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It’s easy to underestimate the extent to which the success or failure of an authoritarian consolidation rests on perceptions and therefore persuasion more than who controls the institutional use of force. Mass protests are a key way to persuade people that the regime is not as strong as it says.

All of us are individually powerless. We can only form an effective opposition collectively. And when things need to happen on the scale we need them to happen, you’re simply not going to agree with every tactic every group deploys, never mind have a veto on them.

You have to fight this. You MUST fight this. This is the first fight in 8 months that you, as a person without a law degree, can personally win against the Trump Administration. We still need a bit more critical mass from Democrats. Keep calling. Demand (1) statements and (2) investigative hearings

LA Ice protests spurred US military to identify ‘hotels to avoid’ due to ‘harassment’ Exclusive: Organizers disrupted Trump’s immigration crackdown by targeting hotels where officers were staying, documents show

“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out.

Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

democracy isn’t just having elections, it’s also an ethic of distributing power across society, so that nobody has too much. expropriating massive concentrations of wealth is a democratic good in itself.

We need to think about it now because we need to get ready to stand up very loudly and clearly for gender-nonconforming homeless people and gender-nonconforming people with mental illness or substance abuse issues. That's the most likely starting place.

A reminder that *40%*of homeless youth are members of the LGBTQ+ community. Government “agents” will absolutely snatch up the trans and gender-nonconforming ones first.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

I have this thought over and over again. Even after everything, I just can't believe it.

And I think such a campaign would counter the unmasking ICE ones that I don't personally think are useful.

I don't have the spoons for this anymore but I really think that a blue state moratorium on any immigrant jails is the campaign to run at this time. Organize state and county legislatures and electeds to reject any new detention centers.

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

“If every single immigrant who has a baby in the U.S. has to sue to obtain citizenship, we are happy to create an army of lawyers to represent those people," Mr. DiBianco said

obvi they shouldnt have to but I really appreciate people whose response to hurdles is, aight bet, watch me clear that shit

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I genuinely think the safest way to engage with AI is, so far as possible, not to touch it at all. Do not let it into your life. Do not let it digest you

This administration is much, much weaker than they would like you to believe. In many cases they're making themselves weaker through incompetent self-sabotage. Claiming they've successfully brought about a fascist regime because they've committed lawless acts of cruelty is doing their work for them

US Races to build concentration camps

I don’t know whether the AltNPS account is active disinformation or just someone with a loose and crumbling grip on reality, but either way, it is not a reliable source of information and should not be regarded as any more authoritative than a shitpost.

israel has killed and continues to kill thousands of palestinians and we’re supposed to be hung up on an american politician’s interpretation of a phrase related to the region. the former should shut down the latter but because people’s brains are so thoroughly cooked, we’re told they’re equivalent.

Jacob Frey’s one and only strategy is to run away in the face of adversity.

As @lynxwyze.bsky.social points out below, we need people viewed as the Letter-Writing Class to use their time, credibility, and privilege to fight for Omar Fateh in traditional publications. This general election could be high energy and low info. We cannot let the Strib set the terms of debate

What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.

There is a beautiful and powerful trans community in Puerto Rico, please support trans organizations if you are able to.

Thread incoming

Polls show most people voted based on Israel, the economy, and immigration. Democrats have flat out ignored the hard swing against Israel and recently, in support of immigration. So polling doesn't actually matter to them.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

Activating a national surveillance network to share with the police amidst a mass deportation push is comic book villainy.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

Fuck, man

pretty incredible indictment of NYT’s news judgement that Wyden just comes out and says the real news, while the NYT story is framed all about the posturing and buries the lede