrats would turn America into a show-your-papers society.
They told us Democrats would strip away the Second Amendment.
They told us Democrats would jail us for what we say.
They told us Democrats would drag us into more foreign wars.
They told us Democrats would cover up a child sex trafficking ring.
And then Republicans took power and decided to do all of it themselves.
everywhere around you, things are deteriorating in real time & most people are sleepwalking through it all- worried about the cracker barrel logo change as the trump admin is kneedeep in the waters of fascism. holocaust in gaza. kidnappings by ice. domestic military occupation.
Will Eric Adams be remembered for being unbelievably corrupt? Yes. Will he be remembered for being extremely odd and saying odd shit? Yes. Will he also be remembered for hurting the homeless, hurting our schools, hurting our libraries, hurting Black and brown New Yorkers? Yes.
The House just passed an $895B Pentagon budget—yet 1 in 6 American kids are food insecure
Tesla board approved a $56B payout for EIon—yet just laid off 10,000 workers
Exxon made $28.5B profit—yet paid a 2.5% tax rate
This is what class warfare against working people looks like
You watched "The Hunger Games" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "Star Wars" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "The Matrix" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "Divergent" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "V for Vendetta" and sided with the resistance.
When it's fiction you understand. Yet you refuse to see it when it's the reality you're living in.
Wild.
This was intentional. You don't accidentally kill massive amounts of children and their families over and over again and get to say, "It was a mistake."
Genocidal maniac Netanyahu told us he wants to ethically cleanse Palestinians. When are you going to believe him @POTUS?
Another reminder that Adams is a LIAR. A full-of-shit fascist. Never trust a word out of his cop mouth. The violent arrest of hundreds of student protestors he justified in real time by total lies. Fuck Eric Adams.
Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. Protesting the genocidal actions of Israel's government is not antisemitism. Advocating for a free Palestine is not antisemitism. Believing Palestinians have a right to live is not antisemitism. Put this in your Antisemitism Awareness Act.
Eric Adams is using his violent police force to terrorize peaceful protesters.
Joe Biden is funding and supporting Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
They are both Democrats. The war machine has two parties; the working class has none.
Today marks a historic occasion. By seizing control of Hamilton Hall, students at Columbia University have anchored in historical memory the nexus between the horrors inflicted in Vietnam that was the hallmark of my generation with the horrors inflicted in Gaza that is the hallmark of the new generation. It is testament to the majesty of these young people that they have risked their futures for the sake of a poor, powerless people halfway around the world in order to uphold that sacred principle that every life is worthy and the murder of none shall pass in silence. As Abraham Lincoln famously quoted, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." The right of the people of Gaza to live is an eternal truth. May the young soldiers in Hamilton Hall be honored and blessed for not countenancing, come what may, its extinguishment.
If you've noticed Israel apologist trolls swarming all over the Aaron Bushnell story, it's because they know how damaging a US airman self-immolating while screaming "Free Palestine" is to US and Israeli information interests, and they're scrambling to manipulate the narrative.
Thousands just marched on AIPAC HQ, led by the United Auto Workers, American Postal Workers Union and other unions
AIPAC donations at front signs:
Ritchie Torres $522K
Hakeem Jeffries $500K
Dan Goldman: $400K
Kirsten Gillibrand $143K
Chuck Schumer $102K