Arielle Silver

Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

From @steveinskeep.bsky.social : If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?

Hilarious resistance: Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to imitate and mock Musk and Zuckerberg Resistance to Trump and his oligarchs comes in many forms. Here’s a new one I just read about and it’s both powerful and hilarious. At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked ...

At least 12 crosswalks in various Silicon Valley cities were hacked this weekend so that when you press the the crosswalk button you hear a message claiming to be from Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. 🫢😁😁😁
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

@nightvaleradio.bsky.social thanks for playing What Really Matters in ep 265!

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name

Senator Cory Booker concludes his record-breaking Senate Floor speech after 25 hours

Massive applause for Booker

#corybooker PREACH. 23rd hour.

💥@booker.senate.gov 💥

It's not that what's happening in the US now is "like" the Holocaust: they're actually doing the exact same thing. Calling it deportation, doing it some place where the laws are more malleable, that's how the Nazis did it too. The same rhetorical and legal sleight of hands were used.

Daily routine now:

Gratitude list. Coffee. Yoga. News. Inspiration to fight. Fantasies of flight (Spain? Canada?) Freeze. Gratitude list. Bed.

Thank you for this @chenoweth.bsky.social Everyone should follow their important research on resistance

I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

Authoritarianism scholar Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the Internet's questions about dictators & Fascism. This is excellent and well worth the time to watch.
Prof. Ben-Ghiat has the unique gift of concise specificity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6f...

Money

Here’s an idea: Rogue government has installed itself in the US capital. 100,000 federal workers from the former US are unemployed. Sounds like there are 100,000 highly skilled experts looking for a new job could be a good foundation for a new nation…

Seems Vance is getting off scott free. For now on: Trump-Musk/Vance. Credit where credit’s due.

That’s as far as I’ll cut/paste here. Read full at link in first 🧵

…(T quote cont)…”now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!"🧵

…(T quote cont)…”And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but…🧵

…(T quote)…”Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever —…🧵

In Trump's own words, "The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. …🧵

…a certain quantity of tariff-free U.S. dairy enters Canada, a quantity that was originally negotiated and agreed to by Trump during the USMCA in 2018.
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March 11, 2025 - President Trump threatens to “permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada” if Canada does not drop a 250% to 390% tariff on U.S. dairy products, which he doesn’t state only kicks in after …🧵

March 8th, 2025 - Canada's foreign minister warns European allies that their government considers Canada to be under existential threat.

March 9th, 2025 - Mark Carney, the new Canadian Prime Minister, in his acceptance speech, states that Trump is seeking to destroy Canada, and its way of life. 🧵

March 8th, 2025 - Canada's foreign minister warns European allies that their government considers Canada to be under existential threat.

March 9th, 2025 - Mark Carney, the new Canadian Prime Minister, in his acceptance speech, states that Trump is seeking to destroy Canada, and its way of life. 🧵

Fact check: What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs | CNN Politics President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200% on dairy products imported from the US. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact.

March 7th, 2025 PT II - Trump claims to reporters that he had Canada’s dairy-tariff situation “well taken care of” at the time he left office the first time, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.” In fact, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration.
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3/7 cont

This region accounts for 38% of the Canadian economy, and its loss would make Canada's independence functionally impossible. *THIS IS STILL NOT OFFICIALLY VERIFIED*🧵

March 7th, 2025 - Unconfirmed Memorandum and maps leaked on twitter reveal Trump is allegedly planning to annex the entirety of the great lakes and Southern Ontario, home to 13,491,332 Canadians. This amounts to 35.25% of Canada's total population and includes its largest city, Toronto.🧵

March 5th, 2025 - US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc that Trump "had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon."🧵