the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

This Saturday! Boston rides for ALEX PRETTI!
Meet at Copley Square at 2:00pm.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Climate Talks Postponed Due to Raging Metaphor

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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A newborn world caught in the act. NASA’s new image shows WISPIT 2b, a baby planet forming inside a ring of gas and dust around its star. It’s the first-ever photo of its kind, offering a rare glimpse into planetary birth.

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA

I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.

I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today.

I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children.

Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us.

One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

Did the New England Patriots team plane just fly to Guantanamo? 👀

#Boston stands with #Ukraine
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I understand the desire not to panic. And Trump will not be able to do everything he’s trying to do. But it’s not 2016. It’s clear they’re far more capable this time. The only way to prevent things is to take very seriously that he absolutely could succeed.

There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

apropos of nothing, one of the most important things any of us can do to resist fascism is to refuse to comply early.

this means a lot of things, like not selling out your vulnerable neighbors, and not acting to aid the regime.

it also *very crucially* means not abandoning hope.