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Chop wood. Carry water. Fight fascism. Defend local institutions that support democracy, pluralism, & secularism. Take care. Find community. It's not you vs us, it's us all vs fear & fascism. (Pre-Felon47 avatar, unable to upload images.)
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The view from nowhere never goes out to eat.

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

Setting goals & managing our time isn't letting someone else control us. It's refusing to let our autopilot, which was programmed by our bullies, abusers, & trauma, trick us into wasting today kicking our own ass w/ shame & self-sabotage. Because f*ck that, you know?

the most uncool man in the world

Ah yes, use Pete Hegseth to arbitrarily rip apart the military and then install retired and unqualified stooges in their place the military is going to love this for sure

Holy shit it DOES work

Guarding a concentration camp isn't the kind of thing most people want to sign up for. Along with a racist effort to purge officers who aren’t white, military recruiting is going to tank and the ensuing national security crisis will be entirely self-inflicted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

“I do not see Steve Bannon. Not-see Steve Bannon. Nazi. Steve Bannon.” - @hasanminhaj.com, like 7 years ago, I think

So the President has abruptly fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Charles Q. Brown Jr., and is replacing him with a retired three star general, Dan Caine. This portends a future grave crisis as the President attempts to restructure the military into one personally loyal to him.

Title 10 lays out who is eligible to be CJCS: must’ve served as Vice Chair, a service chief, or a combatant commander. The president can waive this requirement in the interests of national security, but the message that sends to mil ldrship is: I don’t trust a single one of you to be chair

Don’t ever say men do not have interior lives

#FelonMusk's skin is thin as onion skin --makes Trump's seem like rhinoceros hide in comparison.

When Musk said SpaceX can bring the stranded astronauts back to Earth, I didn't think this was what he meant

@nedal1989.bsky.social sent me this message today: "It rained very heavily here and the water entered the tents and the situation was completely ruined." Nidal has 5 kids and hasn't had a donation in 8 days. His family is really struggling 💔 gofund.me/574de46a

Military Brass and JAG purge is very ominous

While the GOP forces women to give birth, the GOP TAX Scam is trying to take away healthcare coverage for 300,000 pregnant women in Texas alone. Don't Cut My Medicaid

WI congressman Glenn Grothmann’s constituent mentions Elon Musk calling beneficiaries of federal programs ‘parasites’ and he refuses to believe it. They’re so out of touch with their constituents - no wonder Trump took over their party so easily.

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

New filing: "Agrawal v. Musk (Twitter execs severage packages)" Doc #88: Stipulation and Proposed Order Download PDF | View Full Case #CL68307087

Focus on the positive: this has overall been a very bad week for Trump! * he is falling in the polls - both his favorability and his policies * he lost his first Supreme Court case on firing an watchdog, setting the way for others fired to fight back 1/

Wow, I wonder why a spy agency might want to recruit people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds

This will directly affect the future, & the present, of Pennsylvania & the country. Jonas Salk invented the Polio vaccine at Pitt. Pitt helped unlock DNA & pioneered organ transplants. Musk is offering a future where Americans are poorer, sicker, & less free. One word: NO www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

Stop the steal — President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump are robbing the American people.

@titusnation.bsky.social Ukraine offers Trump eggs for military aid. ukragroconsult.com/en/news/ukra...

When taking actions late on a Friday night, a government sends a message its trying to pull one over on the public and the media, that it is hiding something or doing something it believes it should not do or will be seen as controversial. That is certainly true in this case.

This will go down as the Friday Night Massacre of the Military. First the Chairman of the JCS and now Adm. Franchetti, the first woman to become a member of the JCS. Next up the Air Force’s No. 2 officer & the top JAGs for each service. Martial law is coming. breakingdefense.com/2025/02/trum...

i think that a lot of online manosphere stuff, ironically, exploits an unwillingness to actually treat emotional insecurities in dispassionate or even mechanical fashion.

as a general rule people who entered public office prior to 2017 are not really up to the task of Project 2029. there are exceptions but only after Trump won did burning hatred of the GOP become something of a norm among Democratic politicians

*stares in Black*

Also the wording of this raises a legitimate question with, as far as the public is concerned at least, who the officer in charge of the US Navy is No immediate operational legal impact (thank you G-N) but still something that is objectively fucking absurd

I think it’s incredible the amount of either hubris or desperation that Sean Combs has that he probably asked his attorney so egregiously illegal/unethical that he was like “Nah. I can’t do this shit any more.”

Smaller regional auto shows like these take place around the country all of the time. There are also lots of EV-specific "butts in seats" events. Reaching potential Tesla buyers who may not be online makes these events a high-impact educational opportunity. Look for one near you! #TeslaTakedown

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Here's a little thread of some excellent videos of people punching up this week. First up, the Governor of Maine, Janet Mills, telling Trump, "I'll see you in court," to his face and on video. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Everyone knows we have one inside of each of us but few realize we also have an edged weapon and shield inside of us at all times too, ready to be used when the flesh gives out

On Thursday, we honored the Haitian Bridge Alliance for their relentless fight for immigrant families. The very next day, the Trump administration moved to strip Temporary Protected Status from 500,000+ Haitians. This is a cruel and direct attack on working people.

General CQ Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, wasn't fired by Trump because he "supports woke policies." He was fired because he's a Black man in the nation's top uniformed military post.

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, *to us*

There are estimated to be more than 300 people with measles infections in west Texas right now, cases have shown up in eastern New Mexico, and there are new cases in New Jersey, Alaska and at least a couple southeastern states. This is a national problem and there is no federal infrastructure for it