🎵 If you're a nazi and you're fired,
it's your fault!
👏👏
If you're a nazi and you're fired,
it's your fault!
👏👏
If you were spotted in the mob,
and you lost your fucking job,
You're a nazi, and you're fired!
It's your fault! 👏👏🎵
EXCLUSIVE: A teen mowed a 40-foot swastika into a grass lot. Neighbors decided not to report him to police. Two months later he gunned down the parents of his girlfriend. They told her not to see him because he was an "outspoken neo Nazi"
We’ve seen the police protect Nazis at the expense of everyone else for years in Boston and in other cities around the country. “Cops and Klan go hand in hand” isn’t just a catchy protest chant—it is objectively true.
Any credit for this end to the government shutdown belongs not to the Democratic politicians in Congress nor to Trump but to the workers who refused to show up for work without pay and the workers who shut down air travel in solidarity with those suffering.
“Normal” had already-historic levels of wealth inequality, an epidemic of police brutality, extrajudicial killings by drone, and was making no attempts to even address these issues. We’re not going back, we’re aiming to do better.
A family “kept together” in a detention center staffed by abusers and sadists is not a solution. Demand more. Demand that the arrests end, that the cages be emptied and the people set free, demand the abolishing of ICE and DHS, and nothing less.
This is indeed horrific, but it’s important to realize that ICE is not “rogue”. ICE is monstrous by design. This is ICE working as intended, and it’s why ICE needs to be abolished.
More horrific behavior from rogue
@ICEgov
: “We had one night when 35 dads were taken in one night from Avenel, New Jersey, from the same apartment complex. I had 60 kids become orphans that night or become fatherless,” Rev. Seth Kaper-Dale said.
#resist
“I am a capitalist to my bones,” Sen. Warren tells New England Council, one of several instances this morning where she’s highlighted her belief in capitalism and markets while talking bankruptcy policy
#mapoli
While I do not support the BDS movement, we must defend every American’s constitutional right to peacefully engage in political activity. It is clear to me that S.1 would violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.
Polls have closed. If you’re still in line, stay there! We’re proud to announce our first victory of the night,
@BenForWard3
! Congratulations to Ben for winning re-election for Ward 3 Alderman!
Not every organizer or frequent attendee of “Resist Marxism”/“Boston Free Speech” is so unsubtle that they tattoo Nazi imagery on their neck, post exclusively about fascism or speak at known white nationalist events. Some are a little more careful, like Mark Sahady.
Today, 25-30 crypto-fascists showed up in front of the State House. Their incoherent yelling & hateful rambling was drowned out by 225 Bostonians. They ended up ending their "rally" an hour and a half early. Where ever they go, what ever they do, we are many and they are few.
.
@jguaido
's self-appointment as president has no constitutional legitimacy. Under Art. 233, if presidency is declared vacant (which it isn't) after president is sworn in, vice president, not parliamentary president, takes office. This is coup dressed in faux constitutional garb
Banned from campus “for his own safety”, forced to resign through coordinated death threats from reactionaries: when you’re on the left, no one at the NYT editorial board cares about your speech being silenced
Hmmm... wonder why
@MassStatePolice
has bookmarks for the social media pages of Massachusetts anti-police-brutality & leftist organizations. We’re sure it has nothing to do with the long history of police surveillance and repression.
Today's action to support SJP was violently dispersed.
Students, community members, and one NLG legal observer were maced, pinned, kneeled on, and arrested.
The police also used an SUV to drive off peaceful protesters.
Shame on Brandeis University and shame on Waltham PD!
We saw this very movie back in September at the straight pride protest. The BPD are nothing but an armed goon squad out to stifle the power of the people. Defund them now! Then abolish soon after.
We won 5,201 votes for 5th Place and a seat on the Medford City Council! We are the 5th of 7 Our Revolution Medford candidates who won, including: Nicole Morell on City Council, and Mea Mustone, Paul Ruseau and Jenny Graham on School Committee! So proud of our team!
Interesting that when the local far-right leaves their basements for hate rallies in Boston, the police form around them give them space from the counter-protestors. When *they’re* the counter-protestors, the police... also give them space to disrupt liberal & left protests.
TL;DR The ruling class has no desire to “let you retire.” You will work until you die and you’ll thank them for the opportunity to do so in America.
🏴🚩It doesn’t have to be this way.
Not only did
@marty_walsh
shell out to have cops protect the pitiful crypto-fascist “parade”, he implicitly authorized the full-on police riot that followed. He and the BPD are the enemy of every working class person in the Boston area.
A city’s budget is a statement of its values? Today we learned that Marty Walsh’s Boston will pay $$$? overtime for 100s of police to protect a few dozen right-wing
#StraightPride
hate protestors, but won’t provide pencils, papers or crayons for the 85,000 kids in
#BPS
.
#bospoli
They never are “clashes”.
It wasn’t a “clash” when fascists attacked people in Charlottesville who stood up to them.
It isn’t a “clash” when police in riot gear suppress protestors.
And it isn’t a “clash” when the Israeli military fires guns & tear gas at unarmed Palestinians.
Former Democratic candidate for Governor of Florida and supposed “progressive” Andrew Gillum mirrors Trump in vocally supporting the coup attempt in Venezuela. Even in these “polarized” times, there’s bipartisan support for empire.
#Maduro
is an illegitimate dictator — it’s long past time for him to go. So inspired by the tens of thousands of brave protestors who are making their voices felt around the world. Estamos contigo!
#YoSalgoEl23
Totally apropos of nothing, we'd like to state our continued solidarity with sex workers and our commitment to full decriminalization of sex work. SWers deserve dignity and a community where they feel safe and welcome.
Sounds rough but remember that the average net worth of these people is $77.9 billion, so what’s really rough is our economic system where the wealthiest can “lose” a couple billion in a day & not be affected while people starve in the streets no matter what the stock market does
Had a rough day?
Mark Zuckerberg lost $3.6 billion today.
Jeff Bezos lost $3.2 billion.
Google's founders lost $2.3 billion, each.
Bill Gates lost $2.2 billion.
(Source: Bloomberg)
The instigator of most of Saturday's police aggression appears to have been identified. Video shows Captain John Danilecki using pepper spray on six occasions (including on a medic), punching a counter protestor in the head and instigating multiple skirmishes ending in arrest
The sad thing I realized after researching the police violence in Boston Saturday all day -- watching video after video, frame by frame -- was that every instance of pepper spray was either directly from or instigated by *Exactly One Officer*.
Give
@Boston_DSA
all the credit. Nazis are surrounded and can’t move beyond the police line. Can’t even hear their hate speech over the sound of anti-Nazi chants.
The GOP is fighting to wage an all out class war and you are reminiscing about a ghoul who a) destroyed unions b) ignored the AIDS crisis c) Has been dead for 13 years.
Jesus Christ, you neoliberal shills are the worst.
Socialism or barbarism.
Today, in an unprecedented move,
@MassGovernor
’’s MBTA has shut down the entire Orange Line for at least thirty days of emergency maintenance. This severs a vital transit artery for hundreds of thousands of greater Boston residents, and forces riders to pay the price for... 1/9
Rahm Emanuel wants a new $95 million Police Academy built in West Garfield Park, Chicago. Tomorrow, he’ll be in Cambridge, and we’ll be out protesting in solidarity with our comrades in the
#NoCopAcademy
coalition (including
@ChicagoCityDSA
).
That’s right! The retail industry is making $66.02 in profit off of each hour worked by nonsupervisory employees. It’s the day after Thanksgiving and still your bosses are stuffing themselves while you’re scrambling for table scraps.
Evoking Pinochet’s “helicopter rides” allows Mark to signal that he wants violence against his political opponents (which is basically everyone to the left of Trump apparently) without those pesky swastikas and all the obvious associations that come with them.
@attackerman
The final vote included Democrats Joe Donnelly, Mark Warner, Jeanne Shaheen, Heidi Heitkamp, and Joe Manchin backing Haspel. Only Republicans Jeff Flake and Rand Paul opposed her on the floor, as did an ailing John McCain, who was not present to vote
Pinochet memes are perfect for the discerning crypto-fascist: not clearly established as a fascist the way Hitler and Mussolini is, and he’s also popular with the kind of libertarians/“anarcho-capitalists” that don’t actually mind state violence so long as it’s against the Left.
Names are listed of those who have died from insulin rationing, many very young. Blood is on the hands of pharma companies that profit from this, now they can see it left on these steps.
Socialism is the struggle of the working class against capitalism — the whole working class. If your organizing excludes or devalues the struggles of disabled workers, non-US workers, sex workers, or incarcerated workers, consider what it is you’re really organizing for.
The idea of a “straight pride parade” was correctly mocked across Twitter yesterday: it’s a ridiculous idea.
But ridiculous or not, it’s being organized as a front by someone who has a history of organizing fronts for far-right provacateurs whose goal is harassment and violence.
THREAD:
There were a lot of tweets about the “Straight Pride” parade that’s going to be held in Boston in August.
It’s just a rebrand of Resist Marxism, a violent far-right group based in Boston, MA.
Let’s meet the organizer, Mark Sahady, and see his ties to violence and hate.
Carroll's salary is $51,000 a year. Marty Meehan's salary (President of UMass) is $550,000. The SVP of health sciences makes a million bucks a year. Balance the budget from their salaries, not by laying off Bob Carroll and others.
After 30 years, Bob Carroll is one of 44 employees set to be laid off in January as part of UMass administrators’ plan to balance a budget that is in trouble after years of what auditors have called financial mismanagement and lax oversight.
There it is! My Republican friend from Pennsylvania finally admitted it last night. After the tax bill passes, they are going to come back to cut your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They must be defeated.
Update on the Trump administration's proposed rule change that would allow businesses to take servers' tips: "We estimate that under this rule, employers would pocket $6.1 billion in tips earned by tipped workers each year."
The noble tech genius, libertarians’ savior of the world, doesn’t just hate mass transit and those who use it. He also hates people who criticize them, especially if they studied the humanities!
Mark’s one of Resist Marxism’s “activists”, and one of the main organizers behind Saturday’s event. He’s also a big fan of memes riffing off Augusto Pinochet’s brutal fascist regime that was famous for murdering dissidents by dropping them out of helicopters.