WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> : a tearing down</p><p>- French: Destruction </p><p>- German: die Zerstörung</p><p>- Italian: distruzione</p><p>- Portuguese: destruição</p><p>- Spanish: destrucción</p><p>------------</p><p>Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ <a href="https://wordofthehour.org/r/form" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wordofthehour.org/r/form</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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Joseph Lim :mastodon:<p>Time to start tracking a new hashtag <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawlessnessInAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LawlessnessInAmerica</span></a></p><p>More on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fraud</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Destruction</span></a> <br>"Musk has reduced the claims abt what DOGE is saving fr $1-2tril to $150bil. NYT reports he’s still getting the numbers wrong thru things like accounting errors & cancelling contracts tt don’t exist. What a fraud fr start to finish.. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Dept is fighting vigorously to shield DOGE fr hv'g to divulge tt info, despite <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a>’s repeated assurances abt <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a>"<br><a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more-on-doges-fraud-and-destruction.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/mo</span><span class="invisible">re-on-doges-fraud-and-destruction.html</span></a></p>
SydneyJim<p>Revealed: nearly 2m hectares of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/koala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>koala</span></a> habitat bulldozed since 2011 – despite political promises to protect species | <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Australian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australian</span></a> election 2025 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/koala-habitat-destroyed-since-2011-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/12/koala-habitat-destroyed-since-2011-analysis</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Logging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Destruction</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>The great koala - glider national park - logging an environmentally significant area </p><p>"The Minns Labor government promised to create a koala national park before the state election more than two years ago, but has not taken a decision on the boundaries and has allowed logging to continue. Between April and July 2024, the surveys detected greater gliders at 82 sites. The government’s analysis estimated the planned park has between 29,693 and 44,211 gliders, with a mean estimate of 36,483."</p><p>“...Logging should cease in all state forest areas identified as containing greater gliders.”<br>>><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/17/endangered-greater-gliders-recorded-in-proposed-great-koala-national-park-in-nsw-as-logging-continues</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BiodiversityCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NativeForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeForests</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>koalas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/gliders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gliders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TheGreatKoalaNationalPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGreatKoalaNationalPark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/BellingenLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BellingenLogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSWLogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSWLogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LoggingImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoggingImpacts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FCNSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FCNSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ExtinctionCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtinctionCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/governance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>governance</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>SHOT:<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/ports-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/193930/po</span><span class="invisible">rts-not-collecting-trump-tariffs-glitch</span></a></p><p>CHASER:<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/114320818833286113" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1143</span><span class="invisible">20818833286113</span></a> </p><p>the blustering <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/confusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>confusion</span></a> and mindless <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> are, like the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a>, the points of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
BellingenNSW<p>Once you could hear the sound of koalas -<br>"all you hear is trucks now..."</p><p>Destruction of koala habitat through sprawl, roads and dogs</p><p>"Almost 2m hectares of forests suitable for koalas have been destroyed since 2011. They are one of more than 2,000 Australian species listed as under threat in what scientists are calling an extinction crisis." >><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2025/apr/12/endangered-koalas-and-the-ecologist-documenting-their-extinction-video" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/vi</span><span class="invisible">deo/2025/apr/12/endangered-koalas-and-the-ecologist-documenting-their-extinction-video</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/koalas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>koalas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSW</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Bellingen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bellingen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/vehicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vehicles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pets</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/thylacines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>thylacines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a></p>
Support the Resistance<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Devastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devastation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Destruction</span></a></p>
Zzyzx/P<p>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lying</span></a> sack of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/orange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/turd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>turd</span></a> is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> who is causing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unnecessary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unnecessary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/losses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>losses</span></a> world-wide. The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/abomination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abomination</span></a> CANNOT <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/govern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>govern</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/negotiate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>negotiate</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/build" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>build</span></a>. Only knows <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TraitorMAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraitorMAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TraitorGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TraitorGOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opposeGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opposeGOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpposeFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpposeFascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypocrite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrite</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CronyCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CronyCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriminalAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/defeatGOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defeatGOP</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-exempts-phones-computers-chips-124707368.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-e</span><span class="invisible">xempts-phones-computers-chips-124707368.html</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day 14 🐨🌳🔥🚜🐄🌾</p><p>“Nearly 2m hectares of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> suitable for endangered koalas have been destroyed since the iconic species was declared a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ThreatenedSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThreatenedSpecies</span></a> in 2011, according to analysis for Guardian Australia.</p><p>The scale of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/habitat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>habitat</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Queensland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Queensland</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NewSouthWales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewSouthWales</span></a> – states in which the koala is formally recognised as being at risk of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> – has continued despite political promises it would be protected.