Reposted by Avast AghastGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 09/01/2026I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow. 1112350648981 0
Reposted by Avast AghastDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/06/2025The right is shaping public perception of these protests just like it shaped public perception of the BLM protests, because it dominates the information ecosystem. The narratives it has spent years crafting & spreading are shaping how current events are interpreted. 181022257 0
Reposted by Avast AghastFrancesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 06/03/2025As Newsom and others capitulate to right wing framing on the issue of trans athletes, let's remember what real messaging, real movements, real leadership looks like. It's saying what needs to be said: trans people are people. youtube.com/shorts/c67pq...youtube.comNever capitulate to right-wing framing. We need our own narratives.YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini) 1524037 0
Reposted by Avast AghastTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 06/03/2025Al Green was alive during Jim Crow, before the Civil Rights Movement. This is a statesman that the Democrats should be turning to for wisdom. But the racism SCOTUS declared over is alive and well in 2025, and Democrats went out of their way to call this gentleman uppity. Democrats are a joke. 5526105 0
Avast Aghast @avastaghast.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Platforming alt-right turds and alienating minorities, while being a politicized bogeyman to the right, has historically been the very best strategy for beating a GOP presidential candidate. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social 100 0
Reposted by Avast AghastKasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 04/03/2025If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/vote.escvote.comREI Board of Directors Election 441117680 0
Reposted by Avast Aghast🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 04/02/2025i mean, dems are saying the things we want them to say. warren's saying it. jefferies is saying it. wyden's saying it. omar's saying it. AOC is saying it. it's not landing on the front page of any major news website, but they're saying in plain language what's happening here. 672991801 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 02/02/2025if you, for whatever reason, decided to start some basic home preparedness today, and can only get to a few stores, here's what I'd tell you to get: -walkie talkies for everyone in your family -little portable power packs, one per phone -a print road atlas [...] 651259340 0
Reposted by Avast AghastSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/02/2025As part of the Nazi "coordination" of all public offices, the regime issued the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” on April 7, 1933. This law excluded all racial and political “enemies” of the regime from the civil service. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...encyclopedia.ushmm.orgLaw for the Restoration of the Professional Civil ServiceApril 7, 1933. On this date, the German government issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service excluding Jews from civil service. 11434223 0
Reposted by Avast AghastKate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This is from the most recent episode of @strictscrutiny.bsky.social & I think I stand by it ! 835487 0
Reposted by Avast AghastAviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/01/2025“Denounce thy neighbor, as thou fearest thy neighbor may denounce thee.” —New Revised King Trump Bible 052 0
Reposted by Avast Aghastd-red @deadeyedbirdman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Wouldn’t have happened if they didn’t spend so much on Starbucks and Avacado toast 55276 0
Reposted by Avast AghastJohn Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025This is perfection. 8042651128 0
Reposted by Avast AghastElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public. 180157065626 0
Reposted by Avast Aghastcoyotebroad (Jayne Cravens) @coyotebroad.bsky.social · 23/01/2025The wonderful @eff.org has an equally wonderful guide you can use to make it MUCH harder for Meta / Facebook / Instagram to collect and monetize your personal data. It's not super easy - offer to do this for family & neighbors who might not be able to: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgMad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal DataIf you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ... 7218112 0
Avast Aghast @avastaghast.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Excellent!townandcountrytoday.comDocumentary 'Sugarcane' about a B.C. residential school among Canadian Oscar nomineesA documentary by Secwépemc filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat and Toronto journalist Emily Kassie is up for an Oscar. 010 0
Reposted by Avast AghastNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯 24299393630578 0
Reposted by Avast AghastRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/01/2025aim the nukes at Primm. You will only make it stronger. 2936629 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMelissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 22/01/2025I know a lot of people are exhausted. And many have vowed to check out, tune out, etc. But that's what they want--a public too exhausted to be outraged and utterly anesthetized to what is happening. Even if you are taking a break from media, please watch this. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the WorldTyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs. 31349122 0
Reposted by Avast Aghastonion person @junlper.beer · 22/01/2025this is so fucking funny man i cannot believe conservatives are even alive 288114441599 0
Avast Aghast @avastaghast.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Every little bit helps.time.comThe Women Refusing to Participate in Trump's EconomySome women are thinking about the economic impact Donald Trump could have—and they're determined to be prepared. 010 0
Reposted by Avast AghastAnatoliy Gruzd @gruzd.ca · 22/01/2025"FTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer Prices" www.ftc.gov/news-events/...ftc.govFTC Surveillance Pricing Study Indicates Wide Range of Personal Data Used to Set Individualized Consumer PricesThe Federal Trade Commission’s initial findings from its surveillance pricing market study revealed that details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target 1146 0
