Our entire government is complicit in selling out our people at home to fund genocide abroad, yet folks still plan to vote for these irredeemable genocidal parties in 2026, 2028, and beyond instead of rising up and fighting for a better world. Americans have the worst case of Stockholm syndrome in history.
James Baldwin said it in 1965 and it has not aged a single day:
The reason Americans cannot face their history is that the history indicts their identity.
And you cannot ask someone to accept the evidence that destroys who they think they are.
White Americans, he said, need the Black American to remain inferior, because their own superiority is the only thing that makes sense of a country built on those terms.
The same structure applies outward.
Americans need the rest of the world to remain in need of American guidance, American intervention, American rescue.
Because without that story, what exactly was all the violence for?
The empire doesn't just extract resources.
It extracts meaning.
And the people who built their inner lives on that meaning will fight as hard to keep it as any general ever fought to keep territory.
Harder, maybe.
You can negotiate territory.
You cannot negotiate with someone's need to believe they are one of the good ones.
Holy shit!
Trump just admitted the US can’t take care of its people because it’s a military dictatorship:
“We can't take care of daycare. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, and Medicare. We have to take care of one thing: Military.”
No Kings proves the size of a protest is meaningless if there are no policy demands and direct threats to power. This was a parade to funnel people from the red capitalist party to the blue capitalist party to ensure the source of our problems, capitalism, remains unthreatened.
SHAME on every Republican who voted to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid with a so-called "Balanced Budget Amendment."
It did not pass — but now they are on the record.
You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.
17% of the world's freshwater. 1,500 species. More than 10 million people depend on it every day for drinking water, food, and survival.
Behind closed doors, the governments of the DRC 🇨🇩 and Tanzania 🇹🇿 quietly signed a deal to drill for oil in it. Lake Tanganyika is not just Africa's oldest and deepest lake; it is one of the most extraordinary and irreplaceable ecosystems on the planet, home to 600 species found nowhere else on Earth. It is being put on the table for fossil fuel extraction, with EACOP serving as the pipeline that would make it financially viable and physically possible.
What makes this moment different from so many other environmental crises is that nothing has started yet. No licenses have been awarded, no wells have been drilled, and the lake is still completely intact. This project can still be stopped before a single drop of oil leaves the ground.
But that window will not stay open forever. Governments are already moving, and oil companies are already watching.
Swipe through to understand exactly what is at stake, then click the link in our bio or story to take action and tell the DRC and Tanzania that Lake Tanganyika is not an oil field.
Credit: STOPEACOP