Who’s This “We?”
|USian beholden to Séliš, Ql̓ispé, Ksanka, Nimiipuu 🧓🏽 for not mangling land-water-human webs.| |On autogolpe-watch.| |”If you can only be tall if someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem." (Toni Morrison)| | Ever so earnest.😁|
- 1. "...the security protocols spelled out in the federal govt’s memorandum of understanding (are) extremely basic two-step authentication of the sort necessary to shop on Amazon. The DOJ agreement also states that the federal agency can share the voter information with private contractors." 🧵#MTPol
- Complexly goes nonprofit: 🫶💪 "... artificial intelligence gives rise to absurdist 'brain rot' and distorted deepfake images, while public media struggles to make ends meet amid sudden cuts in federal funding." nbcmontana.com/news/local/h...
- Quibbles aside (with categories, timelines, which phenomena are most powerful), this is a fine summary. Great for non🇺🇸ians who need an explainer, and for 🇺🇸ians trying to catch up. 🇺🇸Pro-democracy strategies MUST adapt. Even when & where they do, expect sabotage, courtesy of digital surveillance.
- 1. “The easiest, quickest way to penalize the apartment house is…through fireproofing requirements...let most of our fire provisions relate solely to multiple dwellings, and allow our private houses…to be built with almost no fire protection whatever.” (Lawrence Veiller) www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
- An early 2026 Epstein-dump-derived confirmation of Neal Stephenson’s predictive powers within his 1992 novel, “Snow Crash.” Good explainers & background in 🧵. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Cr...
- 1. “In Sept., DHS used an administrative subpoena to try to identify IG users who posted about ICE raids in LA. Last month, DHS used another to demand detailed personal information about some 7,000 workers in a MN health system whose staff had protested ICE’s intrusion into one of its hospitals.” ⬇️🧵
- “The ‘manufacture of dissent‘ uses communication as a weapon to attack established institutions, norms, and the government itself. Its major premise is that politics is war and the enemy cheats. It’s the politics of creating fear and turning people into hate-objects.”
- “ICE surveillance deters people from accessing essential services—not just from political organizing, but from enrolling in healthcare, reporting crimes, or even connecting utilities to their homes, a finding that is playing out in real time in communities such as Minneapolis.”
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- "Remining" could reduce the need for new rare earth mines, but it's plagued by the same lack of strong environmental laws and rigorous enforcement as "virgin" mining. “There is no country in the world with strong enough laws to prevent significant harm where mining happens.” #BerkeleyPit #ButteMT
- Nononononodamndamndamn. What do we do now? Watch more Catherine O’Hara and laugh.
- Well, aren’t I late to the party. 😁 m.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_8...
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- Below the link: a🧵of musings on how different European constitutional democracies would fail in an autogolpe - although this list of actual recent failures is equally revealing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup
- TIL about La Matanza. 🤯 “The Porvenir Massacre was part of La Matanza, a period of horrific anti-Mexican violence in Texas between 1910 and 1920 during which hundreds of people of Mexican descent were killed by Texas law enforcement officials.”
- The Jewish Himmler of this 🤡🐘regime. “Miller finds himself at the height of his powers—the pulsing human id of a president who is already almost pure id.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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- “…the world is living through ‘informational armageddon‘ thanks to the development of social media and generative AI, neither of which is ‘anchored in facts.’ ‘Human beings have been commodified by a predatory and extractive industry,” Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa said.’” apple.news/AiKfvknVSS6m...
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”For so long, history of slavery was censored, incl. role of U.S. presidents. After years of organizing, incl. #BlackLivesMatter, schools & public places started reckoning w/ truth telling. Read "How the Word Is Passed" by @clintsmithiii.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ho... Now . . . 🧵
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”In response to the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization, California announced that it has joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network, the first state to do so.
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”As a big winter storm comes for the US, some may blame outages on renewable energy. This is a pattern. In Feb 2021 when an outage hit Texas critics blamed solar + wind. Investigations found the outage's cause was gas + coal plants forced offline because of freezing temperatures. (more here⬇️)
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”On this day in 1870, U.S. soldiers massacred over 150 Blackfeet—most of whom were women and children—near the Marias River in the Montana Territory.
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- To protect classmates from abduction, Twin Cities 4th-graders are building snow barricades outside their school & pouring water over top to freeze them solid. Naturally, no one should use this strategy to blockade contingents of ICE paramilitaries from their cars, or inside their hotels…
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
- Reposted by Who’s This “We?”Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
- Down-🧵: recognizing the —> slave-patrol <— lineage of 2025/2026 ICE raids in multiple (often nonwhite) communities in many U.S. cities. “Gestapo” tactics? Why, yes. And guess where the 3rd Reich learned these tactics? 🇺🇸. #ICE #USHistory billmoyers.com/story/hitler...
- “… lynchings like that of Mr. Gunn were meant to send a broader message of domination and to instill fear within the entire Black community. In the aftermath of the lynching, the majority of Black residents of Maryville, including Mr. Gunn's family, fled the city.”
- “The ideas of slave rebellion had been inspired by the Haitians’ defeat of Napoleon and his allies (including George Washington). Africans gaining their freedom in Haiti had a powerful and stimulating effect on Africans held in bondage all over the world, especially in the W. Hemisphere.”
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