Cindy Zimmerman @cindyzimmerman

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

05.07.2025 19:22 — 👍 426 🔁 132 💬 5 📌 9

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

14.04.2025 18:07 — 👍 10327 🔁 3469 💬 119 📌 158

Jackie Robinson’s Army career wiped from military website in DEI purge Robinson trained as an officer and was assigned to a tank regiment during World War II.

At some point the press needs to stop adopting right-wing framing that this is a "DEI purge" and call it what it is — white supremacist violence against our collective past.

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

19.03.2025 17:48 — 👍 2871 🔁 1005 💬 58 📌 72

Trump to Cabinet: Musk has no authority to fire workers The president convened his secretaries, with Musk, to clarify power.

“According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.”

06.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 288 🔁 83 💬 38 📌 9

What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab South Koreans reversed a martial law decree in just 6 hours, showing how ordinary citizens and politicians can take fast action to uphold democracy.

recap of things to learn from Korean movement, including a website making it easy to send text messages to anti-impeachment parliamentarians, effectively rendering their mobile phones unusable due to the overwhelming volume of incoming messages. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/02/less...

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