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Bohemian Peasant<a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@georgetakei</a> From experience, I know that there are some <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/SSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SSA</a> benefits that cannot be accessed online. And making <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/seniors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seniors</a> drive to physical locations is untenable. They are probably cutting the number of offices too! The <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> is the point.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️The Road from ‘Citizens United’ to Trump, Musk & CorruptionA ‘naïve’ <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> delivered lawless <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#greed</a> & <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a>. We’ll have to save ourselves, if we can. <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-road-from-citizens-united-to-trump-musk-and-corruption-campaign-finance-supreme-court</a>"The court’s 5–4 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/CitizensUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CitizensUnited</a> decision, allowing unlimited corporate, interest-group, & individual spending on elections, did trigger dire predictions... But even the most pessimistic among them fell short of imagining <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#American</a> reality today."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️The DOGE HelplineComms from Armageddon <a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-doge-helpline</a>"The scene: an office in the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WestWing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WestWing</a> ... with a "DOGE Helpline" sign on the door. Four consumer relations specialists take phone calls.Rep 1 "...The point is to create the conditions for the survival of the fittest. That's <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#American</a>, right?"Rep 2 "We... create an <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> of desperation and hatred of Americans. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americans</a> will show their best side in these situations"<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doge</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️DOGE job cuts shake Trump-voting West Virginia town | REUTERS <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LHUPTMU7w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9LHUPTMU7w</a>"Jennifer pigot voted for Trump... in February she was fired from her civil service job..."conversation now, it's like you knew this was coming.But we didn't.Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives."" ["OUR lives." Leopards... faces]<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doge</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jobs</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Kent Pitmanmy moral compass insists it's pointing steady, that the world's spinning<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SmallPoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SmallPoems</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShortPoem</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#morality</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coup</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corrupt</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#truth</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PostTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostTruth</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a>

Kent PitmanGot the message below in email today from the International Writing Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, where I've previously enjoyed some fun MOOC courses, including a great one about writing poetry. But they obviously do a lot of good work beyond that, and so this is just very sad to see. But we should not avert our eyes to the specific effects of the ongoing savaging of the US government and its effects not only on domestic education but international relations. No good can come of this.«Dear Friends,We write today with a difficult update. On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the International Writing Program (IWP) learned that its grants with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, were being terminated. This notification explained that the IWP’s awards “no longer effectuate agency priorities,” nor align “with agency priorities and national interest.” The immediate result was the cancellation of Between the Lines (the IWP’s summer youth program), and the dissolution of Lines and Spaces Exchanges, Distance Learning courses, and Emerging Voices programs. The overall Fall Residency cohort will be reduced by around half due to the loss of federally funded participants; the IWP’s other long-time funding partners, including a combination of donors, grants, foreign ministries of culture, and NGOs, will continue to support writers.»For fuller information:<a href="https://iwp.uiowa.edu/announcement-iwp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://iwp.uiowa.edu/announcement-iwp</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poetry</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPolitics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Funding</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grants</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/InternationalRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InternationalRelations</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/CrueltyIsThePoint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrueltyIsThePoint</a>

William Lindsey :toad:At a point in history at which more than half of white Christians have voted for Trump three times, this last time setting off an orgy of chaos, destruction, and cruelty through which we're now beginning to live, the church itself offers the most glaring counterwitness imaginable to the gospel it prodlaims. One can keep believing only by leaving the church behind.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteEvangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristians</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /5

William Lindsey :toad:"So the church took the offer, and didn't even get a golden fiddle in exchange for its soul. And here, at last, we were. ...Think of what made me leave my church. It wasn't somebody welcoming me into the new thing. It was the fact that I actually believed the truths I had learned and couldn't handle the lies any more."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteEvangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristians</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:"Also, the Republican Party had already been a hate group for many years prior to that, and the church had been the enthusiastic, sustaining, energizing force behind that organization, as part of its overall capture by authoritarian state power, which had offered it relevance and influence in the form of enforced cultural domination over others."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteEvangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristians</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:Moxon writes,"The fact that the church collectively went for their deep-fried golden calf didn't surprise me in 2016—I was more naive than I am today (which suggests that in ten year I will be less naive than I am now) but I wasn't totally snowed, and I had been watching over the preceding years in a state of slowly dawning awareness."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteEvangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristians</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:A.R. Moxon notes that he grew up a missionary kid, "which is sort of heavenly platinum status in christian communities." Despite his upbringing as the son of evangelical missionaries, he can no longer do church. He explains why: the "beautiful story" told by the Christian gospels, which is compelling, is belied by the behavior many churches and church folks.<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteEvangelicals</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristians</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#destruction</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /1<a href="https://www.the-reframe.com/defiant-jazz/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.the-reframe.com/defiant-jazz/</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️DOGE's cuts are harming veteransThat's not efficient. It's cruel, it's wrong, & it's unAmerican. <a href="https://contrarian.substack.com/p/doges-cuts-are-harming-veterans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://contrarian.substack.com/p/doges-cuts-are-harming-veterans</a>" <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a>... bought access to the president... so he could launch his <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> program... that is firing hard working, essential, middle-class employees, including <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/veterans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#veterans</a>.Firing veterans who perform essential duties isn’t <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#government</a> efficiency, it’s cruel...The real Trump/Musk objective appears to be <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> more than efficiency."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a>

