We are all witnessing anticipatory obedience in real time.

Okay, one of the things Twitter was really good for was sounding the alarm & driving calls to Congress when terrible legislation came up for a vote.

Bluesky, IT'S TIME. H.R. 9495 would allow Trump to shut down any nonprofit by claiming they're "terrorists"

www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-o...

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

“Ladies, ladies. Calm down about this Kavanaugh appointment. They’re not going to overturn Roe. That’s ridiculous. Don’t be so hysterical.”

Journalists /editors need to frame better & we need to talk more about “if likely, then what’s our game plan”?

We won’t back down to bullies like Nancy Mace. Our movement stands with Sarah McBride and every trans staffer in Congress.

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations.

Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

⚠️ Trump just named Brendan Carr as his pick to become the chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Below is a recent tweet of his in which he rails against “one-sided narratives” in the news, characterizes fact checking as “Orwellian,” and alleges the existence of a “censorship cartel.”

They're simply following the Nazi playbook. The Berlin book burnings began in May 1933 in front of the Institute for Sex Research. If you can convince the population a small sliver of humanity shouldn't exist, it's not a big leap to clump others into the "less than worthy" category.

I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

The biggest superpower in a autocracy are saying the words "no, I won't comply."

We outnumber them. Autocrats require constant effort to maintain control. Forcing them to expend effort to enforce compliance is our asymmetrical advantage.

HB1123, a new prefiled bill in Texas would require chromosomal testing to play in school sports.

Every kid would need to be genetically tested to play.

legiscan.com/TX/text/HB11...

Russia did exactly this to HRC in 2016, aiming to suppress her vote, and probably did. Musk no doubt did suppress Harris voting as well with these demotivation techniques. This should be illegal.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This would render them traceable through the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program which (I suspect) is how Ken Paxton is finding doctors prescribing tesoterone to young trans men

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”

Hannah Arendt
The Origins of Totalitarianism

Genocide does not start with the sudden appearance of concentration camps. It starts with building calls for violence against a target minority group that normalizes the murder and violence committed against them. They suppress empathy through dehumanization.

1. Today, multiple Dem. senators have come out against pundits and Suozzi/Moulton scapegoating trans Americans.

"After the 2004 election a lot of pundits said it was time for Democrats to stop standing up for gay people. They were wrong."

Subscribe to support my journalism.

Trump is a billionaire. Elon, the guy funding him and running his propaganda network is a billionaire man child.

Dems, I'm begging you, start demonizing billionaires like they do immigrants and trans people. We need a leftist populism that makes people hate the very concept of billionaires.

People will be like "Oh! These trans people want outrageous things!" and the "outrageous things" are literally just

• legal protections against discrimination in employment, housing, healthcare, public accommodations, etc

• the ability to update identity documents to accurately reflect name/gender