Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Remember folks, social media is a vulnerability. We try to use these platforms for democratic deliberation, but they're not designed for that. They're better designed for propaganda. You're in the information wars. apnews.com/article/char...

A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt: “For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."

“No to the Russian Regime! Protect Visa-Free!” — Protesters are now marching from Tbilisi State University towards Rustaveli Avenue. Today marks Day 290 of the non-stop #GeorgiaProtests.

I used to wonder how the great and enlightened Arab empire of the 15th century could go from gifting the world with the basics of modern science to knuckle-dragging superstition based medieval ignorance. Now, looking at the anti-scientific movements in the U.S. and elsewhere, I wonder no more.

The irony, as others have pointed out, is that while Kirk may have said “we have to engage in debate,” it’s precisely that — debate — many supporters of Kirk want to stop about his life and legacy. It’s certainly why folks are getting fired.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Don’t we all feel so much safer? America is truly Great Again (tm)!

Nichols makes a good point that the comparisons to Nazi Germany might not be the best. The real comparison here is with the USSR. Trump is Stalin, not Hitler, willing to make examples rather than scapegoats of perceived enemies. It’s all about party loyalty and Trump is the party.

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc

McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.

Wow

We need to make this viral. Every state should have a Samuel Garcia.

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Rhetoric hive mind: anyone know where George Kennedy’s papers are housed if anywhere? There’s a guy with the same name with papers at Yale, but he precedes our George A Kennedy. I’m thinking of a PDA to do archival work, so any help is appreciated!

Yaaaaas > Call out the strategy, show how it’s a strategy that betrays Trump’s promises to his followers. This is how you negate infowars politics. 🏆

“The University is the first institution to lose their president as a result of dramatic and unprecedented federal intervention. But we will not be the last”

Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill. Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸 Pass it on!

Remember when you protest: you're not trying to persuade the Trump regime to stop their actions, they're not open to persuasion. You're trying to persuade the public that the Trump regime is acting unconstitutionally. The public isn't persuaded by violence. Peaceful, joyful protest tactics will win.

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

Same here.

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Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump only cares about quelling violent protests, or quelling protests writ large, when it's protest against him. That's fundamentally undemocratic."

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Please read, this is important. Sorry it’s long. Trump’s move to have Elon Musk step aside wasn’t a retreat. It was a distraction. With Musk’s name out of the headlines, many assumed the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had quietly ended. It hasn’t. It’s just changed hands.

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Statement by an Aussie after the recent Australian elections which repudiated that country’s political right. This is a future the US could have had, but will not.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

#CCCC25 panel that got me thinking about reflecting on the past, nostalgia, and how our practices can keep teaching us long after we have shifted away to other matters.

I am incredulous that the people of a country with a thin-skinned President who tore up the White House Press Corps over normal political coverage are surprised that Canadians react emotionally when the U.S. launches an all-out economic attack and threatens to conquer us. Grow up, America.

So far, this guy’s dream is all being executed according to plan. Know your enemies. Trumpette is just an enabler. The real villains are guys like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...

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Truly a star of the north. Tribes should have a leg up on something after colonization.

Not like there’s any attempt at censorship or anything so totalitarian as that….

“I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think that I’m human…. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.” — James Baldwin

There are a whole lot of people and communities who have been living and organizing outside of the state for a very long time and it’s worth listening to them in this moment

I finished this book yesterday and it got my head out of the doomerism space. I needed the reminder. The world needs us in whatever capacity we can manage.

Crockett: “I’m tired of the white tears. If you’re competent you’re not concerned. When you compare me to Greene/Boebert there’s no comparison… The only ppl crying are mediocre white boys beaten out by people that had to work much harder.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFp8K0M...

New PhD’s in Humanities, check this out. If you know someone who recently earned their PhD in Humanities and wants to work for social justice, share this!