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created September 15, 2023

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Profile picture Matt Seybold (@mattseybold.bsky.social) reposted

"You are already an insider-outsider to the problem of fascism. We all are..We're all at the MAGA rally right now." - @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

18/9/2025, 4:59:49 PM | 43 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) reposted

They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

22/9/2025, 1:01:25 AM | 850 235 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org) reposted

Regimes think twice before escalating repression if they know it only ends up growing the opposition. We need your help to make No Kings Day as big, powerful and effective as possible. Please pitch in if you can to support safety and security training, event promotion, and marches in anchor cities.

21/9/2025, 9:02:20 PM | 578 207 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (@crimethinc.com) reposted

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression crimethinc.com/Safeguarding Donald Trump has signaled that he is expanding his offensive against immigrants to target critics of his regime as well. Everyone should read this guide spelling out concrete steps we can take to prepare.

18/9/2025, 7:44:24 PM | 205 123 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (@crimethinc.com) reposted

Welcome to everyone who is just now following us! We are a thirty-year-running all-volunteer anarchist collective involving participants on several continents. Everything we do is collectively produced, anonymous, and not for profit. Here's a short introduction to our work: tochangeeverything.com

6/12/2024, 9:54:08 AM | 486 120 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carl Beijer (@carlbeijer.bsky.social) reposted

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

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21/9/2025, 9:26:48 PM | 3233 637 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

21/9/2025, 10:00:07 PM | 9735 2859 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) reposted

Happening this week, starting tomorrow: Utah’s legislature is meeting to adopt a new congressional map after a court order. All five draft maps would transform a safely GOP seat into a swing district that’d be very winnable for Dems.

21/9/2025, 10:24:47 PM | 1505 350 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

You want to read this story. I promise. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...

21/9/2025, 10:35:39 PM | 2514 1132 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted

I know it's hard to do but you have to tune out the constant & I mean constant torrent of criticisms on social media re: activism & organizing. If you don't, it can stop you from trying to do any activism or organizing. Most of the critics aren't doing any organizing themselves so keep trying things

21/9/2025, 11:35:26 PM | 1084 255 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) (@bestonetx.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

A transcript of Disney's testimony, as well as Ronald Reagan's, is at History Matters: historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6458

21/9/2025, 4:37:31 PM | 162 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture David Slack (@slack2thefuture.bsky.social) reposted

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

22/9/2025, 12:50:46 AM | 5268 1585 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) reposted

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

22/9/2025, 1:11:28 AM | 1195 338 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Here are five, practical next steps you can take to make a difference. https://youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?feature=shared

21/9/2025, 4:01:06 PM | 1647 799 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Eddie Smith (@eddsmitty.bsky.social) reposted

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵 While people celebrate the life of a racist today, I will give you the names of a few White people who those same people refuse to acknowledge. They made the ultimate sacrifice. Honor them.✊🏾(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Profile picture Akela Cooper (@akelacooper.bsky.social) reposted

While ppl are boycotting Disney a reminder that Sinclair and Nexstar are also the problem. They started this. Canceling Disney subscriptions hurts Disney but does nothing to Sinclair/Nexstar. We also need to boycott companies that advertise on Nexstar and Sinclair stations.

21/9/2025, 4:26:04 PM | 1836 767 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) reposted

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Profile picture Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart (@mskellymhayes.bsky.social) reposted

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

A man speaks on a microphone at a lectern on a stage beside a large screen that bears the words “Resisting ICE in Chicago Emergency Response Townhall”
21/9/2025, 4:45:07 PM | 4034 662 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) reposted

The New York Times is the most influential source of right wing propaganda in the entire world. This shit is just absolutely absurd. We’re going to see our rights gone and be killed because of this newspaper.

