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I’ve heard some stories recently of people complying with fascists’ demands after they were threatened. As a violence researcher (and someone who has received a good deal of threats), everyone should know that complying will not save you. It only teaches the threatener that threats work.

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 10 days ago • 532 comments

Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him. by Glenn Greenwald

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 13 days ago • 853 comments

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submitted 15 days ago • 85 comments

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submitted 105 days ago • 104 comments

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

Trump CUTS Food Stamps, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid! youtu.be/_-TPcAilav0

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 21 days ago • 49 comments

Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.

submitted 23 days ago • 141 comments

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

submitted 23 days ago • 105 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Dropping federal holidays, starting with Martin Luther King Day (Per Pete Hogsbreath), & closing major news outlets at the pentagon. Have your papers in order. It has begun.

submitted 29 days ago • 30 comments

@charlesgaba.com is a hero and downloaded CDC’s entire website. A small group of us has come together to preserve this critical resource and make it accessible to the scientific community. More to come. These data are public and they are ours. Deletion disobedience is one way to fight back.

submitted 29 days ago • 58 comments

And this is yet another reason why funding science is so important. Knowledge!

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

It feels like there's a program running in the background of my human CPU that's draining the battery and I can't force quit it.

submitted 28 days ago • 59 comments

I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you were going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data

submitted 28 days ago • 218 comments

jesus christ who does this motherfucker think he is (musk, not the poster)

submitted 28 days ago • 20 comments

Trump says poor and middle class Americans are going to feel "pain" in his trade war with Mexico, Canada, and China... ...but that's a sacrifice Trump and the Billionaire class are willing to make.

submitted 28 days ago • 53 comments

Elon Musk, who has taken control of the US Treasury and is bragging about unilaterally cutting off payments to disfavored populations worldwide in defiance of Congress and the American people, is nowhere to be found on the homepage of the New York Times. @nytimes.com, this is pathetic.

submitted 29 days ago • 99 comments

Great Movies About Fascism This thread will collect movies that are stark, inspiring, wildly entertaining, cautionary, defiant, powerful, and (inevitably) sometimes problematic. Please contribute! #1: Casablanca (1942)

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

terrorscrolling

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

all of my writing is created using 100% certifiably organic intelligence. by which i mean i'm raising my freelance prices by 20%. if anyone complains, i'm including the word artisan in there and raising my prices by another 20%.

submitted 29 days ago • 95 comments

If I can be the ONLY person masked at a bday party in a sardine-crowded Brooklyn bar (surrounded by friends and strangers), watch folks eat while I'm hungry but stay masked, get a Caesar salad to go and eat it at home at midnight... ...you can wear a mask, too. Stay safe out there, Skyfriends!

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Enjoy these last precious moments of relative ‘normalcy’ before the tariffs on Canada and Mexico completely collapse the US economy.

submitted 29 days ago • 367 comments

Added this call to One Thing You Can do Be there and join this little subreddit that wants to remind everyone there's always something we can do www.reddit.com/r/onethingto...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I've UPDATED my list of news sources and creators to follow at www.freedomoverfascism.us. Please subscribe there too!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.

submitted 32 days ago • 292 comments

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

submitted 30 days ago • 166 comments

Why is it that of all our electeds, only AOC seems to understand how to talk about Trump and Musk right now?

submitted 30 days ago • 81 comments

Love Kelly from North Carolina.

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

submitted 33 days ago • 132 comments

and mayhem ensued did a makeup transformation recently!

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

This whole thread but this post in particular hit me so hard that I brought it up in therapy today, lol.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

submitted 33 days ago • 74 comments

Unfortunately the stuff that most people are consuming online to distract themselves from politics (or because they don’t care about politics at all or think politics are going swimmingly) is also a covert pipeline designed to make them more conservative. Lifestyle, entertainment, pop culture, etc

submitted 32 days ago • 64 comments

I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

submitted 37 days ago • 48 comments

I just noticed that number 5 from the thread got cut out for some reason when I pasted it here from that other site, so for completeness: Five, bide your time. But be ready for opportunity when it strikes. Again, your action need not be dramatic. Just a little sand in the gears helps.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Mad respect for Phyllis Fong. She didn't go quietly into the night. She made them physically remove her from her office, an office & position she still holds legally. I can't wait for the lawsuit. www.yahoo.com/news/exclusi...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo rescinding the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

submitted 33 days ago • 727 comments