BoycottTwitter

I really liked the point Robert Reich made in #10. If you could only read one thing from the article please read this:

Keep the faith. Do not give up on America. Remember, Trump won the popular vote by only 1.5 points. By any historical measure, this was a squeaker. In the House, the Republicans’ five-seat lead is the smallest since the Great Depression. In the Senate, Republicans lost half of 2024’s competitive Senate races, including in four states Trump won.

America has deep problems, to be sure. Which is why we can’t give up on it—or give up the fights for social justice, equal political rights, equal opportunity, and the rule of law. The forces of Trumpian repression and neofascism would like nothing better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. We cannot allow them to.

We will never give up.

And then I think the next most important thing is doing what you can to remove the pillars of support from Trump. He mentions boycotting Twitter and Tesla and other companies that support Trump like Fox News and boycotting advertisers. It's a really great idea to try!

GB News recently did an "interview" (if you could call it that) with Donald Trump which was full of misinformation, lies and was very one sided.

I saw this petition going around and thought I would share it. I will note that with petitions they can help a little but I believe it's best to also contact whoever you're trying to petition yourself. The people in organizations you're protesting, or want change from need to "feel it". Please consider giving Ofcom a call and demand they investigate this horrible interview: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/what-we-do/contact-us you can mention that there's a petition that has already got loads of signatures.

Musk says he wants to Abolish the EU. What a dumb idea, I say let's Abolish Elon Musk in Europe and everywhere.

You can help abolish Elon Musk. Here's how:

• The lowest hanging fruit is if you have a Twitter account (I'm betting by now hardly anyone reading this does) but if you're a holdout it's already way overdue, time to stop using that account. Sadly Twitter recycles deleted usernames so the best solution is to park your account meaning make a post saying you're now on Bluesky, Mastodon or Lemmy and stop using Twitter. You can view any public tweet with nitter.net or xcancel.com just by replacing x.com with nitter.net or xcancel.com, everything else stays the same in the URL but of course it would be nice if you strip out any tracking parameters on the URL too. Also be sure to use these services when sharing a link to a Tweet instead of linking to Twitter directly.

• Next try urging other people you know to make the switch. Have a friend on Twitter? Tell them to switch and offer to help them if they are not good with computers/phones. Know any companies, organizations, entities or groups still on Twitter? Contact them and ask them to switch to Bluesky or especially if they're more technically oriented consider mentioning Mastodon as well. It's surprisingly easy to do this, most companies have a contact form on their website or an email address, just give them a message, you never know, it might work. Also very important: urge all companies you can to avoid advertising spending on Twitter.

• Next let's talk Tesla: again with this one I think pretty much everyone already knows not to buy a Tesla. So here's what you can do if you want to make an impact: we got to strip Musk of all subsidies. For this one I would be grateful for help identifying what subsidies Elon Musk receives in Europe but please contact every politician you can and demand that Musk doesn't receive any subsidies, incentives or breaks from your government. Tesla should not be eligible for incentives to purchase an EV. Another thing is if you know someone who is thinking about buying a Tesla tell them why it's a bad idea. For example Tesla cars are a deathtrap due to the electric handles. People have burned alive in a Tesla unable to escape. Also I've read reports Teslas have poor build quality. So even if the person you know doesn't care at all about politics they should still care about safety and build quality.

• With Tesla the next step is to give Elon Musk a taste of his own medicine and see how much Musk really likes tariffs. Put tariffs or maybe even bans on Tesla products.

• Another thing to do for Tesla is if they are applying for any permits or licenses to demand your government denies it. Fascists should not be able to setup shop in your country.

• Lastly another idea is back, invest and support companies who have better products or potential to beat Musk's companies. With this one be sure you're not just trading one right-wing asshole for another. Make sure the company is more ethical. This is especially important for Starlink and SpaceX which are harder to boycott because they are b2b and a government contractor. However for government contractors you do have a lot of options to contact your politicians and demand they go with someone else for future contracts but note I'll admit there are some cases where right now SpaceX may be the only option unfortunately. Credits to all the SpaceX employees who were able to pull this off despite Musk's poor leadership.