Kim Perales"Under pressure from a TRO, Trump Adm asserts that Sec Rubio has now completed an "individualized" review of all <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USAID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAID</a> & State Dept foreign aid contracts.🚨Result: USAID: 5,800 contracts terminated; 500 retained.State Dept: 4,100 contracts terminated; 2,700 retained. -R ParloffThe <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TrumpMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpMusk</a> regime is gutting the fed govt,💔 accelerating famine & disease around the world, increasing <a href="https://toad.social/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#firings</a> of public servants...They must be stopped. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Aid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aid</a><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333.40.0.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333/gov.uscourts.dcd.277333.40.0.pdf</a>

William Lindsey :toad:Berlatsky concludes,"I think it’s important to understand why people become invested in fascism, and to understand that cruelty, revenge, and violence do in fact have a strong appeal for many people. Fascists, as fascists, don’t have a point. They don’t have genuine, good faith concerns that need to be addressed. What they have is lies and a narrative that allows people to murder their enemies and feel good about it."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /4

William Lindsey :toad:Cruelty links to the belief that I myself and others like me are righteous and those despised others deserve pain:"What Serwer understood though—and which I think sometimes gets lost in responses or summaries of his argument—is that cruelty is intimately connected to a sense of virtue, empathy, and community. Fascism creates a structure in which sadism feels righteous and cruelty feels like the natural complement to empathy and solidarity."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /3

William Lindsey :toad:As Berlatsky notes, some commentators (in corporate media, especially, I'd add) resist this analysis of what makes Trump voters tick, arguing that Americans are essentially good (and innocent) people and Trump voters are motivated by mythic "economic grievances." Though study after study and poll after poll demonstrate to us that this is not the case, and that Trump voters are significantly motivated by cruelty….<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /2

William Lindsey :toad:In an excellent essay today, Noah Berlatsky engages Adam Serwer's argument that "cruelty is the point" of fascism and Trumpism:"Serwer’s thesis is that fascism (and Trumpism) are essentially religions of sadism. People embrace MAGA because they want to be cruel; they want to hurt people. And that cruelty, Serwer argues, creates a sense of belonging and togetherness."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /1<a href="https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-righteous-cruelty-is-the-point" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-righteous-cruelty-is-the-point</a>

Solarpunk Presents Podcast7.2: Ariel & Christina Discuss: Why Must Utopia Be Cruel?In this episode, Ariel and Christina try to get to the bottom of why our fictional visions of utopia are so negative. They often involve mindless acquiescence to an authoritarian nanny state, the oppression and labor of an underclass, or both. It’s as if we can’t imagine a situation in which we all voluntarily treat each other (reasonably) decently and life can be good for everyone. We discuss the literary origins of utopia, how it has evolved (or not) as a concept, and Ariel gives a few examples of sci-fi futures that are about as close to her style of solarpunk utopia as can be. Ultimately, the topic of utopia raises more questions than answers.<a href="https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/WR8yg2cOcMk?si=AwMMgH2MNFHmO8Ct</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#solarpunk</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SolarpunkPresentsPodcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Season7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Season7</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Episode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Episode</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PodcastEpisode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PodcastEpisode</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/utopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#utopia</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SirThomasMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SirThomasMore</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SaintThomasMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaintThomasMore</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ThomasMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThomasMore</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Dystopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dystopia</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Protopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protopia</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WakandaForever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WakandaForever</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BlackPanther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackPanther</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indigenous</a> Futurisms <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Afrofuturism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Afrofuturism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Utopias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utopias</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Anti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anti</a>-Utopia <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/LiteraryHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiteraryHistory</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cruelty</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Despair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Despair</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hope</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/UntopiaParadox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UntopiaParadox</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Omelas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Omelas</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TheOnesWhoStayAndFight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheOnesWhoStayAndFight</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"But maybe, just maybe, our faith and morality need to show up now, in spines and strength and in voices that finally say: ENOUGH."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /6

William Lindsey :toad:"The path forward for this nation won’t be about everyone coming together, and it doesn’t need to be. It will be about those of us who will not abide this brutality, standing together against those who are celebrating it.You may choose, as a matter of faith or moral conviction, to keep trying to preserve your relationships with people you know and love who still support him, and I respect that."~ John Pavolvitz<a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cruelty</a> /5<a href="https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-may-need-to-cut-ties-with-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-may-need-to-cut-ties-with-trump</a>

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