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"If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism

https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ll5rxk57tk2t

Every time conditions worsen, someone starts pushing the idea of a general strike. Shut it all down! Starve the system! And yeah, it sounds powerful—but here’s what they don’t tell you:

It’s a honeypot.

And no shade with this subpost, but:

If you're suggesting one? It tells me how theoretical and abstract your current relationship to our times is: your post probably isn't going to start a general strike - even though a prosecutor would have no trouble arguing that.

You see...

Under U.S. law, organizing a general strike—especially across industries—is straight-up illegal. The Taft-Hartley Act (1947) makes it a felony to advocate for a mass strike across sectors. Courts ruled long ago that calls for general strikes count as criminal conspiracy—which is why labor leaders, radicals, and workers have been crushed every time they tried to organize one.

Think about that: The state doesn’t just want you working, it wants you to believe striking is an option—so they can catch you the second you push too far. They let the words circulate, they let people dream about it, but they’ve ensured that the mechanisms for a general strike are dead on arrival.

So what do we do?

Instead of fighting on their terms, we need to cultivate the material conditions of a general strike without setting ourselves up for repression. The goal isn’t a moment of resistance; it’s a slow, grinding attrition against capital’s demands.

This is something workers and business owners in China have long understood. Within an economy that monitors, tracks, and punishes direct defiance, workers and small business owners have built an entire ecosystem of passive, small-scale disruption:

躺平 (Tangping) – “Lying flat”: Refusing to overwork, avoiding excessive consumption, cutting down on participation in capitalist growth.
摸鱼 (Moyu) – “Touching fish”: Finding ways to slack off at work, do personal tasks on company time, and subtly resist productivity expectations.
Small business "slowdowns": Deliberately taking longer to fulfill orders, delaying processes, and subtly reducing efficiency to limit corporate extraction.
All of these are done within the boundaries of legality, while still achieving the material slowdown that a strike would bring.

Instead of calling for a general strike and waiting for someone to deliver it, start cultivating these practices. The goal isn’t just to “not work”—it’s to starve capital without painting a target on your back. If millions engage in passive disruption, undercut overconsumption, and prioritize resource-sharing over waged survival, we create the material slowdown that capital dreads.

They’ve made a general strike impossible. So we don’t give them one. We give them something worse: an economy that bleeds out, quietly, without a single illegal call to action.

When DOGE cuts aviation safety and planes crash, when Medicaid is demolished and your community hospital closes, when trans care is banned through pulling funding, when Musk subverts democracy… These dems own it. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters

Bee.

Goodnight good people.
Rest well for there’s much work to be done together to turn the tide.

‘You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one…’

#bee #goodnight #dream

Be uber rich. Have stocks. President announces tariffs. Stocks plunge. Bad for middle class, fine for Uber rich cus, hello, fire sale on stocks. President walks back tariffs. Stocks go up again. Guess who is still making money this whole time! It ain't you!

#Politics #tump #oligarchs #alt #ALT4you

@Remittancegirl @ChrisMayLA6

Coincidentally, I posted this an hour ago:

https://photog.social/@RaffKarva/114068825379033464

#MAGA #NotMyPresident #Protest #Resist #Boycott #StandUp #StopProject2025 #ElonMusk #DOGE #RealPatriots #Unite #Strike #NoBillionaires #StopFascism #PunchNazis

BOOST BOOST BOOST

Energy Department scrambles to rehire nuclear bomb experts fired in major DOGE screw up: Reports

#NuclearSecurity #NationalSecurityRisk #GovernmentMistake #MisunderstoodRole #DOJEFiring

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-screw-up-nuclear-experts-fired-b2698732.html

TRUMP AND MUSK TO AMERICA: DROP DEAD. https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-and-musk-to-america-drop-dead

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and was not notified in advance that people were going to be fired.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #coup #USDS
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Public Health Agency of Canada - Canada.ca

One of the places you can go to get news about health that won't be contaminated by Kennedy

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html

@noondlyt
Three pieces of advice I'm giving out...

1) Limit your exposure, only engage with politics during pre-planned hours each day, only pay attention to news sources is that our focused on giving you the information rather than sensationalizing (so like, NewsHour, not CNN or MSNBC), only interact with the intent to actually do something about it: simply watching things to panic at them isn't helping anyone.

2) Write your representatives, ESPECIALLY if you are in the US and they are Republicans. Right now, the fascists need the rest of the government to cooperate with what they're doing. If we can get them to 1) pull focus off of minorities, 2) stop the Constitutional overreach, and 3) put limits on Elon Musk, that will limit the fascists.

3) Show the people who voted for Trump that he's not doing what they wanted him to: the majority of them voted for him for economic reasons. We need a significant majority of citizens to be able to go after them.

Everyone is going to have to manage their outrage and focus on fewer administrative societal abominations. If you do not, you will permanently damage your physical health eventually becoming diseased and disabled.
I GUARANTEE YOU CANNOT AFFORD THIS ON ANY LEVEL WITH THE CURRENT RULERS IN THIS COUNTRY.

Pick 2 or 3 issues to address and throw yourself into those. The Tsunami of shit is only 3 weeks old. This will go on for years. I don't care who you are, your body and mind cannot handle 24/7 outrage at every fucking thing these people are doing. We are not built that way.

A campaign by citizens to demand, not ask,
demand and require,
that every agency respond to Privacy Act requests
- millions of requests
- could really slow down FFOTUS/Musk

https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/113954345415529287

Everything about this story is terrifying, but the cherry on this shit sundae is that they are pushing changes directly to prod.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-cronies-dive-into-treasury-dept-payments-code-base

HPV vaccines can prevent:

90% of ALL cervical cancers
90% of ALL anal cancers
90% of HPV-associated oropharyngeal (mouth and throat) cancers, which make up 63% of all oropharyngeal cancers
85% of vaginal cancers
90% of vulvar cancers
90% of penile cancers
Plus, 90% of genital warts

If you wanted to prevent chronic diseases like cancer, wouldn’t you be shouting this from the rooftops?

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