Get fucked, Pete Kegsbreath. America is SUPPOSED to be an anti-fascist nation. #DontObeyInAdvance

There can be no negotiating with a fascist regime headed by an abusive narcissist, because any capitulation is only received as an invitation to take more. The best way to protect our rights is to use them - loudly and unapologetically.

Long-form essay on why bad ideas tend to follow predictable scripts, rooted in a shared set of psychological ploys for Reality denial (and how good ideas avoid falling into this trap). 7provtruths.substack.com/p/evading-th...

Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air for criticizing the Dear Leader just goes to show that the far right pretending to care about 'free speech' was always a load of horseshit - this is and has always been about naked, unaccountable power.

People sometimes ask me what the 'point' of large protests like No Kings are. A large part of it is to push back against the atmosphere of fear which leads individuals and institutions to obey in advance. They want us to be afraid, but in actuality this regime is incredibly weak and unpopular.

substack.com/home/post/p-... Excellent piece by Christopher Armitage on how de-MAGAing America isn't just a matter of having one on one conversations - it's also a matter of knowing how to defeat movements. The problem? There's simply no profit in deradicalization.

Robert Evans, who studies online extremism and radicalization, is absolutely on point here. The reason that we can't talk to each other isn't that we disagree - it's that we're living in two completely different realities.

Two things can be simultaneously true: 1) Charlie Kirk was a piece of shit who has a large degree of culpability for the climate of political violence we're living through today. 2) Nothing good will come of his death. Innocent people are going to die if and when this escalates. 1/2

The predicament of perspectives is that we don't leave our viewpoints behind as we examine their construction. Any assessment of these windows into reality must necessarily be taken from within - yet there are better and worse ways to inhabit these viewpoints.

Part of a write-up on the psychological underpinnings of fascism, and the mechanisms behind how social media is exacerbating this trend. No evil masterminds required. Just the banal mechanics of market incentives, combined with new means for exploiting old vulnerabilities in the human psyche.

Breaking - conspiracy theorists shocked to find that Trump isn't entirely forthcoming about his connection to Epstein Island! If I posted a Fell For It Again Award every time the Orange Shit Stain made idiots of his followers, that would be the majority of my posts on here.

The ghouls who voted for the MAGA Murder Bill knew that it would be incredibly unpopular, which is why they intentionally set it to phase in AFTER the midterm elections.

Democracy is dying in America, and resistance begins with language — it shapes what the public sees, and what they’re willing to tolerate. Resistance begins when we refuse to repeat their lies. Words become action. Action becomes power. Truth becomes revolution.

If democracy is going to be restored, millions of us will need to be practicing principled yet uncompromising opposition to this regime. That means NO more humoring folks who want a dictator. People who've chosen to collaborate with the American Nazi movement need to be shunned and ostracized.

The main takeaway of the MAGA Murder Bill: 17 million Americans are being kicked off from their health insurance and $3.5 trillion is being added to the national debt to build concentration camps. And Trump being given a private military to fill those camps.

Make no mistake, droves of Americans are going to die as a direct result of the MAGA Murder Bill. Fuck the gutless cowards who voted for this, and anyone else who continues to support this vile regime.

ICE agents hide their identity to shield themselves from accountability for their inhumane and illegal actions. Call your reps and demand that these cowards show a face, a badge, and a Judicial warrant.

What happens when the con-man who failed upwards into the White House is an abusive narcissist with the impulse control of a toddler.

ICE is the American gestapo - Secret Police who cover their faces to avoid accountability for their actions. NO RULE OF LAW = NO COMPLIANCE. "Terrible things are happening outside. Families are torn apart. Men, Women, and Children are separated." - Anne Frank, 1943 in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam

So proud of Detroit - and Michigan - for showing up for No Kings Day, and in spite of violent intimidation from MAGA. While Diaper Don was having his grotesque military parade, 12 million of us came out in peaceful defiance of the hostile takeover of the US by fascist criminals.

