Nadya Tolokonnikova,
the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot,
was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles
when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Police helicopters hovered overhead. Somewhere, through a loudspeaker, an officer delivered a tinny order to disperse.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a
“durational performance” reenacting her two ye…
"For Glory's Sake - For Vengeance Sake - War"
The predicate is being laid.
There’s a very easy A to B if, after a day or two or three, you don’t see the violence stop,
you could imagine easily that Trump would use that as a pretext for a much more sweeping assertion of power.
So we are at a very, very dangerous time.
The rhetoric is maximal rhetoric. The deployment is relatively minimal, but I’m worried it’s only a matter of time before the depl…