</p><p>Analysis by the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AustralianConservationFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianConservationFoundation</span></a> using state and federal government <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> found 1,964,200 hectares of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/koala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>koala</span></a> habitat were cleared between 2012 and 2021, the latest year for which there was complete data.</p><p>The total amount of destroyed forest and bush covered an area larger than greater Sydney, taking in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BlueMountains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlueMountains</span></a>, the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Illawarra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Illawarra</span></a>, the southern highlands and the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Goulburn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goulburn</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Shoalhaven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shoalhaven</span></a> regions.</p><p>It is more than 10 times larger than the area the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NSW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSW</span></a> government is assessing for a possible “great koala national park”. But most of the cleared area – 81% – was in Queensland.</p><p>About three-quarters of the lost forest is estimated to have been cleared for agriculture, to create <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cattle</span></a> pasture and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/crop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crop</span></a> fields. The analysis found 13% was removed by the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/forestry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forestry</span></a> industry and 5% for development of infrastructure, including <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a>. Just 4% was likely due to natural causes, such as bushfire and drought.”</p><p>There’s a reason the Minister for the Environment has been kept quiet. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Straya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Straya</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ClimateExtinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateExtinction</span></a> <<a href="https://theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/12/koala-habitat-destroyed-since-2011-analysis" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/apr/12/koala-habitat-destroyed-since-2011-analysis</span></a>></p>
Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪<p>Statue of former liberty<br>(Oil on canvas)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elections</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/statueofliberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statueofliberty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ontvlamd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ontvlamd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/paintingart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paintingart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/oilpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oilpainting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/unclescam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unclescam</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"I have never seen an anti-feminist backlash quite like the one we are living through. The embrace of misogyny is thorough and unapologetic. It transcends just about every aspect of this administration, from the president down through his followers.</p><p>~ Jill Filipovic</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> <br>/8</p><p><a href="https://jill.substack.com/p/boys-will-be-boys-but-women-are-too" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jill.substack.com/p/boys-will-</span><span class="invisible">be-boys-but-women-are-too</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>'“To me, this disparagement marks a step in the destruction of our multicultural democracy, and provides a path from the verbal dehumanization of others to ope' discrimination and maltreatment.” ...</p><p>We are witnessing the construction of the ideological architecture to excuse violence and suffering on a mass scale."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/7</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“'The disparagement of empathy is the flip side, I believe, of a deliberate effort to set up a permission structure to dehumanize others, and to narrow the definition of who should be included in a democratic state, or in a Christian community,' she said."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/6</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Susan Lanzoni, a historian of psychology and author of Empathy: A History, said by email that through all her research into the intellectual history of empathy, she had 'never seen empathy vilified in the way it has been in these current sources [on the American right]'."</p><p>~ Julia Carrie Wong</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>morality</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a><br>/5</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int</span><span class="invisible">eractive/2025/apr/08/empathy-sin-christian-right-musk-trump</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Our problems are much bigger than Trump, than MAGA, or than a Democratic minority versus majority. Our problem is, in too many ways, us. We have to be better than this. We are better than this, but we have to want that. We have to want to be the best versions of ourselves, and be willing to do the work that requires.</p><p>Otherwise, we lose."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <br>/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"And I believe the only reason he lost to President Biden in 2020 was because the pandemic was an immediate threat that was scaring the hell out of Americans and killed more than a half million of us.</p><p>But four years later, we forgot all about that."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <br>/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"We as a country need to face up to who we really are if we are to have any hope of not sliding over the cliff we’re currently approaching at a rapid pace. ...</p><p>it’s still hard for me to get past the fact that, for whatever reason (ignorance, racism, sexism, misinformation, disinformation, laziness), an incredibly large number of Americans voted for Trump. Twice."</p><p>~ Keith Owens</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <br>/2</p><p><a href="https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/who-are-we-really" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wearespeaking.substack.com/p/w</span><span class="invisible">ho-are-we-really</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"We are witnessing a political march and mass suicide of our society into the graveyard of history. ...</p><p>Historians will write, philosophers will ponder, and prophets will preach about how our generation whistled, disregarded truth, dismantled democracy, rejected liberty, and profaned justice as we marched into that graveyard."</p><p>~ Wendell Griffen</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/suicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>suicide</span></a> <br>/1</p><p><a href="https://wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/the-unheeded-tragic-and-inescapable" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wendellgriffen.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">the-unheeded-tragic-and-inescapable</span></a></p>
Patrick Vanhoucke<p>“If the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> Party does not return <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> to the role it is meant to play and the courts don't constrain the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/president" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>president</span></a>, this cycle of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>destruction</span></a> will continue and everyone on the planet will pay the price.” — Anne <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Applebaum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Applebaum</span></a>, staff writer at The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atlantic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlantic</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/dictatorships-trump-republicans/682387/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/politics/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/04/dictatorships-trump-republicans/682387/</span></a></p>
WiRu<p>Trump's Psychological Vulnerability</p><p>And the <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Destruction</span></a> of the American <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> </p><p>Timothy <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Snyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Snyder</span></a> Apr 10, 2025</p><p>All his adult life, <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has been ripping people off. That is his modus operandi. Rather than a conscience, he has the habit of displacement. It is not that he is ripping people off. Everyone else is ripping him off. ...</p><p><a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-psychological-vulnerability" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-p</span><span class="invisible">sychological-vulnerability</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/ThinkingAbout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkingAbout</span></a> <br><a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://ruhr.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>
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