When Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River and entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, in 49 BC, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the imperium, and began the civil war that would lead to the final collapse of the Roman Republic.
Or, our enemy confuses the map for the terrain
Good morning sports fans! It's a great day for us sports lovers, at least if you're a total sicko like me and your preferred sport is line-go-down. Because, thanks to Trump's tariffs, the markets are absolutely on fire. For just one example: Bloomberg is
Yesterday, on March 31, Beijing announced that China, Japan and South Korea would pursue a collaborative strategy to respond to US tariffs. It can be hard, during the rapid-fire changes of the global far right power grab, to reflect on just how unimaginable a strategic anti-US economic alliance between those
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We game out possible scenarios while the administration demolishes the constitutional state. Though our conversation does engage the fear and threat of the situation, we also discuss openings for us to take bold action that uses this moment of (bad) revolution to expand our collective power.
Six weeks since Trump's inauguration, there is less and less question as to whether or not Trump and Musk are pursuing a coup. The forces of normalization are failing in the face of the destructive and unstrategic behavior of King Leer and his Nazi speed-freak CEO. Nevertheless, the
Change is a practice, not an event. Here's a guide on how to get started changing this world.
Silicon Valley isn't giving in to fascism, it's inheriting a fascist social world it already built.
The DOGE boys have a coup party
But it will be easiest if we attack now
Nitrate Fires
I've been wanting to write all week, some analysis of the current situation, maybe something inspiring and helpful around organizing and orienting ourselves, but I've only really been able to do so on bluesky, thoughts in tiny bursts, with immediate feedback loops of endorphins and positivity.
As the fires began to get under control in LA, news media started reporting on arrests for looting, and in particular the presence of the military police "maintaining order" in the overwhelmingly non-white and poor Altadena. I wrote about the use of looting panic as a form of