Denise M. Walsh

If these people aren’t fascists then that word just has no meaning.

“Show me the man, and I’ll find you the crime.”

— Lavrentiy Beria

This definitely feels like something. We’ve hit the tipping point into fascism.

The antidote is to build community, invest in care, imagine a world without capitalism , organize, and resist.

Glad to know he’s safe out of the country. Was hoping that was the case as I read today’s news.

It doesn’t matter. The more he says this crap the more it’s repeated and normalized. It becomes common sense.

Heading in the direction of Nazi Germany after Hitler took power 30 January 1933 and put his political,opponents in concentration camps. But instead of having historians reconstruct events in retrospective, it‘s on live television.

Agreed. Don’t be divided and conquered

State licensed violence against it’s citizens

Today’s events, including this terror memo, suggest we’ve tipped over into fascist terrain

That’s because there’s a transnational far right movement sharing their playbook

In Dangerous Attack on Left-Leaning Nonprofits, Trump Orders Government to Go After ‘Domestic Terrorism Networks’ Read more here.

The move appears targeted at left-leaning progressive nonprofit groups, which Trump days ago vowed to dismantle, falsely claiming they fund and support political violence and terrorism in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is less about individuals and more about spreading fear and obstructing support for any opposition.

The Secretary shall provide guidance for financial institutions to file Suspicious Activity Reports and investigate indicia of illicit funding streams to ensure such activity is rooted out at the source and referred for law enforcement action, as appropriate.

From the Trump Terror Memo. Have you ever donated to a left org with a credit card? Get ready. This doesn’t mean they’re coming for you. It means if they want to come for you, you’re already cooked.

Never underestimate your enemy. This is early random and when it is that’s also a strategy. Shock and awe anyone?

I think that’s pretty conservative. With national donors already being considered for terrorism charges I would think we will be there within a year.

. Department of Justice Designation. In the course of and as a result of the investigations directed by section 2 of this memorandum, the Attorney General may recommend that any group or entity whose members are engaged in activities meeting the definition of “domestic terrorism” in 18 U.S.C. 2331(5) merits designation as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Speculation, but I don’t think it’s off the table that within a year or two state Democratic Party orgs could be designated terror orgs according to Trump’s terror memo. The point will be to make examples, and compel submission.

From authoritarian populism to fascism: 1) crises take center state, 2) illusion of violent threat of the left, 3) activated mass base, 4) bourgeoisie no longer believe they can democratically control the state, 5) assault on the state and 6) terror against all subordinate classes.

Against the New McCarthyism: Organizing Resistance in Higher Education YouTube video by Haymarket Books

Against the New McCarthyism: Organizing Resistance in Higher Education | via @haymarketbooks.org www.youtube.com/live/AokV9UO...

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false.

ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

ICE Abducts Man Suing Off-Duty Police for Abusing Day Laborers “The Department of Homeland Security has become the department of state terror,” said Rep. Delia Ramirez.

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Another North Side homeless tent camp is targeted by the city Following a more than yearlong battle at nearby Gompers Park, city officials say they will begin to clear a camp at Legion Park along the river Tuesday.

A lot of attention has (rightfully) been on feds coming to Chicago to arrest immigrants & potentially raid homeless encampments (like in DC)

But also worthy of attention: Today city officials (without feds) are planning on clearing a homeless encampment.

chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/20...

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani "It's so ugly, it's so cowardly, it's so stupid."

"I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."

@timothypmurphy.bsky.social talked to Democratic voters who want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

“The Whole City is Fighting Back”: Remora House on Grassroots Resistance to Military Occupation in DC For the last several weeks, federal agents and National Guard troops have flooded the streets of Washington DC, setting up an authoritarian occupation of the city; harassing residents, dismantling hom...

"Refusing to accept the police state, organizing to keep each other safe, directing traffic away from checkpoints, escorting folks to food pantries are all beautiful acts of resistance in a moment that the state wants us to hide and feel afraid." @remorahousedc.bsky.social via @igd.bsky.social

Showing this tomorrow in my class on fascism because ruling elite panic about socialism fueled the rise of fascists like Mussolini

Declaring dissidents and undesired groups mentally ill was one of the fundamental means of control used in the Soviet Union.

The Clash Abstract. “The Clash” opens by highlighting the misguided debates among politicians, pundits, activists, and scholars over how democracies should handle co

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