Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
Jewish-Israeli, against apartheid and genocide. Co-host parallelweltpalaestina.info (in German), co-founder @thediasporist.bsky.social
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Michael Sappir
@m.sappir.net
· Aug 8
Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist
The antideutsch leftists papering cities in pro-Israel stickers
thediasporist.de
In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples
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This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.
obviously not in the sense that it’s stopping everything, but they are being stalled so much by trying to find places where they aren’t watched, wasting so much manpower and resources on crowd control and even arresting observers they know will just get released. i am so proud of everyone
January 10, 2026 at 8:22 PM
This is so real, they tried it this morning in Bloomington. They stopped a man, people started honking horns, they split up to fuck with everyone else, which brought more attention and more noise, people got out of their cars and started filming, they left. They're cowards.
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If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement
I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.
The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement
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In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
January 10, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto
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The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
January 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
The response to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good is not what the White House was expecting.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
Like with their hiding of the Epstein files, part of the fundamental problem they are facing is that the stories the Trump administration has built their movement on are being shown for their emptiness.
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The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”
January 10, 2026 at 12:12 AM
The MAGA regime is currently doubling down on its tactical stance of “we will kill women like dogs for merely displeasing us.”
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This is a good article.
"The presence of rich people ... makes rents expensive. This was the valuable kernel of insight embedded in the old 'unreflective' left attitude toward urban development ... knowledge that’s been ... injudiciously devalued."
jacobin.com/2023/09/yimb...
"The presence of rich people ... makes rents expensive. This was the valuable kernel of insight embedded in the old 'unreflective' left attitude toward urban development ... knowledge that’s been ... injudiciously devalued."
jacobin.com/2023/09/yimb...
The Problem With YIMBY Economics
YIMBYs are right that the US needs a major expansion of its housing supply. Unfortunately, eliminating restrictions on private housing development won’t do much to get us there.
jacobin.com
September 3, 2023 at 2:13 PM
This is a good article.
"The presence of rich people ... makes rents expensive. This was the valuable kernel of insight embedded in the old 'unreflective' left attitude toward urban development ... knowledge that’s been ... injudiciously devalued."
jacobin.com/2023/09/yimb...
"The presence of rich people ... makes rents expensive. This was the valuable kernel of insight embedded in the old 'unreflective' left attitude toward urban development ... knowledge that’s been ... injudiciously devalued."
jacobin.com/2023/09/yimb...
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The federal government seceding from the union is a new one
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The federal government seceding from the union is a new one
Ladies and gentlefolks, the best possible economic system:
January 10, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Ladies and gentlefolks, the best possible economic system:
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The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
if you want to know what it is like in minneapolis, I don’t even have to scroll on facebook to find a horror story. it’s basically my whole feed.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
everyone i know in minneapolis is seeing ICE take people—at gas stations, taquerias, bus stops, schools. just snatching random people.
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
The decision has been made to break an American city. It is an experiment. We must do all we can (legally) to help Minneapolis hold on.
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if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
The elephant in the room is that mayors and governors across the country have very good reason to question the loyalty and allegiances of the state and local police forces and that’s one of the impediments to doing anything about the current occupations
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement
It definitely isn’t sustainable, especially when they want to be doing this to every urban center in America at once. They’re out of their depth and they are going to fail.
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 3:45 PM
It definitely isn’t sustainable, especially when they want to be doing this to every urban center in America at once. They’re out of their depth and they are going to fail.
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rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 AM
rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks
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The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”
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For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants
Because he put himself in front of the car to have an excuse to shoot!
January 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
For a literal decade the official CBP policy has been “don’t stand in front of or behind vehicles” because the decade before that their internally commissioned studies found that agents were putting themselves in front of vehicles so as to shoot the occupants
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if you need it
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
January 9, 2026 at 7:23 PM
if you need it
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)
They're trying and things will keep getting uglier, but they just do not have enough thugs to crack down everywhere all the time. Resistance will continue and the fascists are going to lose.
Look at this shit!
Is it just me or does it seem like the Trump administration is looking to provoke violence so that they can create the conditions for a harsh crackdown? Be careful, everyone.
