Don't know if what I'm feeling is grounded in reality since I just had a particularly productive therapy session but I think I was feeling this beforehand too when I was scrolling this morning.
From what I'm seeing in the shift in posture, Stephen Miller blew his load and I assume Capital is getting antsy and is trying to cut off the Infinite Vice-Signal Machine. In a dark way, Alex Pretti was the perfect victim for the American public, and his execution was so blatantly appalling that it seems that that, alongside the general strike, is shocking the bourgeoisie into realignment with social liberalism for the first time since 2025's "mandate".
If it is the case that the leash is being pulled, expect to see the internal contradictions between the accelerationist cadre (ICE, Miller, Noem, Bovino, Thiel) and the thermostatics (Trump, Cruz, Vance) start to heighten. (EDIT: it, at least rhetorically, begins) The state-integrated Proud Boys and Oathkeepers on the ground are going to try to hit the gas on the tension pedal now that the leash for Unlimited GTA LARP might be tugged. They want to provoke the race war as much as they possibly can before the party ends. Miller, if competent, will take an L, fall into the background, and bide his time until we approach US midterms for another ramping up of domestic repression. They seem to want to make Noem and/or Bovino the fall guys for this, though I'd laugh if they somehow take Miller down with them.
If you are in the USA and my vibe meter holds (meaning the admin takes the L on this and retreats), you should be operating as if this is an armistice that will last, reasonably, at most until midterm elections. Even if they fold on their aura-farming about 'canceling the elections', treat it like they won't and immediately seek to organize with cool people within your area. gather the tools, strategies and general means to defend against and disrupt militant repression.
If I'm wrong (the admin doubles down), then we are truly in the Decades Week, agitate as much as possible to the laymen and rally for shows of worker power, as well as linking up with your local socialists and workers, of course. The former path's goals are worthwhile too if you and your comrades can muster them in time.
The best time to get offline and talk to the people in your area was when you first gained political consciousness. The second best time is now.
I have had some very similar thoughts on this matter, but I was waiting to collect them and add to this thread till I got home from work to use my computer. I am glad I did because what I saw on my way home is a very in your face example: The bus I take home passes through a main intersection where the county courthouse and other city government functions are held. For the past couple years there is almost always anywhere from a handful of protesters out with signs and slogans to three to four dozen for shit like No Kings. Tonight they were so numerous the bus couldn't even stop in front of the courthouse. I am talking like 5 or 6 times the largest crowd I have seen there and this was as it was winding down and people were dispersing. I am dead tired from working all day and have some stuff that I needed to take care of at home so I am not going back out. Looks like it is already over for today anyway. Yes it is the sort of toothless non-disruptive "protest" white libs love so much, but I can tell more people are taking shit more seriously.
We will see where all this goes, but generally yes, major vibe shift in just the past week. Even my bus driver talked to me a little about it since we had to go an extra half a city block just to drop off passengers.