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usonian

(21,540 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:16 PM Tuesday

What Would Happen If Every "Resistor" Did What They Did Yesterday in the PNW?

Jack Hopkins blog.
A GREAT READ

https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/

Kristi Noem, now Homeland Security Secretary …wanted to “inform” travelers why flights were delayed and TSA agents unpaid ... a partisan ad in disguise, blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

Airport authorities from Seattle to Los Angeles quietly refused.They cited policy…the Hatch Act

They didn’t form a committee or hold a press conference. They simply said, “No.”

The Power of NO
Authoritarians rise on obedience…not genius. Their systems depend on millions of small yesses…clerks stamping papers…officers enforcing bad orders…managers looking the other way. Break that chain once and the illusion of inevitability cracks.


Tell that to ass-kissing Apple and Google.

LOTS MORE.
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/what-would-happen-if-every-resistor

All the articles on his substack are good reads.

Repost them. We all need reminders.


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What Would Happen If Every "Resistor" Did What They Did Yesterday in the PNW? (Original Post) usonian Tuesday OP
More people need to say NO. TRUMP DOES NOT OWN US. Irish_Dem Tuesday #1
I sent Tim Cook a short email. usonian Tuesday #2
Excellent. Thank you. Amaryllis Tuesday #3
Jack Hopkins always is bracing, strengthening for the work ahead. Focuses on effectiveness too. summer_in_TX Wednesday #4
I imagine that resistors in the PNW do what resistors do everywhere DFW Wednesday #5

usonian

(21,540 posts)
2. I sent Tim Cook a short email.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:33 PM
Tuesday
Do not obey in advance.

Historian Timothy Snyder’s first lesson in his book On Tyranny is “Do not obey in advance.” To obey a tyrant before you are compelled to do so teaches them what they will be able to get you to do, easily, without even needing to expend the resources and energy it takes to carry out that part of their agenda.

summer_in_TX

(3,874 posts)
4. Jack Hopkins always is bracing, strengthening for the work ahead. Focuses on effectiveness too.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 12:55 AM
Wednesday

I credit his attitude and perspective with coming through the election prepared for what happened and ready to stand up for democracy from the beginning. No immobilization from fear or sadness, although I wasn't free of either, but it was tempered with resolve.

He's one of perhaps the handful of writers for whom I am a paying subscriber.

DFW

(59,158 posts)
5. I imagine that resistors in the PNW do what resistors do everywhere
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 01:37 AM
Wednesday

They impede the flow of current in whatever circuit they have been installed.

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