PSA from the lady who manages the bulk aisle at the health food store: if we all just stop listening to the news and paying attention to the negativity of those who would like to bring us down, we will all be vibrating on such a high frequency that they couldn't affect us. 1/3

Just saw an article about "Zizians" variously described as a radical anarchist vegan transgender murderous death cult that is "terrorizing America." Have they met an anarchist, a vegan, or someone trans? I guess it's possible, but it seems unlikely. Easy to see what comes next. Nothing good.

Can anyone suggest intelligent and thoughtful radical left political podcasts that a) aren't fucking liberals talking about how to restore the status quo, and b) aren't leftist bros just shooting the shit unedited for an hour?

If you are unwilling to take even modest risks to make change (signing a union card or strike pledge), please don't complain to me about the fascist state of the Union. The most vulnerable people I know -- brave trans, queer, POC, poor, unhoused, disabled heroes -- are literally risking everything.

Do not obey in advance. THIS should be repeated every day for the next… whenever. Don't be a fucking collaborator in your jobs. Don't support your work cooperating with fascists. Don't let friends cave to fascists. Fuck them and make everything difficult AF.

If a people's revolution in the US seems far-fetched, the people of Russia (1917), Germany (1918), China (1949), Cuba (1959), Iran (1979), Nicaragua (1979), Philippines (1986), Romania (1989), Czechoslovakia (1989), East Germany (1989), Tunisia (2011), Egypt (2011), & Sudan (2019) felt similarly.

I'm telling myself this as much as anyone: Little ol you probably will not be able to launch a whole lotta effective resistance on a national scale, but what you can do is resist the manifestations of fascism locally and in your workplace. Other ways to resist:

If a okay to cry "Wolf!" When a wolf is chewing off your leg.

If you truly believe in laws the Constitution would be pretty fucking important to you, and you wouldn't be talking calmly, as Dems are, about "agreements" to avert this constitutional crisis. But the fact is, they don't. Not really. They only believe, like their opposition, in influence and power.

If Netanyahu gave me a pager, uh, even a gold one, I don't think I'd accept it.

They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Standing up to Trump-accommodating hospital and university administrators is important and urgent. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Armed officers are blocking elected representatives from the entrance to the U.S. Department of Education. Who’s allowed in? The unelected bureaucrat, Elon Musk. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social

1) Here’s a small sampling of what the NYPD has been up to and or what we’ve learned about the NYPD just in the last five months since Empire City came out:

1) September 11, 2024
NYPD Buried Hundreds of Misconduct Cases"
www.propublica.org/article/nypd...