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The Power of Bearing Witness.

"I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons." —@normcharlatan.bsky.social

"I’m an antifascist because fascism stands in direct opposition to that project and vision—and by extension I’m an anti-capitalist, because the structural and necessary shortcomings of capitalism are the fertile grounds of white grievance and resentment, the poisoned soil from which fascist movements, such as today’s MAGA, cyclically re-emerge."

bilk arrack-d'bibu
with a bold thwart grown portal
flapdragon unfailing

there are men remembered
for a single chessmove

"To put it another way, the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence."