Facebook has some rules about sharing what it deems to be news sources, when posting from Canada.
In the interest of sharing information widely concerning the clampdown being experienced in the US by the current regime, I am sharing an URL from The Guardian UK concerning the recent denial of entry of a French researcher in to the US so that my friends on FB can access it freely…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
.. et voilá!
Tag: The Future
Die weiße Rose/ The White Rose
On this anniversary of their murder by guillotine at the hands of the Nazi Volksgerichthof (22 February 1943), we reflect on the need for resistance to tyranny taking place in the US right now. It behooves us to read about “die weiße Rose” (The White Rose) and their efforts at resistance to the Nazis.
The US military (and many of the civilian public servants) swear an oath to uphold and protect the US Constitution, not to any other entities or personalities. It is one of the unique aspects of the operations of the US military.
Firing the people who make the judgements of what constitutes a “legal” order (the JAG, or Judge Advocate General’s Corps, basically high level lawyers for all the US military) is a step towards martial law, or worse. Such an actions allow all manner abuse by redefining what constitutes a legal order. After all, one of the unsuccessful defenses used by the Nazis in the Nuremberg trials was that they were simply following orders.
When an individual is running around claiming that “they are the law” and also happen to be the Commander-in-Chief of the entire US military (yep, got the finger on the nuclear button), one feels a certain amount of alarm concerning what is happening next — especially when it’s done on a Friday evening, at the end of the news cycle so it gets buried over the weekend. Mondays are a feint, designed to distract by presenting new crises to discuss over the rest of the week.
And that’s where we are. The mainstream media are systematically being overwhelmed by the actions of the coup leaders (yes, it’s a coup — no other way to talk about what has been happening since 20 January 2025), with the aim of frustrating any attempt at an organized resistance against them. But we must resist, even if it is only with the smallest gestures. We must not allow this to continue. It must not come to this:
There are many ways in which to resist. I hope to be able to share more in the coming days and weeks. Let us hope that it will not be an exercise of months or years.
More Resources
The link below provides a “recipe” for how to disentangle from, and reduce your data exposure to, All Things Meta.
Of course, for many, this means Instagram or Facebook in particular, but there are a few other suspects in the crowd. Hopefully, these steps will help.
https://buttondown.com/practicaltips/archive/how-to-grey-rock-meta/
Here’s an image to amuse you along the way —
Alternatives For EVERYONE
Heh, call it my anti-fascist response, the AfE! Here is a link to a Mastodon account that shares alternatives to the Meta/TwitX/Google nonsense we have been living with for too long. You will have to run a quick search on the names of the platforms, as it is just an image/screenshot of the platforms, but that’s the easy part.
Good luck and see you over there!
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113929735581212964
They Thought They Were Safe
Lots of comparisons being made between the current situation and emerging oligarchy in the US and what happened to Germany in the 1930’s. Some people are claiming that the Germans didn’t know what was happening. Consider, though, that Adolf was LEGALLY appointed as Chancellor in 1933. It is hard to claim that some didn’t know. What is troubling is that there were so many who thought it wasn’t a problem, since it was legal.
I encourage you to take a look at the link below… it’s a very slippery slope we are on.
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm
Remember, those events didn’t happen in a vacuum: Mussolini as legally elected in 1923 and by 1925 had declared himself dictator in what he called a fascist government…
Enough With the Substack!
Seriously — you should know better. And yes, there are alternatives that will allow you to monetize your content without financially supporting a publication platform that supports racism and fascism. Don’t believe me or know how to do it? Start by reading the following linked article:
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press
“I hadn’t planned to write about Substack again, but part of me knew there was a rake somewhere just waiting to be stepped on. Despite the United Nations-worth of red flags, respected journalists, historians, creative writers, and others remain on Substack, sharing 10% of every paid subscription with the company—and now with a share for Bari Weiss. Subscribers can be easily exported to another platform, and people who monetize their newsletters will get a larger share of the revenue elsewhere. But Substack has managed to convince some that there is no life for a newsletter beyond them. This is simply untrue.
Since I left Substack for beehiiv in January, I went from making a little bit of money to actually making a living as an independent journalist with my own publication. I didn’t need Substack’s Twitter-esque Notes feature or its recommendation network to grow; I used social networks—mostly Bluesky—to successfully promote my work. That personal engagement created, I believe, deeper relationships with my readers than passive subscriptions via an algorithm. Most importantly, I’ve remained committed to producing work that I’m proud of, and publishing it via a platform that doesn’t force me to compromise my values.”
In the immortal words of Bob: STOP IT!
https://youtu.be/aAhA7KfbJgg?si=J2iK31Ldhs3li-4
On the border
A report from Bloomberg , found on Chuck Darwin’s Mastodon account (@cdarwin@c.im), is pretty chilling.
MANY years ago (1972?), we were stopped somewhere between Eagle Pass and Austin, TX, for no apparent reason… this will be much worse.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/113541904712837850
Here’s what Chuck said:
In the “border zone,” different legal standards apply.
🆘Agents can enter private property, set up highway checkpoints,
have wide discretion to stop, question, and detain individuals they suspect to have committed immigration violations
—and can even use race and ethnicity as factors to do so.
That’s striking because
❌ the border zone is home to 65.3 percent of the entire U.S. population,
and around 75 percent of the U.S. Hispanic population,
according to a CityLab analysis based on data from location intelligence company ESRI.
This zone, which hugs the entire edge of the United States and runs 100 air miles inside, includes some of the densest cities
—New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
It also includes all of Michigan and Florida, and half of Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to a prior rough analysis by Will Lowe, a data scientist at MIT.
(Border Patrol considers the boundary of the Great Lakes to be the “functional equivalent” of the border, per government documents revealed in an ACLU lawsuit.
Elsewhere, too, the agency interprets the international boundary in a way that concerns the ACLU.)
🔥“It really is kind of a constitution-free zone,”
says Patrick Eddington, a policy analyst who has been compiling data on border patrol’s internal checkpoints at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank.
🆘 “I guess the best way to phrase it is that in this area, [border patrol agents] are being allowed to nullify people’s rights.”
According to critics, checkpoints and other internal operations in the 100-mile zone aren’t serving their intended purpose:
Just 2 percent of CBP’s total arrests of deportable non-citizens happened at checkpoints.
And since 2010, far more people who had legal status and weren’t eligible for deportation were arrested this way.
Meanwhile,
💥individuals in this zone
—citizen or otherwise
—are at risk of having their Fourth Amendment rights violated by border patrol, critics say.
Note well that last paragraph. We were a carload of four Anglos, and we got stopped.
#Persist
#Resist
#StopSayingMandate
#TrumpEtAliaDelendaEst
Donors Choose…
If you live in the USA, you’ve probably heard something about the situation that teachers there face every year when it comes to support in the classroom.
So here’s something you can do about it —
https://www.donorschoose.org/donors/map.html
There ya go.
#Persist
#Resist
#StopSayingMandate
#TrumpEtAliaDelendaEst