In the first days of December, as it became clear that the ICE invasion was a real thing that was really happening to us, as groups of us gathered swapping rumors about the kidnappings and clearly inadequate tips about phone security, we had no idea what to expect, no idea what would happen, no idea what we were going to do. As much as we’d planned, heard from other cities, tried to be ready, we had no idea.

Only one thing was crystal clear: nobody, absolutely nobody, was coming to save us.

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It was clarifying. We knew, with complete certainty, that nobody was coming to save us.

If we don’t stand in their way when they come to kidnap our neighbors, nobody will stand in their way.

If we don’t try to help people who need to hide, nobody will help them hide.

If we don’t try to feed people who can’t work, can’t even go outside to get food, nobody will feed them.

It put things into focus really fast.

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@inthehands

The fetishization of "heroes" in American culture has always been cognitively dissonant.

https://professionalsoutherner.com/2025/03/04/the-problem-of-the-hero/

People waiting around being miserable, suffering, and dying, waiting for the cavalry to arrive, or a small group of superheroes, or a lone man coming to the rescue.

It portrays Americans as a passive people letting others step forward & do the hard stuff.

Perlmutter, a major GOP donor, is the former owner of several movie franchises like the Marvel Universe.

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I sometimes wonder if such movies, with their strong theme that citizens are powerless collateral damage as the powerful battle each other, that they train voters to think they can sit on the sidelines & be Monday Morning Quarterbacks, second guessing but not participating.

16. Isaac & Laura Perlmutter $25,344,890

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/isaac-perlmutter-donald-trump-halloween-1236416587/

The Epstein Class wants us to believe someone else has the job of fighting fascism and the electorate just has to sit on their asses & ...