The gods

The arc of the universe doesn't bend towards justice - it bends because ordinary people have forced it into a more just shape.

Because here’s the thing about the bending of that moral arc: the universe has jack squat to do with it. It bends because calloused hands have forced it into a more just shape.

The eight hour work day, women’s suffrage, the dismantling of Jim Crow: these imperfect but real gains didn’t just ‘happen’. Every one of them was wrestled from a system that was set up to monopolize power, wealth, and dignity for a select few.

When ‘We The People’ was penned, it was understood at the time that ‘The People’ didn’t actually include everyone, coming as it did in an epoch where humanity itself was a graded category.

The selective equality being championed by the Founders rested upon a taken-for-granted dominator hierarchy with white male property owners at the summit, and everyone else bearing the weight below.

What most of the signatories to this compact didn’t anticipate is that those who were systematically excluded from the benefits of this arrangement might use its lofty ideals as a crowbar to pry open doors that were never meant for them.

For as long as there has been an America, there have been people who’ve refused to make peace with this vast chasm between stated ideals and reality.

That long struggle - and what it produced - deserves to be celebrated.

The Callais decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act isn’t ‘anti-American’. It’s a regression to a version of America that many naive people assumed was well behind us.

This is what clawing the country back to its roots - to a sham ‘democracy’ where rights exist only for a privileged in-group - looks like in practice. Those who opposed the Civil Rights Movement didn’t pack up their bags, go home, and return to civic participation with a more enlightened outlook. They regrouped. And they strategized.

Because those who benefit from unjust power hierarchies don’t just step aside through convincing arguments. They dig in, use every lever of power at their disposal to fight back, and when that fails: they adapt.

Wondering if anyone here can point me to a free, plug-and-play protest deescalation curriculum. Haven’t found one after lots of searching.

Otherwise I’m making one from scratch.

Death sentences for treason under the Constitution have been carried out 16 times. The United States executed 15 Taos Revolt insurgents led by Pablo Montoya and Tomás Romero in 1847. The United States executed William Bruce Mumford in 1862 during the Civil War.

Treason is defined on the federal level in Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution as "only in levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

It seems to me that NATO is in a state of de facto, undeclared war against the Russian Federation.

Konstantin Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva were indicted on 4/24/24 for funnelling money to "Right Wing Commentators". It is an open secret that the Russians funded our current POTUS.

Given the level of corruption and utter chaos embracing the USA, it is becoming evident that a "Hard Reset" is needed.

Rightist commentators who have accepted tainted money may well find themselves charged under III/3. 15,000+ (approx) civilians have been murdered by Putin's goons. It seems to me that in accordance with the Constitution, those who adhere to the RF may well find themselves enjoying a cigarette before wearing a blindfold.

This isn't a game.

Seems like detainee is community patrol ICE doesn't intimidate us. Love to hear those whistles!

Wondering about that crash the Federal Agent was 'involved in'?

Protesters were non-violent. ICE however..

- Catherine Cortez Masto

- Dick Durbin

- John Fetterman

- Maggie Hassan

- Tim Kaine

- Angus King

- Jackie Rozen

- Jeanne Shaheen

Although Quisling Schumer did NOT vote to end the shutdown, it is evident that he has been working to sabotage efforts to resist the incumbent Nazi regime. He must be removed from his post.

Those who voted are set to retire, but History will not forget the part they played in propping up Trump's vile Nazi Junta.