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    "http://patreon.com/stepbackhistory",
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  "textContent": "\n\nICE killed two people in Minneapolis. The courts issued orders. The orders were ignored. And a major segment of the country is acting like this is fine.\n\nThis video is a diagnostic. Not \"here's what's happening,\" you know what's happening. This is about the machinery underneath: how a democracy legally suspends itself, how colonial hardware comes home, and why filming police brutality didn't stop police brutality. Then we look at three historical blueprints, the Black Panthers, the Underground Railroad, and a cook named Georgia Gilmore, for what actually works against a surveillance state that can't be shamed into stopping.\n\nThe thesis: fascism isn't a monster. It's a bureaucracy. And resistance isn't heroics. It's logistics.\n\nI've been gone for fifteen months. I'm back.\n\n——\n\n📰 Newsletter (free tier available): http://patreon.com/stepbackhistory\n\n💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/4mRM9WNfJQ\n\n🦋 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stepback.nebula.tv\n\n——\n\nSOURCES & FURTHER READING:\n\nGiorgio Agamben, _State of Exception_ (2003)\nAimé Césaire, _Discourse on Colonialism_ (1950)\nAchille Mbembe, \"Necropolitics\" (2011)\nJodi Dean, _Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies_ (2009)\nJessica Calarco _Holding It Together_ (2024)\nMeshtastic Guide: https://meshtastic.org/docs/getting-started/",
  "title": "they sent 3,000 agents. they weren't ready for the PTA."
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