Ryan J. Yoder

@ryanjyoder@techhub.social
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Ryan J. Yoder8h ago
Show threadBen Royce 🇺🇦12h ago

I was impressed by the number of #American #flags at our #protest

International observers you are entitled to dislike the #flag but domestically we must wrest the #symbol back from #MAGA

#Capitulation and #complacency towards what #bigots falsely claim as theirs is not acceptable

#NoKings #USA #US

Ryan J. Yoder1d ago
Phil Baker  1d ago
#TheOnion
https://theonion.com/kristi-noem-sen-padilla-had-even-deadlier-opinion-that-failed-to-go-off/
Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had Even Deadlier Opinion That Failed To Go Off 

LOS ANGELES—Stressing that she had significant reason to fear for her life during yesterday’s confrontation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Friday that she believed Sen. Alex Padilla had an even deadlier opinion that failed to go off. “We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, […]

The Onion
Ryan J. Yoder1d ago
Steve Herman1d ago
WaPo - Voice of America told more than 50 employees to come back to work immediately Friday amid escalating military action between Iran and Israel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/13/voa-staff-iran-israel/
Voice of America brings back 50 staffers amid Iran-Israel conflict

The government-funded broadcaster has fired more than 500 and sidelined 800 more since March.

The Washington Post
Ryan J. Yoder1d ago
Steve Herman1d ago
USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.
Ryan J. Yoder2d ago
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦2d ago

This should be obvious, but I am still going to say it:

All the "arguments" the GOP/right-wing concern trolls kept rising with regards to every single thing anyone slightly left of them was trying to do – "states rights", "bipartisanship", "tyranny", "deficit", and on and on – all of it was utter bullshit. 💩

Imagine any Democrat-controlled administration did a *tiny fraction* of what Trump is doing. Oh what a howl would that draw from them!

They lost it over Obama's tan suit! Remember?

Ryan J. Yoder3d ago
Keep Migrants, Deport MAGA5d ago
Ryan J. YoderJun 7
Indivisible ❌👑Jun 6

“A draft dodger is holding a military parade on June 14. That is so offensive to people like me that I have no words that are not profane to say what I feel.”

While Trump wastes millions on his birthday parade in DC, we’re showing up everywhere else to say NO KINGS. Join your local event for No Kings Day: https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

Ryan J. YoderJun 6
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jun 5
Those who do not learn from history…
Ryan J. YoderJun 3
ProPublicaJun 3

Refugees in Kenya have died at food distribution centers, officials noted, including a pregnant woman crushed to death during a stampede.

Aid workers said they expected more people to get hurt “as vulnerable households become increasingly desperate.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Kenya #Refugees #USAID #Trump #Crime #Nigeria

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations

Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives.

ProPublica
Ryan J. YoderJun 3
Show threadMike MasnickJun 3
You may have some ideological reasons for not using those tools (which I might disagree with you about), but to claim that they're useless is simply incorrect. Used well, they can be quite useful and powerful.
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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jun 5
Those who do not learn from history…
Show threadCanadian CroneJun 5
@georgetakei The #USAIsATerroristState. Enter at your own risk. Avoid at all costs.
Show threadAhoJun 5
@georgetakei maybe the guy who would have wanted to be on the loosing side if it had been the 1930/1940's
Show threadCynBlogger™️DissentsJun 5
@georgetakei
I was thinking this same thing late last night. To the migrants (and others) undergoing these brutal atrocities & kidnappings, there’s no difference between America 2025 and Germany, Poland, etc. 1930’s-40’s.
Show threadMrinappropriateJun 5
@georgetakei As always, you’re correct.
Show threadD. G. MarshallJun 5

@georgetakei

The trouble some people have with learning from history is the same problem they have with learning from dystopian science fiction: it's a warning, but they see an instruction manual.

