@heiseonline@social.heise.deStarlink im Iran: Wie das Regime den Dienst stört und was dagegen hilft
Im Iran sind nicht nur Mobilfunk- und Festnetze gestört, sondern auch Starlink. Wir erklären, wie das trotz Tausender Satelliten vermutlich erreicht wird.
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThe global impact of the Trump regime. It took the world decades to get to this point. Now the Saudi / Russia / Trump alliance derails the introduction of a global carbon tax for shipping.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-donald-trump…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOK, so. As if the Trump regime hadn’t already dumped enough of their shit on us here in Minneapolis…there’s now talk about them sending •active duty military• to invade (“protect”) our city.
Maybe this is bluster. Maybe this is testing the waters. We have no idea how real these plans are, or if or when this would actually happen. I don’t think the regime does either. Regardless, we take this threat seriously: they’re stupid enough they just might do it. This nightmare could get worse.
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow to Topple Maduro -- And Why Regime Change Is the Only Way Forward in Venezuela (Elliott Abrams/Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-topple-maduro?s=EDZZZ005ZX
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p61#a251120p61
@servelan@newsie.socialThousands gather peacefully in Los Angeles in support of protesters in Iran – NBC Los Angeles
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/protests-los-angeles-iran-regime/3833348/
@hex@kolektiva.socialEconomic pressure has always been the most powerful weapon in our arsenal. There's already a general strike being organized for this Friday.
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/20/18883119.php
(Original release https://minneapolisunions.org/system/files/2026-01/press_release_-_january_16_2026.pdf)
This has moved quickly, and it can keep moving quickly. The more people organizing, the faster the regime will back down and (I think quickly) collapse.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSix NFL quarterbacks primed to make the leap in 2026 https://www.nfl.com/news/six-nfl-quarterbacks-primed-to-make-the-leap-in-2026
@annsev@troet.cafe @inthehands@hachyderm.ioWhat @… is quoting here is a testament to the waste and the cruelty and the uselessness of this regime.
It is also a testament to the effectiveness of ubiquitous, sustained, pervasive resistance. “What good does it do,” you ask, “to have crowds of random people just yelling and honking and filming?” The answer is that it makes these harassment campaigns unsustainable.
https://toad.social/@KimPerales/115583290500226180
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOh my
Paramount Pictures X Account Hacked to Read ‘Proud Arm of the Fascist Regime’
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramount-x-account-hacked-proud-arm-of-the-fascist-regime-1236604676/?mid=1#cid=3292744
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTreasury Targets Family Members and Associates of Maduro Regime (U.S. Department of the Treasury)
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0343
http://www.memeorandum.com/251219/p99#a251219p99
@newsie@darktundra.xyzIranian state TV feed reportedly hijacked to air anti-regime messages https://therecord.media/iran-state-television-reported-hack-opposition
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Trump’s America is not merely indifferent to Europe – it’s positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.
…
The motive hardly matters: whether the US regards the EU as an enemy for transactional or ideological reasons, it now sees it as an enemy.
…
[Mark] Rutte warns of war, urging Europe to prepare itself, yet he has nothing to say about the one-time ally across the Atlantic…
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaThe Regime's paramilitary points gun at pregnant mother, a U.S. citizen with her son in the back seat.
Source: #politics
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deAt least 5,000 and up to 18,000 #Iranians have already given their lives resisting the #Ayatollah regime, while hundreds of thousands have been injured.
Instead of sitting by, we should help them as best as we can from outside. How? Well, at least not by removing the sanctions and thereby re…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhenever people are worried about criminals using #privacy-oriented software, I'm wondering who do they mean by "criminals"?
Let me point out that in some countries people verbally opposing the authoritarian regime are "criminals", while rapists become presidents. Or people peacefully protesting against genocide are "criminals", while nazis openly calling for violence are model citizens.
So yeah, if I were to develop such software, I'd rather have it used by "criminals". Because, guess what, true criminals will get their hands on that kind of software anyway.
@makeratschool@kanoa.deRE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115919330085410257
Unfassbare Zustände. Und unfassbar, wie weit das Regime in den VSA schon Einfluss auf die freie Berichterstattung hat. Respekt vor CNN, das Video letztendlich doch noch "offiziell" z…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"it is official U.S. policy to work toward regime change in European countries and to weaken or even destroy the European Union." — @…
I think this has been coming for a long time – since long before #Trump. The interests of the US and of an incr…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialYesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump orders Venezuela oil tankers blockade, labels Maduro regime terrorist group
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/trump-venezuela-oil-blockade-maduro-regime-terrorist-designation
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump is facing a very rough week on the Hill.
