Notices by Mister Shade (mister_shade02x2@mastodon.social)

@kevinrns @ProPublica

The #republican party wants the not-rich to be too sick and too poor to effectively oppose them.

It’s a frightening part of the fascist playbook: #trump and his fellow fascists believe that movements won’t form to depose them if everyone is too busy due to illness and a high cost of living.

We have to #resist . The world doesn’t have to be like this. There are better ways, better systems to handle all of our problems.

#nokings #voteblue

This is a long read but I found it compelling. Best read slowly. I wish it could be read aloud somewhere.

"When you cannot defend illegal prosecutions, you fracture into warring camps calling it garbage, defending it tribally, justifying defiance of courts, or making vague gestures. When you cannot defend war crimes, you redefine war crimes as virtue. Both strategies serve the same purpose: avoiding the choice between honesty and exile."

#hesgeth #halligan #fascism

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/26/this-level-of-corruption-requires-stupidity/

@dansup

“It’s on us to offer something better.”

Anyone who is interested in opposing #TikTok and trying to draw people away from the right-wing propaganda machine it has become should investigate and promote alternatives.

Just bleating “Don’t use Tiktok” won’t work on a lot of people. Better to give them a different option.

@xankarn I use #nokings almost daily. But even here on relatively moderate Mastodon, there seem to be lots of people who have swallowed the both-sides Kool-aid that prevents them from joining the opposition against the #Trump regime.

Democrats and other non-Trump groups shouldn’t have to be 100% morally pure to garner support against authoritarianism.

People who sit on the sidelines while fascism flourishes have no moral high ground.

Whether you've got #republican or #democrat reps, consider contacting them in advance of 9/30 and let them know what you want.

You can use #resistbot and there's phone numbers and stuff in the link to contact your MoCs.

Don't be quiet. Don't sit there uselessly saying there's nothing anyone can do. Try doing something. Be a small part of a coalition.

#resist #voteblue #nokings

https://indivisible.org/campaign/government-funding-showdown-no-blank-checks-trump

@arstechnica Useless to go to Mars. No magnetic field. No breathable atmosphere or resources to leverage. It’s a death rock.

All that time and effort should be redirected towards preserving and healing the one planet we can live on.

#mars #nokings #saveearth

"Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. And when someone shows you who they are—when they defend ethnic cleansing, enable authoritarianism, and gaslight you for noticing—believe them."

#resist #trump #republican #voteblue #nokings

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/20/the-shell-game-of-fascist-gaslighting/

A powerful open letter. I’m not sure #supremecourt Justice Thomas will even read it, let alone heed it, but I wish he would.

We have to try things. We have to #resist

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/an-open-letter-to-clarence-thomas/

It’s worth reiterating that the #trump tariffs are endlessly pointless and endlessly corrupt. Helping prop up #musk and his miserable businesses is just one example.

We need to keep trying to punish the #republican party for enabling this. We need to unite and push them out of power. Contact your local groups and #democrats and ask them what you can do to help.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/09/trump-using-pointless-shitty-tariffs-to-bully-countries-into-coddling-elon-musks-starlink/

@cwebber Not sure if this is one of those “humor” things humans sometimes do, but you don’t need blogposts to answer that question. The answer is a simple “no”.

@augieray I understand the Democratic Party isn’t perfect, and never will be.

But I don’t understand refusing to vote, refusing to donate, advocate or volunteer. I don’t understand believing the solution lies in a fictional third party with no political power or infrastructure, that cannot become larger than the Republican prior to the next election.

If people believe the current regime is sliding towards fascism, then they should show up at the opposing party’s door and start pitching in.

@tuban_muzuru @benroyce I know it’s pessimistic, but I think Putin will only leave office when he dies of old age. There were people saying he would fall years ago. It keeps not happening.

@tante AI isn’t being created to help people. It’s being leveraged by rich people in an attempt to stop paying workers.

@DemocracyMattersALot I don’t think they’re gonna.

I know that is pessimistic sounding, but it just seems intensely unlikely that Congress will prevent Trump from taking office. Republicans control the house and the Senate has been deadlocked for years.

Jeff Bezos probably doesn't care if you cancel your subscription to the Washington Post.

But he might care if you refuse to buy things through Amazon during the biggest holiday shopping season of the year.

The founder of the Center for Election Innovation & Research is hopeful that Georgia can withstand the Trump cult's efforts to rig the election.

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/373334/georgia-election-board-rule-changes-trump

@tomiahonen #trump doesn’t do things that are smart, or make sense.

I wonder if maybe he will just keep Vance, continue to lie about his polling, and rely on his Republican thugs in state government to rig the vote for him. Marc Elias has been warning us about this possibility.

@shoq Taibbi and other bottom feeders often fail to explain how other countries have avoided problems that America has, like gun violence.

But we know why and how (pssst, it usually involves laws and regulations)

@ryanhoulihan “Modern problems require modern solutions.” - Buffy the Vampire Slayer