That tiny little fella needs a hug real bad.
From a trash compacter.
We need ways to fight back without putting ourselves in danger.
Here are concrete steps we can take to combat the regime with our last non-violent pathways (the titles below expand if you click them).
Learn First Aid! ⛑️
The future us likely to be violent, and It extremely important to have the skills to be able to keep yourself and others alive if they get hurt. You can never have too many medics.
Tacticool Girlfriend provides a great introduction to building a personal first aid kit, called an IFAK, which can deal with things like bullet wounds and other serious bleeding wounds. I also want to emphasize her recommendation of only buying medical gear from reputable sources (not Amazon!), such as North American Rescue to avoid fakes that could cost you your life.
But you’ll need to learn how to use that equipment, too. The best resource for that is to take a local Stop The Bleed class, which are pretty widely available in most places. They may cost a small fee, but can also sometimes be free. Alternatively, if you cannot access a local class, this video by PrepMedic will give you a solid understanding of how to use Tourniquets and Gauze for wound packing.
Injuries are less harmful if they are tended to early. Learning first aid can help conserve resources when healthcare becomes unaffordable. Having several medics in case of harm by police is an extremely powerful morale booster during a protest that may become a police riot. When you become comfortable with the basics of first aid, riot medicine is the next suggested step.
Establish or join local Mutual Aid networks ✊
If you haven’t already, get to know your neighbors. Mutual aid is a willingness to support and grow your community. This can include informal networks through friends, tenant/renter organizations, solidarity groups, and industrial unions.
These are groups using direct action to solve each other’s problems. Building strong communities makes it difficult for fascism to take root. The actions of the government are going to hit every community hard, and the ones who build trust in each other and work together are most likely to survive. We’ve been building a list of resources in !inperson@slrpnk.net to help you on your way. Also check out this handy guide to find existing groups in your area.
This isn’t only for your own community protection. Your ability to organize today will change the political landscape tomorrow. When revolution occurs, the social organizations that show the greatest resilience through the regime are the ones typically calling the shots when the dust settles. When it comes to elections, get out the vote drives are useless if most of the voters are fascists. At some point, you have to do grassroots political education if you don’t want fascist candidates winning elections. Mutual aid networks are excellent forums not only for teaching each other good political ideas, but demonstrating them in practice.
Join a Union and Prepare for a General Strike! 💪
The most effective non-violent action we can take is preparing and organizing for a General Strike.
The country would be brought to its knees if suddenly deprived of profit and labor. That tactic was extremely effective in Chile in 2019, and had they not fallen for the trick of liberal reform, they would’ve had a successful revolution on their hands with virtually no bloodshed.
If you aren’t in a union (or even if you are, it’s worth dual-carding), consider joining the IWW to unionize your workplace (bonus: you’ll get higher wages, better benefits, and more time off if you succeed!) to strengthen a general strike if we manage to enact one, as most unions have a strike fund that can supplement your income during a general strike to make it more financially bearable (you should also save as much money as you can reasonably do, so it can also be used to keep yourself afloat during a strike).
And for our international friends, you should join one as well, as fascism is gaining momentum globally. If your country isn’t listed below, just contact the IWW directly in the link above, and they’ll help you set up a new local branch.
Adopt Security Culture and Digital Camouflage 🛡️
Sometimes benign seeming efforts can turn into unexpected personal data collecting traps. Like an obscure website for exchanging contact info with other students turning into a global ad-tech surveillance network (Facebook), or innocent seeming online personality tests being use to harvest character profiles. Even Etsy, Reddit, Tinder, and Duolingo are feeding information to US Government Agencies like ICE.
Security culture is commonly used to describe the general awareness of such potential traps and how it can affect groups or entire communities. This goes beyond mere individual privacy efforts, as without joint efforts these often fail to work.
Especially in activist circles, security culture is paramount. For opsec reasons not everyone in the group might be aware of what clandestine efforts others are involved in, but with a general security culture many potential data leaks can be avoided.
Movements are made by the volume of their participants, and the easier and less dangerous it is to participate, the more people will get involved. As more people get involved, individual involvement becomes even less dangerous, creating a virtuous cycle.
