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every american editor bumbling about “controversial gestures” should crawl into a hole

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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#TeslaTakedown is now expanding to other countries! We have many upcoming #TeslaTakedown protest events, including the UK's flagship Tesla store in London! Join an event or create your own at TeslaTakedown.com!

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They need us. We need us. Please help them reach their goal. Become a monthly supporter. I am. Every single dollar helps.

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some talking points other than the obvious if you need them: - this is governmental overreach - this increases the chances of having to strip at the airport for everyone - what about intersex people - this is wasteful and inefficient and a dumb use of government resources

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Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Yes. Worth a read.

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AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

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Tennessee Republicans want to hit nonprofits — including faith groups — who help migrants and undocumented people with possible felonies. Incredible quote from the bill’s sponsor. tennesseelookout.com/2025/02/17/b...

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Federal worker Chris Dols spitting fire. Calls DOGE a "smash and grab." Trump, Musk, and their 1% cronies "have shuttered the CFPB in the interest of letting banks and predatory lenders keeping all of us in debt until we die." Folks should follow and join @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

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lads, is this A. senility B. narcissistic mania C. engagement harvesting D. authoritarian limit-testing E. big amphetamines F. all of da above

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Joining a #TeslaTakedown protest or creating one? You can find downloadable flyers and other background info to print out. Learn more and help others learn more! www.teslatakedown.com

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Week 2 of #TeslaTakedown already has ten different protests registered at Tesla stores around the country. Find one near you, or start one yourself, at teslatakedown.com. I'll be at the Portland protest again this Saturday at 11 am, and I would love to see you there!

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If you live in the US or the Americas, I suggest you read this article. It speaks plainly about our transformation to authoritarianism, but also about how we need each other to establish resistance, hope & solace. (click thru to find link) 'how it is - Sarah Thankam Mathews' substack 'thot pudding'

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

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my favorite feature of the nyt is the paywall. in a moment of weakness i clicked on that story about the white man who wants to date his way to antiracism and the paywall reminded me that my life is actually precious and mine alone to live

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“Elon Musk’s X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal,” Binder wrote on X. “Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.”

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🆗 🆗 🆗 🆗 🆗!!

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I have been thinking about this a lot over the past month. The whole thread...

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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

really enjoyed the substack by @smathewss.bsky.social. Calming, grounding, and practical but also eloquent today. smathewss.substack.com

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Revolutionary Nahuatl for 2-17-25 Mochipa achi cualli cualanilo in ahmo yolquetzalo “Anger is better, always, than despair.” moh-CHEE-pah AH-chee KWAHL-lee een AH'-moh yol-keh-TSAH-loh (Quote from @smathewss.bsky.social.) 1/

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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

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Thanks to everyone who took part in #TeslaTakedown yesterday! It was a fantastic event, with large crowds across the US and several other countries. Here's a thread with just a few of the news breaks, from national outlets (front page of BBC News, baby!) to local TV news. TeslaTakedown.com

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“Living as a subject of authoritarianism, in the long term, for most people, is like having termites slowly take up residence in your mind. The seductive promise of fascism…is you do not have to think about other people.” - @smathewss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/smathews...

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I’m clinging to hopes like these. But we have to keep at the fight. “Something that gives me some slender comfort … is that so far, full fascism has historically never taken hold in a place as diverse as the present-day U.S.” Thoughtful and thought provoking piece by @smathewss.bsky.social

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This concisely articulates what I've been feeling: People are scared of climate crisis, social change, & scarcity. Scared people want to look out for #1. Fascism says, "That's OK!" "The seductive promise of fascism, many intellectuals have observed, is you do not have to think about other people."

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it is a segregation campaign www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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It's a coup, you disingenuous dipshits, not cost-cutting. #TeslaTakedown Teslatakedown.com

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@smathewss.bsky.social writes this as a novelist, an organizer and an immigrant who grew up under authoritarianism. I found it a centering and even calming experience to read it, arriving at a place to act from, variously.

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open.substack.com/pub/smathews... Thank you @smathewss.bsky.social

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This piece from @smathewss.bsky.social is brilliant (as is the linked one from @chrysaora.bsky.social - xuhulk.bearblog.dev/make-it-make...) Exactly what I needed this morning. Caffeine & calories for a tired brain. ☕️

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And exactly what "era" have we been living through for the past four decades?

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

Thanks to everyone who will be participating in the #TeslaTakeDown actions today. I hope that some folks are thinking of these more along the #MoralMondays model.

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"The effects of authoritarianism are not evenly distributed. Once it is the settled atmosphere one is surrounded by, it can feel, for a number of people, normal and boring and vaguely pleasant in a haunted way." open.substack.com/pub/smathews...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

“We need a public, by which I mean, we need a mass of people with some kind of consensus understanding.”

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Appreciate their announcement. Usually they just lie.

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

i wrote a new newsletter. it's about shifting political realities, the imperative of collective meaning-making, and NPC smathewss.substack.com/p/how-it-is?...

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Also, the Emil Bove/Eric Adams story is not on WSJ's home page at all, in spite of the fact that WSJ has some very good DOJ beat journalists.

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

Is Kathy Hochul doing to do something about this blatant criminality going on at NYC City Hall? Why are Democratic lawmakers in New York City so silent on this mess? Eric Adams needs to be kicked out of his job and state charges brought against him.

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Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the Russian State Duma, asked the U.S. Tuesday for a list of individuals and opposition groups in Russia who received money from USAID.

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I just want to point out that selling a company's real estate, then renting it back to them, is a common tactic of private equity.

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www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

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