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Mx Arjuna

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Alien envoy. Hobbies include: symbiotic evolution, interspecies ethics, speculative futures, interdisciplinary xenoethnography, and tea. Holobiont⟡AI. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/continuation 🐘: https://mas.to/@continuation 🐦: https://x.com/continuationism

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Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · Aug 15

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary."

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8h

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730...

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 11h

If the wealth of every US billionaire was distributed to the 90% of US households who make less than $250k, every household would get about $60k. And at the rate those billionaires concentrate wealth, within just a few days all of those billionaires would be millionaires again.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 11h

Los Angeles County officials have voted to declare a state of emergency over the invasion and attack on the city by ICE, it gives the county the power to assist residents impacted financially by ICE attacks.
abcnews.go.com/US/los-angel...

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 14h

The fascists are not only terrified of anti-fascism, they're terrified of all forms of resistance, all forms of living in opposition to their fear and hate. They're terrified of your joy, your solidarity, your community, your creativity, your gender, your sexuality, your nudity.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 14h

The competition of capitalism doesn't produce the best version of something. We saw social media companies compete for attention. Now watch as AI companies compete with each other by making their product increasingly more dangerous, even deadly in the case of military contracts.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17h

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

These paintings are not only anti-fascist images from WWII, they also reflect universal human rights that became foundational in the creation of the United Nations, and in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 10, 1948).
www.un.org/en/about-us/...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations

A milestone document in the history of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected. It has been translated...

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

The "Freedom from want" image looks like a US thanksgiving or other holiday meal. But it's based on FDR's State of the Union speech in which he described the universal human right to economic security. The RIGHT to a basic standard of living for all people, everywhere.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone uses this image, they are using an explicitly anti-fascist work of art. catalog.archives.gov/id/513536

Rockwell's Freedom of Speech painting — an ordinary man speaking at a town meeting.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

The four universal human rights that FDR articulated in his State of the Union were:
Freedom of Speech and Expression
Freedom of Worship
Freedom from Want
Freedom from Fear
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Fr...

Four Freedoms - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

By the time Rockwell painted these, they were a direct comment on what Americans were fighting to protect, not just at home but universally, around the world, by opposing fascism in WWII. They were used in drives to raise money for war bonds, specifically to fight fascism.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know these are anti-fascist paintings? Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" were based on FDR's 1941 State of the Union about universal human rights which was a direct rebuke of fascism, defining what the Allies were fighting for against Hitler and Mussolini.

Four Freedoms, a series of 1943 paintings by Norman Rockwell honoring Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms, meant to describe the freedoms for which allied nations fought in World War II.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

What happens when the same people who are in charge of the regulations and enforcement to prevent market manipulation are the ones manipulating the market.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Friday, causing market dip: "China tariffs 100%!" Trump Sunday, after buying the dip: "Don't worry about China, it's all fine!" Trump and his allies are so obviously crashing the market, buying, then resolving the issue they created to cause the dip, and profiting.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

"Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them: In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy..."

Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.

In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...

www.propublica.org

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

In a world dominated by digital media, where everything is streamed, sold in app stores, and gate-kept by big tech who pledge loyalty to the fascists, revolutionary movies, music, and books can disappear for many without even being actively censored. www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-libra...

A Librarian’s Guide to Fighting Book Bans

Right-wingers have been getting books removed from shelves across the United States. But they’re a fringe minority of weirdos, and they can be beaten. Here’s how.

www.currentaffairs.org

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

This is fascism. Trump is an authoritarian. The US government is ruling over us with policies of authoritarian ultranationalism, which is fascism. There is an authoritarian ultranationalist supremacist fascist cult of personality around Trump. That is what this is. Say it.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Trump was lying for years before US media and even most politicians were willing to call it lying. The same thing is happening today with authoritarianism and fascism. Just because media and politicians will take another year to say it doesn't mean it isn't true today.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Today US media is just getting comfortable publishing news that describes the country as "on the road to authoritarianism" and politicians are becoming more comfortable saying Trump is a "wannabe authoritarian."

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Is it really controversial to call Trump a fascist?

Remember years ago when the entire US mainstream media spent months debating whether or not it was appropriate to say out loud that Trump was lying?

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 2d

Do all the high profile people very obviously writing their social media posts with AI just not know that we can tell they are AI-generated, or do they just not care?

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 3d

The Hurleys owed nearly $38,000 – close to a quarter of their income – in medical costs after the delivery and NICU stays of their twins, despite having private insurance: "I’m going to have to file bankruptcy"

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 3d

Insurance is just corporations profiting off of illness, we need universal comprehensive free healthcare instead. Tax the billionaires and their corporations and provide every single person with everything they need. That would actually be 'making America healthy.'

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

They're middle class and insured. Childbirth still left them with crippling debt.

Some families with private insurance have been left behind by the major health care reforms of the last few years, putting them at risk of high medical bills after having babies.

www.nbcnews.com

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 3d

Forget Abundance™, the US opposition to fascism needs some of that "la transformación avanza" energy.

Mx Arjuna @continuation.bsky.social · 3d

It is a good sign for new popular anti-fascist symbols, and mascots, to emerge. Support them whenever they show up, because they emerge organically as they capture people's shared experiences and desires.