✅ The Trump Regime Is Overflowing With Dangerous Monsters, Idiots, And Madmen
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-full-of-dangerous
@lilmikesf@c.im
@Speckdaene@nrw.social
@vosje62@mastodon.nlTrump versoepelt bankregels en staatsschuld loopt op, maar Europa is minder kwetsbaar | Economie | De Gelderlander.nl
https://www.ad.nl/economie/trump-versoepelt-bankregels-en-staatsschuld-loopt-op-maar-europa-is-minder-kwetsbaar~a9f09a35/
'Van Wijnbergen: „De VS beweegt zich opnieuw naar een situatie van onvoldoende toezicht op banken.'
'„De VS begint beetje bij beetje meer op dat populistische regime* te lijken.” '
*regime Argentinië jaren 80, 90
@gfp@mastodon.trueten.deDer nächste regime change https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10264
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump orders oil tankers blockade in Venezuela, labels it a "terrorist" regime (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/17/trump-venezuela-oil-blockade-maduro-regime-terrorist-designation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p143#a251216p143
@cdarwin@c.imThe effort to create authoritarianism is more likely to lead to a breakup of the state than to a total regime change.
This end of the United States is possible, in part,
because our president and vice-president think that it is impossible.
Because they are inside a grift bubble, they push for authoritarianism in their own interest,
without reckoning with the possibility that their actions can wreck the country.
For them, America is a limitless passive resource…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deSechs Tage Internet-Blackout im Iran: Starlink jetzt kostenfrei verfügbar
Vorige Woche hat das iranische Regime alle Internetverbindungen im Land gekappt, seitdem dringen nur wenige Informationen nach außen. Starlink soll helfen.
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Under the banner of democracy, freedom and human rights, the United States has thereby extended its domination over large swathes of the world, presenting itself as a benevolent benefactor rather than a domineering despot. It has, in this way, perfected the use of empire denial as the best cover for the construction of its imperium."
Gabriel Rockill
True, but the current regime is taking the huge risk of ending that pretence. Let's hope that heralds its fall.
@axbom@axbom.me
@usul@piaille.frLa prison de Saydnaya, microcosme de la barbarie du régime Al-Assad
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/visuel/2025/01/12/la-prison-de-saydnaya-microcosme-de-la-barbarie-du-regime-al-assad_6493842_321…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMaybe that’s alarming to you, but you think we can still coast through it, wait it out. OK. Fine.
Maybe your red line is US troops gunning down civilians. Like Tiananmen Square. Like Iran this past week. That has not happened under the Trump regime yet. That is a horrifying red line — but maybe it is •your• red line.
Wherever it is, I am asking you now, from my home in Minneapolis, to think: what is •your• red line, the place where you think, “This is too much. Normal is gone. Life as I knew it has to stop until this ends.”
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@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaIs Trump stupid (yes, he is) enough to attack Venezuela?🤬
So what's in it for US? Oil? Bauxite? Gold?🤔
Will be Ukraine left just with support mostly by EU?😬
Fucking "interesting times" as Sir Pratchett would say.
@steve@s.yelvington.comToday is a good day to remember that federal law REQUIRES the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, and the Trump regime is violating that law.
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com @carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters (Financial Times)
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The reality is that the views expressed in this US national security strategy are in many ways identical to the Russian viewpoints on Europe and the Russian goals of regime change in European countries." — @…
I think we should all consider the possibility that this may be because
@villavelius@mastodon.online
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeHabe eben folgende Info für #Karlsruhe bekommen:
"Heute Abend um 18:00 Uhr gibt es auf dem Marktplatz eine von Iraner*innen organisierte Mahnwache in Form einer Lichterkette, um den mutigen Menschen im Iran zu gedenken, die gerade in ihrem Kampf für Freiheit vom frauenverachtenden religiös fanatischen Regime im Iran getötet werden. Sie brauchen jetzt unsere Unterstützung, z.B. …
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialAl zo vaak deze week ‘het Iraanse regime’ horen langskomen … vraag me af wanneer die nieuwsbulletins en actualiteitenrubrieken eindelijk eens beginnen met ‘het Trump-regime’ of ‘het regime in de VS’.
