Psycho Pete's Living Guide to Boycotting the Big Orange Menace

Updated 4/26/2026

This has been our boycott guide for close to a year now.

And with every new addition, we hope it will be the last.

Because adding a company might feel like a small act of justice—but it also means something else:

It means another corporation chose to cross the line.

The criteria isn’t complicated.

If they bend to power, they go on the list.
If they fuel authoritarianism, they go on the list.
If they profit from cruelty, corruption, or collapse—they go on the list.

Every name here is a choice they made.

They chose to:

Profit from or assist in cruelty—whether that’s enabling ICE abuses, exploitation, or human suffering

Bend the knee when pressured by authoritarian power

Fund, platform, or legitimize extremists, conspiracies, or propaganda

Protect abusers, silence victims, or help bury the truth

Trade ethics for access, influence, or short-term profit

Pretend neutrality while quietly underwriting harm

And they did it because they thought they could get away with it.

Because corporations aren’t moral or immoral.

They’re machines.

Empty ones.

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 scandals crack open—abuse, coverups, enablers in high places.

We’re watching institutions sanitize it.
Media soften it.
Corporations quietly bankroll the same rotten system.

And every time outrage spikes, the machine does what it always does:

It waits.

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 quiet refusals—
canceled subscriptions, redirected spending, sustained boycotts that don’t splash…

they drain.

This guide is a living list of collaborators and profiteers:

The corporations, banks, platforms, and institutions that chose power over people—and got paid for it.

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.

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The new strategy? The most important boycotts first, but we will get to all of them. They are all worthy of boycott, big and small.

1. 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.

But Amazon is not just “Amazon.” It’s so much more which makes it more insidious than most others.

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Amazon Ring: Surveillance as a Service

Amazon’s Ring tried to integrate with Flock Safety to expand law enforcement access to private camera networks. After backlash, the deal was canceled. That’s why we do this. That’s what a win looks like.

But the intent matters more than the press release.

Ring already receives thousands of law enforcement requests every year. Through “Community Requests,” police can ask users for footage—no warrant required for the ask. Add subpoenas, emergency requests, and voluntary compliance, and you get the same result:

A distributed surveillance network built out of private homes.

This isn’t convenience.

It’s the blueprint for a digital Gestapo.

Once they kicked in doors.
Now they don’t have to.

Doorbell cameras turn neighborhoods into data pipelines—tracking movement, behavior, patterns—normalized under the language of “community safety.”

The state doesn’t need to install cameras.

You do it for them.

Don’t invite it in.

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AWS (Amazon Web Services) — The Backbone

AWS isn’t just cloud storage. It’s the invisible infrastructure of power—hosting governments, police systems, and the very platforms shaping public reality.

It powers:

government infrastructure
surveillance systems
corporate monopolies

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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.

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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.

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Boycott:

Amazon
Prime
Ring
Whole Foods
The Washington Post
Amazon Ads
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Twitch
Audible

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Start here (takes 5 minutes):

Cancel Prime
Remove your saved payment method
Delete the Amazon app
Choose one alternative for your next purchase

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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.)

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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.

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2. Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads)

+Ray-Ban — The Surveillance Pipeline

Some things we know.

Some things we have to learn the hard way.

This guide started in 2025, watching Mark Zuckerberg sidle up next to power—another parasite latching onto a bigger host, making sure his billions kept growing no matter what it cost the rest of us.

So I began deleting my Meta apps, starting with the original: Facebook.

At first, it didn’t feel like a big deal.

“It’s just Facebook.”

I barely used it.

Then I went to delete it.

And I found them.

Old conversations with people who are gone now.
Photos I hadn’t seen in years.
Moments frozen in a system I didn’t trust—but had quietly built part of my life inside.

That’s how it works.

It doesn’t just connect you.

It embeds itself.

Like a parasite. Like a brain worm.

It grows roots—through memory, through grief, through habit—until leaving feels less like deleting an app and more like cutting off a limb.

That’s not an accident.

That’s the product.

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Meta: Platformed Hate. Monetized Chaos. Engineered Dependence.

Facebook didn’t just host the collapse of truth.

It optimized it.

Fake election ads.
Militia organizing.
Conspiracy pipelines.
Genocide-level disinformation abroad.

Not bugs.

Features.

And now even the courts are starting to catch up.

Juries have already found Meta liable for designing addictive systems that harm young users—and for failing to protect them from exploitation.

Do you know who does not lose lawsuits for child exploitation? Companies that don’t exploit children.

Not accidental.
Not unintended.

Designed.

Because outrage drives engagement.
Engagement drives profit.
And profit is the only metric that matters.

While the world destabilized, Zuckerberg stayed focused on the only thing he’s ever cared about:

More.

More data.
More attention.
More control.
More money.

And it’s not just Facebook.

• Instagram sells aesthetics while quietly feeding the same algorithmic rot

• WhatsApp spreads disinformation at scale across entire countries

• Threads is just a rebrand—same machine, cleaner paint

• Messenger keeps the data loop tight

• Meta Quest / Oculus pulls you deeper into controlled environments

• Meta AI & ad systems turn behavior into prediction, then manipulation

This isn’t social media.

It’s infrastructure.

And now they’re taking it off the screen.

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Then It Got Worse: Ray-Ban + Meta

If Meta built the system—

Ray-Ban is helping take it into the real world.

Meta partnered with EssilorLuxottica (Ray-Ban’s parent company) to produce “smart glasses.”

That should stop you cold.

Because these aren’t gadgets.

They’re the next phase.

Zuckerberg has already signaled where this goes:
facial recognition, real-time identification, AI layered over reality.

Not hypothetical.

Roadmap.

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What That World Looks Like

You’re at a bar.

Someone glances at you through a pair of Ray-Bans.

Your face is captured.
Location logged.
Data linked.

Your name.
Your job.
Your connections.
Your history.

Pulled in seconds.

At protests.
At games.
On the street.

Anonymity disappears.

Stalkers don’t have to guess.
Harassers don’t have to search.
Governments don’t have to build the system.

It’s already there.

Because we bought it.

Because companies like Ray-Ban chose to build it.

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This Is How Surveillance Scales

The state doesn’t need to install cameras everywhere.

Corporations do it for them.
Consumers normalize it.
And suddenly, every person becomes a node in the system.

A crowdsourced surveillance grid—voluntary, normalized, nearly invisible.

History is very clear about where this goes.

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Ray-Ban Isn’t a Footnote

Meta is massive.

Ray-Ban isn’t.

And that’s exactly why this matters.

Because this is the moment where it can still be stopped early.

Before adoption becomes default.
Before “smart glasses” become as normal as smartphones.
Before opting out becomes impossible.

Ray-Ban chose this.

That makes them responsible.

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Boycott

Meta Platforms:
Facebook • Instagram • WhatsApp • Messenger • Threads • Meta Quest (Oculus)

EssilorLuxottica (Ray-Ban Parent Company):
Ray-Ban • Oakley • LensCrafters • Sunglass Hut • Persol • Oliver Peoples

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Actions to Take

1. Leave Meta platforms
Export your data. Then go.

2. Boycott Ray-Ban and EssilorLuxottica brands
Don’t fund the hardware layer of surveillance.

3. Push back in real life
Ask businesses to ban recording glasses in private spaces.
Hospitals, gyms, bars, workplaces.

“This is a privacy issue. I won’t return until it’s addressed.”

4. Support digital rights protections
Groups like EFF are already fighting this. Amplify them.

5. Replace, don’t just remove
Choose alternatives that don’t monetize your behavior or identity.

🔁 Alternatives to Meta

The goal isn’t perfection.
It’s disruption.
Every dollar redirected is pressure.

Social / Community

• Bluesky

• Mastodon

• Discord (private communities, not algorithm-driven feeds)

Messaging

• Signal (best overall privacy)

• Telegram (use cautiously; less private but widely used)

Photo Sharing

• Flickr

• Pixelfed (decentralized Instagram alternative)

• Google Photos / Apple Photos (for storage, not social)

Groups / Events

• Meetup

• Eventbrite

• Email lists (old school—but resilient)

Short-Form Content / Threads Replacement

• Bluesky (again—this is the closest functional replacement)

• Mastodon threads

• Substack Notes

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🕶️ Alternatives to Ray-Ban / EssilorLuxottica

This is the easy one. Technically, one alternative to Ray-Ban is to squint.

Sunglasses (Non-Smart, Non-Surveillance)

• Goodr (affordable, solid quality)

• Knockaround

• Sunski (sustainable materials)

• Warby Parker (note: still corporate, but not tied to Meta)

• Randolph Engineering (higher-end, made in USA)

• Maui Jim (quality lenses, now owned by Kering—not Meta-linked)

Eyeglasses

• Warby Parker

• Zenni Optical (budget-friendly, online)

• EyeBuyDirect

• Local independent opticians (best option if accessible)

Sport / Performance (Instead of Oakley)

• Smith Optics

• Tifosi

• Julbo

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This one hurts.

