Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
And probably the best small town art museum I’ve been to. Not my favorite city I’ve lived in, but it was fine and had some great neighborhoods and green spaces.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
THIS.
Starbucks workers are asking customers to delete the mobile app amid their ongoing strike to push the corporation to reach a first contract with the union and to stop union busting
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Experts said the FBI’s seizing of ballots in Georgia triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections:
“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”
"the goal must be demoralization. It needs to be made clear to every ICE agent that, should they remain with ICE, they will soon be unemployed and potentially under investigation." stringinamaze.net/p/there-must...
Information for Williamson Co: Williamson County Emergency Management Agency is opening warming shelters at Fairview High School and Franklin High School. Limited food and animal support services will be available. We'll pass along anything that comes over their socials.
we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind
It is very important that your federal electeds hear not only from you on social media, but through direct contact as well. Tag them and then
Call and email. Do both. Tell them to move to immediately impeach and remove for an unconstitutional war of aggression.
Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.
Yeah this is exactly how I feel
In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.
You have to go through Congress for anything resembling this type of war. Round up Massie and Paul types and have him removed. The people in this administration are on actual drugs and have insatiable bloodlust and bespoke mental illnesses. He has to go, and everybody with him.
*Congress* shall have the power to declare war, and so forth and so on.
TODAY IS THE DAY!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
Tennessee people, vote for this lady this week. She's cool and she puts the country perilously close to having a single check and/or balance.
This is important.
I don’t think em dashes are a clear sign of AI. The exclusive misuse of them like this is clearly a sign though. It’s like it understands good writers love em dashes, but is completely obvious to what its actually “writing”
Still can’t get over how exciting the WNBA championships have been.
What?
I think consent matters in organizing and protests. Letting people know the risks so they can make informed decisions on their own safety is paramount
I agree that Nazi Germany took inspiration from the United States, but this still seems profoundly worse than McCarthyism. There are certainly similarities, but that was only a fraction of what is happening today.
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I realize we're extremely close, which is what I think makes it even more frustrating. These frustrations are constant in organizing work. It's much easier to discount arguments that I completely disagree with.
Yup. I think we're all prone to inadvertently adopting fascism talking points. I'm sure that I have. We're surrounded and bombarded with them everyday. These things are complex and it's easy to misstep. It's important we call each other in not out, which I don't believe the OP was doing.
I'm sorry you and your family went through this.
Mocking people, telling them to read a book, "touch grass," etc is not a good organizing strategy. People are in shock. Communities are terrified. We should be meeting folks where they are at. Yes fascism can be defeated, but telling people Third Reich didn't last long is beyond odd
And they're also setting up a strawman argument. Who are these mythical defeatists telling us to give up and just accept living under a dictatorship? At most the folks being labeled "defeatists" are recognizing the reality we are in and telling us to envision what's next? What do rebuild?
This is wild. I mean, you were probably only there protesting in response to them "going after" other people first, right?