Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace
Updated 3/7/2026
Corporations aren’t moral or immoral.
They’re empty machines built for one purpose: profit.
That’s the creed.
That’s the rot.
They don’t care about democracy.
They don’t care about kids.
They don’t care about truth.
They care about the ledger.
Right now the country is watching powerful men scramble as the Epstein files crack open—child rape, coverups, prosecutors who protected predators, politicians who ran interference.
We’re seeing Pam Bondi types sanitize crimes, media sanitize monsters, and corporations quietly bankroll the whole rotten system.
And every time outrage spikes, the machine waits us out.
Because historically, nothing really changes until money moves.
Not hashtags.
Not speeches.
Not one-day boycotts.
Sustained pressure.
When brands become liabilities, behavior changes.
When profits wobble, doors suddenly open.
When reputations cost revenue, accountability appears.
That’s how apartheid fell.
That’s how labor rights were won.
That’s how corporate power has always been forced to bend.
So we hit them where it actually hurts:
the ledger.
No fire.
No bullets.
Just millions of tiny refusals—canceled subscriptions, redirected spending, long-term boycotts that dry up the river instead of splashing in it.
This guide is a living list of collaborators and profiteers—the banks, corporations, tech platforms, retailers, and enablers who fund corruption, protect abusers, fuel authoritarianism, and profit off collapse.
Use it.
Share it.
Add to it.
Every name is a pressure point.
Every withheld dollar is a strike.
This is how the needle moves.
CHILI’S (NEW)
Let me be clear about something first.
I will never eat at Chili’s again.
A corporate-owned Chili’s—not a franchise—fired at least two employees for no reason other than being trans.
That’s my personal line. My personal boycott.
But this is also a good moment to remember what boycotts are actually for.
Boycotts exist to change behavior.
They are not vendettas. They are not about feeling morally superior or getting a moment of emotional satisfaction from sticking it to an abusive corporation.
Sometimes we do feel that satisfaction. A tiny flicker of justice in a world where justice is in short supply.
But that isn’t the goal.
The goal is pressure.
And pressure only works if there is an offramp.
Why would a corporation change its behavior if there was no way to ever be un-boycotted?
It wouldn’t.
That’s why this guide keeps its criteria tight.
Companies appear here when they:
• Fuel fascism
• Bend to Trump and the authoritarian machinery around him
At first glance, Chili’s might not seem to fit those categories.
But fascism is built on bullying. And bullies target the most vulnerable people first.
Right now, that means trans people.
They know they can’t openly fire someone for being a racial minority. They know the backlash would be immediate if they targeted someone for being gay.
So the bullies move to the next group they think they can get away with abusing.
Trans people are among the least protected and most vulnerable people in our society. And that’s exactly why cowards target them.
But my personal boycott doesn’t matter. Yours doesn’t either.
Well, they do matter to us, but they don’t affect the change that we are hoping for.
What matters is that corporations start asking themselves a question the next time the regime comes knocking.
Will this lead to a boycott?
If the answer is yes, the decision becomes harder.
That’s the point.
Chili’s is owned by Brinker International, a publicly traded company.
That means we have leverage.
We can divest.
We can refuse to eat their food.
We can make their cruelty expensive.
And there is an offramp.
Denounce the firings.
Pay settlements.
Pledge that it will never happen again.
Fire everyone responsible—up the ladder if necessary. Anyone who allowed it to happen.
Do that, and maybe some of us will come eat your mediocre food again.
It just won’t be me.
Until then:
Boycott Chili’s.
Boycott Maggiano’s Little Italy
Divest from Brinker if you own the stock.
And even if our personal boycotts are not the point, it still feels good to stand up to a bully.
The Resistance Email Ranking: From Gmail to the Secure Ones (NEW)
Why rank email providers from worst to best for security?
Because in the world we are living in now, email might become the last reliable line of communication.
Here’s a scenario that is no longer hypothetical.
A rogue, authoritarian government decides your actions are illegal. And as we’ve seen repeatedly, that doesn’t require you to actually break the law. Sometimes it simply means exercising your constitutional right to protest.
You did everything right.
You used ProtonMail.
Secure email. End-to-end encryption. A company outside the United States.
You thought that meant protection.
But then your government decides it wants you.
They go to a Swiss court—because ProtonMail is based in Switzerland—and request a warrant for your account information.
And Switzerland, which many people still imagine as a bastion of neutrality and privacy, has quietly aligned itself with modern surveillance protocols. In practice, these warrants are often approved quickly, sometimes with very little scrutiny.
At that point, ProtonMail may be legally compelled to hand over certain information—particularly account metadata or payment details tied to the account.
From there, investigators may be able to connect the dots.
I’m not saying this to cause panic.
If you’re using ProtonMail, you’re already doing far better than most people. The company genuinely prioritizes privacy and security, and they have resisted intrusive requests when possible. They are far more protective of users than most mainstream email providers.
But even the most privacy-focused service has limits when governments start leaning on courts and international legal agreements.
And realistically, most people will never face that kind of scrutiny. Proton has tens of millions of users. The odds that authorities are targeting you personally are extremely low.
Still, the incident I’m referencing did happen, and it illustrates something important:
Security isn’t just about encryption.
It’s about understanding what information can still exist around your email—payment records, metadata, account recovery systems, and the legal jurisdictions companies operate within.
And right now, email matters more than ever.
If you subscribe to Notes from the Apocalypse, we use multiple ways to communicate. But if things deteriorate—if social media platforms disappear, become censored, or simply stop working—email will be the last dependable channel left.
When that happens, information travels through networks of people.
Journalists.
Government sources.
Activists.
Ordinary people on the ground.
When those stories reach me, I pass them along to the people who need them.
If you’re subscribed, that includes you.
That’s why choosing the right email provider isn’t a trivial decision.
It may ultimately determine whether you stay informed—or whether the line goes dark.
So let’s walk through the major email providers, from the worst for security and privacy to the best options currently available.
1. Gmail (Google) — Worst
DO NOT USE!
Google’s entire business model is data extraction and profiling
Massive cooperation with governments and law enforcement requests
Enormous metadata collection
Account activity tied to Google ecosystem tracking
AI scanning and behavioral analytics
Security reality
Gmail is convenient, not private.
You should assume Google can see nearly everything tied to your account activity.
If you need to de-google yourself, you can learn how to do that here:
For activists or journalists, it is one of the least safe options available and google in all it’s iterations should be avoided. Google Use=Fuel for Fascism.
Status: Boycott! Because it’s an insecure system with surveillance tech that should scare you.
2. Yahoo Mail / AOL Mail (Verizon Media legacy systems)
Why it’s bad
History of mass surveillance scanning programs
Multiple large-scale breaches
Weak security reputation
Ad-driven data collection
These services survive mostly on inertia and legacy users.
They are not designed with privacy in mind.
Status: Boycott!
3. Outlook / Hotmail (Microsoft)
Mixed reputation
Pros:
Strong infrastructure
Good account security tools
Cons:
Microsoft cooperates extensively with government requests
Large-scale metadata retention
Integrated with Microsoft ecosystem tracking
Corporate data mining
Outlook is more secure than Gmail technically, but still not private. No real reason to use it.
Status: Boycott!
4. Apple iCloud Mail
Better but still corporate
Pros:
Apple markets itself as privacy-focused
Less advertising-based tracking
Strong device-level encryption
Cons:
Not true end-to-end encryption for email
U.S. jurisdiction
Apple can still access account data when legally compelled
Better than Google or Microsoft, but still a corporate ecosystem product.
Status: Boycott
Your time and attention will be turned into money, money to buy Donald Trump larger and larger trophies for nothing.
5. Fastmail — Good Privacy, Not Anonymous
Pros
Independent company (not ad-driven)
Very strong technical security
No advertising or behavioral tracking
Excellent reputation for reliability
Transparent company culture
Cons
Based in Australia (Five Eyes intelligence alliance)
No default end-to-end encryption
Email contents accessible to provider if compelled
Payment identity tied to account
Fastmail is a great email provider for normal users, and far better than Gmail or Outlook.
But it’s not designed to protect activists from state-level investigation the way Proton, Tutanota, Posteo, or Mailbox.org attempt to.
Status: Good, not perfect
6. Proton Mail
Strong privacy reputation
Pros:
End-to-end encryption
Designed specifically for privacy
Minimal data collection
Anonymous payment options (espcially important given the incident discussed above)
Cons:
Subject to Swiss legal orders
Metadata can still exist in some cases
Payment information can potentially identify users
ProtonMail is one of the strongest mainstream privacy options, but not invulnerable. If you’re on it (like me), don’t panic. They mean you no harm.
What will I do? Continue to use it but slowly convert to one of the more secure options below.
Status: Secure, but I would hesitate to put my payment details, though there are anonymous payment methods. Or use the free version.
7. StartMail
Strong privacy, simple and reliable
Pros
StartMail was created by the team behind Startpage, the privacy-focused search engine.
Privacy-first design
No advertising or behavioral tracking
Strong encryption options (PGP supported)
Netherlands jurisdiction (strong EU privacy laws)
No data-mining business model
Cons
Not fully end-to-end encrypted by default
Paid service (no large free tier)
Provider can technically access email contents if legally compelled
Smaller ecosystem than Proton
StartMail is a very solid privacy-focused email provider for people who want strong security without the complexity of some activist-oriented services.
It is dramatically better than Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo in terms of privacy and data exploitation.
For most users looking to escape Big Tech surveillance email systems, StartMail is one of the safest mainstream choices available.
Status: Safe
8. Tutanota
Extremely privacy-focused
Pros:
End-to-end encrypted mailbox
Minimal metadata storage
Open-source cryptography
Based in Germany with strict privacy laws
Cons:
German courts can still compel cooperation
Smaller ecosystem and fewer features
Status: Technically very strong for privacy.
9. Mailbox.org
Highly respected in security circles
Pros:
Strong encryption support
Germany-based privacy protections
No advertising
Excellent transparency
Cons:
Requires some technical understanding to fully secure
Status: A serious privacy email service used by many journalists and security professionals.
10. Posteo — One of the Best
Gold standard privacy email
Pros:
Anonymous account creation possible
Anonymous payment options
Minimal data retention
No advertising
Very transparent security practices
Cons:
Smaller provider
Status: No real “cons.” Posteo is often considered one of the most privacy-respecting email providers available.
This guide—and these rankings—are not set in stone.
Security changes. Laws change. Companies change.
If you have new information, corrections, or better options, leave a comment on this boycott guide and share what you know. The goal here is simple: help each other make the smartest choices possible.
Because the reality is this:
If things continue to deteriorate—and if social media disappears, gets censored, or simply stops working—email may be the last reliable channel left.
Once that idea sounded paranoid.
Now it sounds practical.
If you want to stay connected…
If you want to know what’s happening on the ground…
If you don’t want to face whatever comes alone…
Then subscribe.
It’s one more layer of communication.
One more layer of resilience.
One more way to stay informed when the noise gets loud.
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Chat GPT (NEW)
No one should be using AI casually or without thought.
The number of people using it like a toy—treating it as a search engine or asking it to put leprechaun suits on photos of their dogs—is obscene and destructive. The people on Substack who scrape other people’s work, run it through AI, and republish it as their own are even worse. That’s not just disgusting.
It’s theft.
Nearly all uses of AI are unnecessary.
With one exception.
Right now we are fighting Trump, MAGA, Nazis, white nationalists, AIPAC, and in many cases our own government. They have access to powerful technological tools and they will absolutely use them to dominate, surveil, and control if they can.
So the question becomes simple:
Do we hand them that advantage voluntarily?
Too bad we don’t have access to the same technology.
Except we do.
And unlike them, many of us actually have the moral clarity to understand that this technology should not be used for frivolous nonsense or lazy shortcuts. But refusing to use it at all—even when it could strengthen resistance—doesn’t make us principled.
It makes us foolish.
Fortunately, there is at least one decent option.
Last week, Anthropic—the company behind Claude—refused to bend to demands from the Trump administration.
They drew firm red lines:
No using their AI for mass domestic surveillance of American citizens
No handing it over for fully autonomous lethal weapons that kill without human oversight
When the Pentagon pushed for unrestricted “all lawful purposes” access—language broad enough to override those safeguards—Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said no.
He stated the company could not in good conscience build tools that might target ordinary people or remove human responsibility from life-and-death decisions.
The response from the administration was immediate and brutal.
Trump ordered federal agencies to cease using Anthropic technology, with a six-month phase-out for embedded military systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled the company a “supply chain risk to national security”—language normally reserved for hostile foreign firms.
Trump himself called Anthropic “left-wing nut jobs.”
The company is now fighting back in court, arguing the move is retaliatory and illegal. But the damage is already real: they have lost massive government contracts simply for refusing to enable potential abuses.
That matters.
Because it is rare for a tech company to actually enforce moral limits against power—especially when doing so costs billions.
Anthropic did.
And that stand protects against something genuinely dangerous: AI systems being weaponized for warrantless mass surveillance or automated killing systems turned inward on citizens.
In an administration pushing boundaries on loyalty tests and surveillance, that line matters.
So reward it.
Switch to Claude.
Use it where you can.
Support the company that held the line.
By contrast, OpenAI (ChatGPT) moved in the opposite direction.
Within hours of the Anthropic ban, Sam Altman announced a deal with the Pentagon to deploy OpenAI models on classified military networks. They say guardrails remain—no mass surveillance of Americans and no autonomous weapons without human oversight.
Maybe.
But the timing tells a different story.
One company says no and gets blacklisted.
Another rushes in to fill the gap and secures the contracts.
That looks less like principle and more like opportunism.
So the boycott is simple and targeted.
Boycott OpenAI.
Boycott ChatGPT.
Delete accounts
Cancel subscriptions.
Stop feeding the company that jumped at the chance to replace the one that refused to enable abuse.
We can’t use Grok anyway—it’s owned by a literal Nazi
But Claude is available.
And it didn’t bend the knee.
In this acute fight—against surveillance, purges, and unchecked executive power—we should reward the tools and companies that show actual limits and punish the ones that fold for profit.
The clock is ticking either way.
So pick the side that protects people, not the one that arms the threat.
Boycott: Chat GPT, Grok, Google Gemini, Meta AI.
Use: Claude, but only when you really need it. To resist.
Palantir Technologies
The Eye That Never Blinks
Heinrich’s Small Investment
Heinrich was an early investor in J.A. Topf & Sons.
Not a huge stake — just a modest position that had started paying nice dividends.
He knew exactly why the profits were soaring.
Topf was building the crematoria ovens and gas-chamber ventilation systems for Auschwitz and other camps. The SS contracts were no secret in Erfurt, where the company was based.
Heinrich thought of himself as a good man. The ovens bothered him. The suffering bothered him.
But what could one person do?
He was small. Powerless. Selling would mean paperwork, fees, maybe questions from authorities in a regime that punished disloyalty.
His shares were only a tiny fraction of Topf’s capital. His divestment wouldn’t stop a single oven from being installed.
And if word got out that he’d sold…
Well, one careless comment to the wrong neighbor could already land you in trouble.
So Heinrich kept the position.
The dividends kept coming.
He told himself it was just business. Just survival. Just a small slice of a much larger machine.
When the war ended and the ovens went cold, that small, passive investment left blood on Heinrich’s hands — not because he designed the ovens, but because he chose to keep profiting from them when he could have walked away.
Palantir Works the Same Way
Palantir isn’t a company most people interact with directly.
You don’t buy Palantir software the way you buy a phone or a streaming subscription.
Instead, many people are tied to it indirectly:
Index funds
Pension systems
Mutual funds
Retirement accounts
Institutional investment portfolios
A tiny slice.
Selling might mean paperwork. Fees. Conversations with fund managers.
And one person divesting won’t tank the stock.
But that’s the same moral dodge Heinrich used.
Palantir builds systems used for:
Mass surveillance
Deportation tracking
Predictive policing
AI-assisted targeting
Military and intelligence data fusion
Your retirement comfort shouldn’t come coated in complicity.
Bloodstains don’t wash out with excuses.
Do the paperwork.
Pay the fees.
Divest anyway.
What Palantir Actually Does
Palantir doesn’t sell consumer products.
It sells infrastructure for power.
Its platforms are used across government and security agencies for:
Law enforcement analytics
Immigration enforcement operations
Intelligence and counterterrorism systems
Military battlefield data integration
Large-scale population data analysis
The company markets these tools as efficiency and security.
But the deeper reality is simpler:
Palantir builds the architecture that allows governments to see, track, and predict human behavior at scale.
Why Boycotting Palantir Is Different
You can stop buying Disney.
You can cancel Amazon Prime.
You can avoid Coca-Cola.
But Palantir is harder to reach because its business runs through institutions instead of consumers.
That means resistance has to work differently.
Instead of boycotting a product, you pressure the systems that feed it.
How to Fight an Invisible Company
1. Check Your Investments
Search your:
401(k)
Pension fund
Mutual funds
ETF holdings
for $PLTR.
If you find it, consider divesting.
Even small withdrawals send signals to fund managers about what investors will tolerate.
2. Pressure Pension Managers
Many people are invested in Palantir through work pensions or retirement funds.
If that’s the case:
Contact the fund manager.
Ask:
Why the fund holds Palantir
Whether ethical screens apply
Whether surveillance technology companies are reviewed
Institutional investors move slowly — but they do respond to pressure from beneficiaries.
3. Contact Your Employer
If your retirement plan includes Palantir through default funds, ask your employer:
Whether alternative funds are available
Whether ESG or ethical options exclude surveillance technology
Employers often have more influence over retirement plan offerings than employees realize.
4. Expose Local Contracts
Palantir contracts exist at multiple levels:
Police departments
State governments
Federal agencies
Healthcare systems
Attend local meetings.
Ask questions.
Request transparency about surveillance software contracts.
These deals often survive because nobody asks about them publicly.
5. Support Divestment Campaigns
Organizations like As You Sow and other shareholder-advocacy groups track corporate holdings and pressure funds over ethical conflicts.
Use their tools to identify funds holding Palantir and demand answers.
The Real Question
The question isn’t whether one person can stop Palantir.
Heinrich couldn’t stop the ovens either.
The real question is simpler:
Will you keep collecting dividends once you know what the company builds?
Act Now
Check retirement accounts for $PLTR
Ask pension managers about Palantir holdings
Contact employers about ethical fund options
Expose local surveillance contracts
Share this guide
Palantir operates best in the shadows.
So drag it into the light.
The Larry Ellison MAGA media takeover:
The Larry Ellison MAGA Media Takeover
Paramount. Skydance. CBS. All related properties.
They’ve earned their place on this boycott guide already. But this isn’t routine corporate rot. This is consolidation at scale. This is late-stage.
This is what happens when power stops pretending to be neutral.
If major media falls fully under a MAGA-aligned empire, the lights don’t just dim — they go out. Not overnight. Not dramatically. Quietly. Gradually. Story by story.
Narrative Control Is Everything
Every authoritarian movement understands this before it does anything else:
Control the story.
Control reality.
You don’t need to jail everyone.
You don’t need tanks on every corner.
You just need to decide what is seen.
What is repeated.
What is buried.
The dictators who lasted longest weren’t the loudest. They were the ones who mastered the narrative. They shaped fear. They shaped memory. They shaped “truth.”
When media becomes a loyalty project instead of a public trust, consequences disappear. Corruption becomes confusion. Atrocity becomes debate. War becomes “necessary.” Children become statistics.
That’s the moment we’re standing in.
Yes, bombs are falling. Yes, people are dying. Yes, wars are horrific and obscene.
But media capture is how those horrors become sustainable.
War kills bodies.
Narrative control kills accountability.
And when accountability dies, everything else follows.
The Ellison Empire: Swallowing the Free Press
It’s the Ellison empire swallowing up even more of the free press, turning it into a tool for the powerful.
Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder and one of the world’s richest assholes (worth over $200 billion as of early 2026), isn’t just bankrolling his son David’s Skydance Media—he’s pulling the strings on a massive media grab that threatens independent journalism and amplifies right-wing bullshit.
The Merger Breakdown
The Skydance-Paramount merger closed in August 2025, creating Paramount Skydance with David as CEO and Larry holding significant voting power (around 27.5% directly, plus more through family stakes).
Just yesterday (February 27, 2026), Paramount Skydance won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) in a staggering $110+ billion deal—pending regulatory approval (which, given Larry’s cozy ties to the Trump administration, seems like a formality).
This adds a whole new empire of compromised properties.
Current/Ellison-Controlled Properties (Paramount Skydance):
TV Networks: CBS (and CBS News—already tilting right under Ellison influence: Bari Weiss as top editor, Trump-friendly ombudsman), MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Showtime, CMT, Paramount Network.
Streaming: Paramount+.
Film Studios: Paramount Pictures.
Other: Local TV stations, UK’s Channel 5, Australia’s Network 10, production arms, parks/resorts licensing.
Incoming (Warner Bros. Discovery, if deal closes):
News Outlets: CNN (reports say Larry’s discussed firing anchors like Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar—Trump hates them—and merging in CBS content to “fix” it).
TV Networks: HBO, TBS, TNT, Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Cartoon Network.
Streaming: Max (formerly HBO Max).
Film/Entertainment: Warner Bros. studios (Batman, DC Comics, Harry Potter), massive cable assets.
Why Larry Ellison Is a Shitbag
Beyond Oracle’s cutthroat tactics and surveillance tech empire with huge government contracts, he’s a hardcore Trump ally who’s gone full MAGA:
Funneled millions to election deniers in 2022 midterms, propping up the Big Lie.
Hosted Trump fundraisers, dined at Mar-a-Lago, White House visits.
Pushed pro-Trump changes: Paramount settled $16M Trump lawsuit over 60 Minutes edit, canceled Stephen Colbert’s show after he called it a “bribe.” CBS News now “appeasing the right.”
Snagged sweetheart U.S. TikTok deal (lead investor).
Staunch Israel hawk, heavy IDF donor—aligns with far-right foreign policy.
This Isn’t Just Consolidation; It’s Capture
These outlets become echo chambers for the elite, whitewashing corruption, downplaying climate disasters, normalizing fascism.
CNN under Ellison? Expect “both sides” on election fraud, anchor purges to please the boss’s buddy.
CBS is already drifting toward state TV lite.
Boycotting Has Never Been More Crucial
Ditch Paramount+, cancel cable carrying CBS/MTV/Nickelodeon, skip Warner movies if the deal closes, scream about this everywhere. Starve the beast before it devours truth.
Support indie media, public broadcasters, journalists not owned by billionaires.
If we let the Ellisons control the story, we’re handing the keys to the next dictator.
This Is Capture
This isn’t just consolidation.
It’s capture.
With Ellison’s influence, these outlets risk becoming echo chambers for elite interests — whitewashing corruption, downplaying crises, and normalizing authoritarian politics.
CNN under aligned ownership? Expect “both sides” framing on election fraud narratives.
CBS is already drifting toward appeasement.
When aligned billionaires control:
News
Entertainment
Streaming
Local stations
Social media infrastructure
The baseline shifts quietly.
And quietly is how democracy erodes.
What To Do
Boycotting has never been more crucial.
Cancel Paramount+.
Drop cable packages that bundle CBS/MTV/Nickelodeon.
Reconsider Warner films if the deal closes.
Support independent media.
Fund journalists directly.
Strengthen public broadcasting.
Starve the beast before it devours what’s left of truth.
If we let the Ellisons control the story, we are handing the keys to the next dictator.
PayPal — The Orchard That Grew the Oligarchs (NEW/Updated)
PayPal helped invent the modern digital economy.
But it also planted something else.
Think of it like a kind of corporate Johnny Appleseed story — except instead of apple trees, the founders scattered the seeds of the modern tech-oligarch class.
The so-called PayPal Mafia didn’t just build a payments company. They used that fortune to grow an ecosystem of surveillance firms, financial platforms, and political influence that now shapes the world we live in.
They planted the orchard.
Now we’re living in the forest.
Peter Thiel (co-founder) took PayPal money and built Palantir, the data-mining company feeding on government contracts to track immigrants, surveil populations, and power the modern security state. He became one of Trump’s earliest tech backers and the political patron who launched JD Vance.
Thiel has said openly that democracy and freedom are incompatible.
His version of freedom looks a lot like billionaire rule.
Elon Musk (early PayPal leadership) took the same worldview — centralize power, destabilize institutions, profit from chaos — and scaled it across multiple platforms and industries.
David Marcus (former PayPal president) pushed the company toward crypto libertarianism before attempting Facebook’s failed global currency experiment. He now runs Lightspark, still evangelizing Bitcoin as the future of money.
And PayPal itself helped normalize a world where a handful of tech companies sit between people and their own money.
The ideology that grew out of that orchard — billionaire power, financial platforms without oversight, surveillance as a business model — is now everywhere.
PayPal may no longer dominate the tech headlines, but the ecosystem it helped create is thriving.
And that ecosystem is deeply hostile to democracy.
What To Do
Delete your PayPal account.
Remove linked cards and bank accounts.
Move your money to credit unions, community banks, or payment systems that aren’t tied to the tech-oligarch pipeline.
Every dollar you leave there feeds the machine they helped plant.
Ray-Ban + Meta = An Urgent Boycott (NEW)
Ray-Ban partnered with Meta Platforms — and that makes this boycott essential.
We should all be off Meta by now. I know it’s brutal:
20+ years of photos.
Messages from loved ones who’ve passed.
Family connections that feel impossible to lose.
The pain is real.
Meta was already in the guide — scroll down.
But this Ray-Ban boycott is about stopping a nightmare before it escalates.
Ray-Ban chose to take Zuckerberg’s money while he builds the surveillance state.
These aren’t just “smart glasses.”
They’re infrastructure for mass data collection in public space.
Zuckerberg has openly discussed facial recognition features tied to wearable tech. Not speculation — it’s been reported as a roadmap item.
The goal: identify people in real time, link faces to Meta’s AI systems, and pull personal data.
What this looks like in real life:
You’re at a bar with friends.
Someone glances over in Ray-Bans.
Your face gets scanned.
Location logged.
Profiles scraped.
Strangers suddenly know your name, job, politics, social circle.
At ballgames.
At protests.
At everyday public spaces.
Anonymity disappears.
Stalkers win.
Harassers dox instantly.
Data funnels straight to Meta.
A population quietly turned into walking surveillance nodes.
And once the infrastructure exists — governments will use it.
ICE. Police. Political targeting.
History tells us exactly how this goes.
While fascists grab headlines, tech oligarchs wire the world for control.
Ray-Ban is not a gargantuan like Meta, but this boycott might turn out to be one of the most important.
That makes them responsible.
Actions to take
1. Leave Meta platforms
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads, Oculus/Meta Quest
(Export your data first — then go.)
