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How to Resist ICE
The deluge of ICE arrests this week has been terrifying in a way that’s hard to put into words. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned this week, however, it’s that being scared doesn’t have to stop us from taking action—we can simply do it scared. I’ve put together a list of actions we can take to resist ICE at the community, city, and state levels.
We fact-checked RFK Jr.’s claims about the supposed autism epidemic
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s April news briefing was meant to be his chance to inform the public about the Centers for Disease Control’s new autism prevalence study. Instead, it was rife with misinformation, fear mongering, and disability-negative views. Despite receiving intense backlash from the community, he has not relented. In fact, the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid have announced a collaborative data platform that will create what can only be described as an autism database. We are fact-checking Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s claims because one can only understand the danger posed by this autism database after talking about the extent of his misinformation campaign.
Cut taxes, then Medicaid
Medicaid is a health insurance program jointly funded by the states and the federal government to provide care for low-income children, senior citizens, and disabled Americans. There is ample evidence to suggest that Medicaid is at risk.
The Insurrection Act: Troops and Boots? There's no proof.
Legal systems are not crafted to perfectly solve any problem. They are a mess of compromise, frayed at seams that never get fully patched because it is impossible to capture all the complex messy nuances of human behavior and society.
Dark Enlightenment: Dismantling the Nation States
You are about to enter the Twilight Zone of oligarchy. This is a guided tour of the radical ideas that have been circulating among the technocratic elite of Silicon Valley and around the world for decades, festering in fringe spaces far removed from normal everyday Americans.
From Fear to Fire
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” ~ Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
Three Percent
They are animated by a mythology that only three percent of the original American colonists were the vanguard of the American Revolution and they consider themselves its inheritors. They call themselves the Three Percenters.