Notices by Keith D Johnson (keithdjohnson@sfba.social)

“It's really come as a shock to me that there's this level of hatred and violence coming from the left,” Musk told Sean Hannity. “I always thought the left, the Democrats, were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring.”

(Musk said: 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.'.)

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-poor-elon-cant-understand?r=bb6o8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social
wrote:

"This story is horrific and terrifying. Then, near the end, this:

"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.""

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney?CMP=share_btn_url

"These dudes told everyone what they wanted to do, and then they started doing it while we all watch dumbfounded. The Left is going, "Surely they can't be doing what it sure as hell looks like they're doing—taking over the government!" and the Right is just...cheering them on because it "makes the libtard snowflakes cry." https://shanealmgren.substack.com/p/democracy-is-done-the-rise-of-corporate

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com
6h
"Everyone needs to know this…

The Trump administration is gearing up to restart immigrant family detention—ICE is already inviting private prison companies to bid on contracts.

Say it plain: This means profit from family detention, and US citizens in mixed status families will be caught in it too."

Make sure your kids have ID when they go out. (many expletives - use your imagination.)

Supremacy cuts across the lines of division, & the variants of supremacy: wealth, race, gender, religion.
I remembered another type of supremacy, a subtler one related to Time, Ageism; i.e. Boomers, GenX, Millennials, GenZ, GenAlpha...
This just found video from
@parkroseperma.bsky.social
(Thank you😘💚) addresses it quite well. youtu.be/Gdz9Y7Xb4kg

1/ "No matter what pageantry might surround this transfer of power, it is neither peaceful nor legitimate.

Democrats, most of whom will attend his inauguration in show of legitimacy, & congratulate themselves for their comity in the face of existential danger, praise themselves for their adherence to rules of propriety & regulation that have already been shredded & set on fire.

Few if any of these [election] postmortems focus on the simplest & most direct reason that Donald Trump & Republicans won, which is that ***they were permitted to run in the first place.***

Trump's trial, & the trial of every Republican providing material aide to the insurrection should have been carried out immediately, pursued vigorously, concluded quickly, & all means necessary should have been taken in order to remove all Republicans from office to the furthest extent possible." https://www.the-reframe.com/the-moon-is-down/

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I hope the Dems are hearing this:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social

"Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are."

2/ "Convincing everyone isn't the goal; noticing direction is, & noticing who aligns with & against simple declarations of truth & decency. Practiced indifference delivers the message that truth & decency are things that will be pursued without first receiving permission from liars.

Try this one:

"That is fucked up. I'm not doing it, & you should be ashamed for asking."

Celebrate aggressively. Getting clear on what is good & bad doesn't just free you to oppose what is bad; it allows you to celebrate what is good. Fascists simply cannot celebrate the joys & the beauty of our diverse human experience, because they abhor it & seek to destroy it.

The more you celebrate all that is good in humanity, the more people opposed to all that is good in humanity will show themselves for what they are. Aggressive celebration is art, is music, is food, is a party, & is also quiet, contemplation, time spent alone recharging your batteries."

1/ "Narratives facilitating the rejection of the evidence of one's eyes & ears remain popular for millions of presently comfortable Americans who prefer comfort to truth.

If somebody gives a Nazi salute at a rally for a Nazi politician, & everyone cheers, then they're Nazis, & their party is a Nazi party, as anyone who is willing to observe observable things can observe.

When a fascist politician responds to a call for mercy from a citizen with a demand that the bishop delivering it should be deported, it exposes what fascists meant by deportation, & the way it has nothing to do with questions of legality or immigration

Exercise moral clarity. It all begins here. Without the moral clarity to understand what is good & what is bad, & the determination to witness to it & confess to it, we will lose our compass & wander lost."

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-and-the-billionaire/

4/ "The fascist offer is an offer of false peace. It's an offer to look the other way for now, & receive the advantage of not getting the boot yourself. But it's a lie; the boot is coming for us all.

As long as there exists some group that billionairists can convince you doesn't deserve help, they'll be able to prevent all help, focusing all efforts not on helping people in need but on the far more expensive task of making sure that no money is "wasted" on people who don't deserve it.

The billionaire scam believes in the lie of scarcity; that there's not enough for everyone—not enough food or water or money or jobs, but also not enough freedom to go around, not enough humanity that humanity can be extended to all humans. It's a lie.

We know that fascists can be sly at pretending to be allied with goodness, gesturing toward whatever virtue they are demolishing: suppression in the name of free speech, segregation in the name of fairness, imprisonment in the name of freedom, violence in the name of peace."

3/ "Our fight is against abusive power, not people. Our battle is against the billionairists who are devouring us. Never take the side of the powerful over the powerless, never blame the people who suffer the effects of decisions rather than the people who made the decisions.

The enemy is a spirit of billionairism, which holds that the purpose of all human activity is to generate value for as few people as possible, & that those who fail to do so deserve punishment and death.

This means recognizing that all violence is caused by abusive power, no matter who enacts it.

Politeness & calm and legality are not the same as goodness; in fact, politeness & calm &legality are the privileges abusers afford themselves to lend themselves a sense of goodness, because the actual markers of goodness sit with the very humanity they are rejecting."

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Preying.

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From @PoliticalCartoon WITH #alttext
#UK #cartoon #infrastructure #NHS #sewage #flood #irony #Putin #cyber #collapse
Patrick Blower @blowercartoons on #Putin #CyberAttack #Ukraine @Telegraph – cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

I and my partner of 27 years, Peter Bane, previously editor of
#Permaculture Activist Mag, author of The Permaculture Handbook, just got married. At least for as long as it's legal. Could be annulled if Trumpublicans have their way.

#cartoon #colonialism #religion #oppression

An image for your #food / #farming / forage files: A much larger detailed image is at the link below.

Crops of the world‘

Harvested area globally, average 2011-2021

By Benjamin Nowak https://github.com/BjnNowak/TidyTuesday/blob/main/world_crops.png

#permaculture

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