Notices by gregg r (grheavyroller@mastodon.social)

America needs to be de-Nazified now just as did Germany after WWII. I've sent this @pluralistic link to my Senators and my Representative telling them I want them to institute a Nuremberg Caucus to hold accountable those who have committed the atrocities, those who directed them, and those who enabled them.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/#denazification

"… if you’re in a bar, and a dude comes in shouting racial slurs and sieg-heiling, you understand that that dude poses an urgent threat in need of confronting. I think a lot of Americans in that situation would tell that Nazi to leave, and if he refused, *physically force* him to leave. … They always pose an urgent threat."

Name them, shame them, shun them, run them out. Not a moment's peace. Ever.

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/can-fascists-still-be-shamed

The subject of today's talk by Heather Cox Richardson: FASCISM

"Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law. Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance.” Freedom requires “being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American.”"

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-9-2026?publication_id=20533&post_id=184091532&isFreemail=false&r=kte6&triedRedirect=true

@pluralistic , July 2023:

"The problem with, say, Meta, is only partially that Mark Zuckerberg is personally monumentally unsuited to serving as the unelected, unaccountable permanent social media czar for three billion people.

"The real problem is that no one should have that job. That job shouldn't exist. We don't need to find a better Mark Zuckerberg.

We need to abolish Mark Zuckerberg."

The Facebook Fraud Files confirms it: Zuck & Meta must be abolished.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care

Looking toward Mount Rainier over Elliot Bay from Seattle's Magnolia neighborhood.

#photography #SilentSunday

@pluralistic : "The danger to society comes from the *existence* of billionaires – from the transfer of power (to decide who may speak and who may be heard) into the hands of a few very rich men whose collective cowardice can erase whole swathes of public discourse."

A few short-sighted supplicants, greedily prostrating themselves, and betraying us, for their 30 pieces of silver.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one-throat-to-choke/#communicable-disease

Oh, to be able to return to the not-so-distant past when the internet was new and free, where comment threads were meetings of the finest minds, and bloggers held forth on the great dialogues of the age wearing red capes and goggles and blogged from high-altitude balloons (well, @pluralistic did).

"Things were better before the Structuring and the Levels."

xkcd, number 239, 2007 (https://xkcd.com/239/)

Each week @violetblue posts a new Threat Model: Covid with information and carefully curated resources to help you stay informed and stay safe:

- Modeling: US surge hits half-million daily infections
- 59% of US adults “no intention” of getting this year’s Covid boosters
- RFK Jr. kills mRNA vaccine development in the US
- Huge Covid/MIS-C treatment breakthrough for children

Patrons help keep this resource alive; sharing it helps spread the news.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/135920754

The #handsoff protests are truly nationwide -- Bothell, Washington turns out

@kbeninato Carole Cadwalladr, the excellent reporter who coined the term Broligarchy, and who is about to lose her job at The Guardian, wrote about this on her Substack a week ago:

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup

Reliable, independent sources are few and far between -- she's worth a subscription.

@pluralistic : "'Now the whole country gets the experience of what it’s like when private equity buys the place you work'. That's exactly it. We are witnessing a private equity-style plunder of the entire US government – of the USA itself."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless

Mussolini reputedly said "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." We're living it.

In God We Trust will be replaced with Business As Usual

Hamilton Nolan: "The business lobby’s many years of selfish conduct and support for deleterious public policies have produced so much inequality and undermined our democratic institutions so successfully that we are now watching a strongman seize control of our government. Smooth move, you fucks. You grasping roaches. The things that you thought would always be there are crumbling. You are going to be homeless, with all the rest of us. And we are going to eat you."

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-business-community-is-extraordinarily?publication_id=1536173&post_id=156521241&isFreemail=false&r=kte6&triedRedirect=true

@pluralistic "Authoritarian societies are inherently corrupt, and corrupt societies are inherently unstable. Rule of thieves brings collapse, eventually, because they can't stop stealing." William Gibson, '"Agency"

@Dss @WiseWoman @pluralistic FWIW, I use Mastodon in my browser. I see the first post of the Long thread from the Home section (as well as a list in which I have Cory as a member), but not the following thread posts. I just click on the first post to see the thread.

@pluralistic looks out for his readers, for example the ease with which his Mastodon followers can see only the initial post of his threads if they choose: on the web, from Preferences select Filters; use the title Long thread; set Expire after to Never; check "Home and lists" and "Public timelines" for the Filter contexts; select Hide completely for the Filter action; type "Long thread" for the Keyword or phrase (minus the quotes); check Whole word; click Save changes.

@pluralistic : Surveillance pricing combined with cartel "IP rights" exemplify Wilhoit's' Law:

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Stopping this naked exploitation of consumers requires new privacy laws protecting consumers rather than cartels.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/socialism-for-the-wealthy/#rugged-individualism-for-the-poor

It's a new Marty Hench book coming out this February, "Picks & Shovels"; it's the dawn of #enshittification ; it's @pluralistic -- what else do you need to know? Hop on Kickstarter and support excellent writing and DRM-free production!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/picks-and-shovels-marty-hench-at-the-dawn-of-enshittification

Choosing between two parties locked into appeasing the same zottarich donors ( @pluralistic 's marvelous term for the 0.01% from "Walkaway") only perpetuates the power imbalance. Time to try something new.

"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth." -- Lucy Parsons

@violetblue : "If you take one lesson from today’s Cybersecurity Roundup, as well as from everything that’s happened in cyber this year and what fresh hell we’re looking at for 2025 and beyond: get yourself on a communication app that has end-to-end encryption for messages and everything else. Privacy and security on any US company’s apps or comms that are not end-to-end are going to be a complete horrorshow after the new administration is in full control."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/118999407