2. Fully boycott Ray-Ban & parent company EssilorLuxottica
Includes Oakley, LensCrafters and more.
3. Pressure businesses to ban recording glasses
Just like phones in sensitive spaces.
Some already have — including hospitals, courts, campuses, and cruise lines.
Email managers. Leave reviews.
“I won’t visit until recording glasses are banned for privacy.”
4. Push for legal limits on facial recognition
Support groups like EFF.
Contact lawmakers.
Spread awareness before adoption becomes irreversible.
This boycott hurts — but inaction builds dystopia.
Zuckerberg doesn’t deserve our data.
Ray-Ban doesn’t deserve our money.
Act now.
Jet Blue - NEW
If this guide were only about dangerously understaffed, chaotic airlines that treat passengers like inconveniences and push deregulation at every turn, JetBlue would have topped the list years ago.
They’ve lobbied aggressively for regulatory rollbacks that could mean fewer crew members, lower labor costs, and higher operational risks — because nothing says “safety first” like floating the idea of reduced cockpit staffing to protect margins.
Planes don’t fall out of the sky in a vacuum.
Corner-cutting and lax oversight help them get there.
But that’s not why JetBlue is being added now.
On Presidents’ Day (February 17, 2026), aboard JetBlue Flight 2010 from Los Angeles to Palm Beach, a crew member — widely reported as the lead flight attendant — used the public address system to thank President Donald Trump and his cabinet “for all that they do.”
This was not a neutral holiday acknowledgment.
It was an unsolicited political endorsement delivered to a captive audience of passengers mid-flight.
Passengers cannot opt out of an in-air political message. They are literally strapped in.
JetBlue’s response? Silence.
No public statement.
No clarification.
No visible accountability.
As of this writing, there has been no confirmation of discipline or corrective action.
This isn’t about one employee’s private political opinion. It’s about a company that either allows — or tacitly tolerates — overt political signaling in a customer-facing role, especially when that signaling aligns with authoritarian power.
Silence becomes a choice.
And in this moment, silence reads as complicity.
Airlines are not private living rooms.
They are federally regulated carriers transporting the public.
When political praise is delivered on company time, through company equipment, to a captive audience, it stops being “personal expression” and becomes corporate speech by association.
That is unacceptable — regardless of party.
Alternatives:
Airlines: Southwest, Alaska, Hawaiian, Sun Country.
Ground options: Amtrak, FlixBus, Greyhound, Megabus.
If you’re already wary of deregulation trends in aviation, rail and bus travel avoid some of the same corporate lobbying dynamics.
Boycott JetBlue until they address this incident (in the right way)
Don’t let them wait out the outrage.
Make them answer it.
OpenAI (ChatGPT) - NEW
It doesn’t matter that Greg Brockman and Sam Altman are technically “not the company.” This isn’t about personal justice. We can’t boycott two billionaires. This is about changing corporate behavior — and we absolutely can boycott OpenAI and the products that make it money.
Corporations only understand pressure. So that’s where the pressure goes.
When Altman, formerly thought to be a democrat, gave a million to Trump’s inauguration, only to be topped by Brockman’s $25 Million to MAGA Inc. They have made their choice. So you might ask, “Why punish a corporation for two of its officers donating big money to support Trump?”
Because this is a war for our lives, our freedoms, for decency itself and any company operated by fascist enabling oligarchs needs to be boycotted into oblivion.
What to Boycott:
ChatGPT (all tiers), the OpenAI API (Assistants, Fine‑tuning, Realtime, Responses, Codex, Whisper), and their specialty tools/models (GPT‑5.2‑Codex, GPT‑oss, Prism, Sora, AgentKit, FrontierScience, archived o3/o4‑mini).
If you want to push the boycott further, avoid products that license OpenAI models: Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Agentforce, JetBrains AI Assistant, Indeed’s Invite to Apply, Lowe’s MyLow Companion, Intercom Fin, and the OpenAI‑powered features in Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow.
Alternatives: Even using the free one makes them money through ads, data training, and ecosystem lock-in. Cancel subscriptions, delete accounts, and switch to alternatives like Claude (Anthropic) or open-source models (Llama, Mistral).
🏦 Starve the Beast — Boycott the Banks (Updated 2026 Edition)
Let’s return to the core truth:
corporations are amoral.
But banks?
Banks are the purest distillation of that amorality.
They don’t feel.
They don’t care.
Any gesture of inclusivity, any “great deal,” is a performance.
If you died tomorrow, they’d only notice if it disrupted their profit margin.
Banks aren’t just soulless—they’re the beast’s throbbing arteries, pumping cash to Krasnov’s cronies, climate destruction, mass incarceration, ICE detention, and fascist enablers.
Every “free checking” ad is a trap to fund fascism.
They’d sell your kids for a bounced check.
Starve them.
Move your money.
Every dollar you pull is a bullet in their gilded guts.
The Banking Hall of Shame — Worst of the Worst
JPMorgan Chase — Tops fossil fuel financing year after year while pretending to care about climate commitments.
Wells Fargo — Fake accounts, racist lending, massive fossil funding, and abandoned net-zero pledges.
Bank of America — Diversity branding masking huge fossil fuel financing and GOP PAC donations.
Citigroup — Fossil fuels, surveillance tech, and government repression contracts wrapped in PR.
🚨 Citizens Bank — Full Evil, No Excuses
There’s a point where a corporation looks at the moral horizon and steps clean over the fascist line. That’s where Citizens Bank is.
Activists across the Northeast have organized protests and boycotts because Citizens continues financing private prison and immigration detention corporations — even as most major banks exited that business.
In particular:
Citizens funds CoreCivic and GEO Group
It deepened relationships while others pulled out
It bankrolls family separation and detention
This is what we boycott — not the prison walls, but the hands feeding them.
Trump-Enablers & MAGA Finance
Deutsche Bank — Trump’s financial lifeline when no one else would touch him.
U.S. Bank — Pipelines, union busting, and GOP PAC funding wrapped in a clean retail face.
Less Bad (Still Bad Enough to Switch)
PNC Bank — Fossil funding and right-leaning political money.
Capital One — Quirky ads masking GOP donations and fossil complicity.
Alternatives — Starve the Beast With Your Choices
No industry is more vulnerable to boycott than banking. Every closed account jams the gears. Every moved dollar weakens the system.
Better options include:
Credit unions (member-owned, locally rooted)
Minority-owned & community banks
Institutions with public human rights & climate commitments
Banks refusing private prison financing (ex: Amalgamated Bank)
Action Steps
Move checking and savings
Choose aligned institutions
Pressure publicly — calls, petitions, campaigns
Share what you learn
Banking is invisible until we make it visible. Banks don’t just store money — they allocate power.
They decide:
which wars happen
which prisons expand
which pipelines get built
whose rights matter
Your deposits enable that.
Your withdrawals weaken it.
🎯Target
This is the line they crossed.
Target stores are being used as ICE staging areas. Parking lots became launch pads for tracking, detaining, and arresting people—sometimes workers on break, sometimes U.S. citizens. Agents set up. Protesters showed up. Everyone could see what was happening.
Target’s response?
Nothing that mattered.
Target said, Come on in the store. Terrorize our customers and our employees.
No bans.
No posted refusals.
No protection for customers or employees.
Just the same hollow line about “cooperating with law enforcement,” while their property was used to hunt people like animals.
That’s not neutrality.
That’s facilitation.
That’s choosing a side.
The Off-Ramp They Refused
And here’s the part that matters:
If this had only been about DEI, they could have lied their way out of it.
They could have said what so many corporations say:
“We dropped the formal programs, but we still hire the best person for the job.”
It would’ve been bullshit—but it would’ve left an offramp:
Reinstate DEI.
Celebrate Pride again.
Admit you folded under pressure.
Do better.
Apologize.
But they didn’t take that offramp.
They went the other way.
After selling themselves for years as the “woke Walmart”—cleaner lighting, Pride displays, diverse product lines, progressive polish—they folded fast when challenged. Even before Trump II, backlash made them shove Pride to the back of the store. Then in early 2025, they gutted diversity commitments, dropped accountability, and walked away from promises to Black-owned businesses.
Still—even that could’ve been walked back.
Instead, Target chose escalation.
When ICE needed safe, comfortable ground to operate inside American cities, Target gave it to them. When communities were targeted, they stayed silent. When customers and workers were endangered, they shrugged.
They didn’t just try to “navigate” an authoritarian moment.
They embraced it.
They are embracing it.
Target isn’t tolerating fascism.
They’re making it convenient.
The Math
Target sells nothing you can’t get somewhere else—often cheaper.
Walmart never pretended to be your ally.
Amazon and Home Depot are on the list too.
But Target?
They lied about values, then chose state violence over their own customers when it counted.
So the question is simple:
Are you going to keep feeding them?
Or starve the brand that showed you exactly who they are?
What To Do
Stop shopping at Target (in-store and online).
Cancel subscriptions/auto-deliveries and store-linked rewards where you can.
Don’t “hate-buy.” Don’t “just this once.” That’s the whole trap.
Alternatives
Anything not on the list. Not Amazon. Not Walmart. Not Home Depot.
Local businesses and local chains
Minority-owned businesses Target undercut and harmed
Costco
Aldi
Trader Joe’s
Every dollar you don’t spend there is a vote against corporate cowardice.
Every dollar you redirect is a vote for something better.
Boycott Target. Permanently.
They chose.
Now we choose.
📦 Amazon — The Smash-and-Grab Empire
Walmart wrote the playbook in the 1970s: roll in with cheap prices, kill local shops, jack them up once competition’s dead.
Amazon picked up the ball and sprinted into the end zone.
Faster. Slicker. Meaner.
They became the everything store, the default option, the illusion of convenience.
During the pandemic, those boxes on the doorstep felt like society itself—until we realized what we were really funding: the fascist normalization of corporate power.
Every Prime membership is a kickback to Jeff Bezos, who buys influence, launches vanity rockets, and parades his plastic decadence while workers piss in bottles and U.S. aid cuts kill infants.
His smile is the smile of our gilded age: worship of money in a graveyard.
And here’s the kicker—Prime isn’t even a deal anymore.
“Free shipping” is a lie.
Prices are padded.
Convenience is surveillance.
And the algorithm is quietly eating your paycheck.
Cancel it.
Don’t let the algorithm win.
Amazon Ring: Surveillance as a Service
Amazon’s Ring has partnered with Flock Safety to give ICE and other federal agencies indirect access to private home footage—without warrants, oversight, or accountability.
This isn’t convenience.
It’s the blueprint for a digital Gestapo.
Once they kicked in doors.
Now they don’t have to.
The surveillance state is crowdsourced through fear, apps, and “community safety.”
Don’t invite it in.
Whole Foods: Organic Oligarchy
That olive bar you love?
It’s Amazon now—just another pipeline into the same corrupt bloodstream.
Every dollar spent there flows from the register to Bezos to MAGA super PACs.
The store that once preached “local and sustainable” now bankrolls the architects of collapse.
The Washington Post: Democracy Dies in the Boardroom
Once a proud institution.
Now a Bezos accessory.
They fired truth-tellers, platformed bootlickers, and “both-sidesed” authoritarianism until fascism sounded like a policy debate.
Subscribing today isn’t supporting journalism—
it’s subsidizing propaganda.
Boycott
Amazon • Prime • Ring • Whole Foods • The Washington Post
Alternatives
Costco • Aldi • Farmers’ markets • Thrift stores • eBay / Mercari • Direct from manufacturers
(Find it on Amazon, then buy it off their site—it’s a gut punch to the goddamn oligarchs.)
Prime Week isn’t a sale.
It’s a shakedown.
Convenience is the bait.
Surveillance is the hook.
And the catch?
Your freedom.
Your wages.
Your future.
📺 Media — The First Front
When media kneels, every right follows.
This isn’t about hiding from content.
It’s about starving propaganda.
If you can consume without feeding them, it’s fair game.
How to Ghost the Media Machine
📡 Antenna TV — free signal, zero profit
💿 Used DVDs/Blu-rays/VHS — no revenue
📚 Libraries — borrow everything
🛡️ Ad blockers & off-grid streams
🔄 Community sharing & archives
Why the First Amendment Matters
Free speech comes first for a reason.
Without it, every other right lines up to be gagged.
Why Fascists Fear Comedy
Facts can be buried.
Punchlines can’t.
That’s why:
ABC gagged Kimmel
CBS axed Colbert
NBC is testing silence
Fox collaborated from day one
Laughter breaks the spell.
CBS & Paramount
CBS and Paramount Skydance (Updated)
Oh CBS.
I grew up with you.
Cronkite. Rather. The 60 Minutes crew—most of whom are rolling in their graves right now.
When CBS said it, you could usually take it to the bank. If Ed Bradley or Mike Wallace filed a report, it had been vetted six ways from Sunday. Even Andy Rooney’s three minutes on why mustard lids are impossible—it was true, damn it.
Now?
Edited interviews.
Pulled segments.
Both-sides equivocation for a man who still calls you “fake news” and threatens your license when you don’t lie hard enough.
Your new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, is no journalist—she’s a minister of propaganda in a newsroom suit. Pulling stories that might make the regime look bad, turning a once-proud outlet into an access-chasing echo chamber.
And Paramount—fuck you too.
I grew up on your movies.
Star Trek, boldly anti-authoritarian from warp core to hull plating.
Indiana Jones literally punching Nazis.
Top Gun celebrating American skill and service back when patriotism wasn’t a far-right dog whistle.
Now the company sits in quiet complicity, chasing ad dollars and regime favor while the country burns.
And now Larry Ellison’s empire is swallowing it whole—Paramount Skydance, gunning for Warner Bros. Discovery next.
CBS tilting right under Bari Weiss.
Potential CNN purges on the horizon.
Narrative control at scale.
Empty vessels, all of you.
We don’t have to fund it.
Alternatives
• Rabbit ears and an antenna for broadcast CBS (it’s free over the air).
• Used DVDs or Blu-rays of the good stuff—Star Trek, Indy, the classics that actually meant something.
• Or just black it all out: no streams, no tickets, no clicks.
Your call.
But our money stops here.
Disney / ABC (Updated Boycott Entry)
The irony of boycotting Disney is almost cinematic.
Star Wars — a galaxy-wide anti-fascist parable.
Indiana Jones — a fedora-topped fist to the face of cartoon Nazis.
These franchises taught generations to resist tyranny. Now their parent company kneels before it.
Disney has always had fascist DNA. Long before Marvel and Lucasfilm, it pushed racism, sanitized slavery, and flirted with authoritarian chic. The “happiest place on Earth” was built on muzzled workers and whitewashed history.
Now the purge reached comedians. Jimmy Kimmel was gagged for mocking MAGA ghouls. Indy would sock the goose-stepping censors. Luke would light his saber in the dark. But Disney didn’t resist — they enforced.
Kimmel is back on the air. That didn’t happen out of goodwill. It happened because pressure works. Because boycotts work. Kimmel’s return is the canary in the coal mine: proof that when enough people say no, even giants bend. If one late-night host can be brought back, imagine what else we can win.
But here’s the problem: Disney lied about why they pulled him. And they’re still in business with Nexstar and Sinclair — two right-wing propaganda mills that serve as pipelines for authoritarian politics. As long as those contracts stand, Disney is partnering with fascist distributors.
So Disney stays on the list. Not as a permanent enemy, but with a simple way out: break ties with fascist distributors, empower independents, and stop muzzling voices for shareholder comfort.
That means:
cut ties with Nexstar and Sinclair
reinvest in independent affiliates who inform, not indoctrinate
commit publicly to free expression and newsroom autonomy
Until then, every Disney dollar you spend props up a boardroom that decided profit under fascism was safer than freedom.
The irony? Star Wars taught us to resist empires. Indiana Jones taught us to punch Nazis. Disney’s boardroom chose to sign them instead.
Complete Disney properties to boycott
Film studios & IP
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Animation Studios
Pixar
Marvel Studios / Marvel IP (MCU)
Lucasfilm (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox)
Searchlight Pictures (formerly Fox Searchlight)
Television networks & programming
ABC (ABC Entertainment, ABC News, ABC Owned Stations)
Disney Channel / Disney Junior / Disney XD
Freeform
FX Networks (FX, FXX, FXM)
National Geographic (TV channels / Nat Geo Partners)
Streaming & direct-to-consumer
Disney+
Hulu (majority owned by Disney; integrated with Disney’s streaming operations)
Sports
ESPN (all linear ESPN networks and ESPN+)
Parks, resorts & experiences
Disneyland Resort (California & international Disney parks)
Walt Disney World Resort (Florida)
Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club, Disney Experiences & Resorts
Consumer products / retail / licensing
Disney Consumer Products & Interactive Media (Disney Store, merchandise, licensing, publishing, games)
Music, theatre, live events
Disney Music Group (Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records)
Disney Theatrical Group (Broadway / stage productions)
Other notable assets / labels
20th Television, 20th Television Animation
Onyx Collective
National Geographic publishing & media joint ventures
Fox News / Fox Network
I left Fox off the first draft because, let’s be honest: anyone serious about resisting fascism and disinformation should’ve already cut ties.
But that was naïve. Fox is only one head of a hydra.
Every tentacle of the Murdoch machine is fair game. And remember: parts of that beast were sold to Disney in 2019 — 20th Century Fox, FX — so if it says “Fox” and it’s media, assume it’s tainted. Whether you’re boycotting Murdoch or Disney, you’re aiming at the same rotten target.
Fox didn’t just enable this mess — they wrote the playbook. They normalized propaganda as “news,” paved the way for deregulation, and turned lies into prime-time entertainment.
And now? They’ve sunk deeper.
Brian Kilmeade suggested homeless people should be murdered — literal words, not metaphor. Real people were harmed afterward. His punishment? Nothing.
No suspension. No apology. Just another day in the fascist funhouse.
No decency. No accountability. No more money.
Teen Vogue (and Condé Nast properties)
Some hear “Teen Vogue” and think it’s a smaltzy prom-prep magazine for teen girls — boys, lip gloss, and what to wear to the dance. And maybe that’s what it’s becoming now.
But before the fascist hammer came down, Teen Vogue was something else entirely: a weirdly professional, deeply respected journalistic force. Their editorial board was stacked with sharp, progressive writers — many women of color, trans, queer — who covered climate collapse, labor strikes, campus politics, and billionaires with more clarity than most legacy outlets.
Then came the purge.
Condé Nast folded Teen Vogue into Vogue.com, dissolved its politics vertical, and laid off six unionized staffers — most of them BIPOC women or trans, including the politics editor. The union condemned the move as a deliberate attempt to blunt the magazine’s award-winning journalism at a time when it was needed most. That’s exactly what it was.
So now, in the collapse, teen girls won’t be told there’s anything beyond a white, Christian, heterosexual world. The sound box is gone. The mirror is cracked. And the teens who once read Teen Vogue — who knew better — have lost a vital signal in their lives.
We boycott not because the brand is weak, but because it was strong — and they killed it.
Boycott Condé Nast Brands
Maybe you don’t have a Teen Vogue subscription to cancel. But you do have a wallet. And Condé Nast listens to wallets.
Vogue • Teen Vogue • Vanity Fair • The New Yorker • Wired • GQ • Glamour • Architectural Digest • Bon Appétit • Allure • Condé Nast Traveler • La Cucina Italiana
This isn’t just about canceling a subscription. It’s about refusing to fund the erasure of radical voices. It’s about making collapse-era propaganda less profitable. It’s about remembering that Teen Vogue once printed some of the best Palestine coverage in the country — and they killed it.
Sinclair & Nexstar: The Evil Twins of Local “News”
(See boycott guide Addendum 5 at the end.)
Yes, Trump has been silently weeping over some Jimmy Kimmel joke from a million years ago. The weakest, most fragile, pathetic men never forget a slight — so he’s been simmering for years, waiting for a chance to strike back.
I don’t even remember what the joke was. Maybe it was something about Trump being a conman, swindler, grifter, buffoon, clown, narcissist, demagogue, tyrant, fascist, bigot, racist, misogynist, xenophobe, egomaniac, blowhard, bully, coward, liar, cheat, fraud, crook, criminal, predator, degenerate, dictator, oaf, moron, idiot, jackass, puppet, stooge, sellout, charlatan, parasite, goblin, troll, monster, villain, madman, lunatic, dumpster fire, trainwreck, gasbag, megalomaniac, cult leader, strongman, fame addict, tantrum machine, Twitter troll, combover king, orange menace, Cheeto-in-chief, diaper dictator, Nazi cosplayer, Kremlin puppet, coup cheerleader, seditionist, tax dodger, casino clown, Sharpie vandal, truth assassin, democracy arsonist, history’s punchline. Something in that vein.
Regardless: thanks to these two companies, he got Kimmel fired. Believe it or not, it could be his undoing — but first, we make these scumbags pay.
Sinclair and Nexstar aren’t news companies. They’re propaganda factories with better lighting. Each one buys your local station, slaps on a “trusted hometown” label, and pumps out pre-written segments that sound like they’re straight from der Führer’s mouth.
Sinclair scripts pro-Trump editorials and forces local anchors to recite them in eerie, synchronized broadcasts. Nexstar — now the biggest TV station owner in the country — floods local newsrooms with right-wing spin disguised as hometown coverage.
Both joined the Kimmel purge. Not because comedy threatens democracy — comedy is democracy — but because a punchline makes the strongman look small. Fascists can survive facts. They can’t survive laughter.
Like all twins in a bad horror movie, they amplify each other’s worst traits.
Sinclair
38 ABC affiliates
robotic anchors reading from the same fascist hymnbook
Nexstar
200+ stations (CW, ABC, NBC, CBS)
leveraged to slip Trumpworld narratives into local newsrooms
Together, they hijack trust and turn it into weaponized disinformation. (More in Addendum 5.)
What they’ve done
forced anchors to parrot Trump-era propaganda
flooded markets with anti-immigrant fearmongering
poured millions into deregulation campaigns
joined the Kimmel purge — kneeling before King Krasnov to muzzle comedy
Fox is obvious. Sinclair and Nexstar are stealth. Grandma just wants the weather — and gets fear-porn about immigrants, drag queens, and “antifa mobs.” That’s how propaganda wins: camouflage.
Action
check your station’s ownership
if it’s Sinclair or Nexstar: cut the cord
no ratings, no clicks, no hate-watch views
Starve the twins. Every ad dollar they get is another nail in the coffin of free speech. Don’t fund your own gag order.
(Local advertiser pressure link goes here.)
Alternatives: independent journalism. Public radio. Community news. Substack. Hell, pirate radio. At least pirates don’t kneel to the boot.
Skydance Movie Studio
Skydance — the studio merging with Paramount — is greased by well-timed Trump bribes and Ellison family money.
Run by David Ellison (son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a close Trump ally), Skydance is behind a slew of forgettable blockbusters. If it stars Tom Cruise and came out in the last five years, odds are it’s Skydance.
Bonus: boycotting them also means boycotting Scientology. Two cults for the price of one.
Alternative: studios that make good movies. If you want a decent Tom Cruise flick, try The Outsiders. That was about the last one.
Axios
Axios punishes anyone who tries to shine a light on fascism. That isn’t just enabling fascism. That is fascism.
In 2023, they fired a reporter for calling a DeSantis press release “propaganda.” Because it was.
That’s not journalism. That’s cowardice in service of power.
Here’s a clue: if you’re protecting Ron fucking DeSantis, you are fascist.
When the far right demands silence, Axios complies. Journalism that fears the truth helps fascism grow.
Boycott.
Travel Fascists — United Airlines
United Airlines: usually, to join the Mile High Club, you have to get in the air before they screw you.
But these bastards? They’ve been screwing us since boarding group one — nickel-and-diming every mile, charging ransom for legroom, herding us through TSA cattle chutes, then acting shocked when people snap.
I left airlines out of this guide for a long time because there are no good guys here. It’s a cartel of misery wrapped in recycled pretzels and patriotic announcements.
But when United CEO Scott Kirby waddles up to a podium and parrots Trump’s talking points about the shutdown — blaming the people, not the perpetrators — that’s when it stops being bad business and starts being propaganda.
That’s when you’re not just selling flights. You’re selling the myth of American competence while the fuselage is on fire.
They want applause for “keeping the skies open” while they bankroll lobbyists to gut regulation, underpay staff, and turn the cabin into a pressure-sealed anxiety chamber.
It’s the perfect metaphor for the country: a slow, expensive descent with no one at the controls, and the intercom repeating, “We appreciate your loyalty.”
🧭 Where to Fly Instead (Or Don’t)
For now, UA’s the lone sky-sucker on the boycott list — direct genuflection to the fat turd of a wannabe dictator. Give them time; the rest will kneel too.
But moving your ticket purchase now sends the right message: fuck off, Scott Kirby. STFU.
Reroute: Delta, American, Southwest (for now)
Train it: Amtrak — union steel over UA’s strike scars. Slow? Sure. Read a book.
Convoy up: rideshares via trusted Signal cells or BlaBlaCar
Stay planted: make your patch livable
And if you’re tempted to buy a ticket from the bastards, pull up that video of their CEO telling the lies, like Trump’s personal ventriloquist dummy.
⛽ Gas Company Fascists
Gas companies aren’t evil. They just do evil things — for profit. They’ve decided that cozying up to fascists pays off. And honestly? We haven’t proven them wrong yet.
Exxon used to be one of the “worst five” in our Hall of Shame. But apparently that wasn’t villainous enough. So how do you stand out in a lineup of climate criminals and democracy arsonists?
Easy: you crawl back to Russia. You whisper sweet nothings to Putin while he carpet-bombs a former ally. You hold secret meetings with Rosneft, hoping no one notices the blood on the oil rig.
Exxon didn’t just lose its soul — they sold it, bought it back, and offered it as a signing bonus to the Kremlin. They’re not just bad. They’re Bond-villain grotesque. If Exxon were a person, it would be stroking a white cat while lobbying to lift sanctions.
And every gallon you pump helps keep their war chest full.
So yeah — BP only looks “less fascist” because they had to clean up their image after wrecking the Gulf. Shell is still awful, but Shell over Chevron. All of them over Exxon. Not because any of them are good — just slightly less bad.
Fuck Exxon, though. Don’t give them your money.
Ranked: from “Murdering the Whistleblowers” to “Sorry About the Gulf”
Exxon — Name something bad. Exxon bankrolls it. Climate denial, election denial, human rights violations — you name the poison, they’ve poured it into the well. Hall-of-Shame material before the Russia flirtation. Now they’re slinking back to Putin like a Bond villain with an oil rig.
Koch Industries / Flint Hills Resources — There is no gas station literally called “Koch Brothers Fascist Fuels,” but VP Racing Fuels in the upper Midwest uses their fuel exclusively. Koch is the blueprint for corporate evil. (See full guide for details.)
