As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil. https://xcancel.com/Schwalm5132 11:03 AM · Jan 25, 2026 7.8M Views https://xcancel.com/Schwalm5132/status/2015470661490057540 View quoted note →

100 years ago, people would to dress to the nines just to go out for a walk. We have lost all sense of dignity, likely from generations of demeaning music, television, Hollywood productions and the sexual devolution.

Hardwired phone - latest homeschooled tech - (voip.ms number connected to an FXS ATA with e911 service) Now the kids can call grandma when their laptop time limits are reached

What does it feel like to raise children who do not resemble anyone in your family of origin? View quoted note →

Be careful that you are liked by too many

I have often wondered: could it be that there was a time when advertising shifted from being benign to becoming parasitic on society; and that corporate social media is an enhancement of that same mechanism first harnessed by newspapers, then radio, then television; where media outlets draw so much of people’s attention away from their own lives and into unproductive, passive, low-grade entertainment that overall societal productivity declines so dramatically that the very customers who would consume the products and services being peddled are no longer able to afford them; thereby leaving medicine as the primary and terminal product, because it is not paid for by the consumer themselves but directly through money printing via subsidized and socialized medical care? View quoted note →