#push back

[wherepond]

Anonymous warns MAGA

Anonymous issues dire warning to MAGA

Trump's & DOGE's actions cancelling oversight systems, checks & balances, security systems, etc resulted in chaos & loopholes.

Anonymous threatens to take advantage of the security breaches if Americans don't resist, rise up & push back against MAGA.

[echovale052]

KOSA IS BACK PLEASE SIGN THE PETITIONS. Conservatives are trying really hard to push for KOSA (a bill that will censor all LGBT activity online) to be put onto the end of the end of year spending bill

@fullhalalalchemist (credits for the original post I couldn’t find it anywhere but Reddit, I’ll reblog it if I do)

Below is a direct link to one of the petitions it takes less than a minute (and there are resources to call your representatives with scripts)

[gallifreyriver]

H.R. 22: SAVE Act

This is a call to action for you to call your reps and tell them to vote NO on House Resolution 22, aka the SAVE Act.

So what is the SAVE Act and why is it bad?

The SAVE act would require documentary proof of citizenship (such as a birth certificate, drivers license, or passport) in person, to register to vote.

Not only would this prevent people from being able to register to vote by mail and eliminate the ability to register to vote online (a service 42 states rely on btw). But this would also heavily affect anyone who changed their name, such as trans individuals or anyone who changed their name when they got married, because for people who lack passports (which is about half of US Americans) any mismatch between your birth certificates and IDs would present problems with registration. [ X ]

Right now the bill has only been introduced to the House. Bills must be passed by both the House and Senate and then be signed by the President to become law.

We want this to die before it ever gets to the Senate, so please contact your Reps and tell them to vote NO House Resolution 22, aka the SAVE Act. I recommend using 5calls.org if the thought of a phone call makes you nervous. You just plug in your info and the issue you're concerned about and 5calls brings up your reps and their numbers as well as script you can use if you don't know what to say.

Faxzero.com also makes contacting your reps easy, by allowing you to send up to 5 free faxes a day! Just find your rep and write what you want them to be faxed (even if that involves just copying 5calls script, or telling your reps that if they don't vote NO on this bill then you will vote NO on them in their next primary.)

And don't underestimate the power of an email! Usa.gov is good resource to find your reps contact information, and democracy.io is a basic web site that makes it easier for people to send email to their representatives. Again, if you don't know what to say just copy the script from 5calls- or even a simple "Vote NO on House Resolution 22, aka the SAVE Act." is honestly fine.

Hell, do all three if you really want to send a message. The more feedback our reps receive the better.

I'll update this post later if the status of this bill changes, but for now get out there and contact your reps!

[nocternalrandomness]

Airbus in a special New York Fire Department livery being pushed back at Orlando International

[serendip8y]

Why We Must Mobilise

Robert Reich

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The first 100 days: Why we must mobilize

Now is the time for all of us to become activists and force this despicable regime out of office

Robert Reich

Apr 28, 2025

Friends,

Today is the start of the 14th week of the odious Trump regime. Wednesday will mark its first 100 days.

The U.S. Constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.

At this rate, we won’t make it through the second hundred days.

Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump — judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself — but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee who merely sought to hear a case involving an undocumented defendant.

Recently, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit — an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society — issued a scathing rebuke of the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the United States and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote:

“If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.”

Judge Wilkinson’s fears are already being realized. Early Friday morning, ICE deported three U.S. citizens — aged 2, 4, and 7 — when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children, having Stage 4 cancer, was sent out of the United States without medication or consultation with doctors.

Meanwhile, the regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as bulwarks against tyranny — universities, nonprofits, lawyers and law firms, the media and journalists, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service, and independent agencies — threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they don’t submit to its oversight and demands.

Trump has even instructed the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the platform that handles the fundraising for almost all Democratic candidates and the issues Democrats support.

At the same time, Trump is actively destroying the economy. His proposed tariffs are already raising prices. His attacks on Fed chief Jerome Powell are causing tremors around the world.

Trump wants total power, even at the cost of our democracy and economy.

His polls are dropping, yet many Americans are still in denial. “He’s getting things done!” some say. “He’s tough and strong!”

Every American with any shred of authority must loudly and boldly sound the alarm.

A few Democrats and progressives in Congress (Bernie Sanders, AOC, Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy) have expressed outrage, but most seem oddly quiet. Granted, they have no direct power to stop what is occurring, but they cannot and must not appear to acquiesce. They need to be heard, every day — protesting, demanding, resisting, refusing.

Barack Obama has spoken up at least once, to his credit, but where is my old boss, Bill Clinton? Where is George W. Bush? Where are their former vice presidents — Al Gore and Dick Cheney? Where are their former Cabinet members? They all must be heard too.

What about Republican members of Congress? Are none willing to stand up against what is occurring? And what of Republican governors and state legislators? If there were ever a time for courage and integrity, it is now. Their silence is inexcusable.

Over 400 university presidents have finally issued a letter opposing “the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education.” Good. Now they must speak out against the overreach endangering all of American democracy.

Hundreds of law firms have joined a friend-of-the-court brief in support of law firm Perkins Coie’s appeal of the regime’s demands. Fine. Now, they along with the American Bar Association and every major law school, must sound the alarm about Trump’s vindictive and abusive use of the Justice Department.

America’s religious leaders have a moral obligation to speak out. They have a spiritual duty to their congregations and to themselves to make their voices heard.

The leaders of American business — starting with Jamie Dimon, the chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who in normal times has assumed the role of spokesperson for American business — have been conspicuously silent. Of course they fear Trump’s retribution. Of course they hope for a huge tax cut. But these hardly excuse their seeming assent to the destruction of American democracy and our economy.

