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Peter GleickRE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
Walrus 🏴Maybe you could crowdfund them to do it? Money seems to be their only love...
Maxilo OveritThe whole conservative movement has led to this moment. This is their payoff. They're fascists or in bed with fascists. Are they likely to knife their partners in their sleep? Are their dreams thus arming them? Or are the blades all pointing outwards?
Serge 🔻@petergleick where’s the profit in having a backbone?
Molly in Missouri@petergleick maybe if we in maga controlled states, totally deprived of all leftish national support because we were just fly over states, -- maybe if we had some back up so we aren't just taking turns dying uninvestigated deaths , we could force our maga legislators into a corner for once and for all. maga have funding, leftish efforts here get NOTHING.
Steve Moore 
@petergleick The men are hopeless, but if some of the Dem women could sit down with their Rep sisters and talk about shit, …
Men been running the show since forever, and it ain’t working, we're killing the planet.
Men been running the show since forever, and it ain’t working, we're killing the planet.
lin11c@petergleick
The problem is that they don't care. They are there for the lobby money and stock trading. The hard core MAGAts love this.
The problem is that they don't care. They are there for the lobby money and stock trading. The hard core MAGAts love this.
Jason Terhorst@petergleick @schwa The MAGA movement crucified Adam Kinsinger and Liz Cheney for going up against them, so I imagine that was effective at scaring any others from trying to resist them.
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LordOfQuails "(/^^^(/''@petergleick
They don't
They won't
They are complicit
All of them
Every single republican (plus some Dems)
Red_Shirt_no2@petergleick
At this point, I think one should assume this fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise is something they actually WANT.
At this point, I think one should assume this fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise is something they actually WANT.
Nu Modular@petergleick Yes yes; an overextended duopoly, deeply entrenched by the fossil fuels industry, is that easily uprooted.
Industrial Age, all systems go. Fossil fuels #broligarchy, profit on!
SmutMagDotArt@petergleick It's incredibly dumb of them. If Republicans actually want to ensure their hold on the government (which of course I don't want them to do, but if I were their strategist), they should come out against Trump as a guy who wants to take your guns, and oust him from office. It would humiliate Democrats and likely split the party. They should rally around a "good guy with a gun" and prove they are the law and order party who fights tyranny. They would win. But they're dumb.
Chris ♾️@smutmag @petergleick If I was to guess, I'd say they're less-dumb than they look, they're just being blackmailed and know they're losing everything if they cross the people with the dirt on them. That's why everything is so absurd, why anything (even the obviously incoherent or stupid) is better than that getting out
@BeautifulMind @petergleick I'm sure you're probably right because that is how they FEEL, but there is nothing more embarrassing than championing a pedophile felon who uses the office for personal profit and to help enemies of the US, and also shoots citizens in broad daylight. What could possibly come out about these Republicans that would make it worse? I don't think it's blackmail. I think they really just hate America that much and want to see it destroyed.
FossThought@petergleick I feel like it's not so much a lack of backbone. I think they think they will reap some benefits of this.
@petergleick I mean, yeah, quite literally, but they sadly won't :<
Biomemetic@petergleick
What if they have a backbone, and its just the will of the people itself that they are standing against?
What if they have a backbone, and its just the will of the people itself that they are standing against?
MidgePhoto@petergleick either they really want it all, and feel safe with their rôle, or they are subject to sufficiently dire and potent threats.
Who are the threateners?
Who are the threateners?
@petergleick so is the search for the six least corrupt, fearful, malevolent, republicans in office under way?
Dennis Skinner MP, the Beast of Bolsover, had a useful exchange in the Commons.
Dennis Skinner MP, the Beast of Bolsover, had a useful exchange in the Commons.
HTPC NZ@petergleick yet so many democratic politicians still wants to roll over, negotiate and work with that lot...
Nicole ParsonsGOP billionaires own & operate the entire Republican political apparatus.
The billionaires have achieved their kleptocracy & are no longer in the business of democracy & governance.
They are in the business of manipulating the subjects of a #MadKing
They are not in the business of serving voters, citizens, or American interests.
Billionaires deluding themselves of permanent rule.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/billionaires-politics-money-influence/
https://theweek.com/politics/us-election-who-the-billionaires-are-backing
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Fund a Fascist & Find Out.
