This administration is trying to terrify us into silence and complicity. Sure, they'll arrest and charge us for interfering with ICE. The thing is, if enough people step up, they won't be able to stop it. I understand I'm putting myself at risk just writing this. It scares me, too. Oh bloody well.
This is a marathon, not a sprint: I don't think we should judge how anyone chooses to fight the injustices we're seeing on LA streets. That said, if you want to get actively involved, here's a meeting this Sat, June 21 at 11:00am @ 7625 S. Central Ave, 90001. Follow @communitydefensecoalition on IG.
I challenge any American celebrating ICE raids to work a dish pit on a Saturday night.
I appreciate you replying and sharing your thoughts! I am learning all about this and have enjoyed discussing with people who know more than I do. Cheers.
It's probably important to post this since anarchy is totally misunderstood and always meant left libertarianism, not chaos, lawlessness, and nihilism. The original anarchist, Proudhon, was a pacifist. Anarcho-communists drown out mutualists these days, which is fine. But check it all out! #anarchy
Been learning about pre-Marxist mutualism - libertarian socialism AKA anarchism (Proudhon). Then someone gave me Epicurus to read. Happy, anarchic, cooperative communes flourished in pre-Christian Greco-Roman world!
#epicurus #philosophy #ethics #mutualism #anarchism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_4...
I'm sure I'm being annoying. I just really think one thing that can fix #US society and our #epistemic collapse is #philosophy. It doesn't have to be Western, but analytical philosophy and #logic are touchstones for good thinking, fairness, and problem-solving. Start here. Work your way to #Hegel.
Autism and other neurodevelopment conditions are 80% genetic. My grandfather had schizophrenia, born in 1920, pre-processed food. I have a first-degree relative, born 1945, "aspie" 160 IQ, brilliant engineer. Another first-degree relative with schizophrenia, genius IQ. ASD ≠ Tragedy. #Autism #RFK
What makes the whole thing weirder is that Trump's pronatalist regime encourages baby makers like Elon, who has ASD himself, to keep popping out kids well past 40. Alas, you cannot write more absurdist fiction. I'm not sure any reader would suspend their disbelief. #Musk #Autism #Trump #RFK
Craziest part of RFK's #autism obsession is the lack of mention of how paternal age impacts autism rates. Men who procreate after 40 significantly increase odds of having a kid with either autism or schizophrenia or both - the conditions are linked. I come from a family rife with both. #RFK
“The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence"
SCOTUS statement on sending innocents to CECOT without due process.
"Homegrowns are next." Trump on X.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Donating to and/or volunteering with the ACLU is a potent way to fight for the innocents sent to the Salvadorian gulag - CECOT - and can also help establish precedent for protecting due process of everyone in the US, citizens or undocumented.
action.aclu.org/give/now
Chris Dwyer, PhD (in psychology), is the author of "Critical Thinking: Conceptual Perspectives and Practical Guidelines" from Cambridge University Press.
The judicial branch is holding. Trump, Bush, and Reagan appointees (Barrett, Roberts, Coughenour, respectively) are shutting down Trump's unconstitutional orders. Congress is inept it seems, but I'm happy to see these guardrails hold, and all the more so from appointees of republican presidents.
These lone conservatives will crawl out of the woodwork to keep America intact. McCain with the thumbs-down on repealing the ACA. Pence upholding the peaceful transfer of power. Now, Coney Barrett upholds blocking the USAID freeze. I don't love her. But glad for this
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Most techno on bluesky refers to #technoauthoritarianism, #technofeudalism, #technoligarchy, #technomonarchy. Neologisms we direly need to resist our techno-dystopian reality.
But there's still TECHNO! Founded in Detroit, these raves always resisted the system.
#techno
#technoraves
#raves
#Detroit
Robert Hood, minimal techno icon from Detroit, is in LA April 19th. Trovarsi, an incredible modular synth artist from LA, will be be joining him with a live techno set. Come out!
#RobertHood
#techno
#livetechno
#minimaltechno
#LAtechno
#detroittechno
#modularsynths
#synth
dice.fm/event/xeboo3...
The eminent Timothy Snyder. 🇺🇦
#Ukraine
#Zelensky
#Trump
#Russia
#Putin
#Vance
#UkraineWar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=11QB...
![Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier [HD]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ezwj4xmdspos5re66e6vtqjn/bafkreiblwlvkdfdsqh3lrgrlzoya22igti5i5p5h266x6re6772ocggiyy)
Who created techno? Techno comes from Detroit, influenced by German group Kraftwerk. It was never limited to four on the flour. Mad Mike's Underground Resistance with Mills and Hood is the pinnacle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WLt...
#Techno
#UndergroundResistance
#RobertHood
#JeffMills
#resistance
Is it not possible to start a platform - a hub - for small business e-commerce, sort of like Bookshop.org, which supports indie bookstores, but for everything else? An alternative Amazon for ethical small businesses? Because we need an alternative Amazon. Stat.
#BoycottAmazon
#Amazon
#Bezos
Canceled!
Hung on as long as I could. "Free markets"? Bezos is a monopolist gobbling up American sectors, the latest medical care and pharmaceuticals. Free markets my arse.
#Bezos
#WashingtonPost
Trump admin is ignorant. The "rise" in neurodiversity and chronic illness is due to massive rises in screenings, reimagined diagnostic criteria that actually includes girls, women, people of color, and a better understanding of autoimmunity. Maybe having actual docs run HHS would make more sense.
I'm starting to wonder how accounts espousing delusional, absurdist MAGA talking points are just Russian bots. I'm also starting to realize Russian bots have proliferated the fringiest, most divisive, anti-democratic views from America's left in an attempt to smear progressives and the democrats.
The sad reality is you can show this to a trump apologist, even a one-issue, never-trumper trump voter (they exist this cycle) and they still won't see any cause for alarm.
The delusion is that "dems" are the ones sounding the alarm when thousands of intellectually honest Republicans, independents, NPPs are totally against what he's doing.
At one point optimism becomes delusional
