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The World Speaks Up

The White House Threatens to Suppress

Bill Alstrom (MAtoMainetoMA)

Mar 30, 2025

By now you have read about yesterday's “Tesla Protests”. For a good recap of how global and powerful it was, consider reading this Guardian article. People are angry at Musk. Perhaps because he reminds us of Hermann Goering - Hitler’s choice to control the German economy.

And if you don’t think Elon Musk is insane, please read this. If you are receiving Social Security (that you and your employer PAID into for decades!!!) keep an eye on those automatic deposit dates at your bank. There is another word for Musk that starts with an i - incompetent. Musk is no technical genius as popular myth would suggest. He inherited wealth from a racist father and parlayed it into other companies. (Sound familiar?!) He didn't invent Tesla. He bought it. And he benefited from Federal government subsidies that he now decries for others. He built Tesla bigger with OUR help. Read about it here. And to make the hypocrisy even more upsetting - Tesla paid almost zero in taxes over the last three years. 0, Nada, Nothing.

The fact that the demonstrations occurred at almost every Tesla dealership and headquarters suggest that the rebellion has very widespread support. People are pissed off.

The “Deep State” government that Republicans complain about has been holding our society together despite being UNDER STAFFED for decades. The number of Federal employees peaked in 1990 at 3.19 million. The population of the United States in 1990 was about 248 million people. The number of Federal employees by 2023 was 2.93 million The population of the United States in 2023 was about 340 million people.

33 years later…roughly the same number of employees were serving 37% MORE of us. That’s not Deep State bloat. That is employee abuse. But I digress. Next? April 5th! Google it and notice how prominent it is in the search. I think this will be a launch. Of course, nothing we say or do this Saturday will change the minds of the Fascists. The DOGE stooges will still be determined to carry out every detail of Project 2025. They will continue to slaughter our government and ruin the careers of thousands of hard working non-partisan government workers. People who could have made much more money with their educations and skill sets in the private sector. But they have something $Trump and Musks storm troopers can’t fathom. Patriotic dedication to their nation. April 5th is about showing solidarity. This about showing a big push back against an unelected mega billionaire acting like a co-dictator ruining the lives of millions.

April 5th will be big. In hundreds of locations. You can find a demonstration near you via “Hands Off”. I’ll be at a town near me. Multiple organizations like Indivisible are joining in support. And this protest will be global. It looks as if $Trump and Musk are uniting millions - putting the focus on free speech and good governance.

However, somehow, my wife has been receiving White House “notices” which she shares with me. Yesterday’s missive from the Fascists was chilling. Here is the link. The statement established a new “D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force” that can involve every law enforcement entity under the sun - from Homeland Security to the FBI. All to make Washington “safe and beautiful”. Do you think it is a coincidence that this new “Task Force” was established just one week before millions of people may visit our nation’s capital to express their displeasure? $Trump loves big crowds - but only if they are cheering him and laughing at his bullying and his cruel jokes. Don’t be shocked if some “storm troopers” are in evidence. Here is an excerpt from the White House message yesterday: ….facilitate the deployment of a more robust local law enforcement presence as appropriate in areas in or about the District of Columbia, including in such areas as the National Mall and Memorial Parks, museums, monuments, Lafayette Park, Union Station, Rock Creek Park, Anacostia Park, the George Washington Memorial Parkway, the Suitland Parkway, and the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, and ensuring that all applicable quality of life, nuisance, and public-safety laws are strictly enforced, such as those prohibiting assault, battery, larceny, graffiti and other vandalism, unpermitted disturbances and demonstrations, noise, trespassing… So, let’s be careful and peaceful - but strong.

[shinisenko]

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"Treat or else"

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More pushback... keep it going, but don't leave it to politicians and public personalities. Get involved locally and huddle up to get your voice out there.

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Went back and re-downloaded painttoolSAI... Other than some jank cursor issues, it still has a better feeling to it than CSP or PS, honestly can't figure it out (glad my licence still worked)

[creativeakuma]

5th year anniversary for the game

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Oliver Willis at Daily Kos:

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill held closed door meetings where they complained that voters from around the country are organizing and asking them to be stronger in resisting President Donald Trump’s harmful agenda. Axios reports that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries attended the meetings in question, along with members of the House Steering & Policy Committee. The outlet reports that a senior House Democrat told them that Jeffries is “very frustrated” at activist groups like MoveOn and Indivisible that have helped concerned Americans make phone calls to congressional offices. The source added that “people are pissed” that Democrats are receiving pressure to significantly increase their opposition to Trump. “There were a lot of people who were like, 'We've got to stop the groups from doing this,’” a source told Axios. Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia reportedly complained, "It's been a constant theme of us saying, 'Please call the Republicans.'" “Our supporters are asking Democrats to demand specific red lines are met before they offer their vote to House Republicans on the budget, when Republicans inevitably fail to pass a bill on their own,” Indivisible cofounder Leah Greenberg explained. She said voters have said they want more concrete action from Democrats beyond floor speeches decrying Elon Musk.

Since Trump took office congressional offices have reported a massive increase in calls. A memo distributed to Senate staffers last week read, “The Senate is experiencing an unusually high volume of inbound calls. External callers may receive a temporary busy signal when phoning a Senate office.”

Embarrassing and out-of-touch moment by Democratic leadership attacking MoveOn and Indivisible and similar groups.

