tyler (he/they)

Economists Warn Americans That Money Withering To Ash In Their Hands Could Be Sign Of Recession

Economists Warn Americans That Money Withering To Ash In Their Hands Could Be Sign Of Recession
theonion.com/economi...

Research from 2022 that every Democrat apologist should chew on:
“We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.“

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

alpha male praxis, obv

"The struggle to live, to thrive, to be in community will never end. In this time of apocalyptic crisis, resist with all your might the urge to become comfortably numb."

Thank you for sharing.

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:

1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

DOGE-inspired money hack:

If you cancel your home owners insurance and burn your house down, you can save A TON OF MONEY on premiums and mortgage payments.

Am I doing this right?

LGBTQI people aren’t DEI, we are people

Whole ass human beings

As the recipient, if you don't sit quietly reading the entirety, soaking up the environs, you don't get to have your Madeleine.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

Wisdom.

Part One: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought - Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I love this story so much. There's a really great four-part podcast by Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social about the Surrealist resistance to Nazi occupation that goes into detail about Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Part One: The Surrealists Were Even Cooler Than You Thought - Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I love this story so much. There's a really great four-part podcast by Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social about the Surrealist resistance to Nazi occupation that goes into detail about Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

Claude Cahun with hearts on their face and I AM IN TRAINING DON'T KISS ME shirt

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism.

A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer.

Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore.

They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary

www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Scientists Oppose Administration’s Gender Definition Proposal We Are 2600+ Scientists including 1100+ biologists, 180+ geneticists, and 9 Nobel laureates Opposing the Administration’s Gender Definition Proposal Read the Statement For Press

Transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people #WontBeErased by pseudoscience (2018)

Signed, 2617 scientists
(including 1100+ biologists, 180+ geneticists, and 9 Nobel laureates)

not-binary.org

Congressperson John Lewis, whose ‘good trouble’ they love to quote so much, was arrested 45 times in his life. The last was in 2013 protesting for immigrants, during the Obama presidency.

If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?

The album cover from "Loner" by Caroline Rose. She's wearing a red track suit, red headband, and has a red towel across her shoulders as she stands against a stark white background. She looks off to the side, perhaps cynically, as she attempts to light approximately twenty cigarettes that are hanging out of her mouth. 😂

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.

If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

"...be irreverent, be indignant, be defiant--the law is not sacred, people are." 💯 🔥

The opposite of diversity, equity, and inclusion is not "anti-DEI."

It's state-enforced uniformity, injustice, and segregation.

Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one:

Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.

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 📉

Request Aid & Support For rapid response use ALERTA, and include a specific request for aid: observation, de-escalation, survivor support, medical aid, bystander intervention, etc. Activity - What is happening? Location - Where is this happening? Equipment - Are there weapons, vehicles, etc. involved? Request Aid - What response is being requested? Time & Date - What is the exact time and date? Appearance - Who? How many? What are they wearing? EXAMPLE - Dec 13 1:12pm: There are four APD Officers harrassing a black teen on the corner of Haywood & Virgina in West Ash. 3 squad cars on the scene. Requesting aid to observe and record.

Spread Information not panic When reporting or signal boosting potential threats: provide as much information as possible! S.A.L.U.T.E. Size/Strength "5 to 6 Armed Agitators" Actions/Activity "Harassing random people on the move" Location & Direction "Manhattan, East of Central Park, E 97th St" Uniform/Clothes "Dark Jackets, ballcaps" Time & Date of Observation "8:32 PM June01" Equipment & Weapons "They have Body Armor and Pepper spray" Not a useful message/post/call to action/request for aid: "proudboys spotted" "Where? When? What are they doing? How Many? What are they carrying?" Use your Judgement!

If information being passed around does not include these details, it's not enough to be shared.

Seek clarification.
Ask others to get specific.

Don't share prematurely.

Read more about their usage:
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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”