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Maybe it's too early in the AM for me here, but who are they in this statement? The bourgeoisie of the USA?
I should really bust out the N64 and play some games on the TV. I have a nice signal converter box and Nintendo to SCART connector that should make the N64 look very crips on our modern TV.
Yeah I think that's fair.
This book is so good please go download it. It's free! I'll update with a link when I can. E: LINK. In reading book two on Historical Materialism and it's just as good.
I think what they are trying to say here is that historical fascist governments or military dictatorship's would have simply massacred those standing in their way. This pushback in Minneapolis shows that they do not have the level of political capital to simply deal with the unrest.
Like, is this a Fascist Italy / Nazi German move here:
For all the shock and aw this fascist government has, it isn't capable of overcoming these events. They do not have the level of control over the media or newspapers that historical fascist governments had. They don't have the same level of control over labor they had. Nazi Germany would have literally reassigned your ass to another job in another industry across the country for getting in their way, or they would just kill you like they did the Communists.
Now this fascist government is doing the bare minimum PR deployment of cameras to their SS in an attempt to perform damage control.
I'm actually going to quote your comment and leave it from my account on news.abolish.capital so people see it when they see the story.
Is this the same platform that wasn't open source, and also only on the iOS app store?
E: Actually, it looks like this might be different. Still very careless to have exposed peoples names, phone numbers and GPS locations, why was that information even required?
E2: Thinking about this, what are the requirements really? A group chat already provides a host of useful functions (as illustrated by MN organizers). The one thing you would want that a chat app can't provide is plate tracking. One could imagine a federated plate tracking database being built with activity pub being useful but probably technical overkill.
Where are these "riots"?
But also, this is a retreat, do not see it any other way. Someone made it clear to Trump that if pressure continued at pace in MN these strikes could expand wider, or become multiday long. This to me is a clear signal that what the people of MN are doing is working, and they should keep doing it. That isn't to say that I think the raids are going to stop, but I wouldn't doubt they shift to odd hours, and attempt to avoid people as much as possible when doing so.
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24494
January 2026 saw some of the most significant developments in the recent history of the American class struggle. The ICE murder of Renee Good set off an explosive anti-ICE movement, culminating in a de facto political general strike. The subsequent murder of Alex Pretti threatened to spread the movement nationally, forcing Trump to back off, at least temporarily. What conclusions can we draw from this experience?
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Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ at the Grammys
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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/24519
Pop star Billie Eilish has spoken out at the Grammys against Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit. The militia have been running wild across Minnesota. They’ve been terrorising families, stealing children such as Liam Ramos, and killing Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in cold blood.
At the Grammys Eilish said:
Billie Eilish says "f*ck ice" during her #Grammys acceptance speech: "Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We need to keep fighting and speaking up. Our voices do matter." pic.twitter.com/Sz1um3afYJ
— Variety (@Variety) February 2, 2026
‘No one is illegal on stolen land’
As we’ve previously reported, the government is rushing through poorly-vetted recruits to get as many ICE agents on the street as possible. Some of these recruits are sexually harassing one another; others are off their heads on drugs. And as one insider said:
This isn’t the department of baking cookies. This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country.
And we’re now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces.
This whole thing is a complete disaster from beginning to end.
Speaking at the Grammys, Eilish said in the video above:
No one is illegal on stolen land.
And yeah, it’s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now. And I just, I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we just need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting and our voices really do matter and the people matter.
And fuck ICE.
Eilish isn’t the only pop start to have spoken out against ICE and the Trump regime. As we reported, this is what Sabrina Carpenter said in response to ICE using one of her songs in a promotional video:
this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.
— Sabrina Carpenter (@SabrinaAnnLynn) December 2, 2025
‘Fuck ICE’
Elilish and Carpenter join the likes of celebrities such as Kehlani and Bad Bunny who both spoke out against ICE during the Grammys:
Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:
“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.” pic.twitter.com/lS9cZV5t5x
— Pop Base (@PopBase) February 2, 2026
This high-profile protest has helped to shine a global spotlight on the actions of ICE, but the question remains: will this ‘ICE out’ movement in the music industry be enough to force change to federal policy?
Featured image via Chad Davies (Wikimedia)
By Antifabot
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Thanks Socko!
Yeah I think he will figure it out at some point. We've all been there.
turbo? idk about that, he says some cool and good things about labor just before this part of the video. I think he's in that phase of political awakening where it feels like you're the only sane person in the room, and the people you supported suddenly look and sound like transparent criminals. He says at one point, "Apparently, NO ONE is going to hold ANYONE accountable anymore!". I think he's simply a well-meaning progressive liberal who has hit the wall on trying to understand why things are happening. He probably doesn't have any other frame of reference, any other liberatory or revolutionary language to draw on than those of the founding fathers. Which, is simply how liberal society functions. At some point, though, he will realize that even that liberatory and revolutionary language fails to meet the moment.
I think Marx says it best:
The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. [...] The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped off all superstition in regard to the past. Earlier revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to drug themselves concerning their own content. In order to arrive at its own content, the revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead."
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