#mobilization

[thenuclearmallard]

[saywhat-politics]

Washington, DC, Residents Are Sharing Their Opinions On Trump's Mobilization Of The National Guard

After cutting DC's budget and federal security funding, Trump sent 1,500 troops to patrol the city's wealthiest neighborhoods, claiming it's

After cutting DC's budget and federal security funding, Trump sent 1,500 troops to patrol the city's wealthiest neighborhoods, claiming it's about crime — but residents aren't buying it.

DC has been stretched thin this year, first staring down a potential $1.1 billion cut to its local budget — which Congress ultimately reversed with the backing of both city leaders and President Trump — and then absorbing a very real $20 million slash in federal security funding, a 44% cut in FEMA's urban grant program. Now, Trump has signed an executive order to place the city under a federally controlled "Safe and Beautiful Task Force," raising fresh questions about federal overreach into local governance.

[luulapants]

Hands Off! Join the National Mobilization to Fight Back · Hands Off on Mobilize

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with Hands Off.

Find your local protest - all out for April 5th! Hands off our federal services, hands off our government! This protest is being promoted by the Federal Unionists Network, the collective organization of all unions for federal civil servants.

The recent executive orders from Trump are the largest assault on collective bargaining rights in modern US history. If the federal unions fall, the rest of them will not be far behind. They are attacking the federal unions because we are the largest threat to their attempts to dismantle our government services, like social security, the CDC, the VA, the FDA, the USDA, the National Weather Service, the Parks Service, and so many more.

Please come stand with the federal unions, the federal workers, workers' rights, and the federal services that you and your loved ones rely on!

[saphronethaleph]

Mothballs

“Checklist step forty-seven,” Mira Tern said, glancing down at her datapad, then back up at the computer systems. “Check that battery power is above eight percent charge… where’s the indicator for that…”

TY-3 whistled, and Mira glanced at the astromech.

“Thanks,” she replied, returning her gaze to the control panel. “And it’s, uh… right, twelve percent. I guess we’ve been going a bit slower than we should, huh?”

They’d have to be, if the generator they’d brought in had recharged the ship’s emergency batteries that much.

She flicked her comlink on. “Hey, Flynn, what’s the status on the reactors?”

“We finished providing the reaction mass and hypergolic slug for reactor one twenty minutes ago!” Flynn answered. “Everything down here is closed up and ready, you’re the one who’s delaying us at this point!”

“Right, right, I get it,” Mira replied, rolling her eyes, then checked her datapad again. “Step forty-eight… okay, here we go.”

She flicked two more switches, activating self test, and the emergency lights flashed on and off once.

A holo of the ship appeared, and Mira and Tye both gave it a once-over.

“Looks all green to here, Tye,” she declared, and the astromech rocked back and forth slightly in confirmation. “Great. Step forty-nine.”

She triple-checked the numbers, then flicked a control. Another.

Some of the switches on the panel lit up, others went dim again, and Mira moved back and forth between three different duty stations as she followed the flowchart on her pad. Then, finally, everything converged on a single control, and she took a deep breath.

Then pressed it.

There was a kind of subliminal thump, the whole ship trembling slightly, then telltales and indicators lit up all across the board.

“Reactor one start,” she reported, into the comlink again. “Everything looks good from up here, Flynn!”

“We’re all good here, too,” Flynn replied. “Reactor one is running smoothly, we’re getting a good efficiency curve, within five percent of nominal. They mothballed this ship well.”

“Then let’s get on with activating the rest of the reactors,” Mira decided. “How long until I can begin the start procedure for Two and Three?”

“We’ll be good in… fifteen, twenty?” Flynn said. “That’s for Two, we’ve been doing some of the prep work while we were waiting. Make yourself useful and get some of the other systems unlocked and online.”

“Hey!” Mira protested, shaking her head, then tutted. “Well, whatever. I’ll bring up… shields, I guess? Does One have enough power for that?”

“It should, but let’s not chance it until Two is online,” Flynn said. “Sensors should be better.”

“Got it, sensors it is,” Mira agreed, signing off, and switched to another file on her pad. “Okay, step one is… of course it’s on the other side of the bridge…”

She picked up her toolkit with a huff, and began schlepping it across the bridge to the sensor control station.

Halfway there, she paused, and looked out the armoured window.

The ships in the Chommell Sector Reserve Fleet were far enough apart that she could only see even the capital ships as toylike shapes, lit by the distant sun, and the escorts were not much more than points of light. Much closer, though, was the Makepeace, the Nebulon-B all the reactivation teams were working off, and she smiled a not particularly charitable smile as she looked out at the engineering support frigate… and four of the five other Star Cruisers that they were here to reactivate.

Bringing the Reserve Fleet from mothballs to full active status would take months, of course. They were operating off canned air and only pressurizing certain rooms, and there were less than a dozen engineers per ship for a truly vast war vessel. But it was happening, and it was inexorable… and it was happening for hundreds of Reserve Fleets, all across the galaxy.

Star Cruisers, Star Destroyers, heavy frigates, cruiser squadrons… the Military Disarmament Act limited the strength of the New Republic Defence Force, the active military, but putting everyone serving the arms industry out of work straight away would have been an economic catastrophe in a galaxy that had sorely needed to avoid them.

And the result was… something the First Order could have no idea was coming. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been foolish enough to pick a fight with the Republic.

TY-3 whistled, and Mira sighed.

“Yeah, yeah, I’m on it,” she said, finishing her trek to the sensor panel. “Plug in and start the self test, will you? Now we’ve got reactor power this should go quicker…”

[its-a-date]

The Civil War of 1861-1865 proved the most destructive conflict in the history of the United States. In those four years, more Americans died in combat than in both world wars of the twentieth century. After months of muddle, the North eventually mobilized its resources and crushed the South by ruthless firepower fueled by industrial might – here was a foretaste of the American way of war in the century ahead.

"America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States," revised and updated edition - David Reynolds

[politicaljellyfish]

Who am i?

Hello, i am your average canadian on tumblr who has been horrified by the disgusting destruction of human rights in the US. I just could not keep watching my american poor, bipoc, lgbtqia+, and immigrant siblings having their freedoms revoked by this orange creature. I made this blog focused on helping the fight against oligarchy by sharing important information and ways to get involved.

(Main: @jellyfishtoenail)

This is not about left or right; this is about our freedom vs. trump's tyrannical government.

Tags:

#Info - Information about what the trump administration is doing

#ways to help - Ways to help the fight against American fascism

#reblog - Reblogs

#jellyexplains - My own posts

Ways to help:

mobilize.us - A website that catalogues all of the protests and events happening near you. It is a good starting place for getting involved.

GeneralStrikeUS.com - A general worker strike against the unconstitutional trump regime. You only need 3.5% of a population to do a successful strike, which means 1.1 million Americans. There are already 34 hundred thousand people planning to join.

Indivisible.org - An organisation holding many country-wide protests against the current fascist regime. A good way to find local events to join.

NoKings.org - While trump wants to waste millions of taxpayer dollars on his h*tler-esce birthday celebration, let's celebrate the american people instead. People all over the country are doing their own celebrations with NoKings.org to celebrate the American people and fight back against trumps narcissistic attention grab by not paying him any attention at all. Takes place on June 14th.

[monkeyssalad-blog]

ERDT, Hans Rudi. Das Plakat, Nov. 1914. by Halloween HJB