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When fascists come to power, the first thing they attack are national and international institutions: political parties, labor unions, churches. Anything which could be the basis of a broad-based opposition to the régime is dissolved or co-opted.

If you want to resist, you cannot abandon these institutions. They have to be protected. Once they're gone, the fascists can wipe up the smaller groups piecemeal and at their leisure. They won't be much fussed about knitting circles.

An H5N1 influenza pandemic under someone like TFG (read: horrifically mismanaged) would be catastrophic. And probably the end of their regime.

H5N1 is *extremely* lethal - with a recorded human fatality rate of over 50%.

You can't afford to mismanage a pathogen that lethal the way COVID was mismanaged; that's the kind of mistake that wipes out entire towns, destroys any semblance of order, & topples nations.

There are rapidly increasing warning signs that an H5N1 pandemic may be on its way.

President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to lead his Department of Homeland Security, sources say. https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/politics/kristi-noem-homeland-security-secretary/index.html

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What our friends and relatives who scoff at us don't understand is that we haven't just lost an election.

We've lost our future.

I hope you remember that future: The one where people of all forms of gender expression, all colors, all nationalities, all religions, could meet as equals without having to kneel to another; where our method was peace, and our aim was the fulfilment of every human being according to their scope and talents;
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@AmericanPartisan trump could never stand a black fella being remembered in us history for having done amazing things for his country. trump & his administration will erase from the history books anything great that black & brown folks did for america - & obama is his first stop.

4 ways Trump’s massive deportation plans may hurt your finances.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/business/deportation-immigration-trump-cost-americans

Totally normal administration #politics
DOJ employees can be fired if they show resistance to Trump's orders.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/11/11/congress/mark-paoletta-justice-department-lawyers-00188772

Once upon a time, Ayn Rand-reading, red-baiting Republicans denounced Soviet Russia as an evil superpower intent on destroying the American way of life.
My, how things have changed.
The Grand Old Party has quietly become the pro-Russia party — & not only because the party’s standard-bearer seems peculiarly enamored of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Under Republican leadership, the United States is starting to look an awful lot like the failed Soviet system the party once stood unified against

National security attorney Mark Zaid tells CNN's John Berman he is advising some of his clients, who are targets of President-elect Trump, to leave the country around Inauguration Day in January.

#Trump #Politics #Retribution

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/politics/video/mark-zaid-advises-clients-leave-country-trump-revenge-digvid