Jacqui O

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

Janice and Kerry claim they're not racists.

And you might be tempted to believe that until you read what Janice and Kerry think and then conclude that ... yup - they're racists.

So true....

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The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university.

One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

By Ben Jennings, Guardian....

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

Absolutely terrifying

Awful. Was planning on travelling to USA next year, but now changed it to Canada.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Oh my God.

Donald Trump and JD Vance are attacking Zelensky in the Oval Office.

This is a complete fucking embarrassment.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

I'm flabbergasted and in a bad way.

Zoe Williams argues that fascism's gradual arrival induces a sense of paralysis (The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?, 17 February). Her words immediately brought to mind the "smoky room experiment". In this study, when a person is alone in a room that begins to fill with smoke, three-quarters raise the alarm within minutes. Yet, when surrounded by others who remain passive, only 10% take action. This is the "bystander effect", identified by Latané and Darley in the 1970s, which reveals how a silent, unresponsive crowd can stifle our instincts - even when our own lives are at stake. I often reference this experiment when discussing climate change, urging people to voice their fears to friends and colleagues. The same principle applies when fascism begins to creep in around us. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life. Dr Caroline Vincent London

• Zoe Williams is so right. I worked as a psychotherapist at the Holocaust Survivors' Centre in Hendon from 1990 to 2000. For 10 years I listened to my clients talking about their experiences of a world that turned from normal to nightmare in a matter of months. They survived Auschwitz and other death camps while their families were murdered by the Nazi death process. This kind of work leaves one with a very clear and specific understanding of fascism and nazism. When we watched Donald Trump's inauguration, and witnessed Elon Musk parading Hitler-like around the stage before throwing his arm into the air in that familiar salute, I was dumbstruck for a brief moment. I thought, wait a minute, has he just made a Nazi salute? I had to rewatch three times before my brain would allow me to fully recognise it for what it was. This was the moment I knew the Trump train had lurched into a new order. Zoe Williams is right. We can't stand by and watch, incredulous. We need to say loudly what this is. Paul Goldreich Eastbourne, East Sussex

“When fascism begins to creep in around us…. Trusting your instincts, naming the threat and sharing your fears isn't just cathartic - it's empowering. It might even save your life.”

No excuses. No equivocation. We call it what it is. And them what they are.

Very good letters in @theguardian.com

How the hell has it come to this? The USA is spiralling into a dictatorship. The government is rewriting history, and the republican party is complicit in its silence.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn says Ed Davey

“It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies” 👏

I can't watch. It's too upsetting to hear people believe and repeat the lies from Trump.

Snap..

Yep, I left after that. Just need to deactivate my account.

Thank you! Will read and learn.

Moving over from Twitter (never X) and looking for people to follow. 😀