Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
'Socialist ‘Red Rabbits’ are training for national uprising against cops'
As its national influence has risen, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has simultaneously grown more extreme. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the group’s “Red Rabbits” initiative.
The Red Rabbits Security Commission, a subgroup within the DSA focused on “community defense” efforts, is, according to its authorizing resolution, preparing for a “national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.”
In practice, that means training cadres in tactics like armed and unarmed self-defense, blocking intersections, and fighting “fascists” with umbrellas.
A recent panel offered an unprecedented window into what the project looks like. Organizers from Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, Tucson, Austin, and Portland compared notes.
As the discussion made clear, the DSA is trying to construct a nationwide security apparatus to support its expanding role in street protests and direct-action organizing. And in so doing, it fears drawing the attention of the Internal Revenue Service — likely with good reason.
Safe name
The DSA launched the Red Rabbits Security Commission at its 2025 national convention.
Organizers chose the deliberately innocuous name as a nod to the novel “Watership Down,” in which anthropomorphized rabbits are outnumbered and beset by enemies. Earlier branding proposals, including “National Vigilance Committee,” were deemed too politically stark, with some members concerned that they could be interpreted as an endorsement of vigilantism.
The Red Rabbits claim their focus is on five core security skills: de-escalation, Stop the Bleed (a first aid training on bleeding control), firearm safety, unarmed self-defense and protest marshaling (crowd management during demonstrations). The commission has set a goal of having at least five members in 40% of DSA chapters complete these trainings.
Since its inauguration, the committee has been a source of internal controversy. That includes an unsuccessful effort by members of the DSA’s governing National Political Committee to remove a Maoist organizer whose past public comments included praise for revolutionary violence. The committee ultimately voted to retain him.
Still, the Red Rabbits have mostly kept a low profile. The recent panel, an introduction to the Red Rabbits’ nationally approved training, marked the commission’s first major public-facing appearance.
The panel was organized by Hazel Williams, a National Political Committee member and former co-chair of California DSA, and was meant to provide “lessons learned, best practices, and practical guidance for building security committees in local chapters.”
Self-defense squad
During the event, local chapters described a range of security preparations broader than that envisioned by the national commission. These included martial-arts sparring, evacuation planning, wound-packing, radio communications, the use of umbrellas and signs to shield participants from and block “fascists,” and even chemical-exposure training, in which participants practiced being pepper-sprayed.
Some chapters already conduct in-house trainings or are working to expand them, such as the Philadelphia chapter’s plan to develop what one member called “sick” firearm-safety trainings. The DSA’s Oklahoma City Queer Fight Club has evidently become a local training hub, teaching self defense and broader “community defense” skills. Portland DSA has organized trainings on blocking intersections with bicycles, a practice known as “corking.”
Panelists also explained that, as the Red Rabbits initiative has grown, other activist groups have come to depend on it for “self-defense” purposes.
In New Jersey, DSA’s immigrant justice working group has become a go-to security resource for immigrant organizations and Palestine affinity groups. In Philadelphia, the Red Rabbits started with abortion clinic “defense” efforts, then expanded to helping groups focused on everything from “immigrant justice” to “Palestinian solidarity.”
Philly DSA’s Red Rabbits team apparently functions as a “movement incubator” due to its many community relationships. Those include the Philly Palestine Coalition, where the Red Rabbits team led the “direct action contingent.”
That work has also drawn the DSA into closer alliance with even more radical groups. Tucson’s Red Rabbits, for example, work with the Party for Socialism and Liberation — a would-be revolutionary political party with close ties to the Communist Party of China. Portland DSA cited its work with the National Lawyers Guild — a left-wing legal group with historic ties to the Soviet Union — to provide know-your-rights trainings.
Legal scrutiny
Because they may be outside DSA’s mandate as a 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organization, the Red Rabbits trainings could invite legal scrutiny and jeopardize the tax-exempt status of its sister group, the DSA Fund.
As a 501(c)(4), the DSA must, according to the IRS, “operate primarily to further the common good and general welfare of the people of the community.”
Some Red Rabbits activities, like know-your-rights education and de-escalation training, probably meet that threshold. But it’s hard to argue that a street-level security force geared toward disruption, confrontation, and resistance to law enforcement exists primarily to “further the common good.”
