Aaron Shipp

I had a lovely 51st birthday. The best is yet to come... 😘🙏🏿❤️

@katiephang.bsky.social ... GET THE HELL OUTTA THERE!! FULL STOP!! DON'T LOOK BACK!!

Happy Lunar New Year!
#YearOfTheWoodSnake
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Happy New Year!!!
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Here's hoping the day was filled with love, joy, and happiness. Merry Christmas, all! 🎄🎅🏿🙏🏿❤️

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

Twenty years later...
#StillHere
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It's done on purpose...to generate posts like this. Please stop falling for it and don't report on it. No one died. There are bigger fish to fry. Let it be and let it go, really.

Afraid to Seek Care Amid Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Stayed at Home and Died Candi Miller’s family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.” Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia’s abortion b...

We also previously reported on Candi Miller, whose family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.”

Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia's abortion ban.

What shauna said...
You're welcome.
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

Lesson 2: Defend institutions.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 3: Beware the one-party state.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 4: Take responsibility for the face of the world.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 5: Remember professional ethics.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 6: Be wary of paramilitaries.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 7: Be reflective if you must be armed.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 8: Stand out.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 9: Be kind to our language.
#OnTyranny

Lesson 10: Believe in truth.
#OnTyranny

Honestly, I think the wisest thing to do is to bide our time until it all burns down. We don't have a policy problem here in the US; we have a people problem. Better policy isn't going to make millions of angry, miseducated folks be different any time soon. Perhaps it's time for something new...

As an Indian, as someone who lived in Egypt, and who has, modestly, remained committed to my politics despite that, here are my rules for living under fascist regimes:
1) Focus on organizational structure. 1/

Fascists build alternative institutions to accommodate the frustrated ambitions of those who are or who feel sidelined by the status quo. Eventually they cannibalize existing institutions. Focus on pipelines that align the interests of the disenfranchised into fascist movements. 2/

2) ignore attention hogging nonsense and focus on step 1. Hegseth being named SecDef is much less important than the pipelines in the military bureaucracy which means there will be no institutional resistance to his directives.

3) Accept that corporatized media will only amplify attention-hogging nonsense and eventually become propaganda outlets. Tamil farmers protested for 2 yrs and not one major Indian outlet covered it. Being aware of resistance efforts is vital to supporting them and preventing demoralization.

4) Learn to live with social complexity. If you write off the possibility of persuading your fellow citizens, fascists win by default. In practice fascist ideologues are few, but people think they can ride that tiger for their own purpose. Read Sarah Ahmed’s organization of hate. Weaponize love.

5) Mock power. Fascists depend on the projection of invincible power. Take every opportunity to show the emperor has no clothes. Fascists depend on people craving proximity to power. Any sign of weakness is thus debilitating.

6) By the same token, stop fetishizing power. Normalize its refusal. Focusing breathlessly on the exercise of power by dimwitted fascists only helps their project of projecting power. Ignore it. Celebrate those who quit. Build them up.

7) Hanging out with friends is not organizing. It is necessary to rejuvenate yourself but learn the difference. If you are not confronted by social complexity (see above) whatever you are doing is not work. Don’t kid yourself that it is.

8) Nobody needs a fucking hero. Just do something. Every day. Play to your strengths and do what you can. I am a researcher and have no delusions about being an organizer. But I produce work that is actionable and I deliver it to people who can use it. That’s all I can do and it’s enough.