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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Happy hump day!
Anyway, here's a whistleblower complaint that will either change the course of American history or it won't.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26499371/dhs-ice-memo-1-21-26.pdf
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d
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Indivisible is doing another "Eyes on ICE" training session on Feb 5 at 8pm EST. I missed the one last week, but I'll be sure to attend this one. We haven't had big ICE problems where I am, but I want to be ready.
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🚨 The Hands Off! protests are tomorrow, Saturday, April 5 🚨
Find one near you -
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Can't attend in person? There's a virtual event:
"Hands Off! Disabled Community Fights Back"
2 - 4 PM Pacific Time
Virtual Event
Join from anywhere!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/770700/
#USpol #HandsOff #Protest #Resist #Virtual #Disabled #Disability #Accessibility
I REALLLYY like the Send the President a Postcard movement, because:
a) I love postcards
b) I like imagining all the giggles every postal worker, etc will get seeing it
c) Everyone can do it
Please tell me you'll join in and send a postcard, or 2?
I created this graphic tonight to share - it's the idea from @BrianJopek
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I like the historian Timothy Snyder's observations about what has been happening in the US with respect to ICE recently, and why it is different from previous actions of this agency. I'll paraphrase him, so errors and omissions are mine.
Here's one point: masked thugs in mismatched camo are breaking laws that include abducting, assaulting, and executing people, and the regime is attempting to force us all to refer to this as "law enforcement". For all the many criticisms one might aim at US law enforcement, members typically wear blue, show their faces, and doctrinally aspire to behave transparently and professionally (please don't @ me with your critiques of law enforcement or hashtag ACAB comments; this is not meant as a defense, only a contrast. I've been beaten and teargassed by cops and witnessed far worse so I am acquainted with this aspect of US "law enforcement").
In other words the regime is attempting to change consensus reality so that Americans accept that the phrase "law enforcement" includes random, unprovoked breaking and entering by heavily armed masked men into homes or vehicles, assaults, and summary executions on the street, targeting all citizens. They want this to be a normal and accepted occurrence anywhere and at any time. Much as one might criticize previous administration's immigration policies---and one might really really criticize those---this attempt to shift consensus on "law enforcement" to include summary executions of anyone and all the rest is new (It is not new for certain groups; what I think Snyder is saying is that it'd be new for everyone to be targeted in this way, and for most people to accept that's just how it is now).
Snyder also points out that the border plays an important role here because it is where the country, and therefore the law, ends. In other words, it's not coincidental that the regime chose to elevate ICE. Historically, authoritarian regimes have a marked tendency to expand the lawlessness and indefiniteness of border zones to include the entire territory of the country, and the current regime is no different. Immigrants and immigration aren't the only targets here. The larger aim is to indefinitely suspend the rule of law nationwide by making the entire nation into a border zone (Recall the Texas governor kidnapping immigrants and shipping them to "blue states", a classic attempt to spread resentment of immigrants throughout the country). Again, this is a narrative move, an attempt to shift consensus reality.
So, one way to resist is to simply not accept either of these attempts to change reality. Continue to refer to what's happening as unacceptable, not who we are, etc. Continue to point out that out of control border "enforcement" has led to street executions. Continue to name these actions as the criminal acts of thugs. Continue to pressure people with power, such as lawmakers, to do the same. Not out of some misguided or naive nationalism or patriotism, but in order to keep a stake firmly planted in the ground against the forces attempting to move it. This is something we can all do.
Incidentally, all eyes on Haitian and Haitian-American people in Ohio over the coming weeks. The Haiti Temporary Protected Status designation ends this coming Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Haitians in Springfield were specifically abused during the Trump campaign. The US has a long history of abusing and dehumanizing Haitians dating back at least to Thomas Jefferson, so the Trump campaign rhetoric was no outlier or anomaly. Haiti is also one of the countries specifically named in the US State Dept's announcement about indefinitely halting immigrant visa processing. It would not be surprising if the next ICE "surge" targeted Haitian immigrants in Ohio given how the groundwork's been laid.
#USPol #ICE #history #authoritarianism #tyranny #resistance #resist #narrative #immigration #Haiti
Here's one point: masked thugs in mismatched camo are breaking laws that include abducting, assaulting, and executing people, and the regime is attempting to force us all to refer to this as "law enforcement". For all the many criticisms one might aim at US law enforcement, members typically wear blue, show their faces, and doctrinally aspire to behave transparently and professionally (please don't @ me with your critiques of law enforcement or hashtag ACAB comments; this is not meant as a defense, only a contrast. I've been beaten and teargassed by cops and witnessed far worse so I am acquainted with this aspect of US "law enforcement").
In other words the regime is attempting to change consensus reality so that Americans accept that the phrase "law enforcement" includes random, unprovoked breaking and entering by heavily armed masked men into homes or vehicles, assaults, and summary executions on the street, targeting all citizens. They want this to be a normal and accepted occurrence anywhere and at any time. Much as one might criticize previous administration's immigration policies---and one might really really criticize those---this attempt to shift consensus on "law enforcement" to include summary executions of anyone and all the rest is new (It is not new for certain groups; what I think Snyder is saying is that it'd be new for everyone to be targeted in this way, and for most people to accept that's just how it is now).
Snyder also points out that the border plays an important role here because it is where the country, and therefore the law, ends. In other words, it's not coincidental that the regime chose to elevate ICE. Historically, authoritarian regimes have a marked tendency to expand the lawlessness and indefiniteness of border zones to include the entire territory of the country, and the current regime is no different. Immigrants and immigration aren't the only targets here. The larger aim is to indefinitely suspend the rule of law nationwide by making the entire nation into a border zone (Recall the Texas governor kidnapping immigrants and shipping them to "blue states", a classic attempt to spread resentment of immigrants throughout the country). Again, this is a narrative move, an attempt to shift consensus reality.
