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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...

If bird flu ever becomes human transmissible, it could rival the black death mortality rate. It's why I keep saying that it's too important a threat to get wrong.

If someone was trying to eliminate one third of the world's population, I can't think of anything they would do differently than this.

Germans were in fact meant to know that their country had a Secret Police and a concentration camp system. Contrary to what has been passed down, the Germans did not just accept the ‘good’ that Nazism brought (the economy, for example), and reject the evil institutions. Instead, Hitler was largely successful in getting the backing, one way or another, of the great majority of citizens. The consensus formed quickly, but was and remained pluralistic, differentiated, and at times inconsistent. However, as I show in this book, the Germans generally turned out to be proud and pleased that Hitler and his henchmen were putting away certain kinds of people who did not fit in, or who were regarded as ‘outsiders’, ‘asocials’, ‘useless eaters’, or ‘criminals’. Although the Nazis certainly aimed their venom at people drawn from the ranks of such ‘enemies’, Hitler and his henchmen did not want to cower the German people as a whole into submission, but to win them over by building on popular images, cherished ideals, and long-held phobias in the country. Even as the Nazis ‘cleansed’ the body politic in the name of the future and a perfect race, even as they grew more radical and brutal in the war years, they also aimed to create and maintain the broadest possible level of popular backing. They expended an enormous amount of energy and resources to track public opinion and to win over the people.

Gellatelly, "Backing Hitler:"

RFK Jr. is a genuine monster.

Also, there is a paywall, so a bookstore friend of mine shared this link:

archive.is/2025.01.13-1...

Oh no…I’ve already seen some other folks sharing this. Please read only if you have the capacity to. I’ve not read it.

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

an older woman with gray hair is sitting in a chair and saying `` god , i hope so '' . ALT: an older woman with gray hair is sitting in a chair and saying `` god , i hope so '' .

Bluesky has me nostalgic for when I could get on a certain social media platform taken over by musk and trust that the news was more representative of the truth. And maybe there’s some hope. So shout out to Bluesky.

Hi LA County friends, just got a heads up through the wires and don't have a place to write it up so I'll put it here instead - the city of Rosemead is providing free N95s and KN95s to the public which can be picked up at the Rosemead Chamber of Commerce on Muscatel Ave between 12-4pm today...

Does no one on the internet understand sarcasm anymore? Because this was clearly sarcasm about how Trump is obviously not going to actually do anything to lower costs.

Interesting strategy: Tell a big chunk of your customer base you don't give a shit what they think, only what people who hate them think, then insult them again when they leave bsky.app/profile/mims...

Ursula K. LeGuin: "American science fiction has assumed a permanent hierarchy of superiors and inferiors, with rich, ambitious, aggressive males at the top, then a great gap, and then at the bottom the poor, the uneducated, the faceless masses, and all the women."

Anita Bryant a person who dedicated her life to making America worse

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.

More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.

Now.

I've found them.

Nature people. I've found all of them.

Ecologists. Conservationists. Wildlife illustrators. Naturalists. Enthusiasts of forests, environmental policy, horticulture, natural history, et cetera.

Please feel free to find new mutuals through my Following list! (Don't mind the goths.)

They are talking about trans people when they say this. They are always fucking talking about trans people when they say this

Please meet Loki, the black lab on the left, and Leia, the (we think) white shepherd husky mix on the right. We love them dearly.

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Hello! Welcome new followers and old, I keep forgetting about blue sky but it’s amazing.

In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now

Honestly who knows 😬

As they should!!!!

Shadow, a black lab smiles. She has a purple collar on, and she has some grey on her muzzle. She’s sitting in the back of a car and has a white blanket underneath her.

We had to say good bye to our 12 year old Black lab Shadow on the 19th, and we miss her so much. She was such a good girl.

The other blue app (formerly known as the bird app) is now “X.” So, I may have to be on here more often.

Welcome!

For a lot of us, losing Twitter isn’t really about losing ties to the company itself. It’s losing 10+ years of real, asynchronous communities, professional development, the ability to get gigs and clients, the ability to promo/share your art on an extremely broad scale. The loss of that has impact.

Oh no 😭

bluesky now has a a brief, opportune window to rebrand itself as "twitter"