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2025-10-19 23:19:46 UTC

"Accountability is reserved for crimes. And what counts as a crime is defined by the ruling order of the land. The ruling order in Palestine doesn’t see settler terror as a crime — settler terror is an essential part of the state project."
https://www.vashtimedia.com/protective-presence-palestine-solidarity/

2025-10-19 23:18:58 UTC

This isn't recklessness, it's an intentional display of force from the fascists of their control over the military, meant to warn any states who might disobey: "Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/politics/shell-interstate-5-marines-california.html

2025-10-18 21:55:44 UTC

"We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable."
— Ursula K. Le Guin

2025-10-11 04:30:16 UTC

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Neoliberals offer a return to the status quo where corporations profit by preventing us from accessing basic needs like housing, education, healthcare, food, and so on. Fascists offer more inequality, scapegoats, supremacist identity, and violence. We must reject both systems.

2025-10-11 04:22:08 UTC

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Prioritizing the welfare of people over billionaires requires unbreakable solidarity with all those targeted by the fascists as scapegoats. Neoliberals offer identity yoked to capitalism, but defeating fascism requires the real solidarity of human rights AND economic rights.

2025-10-11 04:17:02 UTC

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A major problem seems to be that the neoliberals don't understand how their own policies tilled the soil for the rise of fascism by producing conditions in which fascists could effectively scapegoat migrants, trans people and others for the suffering caused by capitalist policy.

2025-10-11 04:15:38 UTC

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So the split visions in the major US opposition party of how to counter fascism comes down to those neoliberals whose theory of power centers making alliances with capitalists vs. the social democrat-leaning progressives who believe in the power of the people, the working class.

2025-10-11 04:11:50 UTC

One thing that held back Trump's first term in office from this specific form of fascism was capital: industry, CEOs, billionaires. They defended neoliberalism. Now they're embracing fascism. Some Dems (and other conservatives) think wooing capital back is how they can win power.

2025-10-08 07:26:27 UTC

"2000: WAR ZONE PORTLAND"
(PDX Frontline Alerts)
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/337/352/516/804/409/original/01ca5463681afa84.mp4

2025-10-08 04:01:46 UTC

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting agents outside a Chicago ICE facility ... The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by Trump's ICE and military...
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-two-chicago-area-ice-protesters

2025-10-03 02:27:06 UTC

"ICE has no regard for any human life ... I’ve seen ICE agents with fingers on their trigger, using real M16s and M9s, pointing them at people. They’re just trigger happy, and there is no trigger discipline."
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/veterans-speak-out-against-ices-mob-tactics-in-broadview-our-democracy-is-being-crushed/

2025-09-28 03:52:53 UTC

To resist and survive fascism you must have a moral compass that does not need alignment, approval, or acceptance from the broader society and culture. You must be able to stand alone against fascism even in a society that becomes entirely dominated by fascism.
A lie is still a lie even if nearly everyone believes it. If the world became 99% fascist, the 1% who are anti-fascists would still be on the right side. #AlwaysAntifascist

2025-09-28 01:56:14 UTC

Every day fascists will make it more dangerous to oppose them. They will make it illegal, arrest you for it, and kill you for it. This is what fascists do. This is fascism. This is why we sound the alarm about fascism early and loud. This is why we must all be anti-fascist.

2025-09-27 22:28:57 UTC

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As Dylan says: Every member of the military is legally required to disobey an unlawful order. Remember your oath to the constitution and to the American people.
Resources: https://linktr.ee/vetsaboutface
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/278/609/694/979/038/original/f9d25bf409d8d74f.mp4

2025-09-27 22:14:19 UTC

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If you are a National Guardsperson or active duty member and you’re concerned about the moral, ethical, or legal implications of your situation, you’re not alone. Use the encrypted form below to request support exploring your options.
https://www.jotform.com/203016322583042

2025-09-27 22:12:30 UTC

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"You have rights in the military, though commands often say you don't, and often push back when you use them. The regulations are often on your side; they allow you to speak out about your ideas and beliefs, to post about them on social media or in the press, to join in demonstrations, to complain to your Member of Congress about military policies and practices..."
Download the full PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TO49NiuVSIbl_qjV0jmDPb8f3P9r8rrB/view
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2025-09-27 22:05:10 UTC

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The bottom line is that both international and U.S. military law is clear and unambiguous about this fact: troops must obey lawful orders only. The oath is to the constitution not blind obedience, and only to obey lawful orders no matter who gives them. Failure in enforcement doesn't change the duty.
Soldiers have both a right and a duty to refuse but they need new protections:
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/learn-more-about-about-face-and-get-involved

2025-09-27 21:47:48 UTC

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International and US law is clear: troops must obey lawful orders ONLY.
An unlawful order is not binding, and following it can itself be criminal. US doctrine and practice reject “just following orders” if the soldier knew or should have known act was unlawful.
The oath in the US is to the Constitution, not to blindly obey leaders. As the Law of War Manual says:
"members of the armed forces are bound to obey only the lawful orders"
Resources for active military:
https://linktr.ee/vetsaboutface

2025-09-27 20:21:03 UTC

Trump is ordering the military to kill people in Portland who resist fascism. Those are unlawful orders and every soldier has a legal obligation to refuse them. They swear an oath to the constitution not the president.
Soldiers have a duty to disobey orders that are unlawful. It is not insubordination to do so, it is a constitutionally mandated act and an act of courage. Troops must not harm civilians, doing so is illegal and they know it. Remember the My Lai Massacre and the Nuremberg Trials.

2025-09-27 03:24:31 UTC

Humanity can be so much more than this. We can build a global society where all can thrive in freedom, where ecosystems, humans, and all other animals are happy and safe. We must liberate all people everywhere from authoritarianism, colonialism, imperialism, and fascism.

2025-09-25 17:32:52 UTC

"Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system that collected millions of Palestinian civilian phone calls made each day in Gaza and the West Bank"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/microsoft-blocks-israels-use-of-its-technology-in-mass-surveillance-of-palestinians

2025-09-25 00:37:02 UTC

"Humanity’s fate cannot be left to an algorithm."
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/06/1137302

2025-09-23 02:45:31 UTC

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There is no epidemic of autism, or queerness, or being trans, or gay, or nonbinary, or anything else. There was a more open and welcoming and supportive society that made it possible for people to be who they are, and explore who they are, and be accepted in communities.

2025-09-23 02:43:27 UTC

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We've gone through this again and again with queerness, just like neurodivergence. Some people don't understand (or won't admit) the social construction of things, so they can't accept that changes in society result in more (or less) people openly discussing their experiences.

2025-09-23 02:38:25 UTC

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This is not the best language, but it's a key fact. Increases in number of autistic people are increases in people understanding their own experience of neurodivergence, changes in diagnostic criteria, and increases in people paying attention to autistic children's needs.

2025-09-23 02:34:55 UTC

"As late as the 1990s, only children with the most profound symptoms were considered to have autism ... The increase isn’t among the profound cases; it’s an increase in the milder cases that weren’t historically considered autism."
It's not the best language but it's a key fact.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/heres-what-we-know-about-the-causes-of-autism

2025-09-20 03:43:23 UTC

"Whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at [the concentration camp in Florida] could not be determined ... Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE’s online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to 'Call ICE for details'
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312042943.html

2025-09-18 02:01:59 UTC

Trump has proved he's a fascist by banning anti-fascism. Nazis built their first concentration camps to lock up anti-fascists. The first 100 prisoners at Dachau were communists. Socialists, anarchists, and other anti-fascists were their primary opposition.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/fascism-1

2025-09-18 01:23:20 UTC

Turns out democracy died in daylight.

2025-09-18 01:19:09 UTC

"Free speech is only for MAGA" isn't even a contradiction, it's the ideological system at the heart of fascism. The in-group is all that matters, everyone else is not just disposable but must be eliminated.

2025-09-18 01:10:35 UTC

The Nazi term Gleichschaltung was the process of Nazification by which Hitler established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

2025-09-15 23:09:36 UTC

1. Serving fascism will never protect you from fascism.
2. Fascism uses democracy's own procedures to kill democracy.
3. Fascist systems eventually override all individual legal protections when those protections conflict with the state ideology.

2025-09-15 02:53:41 UTC

Hannah Einbinder accepting her award: "Fuck ICE and Free Palestine" and in the interview after: ''It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.'
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/206/047/124/893/962/original/37548f6f2cafed0c.mp4

2025-09-14 02:11:58 UTC

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The Nazis were not socialists. They violently destroyed socialist movements, allied with industrial elites, and built an ultranationalist, authoritarian, racist regime. Calling them "left wing" is a deliberate distortion of history AND it's also falling for Nazi propaganda. Elon Musk is a fascist.

2025-09-14 02:05:14 UTC

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Nothing is more telling about the US right wing than the fact that they won't believe someone who tells them their pronouns but they will believe Hitler when he tried to coopt the term 'socialism' while doing the opposite: fascism. Guess what: "Arbeit macht frei" was also a lie!

2025-09-14 02:05:09 UTC

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Hitler was famously a liar and propagandist. The 'National Socialist' label was deliberately misleading, intended to pull working-class support away from the Nazi party's primary opposition: socialist and communist parties. Saying 'Nazis weren't right-wing' is Nazi propaganda.

2025-09-14 02:04:51 UTC

NAZIS WERE NOT SOCIALISTS. They literally first built the concentration camps to imprison communists and socialists who were among their primary opposition. Dachau was established on March 22, 1933, and the first 100 prisoners were communists.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/communism-1
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2025-09-14 01:50:22 UTC

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Don't stop telling the truth. But treat it like you are living in Nazi Germany. So everyone should probably stop using their name on their social accounts, and stop listing their workplaces in their bios. Change it today.
If you aren't a famous person with power and money, you should not be speaking online under your actual full name or listing your location and workplace in your bio. The fascist witch hunts are only just starting, and it is going to get much, much worse. Protect yourself.

2025-09-13 10:39:16 UTC

Did you know 897 people have been murdered in the United States in 2025 so far, all by one group. It's police.
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org

2025-09-12 01:57:46 UTC

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ADL: "Charlie Kirk, the head of the conservative youth group Turning Point USA (TPUSA), explicitly linked American Jews to supporting and financing anti-white causes in the context of his defense of Elon Musk."
(PDF of the 2023 antisemitism report: https://adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/2024-05/antisemitism-worldwide-2023.pdf)

2025-09-12 01:57:12 UTC

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The ADL: "TPUSA events have attracted white supremacists, particularly those who present themselves as conservatives but promote white nationalist ideas."
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2025-09-12 01:56:04 UTC

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The ADL's 'key points' about Charlie Kirk and his group.
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2025-09-12 01:54:41 UTC

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The ADL: "Kirk has created a vast platform for extremists and far-right conspiracy theorists..."
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/turning-point-usa
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2025-09-12 01:53:18 UTC

Some fascists are blaming the Southern Poverty Law Center because they have correctly analyzed Turning Points USA in the context of extremist anti-government groups and white supremacist groups. But they aren't alone, the ADL does also.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/turning-point-usa-case-study-hard-right-2024/

2025-09-11 22:52:24 UTC

The fascists will never be OK with people telling the truth. They'll make it illegal, they'll threaten, they'll arrest people, they'll kill people. That doesn't mean we should shut up. It means we must all tell the truth no matter what, and encourage everyone to do the same.

2025-09-11 21:48:23 UTC

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In January 1932 Hitler Youth member Herbert Norkus was killed in Berlin while distributing Nazi leaflets. Nazis made him the archetype of a Hitler Youth martyr. His death and funeral was used as propaganda, commemorated in school ceremonies, books, films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Norkus

2025-09-11 21:48:14 UTC

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In February 1930 Nazi SA leader and youth organizer Horst Wessel died after being shot. Nazi propaganda turned his funeral into a mass spectacle, elevating him as a martyr. Later, under Nazi rule, participation in mourning his death was compulsory.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/before-1933/sa-member-horst-wessel-dies

2025-09-11 21:48:01 UTC

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In Nazi Germany you would have been expected to publicly mourn the death of a Nazi youth organizer. Even before they came to power Nazi propaganda regularly manufactured martyrdom around the deaths of youth organizers and activists like Horst Wessel and Herbert Norkus.

2025-09-11 21:30:32 UTC

Charlie Kirk just before he was murdered, passing out today's equivalent of Nazi Party swastika armbands to college students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/187/791/520/166/335/original/0ac8ae2cf7dd6195.webp

2025-09-11 10:57:19 UTC

"Pay Your Respects" by Mattie Lubchansky
https://thenib.com/pay-your-respects/
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2025-09-10 20:00:35 UTC

If "political violence has no place in our country" as everyone is dutifully reciting, then abolish ICE, abolish DHS, abolish police, abolish the Department of War, shut down the prisons, redistribute the wealth and resources, stop the extraction and pollution, end billionaires.

