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Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t

Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

By Gisela Salim-Peyer

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

If you’re an alum of #USC, #Arizona, #MIT, #Dartmouth, #Brown, #UPenn, #UVA, #Vanderbilt, #UT - sign on to this letter encouraging your presidents to stand strong

bit.ly/campusfreedom

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

If you’re an alum of these schools, sign a letter to encourage your presidents: bit.ly/campusfreedom

The Trump Administration’s "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" offers preference and insider access to federal funds in exchange for colleges' “voluntary” agreement to sweeping limitations on what and who can be taught, hired, supported, and expressed on campus.

Are you an alum from one of these 9 schools? Join in defense by signing this alumni petition to support your alma mater and campus communities across America.

Is there a letter forthcoming for Harvard ?

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

If you are an alum of any of these schools, we urge you to join or start your own alumni action to let their administrations know how you feel about this. This is a trial balloon and we’ve seen these sorts of tests before—if allowed, they expand. Resistance is imperative.

If you are an American evangelical, the next best time to ask yourself is now:

Are you an American first and foremost? A Southerner? A Republican? A conservative? An evangelical?

Or are you first and foremost a child of God and follower of Christ?

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...this way that time collapses in layers, but then the layers shimmer and wink at you, is so surreal to me.

Many years ago @0ana.bsky.social gave me a copy of Haroun and the Sea of Stories (her beautiful handwriting is still there inside the front cover to delight me every time I open it), and I started reading it to our little one while we were both sick in bed last month...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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A handwritten list of 13 ways to say I love you. 1. I love you. 2. I love you to the moon. 3. I love you so much. 4. I love you to the moon and back. 5. I love you across the galaxy. 6. I love you around the galaxy. 7. I love you across the universe. 8. I love you around the universe. 9. I love you to the moon and back and again and again. 10. I love you inside out. 11. I love you forever. 12. I don’t stop loveing you. 13. I love you for eternity.

My kid wrote this list for me one afternoon last week, as I was trying to eke out a little work while sick. I’m very lucky to be his mama. 🥹

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...

If only we celebrated negative results more … our science culture would be healthier!

The National Archives under the Trump Admin illegally released unredacted, classified, full military records for a Democratic NJ Gov candidate to an ally of her opponent.

Seems more and more reasonable for Americans to expect the release of the Epstein files, also unredacted and in full.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

We’ll endure in order for yall to stand firm and not compromise

@tokuda.house.gov present??? Where is your courage?

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Cartoon by Henry J Garrett. Against an off-white backdrop are two identical red splatters, one of which is framed by a hand-drawn, wooden, ornate frame – as one might see in a museum. Handwritten text above these splatters reads, “Why does some violence demand action, while some does not?” Handwritten text below the splatters reads, “The difference is in the framing.”

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

“What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.”

Thank you @governor.ny.gov 🫡

This is a major theme in revolutionary texts, but it’s also literally right in front of our faces

standards of decorum are only applied to the people who are harmed by the status quo and want to change it

#BOSTONSTRONG cc @crimsoncourage.bsky.social

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Liquid Glass ✨