@elbowsupforcanada.us
We are American citizens, living on the border, standing with our Canadian neighbors in opposition to tariffs and threats of 'statehood,' in solidarity with the True North, strong and free. #Never51 https://elbowsupforcanada.us
"All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'." —George Orwell, on the brutality of Donald Trump towards facts, people, anything that might hold him accountable in any way
"I define movement narcissism as the impulse for self-aggrandizement attached to organizing for social transformation, movement narcissistic abuse as the destructive tactics that serve this desire, and movement narcissists as those individuals who exhibit both ..." —Carol Zou
“Can you believe the Epstein guys aren’t being punished? We’re supposed to protect children,” says a person who lives in a country where children go hungry in order to pay for weapons that will kill children in other countries and to enable genocides where children are called terrorists and targeted
The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.
We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.
Scott Nakagawa: "The tools built to repress Black communities don’t stay contained there: When you give police the power to stop-and-frisk without probable cause, that power exists for use against anyone...When you build mass surveillance infrastructure, that infrastructure can be redirected."
Friends, have you called your Congressional Rep today to tell them to oppose H.R. 7147, the DHS appropriations bill? Get on the phone NOW.
Liam Ramos, yesterday, when he was used as 'bait' by ICE agents. “Why detain a 5-year-old? You can’t tell me that this child is going to be classified as a violent criminal,” Zena Stenvik, the Columbia Heights superintendent, told reporters Wednesday.
Dear Donald Trump, the MAGA movement, and the people behind Project 2025,
Go fuck yourselves.
Canada
"In a long, rambling address that was by turns bombastic, aggrieved and self-congratulatory, President Trump pronounced last rites on American leadership of the liberal democratic order forged by the United States and its allies after World War II."
Special Counsel Jack Smith this morning:
Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
"...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home, and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently. And it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us."
"...What would it mean for middle powers to “live in truth”?
It means naming reality. Stop invoking the “rules-based int'l order” as though it still functions ... Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using econ integration as a weapon of coercion. 10/x
"...And it is creating a dense web of connections across trade, investment, culture on which we can draw for future challenges and opportunities. Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu. 9/x
"...But let us be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable. 8/x
"You cannot “live within the lie” of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination. 7/x
"More recently, great powers began using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. 6/x
"...Let me be direct: we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics laid bare the risks of extreme global integration. 5/x
"...We knew the story of the int'l rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically. And that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. 4/x
"...The system’s power comes not from its truth but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack. 3/x
"And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along. To accommodate. To avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety. It won’t. So, what are our options? 2/x
"Every day we are reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules-based order is fading. That the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. This aphorism of Thucydides is pres as inevitable — the natural logic of int'l relations reasserting itself. 1/x
Historian Adam Tooze: “I think we ought to be thinking quite hard about whatever the international equivalent of getting up and leaving is. We need to strengthen ourselves, and have coalitions of friendly people.”
This is where we are now, because of one rapidly decompensating septuagenarian with delusions—"The Canadian military is modeling its response to a hypothetical U.S. invasion, as tensions rise b/w President Trump’s administration and NATO allies." www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
It's not 'unrest' in Minnesota, friends. It's an entire state peacefully resisting military occupation and documenting the violent abduction of their neighbors.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
I agree with Piers Morgan.
Wild times.
#BoycottTheWorldCup
Even @momentofsnug.bsky.social knows what's up. #AbolishICE
this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
Insane footage from on the ground in Minneapolis. Trump continues to turn our neighborhoods into war zones. This is not normal.
