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**Zhi Zhu** @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 8m

UPDATE: Musk attacks Musk Watch
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/update-musk-attacks-musk-watch

"the Musk Watch #DOGE Tracker... authoritatively demonstrated that #ElonMusk had been grossly overstating the cuts implemented by DOGE...

#Musk offered no actual critique of the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker's methodology...

Musk Watch is a four-person team, but we can rock the boat of the wealthiest and most powerful man in the world."

Headline and text from article:
UPDATE: Musk attacks Musk Watch
Judd Legum
Mar 13, 2025

Yesterday, we launched the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker. This new tool authoritatively demonstrated that Elon Musk had been grossly overstating the cuts implemented by DOGE. While Musk claimed that DOGE had made $105 billion in cuts, the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker revealed that just $8.6 billion of those cuts were verifiable.

Within hours, Musk personally attacked the Musk Watch DOGE Tracker on X:

#Resist #Resistance #Protest

**Lazarou Monkey Terror** @Lazarou@mastodon.social · 1h

Lazarou Monkey Terror @Lazarou@mastodon.social

This is exactly the stand to make right now and is giving us hope around the World

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-take-trump-tower-nyc-demand-release-mahmoud-khalil-rcna196265

NBC News · 9hNearly 100 protesters arrested after sit-in at Trump Tower in NYC to demand release of Mahmoud KhalilBy Minyvonne Burke

#JewishVoiceForPeace #USpol #MahmoudKhalil

**Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!** @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social · 1h

Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS! @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

Tomorrow is the Veterans' March! DC, all 50 state capitals, and many other cities-- check https://fiftyfifty.one and your city hall's events calendar if you're outside a state capital!

Vent your anger, find community, and support our veterans!

Nobody is going to save us but we can still show up for for each other.

Virtual poster for the Veterans' Marches going on 3/14/25

"We don't take an oath to a king -Mark Milley
"VETERANS MARCH
"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic; that I will bear truth faith and allegiance to the same
"Project 2025 will decimate programs veterans rely on and has already eliminated vital lifelines (Veterans crisis line)
"FRIDAY 14 MAR 2025 NOON IN WASHINGTON DC AND AT EVERY STATE CAPITOL
"ALL ARE WELCOME TO STAND WITH US"

#protests #50501movement #Veterans

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**Zhi Zhu** @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 1h

Zhi Zhu @ZhiZhu@newsie.social

The Hilarious Reason Why Elon Musk Is Panicking Over Tesla Stock Value...
https://newrepublic.com/post/192687/elon-musk-panicking-tesla-stock-value

"In a 2024 #SEC filing, #Musk was listed as holding... shares of #Tesla stock that were “pledged as collateral to secure certain personal indebtedness.”...

It’s unclear exactly how much of Musk’s shares are held in #collateral now...

If the #stock price goes low enough, the banks Musk borrowed from could force him to sell his shares"

Headline:
The Hilarious Reason Why Elon Musk Is Panicking Over Tesla Stock Value

Donald Trump even bought a Tesla to try to help bolster sales.

by Edith Olmsted
March 12, 2025 / 6:02 p.m. ET

#ElonMusk #Business #USPol

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**Zhi Zhu** @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 3h

Zhi Zhu @ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"Yesterday’s #WhiteHouse stunt had all the hallmarks of Trump #corruption, but there was something else, too—an air of desperation. It was a tacit admission that the #protests are working and that #Musk and #Trump are rattled...

These moments make clear that this time, Musk has wagered the only thing he can’t easily buy back—the very #myth he created for himself."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/

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Yesterday’s White House stunt had all the hallmarks of Trump corruption, but there was something else, too—an air of desperation. It was a tacit admission that the protests are working and that Musk and Trump are rattled enough by current sentiment that they’re willing to turn the South Lawn into a showroom. Watching Musk clam up on Fox Business or quietly idle next to Trump in front of the White House, it’s even easier than normal to see past Musk’s trademark bullshitting and bluster. These moments make clear that this time, Musk has wagered the only thing he can’t easily buy back—the very myth he created for himself.

