Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Expert on fascism says “Nope. I’m outta hereeeee”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio

Trump has woken up the rest of the world to how much of a shitshow the USA actually is.
Maybe that will turn out to be a positive.

The USGS already released a shakemap for the M7.7 #earthquake in Myanmar a few minutes ago. This will be devastating. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

How Trump is following Project 2025’s radical roadmap to defund science
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00780-2

The Nazis hid their concentration camps. These fascists hold photo ops in theirs.

We’re in an era of unbelievable headlines.

During last weekend's Tesla Takedown protests, a Tesla customer was seen exiting a Kansas Tesla dealership to do multiple Nazi salutes in front of a cybertruck.

The Nazicar loving Nazi then tried to get protesting soccer moms with their kids to fight him while claiming to be a former US military service member.

Eventually a woman, presumably his wife, was seen dragging the hate filled Tesla customer back into the dealership.

#TeslaTakedown #Tesla #nazicar #KansasCity #Kansas

From elsewhere on the #internet...

##DNI #TulsiGabbard #SecDef #PeteHegseth #FireHegseth #Houthi #Yemen #Signalgate #JeffreyGoldberg #EspionageAct

#Canada, let’s take a lesson from the chaos that’s happening to our south. They are in the shit right now because too many of them did not vote.

DO NOT SIT THIS ONE OUT.

“2024 was a Landslide...for 'Did Not Vote'”

#ElbowsUp

https://www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2024-was-landslidefor-did-not-vote

''I can't be ungrateful to the US, but today, unfortunately, they are under the influence of Russian narratives,' Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in an interview with European journalists'

DW News

Analysis: Trump’s New Executive Order Is an "Unprecedented Voter Suppression Effort"

The order includes:

* allowing Elon Musk to subpoena voting records;

* giving Trump king-like power to make it harder to vote;

* preventing millions from registering to vote;

* severely limiting voting by mail.

Trump is "trying to stop American voters from participating in elections" ~Eliza Sweren-Becker

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/donald-trump-executive-order-voter-suppression-election-assistance-commission/

#uspol #trump #votersuppression #autocracy #musk .

Trans Kids Deserve Better is a UK organisation run and organised by UK trans kids. For 200 days running, they have put a paper coffin outside Wes Streeting's, the UK Health Secretary's, constituency office

They are wonderful, and Wes Streeting is awful. He warmly gives an audience to anti-trans hate groups but won't look any trans kid in the eye

They deserve your support

#trans #lgbtqia
Teenage trans activists confront Wes Streeting | Trans Kids Deserve Better
https://transkidsdeservebetter.org/teenage-trans-activists-confront-wes-streeting

A poll carried out for Oxfam Scotland showed:

68% support taxing the rich more
79% would prefer to tax the rich than cut public spending
79% back a wealth tax on assets

It's time to tax the rich and properly fund Scotland's public services.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/the-yougov-poll-that-shows-scots-back-tax-rises-for-the-richest-5048825

Summary

Tech leaders who once backed Trump are fed up as his second term descends into chaos.

Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch.

Appointing David Sacks as “crypto czar” only fueled suspicions of cronyism, while proposed defense budget cuts leave companies like Anduril and Palantir reeling.

Even billionaire allies like Jeff Bezos are souring as tariffs and economic uncertainty hit their bottom line. “Everyone is annoyed,” says one disillusioned founder.

Anybody else making plans to blow people up on a messaging app would be in custody now.

The good thing about today:

One of my old students who's now in college came to visit. (more to visit baby possums than me, truthfully, but I got a really good hug) He's the one who came out to me as trans before any other adult and I just really like him so much as a person.

Brought a friend whose gender/pronouns I did not ask but who had a really beautiful name that I complimented and they said, "Thank you: I chose it."

Two 19-year-olds with fluorescent yellow and orange hair, tattoos everywhere, facial piercings galore, leather and studs...

Two of the nicest and kindest people you'll ever meet in your entire life.

They saw the pile of pride stickers I have and asked for some and I said, "Only if you promise to stick some of them places that make bigots angry" and they promised. Then they saw the pride pins and put a bunch on their jackets and backpacks.

I'm so lucky to know people like this.

Researchers, students, scientists, and any kind of skilled workers: DO NOT go to the US.
It’s not safe; don’t be lured in by whatever promises or money your prospective employer offers, or opportunities offered by institutions.

Help make the rest of the world better, let the US “make itself great” on its own. The US is one of the least safe places to go right now.

#ice #usa #uspol #immigration #research #students