Journalists must speak out too. In the final moments of last night’s “60 Minutes” telecast, Scott Pelley, one of its top journalists, directly criticized Paramount, CBS’s parent company. “Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways,” he told viewers, explaining why the show’s executive producer, Bill Owens, had resigned.

“Stories we pursued for 57 years are often controversial — lately, the Israel-Gaza War and the Trump administration. Bill made sure they were accurate and fair. He was tough that way. But our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it.”

Shari Redstone, the controlling shareholder of Paramount, is seeking the Trump regime’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale of the media company, and Paramount is obviously intruding on “60 Minutes” content to curry favor with (and not rile) Trump.

Kudos to Pelley for speaking out and to Bill Owens for resigning. We need more examples of such courage. (They both get this week’s Joseph Welch Award, by the way, while Shari Redstone and Paramount get this week’s Neville Chamberlain.)

***

Friends, we have witnessed what can happen in just the first hundred days. I’m not at all sure we can wait until the 2026 midterm elections and cross our fingers that Democrats take back at least one chamber of Congress. At the rate this regime is wreaking havoc, too much damage will have been done by then.

The nation is tottering on the edge of dictatorship.

We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground.

Soon, I fear, the regime will openly defy the Supreme Court. Americans must be mobilized into such a huge wave of anger and disgust that members of the House are compelled to impeach Trump (for the third time) and enough senators are moved to finally convict him.

Then this shameful chapter of American history will end.

[forthepleasureofmylife]

Brussels Airport

Photo: Dieter Krehbiel

[jessiarts]

please don't comply in advance.

we are where we are right now because over the years we all just kept complying with seemingly "minor inconveniences" and other increasingly shitty things-

your parents did it, your grandparents did it, fuck- we're all guilty of it. every single one of us. because more often than not we just didn't know any better- we didn't know we could say no and that our decisions had any impact.

shit like credit scores, and junk mail, and ads creeping into every facet of our lives, and everything becoming subscriptions, and corporations artificially inflating their prices. like frogs in a boiling pot we just let it happen because we either didn't know we could push back, or we were too young to have a voice.

and now there's shit like banned books, removal of DEI, the erasure of "T" from "LGBT," ice raids and companies literally handing over their workers to ice, and more and more shit that just keeps getting worse.

but we know better now. we're older now. we all know better now.

so please, stop fucking complying. for the love of any gods that may or may not exist, push back

[originalpsychiczipperdean]

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[oddlittlestories]

Foreman

Okay y'all I don't know if this is anything but here's the first inkling of a read on Foreman, cause I've done it for almost everyone and he needs it next

All the characters have masks they wear, but for the most part, it's driven by things they believe and/or fear.

With Foreman, it's more like he has a veneer. He puts on this veneer of a "nice, good guy" or who he thinks a "nice, good guy" is, and then fails to live up to it because he's not what he perceives as good.

In some ways, it's like Wilson's pretending to his ex-wives of him being a "good guy" or "knight in shining armor," because he can't keep it up. But with Wilson, we see very little of it because he isn't that way with House, and isn't really that way with Cuddy either. In contrast, Foreman is that way a lot, until he screws it up because that isn't who he really is.

Poor Foreman. Who told you nice is good?

[timbarrus]

I am a communist. I note that short term pain is code for something is going to be removed. For the disabled, it will mean food. It will mean medications. I know that is not what you want to hear. But the measuring itself is an institution of massive variables. I notice that there are many children playing in the hurricane rubble here in Appalachia. It was odd. No Head Start. Now, there's a great way to find and keep a job. Let's hope it's a safe rubble. Let's hope it will be a sane economic rubble when all the suits are done with their feeding frenzies. No Head Start means no food. Now, sit down with your 4-year-old, and you are going to tell them the story of how tariffs and bankruptcy after bankruptcy are two peas in a corporate pod. Money can be spread around in many ways such as indentured servitude and the whip. I mean, workers and supply and demand. Has any economist in the entire world ever even been in a slaughterhouse. How do you measure morality in a culture, anyway. You don't. You explain to the masses through bullhorns in helicopters that it's all for our own good. All you need to do is work harder. All you need to do is work faster. Who are these guys who think parenting and three jobs in the family is a game of economic musical chairs. It's always caste and class. Work harder with less. I am looking out of my little writing window, and those kids are out there in the incomprehensible rubble the adult world has made of things.

[xisuzux]

[nocternalrandomness]

Airbus A320 pushing back for departure at Juan Santamaría International Airport, Costa Rica

[heart-songs]

between the hours of blood rush and burnt coffee our little universe e x p a n d s

for a time we choose to ignore the allotment of quiet light where shadows sometimes bloom into half-truths. the stress fractures bedframes withstand while cradling our restless desire. the secret lives of tongues, teeth, and gums condensing twenty-six letters into just two. then one. the inert friction of tumbling heart-first into utter unknowns. the soured morning breath of regret

we prefer to overlook. we scatter pieces of ourselves across the thicket of apartment floors. we answer the ache in our bellies with hips that do not question. fumbling fingers string pearls of sweat onto spinal cords, waistlines, and necks. jelly wobbles the hollows of knees. we make shapes with our mouths that do not resemble the last impression we had of each other. we let the shushing of sheets lull our tangled bones into stillness. we make sense of everything. until there is nothing left to do but feel for the edges of the sun and push back.

- Cora Finch

[ladypilotuniform]

Final checks

[shinyobservationtree]

Nonbinary isn't like. Gender Lite. Bisexual isn't like, Sexuality Lite. It's not "disappointing" or a "cop out" of "better" queer representation. Just a reminder.