Chevron — Denies climate change and elections. Overachievers in the fascism department.
Valero — Major donor to election-denial PACs and anti-democracy candidates. Quietly corrosive.
Sinclair Oil — Cute dinosaur mascot. Gruesome politics. You’re literally pumping the dead bodies of their mascot into your car.
BP / ALCO — BP only looks “less bad” because PR demanded it after the Gulf. But BP supplies fuel to ICE via its ALCO brand. That’s right: the Gestapo runs on BP gas. Boycott ALCO. Boycott BP.
Less Bad (Relatively)
Marathon Petroleum — Lobbyists for deregulation; more amoral than actively fascist.
Shell — Major polluter. In this lineup, “least bad.” Which is a bleak sentence to write.
Every dollar is a vote. Even if we can’t kill the beast, we can starve it.
🍔 Food Fascists
McDonald’s
Of all the entries in this living boycott guide, this is the one that might save your life.
Remember Super Size Me? For a documentary, a youngish, healthy filmmaker eats McDonald’s every day for 30 days — thirty fucking days — and he almost died.
So why does that filthy piece of human garbage eat it every day for years, and at 79 he’s still moving and breathing up all our good, clean democratic air?
My theory is he’s a human sewer, made up of the lickspittle of his collection of goons, morons, and sycophants he calls a cabinet and a family.
And about McDonald’s — let’s not go crazy and start using words like “eating” and “food.” Use words like ingestion and crap. What counts as nourishment for a slimy turd like that could mean premature death for you or me.
But McDonald’s — good lord, McDonald’s: just because the orange turd only ingests your product (because he has the impulse control of a toddler) does not justify you inviting him to your Impact Summit.
🍞 Flowers Foods — Dough Over Dignity
Right now, somebody’s eating a slice of Dave’s Killer Bread, feeling righteous about supporting second chances. Feels good. Feels wholesome.
Wrong.
Dave’s got devoured by Flowers Foods — a corporate hydra that owns Wonder, Nature’s Own, Sunbeam, Tastykake, Bunny Bread, Canyon Bakehouse, and more. Behind the daisy-chain name lurks wage theft, union-busting, and GOP bankrolls.
Their recipe for profit? Pretend workers aren’t workers. Misclassify drivers as “independent contractors,” then skip wages, overtime, and benefits. Courts caught on: huge settlements. Flowers keeps rewriting contracts faster than bread rises.
Meanwhile, their “Code of Conduct” brags about ethics and integrity. Translation: we’ll stop breaking the law when it becomes inconvenient to keep getting sued.
And politics? Their PAC is basically a conveyor belt to the far right. That “wholesome” label on the bag is camouflage for rot.
Trying to identify that aftertaste? It’s fascism.
🚫 Boycott: Wonder • Nature’s Own • Dave’s Killer Bread • Sunbeam • Tastykake • Merita • Home Pride • Bunny Bread • Canyon Bakehouse • Mrs. Freshley’s • Simple Mills
✅ Alternatives: local bakeries, co-ops (Alvarado Street, regional independents), or bake your own — cheaper, fresher, fascist-free.
Chick-fil-A
Chick-fil-A is very popular for the flavor-averse, but I’ve never understood the appeal. Colonel Sanders had eleven herbs and spices. Chick-fil-A has two — and that’s only if you count salt and pepper as herbs and/or spices.
It’s all white meat, too. Extra white. Suspiciously white.
Which raises the question: where’d the dark meat go? Not in the sandwich. Not on the board. Not anywhere near the marketing. Unrelated, probably.
Alternative: KFC, raising your own chickens, or go vegan.
Chobani
Chobani spent twenty years climbing to the top of the dairy pile. They dominated shelves, rode the Greek yogurt craze, and even built a reputation for decency — hiring refugees, giving workers stock, playing the “good corporation” card.
So why, one day, do they decide to partner with a Trump?
Enter Planet Harvest. Sounds like a charity, doesn’t it? Sunshine, strawberries, happy farmers. Except it’s not. It’s an LLC — for profit — co-founded by Ivanka Trump. A dynasty of grifters and fake foundations.
And Chobani didn’t just buy a few pallets. They sourced all their strawberries through Planet Harvest — 1.2 million pounds in 2025 alone. That’s 55 million yogurt drinks stamped with the Trump stink, whether the label says it or not.
Here’s the kicker: they pitch it like philanthropy — feeding the hungry with “rescued” fruit. But yogurt is the worst survival food imaginable. It spoils fast. It breeds bacteria. Old yogurt can literally explode in your fridge. That’s not relief. That’s a weapon.
Verdict: Chobani chose to link arms with Ivanka’s fake-charity hustle — partnering with the Trump grift machine on something that looks like altruism but smells like rot. Boycott them and let their empire curdle.
Alternatives: Dannon and Yoplait aren’t much better. When in doubt: local, regional, small.
Cracker Barrel
If you’re nostalgic for the “good old days” when it was fine to refuse service based on race, religion, or sexual orientation, congratulations — you don’t need a time machine. A place like that still exists.
You can buy racist root beer and elaborate Christmas sweatshirts in the old-timey gift shop, then sit down to a meal of yesterday’s leftovers (literally — since COVID, they never catch up to same-day food).
Some argued against their inclusion:
MAGA is already boycotting them (for not being racist enough).
In some ways, they’ve been attacked by the regime for daring to modernize a logo.
Very few “Blues” actually eat there.
Boycotting could even play into a devaluation scheme so oligarchs can scoop them up cheap.
Fair points. But the purpose of this guide is simple: target companies that capitulate to Trump. Cracker Barrel bent the knee. And for that, they belong on the list.
Wholestone / Pillen Farms
Love the daily corruption from Trump and want to see it play out at the state level? Welcome to Nebraska, where the governor’s last name is also stamped on your pork chops. What a fucking coincidence. Except it’s not.
Jim Pillen bullied his way into office and now uses it to bully regulators, competitors, and anyone who gets between him and his sweet government subsidies.
Boycott: pork labeled Wholestone Farms or Pillen Farms (check store-brand labels).
Alternatives: Niman Ranch, Applegate Organics, local co-ops / independent farms.
Starbucks
Red-hat MAGA chains are easy to spot. The real danger? Wolves in progressive clothing. Starbucks wraps itself in rainbow cups, tweets Black Lives Matter, and bankrolls feel-good campaigns — then union-busts like the most vicious Pinkerton.
Stores close the moment workers vote yes. Organizers get canned. And the CEO hauls in 6,666% more than the barista steaming your milk. That’s not “ethical consumption.” That’s ritual exploitation sold with a smile.
And here’s the kicker: the “daily Starbucks habit” runs $150–200 a month. That’s rent money, grocery money, survival money.
Alternatives: local indie shops, or buy a French press and fair-trade beans. Heat water. Pour. Congratulations — you’ve liberated yourself from a $7 cup of hypocrisy.
Wendy’s
Square burgers, square Frostys, and squarely in the pocket of GOP super PACs. Wendy’s has poured money into anti-worker campaigns, fought against fair wage pledges for farmworkers, and backed politicians hellbent on gutting labor rights.
I loved Frostys as much as the next person — but not enough to sip one while they bankroll the people making life harder for anyone who works for a living.
Alternative: cook at home. You can make the burgers square. It’ll taste better and you won’t be funding wage theft with every bite. It will taste like freedom.
Jimmy John’s
James Johnathan has been a bad little boy. A sick little Nazi. That Jimmy Mustard? Tastes like fascism.
Quick rap sheet: Trump contributions, trophy hunting of endangered species, and labor practices so anti-worker they made union-busting look polite — plus a push for deregulation of worker protections and food safety. And remember: they don’t even cook.
Alternatives: buy bread, buy what you like, put one thing on another thing. Congratulations — you made a better sandwich.
Papa John’s
Founder John Schnatter made controversial statements and supported Trump. “Papa John” is gone, but you don’t come back from Nazi shit. Like garlic butter on a white t-shirt, some stains don’t come out. Ask Elon Musk.
Also, easy boycott when the product sucks.
Alternative: anything else. Maybe a week-old loaf of bread with Ragu poured over it and microwaved for two minutes.
Domino’s
Regular contributions to conservative causes. Not Trump-specific, but right-wing causes were a gateway drug to full-blown MAGA.
Alternative: local pizza spots. If you must go chain: Pizza Hut (kind of gross, but without that Nazi aftertaste).
In-N-Out Burger
Loves the California GOP so much they’re renting it an apartment.
Alternative: anything else. (Nostalgia is doing most of the lifting here.)
Happy Dad / Dark Horse Hard Seltzer (NELK Boys)
A “hard seltzer” brand bankrolled by MAGA-aligned influencers who platform Trumpworld and far-right grift.
Alternatives: White Claw, Truly, Topo Chico Hard Seltzer — or a local craft brand that doesn’t bankroll authoritarianism.
Nestlé
Nestlé may not headline for fawning over Trump, but they’ve earned a permanent spot in the hall of shame: bottled water theft during droughts, child labor in cocoa fields, and the formula scam that undermined breastfeeding in developing nations.
Deregulated, extractive, proudly indifferent to human suffering — if fascism had a flavor, it would be artificial chocolate and microplastics.
Publix
The Publix heiress helped fund the Jan. 6 rally. Your chicken tenders might come with a side of insurrection.
Alternative: a grocery store that didn’t co-sponsor sedition.
Roark Capital (Private Equity Parasite)
Roark isn’t a company; it’s a parasite. It controls 70+ brands and 1.4 million workers through a franchise model designed to bleed labor dry and dodge accountability.
High rates of wage theft
Lobbied against $15 minimum wage and the PRO Act
Funds the Chamber of Commerce to gut the “joint employer” rule
Founder Neal Aronson named it after Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark. In reality, Roark thrives on poverty wages and taxpayer-subsidized public assistance while bankrolling politicians who keep workers powerless.
Boycott: Subway, Dunkin’, Auntie Anne’s, Arby’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Wingstop, Sonic, Cinnabon, Jamba Juice, Cheesecake Factory, Moe’s — and their other brands.
Les Wexner — (UPDATED)
Les Wexner built his billions on Victoria’s Secret and The Limited.
He no longer controls those brands — but boycotting them still matters.
It targets the legacy that funded his original power base.
Think symbolic strike: economic graffiti on his origin story.
But the deeper issue isn’t retail nostalgia.
It’s Wexner’s long entanglement with Jeffrey Epstein — and his pivot into the infrastructure of modern digital control.
Epstein Ties: Not Just Proximity
For nearly 20 years, Jeffrey Epstein didn’t just advise Les Wexner — he ran his money.
Unsupervised.
Unchallenged.
With full control.
He even held power of attorney.
That isn’t normal.
That isn’t “trust.”
That isn’t how billionaires operate.
That’s how leverage operates.
There is no scenario where one of the richest men in America hands total financial control to a shadowy fixer for two decades unless that fixer owns something catastrophic.
And we know what Epstein ran: a blackmail operation built on sexual exploitation.
The simplest explanation — the one that fits the power dynamics — is this:
Epstein didn’t manage Wexner’s fortune out of friendship.
He controlled it through nuclear extortion.
There isn’t another logical explanation that matches the facts.
Where the Money Flows Now
Wexner shifted from bras to backend tech.
A family trust made early bets on CoreWeave, an AI cloud/GPU infrastructure provider — turning roughly $1.6M (2019–2021) into billions (around a 4% stake post-IPO, valued in the $2–3B+ range during recent surges).
This is the real boycott target.
Through his New Albany Company, Wexner has sold thousands of acres in Central Ohio to hyperscalers including:
Meta
Amazon
Google
Microsoft
All for massive data-center buildouts — the physical backbone of:
AI computation
Mass surveillance
Data harvesting
Algorithmic control
He stopped selling underwear.
Now he enables the digital nervous system of modern power.
That’s not progress.
It’s control-grid plumbing.
The Infrastructure He Now Profits From
These facilities are what make modern surveillance capitalism and large-scale AI possible — consuming land, water, energy, and turning regions into permanent computation zones.
Boycott Directives
1. Legacy Hit (High-Visibility Focus)
Avoid Victoria’s Secret entirely, especially on peak retail days (Valentine’s Day, holidays).
Promote ethical and small alternatives.
Purpose: pressure the brand that seeded his fortune.
2. Future-Focused Pressure
Boycott or actively oppose:
Companies reliant on CoreWeave-style surveillance-heavy AI infrastructure
Big Tech data-center expansion projects in Central Ohio
Practical steps:
Choose privacy-first, decentralized, open-source tech where possible: Signal, Bluesky, Proton Mail, Ghost, Syncthing or Nextcloud (for cloud storage), Linus operating system, OpenStreetMap. Respond to my pinned Bluesky thread with more options.
Support local resistance to data-center sprawl
Publicly highlight firms building on extractive AI stacks
Retail boycotts damage the past.
Infrastructure resistance starves the future.
Wexner’s wealth now flows from systems that will decide:
Who gets monitored
Who gets silenced
Who gets automated away
This isn’t symbolic protest.
It’s preemptive disruption of the emerging control architecture.
Goya Foods
Goya’s CEO praised Trump at the White House: “We’re truly blessed to have a leader like Trump.” Then doubled down at CPAC, calling Trump the “real, legitimate, still actual president.”
He didn’t just kiss the ring. He did it in public, on a government stage.
Board pushback and muzzling isn’t enough. This boycott aims higher: push him out.
Alternatives: Rancho Gordo, Bob’s Red Mill, Penzeys Spices — all taste better without collapse seasoning.
The Wonderful Company (Resnicks)
POM Wonderful with the smile of a yoga billionaire — behind it, stolen water.
Stewart and Lynda Resnick: ecological ghouls. While California withered, they diverted massive water resources to keep almond and pistachio trees export-ready. Towns went dry. Farmworkers inhaled dust. They donated to museums and called it balance.
Boycott: POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, FIJI Water, Halos, JUSTIN Wines, Teleflora, Landmark Wines.
Don’t drink the juice. Don’t crack the nuts. Don’t buy “eco-luxury” bottled water while the world burns.
Molson Coors
Everyone knows Coors tastes like piss. Molson tastes like piss. Miller tastes like piss. Somewhere along the way the piss beers merged into one bi-national bucket: Molson Coors.
And then they wrote checks to help fund Project 2025.
Alternatives: Go Brewing, Dogfish Head, New Belgium, Athletic Brewing, Sierra Nevada, Bell’s.
Coca-Cola
Coke isn’t here because of Trump’s latest distraction circus. It’s here because it funds hate, exploits labor, siphons water from the poor, and props up authoritarians.
Boycott: Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Dasani, Smartwater, Minute Maid, Powerade, Simply, Honest Tea, and the rest of the sugar empire.
🏥 Healthcare + Retail Fascists
CVS Health — NEW
CVS probably would’ve landed on this boycott list earlier if their biggest competitor weren’t such an enthusiastic sponsor of fascism.
Most of their history is the usual corporate rot:
• Anti-regulation
• Anti-union
• Data abuse and privacy violations
• Heavy donations to GOP causes and right-wing super PACs
Standard fueler-of-fascism behavior.
But what pushed CVS from “bad corporation” to active collaborator was this:
They decided partnering with Donald Trump on women’s health was a good business move.
Enter TrumpRx.
CVS became the largest national partner for TrumpRx — a Trump-branded White House drug-pricing initiative — rolling it out across roughly 9,000 stores.
That means CVS isn’t just complying.
They’re operationalizing, legitimizing, and nationally distributing a political program directly tied to Trump’s agenda.
They expanded its reach.
They amplified the branding.
They turned their stores into infrastructure for a propaganda-policy hybrid with murky consumer benefit.
That’s not neutrality.
That’s collaboration.
Don’t give them your money. Just say no.
Alternatives
Most big chains are garbage.
But you still have options:
• Local & regional pharmacies (many cities still have them)
• The pharmacy at Costco
Redirect the river. Let the old bed dry up.
Walgreens (slow-motion villainy in a lab coat)
Between pulling back access to reproductive healthcare and trying to keep one foot in each political camp, Walgreens has quietly become the pharmacy of authoritarian appeasement. They cave to pressure, abandon patients, and still want your business.
If you can, fill your prescription somewhere that doesn’t prescribe cowardice.
Alternatives: local pharmacies that still believe in public health. Community clinics and co-ops, if they survive what’s about to happen to the economy. More realistic? Move to Canada. Go to medical school. Make friends with someone in healthcare. Or just don’t get sick.
That’s the best advice I’ve got: don’t get sick.
💻 Tech + Billionaire Ego Fascists
Google (Alphabet): The Infinity Machine
Google isn’t a brand you boycott like soda or sneakers — it’s a system. A surveillance empire. A police-state subcontractor. A trillion-dollar infinity machine that grows stronger with every click you make.
They aren’t just “allowing” authoritarianism.
They’re building it.
Project Nimbus: Google’s $1.2B cloud contract directly powers Israeli military surveillance and targeting systems. Workers protested; Google fired them.
Censorship by algorithm: Independent Gaza coverage, famine reporting, and anti-authoritarian voices get buried as “spam.” Not a glitch — a calibration.
Surveillance as profit: Every search, email, route, and late-night thought becomes product. Sold to advertisers, governments, police, intelligence contractors.
Monopoly on reality: With ~70% of global search under one roof, Google shapes perception itself. What disappears online disappears everywhere.
Is that enough reason? I think it is.
You can’t boycott Google the way you boycott a soda brand — by simply not buying. That kind of boycott is clean and simple. But Google’s tentacles reach into every corner of your life. To resist them, you cut off their oxygen: your data, your clicks, your habits, your dependence.
If you don’t want to live inside a corporate-run police state, stop feeding the machine that’s building it.
👉 Read the full Google boycott guide: The Infinity Machine
Tesla (Cybertruck & Beyond)
No sane, well-adjusted human ever looked at that trash can on wheels Elon Musk called a Cybertruck and thought, “Wow, I need to drive that stupid piece of shit.”
It looks like it was designed by the all-powerful child Clint Howard played in that old Star Trek episode — equal parts dystopia and playground tantrum. Fun fact: slam a Cybertruck door too hard and it breaks. As in: you need a whole new door. And good luck. Tesla’s so dysfunctional it can’t even provide clean titles to customers, let alone fix your busted door in a timely or affordable fashion.
The only saving grace? Only evil idiots bought them. Owning one is its own punishment:
your money’s gone
you drive a shiny metal box glued together like a model airplane
strangers call you a Nazi everywhere you go
Congrats. You’re “winning” life.
And the future? These things will be repurposed as septic tanks — buried in the ground, filled with shit. Fitting.
Why Tesla Belongs on the Boycott List
Tesla is the blueprint for what a boycott can do.
The moment Musk threw up his sieg heil, we came down hard. We didn’t shrug. We boycotted. We protested their dealerships. We shamed Cybertruck drivers until owning one felt like a walk of shame, not a flex.
Sales plummeted. The board grumbled. Proof that boycotts work — because if they didn’t, that rat-eyed prick would still be rifling through our data and shredding democracy with his Nazi emerald fortune.
We still boycott Tesla. We boycott harder. Because you don’t come back from the salute. You don’t come back from the blood money, the suffering, the death.
And let’s not forget:
Tesla has fought unionization at every turn.
Musk has platformed fascists, spread disinfo, and turned X into a propaganda sewer.
The company’s entire vibe is authoritarian tech-bro cosplay.
Alternatives: literally any other car. Hondas, Subarus, Toyotas, Chevys — hell, even a beat-up ’92 Geo Metro is infinitely better. If pressed, I would ride a soapbox derby car over a Cybertruck. I’ll gladly haul that sucker uphill to not give one dime to that Nazi freak.
Cry, Elon.
TikTok (MAGA version)
TikTok was always problematic. We worried the Chinese government was watching us — harvesting our data, peering through the ring light as we danced and decayed. Those fears were valid. But now they feel almost quaint.
Because while we were busy fearing Beijing, our own government was perfecting the same tools. They’re not probably going to use them against us. They are.
The new TikTok deal doesn’t protect us — it just swaps one surveillance empire for another. Oracle. Ellison. Thiel. Musk. The MAGA media machine is consolidating power, and TikTok is now part of it.
Trump’s team wants the algorithm “100% MAGA.” That’s not a joke. It’s a blueprint.
TikTok’s design harms children. Its algorithm radicalizes adults. Section 230 shields it from accountability. And now, under U.S. control, it’s being weaponized to addict, divide, and surveil — with a patriotic filter slapped on top.
At this point, I’d gladly hand my data to the Chinese if it meant getting it out of the hands of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and the bureaucratic vampires currently feeding on our feeds.
But we don’t have to choose between empires. We can choose exit.
The Crown Prince of the Feed
You couldn’t script the symbolism better: Barron Trump, 19, tipped for a seat on TikTok’s new U.S. board. The boy who grew up in the golden tower, now heir to the world’s most addictive propaganda machine.
His father calls him “the future of the brand.”
The architect behind the deal calls him “the youth connection.”
And the headlines call it what it is: dynastic algorithmic rule.
The monarchy is digital now.
And the crown is a ring light.
Alternatives: PixelFed, PeerTube.
Tactical reminder: delete the app. Withdraw your attention. Reclaim your humanity. Rebuild your feed from scratch — with myth, care, and encrypted joy.
This isn’t just a boycott. It’s a ritual of refusal. A signal to the watchers: we see you. We’re done dancing for you.
Dell Computers
Dell to Trump: Your support is tanking. We’ve got a plan. We’ll make it look like you’re starting a children’s charity.
Trump: I don’t want to help kids.
Dell: We know. Neither do we. But listen — solid optics.
Trump: What’s in it for me?
Dell: We’ll call them “Trump Accounts.” Promise $1,000 for every newborn — if parents open and fund the account now.
Trump: I’m not giving babies a dime.
Dell: Exactly. Families pour in their grocery money, hoping for a payout 18 years later. We never give it. You look generous, they get nothing.
Trump: So I get to take the money?
Dell: Of course. That’s the whole point.
That should be enough for a boycott entry, but listen:
Dell provides infrastructure, servers, and material support for ICE kidnappings.
Dell supports Israel’s genocide and has donated millions to the Israeli military. They are a member of “Friends of the IDF.”
Dell supports Gov. Abbott’s National Guard deployments.
All are more than enough reasons to never buy Dell. Don’t give them your money. They will use it for some really bad shit.
Alternatives: Acer, Asus, Framework, Purism, Fairphone.
SiriusXM
SiriusXM already deserved a spot on the boycott guide for being fascist ICE enablers, but now they’re here for being child-rape apologists.
Forever, they have platformed extreme right-wing voices like Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, while their most progressive voice has been drunk Rick Springfield stammering his way through his shift on ’80s at 8.
And in the dry rot of what’s left of our society, we can ignore some light fascism because this boycott guide is long and could easily be twice as long. So we pick on the worst. We boycott the worst, usually out of multiple bad options (see “Internet Fascists”).
But at some point there’s a bridge too far. At some point they force themselves onto this boycott, and today is that day.
I don’t have to say it. Here it is in Megyn Kelly’s exact words, on her SiriusXM 111 show, November 12, 2025:
“[Epstein] did like them young… There’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old…”
So long as SiriusXM continues to platform that disgusting pedophilia apologist, we boycott. The GOP in Congress, the apologists, and the fake-Christian creeps may be comfortable standing shoulder-to-shoulder with child sex trafficking, but we are not.
If they want our dollars: start by stopping ICE recruitment ads. Next: balance their programming politically. But most importantly: The Megyn Kelly Show must go.
Alternatives: break out your old albums, tapes, CDs, MP3s. Build your own soundscape. Stream through community radio or independent online stations that aren’t underwriting ICE.
Electronic Arts (EA)
Remember that nepo baby who inherited obscene wealth and used it to spread pain and suffering? No, not that one. I mean Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and resident butcher.
He has journalists murdered for telling the truth. Jamal Khashoggi: American resident, lured into a consulate, cut to pieces. Our “government” still hugs him like a favorite donor.
MBS bombs civilians, tortures rival royals, seizes land, wrecks ecosystems, and forces citizens into de facto slavery.
And now? He owns your Madden habit.
EA just agreed to a $55 billion deal to go private, funded by:
MBS’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), already a 10% owner
Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners — a family slush fund
Silver Lake, a private equity giant that fattens itself on monopoly power
Shareholders get $210 per share in cash. CEO Andrew Wilson — the guy who turned fun into a loot-box casino — stays on and gets even richer.
This isn’t just corporate greed. It’s authoritarian capital. Every touchdown, every yard gained, every Ultimate Team pack isn’t just bad gameplay design — it’s a kickback to dictators and cronies.
Boycott. Delete Origin. Don’t feed the beast.
What to boycott: EA Sports FC • Madden NFL • The Sims • Battlefield • Apex Legends • Need for Speed • Mass Effect • Dragon Age • Star Wars Jedi series • UFC • NHL • NBA Live • Skate • SimCity • Plants vs. Zombies • Dead Space • Burnout
Alternatives: pretty much everything else. Indie devs on Steam, itch.io, or Switch. Ubisoft, Capcom, FromSoftware, Nintendo. If it doesn’t say EA on the label, you’re safe. If it does, congratulations — you have some future murdered journalist’s blood on your hands.
Apple
Apple has always felt like a light cult. To the faithful, their products are sacred—sleek, glowing, essential as water.
For those of us fighting for our lives—for truth, for memory, for resistance—boycotting them isn’t ideal. We know people are locked in. We know the ecosystem is a trap.
But this? This was fucking ridiculous.
Tim Cook did everything but let Trump inside him. (Publicly, anyway.)
He smiled through it. Nodded through it. Enabled it. Grinned and bared it. And now Apple’s not just a tech company. It’s a collaborator—and Cook can’t get the taste of Trump’s crotch musk out of his mouth.
Alternatives
Google Pixel — Not much better. Google data-mines us like we’re literal mines. They’ll tap everything they can, then toss us when we’re no longer fodder for their money-printing apparatus.
Samsung — South Korea’s most arrogant export besides Squid Game knockoffs. Cozy with authoritarian regimes when it suits them.
Fairphone — Smaller company, modular phones, more ethical sourcing—but limited availability and specs.
Refurbished / used devices — The least-bad option (other than making your current phone last as long as possible). Starve the beast without feeding another.
Boycotting isn’t about finding a saint. It’s about not handing $1,600 to people actively helping build the next Reich.
Motorola: When the wall speaks, it speaks Motorola.
They’ve spent decades perfecting the art of compliance—not just with governments, but with oppression itself. Their encrypted systems connect occupation forces across the West Bank and Gaza. Their gear watches the wall, guards the settlements, and whispers orders into soldiers’ ears.
In 2014, they signed a $100 million deal with the Israeli military to supply encrypted smartphones—the lifeline of command and control in occupied land. Motorola tech doesn’t just carry voices. It carries out orders.
The UN lists Motorola among companies complicit in illegal Israeli settlements, citing their surveillance and ID systems used to fragment Palestinian communities. When you’re named alongside weapons dealers, neutrality isn’t an option.
And back home? Same playbook. Motorola quietly settled a $47.5 million biometric privacy lawsuit for collecting and storing facial-recognition data without consent. Another suit accuses them of funneling user data—browsing habits, shopping activity, demographics—to Google, Amazon, and TikTok, even when users opted out.
Different battlefield. Same behavior.
This isn’t about phones or radios. It’s about a mindset: that data and human lives are raw materials. That technology should serve power, not people.
Boycott Motorola / Lenovo and every rebrand they hide behind. Don’t buy the radios, the phones, or the networks. Starve the signal. Let the wall go silent.
Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads)
Platformed hate. Monetized disinformation. Enabled fascism.
Facebook isn’t just where your uncle radicalized himself; it’s where democracy went to die while Mark Zuckerberg cashed in on the chaos. From fake election ads to fascist memes to militia cosplay groups planning real-world violence, Facebook didn’t just allow it—it optimized it for engagement.
Zuckerberg didn’t just shrug as Trump rose; he sidled up next to him at the inauguration, desperate to keep the government off his back and the ad dollars flowing. While the world burned, he stayed laser-focused on monetizing attention, no matter how hateful or deadly.
Now it’s not just Facebook. Instagram peddles influencer fascism in filtered doses. WhatsApp is a global disinfo machine. Threads is their sanitized rebrand attempt—but it’s the same beast under a new coat of paint.
Fuck Zuck.
Spotify
Spotify (CEO Daniel Ek invests in AI-powered warfare; platform allows ICE recruiting ads).
The guy profiting off your sad breakup playlists is also funding combat-drone software through Helsing SE. That’s right: Spotify’s CEO is now a war-tech investor.
Meanwhile, Spotify ran adverts recruiting for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—promoting bonuses, tuition reimbursement, and a conveyor belt into deportation.
Musicians and activists have been sounding the alarm, but Ek is too busy militarizing the algorithm to care. So next time you’re vibing to lo-fi beats, just know you might be helping bankroll the next-generation kill-bot.
Might be time to hit pause. Permanently.
Alternatives: Bandcamp, Tidal, Deezer.
Pandora
Pandora is still in business. Who knew?
That’s the good news.
The bad news: they’re pulling the same stunt as Spotify—running and profiting from ICE recruitment ads.
I might’ve once listed them as an alternative to Spotify. I take it back.
And don’t let the “free” label fool you. You’re paying plenty—just not with cash. They make more off ads shown to free users than they do from paid memberships. That means every time you sit through an ad between songs, they profit off your attention—and sometimes off the suffering of others.
Instacart
Imagine working in a high-level role at a company while fully aware of how it treats its frontline workers: classifying them as disposable contractors, paying poverty wages after expenses, inflating prices through opaque fees, supporting anti-labor initiatives, monetizing consumer data, and squeezing local grocery ecosystems—especially during the pandemic.
Then you decide to run for Congress.
At first, Instacart says fine.
Then they review your campaign website.
You support abortion rights.
You support gun safety.
And suddenly, you’re told you can’t run—or you lose your job.
According to a lawsuit filed by Lisa Vedernikova Khanna, a former senior Instacart director, the company reversed its approval of her congressional campaign after reviewing her policy positions, allegedly due to fears of political backlash from Republicans and the Trump administration. (Instacart denies political motivation, claiming the issue was a conflict with her policy role.)
This is the same company that:
classifies workers as disposable contractors
pays poverty wages while shifting costs onto shoppers
inflates prices through opaque fees
supported anti-labor ballot initiatives
extracts and monetizes consumer data
hollowed out local grocery ecosystems during the pandemic
Instacart doesn’t just exploit labor and customers. It allegedly polices employee speech when it suits corporate interests and punishes political activity that risks upsetting those in power—all while pretending it’s just delivering groceries.
That’s why it’s here.
Note: This boycott guide exists to help people make informed decisions, not to shame anyone for needing food. If you are homebound, disabled, elderly, immunocompromised, lack transportation, or truly have no alternative: use Instacart if you need to. Survival comes first. Everyone else should choose differently.
Alternatives: direct store delivery (many grocers deliver without Instacart), local co-ops or independent grocers (often take phone or email orders), mutual aid, senior services, disability networks, curbside pickup + trusted helper (friend, neighbor, aide). These options keep money local, reduce exploitation, and don’t outsource accountability to an app.
Uber
For when you want your ride-share company to operate like a fascist state. Much like the Trump wing of the American Cosa Nostra, Uber’s systemic behaviors—disregard for democratic norms, covert manipulation, consolidation of power, and suppression of dissent—mirror authoritarian playbooks in practice, if not in name.
And just to twist the knife: they skim up to 75% of the driver’s fare. That’s fucking bullshit.
Alternatives: Lyft (they “only” take about half), walk, bus, bike—anything but Fascist Yellow Cab.
✈️ Aviation and Transit
Ford
My boycott of Ford started years ago, long before the politics caught up with the brand.
I once rented a Ford Explorer with barely 700 miles on it. It broke down in the middle of nowhere. Before that, it glitched constantly. Overpriced. Poorly built. Ugly. Even on a purely consumer level, Ford had already earned a hard pass.
But that’s not why Ford is on this list.
Ford didn’t land here because of bad engineering.
It landed here because of power, punishment, and fascist alignment.
The newest reason to boycott
Recently, a UAW Ford worker, TJ Sabula, used his First Amendment rights to criticize Donald Trump, calling him a “pedophile protector.” That statement wasn’t extreme—if anything, it was restrained.
It implies Trump is merely a protector of pedophiles, not a pedophile himself. He’s both.
Ford’s response? Punish the worker.
That tells us something important: Ford believes its employees’ political speech is conditional—acceptable only if it doesn’t offend power.
A corporation that decides which constitutional rights its workers get to exercise has already crossed the line.
This isn’t an accident—it’s the business model
Once you start looking, Ford’s behavior isn’t surprising. It’s consistent.
Henry Ford published and distributed antisemitic propaganda that directly influenced Nazi ideology—long before it was common or profitable.
Ford is one of the largest suppliers of police vehicles in the U.S., including fleets used by ICE and Border Patrol.
Ford profits heavily from state power, surveillance, and enforcement infrastructure.
Ford aggressively lobbies for deregulation, particularly when it benefits authoritarian governance.
Ford’s marketing and product identity heavily courts a MAGA-aligned customer base.
This is not neutral capitalism drifting rightward. This is a company that has always been comfortable feeding off authoritarian power—and silencing dissent to stay in favor.
If fascism was a car brand, Ford would be it.
Ford isn’t just suspending a worker for criticizing Trump. Ford is saying:
If you help us profit, shut up
If you speak truth, you’re expendable
If power demands silence, we comply
That’s exactly the kind of corporation boycotts are for.
A company that fattens itself on labor and then punishes the hands that keep it alive is not entitled to our money.
“But all car companies are bad.”
Correct. There is no clean automaker.
Every major brand participates in:
resource extraction (lithium, cobalt, steel, aluminum)
global supply chains with uneven labor standards
environmental damage
government contracts tied to policing, borders, and militarization
aggressive lobbying against regulation
There is no ethical purity here.
So this boycott isn’t about perfection—it’s about refusing to reward the worst offenders. Ford. Tesla. Volkswagen. GM. Hyundai/Kia. Even Toyota has broken bad.
Here is Toyota’s CEO in full MAGA clown gear posing with George Glass, who I believe was Jan’s made-up prom date in an episode of The Brady Bunch.
Yes, despite this disturbing display staged at a NASCAR event, somehow Ford remains the worst one.
Ford doesn’t just sell vehicles. It sells compliance with power.
When a company profits from fascist-aligned government contracts and punishes its workers for political speech, it forfeits any claim to neutrality.
And their cars are shit.
Boeing
If any company deserved its own list—fascism aside—it’s Boeing.
Much like Putin or the keepers of the Epstein list, Boeing critics have an uncanny tendency to die suddenly. Not elderly, not sick—just inconvenient. Healthy, middle-aged whistleblowers with damning evidence tend to vanish from the narrative. Permanently.
Plenty of corporations would consider murder to cover up wrongdoing. Boeing has done it. More than once. And like Putin, they’ve mastered the art of deniable intimidation—never proven, but always understood. The message is clear: talk, and it might be your last flight.
Well, we’re done whispering. But more importantly—we’re done paying.
Refuse to fly on Boeing-made planes. Tell the airlines. If they know we’ll avoid carriers flying Boeing, their billions will go elsewhere. They’ll listen to money if they won’t listen to mourning.
Alternative: if you can, favor carriers and routes that rely less on Boeing aircraft. If you can’t, at least name it. Make it visible.
Avelo Air
Congratulations to Avelo Air, the budget carrier with a one-way ticket to hell. While other airlines sell overpriced snacks, Avelo is busy selling out humanity by shuttling detained people to internment zones with the same casual cruelty they bring to baggage fees.
If you wouldn’t book a seat on a cattle car, don’t book one on Avelo.
Alternative: flap your arms really fast.
🚗 Auto Insurance Fascists (Bad → Worst)
Yeah, yeah—health, life, homeowners. They’re “more important,” I know. But they’re also more complicated to untangle, and you can’t always just ditch them on a whim.
Auto insurance, though? That’s the one scam we’re all forced to buy, and most people can switch. Perfect boycott target: soulless corporations that want your money need to learn that supporting Trump is not how you get it.
Not great, but maybe better: Progressive
Progressive isn’t a saint. They’ve faced lawsuits for discriminatory pricing and spend millions lobbying to keep the racket intact. But compared to the rest, they’re the “least bad” option. They also have a decent DEI record.
If you must go big-box, go here. But know you’re still feeding the beast—just with a smaller spoon.
Bad: GEICO
That cute gecko? Just a green distraction from a long history of redlining and algorithmic racism.
investigations show inflated rates for Black and brown drivers
the “15% savings” pitch masks a spreadsheet of systemic gouging
all smiles on TV, all knives in the backend
GEICO doesn’t insure you. They profile you.
Worse: Allstate
The “good hands” are actually a chokehold.
masters of delay, denial, and lowball settlements
major funders of GOP super PACs and climate denial
raises rates like clockwork while lobbying to keep the scam legal
Imagine a mob boss with worse commercials and better branding.
Worst: State Farm
That “friendly neighbor” jingle? Try the neighbor who burns crosses on weekends.
funded white nationalist propaganda
ads ran alongside Tucker Carlson’s “Great Replacement” rants
millions poured into anti-worker, anti-climate, anti-consumer campaigns
State Farm isn’t just bad insurance. It’s a fascist ATM in khakis and a smile.
Bottom line
Auto insurance is legalized extortion baked into the law. You don’t get to opt out—but you do get to choose which corporate parasite pockets your cash.
don’t feed the worst offenders
switch if you can
annoy the bastards
And if you really want to starve the beast? Go small. Regional insurers, mutual companies, and credit-union-backed plans don’t have the reach to fund fascism.
That counts.
Our cars might be trapped in traffic, but our money doesn’t have to be.
Misc. Fascists
Nike
Nike’s billionaire co-founder Phil Knight just dropped another $3 million into Oregon Republican campaigns with a smug little slogan:
“Bring Balance to Salem.”
Translation: flip the legislature red. Kill oversight. Let corporate donors run the state in the dark.
This is the same Nike that:
built its empire on sweatshops and child labor
marks up $3 shoes to $200 while paying workers pennies
markets hard to Black and brown communities—then bankrolls the party stripping those same communities of rights
In 2025—after Jan. 6, after abortion bans, after book bans, after election denial, after political purges, after the fascist “Beautiful Bill”—
Any company still writing seven- and eight-figure checks to the GOP isn’t “bipartisan.”
They’re choosing sides.
Phil Knight chose fascism over the state that made him rich.
Don’t buy Nike. Every pair of sneakers is a campaign donation to the people trying to break Oregon—and the country.
Starve the machine.
#BoycottNike
Alternatives
Sneakers: New Balance, Saucony, Brooks, Veja, Karhu
Socks / sports apparel: Bombas, American Giant, Girlfriend Collective, Osprey
FIFA
Here is how far up Trump’s ass FIFA is:
When everyone else laughed—when one of the most vicious “leaders” in world history demanded the Nobel Peace Prize like a toddler demanding a sticker—we laughed and said good when he lost. Because you don’t get to murder, rape, and pillage your way through life and then strong-arm your way into an award created to honor peace.
But FIFA, hungry for maximum profits as it prepares to stage the world’s biggest sporting spectacle in the rubble formerly known as the United States, decided:
“Let’s create a peace prize and give it to Trump.”
Since we started this boycott guide, people have jumped the gun—“boycott whoever” the moment Trump asks for something—and I’ve said: hold. Wait for the response. Let them choose. Most will bow. Then we add them.
But this? This isn’t a bend. It’s a crawl.
These international grifters are creating The FIFA Peace Prize while FIFA President Gianni Infantino stands there, grinning ghoulishly beside Trump—who’s salivating for more gold, more awards, more validation no decent human being would think he deserves.
They didn’t just side with corruption. They climbed inside it and took root.
