Notices by Grassroots Joe (joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social)

@timnitGebru

"“When you’re aiming at utopia, it offers the promise of transcendence of all limits and the ability to ignore everything else,” Becker argues. “If you know what the end goal is, if you know what the future holds, then you don’t have to worry about laws. You don’t have to worry about morality.” And you certainly don’t have to worry about building a library. It’s survival of the fittest on a disastrous, interplanetary scale."

Know your enemy.

Our enemy, broligharchs, are scary.

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

the Attorney General of Minnesota, Keith Ellison. After the assassination of Speaker Hortman and her husband, he was flat out told not to come today. Not only did he show up, but he was at the front of our march to the capitol and then he spoke eloquently and with passion to the entire crowd. It was a badass move and it reinforced that we are all in this together.

I come away from this day so sad at the loss of Speaker Hortman and her husband. But I am also coming away ...

from today more resolute than ever. Our community showed up and supported each other in the face of evil and unspeakable sadness. We are not alone, and we are so much stronger than the evil that wants to keep us scared and feeling helpless.

Keep showing up. Keep doing the work. Keep supporting one another. It was so great to see our state turn out today. We will not bend the knee.

@steter

Perhaps the question is what the CA National Guard unit commanders do.

Trump's order to federalize their units has been ruled illegal. The UMCJ is real clear on not obeying an illegal order.

@heidilifeldman

White Supremacy is now official policy in the Trump regime.

The Worrying Backstory of Trump’s Proposed “Office of Remigration” – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/remigration-trump-state-department-removal-ethnic-cleansing/

@MoiraEve

There's no privatizing Amtrak. There's only stealing the DC to Boston corridor. Everything else would wither and die. A terrible outcome for all concerned.

This is the worst possible path for any putative Democratic leader to tread.
It's the same doomed logic behind Congresscritters who supported & voted for the horrendous Laken Riley Act.

You can NEVER do regressive-right "better" than the actual regressive-right. Why the f*ck would you want to try?

The winning path forward is the Freedom Over Fascism toolkit path.
The 1st step in the toolkit framework?
State your values, and stick to them.
If you don't, you're toast.

https://www.theframelab.org/why-gavin-newsoms-maga-play-is-a-losing-game-for-democrats-2/

@realTuckFrumper

"People born between 1994 and 2013 who take all vaccines recommended by the CDC will suffer 322 million fewer illnesses, 21 million fewer hospitalizations and 732,000 fewer premature deaths. This saves $295 billion in direct medical costs and $1.38 trillion in other costs to society. The CDC report was issued before the COVID-19 pandemic, which would have made the case for vaccinations even stronger."

@indivisibleteam

I trust no one is missing Rocketman's dripping antisemitism.

He is a Nazi and he is taking action every day to destroy this country.

I hope everyone is taking whatever actions you can to resist and oppose.

If you don't know what to do, reach out to your local Indivisible group for direction.

Go to https://indivisible.org/groups to find groups near you.

Pictures of Saturday's protest at the West Chester, PA Tesla showroom.

If you want to know what actual weaponization of the Justice Department really looks like, here you go.

Trump’s DOJ Threatens Dem Congressman Who Shared “Elon Musk Dick Pic” | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/191787/trump-doj-threatens-democratic-congressman-garcia-elon-musk-dick-pic

@Devilstower was my absolute go to journalist to stay up to date and understand what was going on with Putin's criminal invasion of Ukraine, day after day, month after month for well over a year.

Ukraine update: Trump and Putin negotiate the destruction of the West
Trump has no interest in peace and even less in a fair solution that recognizes Russia as an illegal aggressor. Not only does Trump view Putin as his greatest ally, he sees the invasion of Ukraine as a gift.
https://www.unchartedblue.com/ukraine-update-trump-and-putin-negotiate-the-destruction-of-the-west/

@davidaugust @pkrugman

"But don’t despair. We are in the middle of an attempted autogolpe. It hasn’t succeeded so far. In fact, I’d say tentatively that the autogolpistas are having a harder time than they expected. America’s oligarchs may mostly have preemptively surrendered to the new regime, but many of the rest of us have not."

We sure as shit are going to fight these criminals. All of us across the great diversity of America.

@GottaLaff

This is an opportunity to laugh at The Criminal's incompetence and weakness.

He blustered at and threatened our two biggest trading partners who did not blink so he backed down.

He is weak and inept.

"“The U.S. is in full retreat from the world,” [Sen. Murphy] wrote, and there is “[n]o good reason for it. The immediate consequences of this are cataclysmic. Malnourished babies who depend on U.S. aid will die. Anti-terrorism programs will shut down and our most deadly enemies will get stronger."

The American Century ended on January 20, 2025.

February 1, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2025

@Eetschrijver @jaykuo

I hope everyone will call their Senators and tell them they very much care.

Hegseth is wildly unqualified to be SecDef and any Senator who votes for him will be doing grave damage to the security of America and in so doing will be violating their oath of office.

@jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @pluralistic

I don't know that this very long and technical thread addresses the interoperability question, but it definitely talks about At vs activitypub.

Perhaps more importantly, it talks at length about the degree to which Bsky is not distributed and as likely as not never will be. Not because it's not technically feasible, but because implementing the full stack costs way too much money.

https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698

@joborg @jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @cwebber

Re: as in Mastodon

So IOW recreate ActivityPub (AP) in the middle of the rest of the Bluesky stack which seems a bit silly when AP already exists and is quite successfully deployed (as Christine notes someplace in her posts).

@joborg @jubei @cellularmoose @mastodonmigration @cwebber

Re: better protocol

I don't know that this is true. There's nothing Bluesky has done that a few million dollars dropped in Eugene Rochko's lap couldn't get done for Mastodon.

The primary difference is Eugene won't give up some measure of control to VCs in return for their money.

The money being raised by this effort very arguably would be much better spent on enhancing the Fediverse.