Don't be surprised if, in the coming days, the United States drops all charges against Maduro.
Trump can never say no to a good bribe, especially if it includes cash AND oil rights.
resist
Who should I be following on #fedi lately?
(Boosts appreciated)
I'd appreciate some help finding more people to follow-- tags below give a sense of who I'm looking to follow-- is this you or anyone you think I should be following?
Despite following almost 650 people over the last few years, my timeline feels increasingly empty and stale lately, a ghost town compared to a year ago or more, and I'm looking at refreshing things a bit. A lot of people have left the platform or are (understandably) afraid to post so much, especially due to the chilling effect of rising #fascism. But I'm still here, still posting. Still writing my #radical shit. Still trying to read and engage with others.
#trans #anarchist #antifascist #leftist #queer #resist #intro #introduction #mastodon
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BREAKING: Kristi Noem just lied to reporters, claiming "No American citizens have been arrested or detained," despite daily video evidence to the contrary showing dozens of U.S. citizens being arrested.
#BlueCrew #Resist #ResistTrump #ICE #AbolishICE #ImmigrantRights
Dear Fedi friends,
If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."
🔗: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni
It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).
My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):
"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.
It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.
We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.
I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."
I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.
If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains
#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy
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1920 slogan appropriate for the year 2025
#resist
#protest
#women
*see alt text for more info
#USA #Canada
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There's some shit happening in Santa Cruz & I'm trying my damndest to throw fuel on it... that is to say, I'm organizing a boycott & I need your help
also if you're the kind of person who's prone to say things like "you're overreacting" scroll all the way away, kid
If you celebrate Naughty #Nonbinary November, I have a mission for you: ⬇️ (cont)
https://www.reddit.com/r/santacruz/comments/1oqx4na/boycott_the_418_project/
#trans #queer #enby #pride #lgbtq #lgbtqia #boycott #resist #santacruz #santacruznews #community #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest
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In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:
🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebellion-will-be-federated-2025-edition/
Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊
Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated (@ele) thanks to @jannis and his amazing MagicPages (@hey) 🥳 🪄 📄
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As an unprecedented #immigration crackdown enters a 3rd month, a growing number of #Chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a #racist & aggressive #overreach of the federal govt. The #Democratic stronghold’s response has tapped established activists & everyday residents from wealthy suburbs to working class neighborhoods.
#resist #Trump
https://apnews.com/article/chicago-immigration-protest-arrests-agent-police-whistles-df72b2ba4e57befc085d692d227363b8
Join the general strike meeting on Saturday.
https://generalstrikeus.substack.com/p/calls-to-action-nov-dec-2025
Also, Nov 25th through Dec 3 is a boycott everything time.
#Generalstrikeus #boycott #resist
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You are allowed to find moments of joy, even in all the horror. Joy is not a prize for getting through it all, it is an important tool to *enable* us to get through this. Joy itself is an act of resistance, so look for the joys. Small ones, big ones-doesn't matter. Find them, embrace them, let them comfort you, let them fuel you.
In these dark times, it is important to keep hope alive and find some light.
Here are three individuals who recently re-ignited a sense of hope in me, showing how courage, defiance and/or technical brilliance can make a difference:
Austrian activist #MaxSchrems won a case on the Austrian supreme court, forcing Meta to give users full access to their data (it was a 11 year legal fight!)
🔗: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-supreme-court-meta-must-give-users-full-access-their-data
Hacktivist #MarthaRoot, dressed as a pink Power Ranger, deleted white supremacist dating sites while live on stage at the #39C3 conference and leaked the data on okstupid.lol
🔗: https://hackread.com/white-supremacist-dating-sites-wiped-okstupid-lol/
#CaitlinCallenson, the bystander who filmed the video of the ICE officer's killing of Renee Nicole Good, shouting at him "Shame" multiple times. As John Gruber wrote on his blog: "after the murderous agent fired three shots — just 30 or 40 feet in front of Callenson — Callenson had the courage and conviction to stay with the scene and keep filming. Not to run away, but instead to follow the scene. To keep filming. To continue documenting with as best clarity as she could, what was unfolding."
