“What Trump, Hegseth, and MAGA are hoping to build is a military that instead reflects the violent, racist nationalism they espouse.” www.liberalcurrents.com/war-fighters...

I'm hearing from a lot of people who are feeling hopeless and despondent about the state of America and the world. This piece I wrote back in December is evergreen, and is perhaps more important now than ever. "What to Do When There is Nothing to Be Done" america2.news/what-to-do-w...

Christian nationalists dream of taking over America. This movement is actually doing it.

Bullshit like renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War is about covering their weakness and pretending to be strong. Unfortunately this weakness leads to projection and lashing out, which makes it incredibly dangerous. That’s why this movement represents an existential threat.

The danger of authoritarianism isn't just violence and pain. It's how it can corrode you invisibly, twist and distort your world and perception. This is a day-to-day battle. We must heal our wounds, believe we deserve better, come together, all while denying these bastards control over ourselves.

We must band together and fight this as a collective, but one of the most important things we can do as individuals is to not allow this poison to corrode us. We have to become stronger and gentler at the same time. We're drowning in a sea of cruelty and stupidity. We can't let it change us.

Fascism is an ideology of weakness and fear. It isn’t strong, it’s inherently fragile. Trump and company’s actions originate from their own pathetic, self-loathing projected onto the world. The cruelty, the oppression, the war making, is all a disguise jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-weakes...

In the second part of my series on the role of loneliness in the rise of fascism, I look at how MAGA is a cult that offers belonging to Americans raised in abusive environments and how it is powered by fear, insecurity, and overwhelming self-loathing. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-crisis-o...

Cross-posting this great article by Ken Butigan about Pope Francis' work to bring the logic and teachings of nonviolence back to the center of the Catholic Church, an institution that too often in history ignored Jesus' nonviolent teachings. #PopeFrancis #Nonviolence #Catholic #Church #PaceeBene

goodtroubleliveson.org There is a map on this site and you can also enter a zip code to find events

This is unfathomably shameful. How do we even have to debate this? Why would anyone ever again be so foolish as to trust or help the United States if this is how we treat people who risk their lives on our behalf?

Illinois is PURE AWESOMENESS! 😎✨

There’s a fuckton of people at the No Kings rally in Mesa. This intersection has been repeatedly targeted by ICE these last weeks, this corner has a lot of Hispanic-owned businesses and supermarkets. Lots of honking, lots of noise.

Stay classy, San Diego. #NoKings

Thoughtful piece from @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social , who I believe is the only journalist I have spoken to (in my personal capacity as always) who had read my primer on US civ-mil www.vox.com/politics/416...

NEW: Absolutely incredible images coming out of San Diego. The streets are filled with tens of thousands of anti-Trump protestors. This is what resistance looks like 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement (📸 Scott Dworkin)

No Kings except Friday the 13th!

I love this sign. “No KINGS”!

Teachers Not Tanks

Use my Swiffer hack for your protest sign. Lay the swiffer down on the back of your protest sign and duct tape it to the sign. The Swiffer head lays flat and keeps your sign stiff, and then you have a nice handle to hold it up with.

@hcrichardson.bsky.social please post this video of Springsteen’s inspiring words at his Manchester concert: youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

Sunday morning joy.

"Kennedy’s beliefs on medicine and health are bizarre, conspiratorial, and, in some cases, simply hateful. It’s worth rehashing some of them here to stress just how unscientific the mind of the man who runs HHS really is." www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...

From 2015 😭 youtu.be/V7RIkeCgcz0?...

Students attending DoD schools across the world just walked out of class in a brave protest against the Trump Administration's Orwellian censorship regime. Instead of removing books from the shelves about America’s history and constitutional values, Secretary Hegseth should try reading them.

"A military and intelligence apparatus organized around pleasing the boss is ripe for catastrophic failure." When MAGA has no accountability and standards are for everyone else, what happens? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...

@nytimes.com columnist @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, a past Army Judge Advocate General, bemoans "senior leaders [who don't] live by the same standards they impose on their troops" "Trump's presidency is fundamentally anti-system. ...But what if the system that he's breaking happens to be the best?"

I for one will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this - nor the people who voted for this.

Don't be afraid to call things by what they are. MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting Ethnic Cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Trump is a foreign backed coup d'état figurehead. This is not an administration, this is a regime, and your country is occupied.

Dahlia look! Now we have names of the men who were deported to a prison in El Salvador. Share far and wide so friends and family can identify them! www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

Amen. 🇺🇸 They want you to believe this is radical. It isn’t.

This story is fucking bonkers

From banned books to banned words, Trump's no-no's include: "biased," "climate science," "women," "socioeconomic," "underprivileged," and "inequality." “Men” is not on the taboo list, in deference to the political ascendency of the Manosphere, of course.

For a while now I have been thinking something to the effect of, “This is the most uncool era of American history,” and I finally put those thoughts into words.

Here’s last night’s story about ICE detention facilities, who’s in them, who runs them, what it’s like inside them, and also some facts about one very important basket. You may think baskets can’t be important, but you’d be wrong. So, so wrong. youtu.be/5Hpgu7wSUQQ

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

The most important thing we can be doing with media of all kinds, including social, is consolidating opposition to the Trump administration. Bluesky is an important space for coordination on what we do and say off-platform www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-defe...

Chris Hedges - a must watch 🔥🔥🔥

If you need a reminder of how Germany fell & the frightening parallels between what happened there & what is happening here, NOW, day after day, please spend 17 mins watching this short educational. The words & actions are far too close to home for anyone to deny. youtu.be/8K6-cEAJZlE?...