#ElonMusk #Politics #USPol

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**Zhi Zhu** @ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 3h

Zhi Zhu @ZhiZhu@newsie.social

Outrage & exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mFpn8BJLV4

"Rep. John Larson channeling the outrage of his constituents at the anticipation that Donald Trump's top donor, #ElonMusk, is intending to destroy #SocialSecurity in order to privatize it... #Musk was planning cuts to Social Security's telephone customer service... Between the public outcry & the exposure in the #media, the pushback... appears to have worked."

YouTubeOutrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cutsBy MSNBC

#Resist #Resistance #News

**DionyZack** @DionyZack@piaille.fr · 3h

DionyZack @DionyZack@piaille.fr

Renverse.co Conférence d'extrême-droite annulée à Genève: Mardi 11 mars, l'Assemblée antifasciste de Genève a appris que les organisateurs de la conférence ont préféré jeter l'éponge face à l'appel et à la mobilisation antifasciste. https://renverse.co/infos-locales/article/conference-d-extreme-droite-annulee-a-geneve-6262?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Antifascisme #Genève #ExtrêmeDroite #Mobilisation #Résistance

**jiujensu** @jiujensu@mas.to · 4h

jiujensu @jiujensu@mas.to

So here are my thoughts on Pay No Heed to the Rockets by Marcello Di Cintio. It was on some Palestine reading lists, but the time was disappointing. Literature references were amazing.

Last page is attached.
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#FreePalestine #humanrights #apartheid #palestine #gaza #westbank #endtheoccupation #sanctionisrael #genocide #antizionist #antifacist #resistance #readpalestine #books @bookstodon
@palestine @israel

I'm going to be honest: there are big pros and big cons. Big CN or TW for Orientalism. There are very good stories here, but the lens he's looking through will annoy the crap out of you if you're familiar with the history of the region or of resistance to occupation or international law.

Let's start with the good aspects. Di Cintio was a writer in residence in Palestine at one time - you can tell he loves literature and includes Palestinian literature in that. He highlights gay authors and meets and talks to so many poets and writers I can't list them all. He was able to tell their stories and draw out details I'd never heard them say elsewhere. If nothing else, you'll get a ton of titles and authors (&movies) for your to-read list!

When he gets into the storytelling, there's the Khalidi library, theft of books during the Nakba.(&movie called thre Great Book Robbery), intricate smelly details of how books are smuggled out of prison, role of Tamer Institute for Community Education, stories of collecting info for All That Remains - book of erased Palestinian villages, I enjoyed descriptions of the places he goes inside 48, the West Bank and Gaza, he has a detailed description of a humiliating checkpoint, there's the story of Jamal Abu Qumsan and the Gallery Café where artists meet, Kashabi Theater Company, the story of a salon for women authors, meeting Anni Kanafani, Mohammed El-Kurd, Atef Abu Saif, Abbad Yahya, khulud khamis, Dalia Taha, Adila Laïdi, Salha

Hamdeen, Anahid Mlikian, Suha Arraf, Asmaa Azaizeh, Mona Abu Sharekh, Asmaa al-Ghul, Mayy Nayef, Sumaiya al-Susi, Rana Mourtaja and more.

Di Cintio seems to be sympathetic to Palestinian pain and injustices, but when confronted with negative things about Israel, he can't seem to wrap his brain around it - he puts things Palestinians tell him they've experienced in quotes, it's all "he claims," "allegedly," and never allows a Palestinian permission to be angry or advocate for freedom by any means necessary. They must be unarmed and nonviolent in his opinion. He doesn't have such requirements for Israel or Israelis, like the Western country he comes from.

A few examples:
He said of the Israeli policy of blackmailing gay Palestinians to become informants that the person he spoke to suggested this was the case. He could've verified this with books, journalism and human rights organizations in 2018. It's a fact. He doesn't seem to be able to believe this about Israel, though.

He repeats some easy false history, the US/Canada summary, of the "conflict" as he calls it - Jews accepted partition, Palestinians rejected it. I hope he reads Khalidi's Hundred Years War or Ilan Pappé's work with Said or Khalidi. They can help him out of that with what actually happened.

In his meeting with Anni Kanafani, Di Cintio shares his view that Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated in retaliation for planning the Lod airport attack with the Red Army (he labels them terrorists).