🔗: https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/lets_call_a_murder_a_murder
These days I keep thinking of these three individuals... and I am grateful to them for giving me hope. And light.
#FederalAgents Are Violating the #Rights of Americans
#ICE & the #NationalGuard [& #CBP] are acting with impunity.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #RightToProtest #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #despotism #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy #RESIST
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/01/autocracy-in-america-ice-and-the-national-guard/685279/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZAMKZOcpgx2UdVifPm-R5Y
Good morning Fedi friends!
I was supposed to start writing a new blog post about my tech stack - disclaimers about the apps/platforms I use and the ones I actively avoid for ethical reasons…
Well I just started doing some research and reading about #technofeudalism … and fell down a fascinating and haunting rabbit hole.
🔗: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095
“Technofeudalism” is officially my word of the year, if not the decade (century, possibly). I wish more people were aware of it.
The #Fediverse feels more and more like a safe haven for me. And in the bleakness of our current political and technological situation, I’m comforted by the fact I’m currently self-hosting essential services (thank you @yunohost ).
TL;DR: I’m super grateful for the existence of the #Fediverse and the fact I’ve learned how to self-host – two amazing ways to resist technofeudalism.
#SelfHosting #DigitalSovreignty #resistance #resist #BigTech #RebelAlliance
Mark Ruffalo at the Golden Globes, wearing the “Be Good” pin in honor of Renee Good. 💙
Thank you, Mark, for using your voice and your platform to stand for compassion, dignity, and humanity. This is what solidarity looks like.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors #BeGood #HonorReneeGood #PeopleOverPower #JusticeForRenee
Paul Krugman: “While our institutions & our elites have failed us, ordinary Americans are rising to the occasion. If Minneapolis is a laboratory of democratic destruction, it has also become a laboratory of civil resistance — organized civil resistance, of a kind we haven’t seen since the civil rights movement. When ICE is on the rampage, crowds of brave Americans, summoned by texts and whistles, quickly gather to stand against the masked men with guns.” #Resist #MLPS
This whole thread of posts showing videos of people resisting ICE, both individually and en masse. Heartening AF.
Earlier today, Anglican Priest Calvin Robinson ended a speech at a pro life summit in DC by giving the exact same Nazi salute that Elon Musk did.
The crowd laughed & cheered.
The Anglican Church revoked his license.
This is how you handle Nazis. You condemn them. You don’t pander to them.
Considering how many organizations excused Musk’s salute as an “awkward gesture”, I’m incredibly grateful to see the church taking a strong stand against hate
#uspoli #fascism #nazis #anglicanchurch #resist #calvinrobinson #donotcomply
Today's Post:
Facing #Fascism: #Crisis, #Resistance, & Opportunity
"Organize: Now is the time both to #resist and to lay the framework for what you would need to do if you were to forced to break the rules. Build your networks now."
https://www.revoluciana.net/facing-fascism-crisis-resistance-opportunity/
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"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn
Full text: https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/
#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #GOP #Musk #DOGE #ICE #Antifa #Vote
Please boost!
Protests in every State Capitol on Wednesday, February 5th. For State specific info check Redit r/50501.
#resist @lisamelton @GottaLaff @pluralistic
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New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud"
And sorry for repeating myself, but the path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought.
My self-hosted #NextCloud has fully replaced WeTransfer, Google Drive and Dropbox for me... and it's only the tip of the iceberg.
I hope this visual guide will help fellow newbies.
#SelfHosting #YunoHost #MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #blog #resist
Like @joaocosta suggested we need to do more than just posting on this platform to support Ukraine. I agree.
Actions speak louder than words.
If you have the means, please support Ukraine with a donation.
I've just donated to
https://u24.gov.ua/
This seems to be run by the Ukrainian government & allows you to pick goals you feel comfortable with: e.g. defence, demining, medical aid & more.
🇪🇺 🇺🇦
We need more of this. People need to stop complying and start fighting.
(H/T @lavaeolus)
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