In the critical Kentucky Senate race, billionaires are funding more fascist wannabes.
Boycott them all.
https://archive.ph/yr6Ii
https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article314530709.html
"Here’s a rundown of who helped pad Barr’s fundraising lead. Though donors can give campaigns a maximum of $7,000, only half of that, $3,500, can be used during the primary election.
1. Marc Andreessen, a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and early supporter of President Donald Trump ...
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...in tech circles, and his wife Laura. $3,500 each
2. Jamie Dimon, billionaire and longtime CEO of JPMorgan Chase. $3,500
3. Ben Horowitz, Andreessen’s partner in their Andreessen Horowitz firm, and his wife Felicia. $3,500 each
4. Charles Schwab, billionaire founder of the eponymous financial services firm. $3,500
5. Blake Brickman, chief of staff for former governor Matt Bevin. $3,500
6. Heath Tarbert, former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. $3,500
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7. Kara Calvert Campbell, top lobbyist for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. $3,500
8. Ronald O’Hanley, CEO and chairman of financial services behemoth State Street. $3,500
9. John Philip Sousa, IV, great-grandson of famous American composer. $3,500
10. Foris Dax Inc., the parent company for cryptocurrency exchange crypto.com. $1,343,130
11. Defend US Inc., conservative dark money group. $1,070,000
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12. Conservative Agenda for America, a dark money group that changed its name from “Protect Women Ohio,” an anti-abortion group, and is connected with conservative megadonors Dick Uihlien and Leonard Leo. $285,000
13. Friends of Andy Barr, an outside group supporting Barr’s political career since his congressional runs. $157,354
14. Chance Aluminum Corp., a Pennsylvania metals company. $150,000
15. Churchill Downs. $100,000
16. Tamara Gustavson, billionaire storage magnate ...
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... Lexington area resident. $100,000
17. Joe Cecala, CEO of Dream Exchange, a company that recently lost its bid with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to become a stock exchange. $75,000
18. Bilt Technologies, new credit-card company targeting mortgages and rent payments. $50,000
All of these oligarchs have earned their pickets, protesters, and boycotts.
TopKnotThat says way more about the elected "Christians" in the House and Senate, than anything else. A Christian Nation, indeed.
xs4me2Exactly and that is not even likely to happen... unbelievable and shameful...
Woozle Hypertwin@petergleick I can only think this means they agree with the underlying white supremacy project.
Maybe we should put some resources into pointing this out?
Patrick Leavy@petergleick and if people withdrew their data so MAGA's surveillance state project wouldn't work.
Get yourself away from big tech's surveillance here:
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/
Bodling@patrickleavy @petergleick Thank you Patrick for this link! I've been going at this on my own in a real piecemeal fashion. Now I've got your more comprehensive guides to, um, guide me.
@Bodling @petergleick you're most welcome!
Please share it - we have zero marketing budget, and #bigtech will only feel pain if this is done at scale.
https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2026/
Brendan HalpinIt's partly because the hard right realised some time ago that if democracy continued, they'd be losing elections forever, so when an opportunity to sideline democracy comes up, they seize it
@bthalpin @petergleick That, and a whole lot of them are in the Epstein files and have been blackmailed about it for the better part of 15 years
NerbUnfortunately I live in an area where the gop has saturated the system.
The Steube, could give a crap what my opinion as he is safe , same with Rick Scott. Ashley Moody thinks she is safe and I'm hoping she is wrong. I'm donating to both the early entrants on the Democrat side for now.
Those of you who live in areas that could swing either way have a chance. If enough of you call that gop critter and he or she does the math and realizes that trump getting mad at them are the least of their worries. I called Ashley Moody's office , probably was a waste of time but I can hope.
For me for now best I can do is donate money to try to get some of them knocked off their perches
Drey
MovingTrainMediaThis plan seems to also rely on Democrats maintaining a backbone, which is shaky ground in the best of times.
der.hans@petergleick they have only two backbones between them, they pass the backbones around and pretend to take moral stands in insufficient numbers to do anything
the backbones are made out of stale peeps, so still not very stiff
djohngo@petergleick This *is* them finding a backbone. This is what they want.