{"id":6812,"date":"2026-01-27T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6812"},"modified":"2026-01-28T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:09:02","slug":"reason-for-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6812","title":{"rendered":"Reason for Hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis might, just <em>might,<\/em> be the start of the sort of none-of-the-above grassroots opposition movement <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6346\">of which I have written.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something is definitely happening there. A <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-185417158\">longtime anarchist activist<\/a> who I trust (and whom I have worked with on some actions in years past) has noticed it. Even the staid old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/2026\/01\/minneapolis-uprising\/685755\/?gift=_NdOGdoZXpViYoNFopokETxPbb9QM-Fy5CKJl03QX8s\">Atlantic<\/a> seems to be noticing it.<\/p>\n<p>The question is: what happens now? Trump is making feeble de-escalating noises. Will people fall for it, or will they realize that when something is wobbling a bit, that means it is time to give it a bigger shove?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis might, just might, be the start of the sort of none-of-the-above grassroots opposition movement of which I have written. Something is definitely happening there. A longtime anarchist activist who I trust (and whom I have worked with on some actions in years past) has noticed it. Even the staid old Atlantic seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}