Liberals: "Don't do anything that's illegal, it will hurt the message."

Um, what? Coloring within the lines is what got us into this FUBAR situation in the first place.

You don't ask for permission from the aggressor to remove its boot from your neck that's strangling the life out of you; you throw it off as violently as you find to be necessary.

Illegality =/= immorality

Sometimes the illegal choice *is* the moral one. More often than not.

Reposting this from last night: (may make your eyes tear up)

60 Minutes - Newsmakers

What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration

"...I just felt like, well, there's usually two responses to something. You can complain about it, or you could do something about it. I chose the latter within seconds. And it was the easiest decision ever.....

With the active-duty Marines ordered to stand down, Equity Arc reached out to retirees who answered the call from everywhere, former band members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, Westpoint, the Naval Academy and the Marines....The original Marine Band concert would have been seen by hundreds. Here, tonight, these musicians are being heard by millions...."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhwS06U1SnA

Failed #MAGA candidate and extreme right wing bigot / mean girl extraordinaire #ValentinaGomez is now openly advocating for shooting undocumented immigrants in the head w/out due process to her 408,000 MAGA followers.

mark my words, before this presidency is over these people will whip themselves into a frenzy of violence.
https://x.com/ValentinaForUSA/status/1901441849979535380

#RFKJr has come out against three incredibly dangerous food chemicals:

* carrageenan (seaweed)
* riboflavin (vitamin B)
* monosodium glutamate (MSG, very common amino acid found in many animal proteins)

https://x.com/simonmaechling/status/1901352499988340897

Via @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/

#data #privacy #databrokers #amazon #usa #uspol #canada
#infosec

These stories about random people in the US that get arrested for flimsy reasons are deliberate. You don't want this to happen to you and so you will start to act more careful, you align your actions to what is “expected” by the authorities and not just rely on being allowed to do anything that is legal.

Installing this feeling is on purpose – and this works even if you don't belong to the groups of people currently targeted.

“‘Everyone is welcome here’ will make people uncomfortable if they don’t think everyone is welcome here.” The paradox of the conservative moron. #uspol #trump

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article301972094.html

Every part of this Echo privacy massacre is downstream of [the US's pro-monopoly "Consumer Welfare"] policy choice: "growth stock" narratives about AI, twiddling, DMCA 1201, the Darth Vader MBA, the end of legal privacy protections. These are material things, not ideological ones. They exist to make a very, very small number of people very, very rich..." - @pluralistic

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284 #tech #business #SurveillanceCapitalism #uspol

Fuck Joe Rogan and every other prominent voice who wants children to get sick and die for their own boneheaded contrarian amusement too.

Director of HHS convinces people to expose their children to measles and then not to take them to a doctor
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/03/director-of-hhs-convinces-people-to-expose-their-children-to-measles-and-then-not-to-take-them-to-a-doctor

Ok hyperventilating. The Republicans stuck a clause in a procedural measure that declares the rest of 2025 to be ONE SINGLE DAY
#uspol

Why?? So they don't have the ability to cancel Trump's illegal tariffs

I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-day-that-never-ends

@GottaLaff

The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

Report: "Federal agents raid Columbia dorm rooms as university expels students"

"The university has suspended or expelled multiple students this week...

"while the Justice Department says it’s now examining if the protests have violated US terrorism laws."

See video:

https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3580339

#Columbia #Trump #StudentProtests #Racism #Fascism #USPol .

A story at the #Asheville #Citizen-Times about my representative's townhall meeting on Thursday night.

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2025/03/14/edwards-met-with-anger-over-trump-musk-at-town-hall/82365021007/

ebola and dying in a fire are now roughly as popular as #Tesla in Germany.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/tesla-is-done-in-germany-94-say-they-wont-buy-a-tesla-car/