The regime invaded Minnesota and lost — because ordinary people keep doing extraordinary things to protect their neighbors.

The Twin Cities will take center stage on No Kings Day to honor the Minnesotans who transformed crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. #NoKings

When I think #Fediverse, I think #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube, #Akkoma, #Lemmy and not Threads

Threads does not ‘define’ the Fediverse just because Meta to decided to use the Instagram user base that automatically made it become a monster in size

The Fediverse is the people that are connecting it, thousands upon thousands of servers with all kinds of software, a network.

Not a single platform owned by a man child, Mark Sucksberg

This is history that has not been told:

As a trained wildland firefighter who knew the history of smokejumpers, I have NEVER heard that the first American smokejumpers were the African American troops of the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (the Triple Nickles) who, in Operation Firefly, fought the fires caused by Japanese balloon bombs.

#WW2 #WildlandFirefighting #BlackHistory #Smokejumpers

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/us/joe-harris-triple-nickle-black-paratroopers/index.html

I am tired of dancing around things, and it is time to call things for what they are.

MAGA is a terrorist organization, ICE is a secret police force conducting ethnic cleansing, Elon Musk is an oligarch, and Donald John Trump is a foreign-backed agent trying to destabilize our government.

This is no longer an administration, but this very much is a regime, and our country is being occupied.

RIP Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne Fisher books.

#book #books #Melbourne https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/kerry-greenwood-author-behind-miss-fisher-s-murder-mysteries-dies-at-70-20250407-p5lpoc.html

Politicians aren’t nearly outraged enough at the Trump regime disappearing these students of color. I’m not qwhite sure why?? But I bet we’d hear a very different tune if these students had the complexion for protection.

If you’re willing to sit silent when Black & brown people are denied due process and abducted by a fascist regime, then don’t be surprised when you’re the next victim of that same regime. That’s how fascism has always advanced—through complicit silence.

When #DietrichBonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How #Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the #Nazis (1942)

in History, Politics | March 26th, 2025

"Two days after Adolf #Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was executed by the regime for association with the 20 July plot to assassinate Hitler. Even while imprisoned, he kept thinking about the origins of the political mania that had overtaken Germany. The force of central importance to Hitler’s rise was not evil, he concluded, but stupidity.

"'Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice,' Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter to his co-conspirators on the tenth anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. 'One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.' When provoked, 'the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.'

"Fighting stupidity, to Bonhoeffer’s mind, first necessitates understanding it. 'In essence not an intellectual defect but a human one,' stupidity can descend upon practically anyone: 'under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.' And it happens most noticeably when a particular figure or movement seizes the attention of the public. 'Every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity,' he writes. Since such phenomena could hardly arise without blindly obedient masses, it seems that 'the power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.'

"You can see Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity explained in the illustrated Sprouts video above, and you can learn more about the man himself from the documentary Bonhoeffer. Or, better yet, read his collection, Letters and Papers from Prison. Though rooted in his time, culture, and religion, his thought remains relevant wherever humans follow the crowd. 'The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent,' he writes, which held as true in the public squares of wartime Europe as it does on the social-media platforms of today. 'In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.' Whatever would surprise Bonhoeffer about our time, he would know exactly what we mean when we call stupid people 'tools.'"

https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-german-pastor-theorized-how-stupidity-enabled-the-rise-of-the-nazis-1942.html
#Histodon #History #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #BalladOfTheLittleMan