L’Etat C’est Moi

A horrific anti-gay hate crime shouldn’t be how we start Pride Month. But here we are.

Jonathan Joss was just murdered by someone who yelled homophobic slurs before shooting.

Joss & his husband were just married on Valentine’s day.

End hate. #LoveIsLove

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King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss’ fatal shooting was a ‘hate crime’, says husband

Joss, also known for his role in ‘Parks and Recreation,’ was 59

Timothy Snyder said recently that the resistance to fascism is sometimes highly organized, as with #NoKings, and sometimes develops spontaneously.

This is the latter.

L.A. resisters are finding hotels ICE agents stay in & making sure they DON’T get a good night’s sleep.

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Federal agents thought they could stay at LA-area hotels. Communities are trying to make sure they can’t — LA Public Press

When federal agents checked into a Pasadena hotel, they didn't expect hundreds of protesters and a day laborers’ band — now the tactic that kicked them out is spreading across LA.

If we retake the House, we have turned back the coup!

So push hard.

Three elections, TWO coming up April 1. That's just a few weeks away.

1: Here's Gay Valimont's website. #FL01 >>
gayforcongress.com

Gay Valimont for Congress

Polar Nerd @polarnerd.bsky.social

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Olga Lautman with the awful truth:

The U.S. has a dictator now.

The kidnappings of non-citizens are just a trial for the disappearing of citizens.

This is what Putin does in Russia.

But she also offers hope:

WE CAN STILL STOP THIS, if we rise in force, NOW.

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FiveStack

A recording from Olga Lautman's live video

@miafarrow.bsky.social understands polio. She suffered through it as a child.

I’m saving this post and photo. I’m going to make sure every legislator responsible for appointments knows that a vote for RFK Jr is a vote for polio, suffering and death.

#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory
#DemCast

Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social

What a triumph! Thank you, archivists, for restoring the CDC website.

Science: 1
Fascism: 0

NCSD @ncsddc.bsky.social

A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe. Read more: www.404media.co/archivists-r...

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe

The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to.

“It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women.” - @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

Resist fearlessly, women.

opinionessoftheworld.com/2012/03/16/s...

Secretary Hillary Clinton On Extremists Controlling Women, the Power of Choice and Calling On Women to Be ‘Fearless’

At 2012 “Women in the World” Summit, Hillary Clinton discussed importance of investing in women & how women must shape their own lives.

Essential reading from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social. Not comforting, but it helps me set my compass for survival & resistance.

Item 15 from Rebecca Solnit: "If they try to normalize, let us try to denormalize. Let us hold on to facts, truths, values, norms..."

Fight their lies with truth & values.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

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...

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

Not only is this regime coming for medication abortion (far safer than pregnancy and birth), they’re not even pretending there’s any legitimate science behind it.

It’s just to own the women.

Read @jessicavalenti.bsky.social’s grim review.

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The Rise of Abortion 'Abolitionists'

5.7.25

Musk is breaking the law.
Georgetown law professor David Super explained how.

“So many of Musk’s moves were ‘so wildly illegal’ that he seemed to be ‘playing a quantity game, and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.’” >>

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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor — Vox

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is moving fast and breaking the law — lots of laws.

Carlos Uzcategui waited 9 months in Mexico to enter the US legally.

He was arrested and sent to a concentration camp by a lawless traitor because of tattoos.

His wife knew his fate only when she saw his face in photos of CECOT torture camp.

Not in my name.

#MayDay

www.wsj.com/world/americ...

He’s Held in El Salvador’s Mega-Prison, Without Any Criminal Charges

Carlos Uzcategui’s legal journey to the U.S. put the Venezuelan on a collision course with an “unprecedented” deportation plan.

"How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days:
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution."

The WH felon is doing just this to us: using the power of our government to destroy it.

No answers in this piece. It's up to us.

Important article. Gift link.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

When you have eminent investigative political journalist @carolecadwalla.bsky.social discussing eminent fascism & authoritarianism historian @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social, and both of them are telling you it's a coup...

IT'S A GODDAM COUP.

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Watch the simulation to see how anti-vaxxers put all of us at risk.

RFK Jr claims he's not against vaccines, 'just' mandates.

But here's the bottom line: "In populations where a large enough proportion of children are not immunized, everyone has a greater risk of catching the disease."

#NoToRFKJr

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social

Beautiful simulation to explain why vaccine coverage matters www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don't

If you take 10 communities and run a simulation, it’s easy to see why we need as many members of the ‘herd’ as possible to get vaccines – before it’s too late

This is horrifying.

Trump is testing his ability to impose totalitarian rule on the United States. He & his Republican henchmen are traitors.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS, WE LOSE EVERYTHING.

Get in the streets. Rise up. Fight this tyranny, or live in fear. If he can arrest a governor, he can arrest you.

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WE ARE NOT HELPLESS.

Put a pin in this: "29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government"

#HowWeFight

www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...

How *you* can protect democracy

29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government

I opened an email from DNC chair @kenmartin.bsky.social and was pleased to see it wasn't about money.

His ask is for activism for the April 1 elections in Wisconsin and Florida. This is what I want to see from the DNC.

So here's how to phonebank in WI. 1/2

www.mobilize.us/wisdems/even...

WisDems Virtual Phonebank! · WisDems

Join WisDems to make calls to voters! We’ll be making calls to talk to voters in Wisconsin about what issues are important to them & the importance of our Supreme Court Race and Spring Elections! Fir...

Having seen TrumPutin ambush Zelensky, I need to focus on DOING something. But what?

This week’s choice: helping organize for Gay Valimont, Dem candidate for the #FL01 special election.

Take back the House, stop fascism! Phone bank info here.

www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Gay Valimont for Congress Monday Phone Bank · Mobilize

Join Team Valimont for a Weekly Phone Bank on Mondays! We’ve got only days until the special election on April 1st, and we need your help to ensure Gay Valimont becomes our next Congresswoman. We’re ...

Good advice on surviving the next years from @markjacob.bsky.social. Five “do’s” for We The People, and five for the media.

We need an honest media. MSM failed us. They must improve, and we must find other sources.

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We’re not helpless! Here are 10 ways to defend democracy

The right played the long game and won big this year. We can play the long game too.

Democrats need to play hardball with the rules.

Force a quorum call on all Senate business. Demand a roll call. Make Republican come to the floor.

#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy

“How Senate Democrats Can Delay & Defy Trump's Agenda with Procedural Hardball”
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The World According to Reality.

TV ratings are determined by Nielsen meters.

Only 1200 homes have Nielsen TV meters at any given time. Ratings are extrapolated from their viewing.

If you’re a Nielsen household, your #Jan20 viewing behavior is important. Advertisers are especially interested in ages 18-49.

#Jan20Blackout

Pete Hegseth is a serial sexual assaulter. He drugged & attacked one woman in 2017.

There are surely others. It’s asking a lot, but it would be good if they’d speak out.

And not even three Republican senators will stand up to rapist Trump and his rapist cabinet.

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A fateful night in Monterey: Drinking, conservative banter, sexual assault allegations involving Pete Hegseth — Los Angeles Times

Revelations of an alleged sexual assault involving Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for Defense secretary, at a meeting of Republican women in 2017 have set off a firestorm.