For Erika Kirk, a Husband’s Life Cut Short by Violence He Seemed to Foresee In an interview, the wife of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk said she had implored him to wear a bulletproof vest. But she sees divine work in his death.
21/9/2025, 5:14:18 PM | 1148 253 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Punish the Villains (@internethippo.bsky.social) reposted

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

21/9/2025, 5:27:55 PM | 5321 1230 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Imani Gandy (@angryblacklady.bsky.social) reposted

It's the constant undermining of Black women's credibility for me. The default is not to believe us when we say something.

21/9/2025, 5:52:32 PM | 548 72 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

Take 30 minutes and watch my analysis of how and why Donald Trump is escalating his authoritarian crackdown on thought, dissent, media and organizations. Then share it with others. youtu.be/4kKtGgh3l5I

21/9/2025, 6:01:19 PM | 1195 513 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jacob Schriner-Briggs (@jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social) reposted

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

21/9/2025, 6:28:11 PM | 3090 1951 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Micah (@rincewind.run) reposted

everything that Trump and co think they are accomplishing by dismantling USAID and various NGOs could actually be accomplished in reverse by dismantling the feudal car dealerships ruling towns everywhere

21/9/2025, 12:07:53 AM | 599 88 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Madelyne (@madelynerants.bsky.social) reposted

Had an amazing time at an @emergeamerica.bsky.social SC event today & was so inspired by @ashantigholar.bsky.social ! Met several rockstar women running for office including @dittmerforcongress.bsky.social, @juliezforsc.bsky.social & many more! Thanks @kayekoonce.bsky.social for including me!

A woman's hand holding the planet. Says women will save the world
21/9/2025, 12:20:10 AM | 172 59 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Again, as much for your psychological health as resilience necessity. You learn to think deeply in resourceful and resilient ways, and gradually you find yourself living more resourcefully and resiliently. Which CRUCIALLY always ends up meaning, in organized relationship with others.

21/9/2025, 1:50:23 AM | 50 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The core of the work isn't hoarding the turnip greens, it's exploring your relationship with consumption and material goods and seeing where you are vulnerable, and exploring how you can think through resiliency in those places of vulnerability.

21/9/2025, 1:44:59 AM | 51 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Which brings me to my final point, because any time I talk about this stuff there are folks in my replies stressing out because the resiliency work I talk about seems out of reach: No one is ever "prepared." The work is not being "prepped," the work is becoming resilient and resourceful.

21/9/2025, 1:43:39 AM | 54 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

And even more than the basement cans of turnip greens, that is a source of deep comfort. I am resourceful, I have intentionally positioned myself in a community of resourceful folks who practice informal (and sometimes formal) mutual aid, and I and we will figure it out together.

21/9/2025, 1:41:31 AM | 51 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

That in turn gives me the confidence to believe that even if the cushion we have wears thin, we will figure it out and make it work. I trust that I have taught myself resourcefulness as a practice at this point, and that I have gotten good at it.

21/9/2025, 1:39:54 AM | 49 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyder.bsky.social) reposted

Another thing I will say in favor of moderate prepperism is that from a purely psychological standpoint I have found it really helpful. Our preparations would not by themselves keep us humming through some total collapse, but they help me feel that we are as ready as we can be for the unknown.

21/9/2025, 1:00:28 AM | 502 50 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture dell cameron (@dell.bsky.social) reposted

crucial to recognize this isn’t just a rhetorical thing. cued by feds, there’s police all over the country now really lowering the bar for what’s considered “threatening” and using interagency back channels to compile/share the names and accounts of people expressing frustration w/ the government.

21/9/2025, 3:31:29 AM | 378 99 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maryam M.-C. (@maryneedsnohail.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The thread below (14 posts) addresses the ethics of resistance. Under fascism, there are no good choices. None of us will come out of this with our hands clean. But that does not make all choices equal. Some choices are far worse than others, and we can distinguish between them.

