Yes— people who “share your anger,” but also share your Solnit-style hope for a different future

Especially unifying and joyful to *sing* together at No Kings in Cambridge, MA! #nokings #weshallovercome

@theblcklst.bsky.social Congrats on officially leaving The Bad Place today! Courageous and important move!

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

More Austin!

Austin is out here y’all! #democracy #nokings

Stacey Abrams explaining again what is happening in the country. Day by day we are watching the takeover of this nation. Everyone needs to resist, every business, every college, every home that gets it. We must not bend America‼️

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social with the context and stakes of America’s tragic, self-inflicted plummet…

This is again why every press conference someone should ask him a basic question. “How does a bill become law?” “What is the average household income in the US?” “How many Americans rely on the ACA?” “What does the first amendment cover?”

Imagine reading this insane headline in our prosperous America ten years ago: “[President] Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment”

I still want to know where the professed Libertarians are in this picture. They are finally being tread on and have nothing to say.

These monsters

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

As @jamellebouie.net says, this is the whole, previously unfathomable story.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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I have to read things like this twice because my brain doesn’t process the inhumanity the first time.

He said it more eloquently than I: this is literally what the 1st Amendment is for.

My grandfather was a WWII vet and lifelong farmer in tough country. In a town of 15 people, he read the papers daily and followed politics. Told me he had never seen prosperity with R president + R Congress. Did deals by handshake. He could take one look at DT and know he’s a dishonest scoundrel.

It is truly insane watching real life deadly chaos stemming from one irreparably damaged man/ego.

One surprisingly refreshing thing in watching this is how dramatically older/slower he is now. Tick tick

Trump's History of Violence (2016-2020)

Y’all, we are unleashing gangs of masked thugs that now have the Supreme Court’s blessing to grab any brown or Spanish-speaking person off the street and disappear them. No warrants, no IDs, no paper trail.

Next year’s budget for this triples.

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Where are the libertarians, who will surely be up in arms that masked men can hassle private citizens perpetually, based on their job or appearance or what they say?

How is this America??

As we sink deeper, the examples only grow more stark. Tell your friends.

Secret admission: I almost like it when things get this obscene. I think it’s because there’s not even a hint of grey area left. Like, I’d have a hard time thinking of a *potential* lower point of the office of the president.

Trying this next semester

Read this as “18 Things to Do for Yourself and Wildlife Before the Planet’s End”