Anni corrected him that Israel's plan was to liquidate intellectuals. (You can see this in the recent 2023 Israeli assault too - they called Refaat Alareer, taunted him, then leveled his building. Anyone good at communicating the struggle to Americans/Westerners is a target. It's repeated with journalists, professors, doctors.) Di Cintio still struggles for pages as he looks at photos of Kanafani, whose work he loves, with the possibility that he also could've killed someone. First, his widow said his weapon was a pen and Israel knew he was dangerous with that weapon. Second, under the daily violence Israel inflicts on the captive population, if he did plan an attack or kill someone - that would not invalidate his literary genius or the fact that Palestinians deserve equality, a life, self-determination, freedom as much as he does, as much as Israelis do. If he did plan an attack or kill someone, it certainly wouldn't in any way justify Israel's actions, occupation, collective punishment, attacks on occupied people, disproportionate violence, being THE CAUSE of the entire situation, cycle, conflict, etc - 75 years of genocide. I got really annoyed with the author at that point - just on page 21!

He loves talking to the Israeli curator of stolen Palestinian books now absorbed into their collection and also in a separate room. They say it's destruction and conservation, demolition and salvage - as though there's beauty or confusion there, but why isn't Di Cintio as

mad as I am, as mad as one might be if a Nazi with a museum full of Holocaust victims' belongs looted from their house or taken from them at concentration camps from jewelry to furniture to teeth and saying, wow, aren't you glad I was there to save all these artifacts? It's obscene! A shrine to the massive continued injustice. It's not conservation. It's gloating over mass murder and large scale theft.

One of his interview subjects said her relative suffered intestinal illness brought on by his Israeli captors treatment of him - he used the word "claimed" as though he doubts seriously Israel caused such a thing. He hasn't read up on Israeli prisons, clearly. In the sae conversation, he couldn't believe a militant Marxist could write a sweet sappy letter to his mother. He doesn't believe the Palestinian is a person, does he?

I was annoyed of El-Kurd's behalf when Di Cintio refused to believe that an Israeli doctor tried to get his mother to abort him but not his twin sister as a demographic strategy. Instead of investigating or bringing up that Israel does experiments on prisoners and sells Palestinian organs with doctors' help, so it's possible, he just dismisses it and says, wow, look how much the sides mistrust each other.

The last annoyance I'll highlight is something he said to Atef Abu Saif asking about The Drone Eats With Me. Di Cintio wanted to know if it was a deliberate omission not to mention the

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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 4h

William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

"If the base is asking for a little more combativeness against a president whom Democrats have long characterized as an existential threat to democracy—and who has, since reassuming his reign, gone wildly out of his way to demonstrate that Democrats were right to brand him in this way—then these demands are not unreasonable."

#Musk #Trump #Democrats #resistance
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**Sankofab** @SANKOFAB@zirk.us · 5h

Sankofab @SANKOFAB@zirk.us

Israel Has Been Trying To Ban Free Speech For Years

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YRzk-zQgI-U

#MahmoudKhalil
#ColumbiaUniversity
#Gaza
#Palestine
#Syria
#iran
#lebanon
#Genocide
#geopolitics
@palestine@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmygrad.ml @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism
#antiPalestinianracism
#tikto
#cdnpoli
#democracy
#freespeech
#blackmastodon
@BLKNewsNow
@politics
@blackvoices
#usa
#canada
#humanrights
#resistance

YouTubeIsrael Has Been Trying To Ban Free Speech For YearsBy BreakThrough News

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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 5h

William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

And North Carolina NAACP head and professor in the Practice of Public Theology and Public Policy and founding director of the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy at Yale Divinity School William J. Barber II states,

"It may take mass call-ins…. It may take mass nonviolent actions. It may take mass pray-ins…. But that's all right. Whatever it takes…. The lies and the greed cannot have the last word."

#Musk #Trump #destruction #resistance #workers #firings #BlackChurch #BlackChristians
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**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 5h *

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William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

Speaking of resistance, Dan Froomkin zeroes in on the strong resistance to Musk-Trump being fostered in Black churches, where African Methodist Episcopal bishop Reginald Jackson states,

"As faith leaders, we must remind our sisters and brothers that resistance is a sacred duty."

