Hannah O'Daniel McCallon

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

A square burgundry graphic with "SAVE THE DATE" at the top in like a serial killer scrapbook collage font. below it is a sassy green rat with a crown and a smirk and his hands on his hips. The text says: The Poster's Madness Rat King Special 2026 A Fundraiser For Mutual Aid Supporting Communities Under Attack Tuesday, February 24th 8:30 - 11 pm EST (5:30 - 8 pm PST)

ATTENTION BLUESKY

you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week

you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland

Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.

Cynicism will not protect you from the authoritarian regime. But it might exhaust the people who are fighting like hell to get you out of it.

If you’re clogging up the mentions of people doing the work, it’s time to log off until you’re ready to join the effort instead.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

A two-panel comic drawing. The first panel says “why use water-hungry AI…”, accompanied by an abstract drawing of a dark cloud extending fingers into Earth or water. The second panel says “when you can support dehydrated artists?”. The image is of a skull next to a paintbrush and a palette. The skull says “we’re very low impact”.

Support us dry dry humans

We're going to be in movement for the rest of our lives, there's a world to win & so much between us and freedom. How do we make struggle sustainable? So ask yourself, what is the best use of my skills and resources. Limit yourself to that work, because you can't be everywhere.

Cartoon of two stick figures, one sitting at a computer and the other standing behind them, looking over their shoulder and saying "Oh my God." A callout appears over the computer showing a long list of similarly named untitled documents. The caption reads: Pro tip: Never look in someone else's documents folder.

I love my colleagues and collaborators. But I HATE their file names.

Put even more simply: Maybe Trump isn't forcing these institutions to do anything they wouldn't like to do anyway, and pressure from Trump insulates them from the criticism they'd receive if they did it on their own.

So much of LinkedIn feels like a forced graduate school discussion board where people respond that they agree and then rehash what that person wrote right back at them.

It's always this stupid. Always.

Best activism tip I've ever received, shared once again: find the people who have already been doing the work for decades and ask them what they need, rather than launching your own bespoke advocacy project about an issue that's new for you.

The reason fascism is defeated only by the application of power (through violence or overwhelming solidarity) and not the mechanisms of democracy or civil society is that it is immune to shame. It only cares for power and it only responds to real power.

There's a list in here of the kinds of topics that people might cry "revisionist history!" about and they've nearly all been the subject of an EO at this point. I'm not claiming to be some visionary, just that this was all pretty clearly where these folks wanted to go, even in 2019.

"Let the weak die off" is eugenics. "Herd immunity" without vaccination is eugenics. The administration treating Medicare and Medicaid like it is a waste of taxpayer money is eugenics. MAHA is eugenics. Full stop.

“What university leaders must realize is they are coming for your funding, no matter what. They are coming for the Dept of Ed, no matter what…The new segregationists are coming for public education no matter what, because it is a civil right that multiple targeted communities fought for.”

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism

I have no patience for "that's what they get" replies. I don't care the fuck anybody voted for or didn't vote for. The people whose lives are being destroyed by Trump are not my enemies. Period.

I don't want anyone harmed. I want the harm to stop.

When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back

We're going to have to fight like hell to keep them from killing kids with mental health disabilities.

Firing everyone isn’t about efficiency, just like gutting the liberal arts wasn’t about budgets, just like crushing anti-genocide protesters wasn’t about safety

Yoshi is my go-to!

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Makes sense. This is one of the implicit points advanced in the Eyes on the Prize documentary. All of those white folks saying things like, "What about my civil rights?!" before and after scenes of civil rights protesters getting beaten and harassed.

What the AF?! 61% of disabled workers under this program made less than $3.50 / hr. in 2024?
Disgusting, disgraceful & derogatory; kill it, yesterday.

Please PLEASE go comment in favor of this rule. The subminimum wage for disabled folks is vile and evil and *must* be eliminated.

The poverty rate of disabled folks is astronomical compared to abled folks. There is no doubt this disgusting discriminatory policy is part of the reason why.

Implicit in a lot of anti-vaccination and anti-public health narratives like those of RFK Jr is a deep disgust/fear of disability; but also an unspoken hope that unchecked disease will "cull" the population of "weaker/less fit" people.
I really just can't see past a lot of that.

I'm going to struggle without any post-lunch naps when I go back to work 😭