Yes, exactly. The real burden is we don't leave peeps behind, and that's always going to be our #1 priority. Besides destroying peeps lives, the #2 tragedy is the extreme chilling effect.

This here is a shot across the bow of NVDA as a viable tactic. Flat out. This is much, much larger than MAGAism, which will end up being a passing fad.

We can only hope.

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You have your ear to the ground on this stuff better than anybody else ITT. If you hear of times and dates in advance, please post them. That is something I would be willing to support in person. Solidarity with all who resist imo.

Me too.

That's a long trip for you.

Oh yeah. I was spacing and thinking of Shame Trolley in San Diego, which is close enough.

All the Shame Trolleys are actually MissileDog right?

I haven't been here long enough to know any other Shame Trolley or missiledog.

Unsurprisingly the White House is saying they intend to push on construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.

This is from Rojava Syria

And with that Trump loses the last of the semi-sympathetic Bernie Bros.

does anybody actually care about that?

Yes.

I really fear for these brave folks under MAGAism. They're fighting for a bigger stakes... life or death. But still, they extend solidarity to us. Such is solidarity.

I have no inside information. It's also very unlikely I'll be in DC. I will, however, share what I find googling around.

First up, from the chit-chat down at the local, it's already common knowledge that the mass arrests were in reaction to that limo burning. Just as I eyewitnessed up in Seattle on N30, the MSM has some serious timeline problems. Believe me, if we had the ability to time travel, we wouldn't keep getting our butts beat on the street.

Here is what arrestees are claiming happened, in a legal action. There is a link to the actual lawsuit itself from this article...
From all reports, interim DC Police Chief P.Newsham is a rogue cop. As usual in mass arrests, his department isn't letting facts get in the way of their self-serving spew...

It seems Newsham personally ordered the attack on Friday. Back in 2002, as the officer in charge, he most definitely personally ordered this attack...

On a more personal note, some of my FWs it seems were caught up in this attack. From an IWW listserve...

Thank you for your service.

I don't know that people don't want to. I think we don't realize the opportunities there are to help. Like I never really thought a random person could just go to the legislature to "lobby for a cause".

I always assumed to run for office you had to be a polished Ivy League'er who majored in Poli Sci and worked at it your whole life, but I've realized that's not the case. Running could definitely be in my future.

I think the idea of holding political office is exciting for a lot of people, but they just assume it's an impossible goal.

Heh one of my good friends was one of those arrested in 2002 in DC. She was a student newspaper reporter just interviewing the protesters. She just got her last payment from the settlement like a year ago.

IIRC the harsh penalties for getting arrested at an event with secret service protection were signed by President Obama.

Now I get why HR 347 was mentioned earlier by someone wanting to say Dems do it too.

The Republican sponsored law was supposedly put in place because the SS was not legally able to limit access to the White House and there were legit security concerns.

But, like many other laws, it becomes something lawyers (mostly prosecutors) see as a tool they can use whether it is being used in the manner intended or not. In that it joins things like the RICO act, the 14th amendment, or many of the anti-terrorism laws.

Besides being false... no1curr. This is hardly a donkey/elephant thingee. The peeps who are all into the donkey/elephant freak show are a whole different bunch'o'peeps.

Slurp slurp slurp... Shift change!

It seems interim chief P.Newsham has a thing about attacking the working press too...

Notice, once again, the accusations of time travel.

I really don't have too much sympathy for those who were trying to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power to the legitimately elected successor. Hopefully those people will dealt with harshly and those who were just exercising their 1st amendment rights will be let go.

Hopefully they really prosecute the time travelers. That kind of thing is very dangerous.

Yeah, besides nobody caring what you think, that's hardly what the peeps subject to mass arrest were doing. They weren't trying to disrupt the transfer of power. Whatever gave you that fool idea. I already explained to you that this is hardly a donkey/elephant thingee.

Just as one glaring example, look at Rex Tillerson and how problematic he is with regards to the climate change issue. There's absolutely no reason the impending destruction of our ecosystem and the resulting destruction of humanity-as-we-know-it should be a left-right issue. Conservatives should be flooding their Representatives and Senators' offices with phone calls demanding that he not be confirmed, because they have kids and grandkids too and they also presumably want to continue to breathe relatively clean air and drink relatively clean water too. But here we are.

Change 'Russians' to 'Republicans'