2025-09-07 04:10:51 UTC

Greta Thunberg: "I would have been stuck in this social game that everyone else seems to be so infatuated with. It makes me function a bit differently... with a different perspective ... if I didn't have it I wouldn’t have been able to see it from the outside."
#ActuallyAutistic

2025-09-06 09:42:42 UTC

House, M.D. (2004)
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2025-09-06 02:24:13 UTC

All the best people get more radically leftist the older they get because they are learning from experience instead of building more layers of denial and delusion.

2025-09-05 04:46:24 UTC

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The Abundance lobby is about rebranding neoliberalism rather than making structural changes to redistribute the abundance that already exists. Which is why it's funded by Silicon Valley and Koch-backed projects seeded by venture capitalists.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/who-is-behind-the-growing-abundance-movement/

2025-09-05 04:43:04 UTC

One of the big myths at the heart of the Abundance lobby is that we have actual scarcity now. We do not. We have abundance already, maintained by state violence. We need redistribution not deregulation.

2025-09-03 00:15:23 UTC

Those who want to put the Ten Commandments in every school and government building, and who want to make Christianity a national religion, are also those who don't live or act based on any of it. A truth so obvious and absurd it captures everything about the modern United States.

2025-08-31 23:33:04 UTC

Here's how seasonal vaccination works in BC, Canada. Province texts you to say it's time. Click the link and pick a date, time, location, and what you want (COVID, flu, etc). Go, get vaccine, done. It's free and easy. It should be like this everywhere.
https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-library/immunizations/schedules/recommended-vaccines-adults

2025-08-31 06:18:19 UTC

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Map showing 25 cities across Indonesia where protests have targeted parliament buildings, some have been burned down.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN-JDT5kgX_/
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2025-08-31 02:53:18 UTC

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What cities really take from people when they 'sweep' homeless encampments.
Social security card, blanket, seizure medication, baby formula, wheelchair, husband's ashes, work shirt, mobile phone. Some of the belongings people lost when their home was destroyed in 'sweeps' of homeless encampments.
https://projects.propublica.org/homeless-encampment-sweeps-taken-belongings/

2025-08-31 02:51:13 UTC

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"Clearing encampments" is not the way. Instead leave people alone, respect them and their dignity and offer them housing and services on their terms.

2025-08-31 02:49:26 UTC

Newsom's imitation of Trump keeps getting better every day.
https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/08/newsom-homeless-encampments-task-force/

2025-08-31 02:21:41 UTC

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It's astonishing to see so little attention to what's happening in Indonesia right now. This is the world's third largest democracy with 280 million people, world's largest Muslim majority nation, an archipelago of 18,000 islands, 700 languages, and diverse cultures.
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2025-08-31 02:13:52 UTC

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Key events leading to this: Subianto's rise as president, new legislation re-embeds active-duty military in civilian government posts, outrage over House of Rep's allowance ignites protest, paramilitary national police use armoured car to kill protestor.
This is the kind of protest that can overthrow a government. Protests were large but when police killed Affan Kurniawan and arrested hundreds, students and others across the country mobilized in a way Indonesia hasn't seen since the late 1990s.

2025-08-31 02:13:02 UTC

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As you watch Indonesia remember: Yes, it's workers protesting but importantly also students, a short thread on their role in history.
https://mas.to/@continuation/115111435246045306

2025-08-30 22:11:57 UTC

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"The sheer magnitude of the protection the Roadless Rule provides for public lands and clean, safe, reliable drinking water supplies makes its proposed rollback unthinkable." — David Moryc, Senior Director of River Protection, American Rivers
Submit a public comment here:
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-lands

2025-08-30 22:08:50 UTC

"Huge swaths of National Forest land could be opened to widespread road development under the latest Trump administration proposal"
You Have Just 3 Weeks to Object to the Roadless Rule Rollback, Which Will Affect 45 Million Wild Acres Across the U.S.
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/roadless-rule-rollback-comment-period/

2025-08-29 12:26:22 UTC

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Solidarity and love with the people, protests, and vigils all across Indonesia, terutama di Malang, kota kampusku dulu. 💚

2025-08-29 10:41:04 UTC

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The police car that ran over the protestor was part of the Mobile Brigade (Korps Brigade Mobil), aka Brimob. It's a paramilitary tactical unit of the Indonesian National Police. The perfect symbol of the militarism of Indonesia's current president Prabowo Subianto who was part of Suharto's authoritarian regime that was overthrown in the 90s.

