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We're rapidly hitting the point where the average American is going to have a hard time feeling like we're "the good guys."

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Displayed throughout CPAC...

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SOCIAL MEDIA "ACTIVISM" IS KEEPING YOU FROM ACTUAL ACTIVISM - HERE'S THE TRUTH

You think you're staying "informed" by doomscrolling through your social feeds 24/7? That's exactly what they want. It's literally designed to keep you angry, scrolling, and - most importantly - doing absolutely fucking nothing.

HERE'S WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU:

It's OKAY to edit your feeds so you don't see that shit when you're just trying to exist

You do NOT have to consume the world's suffering every second of every day to be a "good activist" - and by the way? You're not even getting "informed" by scrolling. You need to actually look up real articles OFF of social media to understand what's happening

Hitting like and share isn't activism. Sorry. It just isn't.

You wanna actually do something?

Learn your neighbors' names. ACTUALLY TALK TO THEM about what's happening

Join your school board and ask them face-to-face why they're against queer education

Stand up to your racist uncle instead of "keeping the peace" (peace for WHO exactly?)

Find out what abortion rights groups are ALREADY DOING in your area instead of reinventing the wheel

Join an actually inclusive church (you know, like Jesus would've wanted) and see what they're ALREADY DOING to make the world better

And for fuck's sake, stop saying "oh I don't talk about politics" - YOUR SILENCE IS POLITICAL

NEWSFLASH: You don't have to start the fucking underground railroad by yourself. That shit ALREADY EXISTS - you just never had to use it before. Lucky you. So volunteer if you're a safe person, at whatever level works for you:

Send money

Show up in person

Pack supplies

Make pamphlets

Whatever you can do

Not everything's gonna get you in the history books and you know what? IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.

And here's something else that matters: Going to trauma therapy - REAL trauma therapy with a therapist informed in decolonization practices - is a RADICAL ACT. If you have the means to do it, DO IT. Healing yourself is part of the work too.

AND LISTEN UP BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT: IT'S OKAY THAT IT TOOK YOU THIS LONG IT'S OKAY THAT YOU'RE STARTING SMALL IT'S OKAY THAT YOU DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING

NO ONE EVER PUNISHED THEMSELVES INTO SUCCESS.

You grew up with some racist/sexist views? Yeah, most of us did. You can't get stuck there. There's too much at stake. It's time to deconstruct. It's time to do the work.

But scrolling and sharing posts while feeling guilty? That's not the work. That's what they want you to think the work is.

Get off your phone. Talk to your neighbors. Show up at meetings. Stand up to family. THAT'S the work.

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Well fuck.

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Prepping next week's podcast episode, and this will be a good one. Tons of insanity to talk about, many, many freedom Fumbles, and the art of civil disobedience with our panel. Going to be fun.

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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

-W.E.B. Du Bois

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A new executive order will set up a court challenge over whether Trump has the power to direct investigations by independent agencies that oversee corporations, labor unions, banks and federal elections.

President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting to give himself and the attorney general direct authority over regulatory agencies established by Congress as independent on Tuesday night.

The order directs agencies such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Election Commission, National Labor Relations Board and even some aspects of the Federal Reserve to take direct orders from the president and run every regulation or action by the White House. It also states that only the president and attorney general may interpret the law for executive branch actions, in contradiction to existing law.

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So this is happening now. Great.

So much for freedom of speech. Our first amendment rights are dead.

Because God forbid you are critical of our new "god-king" Trump 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻

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The situations our leaders are creating cannot end well or quietly for the American people. Be prepared.

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The future of America is now firmly in the hands of its people. They will either rise to the occasion or be ruled by tyranny.

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A travesty in motion.

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So they're admitting it now. Cool. We can play that game too.

Fox News host Jesse Watters cheered the right-wing media’s “information warfare” machine that he argued has outpaced and outmaneuvered Democrats in the battle for public influence, mocking liberals for “screaming into the ether on MSNBC” with an outdated and ineffective messaging strategy.

Speaking on The Five on Monday night, the host unleashed on the liberal media ecosystem, arguing it’s stuck in an old-school, top-down approach that, in his view, has failed to keep up with a rapidly evolving media landscape.

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so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

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Nobody will save us. Either we massively win both houses of congress in the midterms or fight in the streets. Not to protest but rather to depose our Republican oppressors.

The media begs for our donations claiming they are fighting for our democracy but fold like a cheap suit at the slightest resistance from Trump.

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I think I was the only one fully awake for this episode...

In episode three we see how well our duo of hosts can do with no sleep, no panel, and a nasty case of the flu. It's a mini episode with just the news recap to tide us over until next week.