Obviously it is worrisome when they're doing exactly that just as fast as they can.

Apropos of absolutely nothing to do with the masked men with no visible agency insignia carrying crates of who knows what out of the shooter's house, but HBO just released an amazing documentary into DHS "shadow units" whose job was to destroy evidence of Border Patrol's crimes

I am concerned that there is not a focused slate of demands listed, directing people in power to perform particular actions, but I still think a 3.5% strike as a demonstration of power and displeasure is an important move.

There are Venezuelans who are happy that Maduro is gone, no matter how it happened, which is how you get liberals going "Maduro was bad, but..."

But yes.

Sloppy, imperfect authoritarian violence still gets the job done.

They have lots of time to ramp up and normalize lethal "peacekeeping" in places that aren't likely to support them, and are already checking off locations on their to-do list. I'm not saying they're uber-competent but when their control slips they will be ready with the hammer.

The media is not
"numb and overwhelmed"
they are knowingly complicit.

90% of US newsmedia is run by 6 (maybe 5 now) megacorporations

It’s profoundly difficult to get white people to understand that white supremacy harms THEM, too.

“No one is free until everyone is.”

You're actually breaking the terms of service and will get yourself banned.

as I've seen others say, it's probably also for riling up the base. Visibly queer woman getting what they believe she deserves. More or less propaganda about who deserves to die & how easy it is to get away with killing them, broadcasted to folks who are eager to find an acceptable way to kill.

We need to aggressively renormalize the concept of asynchronous communication.

computers simply make things faster, which can be good or bad depending on what they are used for [opens a single history book] ah,