15/9/2025, 9:55:09 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maryam M.-C. (@maryneedsnohail.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

You may be feeling hopeless and overwhelmed right now. You make these feelings vanish by acquiring skills that make a material difference in our conflict with fascism. This is achieved through training. As your abilities improve, you will gain confidence in yourself and in the outcome of our war:

31/1/2025, 7:12:28 PM | 19 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maryam M.-C. (@maryneedsnohail.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Of course not. The fascists are not invincible. The first step to defeating them is not mistaking them for generic authoritarians. Fascism differs from the latter in motivations, methods, and strategies that are effective against it. I've compiled the thread below to give an overview of that:

20/9/2025, 11:55:04 PM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) reposted

I would like Never Trump Republicans to demand that George W. Bush appear and speak up for democracy in this country. Why do ppl always ask Obama to do things and “where is Kamala”? Where is the 43rd President of the United States while democracy crashes & burns. This is the party he led. 1/

20/9/2025, 6:11:52 PM | 3779 942 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

It's official: D.C. taxpayers are on the hook for over $1 billion to build a new stadium for the Washington Commanders. The team's owner is a private equity mogul worth nearly $10 billion. Here's what you should know about the billionaires' public subsidy stadium scam.

20/9/2025, 7:01:08 PM | 2193 950 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Evan Sutton (@evansutton.bsky.social) reposted

The #teslatakedown Seattle crew is taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to defend the first amendment at our local ABC affiliate, and to make sure our neighbors know to #boycottdisneyabc! 🧵 of my favorite signs and outfits @troublemakers.bsky.social @defundmusk.bsky.social

Snow White and Cinderella holding signs reading Sell your Disney, and Hands off our first amendment With the space needle in the background #boycottdisneyabc
20/9/2025, 7:08:22 PM | 306 79 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) reposted

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

20/9/2025, 7:22:03 PM | 1023 352 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) reposted

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

20/9/2025, 8:00:09 PM | 5898 1612 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) reposted

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

20/9/2025, 11:47:24 PM | 1910 473 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted

Who is Lindsey Halligan? - Former Florida insurance lawyer turned Trump defense attorney - Filed the special master lawsuit that delayed Trump’s classified docs case - Convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge of reviewing Smithsonian bc she didn’t like some of the exhibits

21/9/2025, 12:13:01 AM | 1017 424 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) (@theserfstv.bsky.social) reposted

Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsome's strategy of appeasement is what leads to the far right. Folding on reproductive or trans rights to try and win elections normalizes those positions as moderate rather than extreme

20/9/2025, 9:41:17 PM | 1411 319 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) reposted

My book "On Freedom," the case for the value of freedom and a proposal for a better future, with a new foreword accounting for where we are today, will be out in paperback October 28th. timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

Image of the book's cover. It is a plain cover simply with the words
20/9/2025, 9:47:39 PM | 1496 386 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen_5Calls.org (@cruellaisdevine.bsky.social) reply parent

👆 exactly

21/9/2025, 12:33:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com) reposted

the difference between me and guys like klein is that he thinks we should study the right to learn their values and i think we should study the right to learn their tactics

20/9/2025, 11:29:27 PM | 1607 231 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachel Kleinfeld (@rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social) reposted

This is the blueprint- we know what to do. Can our country do it? amandaripley.substack.com/p/how-to-pre...

26/6/2025, 6:54:17 PM | 11 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rachel Kleinfeld (@rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social) reposted

I warned that Trump would create build a new spoils system: (www.persuasion.community/p/theres-no-...): 1 fire civil service; 2 Make clear you keep your job only via loyalty; 3) move jobs to districts where their votes could make a difference. It is starting: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

24/7/2025, 6:55:41 PM | 12 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Lee West (@whodat35.bsky.social) reposted

Oligarchs are also behind fomenting anti-immigration demonstrations across Europe. White nationalists want to topple democracies so that they can control government and replace it with autocratic rule. And, there are Americans like Bannon and Musk who are behind those efforts.

20/9/2025, 5:14:35 PM | 13 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) reposted

Last week @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social and I put out a provocation & set of suggestions on how influence has changed and why institutions (& funders) need to change their thinking on shaping public opinion and connecting w/audiences. The old way no longer works. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

20/9/2025, 3:55:12 PM | 195 93 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Carceral Abolition (@carceralabolition.bsky.social) reposted

Working While Brown Is the New Living While Black The Supreme Court’s decision gives federal agents license to treat Latinos like second-class citizens, condoning the same racial profiling Black Americans have long faced from police. capitalandmain.com/hitting-the-...

20/9/2025, 5:30:54 PM | 3 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sameer Ashar (@sameer-ashar.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Reminds me of how the Federalist Society was legitimated by countless liberal academics for decades while it‘s judicial takeover unfolded.

20/9/2025, 5:21:08 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

20/9/2025, 5:06:41 PM | 2870 690 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Citruchel LLC (@citruchel.rip) reposted

As we now have to protect ourselves from our government and its collaborators, encryption technology is more essential than ever before.

20/9/2025, 5:28:58 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Craig Harrington (@craigipedia.bsky.social) reposted

This is what makes Jamelle’s write-up today about the Cooper Union speech so great. When Democrats win, they’re scolded to include the near-majority who didn’t vote for them. When they lose, they’re told to fall in line despite their near-majority. The elites want to placate MAGA in word and deed.

20/9/2025, 5:29:50 PM | 102 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The TL;dr here is that instead of getting angry at Kamala Harris over this mention in a book, we should be angry at the mainstream press for twisting any little comment a politician makes about us into anti-trans propaganda divorced from the content of their comments

20/9/2025, 5:09:32 PM | 413 87 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Despite Harris’ assessment, Politico instead characterizes her remarks as somehow feeding into Gavin Newsom’s claims about that infamous anti-trans 2024 ad In fact Politico EDITORIALIZES in the story too, asserting without citation the ad was “effective” by saying Newsom “acknowledges” that

Politico: President Donald Trump’s campaign hammered Harris over her positions on trans rights, releasing a now-famous ad with the tagline “Kamala is for they/them. I am for you” that Democrats across the country, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, acknowledged were effective.
20/9/2025, 5:09:32 PM | 195 20 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The fact Harris made clear she wants not to discriminate against trans children while handling sports is an important distinction that many in the mainstream press, especially in washington, avoid making Instead, they’ll just describe pursuit of actual fairness as support for banning trans people

20/9/2025, 5:03:37 PM | 380 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

What did Politico say Harris said? “expresses reservations about transgender athletes competing on girls’ sports teams” & “question[ing] the fairness of allowing transgender athletes” But what did they quote harris as saying? That she wants trans athletes to compete without demonizing people

“I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports,” “With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children”
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Profile picture jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social) reposted

I’ve seen a lot of trans folks get outraged at Kamala Harris over this news article A brief thread on why I would really suggest *reading* the outrage bait posted about our community by major media platforms before hitting “post” on social media Here we go… 🧵

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Profile picture Ryan Marino, MD (@ryanmarino.bsky.social) reposted

Hexavalent chromium is one of the best-documented human carcinogens. It can cause multiple forms of cancer, and, unlike a lot of other kinds of exposures, the risk is cumulative, even for low level exposures. Recent data has also shown unsafe amounts of hexavalent chromium is produced by wildfires.

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Profile picture Michael E. Mann (@michaelemann.bsky.social) reposted

#ScienceUnderSiege went to press months ago. But this ending paragraph feels like it really resonates today:

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Profile picture Hagen Blix (@hagenblix.bsky.social) reposted

This is the tech strand of libertarianism that wants to replace all rule-making by market mechanisms. The result is just generalized corruption. But it's the exact shit that the weirdos from seasteading to pro-natalism have been advocating

20/9/2025, 2:35:10 PM | 22 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julia MĂŠtraux (@juliametraux.bsky.social) reposted

Re-introducing myself 👋 I'm @motherjones.com's disability reporter, where I cover politics as it relates to disability. I am also chronically ill/disabled myself. You can get in contact with me at jmetraux@motherjones.com or via Signal: juliametraux.49

17/9/2025, 7:26:00 PM | 352 73 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Antony Carpen (@acarpen.bsky.social) reposted

Time to rethink & account for the assumptions we have on what a well-functioning society/ies need as essentials?

20/9/2025, 12:01:10 PM | 6 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steady (@steady.page) reposted

Thinking about switching away from Substack? Check out Steady. Our newsletter tool is 100% free, you can import addresses from other services and dedicated account management (no matter the revenue). steady.page

31/7/2025, 9:23:13 AM | 19 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I am going to @steady.page - a privately owned, self-funded platform run by people who have their hearts and their politics in the right place.

20/9/2025, 2:17:13 PM | 26 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If you are interested in more such deep dives, and in English: I write a regular newsletter - the latest piece below. (This was the last piece published via Substack - I’m taking the newsletter to a new platform; re-launch on Tuesday. No worries, if you subscribe, you’ll be automatically migrated.)

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Profile picture Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Today’s Right is dominated by people like Vought who are convinced there is nothing left to conserve – that our moment requires not “conservatism,” but a radical “counter-revolution.” They have never been so powerful. And they are determined to abuse their power ruthlessly.

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Profile picture Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The key task, as Vought sees it, is to take over government and turn it into a tool that serves only two purposes: To enact revenge against the “woke” Left – and impose White Christian patriarchal domination on the country. And he knows how to wield the power of the state as his instrument.

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Profile picture Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Vought is not interested in democratic politics: He seeks to “traumatize” civil servants, use the military to suppress protests, sees Trump as an agent of God’s will. He is a committed ideologue, convinced to be fighting a noble war to defend his “real America” of white Christian patriarchal rule.

20/9/2025, 1:22:10 PM | 149 36 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thomas Zimmer (@thomaszimmer.bsky.social) reposted

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.” For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen. Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

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Profile picture Peter Flax (@pflax1.bsky.social) reposted

I think a lot of people remain confused about the motives of the tidal wave of disinformation that drowns us daily. The point is to annihilate the whole notion of truth. The point is to end the existence of independent media. The point is to exhaust the public's competence at critical thinking.

13/9/2025, 1:18:47 PM | 79 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) reposted

This is what actual freedom of speech looks like — join in www.nokings.org

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Profile picture Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) reposted

Somewhat but not especially surprised to know Mississippi beat Indiana to the punch on this pattern-matching prophecy

20/9/2025, 2:33:51 PM | 95 26 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shawn Musgrave (@shawnmusgrave.bsky.social) reposted

Last night a third activist whose Instagram account was targeted by DHS filed a motion to quash the subpoena sent to Meta. That makes three of the six accounts tagged as "collaborators" in a video post about a particular Border Patrol agent. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71398...

20/9/2025, 11:27:41 AM | 33 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) reposted

This is fundamentally silly but is also no joke. Stuff like this has been used to put people in gang databases and build conspiracy cases.

20/9/2025, 1:09:39 PM | 96 39 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social) reposted

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

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Profile picture Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) reposted

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Profile picture Denny Carter (@dennycarter.bsky.social) reposted

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

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Profile picture Denny Carter (@dennycarter.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

A while back I wrote about the hideous political awakening of American parents during COVID, which resulted in the destruction of the Ed Department. badfaithtimes.com/the-bad-fait...

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Profile picture Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) reposted

When I wrote this in January, people said I was an alarmist. Today, the New York Times reported that “Senior officials in the federal government have taken over a conservative media entity to talk about a crackdown on anti-conservative thought and speech.” Yes, a crackdown on thought and speech.

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Profile picture Ozma (@rowyourbot.bsky.social) reposted

Notice how they are far away and sadistically shooting at people. These are the people the government is hiring—immature vindictive thugs who will violate laws including the constitution. Because nobody else will do this job and our government is run by immature vindictive thugs that break the law.

