Goldfinch Gun Club

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

the regime considers all resistance violent resistance. you chanting while holding a sign and carefully remaining on the sidewalk is as worthy of the death penalty to them as someone throwing a Molotov.

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

In 2008 ICE arrested almost 18% of the population of Postville Iowa. Children reported nightmares about being disappeared after attending school after the raid, their classrooms missing up to three quarters of the students because their parents had either been arrested or feared arrest

/2 And people in authority who openly defy the rule of law and encourage contempt of it, who openly use it to help their friends and hinder their enemies, are not morally entitled to its protection, in any way.

Iowa used to be cool as hell.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

[NYT, 17-writer byline]

Zohran Mamdani Once Laughed at a Joke Mocking the Confederacy

According to leaked documents from an anonymous Stormfront contributor,

archive.is/Fsm80

Paywall bypass. Excellent article.

There’s always going to be enough Fettermans and Slotkins to prevent good things from happening in this system.

just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.

They found $10B more for cops and ICE though. They did worse than nothing.

Both police and Gavin Newsom with a straight face push conspiracy theories of "professional protesters" who "go from one unrest to the other," while hundreds of literal military troops are being shipped into a city to shoot weapons at working-class people standing up for their neighbors.

So where are your county's Regional Transportation Authority sales tax revenues going? It was a mixed bag in 2023. Lake received about $41.2 million and McHenry $14 million from the sales tax. Both counties funneled 100% into transportation. DuPage's RTA tax share was $67.9 million and officials dedicated just 2.9%, or $2 million, to transportation in fiscal year 2023. The remainder went to fund public safety.

RTA sales tax money helps pay for services including transportation and the sheriff's office in DuPage, Conroy said. "They would take that money away and we would never see it again - $72 million (for DuPage). We would have massive layoffs."

DuPage County Chair Deb Conroy, however, told the Daily Herald she felt "blindsided."" "They're basically stealing $185 million from the Collar Counties to pay for this, she said.

Lmao someone on Reddit brought to my attention that DuPage county took all their sales tax revenue intended for transportation and spent it on cops and now they’re panicking because the updated usage requirements in the new bill are going to defund their sheriff’s department.

You don’t need to prove to strangers on the internet that you have correct politics. And the people demanding you prove it might be Feds trying to get you to say something that you will regret saying later.

Hey, they’re your words defending one of the worst people in the world.

Wanna explain to everyone how “class and decency” overlaps with genocide and letting fascists take power again?

Correct. It turns out if the guy you personally hired to save the country sucks at his job, you get a new guy.

Also, it turns out if you give unlimited weapons and diplomatic support to genocidaires, you’re also guilty.

Which part of dead kids in Gaza and Merrick Garland letting Republicans do whatever they wanted involved class and decency?

Stating the obvious here, but it's unambiguously good to dox anyone associated with ICE or CBP.

ICE dragged a mother from her home in Massachusetts—clinging to her baby—without showing a warrant or ID.

When neighbors demanded proof, ICE sneered, “We don’t have to show you anything.”

That’s not law enforcement. That’s state-sponsored kidnapping.
This is fascism & it’s terrifying.

You fucking love to see it, folks.

no more consent decrees, no more reforms, defund defund defund

the fundamental failure of liberals to understand what guns mean. what police are. what you lose when you outsource your self defense to people who want you dead. if we die this will be what kills us.

it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown