Meredith

I’m afraid we’ll have to play the long game, if enough people don’t wake up, unite, and push back in time. So many seem to be waiting for a leader or event to end this. Many outside of the U.S. seem to think they’re immune to fascism.

It’s down to US. ALL of us. Right NOW.

Hang in there, luv.

this

NEW: A “Free DC” rally is already underway in the capital in response to Trump’s authoritarian assault on the city.

(🎥 Reuters)

⚠️PAST IS PROLOGUE⚠️

🧵 Everyone needs to know that leaders who deploy the military against citizens does not end well for them. In this thread, I'm going to share historic and modern day examples. Pull up a seat.
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#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

It is never honest to just assume a place chose the ones with power over them. Not while they’ve been oppressed into powerlessness. It’s like blaming the victim.

Example:

Retaliatory tariffs are making it tough. Some U.S exporters are looking to move their manufacturing overseas so they can stay in business. There’s a lot of coverage on the Internet….

The body language….
Trump looks so owned.

forced laborers wearing “OST” (Ostarbeiter) badges are liberated from a camp near Łódź, January 1945, Łódź Poland, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of an unknown Russian archive, 19317. 

The Third Reich was a slave state.

As early as 1937, the Nazis used slave labor for economic advantage. Most Jewish men in Germany were forced to work for one government agency or another. During the rearmament campaign they used slave labor to ameliorate the labor shortages. 🧵

Federal Court Halts Construction of Alligator Alcatraz Near Miccosukee Villages The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has issued a Temporary Restraining Order , halting further construction at the immigration detention site situated at the Everglades Jetpor...

Evidentiary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, 8/12/2025:

D.C. is majority minority. By “more beautiful,” I fear he means “whiter.”

Fascist trash won’t take itself out.
We all need to rise up and act, however we’re able and now.

Boycott. Protest. Pressure lawmakers.
Build community. Help your neighbors.

@genefortexas.bsky.social: "We're buying time for Texans to wake up... To not only deal with TX but deal w/ this in every other state. If ppl who lie, cheat, and steal are allowed to win the day, that is the end of our country... Get off your ass! This is our last shot at saving the American dream."

As counter-tariffs make it impossible for U.S. exporters to build here and profit.

Start with the ones who were fired.

Wait ‘til you see what he’s squealing about:

"Crooked Nancy Pelosi, and her very 'interesting' husband, beat ever[sic] Hedge Fund in 2024," Trump wrote. "In other words, these two very average 'minds' beat ALL of the Super Geniuses on Wall Street, thousands of them.

"It’s all INSIDE iNFORMATION!"

You are talking to yourself.

I am breaking the Fifth Wall; we are not the same.

A deadly shooting at the CDC shook its scientists. Now they want answers from RFK Jr. CDC Director Susan Monarez convened an online all-hands meeting of the agency division that focuses on vaccines, and employees called out Kennedy’s rhetoric specifically.

Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

He’s referring to hate speech, yet another example of fascists using democratic norms to weaken democracy.

Thread on CDC shooting👇...

Good morning.

Yesterday, after hours of hiding, trying not to make a sound, we stepped outside and saw massive bullet holes in our office windows.

Those weren’t random shots. That was a high-powered weapon no civilian should ever own.

Donald Trump has announced a press conference that will pretend to address a *fictional* rise in crime in Washington DC. In reality, it is just a big barrel of bullshit that will be used as a pretext for an authoritarian takeover of the city.

The death rattle of failing narcissists

YouTube video by Andrew Millison How Hawaiian Rebels are Rebuilding an Ancient Food Paradise

youtu.be/24uCCr3KjCI?... So cool!

🚨 URGENT: Mason, TN needs you THIS TUESDAY!
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The Mason Mayor and Board of Alderman is voting on contracts to bring a private ICE detention center to our community.
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📅 Tuesday, August 12 at 7 PM CT 📍 Mason Town Hall
Show up, speak out, and pack the room! Your voice matters.

Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit to remove me from office.

But this seat doesn’t belong to him or me — it belongs to the people.

My message to Ken Paxton:

Come and take it.

Every time I see brown and black people helping ICE, I can’t help thinking of the Judenrat: As soon as they finished helping the Nazis oppress, terrorize, and clear the ghettos of *their own people*…their Nazi masters shot them dead.

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Run for Something’s working on it (check out their press releases):

Both concurring judges are Federalist-Society groomed and planted. Katsas has been a card-carrying member since 1989, and Rao has been in leadership roles since law school.

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Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

A normal dog doing normal things.

I don’t think he feels anything like guilt. He does look scared, though