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Tue Feb 11, 2025, 08:55 AM Feb 11

'Send In the Attack Corgis: The Good, The Bad and The Winsome'

"Okay, obviously the 'bad' amidst the apocalyptic shitstorm of our democracy - the lies, crimes, cruelty, idiocy - is unrelenting. But in the name of our collective sanity, rather than plunge back into the muck, we'll kick off a shiny new week by unearthing whatever fragments evince the merest glimmer of light - some righteous speeches, stellar trolling, upright judges, tips from the raccoons of resistance, and (mostly four-footed, but still) tales of hope. All we got."

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"First Dog also made available, viaProject Gutenberg's free digital archives and its own Raccoons of the Resistance, a nifty lesson in fighting fascism as outlined in a World War ll-era Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Released by an Office of Strategic Services that became the CIA, and now Gutenberg's fifth most popular download, the manual was designed to guide ordinary 'citizen-saboteurs' to use everyday actions and household objects - salt, nails, pebbles, thread - to bring legal. non-violent, low-level disruption: 'Citizen saboteurs were highly effective at resisting the last time there were Nazis, and now it is our turn.' Drop tools into machines, hide or lose things, delete text, be a pain - small, accessible acts of resistance to slow a war effort or curtail a draconian government's authoritarian overreach or, the raccoons suggest, otherwise help with 'those ever-present 'I'm living in an omnicidal kleptocracy' blues.'"

https://www.commondreams.org/further/send-in-the-attack-corgis-the-good-the-bad-and-the-winsome

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