Step-by-step sabotage
Don’t watch the World Cup.
Don’t buy the merch.
Block FIFA content on social media (unless it’s anti-FIFA content—then amplify it).
Starve the engagement loop.
“No Peace, No Play.” If they crown warlords with peace prizes, we crown silence with resistance.
Clark Construction
When we looked into who was helping destroy the East Wing of the White House, most culprits were small local firms—demolition, cleanup, rebuild—too minor to warrant a national boycott.
But one name stood out:
Clark Construction.
The primary contractor making one of Donald Trump’s wildest delusions come true: the world’s tackiest ballroom. Tackier than the gilded mausoleums of fallen monarchs from Mother Russia.
Clark isn’t a small player. They’ve spent 120 years morphing into a corporate colossus—thousands of employees, billions in revenue, and apparently zero foresight.
Because if they had foresight, they’d know:
Trump doesn’t pay contractors. He chews them up, smears them with dirt, and leaves them to rot in court. Sue him and he sues harder. He extorts, blackmails, and buries you in litigation.
If Clark took the job because the economy’s collapsing and contracts are drying up—who collapsed it? Trump’s tariffs. Trump’s chaos. The blood loss is his handiwork.
And make no mistake: this project is illegal. The house doesn’t belong to him. It belongs to us. Renovations require approvals and permits. If those didn’t happen, Clark isn’t just “building for a tyrant”—they’re complicit in a crime.
Until then: don’t hire Clark Construction. And if you want the fuller context: The Ballroom for Ghosts.
Alternatives: any company that didn’t tear down our house to build a monument to ego.
🕯 Estée Lauder — The Mirror That Lies
Estée Lauder has always been a case study in corporate rot: the glossy surface, the moral void underneath. The family fortune didn’t just build a cosmetics empire — it helped build the political machinery that keeps billionaires untouchable.
Members of the Lauder dynasty poured millions into PACs designed to crush Zohran Mamdani, one of the few politicians openly challenging billionaire power. Ronald Lauder dropped roughly $750K. Jo Carole Lauder, half a million. William Lauder, another million. All to protect the gilded class from a candidate who dared to say the quiet part loud: wealth should serve people, not own them.
They saw him as an existential threat. That tells you exactly where their loyalties — and your lipstick money — go.
Estée Lauder herself helped invent the modern corporate‑political feedback loop: the “free gift with purchase,” the Reagan‑era glamour machine, the marketing‑as‑ideology pipeline. If she hadn’t existed, would Trumpism look the same? Hard to say. But the family’s fingerprints are everywhere.
Ronald Lauder — heir, board member, Trump megadonor — once called Trump “the greatest president since Lincoln.” Employees begged the company to distance itself. They didn’t.
Meanwhile, the conglomerate props up dictators abroad, looks away from child labor in its supply chains, and hides behind shiny counters while jasmine is picked by kids in Egypt. Their “cruelty‑free” pledge evaporates the second China demands animal testing. When caught, they lawyer up — not clean up.
If you’re buying La Mer, you’re bankrolling La Fascism.
If you’re buying MAC, you’re funding MAGA.
If you’re buying Clinique, you’re buying silence.
They’ve built an empire on the illusion of innocence — polish as absolution, perfume as forgiveness. Don’t inhale it.
Alternatives: e.l.f., Fenty, Glossier, Honest Company.
SodaStream: Occupation With Bubbles
Ever tried SodaStream? It’s fine—like RC Cola when you were expecting Coke. That wrong aftertaste?
That’s the taste of genocide.
SodaStream built its brand on apartheid infrastructure and made it clear profit mattered more than human life:
tax breaks from the Israeli government
expropriated Palestinian land
a permit system that kept workers dependent and disposable (functionally coerced labor)
Palestinian employees described 12-hour shifts under surveillance, constant fear of firing, and daily humiliation.
After global backlash, SodaStream relocated to a township built for forcibly displaced Bedouins. PR called it progress. Reality called it relocation of the same crime scene.
The brand hides behind “eco-friendly” slogans while greenwashing occupation and selling “coexistence” like it’s carbonation.
We boycott not just the product—but the myth.
Alternatives: Aarke (one-time buy) or tap + CO₂ cartridge hacks.
Rolex + USTA: Prestige Laundering
What’s more on-the-nose than Rolex—the gleaming status symbol with propaganda roots—teaming up with tennis, the country-club sport of the elite, to feed us a sanitized spectacle?
That’s what happened at the 2025 US Open. Trump swaggered into Rolex’s luxury suite, fist-pumping like a fascist mascot while the crowd booed.
But you didn’t hear it. You didn’t see it.
The USTA instructed broadcasters to censor the reaction. Rolex hosted the tyrant. USTA tried to hide the dissent. Together, they attempted authoritarian pageantry with a clean edit.
Rolex made a cold calculation: better to curry favor than face tariffs. That calculation only holds if we let it.
And don’t think a Rolex boycott doesn’t bite just because most of us aren’t dropping ten grand on a watch. Rolex sells prestige. Strip that away and every Rolex becomes a shame-brand—the collapse-era Cybertruck strapped to your wrist.
USTA: don’t watch. Don’t click. Don’t give them ratings or ad money. If they want to turn sport into propaganda, they can do it without an audience.
MyPillow
Mike Lindell’s MAGA empire: a bad product, a worse politics brand, and a company already circling the drain. Finishing him off sends a message: back a despot and you go down too.
Alternative: a real pillow.
Pulte Homes (PulteGroup)
Yes, this entry is boring. That’s how they survive: beige, bland, and everywhere—subdivisions metastasizing across farmland, cul-de-sacs curling like tumors.
But Pulte is the family fortune that keeps Diamond Bill Pulte afloat—Trump’s mini-me mortgage sheriff, dynastic heir turned data troll. He behaves like Trump: spectacle over substance, loyalty tests, bombast as governance.
He now runs the Federal Housing Finance Agency like it’s his personal troll farm—digging into mortgage files, flirting with Palantir-style surveillance, screaming “fraud” at Democrats while winking at Republican crooks.
This is fascism in khakis. Housing policy used as a cudgel. Inherited wealth turned into a weapon.
Every Pulte home is a brick in that empire. Every dollar strengthens the dynasty.
Alternative: local/regional builders, community land trusts, co-ops, Habitat—anyone building homes for people instead of dynasties.
UFC
UFC isn’t just blood and punches; it’s a political spectacle for the MAGA right. Dana White has openly campaigned for Trump and turned arenas into de facto rallies.
Every pay-per-view buy, every shirt, every fight-night click feeds a leadership team working overtime to normalize fascism.
Alternative: smaller promotions that aren’t political megaphones—or watch literally anything else.
WWE
WWE is the perfect blend of authoritarian aesthetics, abuse culture, and political rot. And Linda McMahon—tasked by Krasnov with dismantling the Department of Education—couldn’t assemble two solid sentences if you stapled them together for her.
Vince McMahon’s long friendship with Trump helped turn WWE into a branding pipeline for strongman spectacle.
How to hit them
cancel WWE Network / Peacock subscriptions
skip live events, merch, and WWE media
make the link explicit: entertainment dollars → political rot
Alternative: AEW (better, not perfect, less Trumpworld baggage).
YETI
Even if YETI weren’t propping up fascism, the fact they once sent coupons to NRA members should make you question why you ever paid $400 for a cooler that does the same thing as a $40 one.
They canceled a custom order from a women’s group because it contained the word “conservative” and called that “neutrality.” Fine—be neutral.
But then the bad man came sniffing around and we get a “Trump Store” abomination. Doesn’t look neutral, does it?
YETI isn’t Switzerland. YETI is cowardice in stainless steel.
Alternative: RTIC, Hydro Flask, or an Igloo from the gas station. Keeps your beer just as cold without underwriting authoritarian cosplay.
Koch Industries
Koch is one of the largest private companies in the world and a slow-moving wrecking ball for democracy, climate, and workers’ rights. Their dark money and subsidiaries bankroll the conditions fascism thrives in.
Their most boycottable consumer-facing tentacle is Georgia-Pacific. Look for the label and toss it back on the shelf.
Examples:
Brawny paper towels
Angel Soft toilet paper
Dixie cups/plates
Vanity Fair napkins
They also feed chemicals into plastics, fertilizers, packaging, and cleaning supplies—harder to avoid, but worth naming.
Home Depot
The co-founder Bernie Marcus is dead, but the rot he planted still lives in those cavernous orange aisles. Home Depot poured millions into Trump/GOP PACs, pulled back DEI signaling, and stays quiet while parking-lot labor hubs get emptied by raids.
Big-box dominance crushes local co-ops while projecting a “community” façade.
Alternatives: Ace, local co-op hardware stores. If you absolutely must go big-box, Lowe’s is slightly less awful.
Menards
Menards used to feel like a Midwestern alternative. Now it’s the same playbook: political donations, anti-worker posture, and—if the Cicero reporting holds—active suppression.
Cicero, IL: employees reported management instructed staff and contract security to delete video footage of an ICE raid or face termination. That’s not “staying out of it.” That’s evidence suppression.
Every new Menards store becomes another node in the corporate-state alignment network.
Alternatives: Ace, True Value, independent hardware stores. (Lowe’s is bad, but not on your list—yet.)
Etsy
A marketplace built on handcrafted goodwill, now profiting from hate. It enables toxic novelty, applies rules unevenly, and puts profit over principle.
Alternative: buy directly from creators, co-ops, local markets—or make your own.
Uline
Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein fund right-wing extremism like it’s a hobby. Every roll of tape and box order helps finance the newsletter from hell.
Alternative: anyone else for packing supplies. Starve the pipeline.
Equinox / SoulCycle
Stephen Ross held a Trump fundraiser. Nothing says “wellness” like sweating in a room that bankrolls authoritarianism.
Alternative: ride a bike outside. It costs less and doesn’t come with a donor list.
Revlon
Because why stop at aging your skin when you can also age our civil liberties?
Alternative: literally any brand that isn’t underwriting the rot.
Airbnb
Profits from disaster and displacement. A machine for gentrification and exploitation dressed up as “travel.”
Alternatives: locally owned hotels/motels, transparent independent inns, or actual resident-run short-term rentals (not corporate property farms).
Hampton Inn (Hilton)
“Hospitable,” unless you’re local.
Some Hampton Inn properties deny or cancel reservations if your address is “local”—a proxy filter that keeps homelessness and poverty out of sight while preserving corporate deniability.
Cruelty, proceduralized.
Alternatives: locally owned hotels/motels, independent inns with transparent policies.
Marriott
In 2019 they said they’d never aid immigration enforcement. Fast forward: Trump wants bodies warehoused, and the hotel machine obliges.
Boycott Marriott / Sheraton / Fairfield / Residence Inn—check before you book.
Alternatives: independent/boutique hotels; other chains only if you must and you’ve checked they’re not participating.
CarShield
Close to a scam masquerading as a business. FTC problems, consumer complaints, and they hired Sean Spicer for vibes. Enough said.
Bayer (Monsanto)
Bayer didn’t kill Monsanto. Bayer became Monsanto in a nicer font.
From Holocaust-era industrial horror (IG Farben) to Roundup litigation to lobbying for legal shields, this is corporate fascism with lab coats.
If you can’t ditch pharma entirely, start with the simplest hit:
Start with Roundup. Then work outward.
American Express
Status symbol for hollow men. DEI backpedaling, fees, and brand theater over dignity.
Alternatives: cash when possible; otherwise, pick the least-bad network and keep your balances low.
Hendrick Automotive Group / Hendrick Motorsports
They didn’t just want a spot on the boycott list—they wanted pole position.
ICE SUV contracts, dealership complicity, workplace racism allegations, predatory consumer practices, and motorsports branding that launders the image.
Don’t buy, don’t service, don’t finance, don’t merch.
Alternatives: local dealers; used market with independent mechanics; vintage gear that doesn’t pay them.
Penske Truck Rental
“Because fascism doesn’t move itself.”
ICE uses Penske to relocate detainees. Hate groups have used their trucks too. They condemn it only after it goes viral—then keep renting.
Alternatives: local truck rentals; competitors with less entanglement.
Brown-Forman
Jack Daniel’s, Herradura, Woodford—DEI retreat and corporate appeasement.
Alternatives: craft distilleries that haven’t sold their souls, union-friendly breweries, BIPOC-owned brands.
This list lives
This list isn’t finished—it’s alive. It mutates, it adapts, it sharpens every time someone brings a lead, a receipt, or proof of complicity.
If we missed a company, post it in the comments or message @psychopete on Bluesky (or @psychopete1 on Substack) with receipts.
And here’s the real secret weapon: slow spending. Resist impulse buys. Cancel auto-renewals. Take every tax deduction you can. Necessities first. Every delayed purchase is a small protest. Every dollar withheld is friction in the machine.
What you can do
Spend slower. Delay purchases. Cancel auto-renewals.
Share the list: post it, print it, pass it around.
Add receipts: name names, show proof, build the record.
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Every fascist dollar withheld is a step closer to starving the machine.
I try not to block people but someone on here arguing that mass boycotts do not work is suspicious. I get similar pleas/arguments begging me to remove Home Depot, Target and Etsy (always those three). We already know boycotts work so typing this message is the closest to giving them any of my time. And if the person is not an anti-boycott bot, then they are just a contrarian and a bit of an asshole.
Almost completely done w entire list. Reduced my amazon shopping fpby 95%, the rest I never spend money at… and haven’t for years. Once I boycott a business I never go back