Because Meta didn’t just take your data.

It took your memories—and made them part of the cage.

Leaving feels like loss.

That’s by design.

But staying builds something worse.

Zuckerberg doesn’t deserve your data.
Ray-Ban doesn’t deserve your money.

And the future they’re building doesn’t deserve your silence.

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3. Google — The Infinity Machine

Much like Meta, Google isn’t a brand you boycott like soda or sneakers.

It’s a system.
A surveillance empire.
A trillion-dollar machine that grows stronger with every click you make.

They’re not just allowing authoritarianism.

They’re helping build the infrastructure for it.

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Why Boycott Google

Project Nimbus
Google’s $1.2B cloud contract helps power surveillance and targeting systems used by the Israeli government.
Employees protested.
Google fired them.

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Algorithmic control
Search isn’t neutral.
What gets buried might as well not exist.

Independent reporting, dissenting voices, and inconvenient truths don’t disappear—they get ranked into oblivion.

Not a glitch.
A system.

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Surveillance as a business model
Search. Gmail. Maps. YouTube. Android.

Every question, route, and habit becomes data.

Profiled. Predicted. Sold.

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Monopoly on reality
Google controls the gateway to information.

When one company decides what you see first—and what you never see at all—that’s not a search engine.

That’s power.

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Why This One Is Different

You can’t boycott Google like you boycott a product.

You don’t just “stop buying.”

You disengage.

Because the product isn’t what you purchase.

It’s you.

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What to Do

Start small. Be intentional.

• Switch search engines

• Move your email

• Stop using Chrome

• Limit Maps, YouTube, and Drive where you can

You don’t have to do it all at once.

You just have to stop feeding it.

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If you want it out of your life completely, use the De-Googling Guide (step-by-step plus alternatives):

Google: The Infinity Machine

Notes from the Apocalypse

·

November 16, 2025

Google isn’t a search bar.

Read full story

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4. Palantir Technologies

The Eye That Never Blinks

Palantir doesn’t sell products to you.

It sells systems that shape the world around you.

Which means you may already be funding it—without realizing it.

Through:

• 401(k)s

• Pension funds

• Mutual funds

• Index funds

A small slice. Easy to ignore.

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What Palantir Builds

Palantir isn’t a tech company in the usual sense.

It builds decision systems used for:

• Surveillance and data analysis

• Immigration enforcement and tracking

• Law enforcement intelligence

• Military operations and targeting

• Large-scale population data integration

Not apps.

Infrastructure.

The kind that determines what gets seen, flagged, prioritized—and acted on.

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Why This One Is Different

You can cancel Amazon.
You can delete Meta.

You can’t “unsubscribe” from Palantir.

Because its power runs through governments, institutions, and investment systems.

So resistance looks different.

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What to Do

1. Check your investments
   Search retirement accounts and funds for $PLTR

2. Divest if possible
   Even small moves signal risk to fund managers

3. Pressure institutions
   Ask why Palantir is included
   Ask what ethical standards apply

4. Contact your employer
   Request alternative fund options if available

5. Expose contracts
   Local governments, police, healthcare—ask where it’s being used

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The Line

You may never use Palantir.

But Palantir may use systems built with your money.

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Read This (Full Breakdown)

This entry is intentionally brief.

If you want to understand:

• how Palantir actually works

• the ideology behind it

• why it matters beyond “surveillance”

• and how resistance is already happening

Read the full piece:

The Palantir Takedown

Notes from the Apocalypse

·

November 4, 2025

Every empire builds its own Eye.

Read full story

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Palantir operates best in the shadows.

So drag it into the light.

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5. Chat GPT

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.

Recently, 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. For the resistance.

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6. Microsoft: The Operating System of the Police State

I didn’t want to add Microsoft.

It felt like one we could leave alone—just another massive, soulless corporation, but not an active engine of authoritarianism.

We were wrong.

Microsoft didn’t just profit from the police state.
They built the operating system for it.

While others were loud about it—Amazon, Google, Palantir—Microsoft became the quiet backbone. Azure isn’t “just cloud.” It’s the infrastructure powering ICE, CBP, and DHS at scale.

In the first six months of the second Trump administration, ICE more than tripled its Azure data—over 1,400 terabytes of biometric records, surveillance footage, deportation logs, and AI analysis.

That’s not passive participation.
That’s optimization.

They didn’t just comply.
They made the machinery run smoother, faster, cheaper.

And when the administration tore down the East Wing for a gilded vanity project, Microsoft didn’t object.

They wrote a check.

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What to Boycott (Everything You Can Touch)

• Azure / Microsoft Cloud (personal, business, institutional)

• Microsoft 365 / Office 365

• Windows (where feasible)

• Surface devices

• LinkedIn

• Xbox ecosystem

• Any workplace/school contracts with Microsoft

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What to Do (Start Here)

1. Audit your footprint

• List every Microsoft product you use

• Cancel what you can today

• Plan migration for the rest

2. Replace your daily tools

• Don’t wait for perfect—start with “good enough”

3. Apply pressure where you work/study

• Ask: “Why are we still funding a company powering ICE infrastructure?”

• Push for Azure alternatives or audits

4. Move your money

• Divest from MSFT where possible (retirement funds, ETFs, etc.)

5. Make it visible

• Share the receipts: Azure + ICE, contracts, donations

• Microsoft thrives on being invisible

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Alternatives (Not Perfect—Still Necessary)

Productivity

• LibreOffice, OnlyOffice

Cloud / Storage

• Proton Drive

• Nextcloud (self-hosted if possible)

Operating System

• Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Pop!_OS)

Email / Calendar

• Proton Mail

• Tutanota

Networking

• Skip LinkedIn

• Use Bluesky, direct outreach, decentralized platforms

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Microsoft isn’t just a brand.

It’s infrastructure.

That’s what makes this boycott harder—and more important.

Every canceled subscription, every migration, every internal question creates friction.

And friction is the only language the ledger understands.

They chose profit from the machine.

We choose to slow it down.

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7. Paramount, Warner Brothers, The Ellison Media Machine and All They Devour (UPDATED)

We’re going to proceed as if the merger already happened because, for all practical purposes, it has.

The only meaningful obstacle left was shareholder approval, and the shareholders approved it. The rest is theater. The Federal Communications Commission — whose job is supposedly to prevent exactly this kind of grotesque media consolidation — is now functionally controlled by the same corporate and political interests that profit from it.

So unless a meteor strikes a boardroom, this thing is done.

Add in one fat Trump-regime bribe, a few smiling press releases about “innovation,” and the runway is clear for the next season of Star Trek to feature Batman brooding on the bridge while democracy burns in the background.

And look — it would already be bad enough if this were just another merger designed to funnel more money upward into the swollen pockets of billionaires. We’ve been conditioned to accept that as normal.

But this is more dangerous than greed.

This is narrative capture.

This is far-right power structures swallowing culture, news, entertainment, memory, and communication itself.

They steal the voices.
They steal the ears.
And eventually they steal reality.

This entry is number seven on the boycott list. Honestly? It belongs higher. Maybe near the top. Maybe they all do.

Because in a post-logic society, ranking the engines of collapse starts feeling meaningless. Every one of these institutions is helping build the same machine.

And this one is enormous.

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This Isn’t Just Corporate Rot. It’s Capture.

We grew up with these companies.

CBS meant something once.

Cronkite. Rather. Journalism that at least attempted to hold power accountable.

Paramount Pictures gave us stories that openly distrusted authoritarianism.

Star Trek imagined a future beyond fascism.
Superman used to punch Nazis in the mouth.

Now the corporations holding those stories platform the same authoritarian forces those stories warned us about.

Edited interviews.
Pulled segments.
Cowardly “both sides” framing for a movement openly flirting with authoritarianism.

This isn’t drift.

It’s direction.

And now the consolidation machine expands again under the orbit of billionaires like Larry Ellison and the broader oligarch class reshaping media into something obedient, profitable, and politically useful.

Media consolidation used to be about monopoly profits.

Now it’s about controlling perception itself.

Control the story → control reality.

You don’t need tanks in the streets if you can decide:

• What gets seen

• What gets repeated

• What gets buried

• What gets normalized

• What gets laughed off

• What gets forgotten

War kills bodies.

Narrative control kills accountability.

And when accountability dies, everything else follows.

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The Expanding Media Blob

This isn’t just one company anymore.

It’s a sprawling information ecosystem swallowing everything around it.

News & Information

• CNN

• CBS

• Local affiliate stations nationwide

• International distribution networks

Streaming & Platforms

• Paramount+

• Max

Networks

• MTV

• Nickelodeon

• Comedy Central

• BET

• Showtime

• TNT

• TBS

• Discovery-owned channels and subsidiaries

Studios & Properties

• Warner Bros. Pictures

• DC Studios

• HBO

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

• The Matrix

• Game of Thrones

• South Park

• Top Gun

• Star Trek

This isn’t a media company anymore.

It’s an environment.

An ecosystem.

A machine capable of narrowing the boundaries of acceptable thought while convincing people they still live in a world of infinite choice.

That’s the trick.

You don’t eliminate dissent outright.

You absorb it.
Market it.
Monetize it.
Then slowly sand off its teeth until rebellion itself becomes another product available for $14.99 a month plus ads.

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How to Ghost the Machine

You do not need to abandon art.

You do not need to abandon the stories that shaped you.

You just stop funding the machine that captured them.

• 📡 Watch broadcast TV with an antenna

• 💿 Buy used DVDs, Blu-rays, CDs, VHS tapes

• 📚 Use libraries

• 🛡️ Use ad blockers where legal and appropriate

• 🔄 Share physical media within communities

• 🏴‍☠️ Preserve culture outside corporate platforms whenever legally possible

Watch the old Star Trek DVDs.
Watch Superman cartoons from a thrift store box set.
Watch the media before the machine fully consumed it.

The point is not cultural isolation.

The point is denying new money to institutions actively helping construct an authoritarian information landscape.

No subscriptions.
No fresh purchases.
No ad revenue.

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What To Support Instead

• Independent journalists

• Local investigative reporting

• Directly funded creators

• Worker-owned media

• Public libraries

• Community archives

• Non-corporate publishing platforms

Corporations do not respond to outrage.

They respond to loss.

So we remove the incentive.

Quietly.
Deliberately.
Collectively.

Starve the machine before it finishes rewriting reality.

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8. Nestlé

Nestlé doesn’t need to loudly praise authoritarianism to benefit from it.

They thrive in it.

Because Nestlé’s entire business model depends on the same conditions fascism creates:
weak regulation, captured governments, disposable labor, and resources taken from people who can’t fight back.

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Why They’re Here

Nestlé has spent decades proving one thing:
if there is suffering, they will find a way to monetize it.

Water extraction during crisis

• Pumps millions of gallons from drought-stricken regions

• Pays little to nothing for it

• Sells it back at a profit to the same communities

Child labor & forced labor supply chains

• Cocoa sourcing tied to child slavery in West Africa

• Repeated lawsuits, repeated denials, minimal structural change

The infant formula scandal (ongoing legacy)

• Aggressively marketed formula in vulnerable regions

• Undermined breastfeeding → increased infant mortality

• One of the most infamous corporate ethics failures in modern history

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The Modern Layer: Power + Authoritarian Drift

Nestlé doesn’t need to “bend the knee” publicly to people like Donald Trump.

They benefit when others do.

Because when governments:

• gut environmental protections

• weaken labor laws

• suppress dissent

• militarize borders

…companies like Nestlé expand faster, cheaper, and with less resistance.

That includes:

Profiting from deregulation

• Looser environmental rules = easier extraction

• Less oversight = fewer consequences

Supply chains tied to exploitation zones

• Regions destabilized by conflict, migration pressure, and economic collapse

• The same conditions intensified by authoritarian policy

Indirect benefit from ICE-era systems

• Migrant labor vulnerability lowers costs across agriculture + logistics

• Fear keeps workers silent, exploitable, and replaceable

They don’t need to run the system.

They just harvest it.

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What to Boycott (And It’s a Lot)

Nestlé hides behind dozens of brands.

If you’re buying casually, you’re probably funding them.

Food & Drink

• Nescafé

• Coffee-Mate

• Stouffer’s

• Lean Cuisine

• Hot Pockets

• DiGiorno

Water

• Poland Spring

• Pure Life

• Perrier

• San Pellegrino

Candy & Snacks

• KitKat (U.S. licensed, but still tied globally)

• Toll House

• Nesquik

Pet Products

• Purina (huge footprint)

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How to Break the Habit

Nestlé relies on convenience + invisibility.

So the strategy is simple:

1. Stop buying bottled water

• Tap + filter > paying a corporation for your own resource

2. Read labels

• Nestlé owns more than you think

3. Replace default brands

• Swap “easy” purchases with intentional ones

4. Cut the repeat buys first

• Coffee

• frozen meals

• pet food
  That’s where the money compounds

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Better Alternatives (General Direction, Not Perfection)

No corporation is clean.
The goal isn’t purity.
It’s pressure.

Water

• Reusable bottles + home filtration (Brita, PUR, reverse osmosis systems)

• Local municipal water (yes, really—fund the public system instead of extraction profiteers)

• If you must buy bottled: look for regional spring water brands not owned by conglomerates

Coffee

• Local roasters (best option—keeps money in your community)

• Worker-focused / transparent sourcing brands like:

  • Equal Exchange

  • Café Direct

• Grocery store swaps:

  • Stumptown Coffee Roasters

  • Intelligentsia Coffee

Frozen / Packaged Food

• Regional grocery brands (store brands are often less consolidated than you think)

• Co-ops and smaller producers:

  • Amy’s Kitchen

  • Cascadian Farm (still corporate-owned, but a step away from Nestlé-scale behavior)

• Actual food > ultra-processed defaults when possible

Pet Food

• Independent or more transparent brands:

  • Blue Buffalo

  • Wellness Pet Company

  • Orijen

• Look for:

  • clearly listed sourcing

  • no vague “meat by-product” language

  • smaller distribution footprint

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Bottom Line

Nestlé isn’t just unethical.

They are what happens when profit is allowed to outrank human life for generations.

They don’t need to shout allegiance to authoritarian power.

They are built to function inside it.

And every purchase tells them to keep going.

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9. 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 handed over a custom glass plaque mounted on a 24-karat gold base like some tribute from a conquered province—right there in the Oval Office—while pledging hundreds of billions in U.S. manufacturing to keep the regime sweet.

Cook can’t get the taste of Trump’s crotch musk out of his mouth, and neither can the rest of the company.

Apple isn’t just a tech company anymore. It’s a collaborator with a premium price tag.

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They bent the knee on surveillance and enforcement too.

Both Apple and Google caved fast when the administration came knocking—yanking apps that let people crowdsource ICE sightings and warn communities about raids.

“Safety for agents,” they said.

Bullshit.

They kept the pipelines open for government data requests while the vans rolled. Same old data-mining machine, now happily feeding the system that orphans kids and fills camps.

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And the supply chain?

Still rotten at the core—cobalt and tin mined by kids as young as twelve in brutal conditions, forced labor persisting in the shadows despite the endless PR reports.

They profit from the collapse they helped lubricate:

• Sleek devices for the loyal

• Surveillance for the state

• And enough “Made in USA” theater to pretend they’re above it all

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Alternatives

Samsung
South Korea’s most arrogant export besides Squid Game knockoffs. Cozy with authoritarian regimes when it suits them. Still better than Apple.

Fairphone
Smaller company, modular phones, more ethical sourcing and repairability—but limited availability and specs. The closest thing to not feeding the beast outright.

Refurbished / Used Devices
The least-bad option (other than making your current phone last as long as possible). Starve the new Reich without handing another $1,600+ to the cult that gifted it a golden trophy.

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Boycotting isn’t about finding a saint. And it’s certainly not symbolic.

It’s about not handing your money to people actively helping build (and polish) the next nightmare.

Make the fucking thing last.
Repair it.
De-Google it if you can. (guide to de-googling found here:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-179107336

Or go Fairphone and accept the compromises.

Just stop feeding the glowing trap that smiled while the world burned.

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10. Banking Fascists

Let’s start with the truth:

Corporations are amoral.
Banks are something worse.

They don’t just take your money—
they decide where power flows.

War.
Prisons.
Pipelines.
Surveillance.

None of it moves without them.

Every “free checking” account is an entry point into that machine.

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Why Banks? Why Now?

Under rising authoritarian pressure, banks don’t resist.

They adapt—and profit.

They keep funding fossil fuel expansion at record scale.
They maintain (or quietly expand) ties to private prisons and immigrant detention systems.
They support political actors undermining democracy.
They expand surveillance and data-sharing infrastructure.

They don’t need to wave a flag.

They just keep the money moving—
especially when power tilts the landscape in their favor.

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The Banking Hall of Shame

JPMorgan Chase

Still the world’s top fossil fuel financier—$53.5 billion in 2024 alone, with massive increases year over year. Climate pledges remain mostly PR while expansion funding continues.

Wells Fargo

A scandal machine: fake accounts legacy (with Fed restrictions only lifted in 2025), discriminatory lending patterns, and ongoing fossil fuel expansion. Dropped 2030 and 2050 climate goals—a clear backslide.

Bank of America

Green branding masks massive fossil fuel investments and political funding. Strong increases in fossil commitments in recent years.

Citigroup

Deep in fossil finance, government contracts, and surveillance-linked infrastructure. Significant year-over-year increases in fossil funding.

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Citizens Bank — Still Crossing the Line

While most major banks cut ties with private prison giants, Citizens doubled down.

They’ve helped CoreCivic and GEO Group access more than $2.5 billion in financing since 2024—including expanded credit in 2026.

These companies are profiting from expanded ICE detention contracts and new facilities tied to deportation surges.

Facilities long associated with:

• Forced labor allegations

• Medical neglect

• Chronic understaffing

This isn’t neutrality.

It’s choosing profit from human suffering while others walked away.

Boycotts and protests (#BoycottCitizens) are growing.

This is the line.
They crossed it—and kept walking.

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Trump-Era Financial Backbone (Still Relevant)

Deutsche Bank

Longtime financial lifeline when others wouldn’t touch him. Historical ties still matter—even if new business slowed post-2021.

U.S. Bank

Clean image. Dirty footprint. Pipelines, union pressure, and political funding.

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“Less Bad” (Still Worth Leaving)

PNC Financial Services

Reduced some fossil exposure, but still tied to extraction and political financing.

Capital One

Friendly branding. Same underlying funding patterns.

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How You Fight Back

Banking is one of the most effective boycott pressure points.

Why? Because money moves.

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Move Your Money

• Close checking and savings accounts

• Shift direct deposits

• Move emergency funds and investments

Every dollar moved is leverage.
Every exit signals risk.

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Choose Better (Not Perfect)

• Credit unions (member-owned)

• Community and minority-owned banks

• Amalgamated Bank (public stance against private prison financing)

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Apply Pressure

• Call them out publicly (especially Citizens on ICE/private prisons)

• Support boycott and divestment campaigns

• Share receipts: SEC filings, climate reports, protest coverage

• Make the invisible visible

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Bottom Line

Banks don’t just store money.

They decide:

• what gets built

• what gets funded

• who gets crushed

Your deposits fuel that system.

Your withdrawals disrupt it.

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11. 🎯 Target

Is Target the 11th most important boycott in pure dollars?

Maybe not.

But symbolically?

It might be one of the most important.

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For years, Target sold itself as the “good” big box store—the progressive, trustworthy alternative to Walmart.

Clean aisles.
Pride displays front and center.
Diverse workforce.
Rainbow everything.

They built a loyal customer base of people who wanted to feel good about where they shopped.

It was all a lie.

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Corporations aren’t “woke.”
They’re strategic.

Target cultivated that liberal image to lock in customers—then dropped it the moment Donald Trump started grumbling about “reverse discrimination.”

No real threats needed.

Just a knock at the door—and they answered instantly.

They folded faster than cheap lawn furniture.

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Now they’re a cautionary tale:

Betray your base, and your base will remember.

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Target has been hemorrhaging money at the register and taking hits to its stock price. Leadership has shifted. The board has scrambled.

But the damage goes deeper than numbers.

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After years of branding themselves as the “woke Walmart,” they didn’t just quietly scale back DEI and push Pride to the margins.

They escalated.

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When immigration enforcement needed space to operate in American cities—including their own backyard—Target stores became staging grounds.

Parking lots turned into launch pads for detentions and arrests.

Workers. Customers. Sometimes U.S. citizens.

Agents set up.
Protesters showed up.
Everyone saw it.

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Target’s response?

Nothing that mattered.

No bans.
No refusals.
No real protection for customers or employees.

Just corporate boilerplate about “cooperating with law enforcement.”

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That’s not neutrality.
That’s facilitation.
That’s choosing a side.

And it wasn’t their customers.

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The Off-Ramp They Burned

Here’s what makes this unforgivable:

They had an out.

Even after everything, they could have walked it back:

• Reinstate basic diversity commitments

• Bring Pride back out front

• Quietly admit they folded under pressure

• Apologize and do better

Standard corporate damage control.

They didn’t take it.

They doubled down.

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They embraced the moment.

They made state power more convenient.
They turned their stores into tools of intimidation instead of community spaces.

They didn’t just tolerate the shift.

They helped it.

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The Simple Math

You can get everything Target sells somewhere else—often cheaper.

Walmart never pretended to be your ally.
Amazon and The Home Depot are already on this list.

But Target?

They told you who they were.

Then showed you something else entirely.

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So the question is simple:

Are you still going to feed a brand that showed you exactly who they are?

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What To Do

• Stop shopping at Target—online and in-store

• Cancel subscriptions, auto-deliveries, and rewards programs

• No “just this once.” That’s how they win

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Better Alternatives

• Local independent stores and small chains

• Minority-owned businesses Target once claimed to support

• Costco

• Aldi

• Trader Joe’s

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Every dollar you withhold is a vote against corporate cowardice.

Every dollar you redirect is a vote for something better.

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Boycott Target. Permanently.

They made their choice.

Now we make ours.

12. Tesla (Cybertruck & Beyond)

Maybe this doesn’t “belong” at 12—most people reading this guide weren’t planning to buy a Tesla anyway.

But this isn’t just about personal boycotts. It’s about pressure.

You might never buy a Tesla—but plenty of people still do. And that’s where your voice matters.

Know someone thinking about it? Talk them out of it.
See a business rolling around in a Tesla Cybertruck or using Teslas as company vehicles? Let them know why they won’t get your business.

That’s how this works—not just opting out, but making it felt.

I did it with a local landscaper. Saw the Cybertruck, called them, told them exactly why I would not be using them as a landscaper. They don’t need to know I was not in the market for a landscaper.

They hung up.

Oh well.

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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, 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.

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13. FIFA

FIFA created a peace prize and gave the first one to Trump.

That alone is enough.

But it gets worse when you understand the timing.

The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11, 2026, with the United States hosting a massive portion of it—millions of visitors, billions in revenue, and a global spotlight pointed directly at a country unraveling in real time.

FIFA sees all of that.

And they’re coming anyway.

Because the money is too good.

So if you love soccer: boycott.

And if you’re like me and find it boring as hell, do the other part:

Warn people.

Do not travel here for this.

Do not willingly enter the belly of the beast for a month of flags, branding, and corporate theater pretending everything is fine.

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Here is how far up Trump’s ass FIFA is:

When Trump publicly begged for the Nobel Peace Prize like a toddler demanding a sticker, most of the world laughed.

Because you don’t get to bully, brutalize, corrupt, and degrade your way across history and then wrap yourself in the language of peace.

But FIFA looked at that and thought:

Let’s make him one.

They literally created the FIFA Peace Prize and handed the inaugural award to him, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino standing there smiling like this was something worth celebrating.

That wasn’t neutrality.

That was collaboration in a tuxedo.

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Why FIFA is on this list

• They created and awarded a “peace prize” to a man synonymous with division, corruption, and spectacle-driven power.

• Their leadership has repeatedly chosen proximity to authoritarian power over any believable neutrality.

• They are staging the largest sporting event on earth in a volatile environment because the commercial upside is too large to walk away from.

• They sell “unity” while aligning themselves with figures and systems that actively erode it.

FIFA is not a passive organization caught in politics.

It is an active participant in laundering reputations and normalizing power.

They didn’t just bend.

They crawled.

They didn’t just accommodate corruption.

They glamorized it.

They built a new trophy just to place it in his hands and call it peace.

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Step-by-step sabotage

• Don’t watch the World Cup.

• Don’t attend.

• Don’t buy tickets, merch, or sponsor products.

• Don’t engage with FIFA hype, countdowns, or promotional content.

• Mute and block FIFA accounts where useful.

• Amplify criticism, investigative reporting, and anti-FIFA coverage instead.

• Talk to the soccer fans in your life before the marketing machine locks them in.

• Warn international fans that traveling to the U.S. right now is not just tourism—it’s a decision with real-world risks.

• Starve the engagement loop.

• Starve the spectacle.

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The rule

No Peace. No Play.

If they hand out peace prizes to power, then we deny them what they actually want:

Our attention.
Our money.
Our consent.

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FIFA-related excerpt from Transmissions From the Apocalypse:

#14 — Automaker Fascists

Someone sent me a message, “Toyota ok?”

Does this look ok to you?

That’s Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda at a NASCAR race, letting his colors show. And his colors are red and fascism. Etch this image in your mind as a reminder if you should ever think a new Camry is a good idea.

Why skip a Toyota-specific boycott? Because the entire auto industry is dirty. Every major player has lobbied for deregulation, faced accusations of worker mistreatment, and funneled money through PACs. Toyoda may be the only one bold enough to go full MAGA in public, but the rest are just better at hiding it—wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Tesla is obviously a bad actor, but it gets its own guide entry for a couple of reasons:

1. They are owned by a Nazi freak who helped Trump rig the last election and destroy our democracy.

2. They’re not really cars. They are more like toys assembled with tape and glue.

This guide covers real automakers, the ones that send you your copy of the title in time for you to register them. Cars that don’t break if you slam the door too hard.

Cars that don’t explode on the regular.

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If this were just about bad cars, this wouldn’t be in this guide. That’s not the criteria.

This is about an entire slice of the auto industry that has decided—quietly or loudly—that aligning with authoritarian power is good business.

So we’re done pretending these companies are neutral.

This entry covers:

• Ford Motor Company

• Toyota Motor Corporation

• General Motors

(And yes—others belong here too. These are just the clearest offenders right now.)

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What changed

For years, people treated automakers like background noise.

They build cars. They run ads. They stay out of it.

That was always a lie.

Automakers don’t just sell vehicles.
They sell into power systems:

• police fleets

• border enforcement

• surveillance infrastructure

• government contracts

• political influence through lobbying

They’ve always been tied to power.

Now they’re choosing sides more openly.

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Ford: not new, just obvious

Henry Ford didn’t just build cars—he published antisemitic propaganda that influenced Nazi ideology.

That’s not ancient history you can hand-wave away.

It’s a blueprint.

Modern Ford still profits heavily from state power—especially policing and enforcement—and has shown it is more than willing to protect that relationship over anything resembling principle.

This isn’t a company drifting in the wrong direction.

It’s a company being exactly what it has always been.

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Toyota: the “respectable” version

Toyota Motor Corporation plays the cleaner brand.

Reliable. Calm. Apolitical.

Until you look at the money.

Toyota has been one of the more consistent corporate donors to politicians pushing anti-democratic policies, even after public backlash forced them to briefly pause and then quietly resume.

That’s the play:

Smile. Bow. Fund it anyway.

And their CEO is a full MAGA suckup:

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General Motors

• One of the largest lobbying footprints in the industry

• Repeated resistance to stricter emissions standards when it cuts into margins

• Deep integration with government fleets, law enforcement, and public-sector contracts

• A long history of adapting quickly to whatever regulatory environment maximizes profit

GM doesn’t need to posture.

It doesn’t need spectacle.

It operates where power actually lives:

• shaping policy behind the scenes

• negotiating regulation instead of following it

• positioning itself to win no matter which direction the rules bend

That’s the model.

Not loud allegiance.

Not public theatrics.

Just quiet alignment with whatever version of power protects the bottom line.

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It’s not flashy—and that’s exactly the point.

This isn’t about loud villains.

It’s about systems that reward cooperation with power—and companies that understand that better than anyone.

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This is the model

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it:

• Profit from power

• Avoid accountability

• Ignore or suppress dissent

• Market neutrality

• Repeat

Some are louder (Tesla).
Some are older (Ford Motor Company).
Some are smoother (Toyota Motor Corporation).

Same model. Different branding.

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“All car companies are bad”

Yes.

There is no clean automaker.

Every major brand is built on the same foundation:

• resource extraction (lithium, cobalt, steel)

• environmental damage

• global labor exploitation

• lobbying against regulation

• contracts tied to policing and militarization

So this isn’t about purity.

It’s about pressure.

We don’t reward the ones leaning hardest into alignment with power.

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Step-by-step pressure

• Delay purchases if you can

• Buy used instead of new (starves new demand)

• Kill brand loyalty—they rely on it

• Call out political spending and partnerships

• Don’t engage with their marketing

• Apply public pressure when they choose power

If you need a car, survive.

If you have a choice, choose carefully.

If you have influence, use it.

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They don’t get to profit from power
and then pretend they’re neutral.

Not anymore.

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The rest of the field

There are no clean automakers.

But there are levels.

If you’re spending money in this system, you should at least know who is leaning in—and who is just going along.

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Worse (leaning in)

• Tesla (separate entry)

• Toyota Motor Corporation

• Ford Motor Company

• General Motors

• Stellantis (Jeep, Dodge, Chrysler, Ram)

These companies are most tied to:

• political funding that protects power

• aggressive deregulation efforts

• deep integration with state systems (fleets, enforcement, contracts)

Some do it loudly.
Some do it quietly.

But they do it.

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Less bad (for now)

• Hyundai Motor Company

• Kia Corporation

• Honda Motor Company

• Mazda Motor Corporation

• Subaru Corporation

• Volvo

Lower visibility.
Fewer direct flashpoints.

Still the same system.

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Read this correctly

“Less bad” does not mean good.

It means:

• less visible alignment

• fewer direct provocations

• not currently leading

That can change.

Quickly.

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The point

This isn’t about finding a pure option.

There isn’t one.

It’s about:

• applying pressure where it matters

• withholding support from the worst actors

• seeing the system clearly

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Choose your compromises consciously.

Or they’ll choose them for you.

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15. Disney / ABC

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. Through the ‘40s, they tried to convince us that slavery was a care-free lifestyle choice. In the ‘50s, they lied to us with their documentaries (see the Lemmings article on Notes from the Apocalypse). The “happiest place on Earth” was built on muzzled workers and whitewashed history.

They’ve been a little quiet since they tried to rat fink Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s request. There is nothing a fascist hates more than mockery. Ok, maybe women. Ok, maybe minorities. So the fascists made the ask. Disney answered.

So they’ve been quiet on the fascism fueling front, but did they learn a lesson?

Or did they turn their proverbial leaves toward the sun? Bowing to Trump was the most nourishing choice, because that was what they had always done.

Disney did not suddenly grow a soul. They still care only about profit and literally nothing else. But boycotts made them reconsider what that looked like.

And those twin gatekeepers behind the scenes? Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

They aren’t passive partners. They’re two of the largest holders of ABC affiliates in the country—and they use that leverage to shape what reaches millions of households.

When distribution has an agenda, content doesn’t stay neutral for long.

That pressure flows upstream.

It influences decisions.
It narrows speech.
It decides who stays—and who goes.

As long as those relationships remain intact, The Walt Disney Company isn’t just platforming content. It’s aligning with distributors that have their own political gravity.

So Disney stays on the list.

Not as a permanent enemy—but with a clear, achievable off-ramp:

• Cut ties with Nexstar and Sinclair

• Reinvest in independent, locally accountable affiliates

• Commit—publicly and structurally—to editorial independence

Until then, every Disney dollar reinforces the same calculation:

Profit under pressure is still profit.

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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

Alternatives (How to Watch Without Paying Them)

This boycott isn’t about cutting creative work out of your life.
It’s about cutting off the money.

Watch Star Wars. Watch Indiana Jones. Watch what you love.

Just don’t fund it.

• Use what you already own (DVD, Blu-ray, digital libraries)

• Buy used media (no new money flows upstream)

• Watch ABC over the air with an antenna

That last one matters—broadcast viewing doesn’t directly feed subscription revenue.

You don’t have to erase the stories that shaped you.

You just have to stop financing the decisions being made above them.

Because this isn’t about deprivation.
It’s about direction.

Keep the culture.
Deny the revenue.

16. Boeing

If any company deserved its own list—fascism aside—it’s Boeing.

A corporation so consumed by profit extraction that it managed to turn commercial aviation—a thing that should be engineered with near-religious obsession over safety—into a rolling experiment in shareholder worship.

And now? They aren’t just tied to deadly shortcuts and whistleblower scandals. They’re increasingly woven directly into the machinery of deportation and state violence.

The Department of Homeland Security signed a contract for Boeing 737s to build out ICE deportation operations, helping create a dedicated federal deportation fleet.

So yes, if you board one of those planes someday, there’s a non-zero chance the exact same corporate pipeline helping move your vacation flight is also helping move chained families out of the country for political theater.

And that’s before we even get to the rest of Boeing’s history.

The 737 MAX disasters killed 346 people after Boeing concealed critical flaws, pressured regulators, and prioritized speed and profit over safety. Boeing later agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States over the scandal.

Then came the Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout. The NTSB found Boeing failed to provide adequate oversight, ignored years of warnings, and somehow lost track of the paperwork explaining who removed and reinstalled critical bolts on the aircraft.

Whistleblowers kept coming.

Workers described retaliation, intimidation, falsified inspections, missing parts, defective fuselages, production shortcuts, and a culture where raising safety concerns could end your career.

There is no proven evidence Boeing murdered whistleblowers, but if one healthy young whistleblower dies, that’s a possible coincidence. When three do, that’s something different.

On top of that, there is a long pattern of whistleblowers alleging retaliation, intimidation, blacklisting, and institutional pressure while exposing catastrophic safety failures. One major whistleblower, John Barnett, died by suicide during ongoing legal proceedings against the company, which intensified public suspicion and outrage.

You don’t need conspiracy theories when the documented reality is already monstrous enough.

This is also one of the largest military contractors on Earth. Boeing profits enormously from war, surveillance, weapons systems, border enforcement, and federal security contracts. Endless conflict is not a side effect of their business model. It is the business model.

So how do you boycott Boeing?

This one is difficult because Boeing doesn’t sell directly to consumers the way Target or Amazon does.

The main leverage point is air travel.

If possible:

• Favor airlines and routes that rely more heavily on Airbus aircraft.

• Use flight lookup tools that show aircraft type before booking.

• Tell airlines why you’re avoiding Boeing aircraft.

• Make the issue visible instead of invisible.

You can also:

• Avoid Boeing-branded merchandise and aerospace tourism tie-ins.

• Pressure universities, pension funds, and institutions over Boeing holdings.

• Speak openly about the normalization of corporations profiting simultaneously from passenger travel, war, and deportation infrastructure.

And importantly:

This boycott is not about shaming ordinary workers, engineers, mechanics, or flight crews.

Many of the people trying hardest to protect the public were the whistleblowers Boeing ignored.

This is about refusing to financially reward a corporate culture that repeatedly treats human beings as acceptable losses in pursuit of quarterly numbers.

17. Delta Air Lines

Think of Delta as the Target of airlines.

Not that long ago, they wrapped themselves in the language of progress.

Pride sponsorships.
Diversity campaigns.
Environmental promises.

All the right words.

Because it was good for business.

Because progressive branding sold tickets.

But corporate values are rarely values at all.
They’re marketing strategies.

And marketing strategies change the moment the money does.

So when the regime needed bodies moved—when families needed to be transported in chains from one corner of the country to another—Delta didn’t hesitate.

About two seconds passed between rainbow branding and helping move ICE detainees across the country.

And for what?

A little bit of money.

That alone would have been enough to earn a place on this list.

But Delta didn’t stop there.

They lied about it.

They told the public they weren’t involved.

All while detainees were still being transported on their planes.

Not violent criminals.

Human beings.

Many weren’t even here illegally.

And not just adults.

Children.

Kids as young as five that we know of.

If you think it stops there, you haven’t been paying attention.

Delta does not GIVE A FUCK.

Corporations can claim neutrality.
They can claim compliance.
They can claim they’re just following contracts.

But when they participate in state violence and then lie to cover it up, neutrality dies.

So the answer is simple.

Fly someone else. Take the train. Or the bus. Running out of options. Maybe try flapping your arms really fast.

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18. DoorDash

Illegal wars. Corruption. Child rape. Suspicious deaths. Dozens of felonies. A failed coup. A rigged election.

And after all of that—after all of it—DoorDash looked at the moment and said:

“Yeah. Let’s get in on that shit.”

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They didn’t just allow the stunt. They leaned into it.

On April 13, 2026, DoorDash eagerly participated in a staged White House photo-op: a branded driver delivering McDonald’s to Trump in the Oval Office. It was packaged as a promotion for “no tax on tips,” while he casually fielded questions on everything from Iran to whatever else was burning that day.

It wasn’t subtle.

It was branding.
It was normalization.
It was collaboration.

The same way others handed over big, ugly trophies for no reason other than Trump’s gold fetish and peace prizes awarded — apparently — for bombing children, DoorDash handed over something far more valuable: everyday legitimacy.

In one photo-op, they reminded the world that even now, even here, the machine keeps humming along — smooth, cheerful, and ready to deliver.

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That’s what makes this one stand out.

Not scale.
Not power.
Visibility.

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This is where boycotts matter most: companies that are consumer-facing, easily avoidable, and responsive to pressure.

Because boycotts should have off-ramps. That’s the point. Change the behavior, change the outcome.

But this?

This pushes dangerously close to permanent.

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So don’t use DoorDash.

Fascism leaves a sour aftertaste, anyway.

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Alternatives?

This is usually where I give clean options.

There aren’t many and the first one? Already in the boycott guide.

• Uber Eats / Postmates — Same playbook. Worker exploitation at scale.

• Lyft — Better, but not really in the food game.

• Grubhub — For now. Until they pull something equally stupid.

Or:

Cook.
Pick it up yourself.
Give your money to a place that hasn’t decided to cosplay as a state propaganda arm.

For now, that’s the least-bad move.

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19. Tyson Foods

Tyson has been busy.

And let’s be honest—when Tyson is in the news, you already know it’s probably going to be bad.

Even with expectations that low, this still shocks.

At Tyson’s Ringgold, Virginia plant, workers have alleged extreme racial harassment, including:

• The only Black worker on a shift being targeted
• Repeated racial slurs
• Threats invoking slavery
• Noose imagery and intimidation
• Fear of being followed or killed

According to the lawsuit, one worker reportedly stopped going home and stayed in hotels out of fear for his safety.

Complaints to HR? Allegedly ignored.

The accused harassers? Still employed.

And after reporting it, workers say they faced retaliation and termination.

Now Tyson is being sued under federal and state civil rights laws.

Tyson’s response:

“We have zero tolerance for racism, harassment or retaliation…”

No.

Companies with actual zero tolerance do not keep arriving here.

They don’t let abuse escalate to this point.

They don’t repeatedly end up defending themselves after workers say leadership looked the other way.

This is what normalization looks like.

When cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination are tolerated—or simply treated as the cost of doing business—it spreads.

Corporate culture follows power.

And when accountability disappears, abuse gets bolder.

That alone earns Tyson scrutiny.

But this is not an isolated controversy.

This is one more entry in a long-running pattern.

Tyson’s broader record includes allegations, fines, or criticism tied to:

• Worker exploitation and dangerous labor conditions
• Racial and discrimination complaints
• Animal cruelty concerns
• Environmental pollution and waste issues
• Antitrust and chicken price-fixing settlements
• Food safety controversies

And during COVID, Tyson faced national criticism over plant outbreaks, worker safety concerns, and allegations that production pressures outweighed employee protections.

This isn’t just one scandal.

It’s a recurring business pattern critics have pointed to for years.

No, Tyson is not alone in corporate abuse.

But Tyson has repeatedly been accused of pushing that model aggressively—where profit comes first, and workers, animals, or communities absorb the cost.

Action:

Avoid Tyson-owned brands when possible:

• Tyson
• Jimmy Dean
• Hillshire Farm
• Ball Park
• State Fair
• Aidells
• Wright Brand
• Sara Lee (select meat products)

Check labels—they own more than many people realize.

Alternatives:

• Buy from local butchers or independent farms when possible
• Look for regional producers with transparent labor practices
• Support brands that publicly disclose worker welfare, sourcing, and animal standards

Perfect? Probably not.

Better? Often.

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This is bigger than one lawsuit.

It’s about what powerful companies believe they can do openly.

When workers say abuse was ignored, when safety repeatedly becomes secondary, when accountability only shows up after public exposure—that deserves attention.

Tyson’s size does not excuse that.

If corporations think people won’t notice, won’t care, or won’t change buying habits—

prove otherwise.

20. PayPal — The Orchard That Grew the Oligarchs

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.

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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.

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21. Jet Blue

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Boycott JetBlue until they address this incident (in the right way)

Don’t let them wait out the outrage.

Make them answer it.

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22. AMC Theaters (NEW)

At first glance, this might not feel like the most urgent boycott.

The world is on fire—wars, children being bombed, starved, raped. Genocide. ``Real horror, unfolding in real time.

So why focus on a movie?

Because this is how the machine works.

AMC didn’t just bring back a film.
They made a choice about what deserves amplification.

Sound of Freedom isn’t neutral entertainment. It’s built on the same ecosystem that fueled QAnon—an entire movement that normalized lies, paranoia, and moral panic in the name of “saving children,” while often obscuring real harm.

This movie is one big child rape projection. Every person involved is either a pedophile projecting their own sins onto their political opposites, or people so stupid that they believe these ridiculous, easily debunked lies.

That’s it. That’s the only two options, but why do we care? Ask yourself this:

Would we be here—this deep in disinformation, this divided—without that normalization?

Maybe something like this still happens.
But QAnon accelerated it. Supercharged it. Made the absurd feel believable.

And now a major theater chain is packaging that energy as inspiration.

AMC is rolling this out under a branded series—“Voices of Hope.”

Let’s be honest about what that signals:

This isn’t neutrality.
This is curation.

They are deciding that this kind of content—politically loaded, conspiracy-adjacent, “based on a true story” but largely unverifiable—is worth elevating and profiting from.

Not because it’s true.
Not because it’s responsible.

Because it sells.

And in an era where media power is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few corporations, those choices shape reality. They influence what people believe is real, urgent, and worth caring about.

This is how propaganda works now.

Not as state mandates.
As profitable content pipelines.

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Action:

Don’t go.
Don’t buy concessions.
Don’t subscribe to AMC Stubs.

If you want to see a film, support independent theaters or stream elsewhere.

Make it clear:

If you platform disinformation,
you don’t get our money.

23. REI

Remember when we used to have all those beautiful national parks and forests? We would pack up the family, load the car with snacks and sleeping bags, and just… go.

Yosemite National Park.
Yellowstone National Park.
Redwood National and State Parks.
Zion National Park.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Places that made you feel small in the best possible way — where the air cleared your head and the silence reminded you what freedom actually felt like.

It was good for the mind. Good for the soul. Good for remembering that some things in this country still belonged to all of us, not to the highest bidder.

Technically, those parks are still there. But not for long — not if companies like REI have their way.

For years, REI sold itself as the “good corporation.” The ethical outdoorsy co-op. The one that supposedly cared about public lands, sustainability, workers, and community. People paid premium prices because they believed the story — that their money was helping protect the wild places we all love.

That story is cracking wide open, and the truth underneath is ugly.

REI leadership endorsed Doug Burgum, one of the central figures pushing expanded drilling and extraction on public lands under the current administration. They issued an apology only after backlash from members and workers. At the same time, they hired Morgan Lewis — one of the country’s most notorious union-busting law firms — to fight workers trying to unionize REI stores.

When co-op members pushed back and rejected leadership-backed board candidates, REI reportedly changed internal election procedures instead of listening to its membership, tightening executive control while limiting dissent.

This is the pattern we keep seeing with “progressive” brands: beautiful marketing on the storefront, quiet betrayal in the boardroom. They wrap themselves in fleece catalogs and sustainability slogans while undermining workers, public lands, and democratic accountability the moment it becomes inconvenient.

We are not buying it anymore.

This boycott is not about hiking boots or tents. It is about refusing to hand money to corporations that preach environmentalism and community while actively helping dismantle the very things they claim to defend.

The outdoors does not belong to corporate branding departments. It belongs to all of us.

What You Can Do Instead

• Buy used outdoor gear locally whenever possible.

• Support independent outfitters and regional outdoor stores.

• Repair gear instead of constantly replacing it.

• Seek out genuine local co-ops that actually operate like co-ops.

• Use secondhand marketplaces and community swaps for basics.

The wild places that once healed us are under siege. Every dollar spent with REI right now helps accelerate that siege.

We refuse to be herded into funding our own dispossession.

The parks are not theirs to sell.
The mountains are not theirs to drill.
And our loyalty is not theirs to buy with pretty pictures and empty promises.

We remember what those places meant.
We remember who we were standing beneath those redwoods.

And we will not quietly watch them disappear so another co-op-turned-corporation can protect its margins.

Stay unherdable.
Protect what’s left.

Boycott REI.

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24. UFC

UFC sells itself as rebellion, grit, and warrior culture.
What it increasingly became was a televised wing of Trumpworld cosplay.

Dana White didn’t just “support” Trump — he practically turned himself into Krasnov’s octagon hype man. Rally appearances. Convention speeches. Public devotion that crossed from endorsement into near-religious brand fusion. And when Trump shows up cageside like a sunburned Caesar getting cheers from a crowd trained to confuse spectacle for strength, it stops being “just sports.”

It becomes propaganda with gloves.

Every pay-per-view buy, branded hoodie, sponsored click, and viral knockout helps enrich a machine whose leadership has repeatedly treated authoritarian politics like part of the promotional package.

This isn’t about fighters trying to earn a living.
It’s about the executives at the top using combat sports culture as another delivery system for billionaire strongman mythology.

Because when the boss treats Trump like the second coming of masculinity, the brand starts selling more than fights:

It sells allegiance.

How to hit them
• Skip PPVs
• Pirate if you must, but don’t feed the machine
• Avoid UFC merch and sponsor products when possible
• Support local gyms, independent fighters, or smaller promotions that haven’t fused themselves to MAGA branding

Alternative: PFL, ONE Championship, regional promotions—or just support fighters directly without funding Dana’s political theater.

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Bonus fight related content from our Map:

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25. WWE

WWE always flirted with power worship.
Big entrances. Bigger egos. Billionaire swagger. Manufactured dominance.

But over time, the McMahon empire became less “sports entertainment” and more proof that America will absolutely let carnival barkers help shape public decay.

Vince McMahon’s long-running friendship with Trump didn’t just produce photo ops and WrestleMania nonsense — it helped normalize the crossover between wrestling spectacle and authoritarian branding. The kayfabe strongman, the humiliation rituals, the crowd conditioning, the cult of personality — it was always bigger than the ring.

And then there’s Linda McMahon:
From wrestling executive to political enabler, now tied directly to efforts that undermine public education while helping push policies that hollow out the Department of Education itself.

That’s not irony.
That’s rot.

Every nostalgia pop, every Peacock stream, every replica belt, every “it’s just entertainment” shrug risks feeding a corporate-political ecosystem that has repeatedly cozied up to anti-democratic power structures.

This isn’t about the wrestlers grinding for a paycheck.
It’s about where your money flows at the top.

How to hit them
• Cancel WWE subscriptions / Peacock for WWE content
• Skip merch, premium events, and branded partnerships
• Stop pretending spectacle is politically neutral
• Make the connection explicit: entertainment dollars can subsidize real-world damage

Alternative: AEW, indie wrestling, local promotions—still flawed, but with significantly less direct Trumpworld baggage.

Bottom line:
If authoritarian aesthetics, billionaire grift, and political sabotage had a choreographed entrance theme, it would look a lot like this.

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26. CHILI’S

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.

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27. Fox News / Fox Corporation / The Murdoch Machine

I left Fox off this guide for too long because, honestly, it felt obvious.

If you’re actively resisting authoritarianism, disinformation, and oligarchic rot, why would Fox even still be in the rotation?

But obvious isn’t enough.
Because Fox was never just one channel.

It’s an ecosystem. A pipeline. A full-spectrum outrage factory that spent decades laundering propaganda into “common sense,” turning cruelty into commentary, and teaching millions to mistake manipulation for patriotism.

Fox didn’t merely report on democratic decline.
It industrialized it.

They helped normalize election lies, fearmongering, anti-immigrant hysteria, anti-LGBTQ+ scapegoating, climate denial, union-busting narratives, and billionaire-friendly deregulation while wrapping it all in flag graphics and fake populism.

And even after massive legal consequences, public scandals, and internal revelations showing key figures privately mocking the same lies they sold on air, the machine kept going.

Because the damage wasn’t a bug.
It was the business model.

Fox paid enormous settlements over election falsehoods, yet the broader formula remained: outrage, distortion, grievance, repeat. Hosts cycle through dehumanization, fear, and culture war spectacle because rage keeps viewers locked in and ad dollars flowing.

And remember:
Murdoch’s empire extends beyond one nightly scream-fest.

Fox News
Fox Business
Fox Nation
Fox broadcast properties
Tubi
Fox Sports advertising ecosystems
Affiliated digital platforms
New York Post
The broader tabloid outrage pipeline

And yes — parts of the old Fox empire were sold off, meaning media consolidation spreads the rot in multiple directions. Different logo, same poisoned water table.

This isn’t about one offensive segment.
It’s about a machine that repeatedly profits from social fracture.

How to hit them:
• Stop watching Fox News, Fox Business, and Fox Nation
• Avoid Fox streaming apps and digital properties when possible
• Boycott advertisers that heavily bankroll Fox programming
• Skip Fox-branded merchandise, subscriptions, and paid content
• Reduce engagement with Murdoch-owned tabloids like the New York Post
• Call out businesses that advertise there: make propaganda expensive
• Don’t share clips unless necessary for accountability—rage-clicks are still currency

Sports caveat:
Fox Sports often functions differently editorially, but ad ecosystems still matter. If your goal is economic pressure, be conscious of where your attention goes.

Alternative:
Support independent journalism, local reporting, nonprofit investigative outlets, worker-owned media, and fact-based reporting that doesn’t monetize civil collapse.

Bottom line:
Fox helped build the modern propaganda template:
Flood the zone.
Dehumanize the vulnerable.
Protect power.
Sell fear.

They didn’t just report the fire.
They sold gasoline, matches, and commercial breaks.

No more ratings.
No more clicks.
No more passive funding of the machine.

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28. 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.

29. Dell

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: But 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.

And that is the point, because if they wanted to help children, they would help children. This does not do that.

Instead, they want to scam more of their supporters (I assume only MAGA morons will fall for this obvious ploy), out of $1000 that they can’t really afford, and yes, haha, more MAGAs being scammed, but we’re talking about children …

What is being funded? Where does the money go? Dell has alreaedy proven itself as evil as the worst of the worst bloodsucking corporations, and the Trump name is synonymous with fake charity scams. So rest assured, it’s complete horsshit.

Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to support this scam, something that provides $250, which is a really shitty ROI for a $1000 investment over a decade or more.

Never mind the fact that all Trump promises are lies so not only will the victims never see the $250, that $1000 investment is gone too.

Because this is how oligarch philanthropy often works.

Not by solving suffering.

By taking advantage of it.

Wrap wealth extraction in patriotic branding.

Call it investment.

Call it family empowerment.

Call it opportunity.

Make struggling families feel like hope has been offered, even if the structure primarily serves political theater, public loyalty, or long-term private advantage.

If a billionaire-backed system genuinely wanted to help children, it could support food security, healthcare, childcare, education, housing stability, or direct anti-poverty measures now.

But “now” is expensive.

“Someday,” branded correctly, is cheaper. Free. Profitable.

Oh, but Dell’s Trump fellating does not stop there.

Just a few more (of many):

• 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 supported Texas 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.

Boycott?

Like Trump, they love to slap their name and logo on everything, so just look for that Dell name and hide your wallet.

Alternatives?

Acer, Asus, Framework, Purism, Fairphone. Really, anything would be better than this. But not Apple.

