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.
Friday night after watching clip after clip of the general strike, the reporting of businesses signing up to close, those that gave out food for free rather than charge sales tax. I had a moment of hope, and I told my friends: The regime is going to collapse. Donald Trump is clearly very unpopular; I like how Felix constantly reminds listeners that Trump won because it was a cost of living election and the other candidate was the lame duck's vice president (and a genocide enabler). A lot of people voted for Trump because "immigration" was a radioactive topic for them. So was inflation, healthcare, jobs, etc. Now that they know what "cracking down on immigration" means, they are having buyer's remorse. Then ICE killed a person in cold blood, the administration circled the wagons, and made things even worse for them by lying about the murder.
I still think the vibe has shifted and think this administration is on the back foot. It's been building up. My biggest fear is all of the ruinous and damaging things they can do on the way down. We can't bring back Renee Good, we can't resurrect Alex Pretti or Keith Porter. There's so many people being warehoused right now. I would not be surprised if they enact a "final solution" as it becomes clear the midterm is over for them. I am concerned that with the supreme court set to decide on birthright citizenship. They might push things off the cliff, ignoring the writing on the wall.
I keep thinking of Gramsci's quote, the old world is dying and the new one is ready to be born. I think we might usher a truly egalitarian society. I am fairly certain that the milquetoast democrats are gonna lose to more radical, DSA, or DSA adjacent, anti-zionist/AIPA, candidates. I think we are gonna have to keep up the pressure and demand multiple impeachments, purges of the republicans from congress, state assemblies, etc. through investigations into their cooperation with Trump. They are going to have to pass anti-trust regulation with significantly more teeth to break up meta, palantir, google, and microsoft.
These assholes probably will do this, Trump did say he wants to destroy his "enemies" within the USA