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#AutumnHill had already gone home when a #protest outside an #ICE facility turned violent. She was still sentenced to 50 years, over twice as long as any #Jan6 defendant

by MATTHEW COOLEY
August 12, 2026

"The battering ram took down the door first. A column of steel bolted to the front of a tactical vehicle slammed through Autumn Hill’s front entryway. Then the windows shattered. FBI agents threw flash-bang grenades through the glass, their concussions rattling the house’s front rooms. Hill was in the shared office space, in a thin red dress, puttering around on her computer. She heard screams from the other rooms. Then, the buzzing of a drone, as the police flew a quadcopter in through the splintered doorframe. A voice from the drone shrieked out, telling the residents of the house to come out with their hands up. Hill was terrified. She edged out of the door and immediately stared down a wall of gun barrels, masked agents screaming orders, the drone screaming in the air behind her.

" 'I remember thinking, ‘If I don’t do exactly what I’m told for the next minute of my life I’m going to die right now,' Hill says.

Through its loudspeaker, the #drone called repeatedly for one name: '#BenjaminSong.' Song wasn’t in the house, and no one inside knew them by that name. To Hill and her chosen family — an eclectic mix of personalities who lived together in what they called the '#BigGayHouse' — Song was 'Champagne,' a #genderfluid, politically #radical #activist who had, the night before, led a group to a demonstration outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility near #PrairielandTX. The protest, on July 4, 2025, was loosely organized in a collection of local activism group chats, and attracted a few dozen attendees, all of whom had their own idea of what they wanted to accomplish. Many, like Hill, planned a '#NoiseDemo,' or a loud protest involving fireworks and loud chants, aimed at disrupting the guards’ routine and letting the detainees inside know that they had supporters outside the fence."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/eRg8I

#WarOnTheLeft #USPol #Prairieland #DetentionCenters #Fascism #NSPM7 #PrairielandDefendants #Orwellian #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #Prairieland8 #CharacteristicsOfFascism

#trump #autumnhill #protest #ice #jan6 #drone

Ally Kotetsu @[email protected] · 2026-08-12 · 22:45 UTC

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AntiracistHippie @[email protected] · 2026-08-11 · 01:18 UTC

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Verdant Square Radio @[email protected] · 2026-08-11 · 00:13 UTC

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AntiracistHippie @[email protected] · 2026-08-08 · 23:24 UTC

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AntiracistHippie @[email protected] · 2026-08-04 · 01:18 UTC

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schalken @[email protected] · 2026-07-31 · 22:20 UTC

"""
Many anarchists today are terrified of being seen as 'irresponsible.' The wider liberal-left culture frames politics through the lens of compliance, safety, and harm-minimisation. Anything that challenges institutional frameworks is seen as reckless. Anything that disrupts political normalcy is dangerous. Anything that undermines parliamentary leftism is indirectly 'helping the Right.'

This creates a paralysing moral landscape where the worst sin an anarchist can commit is not supporting the status quo loudly enough. The fear of being blamed for a right-wing victory becomes so overwhelming that many stop imagining politics outside the narrow horizon of elections. The fear of being accused of 'not caring' about marginalised communities becomes a weapon used to silence radical politics.
"""

From the interesting text "The Liberal Capture of Anarchism" by a group called The Polar Bl@st, as reprinted by the Anarchist Communist Group:

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2026/07/22/the-liberal-capture-of-anarchism/

#anarchism #socialism #communism #radical

WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-07-28 · 17:56 UTC

A quotation from Eisenhower

People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. There have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Interview (1963-11-05) by William Stringer, “Midroad View at Gettysburg,” Christian Science Monitor

More about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/17…

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8petros @[email protected] · 2026-07-28 · 07:47 UTC

Is it really just me who thinks that #ai #LLM is no different from a gun or car - a product of hostile capitalist civilisation, but perfectly useful as a tool for #radical #resistance?

IF not, let us create a working group to bring this power to the people!

#llm #ai #radical #resistance

AntiracistHippie @[email protected] · 2026-07-28 · 01:24 UTC

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AntiracistHippie @[email protected] · 2026-07-21 · 01:21 UTC

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Ashwin Dixit @[email protected] · 2026-07-17 · 00:50 UTC

ICE Breaker!

AntiFa could infiltrate ICE, since their recruitment standards are so low.

Be deep undercover.

1. Leak ICE activity to the AntiFa network, so they can move innocent people before ICE arrives.

2. If an ICE agent is about to shoot a person, shoot them in the back, and report it as a field casualty under enemy fire.

3. Spread the word, that this is actually happening. Use all fake news and propaganda techniques. Psychological warfare itself may be enough to drive ICE crazy. Step 2 ( above ) may never be needed.

If enough people do this, ICE agents will become paranoid. Their morale will be broken, as they suspect each other, trying to sus out the AntiFa moles, and worry about being shot in the back. They will think twice about harming an innocent person. ICE will destroy itself from within.

#ICE #AntiFa #Radical #RadicalMedia #USA #USPol #MAGA #America