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Does it feel hopeless right now? Do you feel powerless? Let me offer you the following facts:

1. Tesla is tanking so hard right now they had to parade a bunch of cars in front of the fucking White House just to try to boost sales.

2. Target and Walmart have seen sales tank so drastically in the last month they are immediately rolling back their anti DEI stances.

3. Congress has never in history seen this amount of call volume. They typically get 40-50 calls a minute. They are currently trying to field upwards of 1,600-2,000 calls every minute.

4. The Resistance has been so vocal at town halls that the GOP had to officially instruct Republican congressmen to stop doing them.

5. This administration hasn't been able to make a single tariff stick for longer than 3 days because of all the fallout.

You. Are. Powerful.

They expected you to just put your head down and roll over and do nothing. Instead you resisted. You fought back. You showed up. And you continue to show up.

You're showing up for education. For veterans. For trans folk. For women. For immigrants. For people of color. For free speech. For international allies. You're showing up for what's right and you're refusing to obey fascism in advance.

And what's more, there is no coordinated response among the elected officials, judges, and appointed GOP heads. They're floundering. All of them. They weren't expecting this. And they have no idea what to do about it.

Mind-blowing.

Department of Justice attorney Liz Oyer was told by Trump’s administration to restore Trump supporter and actor Mel Gibson’s gun rights. She refused to do so because Mel Gibson is convicted of a violent crime, but then she was immediately fired and escorted out of her office building.

Trump’s United States is the new Russia.

youtu.be/A0u0GgcGnRw?si=jmk7XU

Russia and Belarus are bullshit countries regarding Ukraine war. How they can really claim they got all the right in the world to dictate "the truth" for making peace in Ukraine?

Only right thing to do is for them to back of. Get out of Ukraine. But as many said before. Russia is not trustworthy. They sign deals, regarding Ukraine, by former Soviet leaders, and brake them, just because a new czar arrived.

This week, the Trump administration cancelled all grant programs under the Violence Against Women Act. These grants fund most court protective order programs.

At the same time, Trump declares you are a domestic terrorist if you deface a Tesla.

Literally, a swasticar has more legal protection than a woman now.

fortune.com/2025/03/12/preside

Fortune · Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledgesBy Christiaan Hetzner

This is not AI:

Trump threatens to copy Putin’s Crimean invasion, by using existing US bases on Greenland as a bridgehead to invade the Island — just like Putin sent thousands of soldiers to his Sevastopol base on Crimea to start the invasion.

I am sorry, but I can only conclude the US is now an enemy of The Kingdom of Denmark.

“No #democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 % of the population to #protest over a sustained period At that scale, most soldiers have no desire to suppress protesters. Why? Because the crowd includes family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors. With a population of 327 million, the U.S. would need to mobilize about 11.5 million people to assert popular, democratic power on the government.”

3.5%

bigthink.com/the-present/the-3

HT bsky.app/profile/im-mark-aylwa

Big ThinkTo overthrow a tyrant, try the 3.5 Percent SolutionA study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.

A Canadian friend's perspective on US behavior since the Trump regime was installed:

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One thing I've learned over the past few weeks, and it's been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don't actually know what's going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here's a timeline to explain why we're here, and why we're angry.

Nov 30th, 2018 - The United States, Canada and Mexico finalize a trade agreement. Trump personally negotiates the terms and signs the document, celebrating it as 'the greatest trade agreement in history". (This is important.)

Nov 29th, 2024 - In a face to face meeting, Trump threatens the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that he will be imposing 25% tariffs and that if Canada wants to avoid that, it should join the US as a state.

Nov 30th, 2024 - Trump publicly calls our Prime Minister 'Governor Trudeau' and instructs his staff to only address him as Governor going forward. He again suggests Canada should join the USA.
Dec 3rd, 2024 - Trump remarks that he would split Canada into two states once annexed.

This is the way.

I mean, it’s a real and terrifying possibility that we don’t even have elections by the time Schumer is up for reelection. Things are moving fast, way too fast for electoral solutions.

But, if democracy in the US survives until future election cycles, we need to primary the hell out of the wavering half of the Democratic party. Take every one who’s been weak opposing Trump and primary them •hard•, then vote whoever’s more anti-fascist (however pathetically) in the general.

That’s down the road, heaven willing. Now: the phones, then the streets.

#uspol from @old_hippie: veganism.social/@old_hippie/11

Veganism SocialOld Hippie Ⓥ Resistance! (@old_hippie@veganism.social)If #aoc primaries #schumer id actually register as a Democrat to vote for her. #nystate #politics #senate2026 https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-cr-chuck-schumer-lead-digvid

Talk about a #scam.

The Catholic Church is an organization that survives off of donations from some of the poorest people in the world, pays no taxes (at least in the US), employs people who raped and abused children, hidden those offenders and pays millions (probably billions) of their parishioners' money to those that have been abused and yet claims to be the representative of a merciful and loving god.

#CatholicChurch #ChildAbuse

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s

The Guardian · US Catholic diocese agrees to pay $323m to child sexual abuse survivorsBy Guardian staff reporter