Reposted by ChasconadísimaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/03/2026whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could 292565465
Reposted by ChasconadísimaGil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/02/2026I’ve watched Gavin Newsom’s career for 20+ years. It’s a buffet of big lies & failed hopes Like Trump, he breaks promises, serves billionaire interests & mistakes social media theatrics for leadership. Is that what we need in 2028? via @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comGavin Newsom’s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises | Gil DuránThe California governor has a record of failed pledges on housing, healthcare and more as he mistakes theatrics for leadership 23322133
Reposted by ChasconadísimaArizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’” 16687653796
Chasconadísima @katiemdetwiler.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I'm attending a @socialists.nyc event: Immigrant Justice Working Group February General Meeting. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/immig...actionnetwork.orgImmigrant Justice Working Group February General MeetingJoin the NYC-DSA Immigrant Justice Working Group for our February General Meeting. We’ll discuss this political moment and our next steps as part of the movement to abolish ICE, including work on our ... 010
Reposted by Chasconadísimatalia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 09/01/2026“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis. 240165054180
Reposted by ChasconadísimaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations. 47123182787
Reposted by ChasconadísimaZohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets. 268145652522
Reposted by ChasconadísimaParis Marx @parismarx.com · 15/06/2025i wish we could be as ignorant of the united states as americans are about the rest of the world. hopefully one day 🙏 749654
Reposted by ChasconadísimaMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The most important part of what’s happening in LA is that Trump is trying to invade and take over Democratic states and crush opposition to his dictatorship with military force. The only way to stop the authoritarian takeover is through mass civil resistance. That’s exactly what is happening. 426664
Reposted by ChasconadísimaNatasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 09/06/2025I have come to expect this sort of framing from centrists, and occasionally those further on the left. It is a willful refusal to correctly locate the agents of violence. Latest @theintercept.com on pathetic criticisms of LA protesters: theintercept.com/2025/06/09/l...theintercept.comLA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop ItAdam Schiff and centrist concern trolls have it completely backward: Trump’s immigration crackdown is the source of pervasive violence. 3428152
Reposted by ChasconadísimaKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California? truthout.org/articles/ice...truthout.orgICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President“We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid. 11147971333
Reposted by ChasconadísimaE. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 09/04/2025As a GAO stan, I am delighted to tell you: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is auditing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) www.wired.com/story/gao-a...wired.comElon Musk’s DOGE Is Getting AuditedThe Government Accountability Office’s audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED. 23867175
Chasconadísima @katiemdetwiler.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Thank you @benehrenreich.bsky.social for this critically important work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...thenation.comYou Don’t Get Trump Without GazaFascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that. 130
Reposted by ChasconadísimaAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/03/2025SIGN "university+college presidents have solemn professional +moral responsibilities to students, staff, +faculty. We urge you to legally contest—not capitulate to—the current admin's alarming political campaign against institutions of higher ed." www.newenglandscholarsspeak.org?fbclid=IwY2x...newenglandscholarsspeak.orgEmergency National Statement to University and College PresidentsNOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE SILENT. DEFEND OUR CAMPUSES AND OUR DEMOCRACY NOW. 17825
Reposted by ChasconadísimaJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...talkingpointsmemo.comIRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USAThe Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the... 8772712612500
Reposted by ChasconadísimaJohn Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 21/03/2025I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired. It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵 191103854333
Reposted by ChasconadísimaTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...snyder.substack.comThe evil at your doorThe deportation action as regime change 12153132149
Reposted by ChasconadísimaRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 6609218
Reposted by ChasconadísimaShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/03/2025"Abdelhadi says that by treating Palestinians and their allies as 'fair game for repression,' Democratic officials and college administrators 'opened the door for the far right to strip away constitutional protections from everyone.'"organizingmythoughts.orgMahmoud Khalil and the Repression That Was, Is, and Will BeDo not wait until this violence comes to your doorstep. 15318
Reposted by ChasconadísimaDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 11/03/2025NYC - Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 11AM. — Free Mahmoud Khalil - US Permanent Resident who was kidnapped by ICE for exercising his Free Speech. 3283120
Reposted by ChasconadísimaThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/03/2025Musk calls social security a ‘Ponzi scheme’. The real con is what Trump’s peddling | Robert Reichtheguardian.comMusk calls social security a ‘Ponzi scheme’. The real con is what Trump’s peddling | Robert ReichSocial security is a highly efficient safety net. But the president’s crypto plans and job cuts leave Americans holding the bag 30587197
Chasconadísima @katiemdetwiler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025portside.org/2025-02-28/r...portside.orgResisting the “Everything, Everywhere All at Once” BlitzkriegNo wonder all our heads are spinning. The foundations of the world and the domestic order that everyone under 80 years old has grown up in have been under strain for two decades. Now they are being cr... 030
Reposted by ChasconadísimaShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 20/02/2025“In a time of temptation to the bad, or to the worse, association is what lets people find the courage to refuse, and the practical standing to do so. If things get very bad, it is also associational life that helps people circulate information, hide, escape, and travel.”nplusonemag.comThe Fork in the Road | Mark GreifThere may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of... 22611
Reposted by ChasconadísimaShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/02/2025"Computer prgmrs quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud, but rather the result of a weird quirk of the SSA’s benefits system, which was largely written in COBOL... These systems default to the reference point when a birth date is missing or incomplete..."wired.comNo, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security BenefitsElon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation. 02910
Reposted by ChasconadísimaShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/02/2025“They do not care about or understand the state because they do not acknowledge that it is valid; they do not care about or understand public service or public servants because they refuse the premise that such things could even exist.”defector.comBillionaire Dipshit And His Strike Team Of Greasy Beavises Are Stripping The Wires From The Federal Government | DefectorThe most important thing to know about both the chittering Renfields gnawing through the ductwork of the American administrative state and the billionaire sociopath they serve is that they don’t care.... 3289113