When we make it through these times, every tragic aspect of our current and past history should be mandatory curriculum in the same way Germany requires students to understand the rise of Nazi ideology and the atrocities they committed. Education is the safeguard against the hatred we face.

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2, 632 patriots showed up in Newport, OR yesterday. We lined both sides of the 101 to the intersection of Hwy 20 & the 101. The energy was electric & the people were peaceful 🕊️ #NoKings @indivisible.org @indiwaves.bsky.social

Trump may be temporary but Mar-A-Lago face is forever.

Maybe he’ll win a Nobel Piss Prize

Here's our book group flyer for How to Be Less Stupid about Race by @alwaystheself.bsky.social !! #indivisible

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime. Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon. gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

While Republicans play political games to prolong their Trump Shutdown, Democrats will be in DC to do their jobs and try to get the government back to work. Urge your Democratic senators to keep fighting to stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

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It’s no surprise the men taking these jobs are hateful, weak, & insecure. Are they at home body slamming the women in their lives? Has anyone thought about that?

"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on." ~Thurgood Marshall This is ours. ✊

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Reports from the Miami Herald reveal that a staggering 1,200 people have gone missing from just this one facility. Alcatraz is now drawing comparisons to Auschwitz.

I went to Catholic school, and we even knew the Bible isn’t a history book. Oklahoma just turned indoctrination into state policy: mandating classroom Bibles while pretending amendments 11 - 27 don’t exist. Public schools should teach real history, not change it in order to fit a political agenda.

Let's rephrase: people held against their will in US concentration camps have been disappeared: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Dear World: a quarter of us voted for him. Most of us disapprove of him. Most of us are embarrassed by him. He does not represent us.

"But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right." ― The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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If you must lower the American flag, do it over the murder of free speech, not a fascist.

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“Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.” - Eugene Debs #RadioFreeAmerica

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

No Kings on Oct 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Get to planning in your community asap. nokings.org

McDonald’s lowers flags to honor Charlie Kirk. Have it your way next time you go for fast food. #RadioFreeAmerica

btw if you think being a little mean to fascists is bad wait until you hear about the concentration camps they’re building

my point is: you need to be an asshole against fascists weaponizing appeals to social niceties to crack down on “wrongthink” (which is btw extremely correct think) and you need to tell people arguing for decorum and civility to shut the fuck up.

you gunna get fired? maybe! i went through it and it was bullshit but i’m still alive, still yapping my head off. you gunna get harassed? probably! i’ve gotten doxxed a bunch. i promise you it is a lot of noise that fades quickly and functions mostly as psychological terror.

stop worrying what the most reprehensible scumbags alive think and start flipping them the bird until they learn to get a fucking grip or your chaos sends them screeching into dysfunction because they do not know what to do with people who refuse to comply regardless of what bullshit they try.

being glad an extremist who harmed countless people is no longer able to do that is NOT the same as expressly celebrating violence BUT EVEN IF IT WAS, you policing people’s reaction to a dead fascist is not morally righteous or helpful! it is in fact only helping the fascist creep further in!

you will never be amenable enough to the demands of a fascist tantrum to make it stop without selling your soul and becoming a fascist yourself. there is no amount of compliance that is acceptable short of absolute indoctrination. the more you bend, the more they push you down. stop helping them!

similarly, appeals to decorum and civility are the most crocodile tears pearlclutching horseshit i’ve ever seen in my life. you’re getting scammed into extending your empathy to people using it to attack your neighbors. they don’t deserve it! you’re not good for giving it to them! it’s bad to do!

today, we get “oh sure everyone you don’t like is a fascist.” “define “fascist.”” “you’re the fascist!” these are the words of shitbabies convulsing at reality. words have specific meaning. refusing to warp them is an easy way to upend authoritarian creep led by shitbabies (babies made of shit).

we’re all pretty much in agreement that we would not only not be mad about it, but many would openly celebrate hitler’s demise. mussolini’s body was dragged through the streets & hung upside down for people to beat the shit out of like extremely gross piñatas.

this belligerent warping of reality demands compliance. if you challenge it, it loses its validity and legitimacy in the arena of what is considered “normal” or “common.” thus, those who challenge it have to be silenced. their challenging gets warped into “celebrating violence.” facts be damned.

observable, documented, easily accessible reality is not controversial or a matter of opinion! of course kirk et al would never call themselves christofascist extremists - that would sabotage their whole charade! but a duck is a duck even if it tells you it’s a horse.

the biggest tell in their rage - and why it is so important you say a hearty “fuck that” to any appeals to civility - is their targeting of people for simply noting kirk celebrated the conditions that killed him. even in his final stupid words, he minimized the extremism he shifted goalposts for!

kirk was not a “conservative.” he was a christofascist extremist and stochastic terrorist. his colleagues know this. their entire *thing* is built on flooding the zone with so much shit that you can no longer call a duck a duck without the meaning of birds & your sanity being called into question.

that’s why we’re seeing widespread harassment campaigns to get people fired. not because people “celebrated violence” but because they were not sufficiently compliant in following the messaging established by fascists.

you desperately need to recognize right now that fascists are flipping out because their boyking is worm food and a huge amount of people either are glad for that or straight up don’t care. it shows, to them, who is not under their control.

you need to be mean and uncouth and callous and unrepentant because there is a rapidly intensifying hunt to suppress and punish wrongthink and the more people who are on some shit, the less harm that hunt can cause. “i am spartacus” but for being an asshole.

it kills me because there is always someone who pops up to push back against recognizing what’s become a pretty urgent need for us to become, more or less, huge assholes. there’s always some white glove pearlclutching pitch for civility people fall over themselves to embrace.

it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.   Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.   Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

Free speech censorship Political hit lists Detentions w/o due process Internment camps Military in our streets Corrupted law enforcement Demonization of vulnerable communities Coercion of private institutions MSM amplifying state propaganda We are not barreling towards fascism. We are in it.