We the people... have had enough. #nokings #nokingsday #resist #june14 #nokingsday

Here's how much Trump's criminal syndicate respects our service members:

If there was ever a time to be direct and uncompromising in our messaging, it's now. Trump is intentionally inciting violence to invoke martial law. MAGA is the American equivalent of the Nazis. Standing up to tyrants is a reflection of core American values.

If Trump wanted to enforce existing immigration laws more strictly, there are legal ways to do that which follow due process. These ICE raids aren't about that - they're state sponsored terror designed to clamp down on dissent, and create a manufactured pretext for invoking martial law.

The brown shirts - Hitler's armed street gangs - would deliberately enter areas where they were not welcome in order to provoke street fights, then claim that they were 'attacked' when the groups they were terrorizing defended themselves. Fascists are nothing if not uncreative in their tactics.

That endless line of tanks in the video? Those will be tearing up the streets of Washington DC, all so the insecure tyrant can throw himself a lavish North Korean style military for his birthday. Understand that $45-90 million of YOUR taxpayer dollars are being spent on this disgusting farce.

Most of the power that authoritarian regimes take is freely given. DO. NOT. OBEY. IN. ADVANCE. Trump's cruel, idiotic regime isn't abducting people off the streets because it's strong - it's resorting to these terror tactics because it's weak and unpopular.

This is the way. Participating in a fascist movement needs to carry a high social cost.

America needs to have its own Nuremberg for Trump's criminal syndicate after this is all over. Trump's enablers need to be treated as an enemies of the state, and given long jail sentences for thier violations of the US Constitution. newrepublic.com/post/195324/...

The rise of authoritarianism worldwide isn't just a political crisis - it's also an epistemic one, rooted in how we respond to uncertainty in a complex world.

While Trump is throwing a North Korean style military parade for himself on his birthday, millions of Americans across the country will be taking to the streets in open defiance of Trump's regime. In April 9 million of us turned out for the 'Hands Off' protests. Let's make this one even bigger.

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

You know the Vatican made a good choice when the American Nazis are already having a collective meltdown over the new Pope.

So DOGE hasn't been making the government leaner and more efficient, you say?

Successful efforts to resist fascism have come from when the Center and the Left have been willing to close ranks and stand united in response to a common threat. Not because they agreed, but because they HAD TO. Which is why I'm a Popular Front Leftist - democracy first, disagreements later.

MAGA is a Nazi movement - but fortunately for us, America is not 1939 Germany. Trump's regime is resorting to terror tactics not because it's strong, but because it's weak and unpopular. Most of the authority that oppressive regimes take is freely given. DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.

Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act and the 'No Rogue Rulings Act'. The former is a voter suppression bill that will disenfranchise tens of millions of voters. The latter is a blatant attempt to strip the courts of their independence so that 47 can rule by decree like a king

No, we can't agree to disagree on Trump using ICE as his personal gestapo and 'still be friends'. If you ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany or during the Civil Rights Movement, you're doing it now.

Does anything more need to be said?

Yeah Trump is trying to intentionally collapse America's economy, but look how much cheaper GRO-CE-REI-S have gotten!

Great job in showing up for democracy, Wisconsin! Elon Musk, despite being the richest man in the world, is a weird, insecure LOSER who tried and failed to buy an election.

Sanitized language for things that aren't within striking distance of normal is a form of complicity.

I mean who hasn't accidentally shared highly classified war plans with unauthorized individuals on a commercial messaging app during their first month on the job?

While describing what's happening right now as a fascist coup is ‘accurate enough’ for a social media post or protest sign, it's also extremely helpful to be able to speak with more precision about the pillars of support for Trump's regime. open.substack.com/pub/theallof...

Call Your Democratic Senator and demand that they join the growing chorus of voices calling for Chuck Schumer to step down as Senate Minority Leader. Schumer has shown he’s not up to this moment. We need bold leaders who are willing to rally the party to be ruthless in the defense of our democracy.

Get these Vichy Democrats out of Congress - we need fighting Dems who are willing to stand up to fascism, not spineless cowards who are content to be the controlled opposition.

Keep up the pressure! Call your your Senators and demand that they grind the government to a halt unless Republicans agree to enforcable guardrails for Elon Musk and DOGE. Together, we can do this. Apes Together Strong. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...