Anybody try fucking about it?

Also For everyone While we ponder and pontificate When was the last time someone was dragged out of your house ? Like before many of you talk this BS But blunt as hell when was the last time someone was dragged out of your house?

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For those of you looking to support, care for, heal and bolster your communities, US Military Field Guides are an invaluable, free resource for all sorts of community needs. Don't re-invent the wheel. You'll be amazed how much practical info exists here. archive.org/details/mili...

And it's not even that they "expand" the definition. They just finally let you read the dictionary they've been using all along. Any time you hear the word "degeneracy" as something to attack, you need to hear it in the mouth of the most hateful, bigoted person you can imagine

“Read the books they’re banning. That’s where the good stuff is!” - LeVar Burton 📚❤️‍🩹💛 🧵 1/8

This order doesn't just ban trans people from the military. It states that this administration believes trans people lack "an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle" and that being trans "is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member."

People are responding to stress and trauma differently, with very real assessments of their limits . Folks will be doing different things than you , because they live different lives to you. Learn to observe without projecting and inferring

Some of y'all are going to be clinging to "That couldn't happen here" till they lower you.

This is one of the most ghoulish things I’ve ever fucking read. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

DEM SENATOR: Well there’s always next time 😃 a hearty “good game” to my colleagues across the aisle as they shepherd our great nation in the spirit of collaboration and teamwork! 🦅🫡 REPUBLICAN SENATOR: Does anyone know when it’s technically legal for me to kill this [SLUR NO ONE HAS SAID SINCE 1889]

We should have punched more nazis.

Honestly one of most chilling parts of this fascist rise is watching journalism stumble around the point without ever finding it like Mr. Magoo dodging every calamity around a construction site. The implications are entirely clear. They're burning the planet to line their own pockets.

Back to the psych onslaught Daily updates on the rights we’re losing Learning how to attend to your nervous system & recover from trauma responses is essential Fascism loves to take advantage of our fear/trauma responses Part of fighting fascism is fighting disconnection from self & communities

Let's be clear about what's happening. Trump is freeing the violent paramilitary wing of his movement from prison in order to: 1) demonstrate that violence committed in service of his objectives will go unpunished, and 2) facilitate future acts of violence in service of his regime.

Anyone apologize to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social yet?

Now's as good a time as any to stop relying on mainstream media to confirm anything for you. That's how so many things get explained away, because the media didn't report on it. You know what you saw.

MAGA and Corporate Media: That wasn't a Nazi salute that was just a Roman salute. Also, that isn't goose-stepping, that's just a dance move. Oh, and that's not a swastika but just an old Indian symbol for good luck.

We're going to normalize Nazi rhetoric, symbols, slogans, conspiracies and eugenics within 2 weeks. I predicted this would happen by 2024 a few years ago, and I take no joy in being right about it. Corporate media will sanewash it. You think I'm being hyperbolic but you're not paying attention.

Liberals and moderates are circling the wagons... around the Nazis.

The Mr. Rogers advice for moments of crisis is a useful thing to remember right now. Look for the helpers. Look for the people organizing to protect the most vulnerable. Look for the people who have been concretely planning for how to respond, and are ready to implement. Join them, if you can.

bumping this from three weeks ago in light of Elon Musk busting out a LITERAL FUCKING NAZI SALUTE at inauguration

You’re all about to be gaslit about that Nazi salute and I’m begging you to spend no time on it. You know what you saw.

I came into consciousness in the late seventies by which point all media was insisting the the Civil rights movement, barely 10 years old was ancient history. By the time I was 10 they were teaching Civil Rights Movements as if they were as far back then as they are now.

Nobody in office will stand up to fascism. Ever. Just let that dream go and plan and organize accordingly.

This.

Instead of fantasizing about how white nationalism will make great fodder for future academic discussions, talk about what you’re doing as a white person to impede violent white nationalism Change the story you expect people to write

Inside you are all 7 and you should watch them fall.

DEI is used interchangeably with Affirmative Action by those who hate both even though they're not at all the same thing. They don't care about the nuance. It's all just a euphemism for nig with the hard R.

Hard to tell at this remove how many CEOs/companies are slashing DEI initiatives to look better to the incoming administration and its supporters, or because they never wanted them in the first place and took the first chance they could to kick them to the curb. I suspect a great deal of overlap.

Imma need the News to stop talking about companies "Moving away from DEI" and start writing about how "White men aren't actually competitive in an open labor field and need exclusionary policies to keep pace."

anita bryant won’t see you celebrating her death but the hateful venal spineless shits that are selling out lgbtq people to toady up to the Trump administration will so make it count

I don't get why anyone is surprised. Insurance companies make money by minimizing risk. If a place is going to be on fire all the time, why accept the risk? This was always a ridiculous system but it was harder to see when the problems weren't as visible.

"Send in the slaves!"

Despite what everyone thinks, doomsaying is a sacrificial public service.

While we're at it, let's disarm them and see how that goes.

I wish more people cared.

Id been asking myself the question "Is AI or Fascism the mostly likely cause of the downfall of society?" for a long time before finally realizing the answer was "Yes"

I fucking knew it.

I don't presume anyone online I didn't know before 2020 is human. It occurred to me that I might be alone in this.

Every member of the Trump administration and every Republican who voted to overturn the election should have been named a domestic enemy of the United States and been taken into military custody on 1/20/21 and the trials should have concluded by 3/31. Yes maybe you should have done it differently.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from critique.

factions of the far right may be eating each other alive, but they always do this, and would be just as glad to turn and sink their teeth into your neck. the sniping can be entertaining and useful, but don't mistake it for meaningful fractures in the project of ressentiment.

Everybody hates on Capitalism, but nobody talks about how it extends lifespans by not giving people time to die.

I think there should be regulations that force companies to limit the scope of their software when you first buy or download it, to not let them expand the scope of what it does. If I download a word processor, it doesn't get to later become a surveillance data reaper to feed AI.

Did you know a great place to start your political journey against fascism is your local politics? School boards, city, state races are INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. Start small. You got this.

Between the shutdown, the drones, and them perp walking Luigi like he’s the goddamn Joker, I think it’s clear the writers are officially out of ideas and are just grabbing whatever was left in the cutting room floor.