2025-08-29 10:40:07 UTC

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Not surprisingly some of the reporting about the Indonesian protests in the western media is saying things like "a motorcycle taxi driver was killed" but that's not what happened. He was killed by an armoured police car that ran him over. There is a video, it's horrifying. Police killed him.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/more-indonesia-protests-planned-after-one-killed-in-police-clash

2025-08-29 10:14:55 UTC

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Genocide for profit then as now: Kissinger later served on the board of Freeport-McMoRan, a multinational mining company that Indonesia has allowed to mine in Papua under military control, against the wishes of the Papuan people, destroying their sacred mountains and ecosystem.

2025-08-29 10:14:49 UTC

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The genocide of communists and others started Suharto's authoritarian regime, and he continued to oppress and kill for decades, often with the help of the United States and people like Henry Kissinger.
When Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975 killing over 200,000 civilians the US provided weapons and diplomatic cover. Ford and Kissinger met with Suharto the day before invasion, giving a green light. The US blocked UN action for decades while genocide continued.

2025-08-29 10:04:36 UTC

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Recent reporting on the military’s expansion under a president with deep ties to the authoritarian past.
"In Prabowo’s Indonesia, the military is quietly creeping back into civilian life"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/28/indonesia-president-prabowo-subianto-military-civilian-affairs

2025-08-29 09:55:57 UTC

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Indonesia's current president Prabowo Subianto coming into power is concerning precisely because he was part of Suharto's authoritarian regime that was overthrown in the 90s. This is one part of the context for the worker and student protests happening now to keep in mind.

2025-08-29 09:55:43 UTC

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The New Order era reversed Sukarno’s anti-imperialism, launched 'development,' and programs to depoliticize society, transform the rakyat (people), who had fought for independence from Dutch and Japanese colonialism, into a 'docile and manipulated' massa (Masses).
By 80s & 90s opposition survived in NGOs, elites, students. Demonstrations continued against indoctrination and 'ideological homogeneity,' protecting resistance and memory Suharto tried to erase. In 1998 they forced Suharto to resign.

2025-08-29 09:53:58 UTC

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After the coup Suharto's army and militias massacred PKI members, families, and others. 1 million or more were killed by 1966. It was one of the largest mass killings of the 20th century. Key fact: Indonesia's current president was a general under Suharto’s authoritarian regime.

2025-08-29 09:53:40 UTC

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By mid-60s Sukarno’s rhetoric was more anti-Western and the PKI was strong. On Aug 17, 1965 he announced an "anti-imperialist Jakarta–Phnom Penh–Hanoi–Beijing–Pyongyang axis" and said that only the army stood in the way. Weeks later, the Sept 30th Movement attempted a coup.
6 generals were killed. Major General Suharto seized the army, claimed he would protect Sukarno, but refused to return power. Within a year Sukarno was forced out. Suharto’s 'New Order' replaced the 'old order' of Sukarno.

2025-08-29 09:52:36 UTC

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Sukarno ruled through 'Guided Democracy' which was modeled on village consensus, held together by his blending of Nasakom: nationalism, religion, communism. He balanced the army and PKI which earned him one of his nicknames: Dalang, the puppetmaster.

2025-08-29 09:52:19 UTC

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In June 1945 Sukarno gave his "Birth of Pancasila" speech, outlining the principles for the new nation. After years of revolutionary conflict the Republic of Indonesia was declared in 1950 under Pancasila and a provisional constitution.
The Indonesian communist party (Partai Komunis Indonesia, PKI) grew quickly during this time and by the 1960s was the largest non-ruling communist party in the world. The army, the PKI, and Islamic separatists all struggled for power.

2025-08-29 09:51:49 UTC

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From independence in 1945 through the rise and fall of Sukarno and Suharto to the democracy movement of the 1990s, students have been central. They are one of the forces able to confront power directly.
Some history: After Japan’s surrender in 1945 youth leaders pushed Sukarno and Hatta to declare independence. When the Allies came to restore colonial Dutch rule they found a war of independence and a nation seemingly split into left vs. right, Islamic vs. secular, young vs. old.

2025-08-29 09:03:58 UTC

Students were central to Indonesian opposition politics in the 80s and 90s. The democracy movement forced Suharto to resign and remains a check on power. Indonesians know the democracy is theirs. They fought for it and that struggle is still recent memory.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/world/asia/indonesia-protests-inflation.html

2025-08-28 21:51:31 UTC

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The best possible future for humanity and our planet is built on increased appreciation for diversity. Not just acceptance but respect for and celebration of difference. Cultivating compassion in how we think, speak, and act. Building that culture is key to material changes.

