"State Terror Has Arrived"

[AverageOldGuy]

Got that? "State Terror Has Arrived" is the title of an article by M. Gessen, opinion writer for the NY Times. Here's a link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.TUYu.G-i96a8XVS4z&smid=url-share

May be behind a paywall.

Here is the opening.

After the past three weeks of brutality in Minneapolis, it should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear — a fear of violence from which some people may at a given moment be spared, but from which no one will ever be truly safe. That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.
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[UpInArms]

1. From your link

The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims. It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.

[Danmel]

2. Here is gift link

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/opinion/state-terror-has-arrived.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HFA.yIWH.2WNhfm8jzRpO&smid=url-share

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. One thing I hope this moment brings home to white people is that the dismay/stress/terror they feel now is something

that Black people/POC and other marginalized communities have lived with since the founding of the nation. This is a huge opportunity to build new avenues of solidarity.

[orangecrush]

4. Kick