There‘s still time to defeat autocracy with democracy, but only if Americans come through *right now*.

Vote. Talk to people about voting. Help people vote.
We can win, let‘s go.
Let‘s one day look back with pride for what we did in these times.

@renewedresistance
@democratsabroad
#vote #BenGhiatRuth #IvanEhlers #latimes #whyvote #voterassistance

Original link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-10-22/op-comic-voting-midterm-elections-2026

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/117412895644630240

Exhilarating to see it stated in so many words, and frustrating that it‘s so uncommon for techbros to be held accountable to the most basic standards of science.

AI techbros: make a falsifiable empirical claim, and describe what you did to test the claim, for everyone‘s scrutiny. Just do the fucking basics?

Media: challenge their claims, and follow up when their grandiose predictions don‘t come true. Don‘t let science fiction become a substitute for knowledge.

#AI #science #disinformation

Ohio voters — Ramaswamy wants to get rid of Ohio State!
RAMASWAMY HATES THE BUCKEYES!
Vote out this madman and send him to the State Up North.

@renewedresistance
#ramaswamy #ohio #governor #Midterms #buckeyes
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/09/ramaswamy-wants-to-consolidate-ohios-universities-ohios-founders-would-be-appalled/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/117292519769298255

If you‘re an American living outside the US, tomorrow‘s the day, get yer vote on.

#USpol #votefromabroad

RE: https://mastodon.social/@xs4me2/117281881505859061

Gut gemacht, #Hamburg.

#fckafd

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker/117269837248059932

The em dash, like the semicolon, is an excellent tool for structuring the flow of a sentence — it helps to organize complex sequences of ideas in a comprehensible way, almost as if the written words were conversation.

Bringing disrepute upon the em dash is not the worst crime of AI, but it is a crime. I used to think that the people who campaign for the Oxford comma all the time were a bit silly, but now maybe I understand them better. This is a cause worth fighting for.

#SaveTheEmDash

The German fascist party AfD has filed a criminal defamation complaint against Chancellor Friedrich Merz, for saying that "the word 'remigration' is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color" before the Bundestag.

Dear Fediverse, I've never asked for boosts, but it's time to flood the zone. Put it in your own words if you prefer. Spread it everywhere.

#remigration #ethnicCleansing #Afd #fascism #streisandeffect
@renewedresistance
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/afd-files-complaint-against-merz-130350147.html

Emotional memories of a woman who was working for the US Army in Germany on 9/11. She knew right away that we would take a dark turn towards war, cruelty, and authoritarianism. The fascism and corruption of our times had their roots before 9/11, but they accelerated rapidly after that day.

After 25 years, it‘s time to turn back. Vote in November.

#911Anniversary #votefromabroad
@renewedresistance @democratsabroad @Fobbsie
https://angelafobbs300576.substack.com/p/twenty-five-years-later-were-still

Reports all the way back to 2016, and throughout the 10 years since then, establish a clear record that TFG is a deadbeat. He just flat-out doesn’t pay his bills.

Besides the sheer corruption of bribery for votes, the message is that we’re a nation of fool-me-twice idiots. Even if by some calamity the GOP wins the House in November, we all know what’s going to happen with the $5000.

He *won’t pay up*.

@renewedresistance
#uspol #TrumpBribes #5000dollar
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hundreds-claim-donald-trump-doesn-t-pay-his-bills-n589261

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/117225004900057358

Shared with some trepidation, because of the 18th-century sexism expressed in “Distempers incident to the Fair Sex“. Although it does say that the work was requested by “Lady Damp-Fart, of Her-fart-shire“, and is “approved by several Ladies of Quality“.

On the title page:
A FART, tho’ wholesome does not fail,
If barr’d of Passage by the Tail,
To fly back to the Head again,
And by its Fumes disturb the Brain

#farting #ProjectGutenberg

A lazy canard about politics says the right is better at spending government money, although the facts decisively prove otherwise. Health care, housing, education, nutrition — all of it costs less and benefits more than fascist police forces, senseless wars, and Epstein ballrooms.

Vote them out, because they‘re no good at what they‘re supposedly good at.

#uspol #votefromabroad
@renewedresistance @democratsabroad @Fobbsie
https://angelafobbs300576.substack.com/p/what-we-cant-afford

#neverslop

At time of writing, it works. Which one of you dastardly pirates did the deed?

ETA: I‘ve been informed that it’s a spoof site. And a fine spoof it is, but dammit I thought it was a hack for the ages.

@renewedresistance
#republicans #midtermconvention2026 #EpsteinFiles
http://www.gopdallas2026.com

#Anonymous has called us Americans out for our complacency, and @Fobbsie is challenging us to stop the madness. Here in Germany, I‘ve learned that the descent to fascism could happen any time. Don‘t be the one who stood on the sidelines and waited for someone else to fix the problem.

Your vote in November is a way to fight back. It could be our last chance.

#uspol #fascism #votefromabroad
@renewedresistance @democratsabroad
https://angelafobbs300576.substack.com/p/its-time-to-step-up-and-fight-back

1Password has gone fash and people are scrambling to replace it. Which makes me think it‘s time to challenge the wisdom of those fancy-pants password manager apps in the first place.

Just use pass. Store passwords in GPG-encrypted files, and set up gpg to pop up a password dialogue. Password storage is structured using the filesystem — files in folders. History and offline archiving of the encrypted passwords are managed with git.

Keep it unix-y and simple.

#1Password
https://www.passwordstore.org

OpenStreetMap is not owned by a corporation, but by a foundation whose charter delineates their goals of keeping map data free and open to the public. At the time of writing, they still have the correct name of Lake Ontario.

@openstreetmap
#openstreetmap #lakeontario #dumpgoogle

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Sunset over Lake Ontario, seen from my cousin‘s place on the New York State side. One of the most beautiful sights I‘ve ever known.

#lakeontario #lacontario

Our top priority these days shouldn‘t be fighting off a fascist dystopia, we should be working to stop the climate catastrophe. Nepalis did not cause and do not deserve to suffer from the negligence of the rest of us. I live in Germany, where heat-related deaths this year have been estimated at 14,000.

The climate deniers are a death cult. Vote them out.

@renewedresistance @democratsabroad @Fobbsie
#climate #votefromabroad
https://angelafobbs300576.substack.com/p/this-is-what-climate-denial-looks

Good: Dolly Parton’s legacy of philanthropy

Bad: the ongoing power outages in Gary, Indiana, a crisis of choice in a majority-Black city

Ugly: TFG’s deranged trade war with Canada

Honor Dolly’s memory with your vote in November.

#dollyparton #garyindiana #canada #votefromabroad
@renewedresistance @democratsabroad @Fobbsie
https://angelafobbs300576.substack.com/p/the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly

The Constitution names bribery as one of the grounds for impeachment and removal. That‘ll rid us of Alito and Thomas, and probably Kavanaugh.

Some call for increasing the size of SCOTUS by a smidgen, say two seats. It‘s another marginal and ineffective response to the madness. Make it 19. Let’s utterly obliterate the rampage of fascists in robes.

#scotus #impeachment #corruption
@renewedresistance @democratsabroad @Fobbsie
https://angelafobbs300576.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-conservative-majority