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mikeferdinando.bsky.social
I'm an GenX IT manager in higher education, whose passion is tabletop role-playing games. I'm also a leftist. I'll mostly be posting about gaming and politics. Twitter refugee. I'm also on Mastodon: [email protected].
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the fascist conundrum. every time they try to look strong, a combination of popular resistance and their own incompetence makes them look weaker than ever to the world.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

We're capturing children off the street at gunpoint to get one last ride of garish nostalgia for an America that never was. A future dramatically better is available at the end of this, and the choice will be stark for anyone with a brain, but we've gotta be loud and uncompromising in the meantime.

submitted 10 hours ago • 58 comments

There were more people at the No Kings protest in Boise, Idaho

submitted 11 hours ago • 105 comments

Fantastic No Kings Rally in Ithaca, NY. Well done, @tompkindivisible.bsky.social

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

We all should. These past few days have showed how incredibly weak they are.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Not to get too hopeful on main but fascism hinges on the projection of strongman invincibility and every ding and crack in that image is a win for resistance. And boy howdy was there some good dinging and cracking delivered today

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 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 10 hours ago • 86 comments

#NoKingsDay NYC I was toward the front of the march. It ended at Madison Square Park. I stopped at a fast food joint to buy a drink and use the restroom. Walking back on 5th and the marchbis still happening! Tens of thousands of protesters!

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

#NoKngsDay NYC Way better than a military parade!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

#NoKingsDay NYC Marching down 5th Avenue. Thousands of people in the streets. Mood: Very positive

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

#NoKingsDay In front of NYC Public Library: At least 5000 people in the rain! Mood: Festive! Vibing on solidarity!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm in Union Square Park in NYC. There's a farmer's market and a food vendor area, and the food is from all over the worlduy: Bahn mi, Korean barbeque, soup dumplings, tacos & burritos, Jamaican sandwiches, and Puerto Rican shaved ice. Most people aren't white. It's a joyful vibe. This is America!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Same!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

When I was an undergrad at Cornell University in the early 90s, Carl Sagan once stole a parking space I was waiting for.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

W/alt

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

submitted 2 days ago • 2120 comments

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

submitted 2 days ago • 371 comments

We're fucking doing it gamers

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Good morning friends. This kid is spot on 👏🏼💙

submitted 4 days ago • 749 comments

Thing I need all Dems at every level to absorb yesterday: if someone pulls a knife on you, you are in a knife fight, whether or not you want to be

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

There is no benefit to assuming the powerful are stupid/cowardly/incompetent/whatever. Assume every awful thing they do (or choose not to oppose) is a deliberate, clear minded choice.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Good morning friends! To celebrate Pride, we're putting the Under Hollow Hills collection on sale on itch: itch.io/s/154748/und... There are community copies too. Check it out!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Do. Not. Travel. To. The. United. States.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Just to be clear: the President has mobilized the Marines on American soil because people are protesting masked, secret police kidnapping people with no due process and shipping them to foreign death camps. It’s not a misunderstanding or an oversight. That is all it is. There is no other side.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Protests work

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I mean, scholars of fascism were like, “He’s going to attack universities, the media, and unions, and he’s going to arrest his political opponents,” and most of America was like, “Stop exaggerating.”

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Been thinking about this one a lot lately

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

It's somehow ALWAYS the job of the protesters to de-escalate as if we're the ones with the tear gas, rubber bullets, tanks, and a proven record of murder. Cops however are ungovernable rabid dogs, who collect salaries from us but over whom we have absolutely no control. Good deal huh?

submitted 5 days ago • 38 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

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

submitted 5 days ago • 276 comments

I never in a million years thought that my politics would start moving toward Marxism, but the current situation in the US really and truly is a class war.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

The unrest that Trump is causing in LA sure feels like it's going to be his attempt at a "Reichstag Fire" event.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Criticism of Israeli policies is not antisemitism. Defacing a Holocaust memorial is absolutely antisemitism. Horrible.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I agree with this 💯 The racists are having their revenge.

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Paul Verhoeven couldn't even make something so blatantly satirical

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I believe nonviolent protest is critically important and in fact the single most effective driver of change (that doesn’t come with an indefensible body count) I also believe the time to lecture protesters on protest tactics during a fascist incursion is after you got arrested with them

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Don't forget it

submitted 7 days ago • 187 comments

What happened last night and today was manufactured propaganda by the Trump admin to justify using the military against Americans. Let us be clear: the military should never police civilians without a request from the state. So much for the so-called party of states’ rights and law and order.

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

reminder that abolish ICE was the moderate position

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Moral of the story is: keep pushing & keep doing things with others.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

If you do get teargassed, BAG YOUR CLOTHES. Wash them as soon as you can, or throw them out.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Getting some early excitement to attend FLAG Con 2025, the local tabletop gaming convention in my town! And I live walking distance to where it'll be held. The con isn't until November, but volunteer spots open in a week. Follow them here on BSky: @flagconithaca.bsky.social www.flagconithaca.com

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

And people ask why kids don't go out more these days and parents don't make them anymore... These kids were allowed to walk a couple blocks over to the store. That's it. That's why these parents were torn away from their other child (who saw his brother die) and denied attending the funeral.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments