I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.
Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.
I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
Very good weekend at the (two) range(s)! First with Boston @pinkpistols.bsky.social and then with the New England @theliberalgunclub.com . Met a lot of cool folks, walked a lot of folks through their first experience with firearms. Love doing this.
Bingo. That's the goal. Turn the US into a fascist kleptocracy where the ultra-rich use their ties to the state to enrich themselves and control any competition.
The Democrats had almost a year to devise a strategy to counter Proj. 2025 should it be enacted and they completely neglected to do so. That they're now on the back foot against it is a problem of their own making, and it isn't being a bad solider to tell them we expect better from them.
Some things you can do. No one can do all these things, but most people can do at least one:
Feed people. There's work for you at Food Not Bombs or whatever you got going on where are.
Join a local cop watch, ICE watch, or rapid response group.
Who's being targeted in your area? Have their back.
The main thing elected Dems lack is *they don't actually communicate with their base.* A few exceptions like @aoc.bsky.social and @schatz.bsky.social, but by far most Dems don't actually know how to get the pulse of rank and file resist libs, as many of us on BlueSky are.
One key thing is *they aren't afraid to fail.* A lot of these right-wing efforts flop and don't get any traction on Fox News, GOP electeds, or the MSM. There was a full-court press to demonize Jasmine Crockett after she made these comments re: Brad Penny's trial.
For ~a decade, while studying “rumoring during crisis”, I’ve seen how the right takes advantage of newsy moments, throwing out different frames & phrases to find what resonates. They don’t wait for focus groups. They throw everything at the wall, see what sticks, then lean into the winning bits.
Reminded of how Britain rose to prominence on coal, and how their decline (and the US' rise) coincided with the shift to oil
alright you wanna know how to support trans people?
hire them. It's REALLY hard already for visibly trans people to get jobs, even before this shit.
Support places that have trans people working front of house, and make sure owners know that's part of why you're there.
The way forward is the same as it’s always been - organize your neighborhood, your household, your workplace. Nobody is coming to save us except ourselves. Look out for one another.
Damn bro if only you'd been president for the last four years, we could've had this already smh
Trying to settle a rap beef in court is by far the most Drake thing you could possibly do
none of this shit matters in the slightest. they are not holding Trump or his minions accountable. Hegseth is getting through. You fuckers and your newspaper are half the useless slime that brought us here and I hope you feel the shame in your bones
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
This is the stuff I'm a doomer about. Real journalism takes time - even a quick, original 700-word story requires a lot of legwork, relationships, etc.
It can never compete with instant slop, or accounts that just plagiarize news for free with more sensationalistic (and wrong) framing.
“Gee Crow, why are you depressed lately?”
haha funny po - AOC????
I have a brilliant plan, all I need is:
- the copyright to everything
- all the money in the world
this has been my overwhelming finding in talking to normies about this. random public assassinations are not popular, but also everyone gets how an otherwise decent person could be moved to violence by our healthcare system.
Wow: 69 percent of Americans believe the healthcare system was at least partly responsible for the UnitedHealthcare CEO's murder, per new poll
Merry Christmas. I hope today you get to see the felt frog and Michael Caine
Seems like a pretty obvious conflict of interest
would it surprise you that an Ivy Leaguer wrote this out of touch drivel bsky.app/profile/theg...
The American people are not intellectual, to put it mildly.
