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Millions of people marched. Millions. We hear that number a lot, even billion, so it doesn't sound as big as it should. That's a lot of people. Do you know, say, 100 people? A million is ten thousand times that many. Want to count to a million one per second? It'll take 11 days. A lot of people.

submitted 2 hours ago • 32 comments

The revolution is full of 60-year-old women who love their trans kids.

submitted 9 hours ago • 293 comments

The political assassinations in MN = domestic terrorism. A reminder that the guy now running the DHS division responsible for combating domestic terror & targeted attacks is a 22 yr old with no federal experience, and whose last job was his own lawn mowing biz. Dems should now be screaming this.

submitted 7 hours ago • 46 comments

I want you to remember this... everyday

submitted 11 hours ago • 140 comments

That was what needed to happen today. Fascists depend on the appearance of strength, and they have never looked weaker. Good job, friends.

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

submitted 4 hours ago • 158 comments

Hey look they still got M4 Shermans in working condition. Such an iconic tank should be reserved for aggressively taking out the fascists out of the white house. Its the only acceptable option.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

submitted 5 hours ago • 75 comments

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

submitted 5 hours ago • 343 comments

The man who tried to assassinate Trump was a gun-loving Trump supporter who later turned on him. Right-wing media blamed Democrats, because of course. The alleged Minnesota shooter is an anti-abortion Christian nationalist w/ a list with other Dems as targets. They're still blaming liberals.

submitted 9 hours ago • 109 comments

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 138 comments

NOT. SWIM GOGGLES. Friends. Do not wear swim goggles at a protest. If you take a projectile to the face the force can pop your eyeball out of its socket. If you're going to invest in protest eyewear, use impact resistant safety goggles and tape the vents.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

This is it, Dems—your five-alarm fire. Not a drill. Not a distant threat. It’s real. It’s personal. And it’s already at your doorstep. Union leaders cuffed. Senators tackled. Reps charged. You’re next. Shut it all down. Act like your life, your seat, your democracy depends on it—because it does.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Reuters: US JUDGE BLOCKS ENFORCEMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER REQUIRING CHANGES TO FEDERAL ELECTIONS

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Less than 5 months in: ☑️Arrested a judge ☑️Arrested a Democratic mayor ☑️Arrested a Democratic Congressperson ☑️Detained a Democratic Senator ☑️Threatening to arrest a Democratic Governor ☑️Investigating other political enemies ☑️Deploying Marines domestically They are not hiding their intentions.

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

Democracy will not collapse all at once in America. It will happen bit by bit, state by state. We just saw US senator Alex Padilla thrown to the floor and handcuffed for trying to ask the Homeland Security Secretary a question. Hold the line, California. Hold the f-ing line.

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AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

submitted 2 days ago • 404 comments

AOC to Walz: We are talking about individuals who cheered the pardoning of people who attacked the U.S. Capitol while flying the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag And they want to act offended because someone has the courage to say: if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, maybe it’s a duck.

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

If Trump is willing to illegally roll the military into multiple Democratic states to quell a civil unrest that isn't happening, what do you think he's going to do during an election?

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism. But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

I think it’s important to notice why so many Americans believe the criminal group exists: yes the media but also two political parties that kept talking about this criminal imaginary. Two. That appeal to Liz Cheney moderates shit is damaging.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Probably don't need to worry too much about finding the appropriate form of anti-fascist protest because there is no form of protest that fascists will find acceptable

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

It’s immigration today, but it’ll be something else another day. Trump’s deployment of the US military to Los Angeles constitutes a threat of potential military occupation for any large-scale expression of political dissent. That’s what’s happening.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

It’s not a surprise that the man who purposely incited a violent attempt to overthrow an American election would now purposely incite violence on the streets of Los Angeles as a justification for military force against American citizens. Not a surprise at all.

submitted 5 days ago • 528 comments

stay safe! avoid kettles!!

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

bluesky: you can yell at a senator x: for a monthly fee, you can yell at a democratic senator mastodon: we do not have any senators threads: we have invented an entire platform to make senators feel as safe as possible while interacting with nabisco

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Right now, Dems are hiding in their offices, scrolling their phones fearfully, wondering "how are voters going to feel about the National Guard being deployed?" The right, meanwhile, is vigorously attempting to shape how voters feel about it, filling every medium with coordinated propaganda.

submitted 5 days ago • 810 comments

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

submitted 5 days ago • 142 comments

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 5 days ago • 1464 comments

The weird, often whitewashed way the civil rights movement is taught (or not taught) seemed to convince a lot of people that nonviolence was met with nonviolence, instead of you know, dogs, hoses, beatings, death, etc

submitted 6 days ago • 309 comments

Newsom saying a military force, for which he is the commander in chief, was deployed without his consent. (NG units require a declaration of national emergency or actual threat of rebellion to be federalized.) Newsom says legal action is coming tomorrow.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 6 days ago • 231 comments

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

submitted 6 days ago • 242 comments

What radicalized me against the police are the 2020 George Floyd protests in Brooklyn. Peaceful marches descended into violence as the NYPD rioted. They pepper sprayed elected officials and beat protesters with batons. The press blamed us for it. I've never trusted the media on protests since.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

A good counterargument to "you shouldn't do [xxx] because then the fascists and press will call it a riot!!" is you can literally not show up and the fascists, the press will still call it a riot

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 61 days ago • 994 comments

Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking. Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors

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“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

submitted 10 days ago • 107 comments

The Manitoba legislature has passed Bill 43, adding gender expression to the provincial human rights code. In this doom and gloom climate, it's important to mark victories like this, to remember that despite the rise of the far right, we can still organize and win for 🏳️‍🌈 people.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments