The poet Juvenal wrote that the people of ancient Rome were bribed with bread and circuses to accept the end of democracy and the establishment of the dictatorship known as the Roman Empire. The classic playbook to accustom people to autocracy is to meet their material needs while channeling their attention towards activities that substitute for self-determination.

Donald Trump is trying to accomplish something more unusual: he aims to preside over the destruction of the last vestiges of the social safety net and the impoverishment of the middle class while buying off his support base with entertainment alone.

His administration has not bolstered the economy but further destabilized it, as if intentionally rendering people more precarious, desperate, and exploitable. In return for this, we are supposed to content ourselves with watching the violent reality television gameshow of his presidency.

Less bread, more circuses.

https://crimethinc.com/turningtide#less-bread-more-circuses

Protecting Your Neighbors by Following ICE Vehicles

A Guide from the Bay Area

https://crimethinc.com/ICEvehicles

Over the course of the second Trump administration, people around the country have developed models for defending their communities from federal agents intent on kidnapping and terrorizing. We have shared guides from organizers in Chicago and the Twin Cities. In the same spirit, we present this guide to following Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles, developed in the Bay Area.

Traición fabricada

Una declaración de Defensa de Movimiento Fire Ant sobre la solidaridad y la traición en los juicios de Prairieland.

https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/07/traicion-fabricada-declaracion-de-defensa-de-movimiento-fire-ant-sobre-la-solidaridad-y-la-traicion-en-los-juicios-de-prairieland-1

#Español

What happened to the cop who murdered Carlo Giuliani?

These are his words about his life today, from

https://www.agi.it/cronaca/news/2021-07-19/g8-genova-mario-placanica-sprai-carlo-giuliani-prigione-infinita-13316957/

Even if you are prepared to murder for the ruling class, they will use you to protect their privileges, then throw you away. They're using you to kill because they don't value life—yours or anyone's.

We can't pity this man who chose to murder a young man like himself for the benefit of his bosses. He is responsible for killing Carlo Giuliani for a paycheck, much as he might pretend to be a victim. He is still telling the story with himself at the center, creating a false equivalency between himself and the one he killed.

But everyone should know that there is nothing to be gained from being a mercenary.

https://crimethinc.com/CarloGiuliani

This is a good time to learn about how the state uses grand juries to collect information with which to attack social movements and dissent in general.

Here, you can read about how three people successfully resisted grand jury indictments.

https://crimethinc.com/resistgrandjuries

« No Way Home » : la réponse d’un ancien détenu anarchiste à Fire Ant Movement Defense

https://crimethinc.com/2026/07/11/-no-way-home-la-reponse-dun-ancien-detenu-anarchiste-a-fire-ant-movement-defense

En réponse au communiqué que nous avons publié de la part du Fire Ant Movement Defense, nous avons reçu cette contribution de la part d’Eric King, un anarchiste et ancien prisonnier politique qui à passé presque une décennie derrière les barreaux.

#Français

"The power of the police, as the power of the FBI, the courts, and the federal government, is rooted in violence. The fact that the violence does not always come into bloody play does not alter the fact that the power of the government is not the integrating power of love but the disintegrating power of guns and prisons."

—Dave Dellinger

https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-police-english