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mprescod.bsky.social @mprescod.bsky.social · 16h

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Politico @politico.com · 20h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

That doesn't mean elderly people shouldn't show up. But they should show up in full knowledge of what might happen, and not assume that the cops will hold back or that the military won't back them up if the cops get violent.

cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

And I don't think we should naively assume that putting elderly white people in front of protests is going to stop police brutality these days. Our grandparents did that, but the cops adapted their indoctrination, and so Martin Gugino, 75, got brain damage.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of old civil rights strategies aren't functioning right now because the paradigm has changed, and people are getting hurt because they are fighting last century's civil rights battle. Like deliberately getting arrested to overflow jails? That ain't working anymore! The jails are bigger!

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

But the cops and ICE have already gassed each other in LA, and that didn't stop them from closing ranks to brutalize protesters. Nor has the National Guard shown a flicker of inclination to not follow orders so far, nor has the US military's conduct recently been ameliorated by the elderly overseas.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

I think the idea that the military won't obey orders to back up ICE+police violence in the breach is also absurd.

I don't think that means we shouldn't fight and I don't think that means we won't win. I think military violence like that would be very destabilizing for the Trump regime.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I'm the opposite of a defeatist about this stuff. I'm going to fight until I can't.

But I feel like a lot of people online are confusing not being unreasonably optimistic with defeatism. And I think the idea that ICE might lose the cooperation of local cops is absurdly optimistic.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 1d

The average protester has been doing expert-level escalation management and the average ICE officer is threatening to murder ambulance drivers.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Stories of failed arrests due to community response are inspiring. There's been great legal work to free people, too. But this stuff is mostly a brief flash of unmarked cars, and then somebody's gone. Over and over again. No matter how many people are eager to help and want better than this.

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

Only inflicting friction isn't enough, it'll take more than that to win.

But.

If you double the time ICE has to spend on each kidnapping, they're kidnapping half as many people. Even if you don't stop them a single time, it's about the times you didn't have to stop because they never happened.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

And more than anything else, you must be ready to lose in almost every actual interaction you may have with agents.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

The plan to send in unaccountable agents to kidnap your neighbors *might* have overplayed its hand when they've lost the people on the "I Saw A Person I Didn't Recognize In My Neighborhood And I Want The Cops To Come Take Them Away" social media app.

Super Nintendo Chalmers @snchalmers.bsky.social · 1d

It’s happening on Nextdoor too

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

Proof that public outcry can still be helpful, if temporarily. The money was rerouted to the National Center on Deafblindness, who will then distribute to the other programs. But it is only one year's worth, so keep an eye on it.

Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind.

But the money will flow a different way.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly Ender's Game is a pretty solid critique of war for the sake of war, in the absence of an understanding of what the war is supposed to accomplish.

cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

This is something I really respect about your military history takes. I've never seen you lose sight of the fact that there always needs to be a clear line between military action and outcomes, not even once.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 1d

There’s the joke about Sun Tzu being basic instructions for idiots like “feed your troops” but the most important part of Clausewitz is also just “think about what you are actually trying to accomplish”

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

What I love about our habit of confusing Means for Ways is that we also confuse Ways for Ends.

Innovation is entirely neutral.

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 2d

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 1d

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Wyoming is by an order of magnitude the US's largest coal producer (and produces more than the whole of the northern Appalachia and Midwest states *combined*).

Nearly all of that comes out of the Powder River Basin.

Coal is a dead industry.

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 1d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 1d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

Like how ICE doesn't need local Chicago cops handling abductions for them, they just need them to protect their facilities, corall crowds, and brutalize any protestor who might respond to ICE force with force (or at random, they are cops).

cooperativescience.bsky.social @cooperativescience.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA doesn't need troops to be their front line brute squad, they need them to do exactly what Nazi Germany used them as: Interchangeable supplementary muscle who won't disobey orders when the chips are down, will back up the brute squads when things get violent, and handle logistics for them.

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