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Alexander Karn<p>Not all clowns are funny. </p><p>NYT, October 2024. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>This is not a drill, but it is a test. </p><p>For many USAians, the moral choices we make now will define us for the rest of our lives. It may seem bleak or useless or frightening, but you WILL be transformed by these events ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. </p><p>Only two choices:</p><p>1. Collaborate, capitulate, detach, turn inward. </p><p>2. Defend, endure, demand, commit to truth, engage. </p><p>Which is your camp? Your legacy?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LiveInTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiveInTruth</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>These are not serious or even decent people. Bad faith is lethal to democracy. </p><p>Via Guardian: Pam Bondi denies knowing Ice agents wore masks during raids despite video evidence </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LiveInTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiveInTruth</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/25/ag-pam-bondi-ice-masks-raids" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">un/25/ag-pam-bondi-ice-masks-raids</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nokings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nokings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/holdtheline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>holdtheline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/dueprocess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dueprocess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ruleoflaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ruleoflaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/civilliberties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilliberties</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/1A" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1A</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/firstamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firstamendment</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nokings.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">nokings.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Court Cantrell prefers not to<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@xankarn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>xankarn</span></a></span> I won't go by myself, but I'm spreading the word in hopes that friends will go with me here in OKC! 🤞🤘🤘🤘🖖</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a>!</p>
Alexander Karn<p>Consider this…</p><p>Of the 53 Republican members of the Senate, 43 have never served under a Republican president other than Trump. </p><p>They know nothing about GOP governance except the MAGA/Trump program. To them, this is all quite normal. Business as usual. </p><p>That’s how <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> puts down its roots. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Marco Rubio thinks it’s “lunacy” to import disruptive activists to the US. </p><p>Keep talking, bro, while we ramp up domestic production. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/losing-international-students-could-devastate-many-colleges.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/losi</span><span class="invisible">ng-international-students-could-devastate-many-colleges.html</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>You love to see it. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/trump-universities-response" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/16/trump-universities-response</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Campus chapter of AAUP organized a lunchtime demonstration on the Academic Quad today. </p><p>Radical left lunatics “ideologically captured” by constitutional democracy and the Bill of Rights. </p><p>Small college, big feelings. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/handsoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>handsoff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rmol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rmol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Guy who was slapped with two class action suits for running a fake university with no accreditation calls Harvard U., which has produced 132 Nobel Prize winners, “a joke.”</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/federal-court-approves-25-million-trump-university-settlement-n845181" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/white-hou</span><span class="invisible">se/federal-court-approves-25-million-trump-university-settlement-n845181</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>highered</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Reposting cuz post-totalitarian dictatorship is here. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/liveintruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liveintruth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/rmol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rmol</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Made a thing.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>How far will it go?</p><p>Am I safe as a natural born citizen? There has to be a line somewhere. This isn’t Russia. </p><p>The answers are clear…but who wants to accept and internalize them? Recall what Trump has told us already. </p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/13/politics/trump-military-enemy-from-within-election-day/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2024/10/13/politics/tr</span><span class="invisible">ump-military-enemy-from-within-election-day/index.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Andy<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/April5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>April5</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <br>More UK coverage from Sky News. At the end of this report Trump’s press secretary unsurprisingly claims Trump isn’t listening. Maybe not, but the rest of the world is.<br>The fact Trump may attempt to modify the system in order to extend his presidential term (journalistically known as “pulling a Putin”) is a massive red flag. Consequently, these protests are very important and really do count… <br><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-protest-against-trump-and-musk-at-rallies-in-every-us-state-13343002" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.sky.com/story/thousands-p</span><span class="invisible">rotest-against-trump-and-musk-at-rallies-in-every-us-state-13343002</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>They will minimize it. Mock it. Insist there’s no point. </p><p>But we know. </p><p>Next round on <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/May1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>May1</span></a>. </p><p>If everyone who protested today brings one more person…BOOM. 💥</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/April5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>April5</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Old protest story:</p><p>Guy standing alone on street corner with “STOP GOVT ABUSE” sign. </p><p>Car stops and driver says, “You don’t really think you’re going to change the govt standing here with your little sign.”</p><p>Protestor laughs and shakes his head: “I don’t do this to change the govt. I do this so the govt doesn’t change me.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/April5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>April5</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandsOff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CoryBooker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoryBooker</span></a> still making good trouble on the Senate floor. </p><p>I hope this breaks through. Do we have a public discourse anymore, and, if so, is this going to be part of it?</p><p>“My voice may be shaky, but I’m going to use it.”</p><p>Resist much, obey little. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/filibuster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filibuster</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/cory-booker-speaking-live-senate-floor-speech-today-2053478" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/cory-booker-speak</span><span class="invisible">ing-live-senate-floor-speech-today-2053478</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indivisibleteam</span></a></span> </p><p>Resist much, obey little. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aclu.org/know-your-rights/prot</span><span class="invisible">esters-rights</span></a></p>
Alexander Karn<p>Don’t get it twisted. </p><p>Trump doesn’t want ideology out of the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Smithsonian</span></a>. He wants democratic pluralism out and authoritarian monoculture in. </p><p>Museums are not neutral and this isn’t about objectivity.</p><p>It’s about CORE VALUES and FREE INQUIRY. </p><p>Resist much, obey little. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p>
Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚<p>„TO THE STATES.</p><p>To the States or any one of them, <br>or any city of the States, <br>Resist much, obey little, <br>Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, <br>Once fully enslaved, no nations, state, city of this earth, <br>ever afterward resumes its liberty.”</p><p>Walt Whitman</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/RMOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RMOL</span></a></p><p>👉🏽 resist much, obey little 👈🏽</p><p>…</p>