"Just a few years ago, Democratic mayoral candidates were proposing to slash police budgets. Now, anyone suggesting anything similar would not be taken seriously."

Yes, Democrats are still doing this.

What tools do you have at your disposal to protect the vulnerable? How can you utilize them to reduce the possibility of harm? Guess what? You have a brain to think of a protest sign, you have hands to make that sign, & you have tools to rally your communities, & you need to make some goddamn noise.

For those of you who don't know me & might think that I'm defending the institutions of liberal capitalist hegemony: Nope. But in moments of fascist takeover, everyone with a heart & a brain needs to take a position of *harm reduction*.

I understand if you're exhausted. I get it. But guess what: That's when fascists do their best work. When you are *exhausted & have given up*. They count on it. You need to be smarter & more attentive & more inventive than them. Get out in the streets. Now.

And if you don't want to take it from me, a physicist/artist & long-time anti-racist organizer, then take it from Timothy Snyder: This is an emergency and YOU NEED TO GET TO WORK:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Why is it impossible for people to recognize, at a core level, that there is an active, ongoing oligarchic dismantling of the entire structure of the U.S. gov't -- and then for you to MEET THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF YOU?

Seriously, U.S., where are your street protests? Where are your phone banks, calling, every minute, to demand your non-fascist representatives actually aggressively do everything in their power to stop or counter the Trump-Musk decimation of the government? Why are you all being so goddamn passive?

Also imagine the official site for the project not once mentioning fascism.

lcmf.co.uk/17-Jan-2025-...

www.discourseblog.com/p/you-cant-b...

I agree. Fuck The Telegraph. But my quick-search didn't reveal a better news source, and this particular article is a simple news report. This is also why I linked to the activists' Instagram post below.