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Matt • he/him • bicyclist socialist former chef union actor • working w @DETWILLBREATHE, for @DetroitRep • views mine, free Palestine 🇵🇸

Silly to call every crazy thing that happens staged…it’s all staged…by material conditions & class dynamics. No secret conspiracy just rising political violence. Of course he’ll use it to do terrible things, doesn’t mean he planned it, please don’t give these people that kind of credit.

Businesses and institutions are still declaring for the strike this Friday, even though there’s been a partial and limited victory against Trump’s ICE terror with the demotion of Bovino and the withdrawal of some ICE thugs from MN. No time to let up, let’s keep going!!! ❤️⛓️‍💥💪

Let’s be crystal clear: the MN National Guard is currently being used against Minnesotans to help MPD, Sheriffs, and Minnesota State Patrol protect Bovino and his ICE thugs. Jacob Frey and Tim Walz are helping the federal government murder Minnesotans in the streets and get away with it.

Posting that the MN guard will counter ICE is dangerous misinformation: on the one hand, this places protesters in danger of violence from people they falsely believe are there to help; on the other hand and maybe more significantly this myth is pacifying and diffusing dissent when it’s needed most.

Countries w successful general strikes have v high levels of union membership and unions form the organizational & class basis of the strike. We need to unionize new shops and industries and agitate toward more militant class struggle politics within the unions. This is how we get to general strike.

Everyone is short on time this time of year. As you drive around this holiday season please remember that ppl on bicycles are humans. We’re not trying to be in your way or slow you down. Chill and give us a little extra room when you see us. It’s scary out here. Show us some love. Happy holidays.

The horrors of socialism are all too real: • late night meetings • Friday morning reading groups • sectarian infighting • 1,000 daily signal notifications • correctly interrogating systems of power to reveal class dynamics under capitalism as root cause of suffering in modern society • folding zines

The very same week Dana Nessel made a media splash with her sternly worded letter criticizing Trump’s use of masked agents who refuse to identify themselves … she sent masked agents who refused to identify themselves to the homes of U-M pro-Palestinian student activists.

NYT puzzles are the circus they use to keep you eating their moldy bread. I know a lot of you who are smarter than to keep reading it. Give up Wordle. There’s other apps or go buy a puzzle book. You’ll be fine and you’ll stop being dosed w transphobia, nationalism, militarism, and NGO corporatism.