fascism
No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, drugged-up, unelected fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.
We need more of this. People need to stop complying and start fighting.
(H/T @lavaeolus)
If you think Americans aren't doing anything and nobody is protesting, that's understandable. Corporate media and a lot of billionaire owned social media want you to think we're all just sitting on our hands.
There are protests going on right now. And there will be protests Wednesday at noon in every state capital. I'm going to mine.
Finally seeing some green shoots of fightiness from the #Dems.
It’s been pretty demoralizing watching so many of them conducting business as usual or griping about the price of guacamole but better late than never.
Maybe Musk’s blatantly illegal coup is shaking some of them out of their slumber.
A reminder that one of the FIRST things the Nazis did in 1933 was raid Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute of Sexual Research and burn all of the literature on gender & sexuality. This is happening again NOW!
🚫DEI gone
🚫Government websites mentioning LGBTQIA+ gone
🚫Scientific & medical research on LGBTQIA+ gone
🚫Safe guards for gender & sexually affirming healthcare gone
🚫Trans military protections gone
This is literal NAZI shit. History is repeating itself. #fascism #nazi #lgbtq
Fox News has removed the stock market data from the chyron.
I was expecting there to be a few GOP senators who took their oaths seriously enough to sink Trump's most ludicrous nominees--the ones that are both dangerous and also just an embarrassment to the country--and fold on his other vicious, unqualified wingnuts.
But I was wrong.
[Canadians! 🇨🇦] Sign petition: Canada must update travel guidance & create clear, accessible pathways for trans refugees
https://www.momentumcanada.net/pathways
https://www.momentumcanada.net
* trans led, proactive/progressive 2SLGBTQIA+ rights advocacy-activist organization 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈
In solidarity,
Victoria 🙏
#Trump2 #fascism #transgenocide
#TransRights #TransLivesMatter
Image:
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-signs-sweeping-order-restrict-transgender-care-minors-nationwide-rcna189719
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFD-e-Vy54o
https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/01/22/poilievre-not-aware-of-more-than-two-genders-says-there-are-other-priorities
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFI_jDQSNiT
https://www.facebook.com/queermomentum/posts/pfbid0DUaofP5CZVBfUzt4J1NDbRZ9HPLA1QNvFz21PF7t2PyeV2VPTLqiFT9K9rZF53igl
https://bsky.app/profile/momentumcanada.net/post/3lge7bcjfq22y
![[Canadians! 🇨🇦] Sign the petition: Canada must update travel guidance and create clear, accessible pathways for trans refugees
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"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action.
The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them."
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/
#CIA Sends #Trump White House an #Unclassified Email With #Names of Some #Employees
The list of partial names was provided in an effort to comply with an #ExecutiveOrder to slash the federal #workforce.
#fascism #tyranny #USpol #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/cia-names-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Google, a brief history
2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people
https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html
#Google #BigTech #AI #SiliconValley #USA #capitalism #fascism
#America Is Watching the Rise of a #DualState
For most people, the #courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
On Sept 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of #fascism packed his suitcases & fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a manuscript that he had drafted in secret over the previous 2 yrs. This book was a remarkable one. It clarified what was unfolding in Berlin…, the catalyst for its author’s flight.
“She says it was like a horror movie. They were screaming in different rooms”
I would argue no one should travel to the U.S. right now because it’s important to vote with your wallet. Don’t spend tourist dollars there
Another reason? The threat of being detained by ICE. It’s not safe in America:
#uspoli #ice #fascism #authoritarianism #donotcomply #immigration
Universities must resist the fascist coup that is being perpetrated by the US regime. What they seem to be doing instead is capitulate without a fight. Here's what I wrote to my university's president the other day (fwiw), in response to his reassurance that "Cornell follows the law".
@SRTurtleIsland @brembs @ProPublica @holocaustmuseum @mastodonmigration @timothysnyder_ @breadandcircuses #university #uspolitics #fascism #resist #law #academic
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Padilla: "WE. WILL. HOLD. THIS. ADMINISTRATION. ACCOUNTABLE."
His pauses, not mine.
They better, because we are in deep shit, people. #fascism
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"I encourage everybody to please peacefully protest."
