I did not think about the possible reprecussions of this for myself, until I recovered my jacket from the closet the following day, noticing the entire closet stank of the "freshener." Hours of scent removal tips later, I am still dealing with my hubris. What a terrible object.

That this immigrant is an alleged murderer of servicepeople makes him a perfect alibi for the admin to block third world immigration (just the kind of escalation guard deployments aimed at). That this is all blowback shows the violent futility of imperial immigration policy.

Things are getting even worse on just about every front. People are afraid but we are also getting angrier and angrier. The collapse of the center/left raises the stakes. It was inevitable. Who knows what will provoke the next upsurge? I can promise you it won't be Jimmy Kimmel.

Leadership, in the sense of setting a militant example, will have to come from mass struggle, & it cannot be conjured out of nowhere. We are still following the path set by LA in June. Let a thousand community defense centers & neighborhood assemblies bloom.

This leaves their constituencies, middle class, white collar, civil workers, in a panic. For better or worse this progression is ripe for Zohran & DSA electoralism more broadly. Meanwhile, the grassroots left has been in many places building anti-ICE defense in the shadows.

The center/left cannot & will not now substantially organize as left movements do because they blame the left for what's happening to them, while having severed solidarity between themselves & the people by attacking those movements and failing to have anything credible to offer.