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Fargo based pro-democracy anti-fascist education activist. Our group is called “Fearless”, part of Indivisible. Doctor, scientist, LGBTQI+, serving veterans. He/him. Abolish ICE. TogetherWeAreFearless.org
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Vaccine sceptic RFK Jr has called for the retraction of a Danish study that found no link between aluminium in vaccines and chronic diseases in children — a rare move... “Kennedy has demonstrated that he wants the scientific literature to bend to his will”, says Oransky. Scientific American
Agree Bernie 💯! Bibi Netanyahu Must GO........
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
IDF spokesperson: "we are doing everything we can to keep civilians out of harms way" Like dropping 2,000lb bombs on densely crowded refugee camps, killing 15 medics in cold blood, firing 355 bullets into a car to slaughter a family, double tap strikes to murder journalists etc?
During Jim Crow, many states mandated that anyone seeking to register to vote or apply to a state university had to have multiple voters/alumni “vouch” for their character. It was an easy if unsubtle way to maintain all-white (or mostly-white) institutions
If they enact a new illegal congressional map, Missouri will be sued.
I didn’t really need more evidence that RFK Jr is nuts and delusional.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
Dear Trump staffers: It would really help sell the whole thing if you were a bit less observant of traditional rules of grammar, punctuation, and casing in his social media posts.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing. Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
AMEN!
I wish people would stop blaming COVID mitigation policies for the acceleration of right wing extremism, and instead acknowledge the fact that we endured a mass casualty and mass disabling event that was mismanaged by narcissistic authoritarians who shifted the blame to marginalized communities
Let’s make that happen. Sooner the better.
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Hey Congress – make Alex Acosta's testimony public and televised. There's absolutely no ethical reason for it to be private and transcribed. Nefarious AF. We need to hear your questions. We want to see him squirm. We need to see him squirm. Yet another sign of a cover-up.
Jacob Elordi plays Frankenstein's monster in Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror. Speaking in Venice, the actor says the real monsters of the world are "the men in suits."
Like Kinzinger and Respect Cheney for Her Courage,and agree,Bending The Knee,is Not For Thee......
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Well spotted. We often think about who’s funding fascism but we should think about who’s funding American democracy
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
When our working families are strong, Minnesota is strong. That’s why we’ve established paid leave, expanded the right to collectively bargain, and why we’re investing in the projects creating the union jobs of the future. Happy Labor Day, Minnesota.
Thank you for defending our democracy from the fascists
As we begin a new month, my law firm is litigation 51 voting and election cases in 25 states. 6 in Arizona 6 in Georgia 4 in Florida 4 in North Carolina 8 involve redistricting
Medicare for all. Paid leave. Universal childcare. Break up corporate monopolies. Take on Wall Street greed. Get big money out of politics. Support unions. Raise wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda.
POPE LEO: “Let us plead God to stop the pandemic of arms, large and small, which infects our world.” He prays for the victims in Minneapolis, and “the countless children killed and injured every day around the world”
It wasn’t until 1938—more than a half century after the Haymarket Riot and the national strikes for eight-hour workdays—when Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which limited the workweek to 44 hours, and then amended the law two years later to 40 hours.
100% agree. People are failing to recognize that the legacy media is now part of the authoritarian threat & must be dismantled, same as the Cabal that is destroying all of our institutions.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
I think it's a huge mistake to see Gavin Newsom's politics as a pure product of the calculus of an autonomous political career and not a product of the tech and real estate money behind him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
We do not fully grasp how damaging the SCOTUS’ presidential immunity decision was. What we know is it was a disaster and the huge damage it has caused is being compounded daily. That is because the result is a collaboration between corrupt justices, a supine Congress and a demented President.
Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car accident. I hope he gets the same expert medical care that he would wish for a disabled transgender immigrant.
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The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
Happy Kalends of September! The Kalends were the first day of each month in Ancient Rome, and were sacred to Juno, Queen of Heaven. "Kalends" is of course where we get "calendar." Juno is of course where we get the plot for Heroes of Olympus.
Rs, before the Trump cult took hold, frequently railed (rightly so) against communist and fascist regimes that nationalized industry, indulged in crony capitalism, and substituted propaganda for free speech. (The five-year plan is working!) How times have changed. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
I'm going on record. You don't cover up dead. He's not dead. However, he's sick as shit. That you can cover up for a bit. But just a bit. Mostly I hope he feels like absolute shit and is very scared of death. That I can work with.
Laura Flanders The international president of the Association of Flight Attendants explains how labor solidarity can “set the agenda and make things better.” The post “There Are No Ill...
Veterans against Trump‼️ 💯 Absolutely Correct
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GvjPcr/ How in the HELL does any government lawfully deport 600 unaccompanied minors? Who does that? Who the fuck are we? What are we? What have we become?
Seeing positive covid tests allllll over my social media. Mask up folks
It’s not hard to understand if you realize that legacy media is now part of the fascist movement. They are complicit in the authoritarian takeover of our country and should never be forgiven for this.
I like the rebrand.
I think it's time to discuss the 25th Amendment.
And Chump is The Chief Spy among Us,or Krasnov,if You're Boss Putin.......
Disagree. I’m a leftist organizing anti-fascist resistance in Fargo, and most of our opposition is not coming from the right, it’s coming from young leftists claiming we are not pro-Palestinian *enough*. So they threaten and interfere with our protests. Purity tests favor extremism over unity.
The book demonstrates the principles outlined by philosopher Iain McGilchrist in “The Master and the Emissary”—to boot, our society unleashes technologies without reflecting on whether we *should*, e.g. tech bros lauded for unleashing AI, destroying our jobs. (www.shortform.com/summary/the-...)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein wasn’t just a story — it was a prophecy about hubris, recklessness, and the chaos created by people who refuse accountability.
Generations of workers in America bled and died to win dignity on the job. They stood together against those who refused to recognize their humanity. On Labor Day, as fascism rises again, we honor those who came before us and carry forward their spirit of solidarity & defiance. Fight like hell. ✊
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Does Trump want to kill us all? No, only about a quarter of us. "It’s gonna be a health care election, but I think it’s gonna be wrapped into this whole issue of affordability. There’s a wicked brew here that is amassing against Republicans"—Brad Woodhouse of Protect Our Care.
Marta, you were meant for a great life. Rest peacefully, lovely.
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Meet Candon Dahle, Why isn't he not in jail for life? Bingham County Idaho THIS CHILD RAPIST was sentence to 180 days in jail for raping a 7 year old girl for 5 years, part of the plea deal was that he would not have to register as a sex offender. WOW: (white privilege )
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Just sayin’.
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
I can't wait to find out why this statement is so bizarre.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Spent the day driving around Manchester, New Hampshire, a city for 80-something New Yorkers in deep debt apparently. I was driving alone, something I’m known to do. I saw a woman fleeing domestic violence. I “rendered aid,” vaguely. Minutes or maybe an hour later I was walloped by a Mack truck.
Morning commuters from Glasgow to Edinburgh will see their fares drop by 48% today. Scottish Greens, trade unions and commuters worked together to demand the removal of peak rail fares. Today, peak rail fares are scrapped for good!
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
Even Gross Old Pedophile politicians know vote by mail is necessary. If I vote by mail it won’t matter how manly masked pencildick ICE goons are outside my voting station
I guess if you're in a major city in a blue state, you have to start thinking about how you're going to successfully vote with the actual military attempting to prevent you. Because that's why the military is being moved into cities right now. They're being pre-mobilized to prevent voting.
This is the way
🚨Children🚨Killed by🚨ICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
The company that makes Jack Daniels whiskey is moaning about the Canadian boycott resulting in a 62% sales drop. It should be 100%. Keep it up, Canada.
I find it perplexing that many working-class individuals, previously considered middle class, especially in impoverished states, choose to vote for Trump. He not only fails to understand their struggles but also harbors disdain for them, which raises questions about their voting motivations.
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Aint it like White people to spend centuries invading and colonizing countries they had no business being in, and then have the gall to turn around and tell immigrants they're not welcome on the land they stole.
#ProudBlue A censored Human Rights Report = a gift to dictators. The State Dept cut the truth out of its annual report. That’s not “streamlining”—that’s shielding abusers. If you can’t name atrocities, you’re complicit in them.
Did an audit of the sidewalk pollinator garden I’ve been working on this summer. It spans 3 rowhomes in Philly. All 3 only have concrete, so we’re doing the best we can. We’re cultivating 28 species of plants (24 native species) across 20 pots. I’ve documented 40 insect species here this summer!
By Bernie Sanders. Apologies - I'm out of gift articles (I thought I had a few more!), but this is worth reading, even though Kennedy will never resign, even if every single person in the US decides he's the devil. (He's not in it for us, folks.) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
1000%. Letting privileged white male criminals waltz away—after the Civil War, after Watergate—is how we wound up in this boat. No forgiveness.
When this national nightmare is finally over, no pardons. No “This is necessary to heal the country.” Public trials. Jail time. We need to expose, convict & punish every corrupt & complicit one of them.
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
You hit the nail on the head. It's partly ignorance, some of it is innate distrust, and some of it is people's nature to be self-centered ... and some are not political, but I think the main culprits are the social algorithms and the RW play for dopamine rushes. Propaganda frequently works.
Some view it as hyperbole; others don't even know what the words mean. But it's all textbook. Textbook history, textbook political science, textbook psychology, textbook social psychology. Elementary stuff, not obscure. And it's happening in real time, right before our eyes.
It’s not enough to arrest and imprison these people. As long as they stay alive they’ll be a threat to the rest of us, forever.