I’m not a psychologist.
But Trump’s malignant narcissism seems plain.
I’m not a lawyer.
But the collapse of checks and balances and the resultant constitutional crisis seems plain.
I’m not an economist.
But the hollowing out of the public sector for the benefit of corporations and billionaires seems plain.
I am an historian.
And the convergence of these forces has never ended well.
Midnight in America.
“We’re grounding ourselves and reminding community that not all these bills have equal chances of becoming law.”
Don't panic, get organized! My latest article for @deceleration is out, about the attacks on #LGBTQIA+ rights at the #Texas Legislature and what you can do about it (and what others are doing too).
Love the illustrations by Jennifer Lane. https://deceleration.news/lgbtq-rights-trans-and-queer-texas-communities/
#TXLege #politics #USpol #news #trans #transphobia #HumanRights #queer #fascism
I haven't seen a lot about this in the national news, but the lawyer for the 2019 El Paso mass shooter (Patrick Crusius) is now expressly stating that his client thought he was working for Trump to stop the "invasion" (by brown people) the president said was occurring in Texas.
https://elpasomatters.org/2025/03/30/patrick-crusius-donald-trump-aug-3-2019-walmart-mass-shooting/
Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling Trump’s wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says
"Patrick Crusius believed he was acting at the direction of President Donald Trump when he murdered 23 people and wounded 22 others at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, his defense lawyer told El Paso Matters.
“He thought he had to stop the invasion because that’s what his president was telling him, which is just not rational,” defense attorney Joe Spencer said in his first extended interview about the mass shooting that Crusius said was meant to stop “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.”
“He thought, if he doesn’t do it, then nobody’s going to do it. He’s got to start,” Spencer said."
It's not lost on me that Trump sycophants and apologists have a whole ream of excuses at the ready; the shooter had a history of serious mental illness, his lawyer is a Democrat who (rightfully) thinks Trump's white nationalist rhetoric is dangerous, Crusius awkwardly tried to absolve Trump in his manifesto, and so forth. The fact is however that just because fascists are willing to spew disingenuous lies to cover up Trump and the larger fascist propaganda industry's involvement in motivating a mass murderer, doesn't mean any thinking person has to treat those disingenuous excuses seriously. This guy was one of Trump's legion of white nationalist fanboys; he was quoting Great Replacement conspiracy theories in his cut and pasted manifesto, he was adamantly against his lawyer subpoenaing Trump, and the shooter even admitted a 2019 Trump rally in Florida was the moment that convinced him to plan and enact the murders.
"Spencer said Crusius told him that a key event leading to the murderous rampage in El Paso occurred in May 2019 in Panama City Beach, Florida, when Trump spoke at a rally.
“I mean, you have 15,000 people marching up and you have hundreds and hundreds of people and you have two or three border security people that are brave and great,” Trump said, then added falsely that Border Patrol agents weren’t allowed to use weapons.
“But how do you stop these people?” Trump said.
“Shoot them,” someone in the audience shouted, drawing laughter from the crowd and a smile from the president.
“That’s only in the (Florida) Panhandle you can get away with that statement,” Trump said while shaking his head. “Only in the Panhandle.”
Crusius said he saw video of that Trump rally and was motivated to act, Spencer said. In June 2019, a month after the Florida Trump rally, Crusius purchased a semiautomatic rifle online and had it delivered to a gun dealer in his hometown of Allen, Texas, near Dallas, according to court records."
Like are you fucking kidding me? Please keep in mind that as you read this, the Trump regime is currently arguing that Venezuelan migrants are literally "an invasion" that justifies the president invoking war powers to ship them to a slave labor prison in El Salvador without due process. Of *course* this maggot fascist believed Trump was serious about migrants "invading" America and destroying the country because Trump himself is serious every time he says it! And the fact that Crusius was suffering from documented mental illness isn't a valid excuse either because when you tell folks that they're being invaded by brown people who're going to rape and murder them, you don't get to pretend its a surprise when vulnerable people high on your white nationalist conspiracy theories take that seriously; the negligence itself, is the problem here just as much as the overt race war rhetoric is.