Show threadyru_bobJun 5
@georgetakei those who hide it, intend to repeat it
Show threadGeorge Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jun 6
@yru_bob 🎯
Show threadJimJoeJun 5
@georgetakei This new version was written by the "Diarrhea of Taco Hell"
Show threadDani living like it's 2020Jun 6
@georgetakei
I know this writing in the original language, and still my first thought was about the gestapo/ice doing this right now in the USA.
Show threadalxJun 6
@georgetakei this is only ignorance of the populace. the shot callers are using a century old playbook in the hopes we've forgotten where it leads. and the worst part is, they're not wrong...
Show threadRubenWAJun 6
@georgetakei History repeats itself. We've learned nothing!
No gas chambers yet.
Show threadFrançois @PragueJun 6
@georgetakei MAGA does not know what history is...
Show threadGeorge Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Jun 6
@FrancoisPrague Some do. But they chose not to learn from it.
Show threadiveylineJun 6
@georgetakei "Never again" is "forever again". Humans are the greatest menace to themselves and our planet.
Show threadcrazyeddieJun 6
@iveyline @georgetakei On the plus side, we seem to be set to destroy ourselves before we manage to invent berserkers of some form and send them out to destroy any life in the universe that might threaten or compete with us.
Show threadiveylineJun 7
@crazyeddie At least that!!
Show threadAdrian DymorzJun 6
@georgetakei @nerdfall I would like to share your post. Could you please add the alt text?
Show threadBlippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪Jun 6

@georgetakei
Someone on your media team keeps neglecting AltText, rendering posts that are otherwise 🔥 unboostable to many people. Myself included.

Do better, George's Media Team.

Show threadNumber6 Jun 6

@BlippyTheWonderSlug @georgetakei

The same team that promotes comicsands, which is basically a funnel to "X" ?

How many times a day do you see a post like, "Elon is a fascist" ?

In general, there's nothing ordinary people can do against a billionaire.

But "X" might be the exception, because Elon paid too much for it. He can recoup those losses ... if celebrities keep promoting it.

Show threadGrinning Cat  Jun 7

@georgetakei #ALT4you

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

#USPol #USPolitics #fascism #authoritarianism #history #HistoryRepeatsItself #AnneFrank #Hitler #Nazis #Project2025

Show threadPaul SuttonJun 6

@georgetakei

I am assuming this quote is making reference to what is happening in the USA, could all this also explain why the USA supports Israel to the extent it keeps vetoing UN resolutions for a ceasefire.?

Show threadYgorJun 6

@georgetakei #Alt4U: "Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Show threadquarkrottoJun 6
@georgetakei Never, mr. takey... (shame on #USA & your disgusting hypocrisy.)
Show threadSimplicatorJun 6
@georgetakei Republicans “learned” that they liked murderous fascism & want to do it themselves.
Show threadPeter LichotaJun 6
@georgetakei
First they would need to read about history and soak it in without their prejudices to learn! Now having the common sense to apply that knowledge to current events that gets a bit dicey for many!
Show threadBen AvelingJun 6
@georgetakei Oh they remember all right. They just assume that they're going to be the ones doing the dragging, the tearing and the disappearing.
Show threadStefan RowerJun 6
@georgetakei I was reading the words and my brain was thinking about USA. Than Anne Frank hit's my heart. I'm from germany and the similarity about what is going on in USA to what the Nazis have done in middle europe is freightening.
Show threadcojaJun 6

@georgetakei

https://www.annefrank.org/en/

Home

The official website of the Anne Frank House, with the most complete and up-to-date information about Anne Frank, her diary, and the Secret Annex. Visit our museum and read more about our educational activities across the world.

Anne Frank Website
Show threadHansJun 6

Danke @georgetakei
Das ist so wichtig, das muss in deutsch wiederholt werden:

„Wer sich nicht an die Vergangenheit erinnert, ist dazu verdammt, sie zu wiederholen.“

(George Santayana, „The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress“ (1905–1906), „Reason in Common Sense“, Kapitel 12)

Auch:
Block 4 der Gedenkstätte Auschwitz (heute Polen, ehemals von Deutschland besetzt)

https://www.lh-lindau.de/aktuelles/detail/befreiung-von-auschwitz-gegen-das-vergessen-gegen-den-hass/

Show threadHansJun 6

@georgetakei

Erinnern bedeutet Verantwortung – für gestern, heute und für morgen.

Remembering means responsibility – for yesterday, today and for tomorrow.

Show threadRobin BartonJun 6
@georgetakei The origins seem the same so we will see how far it goes
Show threadYQN6d ago
@Robo105 @georgetakei this time the US and the EU stand for the genocide. I guess it depends on whether Russia or China have geopolitical interests in defending Palestine, which doesn't seem to be the case...
Show threadRobin Barton6d ago
@yqn @georgetakei Sadly, it seems you are correct
Show threadJuan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉Jun 6
@georgetakei In Gaza
their don't even bother with kidnapping. They bomb families or shoot people hungry and desperate enough to be lured by food into death traps.