We’ll start it off with some General Advice:
- Mentally wall off personal uniquely identifying info from your online presence, actively build a habit of opsec so that withholding information is your default mental state
- Be careful about who you meet online
- Use different, unrelated usernames, passwords & emails for every account. And try not to connect to those accounts with your real IP address (use Tor or a VPN)
- Be mindful that anything done online leaves a trail
- agents provocateurs may seek to find patsies willing to perform an ill-advised illegal activity in order to legitimize police repression. If someone is trying to pressure you, especially if you don’t have a long and proven history with them, be extremely wary.
For a full guide on what encrypted communications platforms to use, and how to stay off the radar, read the Digital Camouflage section within the Monthly Meta post here (you’ll need to scroll down. I’d add it here, but it won’t fit in this comment).
Information is the best way to fight fascism
We’re still trying to win enough support to do so is the thing. The normally apathetic need to be against the regime otherwise they’ll just narc on people. They have to feel affected in some way and I don’t think anything less than the next large demonstration of ICE just gunning them all down in the street will do.
There isn’t. That’s the whole point of fascism.
Like another comment or said: there isn’t. Everyone is a target, even if they’re not the target this week.
Take a look at what was done to protestors of the past. Even in recent years before this administration, they were gassed, beat, and made into criminals for exercising their right to assemble and express themselves. There are always “reasons” they were treated poorly but we must not be fooled: these reasons are hollow, don’t hold up to scrutiny, and are often outright fabrications. The lies you are to believe from their narratives is 1) someone in the vicinity destroyed property or acted in an “uncivil” way and 2) that means that everyone in the vicinity gets their rights taken away, and 3) if they resist their rights being shelved then they are met with violence.
It’s important to realize that none of this is new. This is par for the course, and the tools and narratives have been in use for generations. I’m gonna say it again: this is not new, it’s just more overt and laid bare for more people to see and realize.
You and I as working people are led to believe that if we just be meek and mild we’ll effect change. We are supposed to believe that not inconveniencing the state and being compliant will get us to our desired ends. On the other side of our struggle, the many forms of violence ARE the means by which change and control is effectuated.
This isn’t a call to violence, just an acknowledgement that violence is being used upon us as working class people and the inevitable end of that will be more violence, as history has shown. We need to disillusion ourselves of the hope that we can somehow deal with our problems in the warm comfort of safety. There is no guarantee of safety. We need to formulate our responses upon that reality, first and foremost, or we open ourselves to fragility and bewilderment at the violence that will most assuredly come upon us.
(Almost) No one wants this, but we need to be honest with ourselves about the reality that we face.
even speaking about pacifist resistance is enough to be labeled a domestic terrorist
This is an interesting [article] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.C._sniper_attacks), though I’m not,ahem, sure how it applies to this conversation.
what we need are people who aren’t so pusillanimous they can’t say what they really mean.
“Take the picture of me from a low angle so I look like I’m all grown up”
The photographer is just closer to the ground to lick the boot.
The US needs some serious Hague style prosecutions. Sad thing is, their democrats won’t do it…
i prefer french revolution style prosecutions.
I’m rooting for French style revolution…the democrats just voted to give ice more money today because they were afraid of being considered anti law and order while bowing down to a pedofile child murdering insurrectionist who is controlled by a genocide committing war criminal…they look pretty soft on crime to me
I’m confused who the democrats are actually performing for. They have to know that at the next election the republicans are going to get steamrollered and if they play their cards right they can come out on top.
Yet they do stuff like this, as if they’re trying to pander to MAGAs, as if that’s all help their electoral chances.
They’re controlled opposition, at least at the national level. They’re the carrot to the stick, but both are being wielded by the same people.
I would guess they aren’t really Democrats, they are getting big donations from MAGA backers, or most likely they know voters won’t bother to vote them out during the primaries. Some may be unopposed.
My guess is they are still gun shy from the defund the police movement after George Floyd.
Aipac/ jewish backed billionaires demanded more distractions, and dnc obliged.
Time for the people to tear down the systems repressing them and build it from scratch. I don’t think there’s any other way tbh
Have you heard that assholes voice? I swear if I ever saw him in person I’d stoop down, look him in the eyes and laugh my ass off.
Is this what the right means by “law and order”?
Actually yes. They see anyone else besides them as less than people.
I’m fairly confident Bovino doesn’t know what happened at the end of WW2.
Almost Nothing.
US had <0.2% conviction rate of war criminals, <1% of "major war criminals. Look it up, <200 convicted and actually punished of 100,000. Fascist war criminals is one of the lowest prosecution rates of all time. Very safe criminal activity apparently.