By the way, don't sleep on the fact that the primary reason you're only hearing all of this now is that his lawyer has been under a gag order that was only dissolved in late March; you know, after Trump was elected again.
#Trump #Fascism #ElPasoShooting #PatrickCrusius #WhiteNationalism #GreatReplacement #GunViolence #MassShooting #JoeSpencer #ConspiracyTheories #Negligence
#Destroying the #judiciary -The entire Phoenix field office of #GSA has been fired, according to federal #court administrator. The field office "was the subject of #RIF reduction in force," said district court executive, clerk of court for US District Court for the District of #Arizona. Firings included people who operated and maintained the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in downtown Phoenix, Lucas said. #coup #fascism #dictator #democracy #constitution https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-phoenix-field-office-general-210120998.html #FreeAmerica
So uh, what stage of "you can't call it fascism!"TM is it when Downmarket Mussolini sends the immigration Gestapo that pretty much answers to only him, to unlawfully arrest student protest leaders who are legally in the country, and disappear them into the labyrinth of the American migrant carceral complex?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/ice-arrests-palestinian-activist-columbia-protests
Ice arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
"Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment, blocks from the private Ivy League university’s main campus in New York when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents entered the building and took him into custody, his attorney, Amy Greer, told the Associated Press.
One of the agents told Greer by phone that they were executing a state department order to revoke Khalil’s student visa. Informed by the attorney that Khalil, who graduated last December, was in the United States as a permanent resident with a green card, the agent said they were revoking that too, according to the lawyer.
The arrest comes as Donald Trump vows to deport foreign students and imprison “agitators” involved in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza."
As the story goes on to mention, Khalil, who is Palestinian, is in the United States on a legally-issued Green Card, which cannot be revoked by either ICE Gestapo pigs or our fascist State Department without the order of an immigration judge; which makes this an unlawful arrest and detention. What the story doesn't discuss however is that Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant, is an American citizen. I mention these things not because it would somehow be "okay" for the fascist Trump regime to snatch up a student leader for the (not illegal) "crime" of protesting a genocide if he only had a student visa, or his wife wasn't a U.S. Citizen, but to point out that clearly the administration and its security forces do not give a flying fuck about any of the rules they're violating or laws they're breaking to punish dissent. Furthermore, reports posted on social media by a person identifying themselves as Khalil's lawyer, indicate that the Department of Homeland Security has *already* moved Mahmoud, possibly as far as Georgia, and thus he does not have access to legal representation. If this were Middle Eastern country with oil reserves, our establishment would rightfully note that the regime has thus effectively "disappeared" what amounts to a political prisoner.
Folks, I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but like I've been telling you (even long before Trump was re-elected) the fact is that fascists don't give a fuck about the laws, rules, or standard operating procedures. If the law can be used to justify seizing power, eliminating civil rights, and punishing enemies they're happy to employ it. But if not, they'll replace or simply ignore any rule that gets in the way of the attempts to purge the opposition and transform society into the full on fascist dictatorship of their dreams. You don't get to let this one slide because "he's not an American," you don't care about Gaza, or you've been taught to hate student protestors by your media and the larger ruling class establishment. If Americans (including the nominal opposition in the US establishment) stand by and watch this happen to folks like Mahmoud Khalil, then it is an absolute historical certainty that it is only a matter of time before Trump is sending jackbooted thugs after anyone who won't goosestep along with the fascist order - and that includes figures in our complicit media and political classes. A whole bunch of affluent liberals have spent the past couple of years tossing around historical warnings about how Nazism and the Holocaust happened in Germany; now its time to prove you understand the lessons those words were trying to teach you about resisting the slide into overt fascism before it goes far enough that you can no longer stop it - because I assure you, if you tolerate this then (you and) your children *will* be next.
#Fascism #Trump #ICE #Gestapo #MahmoudKhalil #CivilRights #NaziGermany #PoliceState #Gaza #Genocide #Israel
> [#Musk’s] grandfather headed a fringe political movement in #Canada in the 1930s, Technocracy Incorporated, which sought to abolish #democracy in favour of government by elite technicians, but its overtones of #fascism saw it banned during the second world war.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/feb/08/elon-musk-politics-doge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism