James Fraser

Five key steps for fighting fascism!

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”

White on white crime is a tragic epidemic sweeping the country.

How many more will we lose to white gang violence and rightwing turf wars?

It’s the culture, you know. These white celebrities glamorize a criminal lifestyle & young inner-suburb kids get trapped in the school-to-influencer pipeline.

"We have to cancel kristallnacht 2.0 because the guy was one of the people we were grooming to take part in it" is a heck of a twist to be sure

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.

Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.

As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.

I can't say for sure, but I think this is more of a DC editorial conceit - DC has always used fictional city and country names in the comics and cartoons - Metropolis, Gotham, Central City, Bialya, etc. - as opposed to Marvel who mostly stick to real-world locations, with some exceptions (Latveria!)

R.I.P. Peter David, legendary comics writer who revived The Incredible Hulk R.I.P. Peter David, legendary comics writer who revived The Incredible Hulk

Peter David, one of the most prolific and influential comic book writers of the modern era, known for runs on Hulk and Aquaman, has died.

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people

no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

This almost got me teary-eyed, because our politics has been turning away from exactly this: reasonable, rational adults willing to tackle our problems with policy, not slogans.

I've not been a Liberal voter in the past, but I have to admit I like what I'm seeing from Mr. Carney so far.

Step up, stand up, speak out.
 
This moment is hard — I don't dispute that, but this isn't the time to be afraid.

Make your voice heard, whether it’s at a town hall or on the phone, so Donald Trump and Republicans know how sick and tired you are of them cutting your services.

The image is a black-and-white political cartoon depicting a man in a suit standing behind a counter labeled "Republican Platform." He is holding a bottle labeled "Untaxed Whiskey, 20¢ Gal." in one hand and a piece of cloth labeled "War-Taxed Common Cloth, Tariff 84%" in the other. Above the counter, a sign reads, "If you don’t see what you want, ask for it." The cartoon, signed by W.A. Rogers, appears to satirize the Republican Party's economic policies, highlighting the disparity in taxation between luxury items like whiskey and essential goods like cloth.

In 1890, the Tariff Act came into place in the United States. It placed tariffs on imports of up to 50%.
While touted as a way to build American industry, there was also the hope it would force an annexation of Canada. It backfired.
Let's learn more.

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Once upon a time, some villagers came across a large, ornate wooden box in the local woods. On the side of the box was a message:

“Whatever money you put in this box will, in future, grow to become 2.5 times larger.”

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The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed.

"I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

In 1944 the U.S. government wrote a sabotage guide for people in fascist occupied countries. It includes a section on how managers and office workers can slow down operations.

It has been declassified and you can read and download it here:
www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

You won't be any better at fighting what's coming if you burn yourself out and spend all your time feeling bleak and hopeless, and the people telling you that it's all despair now probably don't have anyone's best interest at heart.

Just utterly sickening.

Some days it seems every single person you look up to and admire is actually a twisted creep behind closed doors.

Gaiman was supposed to be one of the good ones, an ascended fan who cared about us all.

But he’s just a traumatized person, spreading his trauma to others.

Our fiction sold AI as an existential threat because it decides our meat is weak and so it kills humanity or uses us like batteries. But reality is far far stupider: so-called AI, run by rich tech bros, is shoved into everything despite being crappy, and plunges us into dystopia and climate change.

Pierre Poilievre is cozying up to Canada’s far-right broligarchs ⋆ The Breach Just like their Silicon Valley counterparts, some Canadian tech billionaires are trying to push Canada to the right

Canadians are watching as Silicon Valley takes over the US government, but few realize Shopify executives are trying to bring a similar project to Canada — and the leader of the Conservative Party has started praising them for it.

Read my latest for @thebreach.bsky.social:

And how you keep it so free of bears!

😳 how do I become your neighbour?