@newstik@social.heise.deNorth Korea is planning further military campaigns abroad.
Because Russia by itself was too weak to conquer Ukraine, #NorthKorea supportd the criminal attack with its military. Too many soldiers have died that the regime could hide that from its own people.
So they call it "worthiest sacred #war
@benb@osintua.euHow can foreign defense manufacturers benefit from Ukraine’s Defense City regime?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/14/how-can-foreign-defense-manufacturers.html
@servelan@newsie.social"US armed forces’ seizure of the oil tanker constituted an unlawful use of force in violation of the UN Charter. This is the largest military buildup of US firepower in the Caribbean in decades. **If regime change succeeds in Venezuela, Cuba may be next**"
US Relied on Illegal Sanctions To Seize Venezuelan Oil Tanker | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-12-18/us-relied-illegal-sanctions-seize-venezuelan-oil-tanker
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cayou don't move your newest and most powerful aircraft carrier into a completely new theatre for sh-ts and giggles folks.
There will be a major operation against Venezuela likely with an attempt to install a USA friendly regime
#war #theAmericanFascist
https://flipboard.com/@cnn/politics-17jf08kfz/-/a-nuJl8CjCQxKIDcpPjUUR3Q:a:132361178-/0
@barijaona@mastodon.mgWhat could happen when the spirit of 1968 collided with Franco's Spain?
"Patronato: My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit in Franco's Spain - so she was locked up and put in a coma"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr43vx0rrwvo
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialTwee weken later, regime van Maduro is nog steeds aan de macht, nog meer onderdrukking en minder vrijheid, VS heeft geen controle op de situatie in Venezuela. Goed voor diverse opleidingen als voorbeeld van een militiar tactisch groot succes (ontvoering Maduro) en een strategische mislukking
@NFL@darktundra.xyzArthur Blank addresses regime change, aims for 'leadership' that gets Falcons to 'next level' https://www.nfl.com/news/arthur-blank-addresses-regime-change-aims-for-leadership-that-gets-falcons-to-next-level
@maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza@kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy A Ceausescu moment: when the regime fell, the fighting was between the state police (who were loyal to the regime) and the regular army, who were neglected by the regime and remained on the side of the people. Not that there's any parallel here.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWe need to start contemplating this. It’s not easy to picture; if it is easy, you’re doing it wrong. But we need to do it. We need to imagine this while we still have the capacity to imagine.
We need to make sure that there is, somewhere in this authoritarian noise, a red line whose crossing actually matters because we •make• it matter.
If enough people know where their red line is, and if enough people are prepared to take action if the regime crosses it, well, •that• helps Minnesota — and the whole world.
/end
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc„With phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, two sources, including one inside Iran, told CBS News on Tuesday that at least 12,000, and possibly as many as 20,000 people have been killed.“
Mir fehlen die Worte. Das Regime muss endlich ein Ende haben!
https://ww…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioI keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.
It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.
It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.
The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.
The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.
And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.
A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.
Take that little step. Then another.
#USPol #activism #socialChange
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialA prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …
@krone@frawas.deTrump droht dem Regime - Schüsse auf Proteste im Iran: „Mehr als 200 Tote“ #News #Nachrichten <…
@hex@kolektiva.socialI'm going to go back to my social media break, but before I do I'm going to leave you with a thought experiment.
Imagine we're in the middle of the second American Civil War. What do you wish you had done to prepare? What do you wish you had done to bring the regime down faster? What do you wish you had done to avoid this ever happening?
Got some ideas? Think about them. Talk them over with friends. Ok... Now what can you do right now? Ok, now do it.
#USPol
@annsev@troet.cafe"Die EU hat inzwischen ein Zentrum zur Bekämpfung von #Desinformation angekündigt. Das ist doch ein erster Schritt oder?
Europa ist erst jetzt dabei, ein solches Zentrum aufzubauen. Das #Putin-Regime betreibt hingegen bereits seit 25 Jahren Desinformation. Die Folgen sind in Ländern wie Ungarn,…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA •lot• of people have asked what you can do from afar to help us here in Minneapolis, and I have one thing for you. You can do it from home, from wherever you’re sitting, but it’s not necessarily easy.