They gave many of the Nazis jobs, land, and positions in government and the UN. Nuremberg was a complete joke for publicity.
If US history is anything to go by, they will get off with 0 consequences. Just like WW2 and the civil war. The US needs a significant change to deal with it, like trial-less minimum life in prison for all ICE agents or it will be literally the same shit cycle of fascism.
Yeah the trials were mostly for show. NSDAP members remained in power for decades after the end of WW2. The Red Army Faction/Baader Meinhof gang were a direct consequence of the lack of reckoning there.
i always get baader meinhof and meyers briggs confused and honestly, it does not bother me.
Only one of them has bearing on reality though.
Oh I don’t live there
After Bovino threw the can, the Star-Tribune wrote, “plumes of green and gray smoke burst over the crowd,” causing protesters and observers to flee the scene.
That is not normal tear gas (which is bad enough), it’s HC smoke which is extremely carcinogenic (arc).
If there is any justice for any of this someday there’s going to be a massive settlement and taxpayers are going to be paying for cancer and hospice treatment for thousands of people affected by this in a couple of decades.
Does that recipe for a neutralizing agent also work on tear gas?
Or…
- approach with leaf blower in one hand and lacrosse staff in the other.
- Return to sender
Fuck yeah, rip it top shelf bud.
Wheel, snipe, and fuckin celly boys!
Ferda
The Wild don’t count as a proper hockey team. /s
Hexachloroethane is suspected of causing cancer and may cause organ damage through prolonged or repeated exposure
Sounds like they’re also shooting themselves in the foot with this one, especially since they don’t wear proper protection, from what I’ve seen
If there is any justice
these fucknuts will be spending life getting beaten in an El Salvadoran prison.
If there is any justice
narrator: “There wasn’t.”
“There was no justice, just ICE.”
an El Salvadoran prison.
I appreciate the sentiment, but we’ve done enough to that country already, and it’s not like this one lacks for prison cells
Are you maybe confusing El Salvador with Venezuela?
No, I just don’t think we should be dumping our prisoners on any other countries, Venezuela or El Salvador or anywhere else
That said, in terms of bad stuff we’ve done to El Salvador specifically, we have propped up super brutal right wing governments there for decades specifically because it’s the northern most South American country and DC wants them to be a choke point where every wouldbe migrant from the area can get kidnapped and brutalized far enough away from the US that our journalists won’t ever notice. Like, CECOT never would have been built without US security aid.
I would be wary of identifying any chemical just by a loose description of its appearance like that.
Deploying tear gas on peaceful protestors is disgusting even if it’s not toxic. It’s no different than tasing someone for no good reason, or choking them briefly for no good reason.
I mean, fair, I definitely would be interested in more information about this if anyone has it, but the description fits, it seems like the exact sort of dick move this administration would pull, and its probably going to be impossible to get any more information soon besides just the loose descriptions we have, so I’d say it’s more likely than not that this is HC smoke until more information becomes available.
It is a precedent they want to set. That is the point of all of this ICE stuff, setting precedents on this issue because it’s the one they have the most support on.
They are setting them on this, for use in the next presidential election. And otherwise to crush protests.
Who tf is this Bovino guy? I bet he was a bully in high school.
From a reddit thread of someone who allegedly knew him:
I just found out I know Greg Bovino personally. Here are some things you can tell him when you next see him.
Hello, Minneapolis resident here but I didn’t always live in Minneapolis. Once, long ago I lived in a quiet little mountain town of Boone, NC. Guess who else grew up there? A pathetic squat little toad named Gregory Bovino. Well, that squat little toad grew up to be a squat little Nazi toad who has decided to come to my beautiful adopted home to torture, murder, and terrorize my friends and neighbors. He is personally going door to door, so if you see him, here’s a few very specific things from home you can politely yell at him:
“Hey Greg! Remember how your Dad murdered a woman in Blowing Rock while driving drunk? Like father like son I guess.”
“Hey Greg! You’re the reason your dad got drunk and killed that woman in Blowing Rock which lead to your parents divorce. I guess that means you’re the reason they got divorced.”
“Hey Greg! Do you think it’s weird that the Watauga High yearbook has you listed as “Most Likely to Shit His Pants in Public?”
“Hey Greg, your history teacher ‘G.I. Jones’ thinks you’re a pathetic Nazi punk. No wonder you failed all his classes.”
