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📍Medical, Environmental & Cultural Anthropology 📍Research Associate - Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center 📍PhD Candidate - The University of Maine Orono 📍Climate, Public Health, Disaster & Risk, Resilience #FightFascism #Resist Views My Own
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Even SCOTUS would not challenge Trump’s Nazi deportation scheme - we are truly lost now.

Good morning to you ! Passing along my post from Twitter this am.

Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

I don’t know, guys. I’m starting to think that a guy who bankrupted businesses where the house always wins might not be great at running the economy after all.

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

1. Don't buy any efforts to sanewash Scott Bessent. 2. The tariffs are indefensibly stupid, but disappearing random people into El Salvador's gulags is WAY worse. 3. If you ever defended decent people abandoning migrants because of polling numbers, you just (deleted) and we will remember you.

This is fine

🚨 Hands-Off Our Rights & Our Democracy 🚨 #HandsOff 🇪🇺🫂🇺🇸 #April19 #HandsOff 🇪🇺🫂🇺🇸 #April19 #HandsOff 🇪🇺🫂🇺🇸 #April19 Next Worldwide Day Of Action April 1️⃣9️⃣✊🏻 “Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make a change.” ~ Barbara Mikulski ~ Thread 1/3🧵

Not joking: as of today Donald Trump is the absolute greatest destroyer of wealth the country has ever had

Markets update: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

Let's remember that Apartheid was the South African version of segregation and separate but equal imposed on our distant relatives in the motherland by the colonizers, the British government and probably Elon Musk's older relatives.

People assume falling victim to the rise of fascism will be accompanied by some great delimiter. Instead, it’s more like having your hope and future slowly eroded by non-consensual inclusion in mass malicious mismanagement of society to the harm of yourself and others via exploitation and coercion.

The tariff induced collapse will be the first test of resilience for Trump’s Authoritarian rule - will his propaganda machine and army of sycophants be enough to negate the evidence of the eyes of all his base and the credulity of the GOP who stands idly by? If so, there is truly no saving us.

The MAGA fascists hope Saturday’s protests were a one-off. Let’s do it again on April 19 and as many times as it takes to rescue our country.

I told you guys it was going to reach this point. Buy books while you can before they ban reading.

This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

Fascist Monsters should have no safe spaces in civil society. As determined by us his community of peers - let them never know peace or good company - for if the law can’t be bothered to uphold ethics - we the People must.

These attacks are social murder - no violence from the state is benevolent - even if the blow is indirect.

Gestapo carrying out violence against children. A goal of ours in reform should be creating a world that redirects or negates the real threat posed by the millions of people willing to mindlessly carry out fascistic orders - akin to the rehabilitative censure of Nazi iconography and though post WW2

Everybody stop panicking and put your faith in the insane 80 year old criminal and the team of simpering sycophants he's surrounded himself with

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As we head into this week of global market collapse, continuing rise of neo-Fascism, ongoing genocide, and generational end of public support for the sciences and humanities like kids locked in a hot car with absent parents, remember: They are lying. It doesn’t have to be this way. #resist

AKA - unplug people from their rage-box echo chamber and force them to touch grass and have human contact and they can normalize if they don’t yet have full brainrot.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Good day to remember that DOGE has already lost the US government at least half a trillion dollars this year alone. And likely more.

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

I heard that MIT cut their graduate admissions to 1/3 of previous years due to federal government funding uncertainties. This can’t get ramped up again in the next few years even if things are reversed tomorrow. America may have lost a generation of scientists and engineers.

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

I keep telling my academic friends to turn their books into short pamphlets and to hand those out for free in their communities. I excerpted a chapter from a friend's book last year, made it into a zine, and so far I've distributed 400 hard copies and it's also available for digital download.

Again, worth at the last considering the possibility that he’s a malevolent idiot who has no idea what he’s doing.

In 3 sessions, S&P 500 futures have plunged about 15%. Legit market crash

As more of the IDF’s genocidal lies and its butchery of the innocent is laid bare for all the world to see, they will try as they might to stamp out the truth, but justice will flow like a river 🕊️ 🍉 🇵🇸 #freepalestine

Let me translate this for you: We are condemning more citizens- in particular our most vulnerable citizens- to suffer more due to disasters. We consider their well-being a waste of money.

If you can watch footage of the IDF slaughtering aid workers and still not se this genocide for what it is, you aren’t even dehumanizing others anymore - you have allowed yourself to become something other than human.

On this day of peaceful resistance remember that attacks on your access to: - Healthcare - Education - Social Security - the Weather Service - Emergency Response - Housing - Legal Representation - Due Process - Free Speech - Electoral Politics IS SOCIAL MURDER. We stand now before we can’t. 👊

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

This right here. Most people don't really understand that this is happening. And even those of us that are following it, have uncertainty about the exact magnitude of what will happen.

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

Amid a once in a generation storm in the central U.S. and larger changes at FEMA, the Trump administration is ending its popular adaptation program BRIC—one of the only sources of funding communities can tap to prepare for disasters before they hit. First reported by Grist: grist.org/politics/fem...

The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now