First, I want to think about where your red lines are. Everything is so outrage-inducing, so outrageous, it’s kind of numbing. It becomes easy to just start letting it all happen.
So, that thing you can do to help: picture a red line for you that the regime hasn’t already crossed, so that you can have a reaction that is actually •action• if and when they cross it.
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@lilmikesf@c.im12th straight day of protests in #TehranIran as demonstrators against #SupremeLeader Shia regime insist they have #NothingToLose
@cdarwin@c.im🏆On the first night of Hanukkah, we celebrate Election Day
Democrats swept in key contests from Virginia to Georgia to New Jersey.
The success proved that voters like YOU turned out to fight for democracy and oppose Trump's authoritarian regime.
https://www.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotFinally
"I think if you're European, then it is a national security priority to stop using X" — @…
Well, indeed. But is there a national security priority to move to yet another #US owned and controlled social media platform, when there…
@steve@s.yelvington.com"I'm sick of stupid," says Republican senator Tom Tillis about the Trump regime.
So say we all.
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115892248690947391
De dag het Trump regime liet heel harde alarmbellen afgaan ....
Had iemand nog vragen?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJonathan E. Ross, 43, who murdered Renee Nicole Good, is an Enforcement and Removal Operations agent with ICE.
He has been granted “absolute immunity” by the fascist USian regime.
There’s a reason we have a system of courts and laws for dispensing justice. It’s to stop people from dispensing it using the barrel of a gun.
🤷♂️
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currenci…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @memeorandum@universeodon.comDoctor Says More Than 200 Reported Dead in Tehran as Regime Opens Fire on Protests (Time)
https://time.com/7345092/iran-protests-death-toll-regime-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p134#a260109p134
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialPowell under attack by Trump, stand his ground, Trump wants to break down all checks & balances on his regime. The reaction of the markets on Monday will be interesting I guess...
https://youtu.be/KckGHaBLSn4?si=sA9CXzs3bzYsMO20
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRaiders' offense not making strides under new regime https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46970642/las-vegas-raiders-2025-offense-struggles-geno-smith-pete-carroll-chip-kelly
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyHere's an idea for us, from the Trump regime:
"Europeans should be cheering for US to annex Greenland"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5681842-burgum-europeans-trump-greenland-acquisition/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says ‘help is on its way’
as he urges Iranians to
‘keep protesting’ and ‘take over’ their institutions
US president cancels meetings with Iranian officials ‘until senseless killing of protesters stops’
Trump says countries doing business with Iran face 25% tariff on US trade
China threatens to retaliate over Trump’s 25% tariff on countries trading with Iran
@annsev@troet.cafeBehemot #Netanjahu wird dem autralischen Premier vor, er wäre mitschuldig an den Tötungen von Juden am #BondiBeach. Unglaublich.
Vielmehr müsste man sagen, dass Netajahu und sein kriegsverbrecherisches Regime durch die rücksichtslose Vernichtung von 60.000 Palästinensern Schuld trägt, dass sich die…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deChinas Fusionsreaktor EAST erreicht Plasmadichte über bisheriger Obergrenze
Chinesische Forscher erreichen am EAST-Tokamak nach eigenen Angaben erstmals ein theoretisch vorhergesagtes Regime mit Plasmadichten über der bisherigen Grenze.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"this that makes it necessary for the United States to do something to avoid the civilizational and democratic disaster that is unfolding in Europe." — @…
I'm REALLY going to take issue with this. Yes, it's true that Europe faces challenges. But it is not Europe which faces civilizational or democratic disaster. This is classic pr…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUS Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated (Prem Thakker/Zeteo)
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-us-regime-executes-civilian-isolated
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p35#a260109p35
@servelan@newsie.socialIran’s Regime Has Survived War, Sanctions and Uprising. Environmental Crises May Bring It Down. - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14012026/iran-environmental-crisis-water-shortage-protests/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI think the whole wretched crew of the Trump regime are astonished about this too. They’ve been doing everything they possibly can to get somebody, anybody to shoot an ICE agent, whether in rage or well-justified self-defense. They’re desperate for it.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Strip away the rhetoric and what remains is simple: there is no military option that delivers what Trump has promised. The symbolic strike is too weak to matter. Decapitation risks installing a junta. The sustained campaign courts state collapse and regional conflagration"
https://time.com/7345293/…
@cdarwin@c.imNo one voted for another war.
Congress must stop Trump's lawless violence and hold the regime accountable.