Tactics such as blocking traffic with bicycles, training activists to escape physical holds, forming umbrella phalanxes to confront “fascists” and conducting “takedowns on intersections” bear little resemblance to traditional social-welfare activities.
Instead, they suggest preparation for a broader “national uprising” — one of the organization’s stated directives.
The DSA has largely avoided scrutiny, despite its increasingly extreme rhetoric and practices. As the organization grows in influence and increasingly aligns itself with radical activists and hostile regimes abroad, elected officials and government institutions have continued to look the other way.
If Republicans, Democrats and state and federal authorities keep ignoring these red flags, they may eventually find themselves living under one.
Kuwait Turns To Anduril For $2 Billion Counter-Drone Shield After Horrifying Airport Attack
The moment an Iranian Shahed-136 drone struck Kuwait International Airport last week appears to have been a major wake-up call for Kuwaiti officials. The incident likely crystallized a troubling reality: legacy air-defense systems are not enough to counter the Shahed drone threat spreading across the Gulf, and Kuwait needs to supercharge the deployment of layered counter-UAS systems with both electronic and kinetic defeat capabilities.
Kuwaiti officials release video showing the Iranian attack on Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 1, which killed 1 person and injured 63 others.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 4, 2026
Contributed by @AZ_Intel_. pic.twitter.com/TRzqKOR4Dg
The State Department revealed shortly after the airport attack last week that it approved a potential $1.98 billion foreign military sale to Kuwait for Anduril-made counter-drone systems.
"The Government of Kuwait has requested to buy counter-unmanned aerial systems platforms," the State Department wrote in a press release.
Two Roadrunners return autonomously to base after intercepting non-threatening air targets.
— Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) August 21, 2025
Roadrunner’s vertical takeoff and landing capabilities allow our warfighters to recover and redeploy for the next mission. pic.twitter.com/sgWgviMnae
What the $2 billion package includes:
Counter-unmanned aerial systems platforms Roadrunner-Munition and Anvil-Kinetic; launch boxes; lattice command and control; Long Range Sentry Tower with Fire Control; Long Range Sentry Tower-82 Mobile; Extended Range Sentry Towers; Maritime Sentry Towers; pulsar electromagnetic warfare; menace tactical operations centers; generators; publications; personnel training; software development; U.S. Government and contractor engineering, technical, and logistics support services; and other related elements of logistics and program support.
State continued, "The proposed sale will improve Kuwait's capability to meet current and future threats by providing electronic and kinetic defeat capabilities against unmanned aerial systems. Kuwait will have no difficulty absorbing these articles and services into its military police forces."
Must Reads:
- Logic Of Violence: We Are Nowhere Near The Endgame In Drone Wars
Micro AI Sentry Guns May Be Next Layer Of Defense For Data Centers Against Kamikaze Drones
U.S. Deploys Ukrainian Acoustic Sensors, Interceptor Drones At Prince Sultan Air Base
The takeaway is that this package from Anduril is meant to plug the missing lower-altitude drone-defense layer against small drones, Shahed-type one-way attack drones, swarms, and threats, where using a multi-million-dollar Patriot interceptor may be inefficient and costly.
3rd US strike wave on Iran said to be underway
A third set of US strikes on Iran is underway, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said, citing an unnamed senior American official.
Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency said explosions have been heard in Qeshm. Meanwhile, the Fars news agency reported that "several loud" blasts were heard in Bandar Abbas.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned the US earlier that Tehran wouldn't leave any "attack or threat unanswered."
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Another-US-strike-wave-on-Iran-said-to-be-underway/66474521
Iran says it targeted US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it retaliated for Washington's strikes on the country by targeting the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, according to the Fars news agency.
The IRGC said it "launched a drone attack on Bahrain's 5th Naval Fleet at 2:30 am" after the US struck Jask, Sirik, and Qeshm.
These attacks damaged a telecommunication tower in Sirik and destroyed two water reservoirs in the city's Bemani district, the statement said.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Iran-says-it-targeted-US-Fifth-Fleet-in-Bahrain/66474591
'US said to have launched 2nd wave of strikes in Iran'
The United States launched a second wave of strikes in Iran, Axios reporter Barak Ravid reported, citing a US official. The attacks are aimed at air defense and radar systems, according to the official.
Iranian media also reported new explosions near the southern city of Jask. According to the Mehr News Agency, residents in and around Jask heard additional blasts minutes after earlier reports confirmed attacks near Jask port and Koh-e-Mubarak.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) earlier said it launched "self-defense" strikes against the country in response to a US Army Apache helicopter being allegedly shot down by Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.
https://breakingthenews.net/Article/US-said-to-have-launched-2nd-wave-of-strikes-in-Iran/66474418
A new book analyzes therapists
by Susan Quinn
Few people today would deny that the overall mental state of our country is fragile. Stories about shooters, stabbers, and rioters are filled with deeply disturbed people. The most alarming problem, however, is that some therapy professionals worsen their mental health.
Graphic: Book cover screen grab
In his book, Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It's Left Us More Anxious and Divided--psychoanalyst Jonathan Alpert explains how we’ve found ourselves in this predicament. Alpert focuses on not only the lack of skills of the therapists and what they provide (or don’t provide) to their patients, but also the misunderstandings and attitudes that patients bring to therapy.
“Too often, the therapist’s own need to feel important, agreed with, or in control overshadows what the patient needs. When the provider-patient dynamic becomes this muddled, you have to wonder: Who is really the patient? The true purpose of therapy—teaching people to face life head-on and grow stronger—is being drowned out by wallowing, grievance, and fear. This isn’t just bad for patients. It’s bad for the profession. And it’s bad for America.”
Alpert describes social justice warrior-therapists. There is no research that shows that this approach actually works, but that doesn’t stop them. They insist on “overtherapizing,” showing the patient how they must free themselves from their grievances, although they never give them the tools to do so:
“Regardless of whether someone is struggling to communicate with their spouse or face a difficult situation at work, these social justice therapists continually steer in-therapy conversations toward race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, ability, religion, and other identities. The goal: Force clients to awaken to their privileged or oppressed status.”
According to these therapists, oppressors are straight white males, and the oppressed are black patients (even though they may not feel race is an issue for them).
Some therapists think their role is to simply be a sounding board, to listen to the patient’s grievances. Listening is certainly part of the process, but does nothing to empower the patient:
“In these overly affirming sessions, if the patient thinks someone is a narcissist, the therapist agrees. If the patient believes their workplace is toxic, the therapist nods in support. If the patient claims they had an abusive childhood, the therapist buys into the narrative, hook, line, and sinker. If the patient adopts a victim mentality, the therapist reinforces it, fueling the victim narrative that has come to define much of modern therapy culture.”
The therapist might even insist that patients work with them for an indefinite period, even years, or they will otherwise encounter disaster. Perhaps even worse, people are diagnosing themselves. They have picked up on therapeutic jargon, watched podcasts or visited websites that profess to understand every psychological problem imaginable, and decide which diagnosis best fits them:
“According to some estimates, one in four people have self-diagnosed… with a condition with the support of Google. Fewer than half have followed up with a medical professional to check to see if their diagnosis is accurate. [snip]
Students, in particular, will seek out these therapists, claim to have a ‘diagnosed’ cognitive or psychological disability, and ask the therapist to write a letter recommending a list of needed accommodation; these therapists will recommend students be offered any or all of the following: •Extra time to take tests •The ability to turn in work late without being penalized •The ability to not participate in class discussions •The need for a private note taker to assist the student in class.”
Especially intriguing factors are the perceptions of many on the Left. They believe their problems originate outside themselves: people in their lives are toxic or have caused them trauma. We see some of these in response to ICE agents. Although Alpert points out that both the Left and Right name-call, the Left tends to demonize the Right, calling them Nazis and hatemongers. Often, the Left sees themselves as helpless victims:
“A common thread runs through their stories. They saw themselves as victims. In some cases, grievance may have begun with a real slight or disappointment, a moment when they felt ignored, rejected, or powerless. But by fixating on that sense of injustice, they inflated it into identity. They came to believe they had nothing left to lose and that violence would even the score.”
Alpert tells patients, or those who may become patients, what to expect from therapy:
“Come prepared to be open and candid in sharing your concerns; apply what you’ve learned outside the therapy session, since that is the only way you can integrate the strategies into your everyday life; stay open to being challenged, because a therapist needs to challenge you in areas where you may be stuck; be honest if the therapist says something that doesn’t sit well with you; and finally, set clear goals—what do you hope will change?”
If those in need of help are to become healthier, they need to commit to a therapy that will help them reflect on their thinking, help to empower them, and eventually provide enough healing to send them happily on their way.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/a_new_book_analyzes_therapists.html