“Hey Greg! Did you know your mom is a register Democrat? Does that make Thanksgiving awkward?”
“Hey Greg! Remember when the Mast Store banned your for sniffing shoes after people tried them on?”
“Hey Greg! Do you remember eating the Watauga Pioneers wrestling team’s soggy biscuit? Is it still gay to eat to eat semen off a Bojangles biscuit or was that just an 80s thing?”
“Hey Greg! Watauga High still thinks you’re a loser!”
“Hey Greg! Boone, NC fucking hates you.”
“Hey Greg! They is it true only inbreds come from Possum Hollow?”
“Hey Greg! Remember when you fell into the porta-John at the Valle Country Fair and they couldn’t find you for hours and people just came in and kept shitting on you and shitting on you?”
“Hey Greg, remember when Mr. Combs found you jerking off to Nat Geo magazines in the high school bathroom?”
“Hey Greg remember swimming at Trash Can falls and your swim suit fell off and all the girls laughed at your micro penis? Watauga High still remembers.”
EDIT: in case anyone is wondering, the woman his father killed was named Janie Mae Mitchell. I’m sure he’ll remember the name if you want to yell it’s him.
EDIT 2: please join me in getting #GregBovino #SoggyBiscuit trending on TikTok and all other social media.
All that cheesy phrasing and shitty put downs makes the alleged veracity basically null. Buttfuck, this is how we talk now!
I just want to know how you fall in a porta potty. Like how is that a possible thing to happen?
Not in the modern sense of those things being all plastic. But I can see some enterprising lunatic bolting together a wooden 4x4 shack and carting it down to the county fair, and convincing an official to pay for the privilege. Then it gets installed atop a specially dug 8-foot-hole. And Gregory Bovino just wanders in there, inspects all the creature comforts of this high end custom log cabin shitterizo, and just jumps in the hole. Probably happened year after year at the county fair
Them freezing that order
The ICE agents’ use of gas and chemical spray on protesters came shortly after the 8th Circuit US Court of Appeals froze an earlier ruling from US District Judge Katherine Menendez that had barred federal agents from using such forms of force on peaceful protesters.
There is literally no reason to be peaceful anymore. There is no reason to not be kitted the fuck out when you go to “protest” anymore. There is no reason we shouldn’t just fuckin turn safeties off imo.
No. They want to have an excuse to declare martial law and start shooting randomly. Leave it to Minnesota, they’re handling it right.
Functionally, what would be different between what’s happening now, and martial law?
This is some lib shit. Fuck that noise.
If ICE keeps terrorizing communities, communities of people’s loved one, they have every right to protest that.
I don’t know if you know this, but if ICE continue to do this shit (and they will), the the inevitable outcome is a civil war.
This will not get better in the next year or 3 years before the next elections. It will get worse. And you’re telling people to just sit through the pain and suffering of this Admin, as if that will prevent more pain and suffering from coming.
Tim Walz should have used the MN National Guard to defend the People of Minnesota. Ever since he was cucked by Kamala Harris after the 2024 DNC, she’s shone himself to be a limp dick that willingly bends over to lick the boot of the fascists.
If Tim won’t protect people, they’ll do it themselves. And they’re right to.
Before Minnesota we barely moved public opinion, since nonviolent resistance started here, public opinion has shifted sharply. We are winning. The country is on our side. The second people take up arms the perception changes instantly. Don’t be fooled by your own anger.
start shooting randomly
… Start?
Forget about all those they have murdered in custody, they have been shooting this whole time. Renee Good was not the first. Hell, one was off duty and had some road rage. They’ve shot quite a few people who ran away from them on foot.
They dont need a reason, they already are. They can make up whatever excuse they want, since they clearly have no problem lying about what happens despite video showing how much they are lying.
Minnesota still has people getting attacked, beaten, and killed.
In Philadelphia, the DA has come out full force saying they will prosecute ICE. You have the Black Panthers (let’s not get sidetracked with the other shenanigans happening with them around the name, such stupid bullshit) walking around armed and ready. You have the Sheriff coming out directly after ICE.
I’d prefer people taking a stand to Waltz’ message of keeping calm. IMO, he failed Minnesotans already, and friends from there feel the same. If they were doing it right, would Nekima Armstrong have been arrested? Would you have an incident where ICE claims a man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall”?
If they were handling it right, would ICE have use a 5 yr old kid as bait last night?
The people of Minnesota are doing a decent job, but the state sure as shit isnt. The state has sent a clear message that they will not protect their citizens.
They’ll get martial law no matter what.
What about the randomly murdering part. So far, there’s only been one murder.
There have been 32 people killed in ICE detention: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/04/ice-2025-deaths-timeline
And at least six people shot in the street, two of them fatally.
I get that only the dead white lady matters to you, but the rest still happened.
Do you personally live in Minnesota or are you traveling there and bringing a gun? Make sure to film it for us so we can see how well it works. /s
You: there’s only been one murder
Other person: actually there’s been more than 1, here’s a link
You: shifts the goalposts into an entirely unrelated strawman
Try harder, bud. Your inability to accept that you’re wrong makes you look weak. You are weak.
What does this have to do with you not caring about people that ICE murders?
They want to have an excuse to declare martial law and start shooting randomly
This shit drives me absolutely insane.
They don’t need an excuse
They’re going to do it anyway, so people need to fucking defend themselves however they can. Stop spouting this horseshit
Then why haven’t they done it yet? They’ve had a year and it hasn’t happened.
This is what I’m fucking saying! They’re not pulling any punches so why the fuck are we?!
A) They don’t need an excuse. B) They are already doing everything that they supposedly needed martial law to do.
I understand that but imo this is not going to end well, let alone peacefully.
I just don’t see this administration/dictatorship conceding to anything just because production might have slowed down for a little bit. They’re in too deep now; they can’t just walk things back and go “whoops, sorry! How about we only prosecute a tiny fraction of agents that actually committed acts of force/violence to placate the masses” and it all cycles back around. They’re either going to get what they want or we’re going to have to stop them from taking it over our cold lifeless bodies.
Tell me I’m exaggerating.
Organized citizenry capable of pulling off general strikes could exact concessions time and again as they are willing to go on general strike. Nothing would harm them more than all business in the country shutting down for an extended period of time.
It would also show solidarity to the armed forces and security services that they plan on using to crush 1st amendment protected activity under false pretexts.
They’re in too deep now; they can’t just walk things back and go “whoops, sorry!
They’ll do that in a heartbeat. In fact, they do it alllll the fucking time. LA is a perfect example and relates to this. They didn’t have anyone on their side so they picked a new target.
We need more of an organized strategy but otherwise I agree. Armed conflict with the US military is a suicidal strategy. The general strike concept has far more promise.
I can’t say what I’d like to, so I’ll just say something about how if they’re shooting us and using banned gas grenades on us, we should be responding in kind.
The only language these fucks understand is violence, and it will take a significantly larger amount of it visited upon them for a longer amount of time for the message to become clear. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE INTOLERANCE.
This guy is literally Adolphus Murtry. Hope he meets a similar end.
Murtry had more principles than this guy. You know this clown won’t hesitate to throw his own people under the bus if it comes down to that.
We need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously!
Here’s an interesting article that is entirely unrelated and for educational purposes only.
Other potential thickening agents include baking soda, tar, strips of tire tubing, blood, XPS foam, egg whites, rubber cement, and even dish soap.
Ah yes let me just stroll over to my pantry and grab a few pints of blood.
Hey so I’m a pro fire performer and love sharing fun facts about fire performance.
We never use kerosene or gasoline, it’s disgusting and highly volatile. Of the two, kerosene burns a bit slower and for longer.
Our common fuels are camp fuel and lamp oil, both of which are wind resistant. Lamp oil burns for a long time and is slippery as hell, but it’s hard to ignite so we’ll sometimes mix it with some white gas when we want to get our props going quick. We only really use alcohols indoors since they’re not wind resistant, but they produce low smoke which is neat.
Modern wicks are made out of 100% kevlar, but older style torches use cotton from rags or tshirts. It has to be replaced quickly but works in a pinch.
For clothing, we only wear natural fibers. Synthetics will melt into your skin and turn a mild burn into something nasty. Synthetics are spandex, polyester, acrylic, etc (except for purpose made synthetics like Nomex). Leather is probably the best thing you can wear, and thick denim pants are an easy to find staple. Many hoodies are also safe for fire spinning in winter but check the tags first.
What would you use if you wanted it hot and sticky?
Or just tape a storm match on it and light it before you throw. That way it only ignites on delivery.
And that’s the closest he’s been to having an erection in a long time.
hes being surrounded by men, thats the only time he gets one.
They’re being very flattering with that camera angle/crop.