Reposted by Avast AghastSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 22/01/2025"Elon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his controversial gesture a ‘Nazi salute’ ‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted..." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... Luckily, Wikimedia is not for sale. Donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.phpindependent.co.ukElon Musk furious after Wikipedia page calls his gesture a ‘Nazi salute’‘Defund Wikipedia until [the] balance is restored!’ Musk spouted on his social media platform X 1011162392 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2025the best part about making this a social norm is that suddenly everyone you know is REALLY COOL and also everyone thinks you're likely REALLY COOL too. 747855 0
Reposted by Avast AghastPeople’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 20/01/2025What to do when you see ICE - resources in thread: When informing your community, remember "S.A.L.U.T.E." Report ICE/CBP sightings to a local rapid response network (more info below 👇) 8414309 0
Reposted by Avast AghastKyle @kyleshivers.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Corporate media is frothing at the mouth at the idea you’re going to be anxiously tuning in and filling their coffers with ad revenue for the next four years. Don’t give them your time. They want your despair 661248254 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025I will never stop being mad about how the media has treated the anti-trans movement as a group of ordinary people with legitimate concerns rather than the obvious frothing bigots they are. 6596652300 0
Reposted by Avast AghastEmma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social · 21/01/2025We learned about the Holocaust as liberators. When we fund a holocaust, we close our eyes. The Gaza genocide was clear and obvious, yet we just went about our days. The MAGA anti-immigrant bile is who we are. We're a settler-colonial society and far too many take pride in it. 23957138 0
Reposted by Avast AghastRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/01/2025We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...shatterzone.substack.comWe failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?How to navigate the future without a map. 17254591356 0
Reposted by Avast AghastTom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 20/01/2025People unsure of the difference between a roman salute & a nazi salute is one ends on a lampost and the other in a bunker 5335102 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025History has consistently demonstrated that direct support for authoritarianism is relatively narrow. It thrives through surrender and acquiescence by elite institutions. 152824634 0
Reposted by Avast AghastThe Angry Buddhist @theenragedbuddhist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Even though most of us will probably never lead the charge, we all have a vital role to play in this battle before us. "Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star." ~ MLK 5365001404 0
Avast Aghast @avastaghast.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Listened to NPR interview with Bannon. He really doesn’t see that support from him and the MAGA’s only matter if there’s ever another relatively fair election Trump needs to be worried about. 000 0
Reposted by Avast AghastJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 20/01/2025If you're stressing out about tomorrow, there are now over 400 local immigration groups listed on this spreadsheet across all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico - take a minute, find one near you, and commit to spending an hour volunteering with them. 341359836 0
Reposted by Avast AghastYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024reminder: this is the point of the barrage of batshit appointments if you are a tiny bit freaked out by each of them it will add up to “too freaked out to do anything about anything” pick ONE thing at a time to be upset about, decide what action to take on it, then follow through, repeat 221633680 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMargaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 20/01/2025tomorrow is going to be rough. the future is going to be rough. we can’t pretend otherwise. but they want us fleeing, they want us demoralized and terrified, and morale is a terrain of struggle. 121330284 0
Reposted by Avast AghastMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025There is an emerging conventional wisdom that resistance to Trump went too far and I am going to lose my mind. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/19/o... 36879501098 0
Reposted by Avast AghastThe Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16/01/2025Me: I'm not sure we should bring back mammoths. Also me: Bring em back, I want one, also someone make me a dodo. www.cnbc.com/2021/09/13/g...cnbc.comLab-grown woolly mammoths could walk the Earth in six years if geneticist's new start-up succeedsTech entrepreneur Ben Lamm is helping fund a project by Harvard geneticist George Church to revive the woolly mammoth by genetically engineering Asian elephants. 5333628 0
Reposted by Avast AghastGare Davis @bishonentype.bsky.social · 16/01/2025I don't love how insane everyone is becoming, it's bad actaully 1334532 0
Reposted by Avast AghastJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I’m old enough to remember when Reagan did the same shit to Carter… 1912983681 0
Avast Aghast @avastaghast.bsky.social · 15/01/2025It’s probably easier to get all our personal info by hacking US institutions than it is to run a social media company anyways. 000 0
Reposted by Avast AghastLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14/01/2025media.tenor.coma woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''Alt: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! '' 1644055 0
Reposted by Avast AghastChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/01/2025I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used. 19568061840 0
Reposted by Avast AghastAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025This policy change makes sense when you remember that Project 2025 architect, Dustin Carmack, is in charge of policy at Meta. When I uncovered this, he deactivated his LinkedIn. Project 2025 wants to classify trans people as pornographic and ban us from public. 12450462207 0