30. Hobby Lobby

Hobby Lobby’s CEO, David Green, fancies himself a Christian Indiana Jones — except instead of dodging boulders, he paid smugglers to bring looted artifacts into the U.S. Not just any artifacts: items stolen from other nations, protected by international law, ripped from archaeological sites to satisfy one billionaire’s private religious fantasies.

And he didn’t even take the risks himself.
He sent others.
Others to smuggle.
Others to falsify customs forms.
Others to launder receipts.
Others to hide the loot until he could display it as his own “biblical collection.”

Federal investigators seized thousands of items. Hobby Lobby paid millions in fines. And still, somehow, the myth of the “godly businessman” survived.

Because this is the same man who poured millions into fighting marriage equality.
Green wasn’t content with controlling his own family or his own stores — he wanted to control your family too. He funded legal campaigns and political groups dedicated to blocking LGBTQ+ people from having the same rights he takes for granted. He used his wealth to try to write his theology into civil law.

You’d think Christians might have a problem with that.

Well, most Evangelical Christians—the types that frequent Hobby Lobby on the regular— are anti-LGBTQ+ , but the other part? No squawking about looting the Holy Land of supposedly Biblical treasures?

Nah. The faithful keep lining up at the registers, funding the empire, helping it expand while other retailers shrink. Blind devotion is recession‑proof.

So the least we can do — the bare minimum — is refuse to bankroll it.
Don’t help them grow.
Don’t help them spread.
Don’t help them profit from their ghoulishness.

Alternatives:

Michaels, Dollar Tree, Blick Art Materials, and Jerry’s Artarama. Most of the 1=to-1 alternatives are out of business (JoAnn’s) or already on this boycott list (Wal-Mart, Amazon, etc.).

Good rule of thumb: any corporation funneling its profits into stripping people of their rights has earned a boycott. If a company uses your dollars to bankroll discrimination, repression, or culture‑war crusades, you’re under no obligation to keep feeding the machine.

And the customers who keep propping it up—they deserve to be called out. Not for who they are, but for what they choose to support.

Shame on the people who see the damage and keep swiping their cards anyway.
Shame on the ones who know better and choose the zealotry over the humanity.
Shame on the willful ignorance that keeps these corporations alive.

Boycotts work because they expose the truth:
your money is a vote, and you don’t have to vote for cruelty.

David Green is not Indiana Jones. He’s the Nazis that Indy punches.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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🧭 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: 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.

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Ranked: from “Murdering the Whistleblowers” to “Sorry About the Gulf”

1. 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.

2. 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.)

3. Chevron — Denies climate change and elections. Overachievers in the fascism department.

4. Valero — Major donor to election-denial PACs and anti-democracy candidates. Quietly corrosive.

5. Sinclair Oil — Cute dinosaur mascot. Gruesome politics. You’re literally pumping the dead bodies of their mascot into your car.

6. 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.

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Less Bad (Relatively)

7. Marathon Petroleum — Lobbyists for deregulation; more amoral than actively fascist.

8. 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.

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🍔 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.

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🍞 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.

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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.

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Philz Coffee (NEW)

Here’s the business plan. Don’t steal it. It’s brilliant.

Step 1: Open a coffee shop in San Francisco—on Castro Street, no less.
Step 2: Spend years building a loyal LGBTQ+ customer base in one of the most iconic gay neighborhoods in the world.
Step 3: Remove Pride flags from your stores in the name of “inclusion.”
Step 4: Profit.

Brilliant.

Philz Coffee is a California-based chain with locations across the state and products sold online.

The company confirmed it is removing Pride flags (along with other decor) to create a more “consistent, inclusive experience”—a move that has sparked backlash from employees and customers, especially in communities where those symbols carry real meaning.

Let’s be clear: those flags weren’t random decorations. They signaled safety, belonging, and community. Taking them down—especially in places like the Castro—doesn’t read as neutral. It reads as retreat.

A bad business decision. A worse message.

Why go down with that ship?

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What to Do

• Don’t go.

• Don’t order online.

• Don’t buy their beans.

• If you’re in California, there are countless local shops that actually understand their communities.

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Alternatives

There’s no shortage of coffee.

Any independent local shop works.
Any brand not on the boycott list works.

Just avoid funneling money into places already flagged in this guide (Target, Whole Foods, etc.).

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More Context

If you want a deeper dive into the situation, this article lays it out well:
https://www.coyotemedia.org/philz-coffee-pride-flag-controversy/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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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Gristedes (and D’Agostino’s), Kwik Fill, Country Fair

I need your help with this one.

Nearly all of the boycott targets in this guide are national (and international) brands with simple actions: you shop at Amazon. Amazon fuels fascism. Stop shopping at Amazon. Simple.

This one is not so simple because it’s New York-based. Yes, the biggest city in the U.S. in terms of population—but many of us, most of us, don’t live or shop there.

But this turd needs to be boycotted, and there is a way to do it—maybe even more effectively if we all try together.

This guy is billionaire Republican donor John Catsimatidis — former NYC mayoral candidate, radio host, supermarket magnate, and CEO of a big refining company (Red Apple Group / United Refining).

He’s the same Trump shill who was on Fox Business last week claiming Trump “ended war as we know it.”

On March 20, 2026, he went on Fox’s America Reports and casually dropped this soulless, tone-deaf garbage while whining about New York taxes and Governor Hochul:

“Why should we pay that $81,000 I saw on the screen (it was one of Fox News’ famous bullshit graphics), for a homeless person where they can live in Uganda for $8.13 a day. We’ll give them the check for $8.13 a day, let them live some place else.”

“...I’d give them money to live in Uganda... in Africa or in South America. Why they can’t live for one tenth the cost?”

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He literally said out loud that New York should just ship its homeless people off to Uganda (or anywhere in Africa/South America) so his taxes don’t go up and he can keep his billions.

He thinks the homeless can survive on $8.13 a day.

He thinks his fortune is more important than human lives.

He only cares about protecting his own wealth — not people, not the city that made him rich, nothing.

Pure evil in a suit.

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Here’s how we hit him where it hurts — even if you don’t live in New York.

You probably know at least one or two New Yorkers (family, friends, coworkers, online connections). Even if it’s just one, text them, DM them, or post this on social media tagging NYC groups/pages.

Spread it everywhere: Facebook NYC groups, Reddit r/ny — wherever New Yorkers hang out.

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New Yorkers (and anyone who visits or orders delivery there):
STOP SHOPPING AT HIS STORES.

Boycott these right now:

• Gristedes supermarkets
  (his flagship chain — 17+ locations, mostly Manhattan)

• D’Agostino’s
  (he recently took controlling ownership of these too — classic NYC grocery stores)

• Kwik Fill and Country Fair gas stations
  (his United Refining Company owns ~400 of them across NY, PA, and Ohio — avoid filling up there if you see one)

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These are the direct consumer businesses that put money straight into his pocket.

Every grocery run or tank of gas you skip starves the empire that funds his cruelty and Trump-loving politics.

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Easy alternatives in NYC:

• Trader Joe’s

• Wegmans (where available)

• Key Food

• Stop & Shop

• ShopRite

• Local independent grocers, co-ops, or bodegas

For gas: They’re all bad (see the fas fascist section of this guide, but best option is Shell in the city. Marathon in the suburbs. Just not Kwik Fill or Country Fair.

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It’s not complicated once you know the names.

One New Yorker switching stores hurts him.
Hundreds or thousands doing it? That’s real pain for a billionaire who thinks the homeless belong in Uganda.

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This guy made his entire fortune in New York.

Now he wants to punish the city and its most vulnerable people to protect his estate-tax-free billions.

Don’t let him.

Hit his wallet.
Tell every New Yorker you know.
Share this far and wide.

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Boycott Gristedes.
Boycott D’Agostino’s.
Boycott Kwik Fill/Country Fair.

Make the soulless ghoul feel it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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🏥 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.

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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.

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💻 Tech + Billionaire Ego Fascists

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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✈️ Aviation and Transit

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.

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🚗 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.

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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

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🕯 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Companies that don’t matter much, but let’s boycott their fascist asses anyway …

These companies don’t have real sway in Washington. Most are too small, too weak, or too replaceable to shape policy on their own. Hell, some probably won’t survive the economic collapse they helped cheerlead into existence.

But they still chose a side.

They still fuel fascism, bankroll cruelty, exploit workers, target vulnerable people, or profit from whatever fresh horror the regime is serving up this week.

These boycotts may not move mountains on their own.

But every corpse on the roadside sends a message to the next corporation thinking about cashing in on authoritarianism:

There’s a cost to joining the feeding frenzy.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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CarShield

Close to a scam masquerading as a business. FTC problems, consumer complaints, and they hired Sean Spicer for vibes. Enough said.

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.

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.

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.

• Join the thread: say what you’re boycotting, even if it’s one brand. Proof of concept matters.

• Subscribe for updates.

Every fascist dollar withheld is a step closer to starving the machine.