[davidaugust]

Is your member of Congress hosting a town hall? If yes, great! Have a good time there.

If not, set up an empty chair town hall, and highlight their negligence.

Indivisible has some ideas on how to host an empty chair town hall: https://indivisible.org/muskorus#sticky-15890

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indivisible

hello lovelies, have you heard of indivisible? it's a national group made up of local chapters across the country.

they're having a zoom call tonight to go over their new agenda for trump's second term at 8:30pm EST. if you want to join the call (short notice, i know), here's the link:

if you can't make tonight's call or just want more info about indivisible and where to find (or create) a chapter near you, here's more info:

about indivisible

find a group

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HEHEHE

lesbian pirate and lesbian baker‼️🗣

the fact that they have similar personalities

i love them

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I wanted to draw Razmi.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Queer YA About Immigration

Indivisible by Daniel Aleman  Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa  We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia Kween by Vichet Chum The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante Bonus: These are all YA, but for a New Adult Romance, check out The Broposal by Sonora Reyes 

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Melissa Gira Grant at TNR:

Late Sunday, a reported 20,000 people joined an organizing call quickly convened by Indivisible, a group founded to push back on Trump’s first administration, in response to actions largely undertaken by one of his unelected lackeys, the chaotic tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. As the call maxed out its capacity, tens of thousands more watched via YouTube. Meanwhile, outside an otherwise unexciting federal building in Washington, federal workers and D.C. residents assembled. Inside, under orders from Musk (who apparently paid his way into the president’s good graces), a small group of young men, whose only professional experience was working for one of Musk’s or Musk’s cronies’ companies, were wreaking havoc on federal payment systems. “Musk is inside the Treasury right now with his cadre of flying monkeys, and we don’t know what they’re doing,” said Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin on the organizing call. No one seemed to know how to stop them.

But the accounts from that small protest outside the federal building, with just a few people blocking the doors—backed up by chants of “There’s a robbery in progress”—put a spotlight on the scene and gave it a story. On Monday morning, as federal workers reported lockouts from their offices, more people joined. Some protesters took to the street outside the Office of Management and Budget and blocked traffic. And the next day, Indivisible demonstrators and Democratic members of Congress gathered at the Treasury Building in opposition to Musk’s ongoing takeover, which some lawmakers were by then plainly calling an “illegal raid,” in which he “illegally seized power.” When they tried to get into Treasury on Tuesday, they were turned away. “We’re not going to allow them to steal from our people, from working-class people!” Representative Maxwell Frost said at the rally assembled outside.

In the wake of the November election, multiple news outlets ran stories suggesting that, this time, the president’s opposition were exhausted and inclined to sit this one out. But the fact that the National Mall isn’t packed with pussy-hat-wearing women does not mean that everyone has moved on. Some may have, of course, like the group of Pennsylvania women profiled in The New York Times ahead of the 2025 inauguration, whose first experience organizing was protesting Trump’s first term. (But, to be fair, we don’t know how many people in that particular demographic have really tuned out.) The story those particular protests were telling—a man who sexually assaulted women was in the White House, and himself was a threat to democracy—has only gotten more grim, more all-encompassing, in the last eight years. If anything, there is too much to protest and there are too many villains, an overwhelming number of stories competing for attention and action. But protests are, in fact, happening—and this week, more people are starting to show up.

At the same time as some lesser-known federal office buildings became sites of protest on Sunday, thousands of people across the country were turning out in opposition to Trump’s promised mass deportations and the already-escalating ICE raids: In Los Angeles (blocking the 101 Freeway), Phoenix, Las Vegas (over several days, including hundreds outside Trump’s hotel), Dallas, and Atlanta, among others. On Sunday and Monday, a few thousand people in Washington, D.C. and New York protested Trump’s attempted bans on gender-affirming care for young trans people. On Tuesday, as Trump contemplated shutting down the Department of Education by executive order, students walked out of schools in Los Angeles, and members of the Chicago Teachers Union held “walk-ins” at 100 schools, calling for protections for immigrant students, parents, and educators.

What do we know about these protests? It’s too early to make any data-based generalizations. But based on the rapid-fire research I did for this story, including going to some of these protests (both now and in the first Trump administration), they are not primarily organized under a banner of “Resist Trump.” Protests have mobilized around Trump’s orders, but they are also targeting those who are carrying out his orders, whether that’s responding to an ICE raid in their own neighborhood or to a hospital that is preemptively banning gender-affirming care. Many of these same protesters, not coincidentally, remained active no matter who was in the White House.

Their communities did not see the Biden years as a victory but as a possible reprieve. That reprieve didn’t materialize: Biden didn’t brand his deportations as Trump did, and they weren’t media spectacles, but by the numbers available, he removed as many people from the United States as Trump did in his first term. For trans people, who Biden did at least mention in some speeches and whose rights he backed in a number of executive orders, almost all of that has been undone by two weeks of Trump. The Biden years also saw a constant onslaught of attacks on trans people at the state and local level. There was nothing to sit out. Maybe, to those who deemed protesters “tired,” this resistance doesn’t look like what they expected. Perhaps they don’t see protests led by immigrants and trans people as part of the resistance, or see these as side issues—even though those are the communities Trump is specifically targeting.

The resistance to Tyrant 47 feels and looks different from Autocrat-in-Chief Trump’s first term. #Resist47 #ResistTrump