📌 500 ICE agents are being moved to Minneapolis from other cities.
Is it just me or does it seem like the Trump administration is looking to provoke violence so that they can create the conditions for a harsh crackdown? Be careful, everyone.
📌 500 ICE agents are being moved to Minneapolis from other cities.
January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
They're trying and things will keep getting uglier, but they just do not have enough thugs to crack down everywhere all the time. Resistance will continue and the fascists are going to lose.
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It's fascism for the Twitch era.
You get to select the player (the regime) and watch them play the first person shooter (assassinate their political opponents). That is their angle here.
They are not posting evidence. They are posting content
You get to select the player (the regime) and watch them play the first person shooter (assassinate their political opponents). That is their angle here.
They are not posting evidence. They are posting content
Of course they aren't posting snuff video because they think it's exculpatory.
They're posting snuff video because their base takes pleasure in viewing that sort of content.
They're posting snuff video because their base takes pleasure in viewing that sort of content.
January 9, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It's fascism for the Twitch era.
You get to select the player (the regime) and watch them play the first person shooter (assassinate their political opponents). That is their angle here.
They are not posting evidence. They are posting content
You get to select the player (the regime) and watch them play the first person shooter (assassinate their political opponents). That is their angle here.
They are not posting evidence. They are posting content
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We should stop giving guns and billions of dollars and total legal immunity to men who fantasize about murdering women.
January 9, 2026 at 7:51 PM
We should stop giving guns and billions of dollars and total legal immunity to men who fantasize about murdering women.
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Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."
Proudly, openly a liar.
Proudly, openly a liar.
January 9, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."
Proudly, openly a liar.
Proudly, openly a liar.
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In a few months, we've progressed from snuff films of the US military killing civilians at sea to a snuff film of paramilitary secret police killing a mom in Minnesota—in both situations bogusly invoking "terrorism."
One of the obvious concerns about the administration's killing spree at sea was that if the US government would lawlessly kill people on the high seas just because the administration spuriously labeled them as "terrorists", it might do so elsewhere—including in the United States.
January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM
In a few months, we've progressed from snuff films of the US military killing civilians at sea to a snuff film of paramilitary secret police killing a mom in Minnesota—in both situations bogusly invoking "terrorism."
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This is, in fact, what they think
The ideology being pressed here is that a certain group of people has the right to cleanse the world of everything and everyone they find annoying through lethal violence
The ideology being pressed here is that a certain group of people has the right to cleanse the world of everything and everyone they find annoying through lethal violence
the comments on vance's post are genuinely disturbing. just screenshots of good's face seemingly implying that she deserved to be killed because the poster finds her annoying
ah. they all got the memo
xcancel.com/JDVance/stat...
xcancel.com/JDVance/stat...
January 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is, in fact, what they think
The ideology being pressed here is that a certain group of people has the right to cleanse the world of everything and everyone they find annoying through lethal violence
The ideology being pressed here is that a certain group of people has the right to cleanse the world of everything and everyone they find annoying through lethal violence
The more info emerges about Good and Ross, the more I am convinced of this
Renee Nicole Good will have schools named after her.
The ICE thug who murdered her will have family members hiding their relation to him.
The ICE thug who murdered her will have family members hiding their relation to him.
January 9, 2026 at 7:28 PM
The more info emerges about Good and Ross, the more I am convinced of this
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what i saw on that video was exactly what ive seen right wingers say theyve wanted to do to us for years
January 9, 2026 at 7:20 PM
what i saw on that video was exactly what ive seen right wingers say theyve wanted to do to us for years
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To wit, they thought that video was exculpatory because of gender
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 9, 2026 at 7:14 PM
To wit, they thought that video was exculpatory because of gender
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The thing these losers have figured out is that absolutely nobody with a megaphone is willing to just say they’re lying. So if they keep saying the “right” things even when it’s visibly false, they’ll get away with it.
oh my god Leavitt is posting it like it's exonerating this people genuinely inhabit a different universe
January 9, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The thing these losers have figured out is that absolutely nobody with a megaphone is willing to just say they’re lying. So if they keep saying the “right” things even when it’s visibly false, they’ll get away with it.