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Last Notes npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Hunter over at Uncharted Blue has some additional thoughts on both this piece and an essay posted there worth giving a read. I think I'm going to forward it to a couple of congressional staffers I know... https://www.unchartedblue.com/doctorow-on-systems-thinking-and-fascism/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe When it comes to Iran, it's been hard to get reliable information on both what's been happening on the ground and on possible future scenarios as the situation unfolds. When I hear supposedly knowledgeable people say baby Shah, the son of the deposed Shah, is the only viable post revolution leader, my BS meter pings the far end of the red zone. Then I listened to this podcast episode, https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/audio-podcastvideo-110-freedom-women, and my BS meter hardly moved. Please give it a listen and share if you agree. #Iran npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe F*ck Amazon. https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=Storm+at+the+Capitol%3A+An+Oral+History+of+January+6th%22%C2%A0%C2%A0by+Mary+Clare npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe WTF!!!!! He and his entire cadre are out of their minds. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Governing by meme. It's truly insane. They are if not clinically insane, functionality insane. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Enshittification continues apace... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Nearly everything they say is a lie. Extrajudicial murder on the high seas is the reality. The illegality will be the same on land. Crimes against humanity. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I think I'm going to play this at our next local Indivisible group meeting. Thanks. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Hey #Brooklyn! Have I got a 2026 Congressional primary target for you! Cc: @npub1u0q…9mcc Rep. Hakeem Jeffries has got to go https://www.unchartedblue.com/rep-hakeem-jeffries-has-got-to-go/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe This is what every police chief in America should be saying and enforcing. Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-police-chief-unlawful-force-ice-jobs npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe On which side of the isle? @npub1akj…7u7q npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe The vast majority of income taxes are collected by employers and automatically sent to the appropriate level of government. It is possible for employees to submit a change of withholding and bring it to zero and then not pay their taxes, but that is an awful lot of effort across an awful lot of people that isn't going to happen. What can happen is for Democratic run state and local governments ... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "Taxing wealth above $30 million isn’t about limiting ambition; it’s about redefining success in ways that elevate all of us. The question isn’t whether we can afford to invest in shared prosperity, it’s whether we can afford not to." I'm a Millionaire. No One Needs More than $30 Million. https://time.com/7325632/universal-basic-income-millionaire/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Source? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I would not bet against that prediction. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Not to mention the many millions more lines of code in federal money related systems. And investors in US debt, China chief among them, are not going to quietly sit by and watch their investments be eliminated with a magic crypto wand. I've no doubt Trump/Putin/UAE monarchs are licking their chops over the $Bs they'll personally amass with their shenanigans, but they are not going to replace the USD with crypto. Not happening. @npub1qqm…v4e4 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I'm sorry, but you are being paranoid. We're not going to pick up weapons. It's the reality that we could that matters. Companies can't just magically pay employees in crypto. There are many millions of lines of code comprising HR/payment systems used to pay employees and withhold taxes the federal government definitely can't do without. No one is going to switch them over to crypto in anything less than decades, let alone months. Y2K fixes took years, minor in comparison. @npub1qqm…v4e4 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe We don't need more weapons than the military, only enough to deter/protect ourselves from private militias, and maybe ICE. They are the real threat, unconstrained by months and years of rules of engagement training. ICE isn't yet that big, the $ was allocated, it'll take many months to use it. Our economic power is wielded against corporations that help hold up the fascist regime. They're not going to go along with anything that destroys their profits for very long. @npub1qqm…v4e4 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe There are plenty of opponents of the regime who own guns and/or know how to use them (🙋). More importantly, we have enormous economic power as Disney recently discovered. And, America is a really big place. They can't enforce something that looks like martial law everywhere at once. Especially if Democratic states, cities and towns withhold tax payments for their employees and individual members of the National Guard and regular military refuse to participate, which they will. @npub1qqm…v4e4 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe They may well start worrying when the rest of us all pick up a pitchfork at the same time... @npub1qqm…v4e4 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Um, uh, well, except impeachment doesn't exist for Members of Congress. Nothing but the best and the brightest... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe To the contrary, the Constitution gives the Office of the President no role whatsoever in elections. The states, subject to laws passed by Congress, have full control over elections. His election related EOs are meaningless. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Oh look! We can make things worse for our seniors just like private insurance does for everyone else! What a wonderful idea! Despicable assholes. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe It's not just a death cult it's a God Damn Murder Cult. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Did you check your blood pressure? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I'm pretty sure he does not have administrative control. Steve Vladeck helpfully laid out the limited things The Criminal can do - https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/post/3lw4n6qhv4k23 @npub1z6y…qah3 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I do understand and very much disagree. Democrats taking steps to stop what is now a fascist party from cementing minority rule across every part of government is very much not increasing the rate of dismantling democratic infrastructure. It's preserving the possibility of rebuilding the infrastructure MAGA Republicans have destroyed and are destroying. There is no possibility of building or rebuilding any democratic infrastructure without first taking power back. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Let me get this straight, legally gerrymandering in Democratic states is anti-democratic and weakens election infrastructure, but refusing to accept districts established by a legislature and signed into law isn't and won't? Sorry, that doesn't hold a tiny drop of water. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I'd really like to hear the reasoning from people voting no. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "It suggests that DHS is anticipating many more uses of the military in urban centers, noting that L.A.-style operations may be needed “for years to come.” And it likens the threat posed by transnational gangs and cartels to having “Al Qaeda or ISIS cells and fighters operating freely inside America,” hinting at a ramped-up militarized posture inside the interior." Dialing up the fascism to 11. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "They appear to use a stun gun on one man, put another in a chokehold and can be heard telling Laynez-Ambrosio: “You’ve got no rights here. You’re a migo, brother.” Afterward, agents can be heard bragging and making light of the arrests, calling the stun gun use “funny” and quipping: “You can smell that … $30,000 bonus.”" npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Really? Are you sure? Last I checked we lost the 2024 election. We're going to need more voters voting with us to not lose again. There's more than one way to make that happen, but I sure would prefer to have multiple option to get there. Is sustaining your anger worth reducing our chances of winning future elections, not to mention having fewer people helping us hold the fascist regime at bay long enough to have sufficiently free and fair elections to have any hope of winning. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Yeah, but we need them in our anti-authoritarian coalition to stop the downward spiral, so time for us to suck it up and do what is necessary to welcome them. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe This doesn't mean China won't dominate the next century, they likely will, Trump is working hard to make sure of that, but they won't threaten Europe, at least not for a very long time, because Europe doesn't threaten their prime directive. China will continue to build extractive relationships with the developing world where they have the leverage to do so, and they will be sure to not give India or any other BRICS member leverage over them. /3 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe The necessary corollary is ensuring that the Chinese population can be kept in line, however that is accomplished. The long term interests of other countries are relevant only to the extent that those interests impact on the CCP's prime directive. There can be no trust that China won't screw you over if their prime directive requires it. This ensures an underlying instability for BRICS that cannot be fixed. /2 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe There is no doubt that The Criminal in the White House has ended the American Century, but that isn't because of anything China has done to garner greater love. It's ridiculous to claim that trust isn't necessary for economic cooperation. There is no mutual benefit with China. There is only whether or not China can and will extract more from their economic relationships sooner or later. The CCP has always had a singular prime directive, to ensure the continued rule of the CCP. /1 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Boy are the federal courts going to be busy. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe You are ignoring the minor details of India's repeated military exchanges with Pakistan and China. The level of trust required for these members of BRICS to actually form any kind of real alliance is decades away, if its ever possible. BRICS isn't so much an economic block as a collection of countries looking for some kind of leverage in global affairs. But it's really only China that controls a majority of resources, manufacturing and renewables and no one trusts China. That's reality. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe So China, Brazil, India, Pakistan, South Africa, etc. all have content populations, are prepared to deal with escalating climate disasters and all play nicely together all the time? Orban will continue to throw shit around because it suits his personal interests. Beyond that, the challenges Europe faces near term relative to the resources available are small compared to BRICS countries and the rest of the global south. Your seeming desire for the west to fail serves no one. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Your evidence for increasing bickering is? So long as US weapons manufacturers are open for business, Europe doesn't need to replace US industrial capabilities any time soon, it just needs to be able to buy what it needs. For the short and medium term, that's mostly what Ukraine needs, and that increasingly looks like it will be paid for with frozen Russian assets. And for all of Trump's bluster about walking away from NATO, he doesn't really seem interested in actually doing so. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Bluster you say, Sure. Whatever. Your statement that NATO is fracturing is still bullshit. The European members of NATO are pulling together to bolster an alliance threatened by the perfidy of The Criminal in the White House. That's the opposite of fracturing. That there are security dynamics beyond Europe needing attention is nothing Europe hasn't already known. What is new is that they can't depend on the US to handle it for them any longer because MAGA is a death cult. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Did you read that article? It would seem to directly contradict your statement as the call is for **global expansion**. “If NATO was born to guarantee peace and mutual defence, then it must either become an organisation that undertakes this role at a global level – engaging with the Global South, from Brazil to India (...) or else we will fail to achieve the goal we all share: building a security framework in which everyone can participate under rules that apply equally to all.” npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Not unexpected, but still terrible. The primacy of parental rights falls, but only when it isn't in service of regressive-right identity politics. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe From Simon Rosenberg's newsletter today: From Tim W: I just returned from the St. Paul, Minnesota No Kings rally. Really unbelievable to see something like 80,000 people show up after being warned by the governor not to attend. It was somber, it was resolute, it was defiant, and it was cathartic. I have sent pictures to Simon so that you all can see for yourselves in the coming days. I would like to give a special set of thanks to ... https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/celebrating-no-kings-day-across-america npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Netanyahu can go F himself. He doesn't give a shit about Iranians any more than he gives a shit about the majority of Israelis who have wanted the war ended and hostages brought home months and months ago. He's at least as bad as The Criminal in the White House, probably worse, at least so far. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Feeling better everyday about Pennsylvania Indivisible groups calling for Fetterman to resign. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "Singling out one state for massive cuts would be an unusual move, but..." Unusual? Fucking unusual? How about blatantly unconstitutional CNN? The only question is if the GOP operatives on SCOTUS will yet again erase another piece of the Constitution in order to benefit their partisan project. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I read that Amazon is allowing the sale of ICE knock off tactical gear that is indistinguishable from the real thing. If ICE persists in kidnapping people without displaying badges and ID, which seems highly likely, things are going to get progressively ugly on the streets. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Yeah, that's serious fascist stuff. I need to bookmark your post as we organize in front of the June 14th #NoKings nationwide protests. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe It's the big, bad and really ugly bill. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Many of us don't refer to them as a death cult for nothing. [Wow, that sounds a lot better when spoken than written...] npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe No matter where you come from, what you look like, who you love, or how you pray, Republicans want to make your life worse, immeasurably worse for low income Americans, unless of course you're a millionaire or billionaire. That's the message. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Everyone should be clear as to what the regime's strategy is. It is not to win on legal arguments and precedent, on the law. It is to win on stochastic terrorism, it is to win on fear, it is to win on fascism. This is why we must all join together with everyone around us regardless of where we came from, what we look like, who we love or who we pray to and oppose this fascist regime. Join us in the streets in protest on June 14th. #NoKings #NoFascism Go to https://www.nokings.org/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe we did the same bull shit under Reagan, under and unfunded mandates galore with block grants that don't come close to covering the needs, all so they can work to transfer another $40 trillion from working families to the top 1%. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe “If the IRA is repealed by Congress, in 2030 our economy would lose nearly 790,000 jobs and $160 billion in GDP. Between 2025 and 2035, American households would be forced to pay $32 billion in higher cumulative household energy bills. In 2035, we’d lose $190 billion from national GDP.” Remember, the reason for all this damage is to make the richest of the rich richer. Pieces of House Ways & Means committee's draft tax bill are the legislative equivalent of coal rolling https://www.unchartedblue.com/pieces-of-house-ways-means-committees-draft-tax-bill-are-the-legislative-equivalent-of-coal-rolling/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Stop the presses, I agree with Mike Pence! I think I'm going to go take a shower now... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Bernie in Philly! https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/434/716/693/249/129/original/cee36e31f0cb5f16.png npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe May Day 2025 For the Workers Not the Billionaires protest rally, Philadelphia PA from news helicopter. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/434/556/928/910/448/original/c71930f6cc6d3338.jpeg npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe What makes you think we are relying on the police? We have our own peace-keepers. The police have, on a couple or so occasions chosen to put themselves in the line of sight of a few MAGA agitators. We're not doing anarchist bullshit. We're building a majority movement again The Criminal's regime and it's working. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Where did you get your information from? No one is "inviting" cops. Informing and cooperating to keep the peace when MAGA instigators show up, which has happened, isn't in any sense of the word inviting. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe FWIW, Indivisible groups organizing protests this year routinely inform local officials and police in advance and ask for cooperation ensuring events are peaceful. Our relationships with the police in Philadelphia & towns across the surrounding suburban counties have been excellent. If the police see friends and family members participating in our protests, and they do, veterans often at the forefront, they're less likely to side with the fascist regime. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "The question is not whether you “have something to hide.” The question is how much unchecked authority we’re willing to allow before we can no longer call this a free society." Damn straight. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Please do not share his words. Please do not give him or anyone in his regime more attention. Please use your platform to put a spotlight on Saturday's massive protests, the over 5M people who came into the streets to demonstrate unequivocally that we believe every American deserves to be able to thrive no matter what they look like, where they come from, who they love, or how they pray. But these Broligarchs have usurped power, blithely say empathy is the problem, not ... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe This one has a top 10 best sign contest entrant! https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/287/781/998/984/527/original/b6f4c9ab6d30e6f8.jpg npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe And my understanding is this one is from West Chester, PA, 25 mi due west of Center City Philly. [Edit] 2K participants reported https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/287/667/963/194/895/original/9670c80b73213a0c.jpeg npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe A somewhat elevated view of the Philadelphia march down Market Street https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1ARmEXepfB/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe #HandsOff Philadelphia march from City Hall to Independence Mall is on the move. "This is what Democracy looks like!" [Picture/video 🧵 I'll be adding to as time permits...] https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/286/437/491/486/580/original/4dc6b7677f15d0a3.mp4 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe JFC, what is wrong with these people? Are they really this arrogantly stupid or are they all raging sociopaths? Do they all have Sci Fi themed death wishes? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe There have been lots of smaller protests in cities across the country for weeks. Tomorrow is the first big push to get people in the streets on a single day. There are 3,500 or more events planned in cities towns and hamlets across the country. It's impossible to say how many will show up, but I will not be surprised if it's in the one to two or three or four million in total. Of course it's very hard to get accurate numbers so estimates will range widely. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe including https://bit.ly/freedom-toolkit. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe messages we know work. What messages and how do we know they'll work? The messages are those built using the race-class-gender narrative framework (RCGN), produced by the Freedom Over Fascism consortium centered on messaging expert Anat Shenker-Osorio. Everything they disseminate is carefully tested to ensure it's comprised of the most impactful language and stories available. If you're with RCGN, please check out the links in my pinned toots ... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Because they mostly don't know/hear about it, and when they do, they hear it from people/sources they've been told over and over and over again hate America and are traitors. In short, the nonstop gaslighting bought and paid for by wealthy regressive-right elites, by Broligarchs, is working. The only way to change this dynamic is by increasing the variety & frequency of telling our stories, true stories of who is to blame, and to do it using ... npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe As important as #OccupyWallSt was, this is much bigger and needs to be much bigger still. Hopefully April 5th will be a big step towards the 3.5% we need. https://handsoff2025.com/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Good that Ukraine has partners in Europe that can be trusted. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe How do you spell megalomaniac (piled on top of the sociopathic narcissism)? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I'd rather have him speaking up and voting against The Criminal's policies than not, but boy did he fuck up in the winter of 2021. May he rot in hell for all eternity. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Pictures of Saturday's protest at the West Chester, PA Tesla showroom. https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/051/626/334/947/129/original/29b18d474cefc210.jpg https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/051/626/337/001/362/original/eeae1513b72b625f.jpg https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/051/626/348/618/372/original/c0f0e11d9eaca8b7.jpg https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/114/051/627/662/138/567/original/d8caad797936e78b.jpg npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "In short, every American can do something—show up, walk out, call, sign up, demonstrate engagement. Democracy will be saved not by a cadre of politicians but by a movement of citizens like you who are determined to protect our American experiment in democracy." Showing Up & Walking Out Two Ways to Make your Point https://contrarian.substack.com/p/showing-up-and-walking-out Cc: @npub16el…n8vf npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Measles is so contagious that 90% of unvaccinated people who are exposed will get it. Remember R0 for COVID? It was 1.4-2.4. For measles it's 12-18. Ian an unvaccinated group of people, ONE person with measles spreads the illness to 12-18 people on average. The only way to protect people who cannot get vaccinated is for very close to everyone who can get vaccinated to get vaccinated. Measles outbreak in undervaccinated Texas area doubles—again - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/texas-measles-outbreak-climbs-to-48-cases-almost-all-kids-13-hospitalized/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe https://www.kcsm.org/npr-news/2025-02-07/federal-judge-blocks-doge-from-accessing-sensitive-u-s-treasury-department-material npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Seem insane? You bet and for a very good reason, it is insane, and yet it is happening as I type and you read this. 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-doge/ If you want all the gory details, read on - https://toad.social/@davetroy/113954946958713961 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe These uber wealthy regressive-right elites are working to steal even more of our wealth while that put the health, safety and well-being of people of all races, places of origin and religion at grave risk. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I have two simple questions. 1) Why do they need administrator (god-like) access to highly sensitive and extremely important government computer systems (stuffed to the gills with legacy code that few people still alive could even read, much less figure out what it's actually doing)? 2) WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING? No wonder I can't get more than 2 hours of sleep at a time... A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe ... and folks thinking about participating if there is a call for protests should give thought to their personal risk tolerance in light of the concern I expressed here - https://mstdn.social/@joeinwynnewood/113927110763419277, as well as the possibility of The Criminal calling out the National Guard or invoking the Insurrection Act to call out the regular Army to put down protests. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe A heads up that there appear to be discussions going on about organizing nationwide protests on February 22nd in response to The Criminal's purges in the Justice Department and FBI on top of his attacks on the civil service and immigrants, and other illegal and immoral actions. If you are involved with any grassroots civic or political groups, it would be good to stay in touch with your group's leadership. If you are not involved, now would be a good time to get involved. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I wonder if someone could provide a "Move your Substack to Ghost in a box" service at a reasonable price point that we could tell the authors of democracy protecting Substacks we subscribe to about, would help get them to make the move? Most of these authors know nothing about technology and are very afraid of damaging their subscriber base. They also have near zero time to think about what moving would entail, so they don't think about it at all. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I've got more than enough stuff to do without chasing AI hallucinations. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Do you know if you can get 2 or more XP or 2000 boxes to talk to each other on a (home) network or do routers inherently know they are not allowed to be networked? I know neither Windows 95 or 2000 boxes can connect on a network with Windows 10 boxes, not sure about XP. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe "That's an aspect of this that I haven't heard many people mention: moving your company to Texas in 2024 and 2025 is a pretty brazenly misogynistic move, in that you're demanding the women of your company move to a state in which their lives will be put at greater risk in comparison to the company's men." Zuckerberg's plan to move Meta employees to Texas isn't just toadying—he's also a vapid, misogynistic creep https://www.unchartedblue.com/zuckerbergs-plan-to-move-meta-employees-to-texas-isnt-just-toadying-hes-also-a-vapid-misogynistic-creep/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe To say it's premature to judge the jobs report as inflationary or requiring maintenance of higher interest rates (as opposed to, oh, I don't know blanket 10 or 20% tariffs on imports...) would be a very large understatement. Absent some other problem dragging on the economy, if the next round of inflation #'s show what they've been showing for at least 2 years, inflation continuing to close in on the Fed's target, the Market will be back to where it was yesterday. So buy? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/are-you-65-or-older-get-two-vaccinations-against-pneumonia-201503197813 npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Congratulations Netanyahu, you've successfully driven the new Syrian government to invite the military of a foreign power to set up shop inside their territory. I'm sure that'll be just great for long term Middle East stability and the well-being of the Kurdish people. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe As best as I can tell, Simon is technologically clueless. He's also running around on full tilt almost all the time. Moving for him requires space in his head to grok the import, implications, and ramifications of moving for his mission, and a tech provider to do it all for him over a (holiday?) weekend. Oh, and his existing paying subscribers have to push him to do it. If they don't care enough, why should he (in his mind)? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Thanks for this. Definitely going to pass along to my Indivisible group members and to other group leaders in PA. I know Proton VPN is pretty trustworthy, any others people might recommend so I can include a list of at least a few good options with the video? npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe @npub1ajt…xskq, looks like you were right Mark. "Also expect Carr to go after social media platforms like BlueSky, forcing them to end moderation practices that prevent right-wing trolls and bots from degrading that platform's effectiveness." https://www.unchartedblue.com/musks-threat-to-buy-msnbc-is-no-joke/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe No doubt, and there's still nothing that comes close to a bit of live support. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I've got an old desktop that's mostly a backup resource, and it's got a read-write DVD drive! (Do they even make those any more?) Handy for ripping CDs I get for B-day and Hanukkah presents. It'd be awesome if you guys did a couple of live step by step replace W10 with Linux sessions in late winter or early spring. npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe Please join me in supporting unionizing workers at Whole Foods in Philadelphia @npub1v9w…769d https://actionnetwork.org/letters/whole-foods/ npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe It's not a trilateral meeting. The Criminal is a private citizen representing the interests of himself and no one else (though that really won't change after January 20th...). npub1fkq8fg3nn7mely58sm9mwv7rffv7ey5cd3mv6taegx6uszvg6pdswhue82 Grassroots Joe I wouldn't be so sure. Vance has no real power base in the Party. He can't credibly threaten anyone in Congress with a primary. He can't count on thousands of calls or even tweets to harangue anyone in or out of government on his say so. He can try to order people in government to do what he wants, but if it isn't in their personal interest, there'd be nothing they fear forcing them to jump to it.