#Musk #Trump #destruction #resistance #workers #firings #BlackChurch #BlackChristians
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https://www.headsupnews.org/p/boycott-target-and-other-marching

Heads Up News · 1dBoycott Target, and other marching orders from Black church leadersBy Dan Froomkin

**William Lindsey** @wdlindsy@toad.social · 5h *

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William Lindsey @wdlindsy@toad.social

"BREAKING: A U.S. district judge just ruled that thousands of fired probationary federal workers must be reinstated. This is a huge win for federal workers and The Contrarian’s own Norm Eisen was on the front lines. Hear his thoughts just moments after leaving court now."

~ Contrarian and Norman Eisen

#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #workers #firings #resistance #LawandOrder
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/live-with-norman-eisen

The Contrarian · 8hWe Won! Federal Employees to be Re-hired ImmediatelyBy Norman Eisen

**Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!** @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social · 6h *

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Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS! @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

If you're looking for more ways to get involved, most states have their own #50501movement forums on Reddit. Here you can often find events well beyond just your state capital city. Here's just one example where you'll find protest notices and videos you won't see in pro-fascist corporate media!

#protests #resistance #fascism #Trump #Musk #Oregon

https://www.reddit.com/r/Oregon50501/

**Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!** @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social · 6h

Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS! @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

Give it up for the AMES VISIBILITY BRIGADE!

A group of people in Ames, #Iowa, stand around in a public park on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings to let everybody know we don't have kings in the US!

These people DGAF how red their state is!

#protests #fascism #resistance

https://www.storydems.org/main-calander/2025/3/15/ames-visibility-brigade-rl7ga-793yg

https://www.facebook.com/StoryCountyDemocrats/posts/tonight-make-signs-to-take-to-the-ames-visibility-brigade-that-will-be-demonstra/949759247340359/

Story DemsAmes Visibility Brigade — Story DemsLocal activists have formed the Ames Visibility Brigade. They have organized a recurring event. We encourage our members to bring signs and posters and join this effort. See the goals and guidelines below. Thursdays 4 pm - 5:30 pm and Saturdays at 10 am - 11:30 am Bandshell Park, Ames &nbsp

**DionyZack** @dionyzack.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · 7h

DionyZack @dionyzack.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy

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**DionyZack** @DionyZack@piaille.fr · 7h

DionyZack @DionyZack@piaille.fr

glané sur le net Réaction à une carte blanche intitulée « Résister à la frénésie militariste » publiée dans le journal belge Le Soir.: Il est très important que le débat sur l'aide européenne à la résistance militaire ukrainienne face à l'invasion coloniale russe puisse se poser à gauche dans toute sa complexité. Trop longtemps la guerre à l'Est a été un tabou, un impensé dans une large part de la gauche «… https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article73997&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Ukraine #Militarisme #Résistance #Europe #Guerre

www.europe-solidaire.orgRéaction à une carte blanche intitulée « Résister à la frénésie militariste » publiée dans le journal belge Le Soir. - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières Il est très important que le débat sur l'aide européenne à la résistance militaire ukrainienne face à l'invasion coloniale russe puisse se poser à (…)

**DionyZack** @DionyZack@piaille.fr · 8h

DionyZack @DionyZack@piaille.fr

actu militante Résolution Ukraine – 18ème Congrès mondial de la Quatrième Internationale: Le 18e Congrès mondial de la Quatrième Internationale s'est tenu en Belgique du 23 au 28 février. La discussion, très large, a porté sur la situation internationale sous tous ses aspects, de la polycrise structurelle dans ses dimensions environnementale, économique, sociale et politique aux (…)
--… https://www.gaucheanticapitaliste.org/resolution-ukraine-quatrieme-internationale/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Ukraine #QuatrièmeInternationale #Anticapitalisme #Résistance #CriseMondiale

**William** @wm@mast.wmclark.com · 8h

William @wm@mast.wmclark.com

“As Jews, we’re here today mere hours before the holiday of Purim begins – a holiday where we honor Esther who used her voice to speak out and demand that the king not commit genocide,” the woman said in the video. “Today we are using her same courage to speak out.”

#protest #genocide #gaza #palestine #resistance #GoodTrouble #JewishVoiceForPeace

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/us/mahmoud-khalil-protesters-arrested-trump-tower/index.html

CNN · 9hProtesters arrested after storming Trump Tower to demand release of Mahmoud KhalilBy Chelsea Bailey