2025-08-28 21:24:37 UTC

All the leftist transformations in language, practice, ways of thinking and working, in research and teaching, the experimentation with other and better forms of organizing ourselves. All of that was and is the right direction. The reactionary fascist response to it is proof.

2025-08-25 17:48:02 UTC

Graeber was right of course because musicians and writers actually create something whereas the capitalists just extract and concentrate wealth.
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2025-08-25 03:05:30 UTC

It's getting very Season 1 Episode 3 in the US right now.
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2025-08-22 07:35:22 UTC

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Space capitalism represents one of the greatest threats to human futures because a core principle of capitalism is prioritizing profit over life. And in space air, water, food, shelter, and other resources are both essential for survival and actually, not artificially, scarce.

2025-08-22 07:33:08 UTC

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Enshrine the right to air, everywhere - in not only legal frameworks but moral and ethical and cultural ones. Clean, safe, and free air without limit. Do the same for water. The same for food, housing, healthcare, education, thought, belief, movement, and so on.

2025-08-22 07:31:12 UTC

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We still live in a world where breathing and access to air isn't yet considered an acceptable right to violate for corporate profit. Yes, air quality is, but air still retains the status of a fundamental human right. Start there and build out: water, food, housing, healthcare...

2025-08-22 07:27:21 UTC

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We need to change minds, transform our fundamental way of thinking. Build a global culture where everyone understands the basic right to housing, food, water, education, healthcare, freedom of thought, belief, and movement - just like they understand the basic human right to air.

2025-08-22 07:22:19 UTC

We can make so many things quite a bit better even under capitalism. But as long as people are allowed to profit while states violently maintain artificial scarcity there will be unnecessary and easily preventable hardship, suffering, atrocity, and death in those profits.

2025-08-22 01:20:30 UTC

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."
— US Supreme Court (Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 1987)
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2025-08-18 09:50:56 UTC

"An act of sabotage against the single largest fossil fuel funder in the world. Researchers say that over the last four years, JP Morgan has pumped an eye-watering $192 billion into the industry."
https://novaramedia.com/2025/08/18/why-climate-activists-are-slashing-jp-morgans-electricity-cables/

2025-08-17 04:45:14 UTC

Q: "What if we just give up a little on trans people's human rights to stop fascism?"
A: Then you didn't stop fascism, you joined the fascists.

2025-08-17 02:10:35 UTC

AI has become part of the military industrial complex very quickly. OpenAI (Chat-GPT), Anthropic (Claude AI), X AI (Grok), and others have all recently become US Department of Defense contractors. Others already were, like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

2025-08-16 02:54:31 UTC

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How long will it be before simply critiquing ICE, describing what they're doing factually, calling them fascists, will be officially considered a "threat" by the current ultranationalist authoritarian government? If they aren't already trying to do this, no doubt they will soon.

2025-08-16 02:54:21 UTC

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Homeland Security asked the court to authorize a criminal complaint and arrest warrant but didn't quite seem to understand why the person was calling them "Gestapedos". It's clearly a portmanteau of Gestapo and Pedophile.
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2025-08-16 02:53:48 UTC

This court document shows how the US government uses data from social media posts to identify a person behind an account, conduct surveillance in person, and charge them for posts threatening violence against ICE. T-Mobile also cooperated with DHS.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ohsd.304974/gov.uscourts.ohsd.304974.4.0.pdf
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2025-08-13 01:16:58 UTC

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From "Which Way Western Man?" - the book DHS referenced in this ICE recruitment tweet: "The Jews’ hold on our throat is not going to be relaxed until we break their grip. Hitler felt that he had to take to the streets ... Today, we are confronted with much the same situation..."
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2025-08-12 22:03:26 UTC

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This is the book the US Department of Homeland Security referenced in an ICE recruitment tweet today. One chapter is titled "The Necessity of Eugenics." The author wanted to "reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world."
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2025-08-12 22:02:26 UTC

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"Which Way Western Man?" is a 780+ page white supremacist manifesto published in 1979 by the neo-Nazi 'National Alliance.' It explicitly promotes white nationalism and calls for the removal of Jews and Black people from 'Western society.'
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