Learning that white people in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars, to make ICE waste their time pulling them over (instead of migrants.)

This is a very cool thing, and precisely the kind of "total oppositional" thinking people need to be doing right now to meaningfully disrupt the fascist project in whatever ways they can. Obviously you're not toppling Hitler by putting a flag on your car, but we need to be thinking about ways to make doing fascism COST more, everywhere.

❝It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”❞
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/charlie-kirk-assassination-maga/

My sister is visiting New Zealand with a tour group comprising mostly US citizens. One of the tour leaders asked “Is everyone here American?” My sister responded that she and her husband were Canadian, and some MAGA woman nearby snorted “Not for long!”

Earlier, my sister had met another couple on the trip who, upon learning she was Canadian, said that she must be so thrilled that Canada was getting the exciting opportunity to join the USA. They were sincere and happy for her. They were honestly shocked to discover that Canadians have no desire to lose their sovereignty. (Or their health care).

These examples (heartless callousness in the first, egocentric cluelessness in the second) really sum up MAGA.

To my many American friends and family — I can assure you that Canadians understand that it is the current administration and their cult-like supporters that have betrayed our long friendship, not Americans in general. But we are hella pissed right now.

Imagine taking a win-win situation like our long partnership, and turning it into a lose-lose situation like a tariff war. That takes a special kind of stupid.

#tariffwar

if you voted for trump, or you excuse those who did, people in your orbit know you’re not safe. When the chips are down, you’ll sell out your loved ones and then retreat to your self-exonerating excuses. Of course you will; you did it when the chips weren’t down.

You’re unsafe, and dangerous times are coming. Bye.

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."

Historians study their motives, but there is a broad understanding: their motives don’t exonerate them.

Honestly, if you’re in the US, please vote. Don’t let a fascist take control. Don’t think that it can’t possibly happen there. This might be your last chance to vote. Don’t waste it. Sitting it out won’t help your cause but it will definitely endanger a lot of lives. That’s my take on it.

#VoteEarlyDay #FederateTheVote

Refusing to pick a side when one of the sides is fascism is picking the fascist side.

It's not brave. It's not moral. It's just surrendering in advance.