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Agreed. It might feel futile, but lawsuits and public outcry do matter.

I think this is accurate. If he had no fear, he wouldn't say anything at all.

Perfectly said.

I don't remember Mitch McConnell rolling over and just saying "Aw shucks, we're the minority party, guess we can't do anything 🤷‍♂️"

Anything is better than nothing, even if all it does is generate a small morale boost. Draw attention, gum up the works, do whatever small thing is in your power. This bill will go nowhere, but there's immense value in the trying.

I find Lemmy to be a better reddit alternative than Mastodon is a twitter alternative.

The lack of an infinitely scrollable algorithmic feed in Mastodon is definitely better societally, but let's be real, the algorithmic feed is just way more fun to scroll in blue sky.

🤣 I love Mastodon as well... I also have a Proxmox server in my basement.

Good thoughts; thanks for the suggestions

Here it is in the Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-doge-musketeers-the-secret-team-elon-wants-to-keep-in-the-shadows/

You read my mind- I was just thinking about posting that exact site to this thread- thanks for doing so!

The loss of institutional knowledge is one of the scariest things about this.

I do think Congress will flip in 2 years after Trump and company wreck the economy (though we'll see how much Congress truly matters then). The thing is, even if we get a Dem sweep, all the knowledge lost won't magically come back. It's gone forever.

I'm curious about this too

This is also pretty great. It has some modern suggestions:

https://specificsuggestions.com/share/EN/1255.html

Here are a few other sites that are very useful:

https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-can-protect-democracy

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/23/activists-guide-securing-your-smartphone/

You're welcome!

He also wrote a short book that expands on each of those points: https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny/

I highly recommend his substack as well: https://snyder.substack.com/