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Profile picture Jolyon Maugham KC (@goodlawproject.org) reposted

"The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

20/9/2025, 8:11:57 AM | 316 112 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Richard Delevan (@richard.wickedproblems.earth) reposted reply parent

The event is in Rome and live-streamed but is aimed at a much wider audience and featuring speakers like @marinasilva.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @billmckibben.bsky.social and @fossiltreaty.bsky.social's @kuminaidoo.bsky.social. - raisinghope.earth/conference/ We get into that and much more.

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Profile picture Richard Delevan (@richard.wickedproblems.earth) reposted

Hope isn't a feeling, it's a discipline. That's what I took from speaking with Lorna Gold - she took a break organising an event hosted by Pope Leo for the 10th Anniversary of Laudato SĂŹ to talk about where we go from here. Also with some bonus content here - news.wickedproblems.uk/p/laudato-si...

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Profile picture Senate Gabe (@senategabe.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This is not a hidden truth. In fact they proudly display this on the Inaugural Ceremony website.

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Profile picture Senate Gabe (@senategabe.bsky.social) reposted

Another thing that disturbs me, which a lot of people do not know, is that the Democrats actually helped plan Trump's second inauguration. Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Amy Klobuchar, they were all part of the planning committee.

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Profile picture Seth Stern (@seth-stern.bsky.social) reposted

For anyone who thinks the current assault on free speech is limited to people who criticize Charlie Kirk…

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Profile picture Chris Stokel-Walker (@stokel.bsky.social) reposted

A cyberattack hitting the check in and boarding system provider for many European airports is a nightmare situation www.reuters.com/en/cyberatta...

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Profile picture Marc Maxmeister (@marcmaxmeister.bsky.social) reposted

Reminder: US news sources are not the only news. The free Newsmap site can show you the daily headlines your news outlets might have missed.

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Profile picture Marc Maxmeister (@marcmaxmeister.bsky.social) reposted

Since the #bsky algorithm is fair, unlike twitter, and creating posts is no longer pointless, I'm the author of #GivingTuesday's #CivicIntent report - a way to measure that sense of "doing good" and "good intentions" that 4 out of 5 Americans feel: www.givingpulse.givingtuesday.org/civic-intent...

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Profile picture 404 Media (@404media.co) reposted

A bill introduced by Michigan lawmakers last week would ban pornography, ASMR, depictions of transgender people, and VPNs for anyone using the internet in the state. 🔗 www.404media.co/michigan-por...

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Profile picture Jay Edidin (@edidin.bsky.social) reposted

If you're looking for a positive governmental effort to engage with, here's a good one: 19thnews.org/2025/09/lgbt...

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Profile picture The Conversation U.S. (@us.theconversation.com) reposted

Hepatitis B once infected 18,000 U.S. kids a year. Today, fewer than 1,000. Vaccinating at birth made that possible, yet the policy is now up for debate, explains a pediatrician and preventive medicine specialist buff.ly/bLXcl6x

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Profile picture Leah Greenberg ❌👑 (@leahgreenberg.bsky.social) reposted

HANDS OFF OUR HISTORY

19/9/2025, 8:09:28 PM | 366 85 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brad Johnson (@climatebrad.hillheat.com) reposted reply parent

Make @5calls.org!

19/9/2025, 8:26:55 PM | 5 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brad Johnson (@climatebrad.hillheat.com) reposted

“Why pass a budget if Russell Vought can unilaterally rescind it?” - @schumer.senate.gov taking a #nokings line. Will the Senate Democrats stand strong? Only if they hear from the public that they must

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Profile picture The Contrarian (@contrariannews.org) reposted

Governor J.B. Pritzker gives us hope. In this exclusive piece for The Contrarian, he calls on us to work together to reaffirm the values that actually make our country great. A must-read:

19/9/2025, 6:14:16 PM | 1778 564 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tiffany W (@tiffany.thetriibe.com) reposted

i was on the ground today with our team and @mulchy.bsky.social and @djbyrnes1.bsky.social. being in a situation where feds are unafraid to shoot pepper balls and tear gas at protestors AND elected officials AND the media… we are in truly scary times. and it’s only the beginning.

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