There is no shortage of content to be consuming at this moment of authoritarian breakthrough, but I only managed to listen to the first of the series. If you missed them and have the time, the 3 sessions are below. The Training Sessions Beyond the Wannabe Kings How Civil Resistance
With DHS and ICE openly flouting the law and disappearing people into distant detention centers and overseas gulags, without due process and against court orders, it is more critical than ever that our local institutions stand up to defend our rights. Here are some steps you can take!
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They fly into outer space. And maybe they should stay there. The worst addiction is the greed of the oligarchy. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Sanders made the case against the oligarchy we saw laid-bare on stage during the inauguration with Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos. AOC was in top form, but
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Indeed, the diversification of resistance methods puts the United States on a similar trajectory to many democracy movements of the past. In anti-authoritarian movements of the 20th century, economic noncooperation — more so than protest alone — was the coordinated activity that split elites and made way for democratic breakthroughs. In apartheid
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“After weeks of constituents demanding that Democrats use this rare, precious point of leverage on the government funding bill, Schumer did the opposite. He led the charge to wave the white flag of surrender. But Indivisible has no intention of surrendering to Trump, Musk, and congressional Republicans. “This is why
Yesterday Eliot Higgins posted a thread on Bluesky that got my attention in it's jarring lucidity. I've been struggling to make my way through Autocracy Inc., but this thread succinctly captures what we've seen in the last five years and the acceleration of in