Eric Dirnbach
Labor Movement Organizer, Researcher, Campaigner, Educator, Writer & Socialist, Philly born, NYC now.
https://ericdirnbach.medium.com
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- CONGRATS DIANA!
- Amazing that the two great worries of the far right over the past 10 years have been the existence of an elite pedophile conspiracy and growing state tyranny, and we now have both of these with Trump.
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Minnesota organizations have been organizing for years to get to the place where they could pull off a general strike. We don’t have years, but we can learn from them and scale up quickly. We have no choice!- What happened in the Twin Cities that made it possible for organizations to pull off such a successful strike? And what can be done to make such actions succeed in other parts of the country? labornotes.org/2026/01/how-... 1/3
- "The language of ceasefire has been repurposed in Gaza: It no longer describes a pause in violence but rather a mechanism for managing it." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
- "Largely unconcerned and frequently unconstrained by law, Trump has found in his Department of Homeland Security what Jones warned was coming a decade ago: a paramilitary force to terrorize political opponents and demographic undesirables."
- Congrats QAnon, you were kinda right!
- "An unaccountable private army of the executive is not necessary to carry out any kind of humane immigration policy, and it is incompatible with democracy and freedom."
- UE Demands Congress Abolish ICE “An unaccountable private army of the executive is incompatible with democracy and freedom” The statement of the UE General Executive Board is available here: www.ueunion.org/political-ac...
- I think I remember hearing about her in the 90s when I was involved with the student anti-sweatshop movement, an absolute hero. www.propublica.org/article/nike...
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- Love maga social media comments like, "WAKE UP brainwashed SHEEP who blindly OBEY your masters, and BELIEVE PROPAGANDA and are too STUPID to know what's going on," which is perfect coming from maga.
- The ACLU should look into this case of...the ACLU. "...it is more than willing to torch the speech rights of tens of millions of Americans if doing so allows it to avoid reinstating a single worker that both an arbitrator & an NLRB ALJ have concluded they fired illegally" jacobin.com/2026/01/aclu...
- My fave stat of the day wow. "Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
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- Reposted by Eric DirnbachPresident Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- I will continue my lifelong boycott of this "film."
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- Reposted by Eric DirnbachTake his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
- Mayor Snowran Mamdani. www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachHoly moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
- (CNN) - The fast-growing measles outbreak in South Carolina is now the largest in the United States since the disease was declared eliminated in this country more than two decades ago. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/h...
- "ICE is not simply a border agency that occasionally intrudes into the economy. It is a labor-market institution: an apparatus that disciplines workers, structures whole industries, and makes organizing riskier." jacobin.com/2026/01/minn...
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachPeople seem to have forgotten that the establishment of Homeland Security was highly controversial as it was seen as a danger to democracy. It was feared that it would one day be used AGAINST the American people. And here we are. Tin soldiers and HOMELAND coming We’re finally on our own
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachStephen Miller going down at the power of the labor movement would be one of the proudest moments I'd witness in my nearly 20 years in organized labor. Let's get it done.
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- Reposted by Eric Dirnbachbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
- As the joke goes, we have fascism because people wanted to say the R word. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
- We need these everywhere all the time now.
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- Reposted by Eric DirnbachI watched the entire DHS press conference which Bovino just held a few minutes ago. They are tripling down on the fascism. Bovino could not have not been more clear that there is nothing that can't be justified in the name of immigration enforcement, and that there will never be consequences for ICE
- Reposted by Eric Dirnbach"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.
- Bros, at least read Capital Vol 1 first.
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachVoting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
- A chilling letter and betrays the real game here. I especially appreciate that the majority of the citations are federal agencies and fox news, basically citing themselves. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- The systematic MAGA hypocrisy and double standards are obvious and should be pointed out every time. But we are operating in a different paradigm, now with 2 sets of rules that MAGA is trying to enforce...
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- The Anatomy of Fascism book is great and lists the essential components. How well does this describe Trump/MAGA?
- The amount of nonstop and shameless lying by this administration makes me long for the days when administrations just did the normal amount of regular lying.
- That's it. That's the policy.
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachWhat's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachThe federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.
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- I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Chuck Schumer: STOP ICE NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/chuc...
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachNorthern Lights over Greenland.
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachIf the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
- For the "ICE needs more training folks," I'm curious about the curriculum to retrain ICE death squads. That's gotta have some powerful role plays and group exercises.
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachNuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
- The actual tyranny they whined about is now here, and it's no surpise they just wanted their tyrant to do the tyranny.
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
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- Reposted by Eric DirnbachI hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.
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- Unbelievable. "...ITV documentary revealed that more than 21,000 workers were estimated to have died or disappeared under Saudi Vision 2030, the massive urbanization program that counts Neom as its crown jewel." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
- ICE OUT FOR GOOD, #NYC
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- Reposted by Eric DirnbachIt's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason
- This book is really good. Whether or not MAGA is an actual fascist movement, this book has useful stuff that provides insight into Trump and MAGA throughout.
- Just stunning mismanagement and terrible judgment here. prospect.org/2026/01/20/h...
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachThere is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.
- "And Trump, being Trump, has refrained from devoting any serious thought or attention to deep and lasting economic reforms. Instead, he’s pushed a series of gimmicky policy responses that amount to opportunistic photo-ops at best, and cynical afterthoughts at worst" www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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- "Learn about how to research corporations collaborating with ICE in this new guide" littlesis.org/news/six-ste...
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachA memo was released by ICE instructing agents to violate the U.S. Constitution. ICE told officers and agents that they can forcibly enter homes without warrants signed by judges. The memo was from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, was shared with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) by two whistleblowers.
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- NO KILLERS, NO KIDNAPPINGS, NO KINGS, #NYC
- Reposted by Eric Dirnbach“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
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- I don't want to see anyone deported, but this is definitely a "I didn't think the face-eating leopards would eat my face" thing. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
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- This is like holding a gun to the head of the world and yelling "look what you you made me do" while demanding the peace prize.
- What an absolute and unsurprising disappointment she has been, the GOP dumps do-nothings and/or worker haters into this job. www.rawstory.com/lori-chavez-...
- Make Heaven Crowded is an insane title.
- Haha why doesn't Trump demand a star for the Trump Tower Grill?!?!
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- Nobody is surprised. "It was a bunch of empty promises from a bunch of Wall Street types who abandoned their pledges when it was no longer convenient,” said a former BlackRock executive who requested anonymity to speak freely about their former employer." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...
- Looks fantastic! "Picket Line captures what many of us have experienced as organizers or workers who have taken the extraordinary step of withholding our labor to make the boss come to terms with our demands." nwlaborpress.org/2026/01/newl...
- As the joke goes, the billionaires pay the millionaires to tell the thousandaires to hate the hundredaires. www.oxfamamerica.org/press/riches...
- Reposted by Eric Dirnbachthis is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities
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- Reposted by Eric Dirnbachfwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...
- Reposted by Eric DirnbachAverage Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time
