Alexander Karn
When Trump says the US will take over the Gaza Strip, he’s imagining a “development” scenario in which Americans bear the costs, while he and his cronies reap the profits.
The grift now includes dreams of ethnic cleansing. The Führer wants his thousand year golf courses and casinos.
Alexander Karn
Profile piece (2017) on Gene Sharp in The Progressive.
https://progressive.org/magazine/nonviolence-power-and-possibility-the-life-of-gene-sharp/
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Link to Chenoweth's Non-Violent Action Center at Harvard.
Alexander Karn
“Get ready to protest with people with whom you otherwise disagree.”
--Timothy Snyder
Alexander Karn
Chenoweth video (2020): When do mass mobilizations work? (7 mins 48 sec)
Alexander Karn
Protest and mass mobilization carry risks:
1. Police/military could escalate and crack down.
2. Black bloc might rush into reciprocal violence.
3. Decentralized movements can splinter and lose coherence.
There are resources that can help point the way.
Gene Sharp (RIP): From Dictatorship to Democracy
https://thenewpress.com/books/from-dictatorship-democracy
Also, Erica Chenoweth, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/civil-resistance-9780190244408?cc=us&lang=en&
#uspol #democracy #resistance #civildisobedience #nonviolence
Alexander Karn
MAGA has told us they don’t want DEI. They don’t want CRT. They don’t want BLM. Trans rights. Women’s rights. Immigrants. POC. Etc.
I hear a few Dems suggesting we need to back off these “cultural issues” and zero in on working class voters.
Thnx, but no.
These are CORE VALUES as far as I’m concerned. We’re fighting not just for prosperity but for equality and justice.
Fighting fascism means walking and chewing gum. Building an economy for everyone and ending MAGA supremacism.
LFG.
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If social and racial justice initiatives make MAGA squeal and squirm…if fascists find diversity and pluralism distasteful…I’m good with that.
Nothing to apologize for and no reason to back down or tamp down on honest critiques of our past and present.
If fragile white men are uncomfortable and anxious about their privilege…that’s a sign of progress in my book.
In DC, we’re out of power. But in everyday life, I’m all in on making fascists uncomfortable and living within truth.
Alexander Karn
Not yet in the driver's seat, but AOC continues to fight, speak truth, and run the diagnostics.
"I have a weird relationship with the Democratic Party. I don't believe in a two-party system, but I also understand the Democratic Party is a coalition and if we want the party to change, the balance of the coalition has to change. But right now, you open the hood on the Democratic Party, what you have is, I think, a bit of a power struggle over the last couple of years."
https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-warns-democrats-about-confused-messaging-2024852
Alexander Karn
LOTS of posts about web pages disappearing and archives being purged.
Many don’t know that scientific knowledge is a HUMAN RIGHT. It’s mentioned explicitly in Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
You know that line from Heine — “Where books burn, people will too.”
THAT’S the link between authoritarianism and barbarism.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/science/how-science-became-a-human-right
Alexander Karn
When you lack the strength and courage to confront the truth.
Alexander Karn
Racist, ableist garbage person, talks out his ass, shits on country. Week 2, friends.
"A group within the FAA determined that the workforce was too white, then they had concerted efforts to get the administration to change that and to change it immediately,” Trump said. “This was in the Obama administration.”
Trump also blasted Pete Buttigieg, who served as Transportation secretary during the Biden administration.
Alexander Karn
30,000.
THIRTY.
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Pathetic. Truly.
“Let me just say this,” Mr. Menendez began. “This whole process has been nothing but a political witch hunt.”
“President Trump is right,” he added. “This process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/nyregion/bob-menendez-corruption-sentencing.html
Alexander Karn
Eat a bag of dicks, Google.
“We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps,” the company said in an X post. “We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
Alexander Karn
Trump: We’re lifting sanctions on settler groups in the West Bank. Go nuts, guys.
Also Trump: We’re conditioning disaster aid to California. Libs will have to come to heel if they want our help.
America first, my ass.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-president-news-01-24-25/index.html
Alexander Karn
Judge for yourselves.
Alexander Karn
This kind of bravery and defiance in the face of cruelty, hypocrisy, and lies will be the backbone and heartbeat of any effective resistance culture.
I wish she’d asked him to open his Trump Bible and read the relevant scripture for all to hear.
Alexander Karn
“MAGA History: The Future of the Past”
Draft done ✅
Alexander Karn
These things are not useless, nor are they magic bullets.
Living in truth can take many forms. It’s critical for people to see that truth cannot be extinguished. When one candle is snuffed, another lights the way.
You’re right that we’ve lost our democracy. But no act of resistance, no matter how small, is useless, if it exposes the reality of the situation.
Associate Professor of History at SLAC (NY, USA)Interests: power and the production of historical knowledge, public history, historical justice, historical dialogue, reconciliation, museum studies.Commentary: Salon, The Progressive, HuffPost.Resist Much, Obey Little. #RMOL
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