So, one way to resist is to simply not accept either of these attempts to change reality. Continue to refer to what's happening as unacceptable, not who we are, etc. Continue to point out that out of control border "enforcement" has led to street executions. Continue to name these actions as the criminal acts of thugs. Continue to pressure people with power, such as lawmakers, to do the same. Not out of some misguided or naive nationalism or patriotism, but in order to keep a stake firmly planted in the ground against the forces attempting to move it. This is something we can all do.
Incidentally, all eyes on Haitian and Haitian-American people in Ohio over the coming weeks. The Haiti Temporary Protected Status designation ends this coming Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Haitians in Springfield were specifically abused during the Trump campaign. The US has a long history of abusing and dehumanizing Haitians dating back at least to Thomas Jefferson, so the Trump campaign rhetoric was no outlier or anomaly. Haiti is also one of the countries specifically named in the US State Dept's announcement about indefinitely halting immigrant visa processing. It would not be surprising if the next ICE "surge" targeted Haitian immigrants in Ohio given how the groundwork's been laid.
#USPol #ICE #history #authoritarianism #tyranny #resistance #resist #narrative #immigration #Haiti
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From #MEAction -
"ICE Makes Me Sick: Fund Healthcare, Not Violence"
https://www.meaction.net/post/ice-makes-me-sick-fund-healthcare-not-violence
"No more money to ICE. Restore funding for healthcare and independent living support for disabled people."
You can help!
Email your Congress rep using this tool:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ice-makes-me-sick/
Read the Take Action Guide for more actions:
co-sponsored by Long Covid Justice
#USPol #ICEout #AbolishICE #MEcfs #LongCovid #ChronicIllness #Disability #Resist
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@fkamiah17 Accurate : My "insider" is my brother who lives in MSP. He is calling it "Eternal January". They are not stopping what they are doing, just changing tactics.
Meanwhile, in Colorado, we are trying to learn from MSP resident actions.
We keep us safe - Colorado is standing up resistance channels in preparation of similar scale operations.
Check out my new Substack [VIDEO] and post: “Trusted voices” as we RESIST and HEAL”
https://open.substack.com/pub/resistandheal/p/trusted-voices-as-we-resist-and-heal
#ResistAndHeal #HealOurCulture #resist #facism #ResistFacism #politics #polarization #SupportScience #DefendScience
Please check out and share my post for #ResistAndHeal:
“The Resistance Playbook (January 2026 edition)”
#protest #ICE #HealOurCulture #resist #Indivisible #indivisibleCLT #resistance
This is a perfect example of why we shouldn't tell people to "vote blue, no matter who." This guy will have a "D" after his name on the ballot. It is imperative that voters do their own research.
...A Trump-voting pastor could be the one who stops Democrats from being able to take control of the U.S. Senate. Only two filed for U.S. Senate in Nebraska and one is a Donald Trump-supporting far-right pastor calling himself a "free thinker."...
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Women are being -erased- in America #resist https://www.reddit.com/r/optimistsunitenonazis/s/FvYzm4erhn
Democrats in the United States Congress must show they are serious about fighting back and need to take a lesson from the legislators in New Zealand who refuse to let #Parliament ignore their voices. To paraphrase MTV "It's time to stop being polite and start being real" #RESIST
tinyurl.com/yc3bn9cs
@democratsabroad @uspolitics @aiop #ElbowsUp #GOPtraitors #GOP #Trump #GQP #NoTrumpNoKKkNoFascistUSA #democrats #USpolitics #senate #house #queer #ice #NewZealand #congress
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If you haven´t read the book #OnTyranny by (ex-) Yale #History professor #TimothySnyder yet, now is certainly a good time.
"...when political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become even more important..."
Here is a new presentation of the 20 lessons, read by actor #JohnLithgow.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/feds-identify-leader-of-antifa
The feds are finding their "Domestic terrorists"...and making lists. Protect yourself at all times! Here's a few resources on how:
https://youtu.be/uewjlFB4Il8
https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/practice-digital-self-defence
I have further expanded the https://www.maga-collaborators.net website.
It now tracks #colleges and #universities in addition to #law firms and other #corporations that are #collaborating, #capitulating, or #resisting the #Trump #regime.
Please share this link to help spread the word! I'll be adding to and upgrading this website regularly moving forward.
And please send tips to help fill in the gaps in the data to the email address listed on the website.
"‘The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud.’ Oregon representative gives fiery speech as House approves changes to voter registration"
“The SAVE Act isn’t about preventing fraud, it’s about preventing participation in our elections" - Rep. Maxine Dexter
#USPol #Oregon #Elections #Voting #SaveAct #VoterSuppression #Resist
“This…is an expression of obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—& for the rule of law. The administration is maintaining that it has the power to send armed agents of the state to grab someone off the street & then, without a shred of due process, deport them to a Gulag in a foreign country & leave them there forever. The crucial point here is that the administration’s logic means that it could do the same to American citizens.” #resist https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/bukele-trump-court-order/682432/
NOW PLAYING == Tarabuster with Tara Devlin: Civilians, Trump, & Vance’s Stolen Valor Regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqC_x0euLIo
#news #uspol #commentary #progressive #left #TaraDevlin #Democrats #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist
NOW PLAYING == 🔴 Al Jazeera News | Live 24/7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo
#news #uspol #commentary #progressive #left #vsn #radio #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist