Erica Chenoweth explains the 3.5% rule — the finding that nonviolent protest movements have never failed when at least 3.5% of a country's population is engaged.
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Erica Chenoweth explains the 3.5% rule — the finding that nonviolent protest movements have never failed when at least 3.5% of a country's population is engaged.
Mobs of Israelis march through Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" and "may your village burn", while trying to convince us that saying "Free Palestine" is genocidal.
Ehud Olmert, the former PM of Israel himself, now says that what Israel is doing in Gaza is a "criminal war of annihilation". And yet Western politicians and journalists cannot bring themselves to acknowledge this fact. It is absolutely wild. archive.ph/3vvOi
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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My bet is that two things are going to be by far the biggest causes of death through the history of mankind: Climate change and Donald Trump.
What if that’s the plan? Make it as deadly as possible?
Global warming has accelerated, a lot!
The first 19 days of 2025 were on average +1.74°C above pre-industrial.
That's about 0.1°C warmer than the same period last year. Then we had an El Niño, now a La Niña.
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