Join tomorrow's emergency organizing call with Sen. Kaine,
Rep. Casar, Rep. Omar, and thousands of activists
to discuss how we can mobilize to stop more endless war
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVenezuela, Western Dominance, & Regime Change: Rep. Adam Smith's Striking Updates (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuela-western-dominance-and-regime
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p125#a251208p125
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"Another priority is the issue of free speech, which they regard as very important. The way to understand this, I think, is that it's mostly a question about moderation on social media and that they don't like that."
I think you are much too kind here, @… .
@servelan@newsie.socialSocial movement led by shopkeepers shakes the Iranian regime
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/01/social-movement-led-by-shopkeepers-shakes-the-iranian-regime_6748982_4.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Trump Regime Is Overflowing With Dangerous Monsters, Idiots, And Madmen (Simon Rosenberg/Hopium Chronicles)
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-full-of-dangerous
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p151#a260106p151
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Venezuelan regime is rapidly consolidating its grip on power (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/01/06/the-venezuelan-regime-is-rapidly-consolidating-its-grip-on-power
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p89#a260107p89
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe Trump regime desperately, desperately wants the situation in Minneapolis / St. Paul to explode. Anything sand in the gears that helps prevent that from happening is a godsend — and this lawsuit certainly is sand in the gears.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump regime is ramping up violence and terror
in part because its grip on the nation -- and even on its own party, seems to be slipping.
Last week it suffered two humiliating defeats in Congress,
one in each chamber.
⭐️The House passes ACA subsidies
⭐️The Senate tries to restrain Trump’s warmongering
The administration will probably be able to contain the damage
-- But the signs of revolt in the legislature highlight the extreme and increasing…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA useful tidbit that stood out to me in this article:
“Noem [by lying] is training and testing the MAGA base”
Huh − “training and testing”
There’s a dance here: the regime is training its supports in how to think about and talk about current circumstances — but also testing the waters, seeing what sticks, what they’re willing to believe. Recognizing this as a bidirectional dance seems useful. Framing it as “training” instead of “telling” seems useful. Recognizing it as “testing” seems useful.
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/ice-noem-dangerous-playbook
@servelan@newsie.social'Trump is reportedly inching closer to adding a new rule to end legal protections for government whistleblowers, including senior federal employees'
'We will ruin your lives': Analyst says Trump's floundering MAGA regime 'wreaking havoc' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/we-will-ruin-your-lives-analyst-says-trump-s-floundering-maga-regime-wreaking-havoc/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Was Told Attack on Iran Wouldn't Guarantee Collapse of Regime (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ttrump-iran-military-resources-0ddf8de9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p102#a260115p102
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.comThis wasn't an arrest in Venezuela. This was an unauthorized regime-change war (Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4400798/this-wasnt-an-arrest-in-venezuela-this-was-an-unauthorized-regime-change-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p11#a260104p11
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAnd the press conference is over.
I’m really glad to hear this news. I keep saying that we cannot and must not rely on or wait for the law or politicians to save us. However, both are important cogs in this system — and anything that offers a moment of respite is desperately needed right now, whether that’s an emergency injunction or the Trump regime faltering while they try to avoid one.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhat 'Regime Change' in Venezuela Would Really Mean (Mark Hertling/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-regime-change-in-venezuela-would-really-mean-trump-maduro?triedRedirect=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p22#a260102p22
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioGov. Walz has talked about activating the Minnesota National Guard, under his command. I appreciate that: among other things, I suspect it throws a barrier to the Trump regime trying to federalize them.
Would we want the National Guard protecting our schools? I trust them •far• more than the Minneapolis Police, but I’m still uncomfortable with the idea. I don’t like the prospect of our students being greeted at the school by people with camo and assault weapons. That, however, seems preferable being greeted by kidnappings and tear gas.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRenee Good is a crisis for the Trump regime: not because they care about her life, but because ICE murdering her makes ICE look bad. They’ve been telling all these stories about all the imaginary violence ICE officers face. In their minds, it’s the people on the streets who were supposed to lose their cool first. Now they’re falling over themselves to make that happen.
We just want ICE gone, but their bosses want them dead. And no, I’m sure they do not understand this.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI keep coming back to what Kevin Kruse said here: the Trump regime is trying to get an ICE officer killed. That’s the pretext they desperately want.
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3m7ofznbtsk2v
