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I like your description as well.

I'd say certain sects of Christianity provide the moral framework for white supremacy and Christian Nationalism. Usually when you find white supremacist Christians, they're also Christian Nationalists.

No one wants to be around a former concentration camp. I'd prefer they burn to the ground once they're empty.

I love this idea. Tiny homes inside a big building. Privacy and security and help if you want it.

I have an idea. Instead of ICE and CBP and concentration camps, let's use that money to support immigrants and offer an easy and quick citizenship process.

Many of the white supremacist and Christian Nationalists I track say this exact same thing to illustrate that opposition to Trump and ICE is hypocritical and Democrats don't really believe Trump is doing anything wrong.

AI image of 2 ICE agents with words "God bless our men and women at ICE" Post by Daniel Lofy, Feb 1, "Yes! May God bless them and protect them from the Evil that is fighting them."

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The Florence Kiwanis president is Daniel Lofy. He loves to post Bible verses and does a lot of community service events... but more recently many of his social media posts are full of extremely pro-ICE, anti-immigrant, and anti-LGBTQ+ content. Ultra-MAGA folkkks.

My generalization wasn't fair. Each generation makes their own decisions. Some of the boomers passed along their anti-imperialism / anti-fascism beliefs and some didn't.

I want to know if this new-found empathy is permanent or does it disappear when the next new cruelty comes along?

The cop "had engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl whom he met while responding to a call regarding her mental health." Gross

All Huffines would have to do is to publicly grant investigators full access to the property and loudly proclaim that was his intention all along. No subpoena or warrant necessary, come on in and start the digging.

I have Mennonite pacifists on one side of my family and draft-dodging conspiracy theorist Catholics on the other. In recent generations many have become Trump supporters. It's like all that anti-government sentiment was just self-serving after all.

Can we have a system of remote alarms to warn whole neighborhoods when ICE and CBP are operating in the neighborhood? Like convert ring cameras into automatic whistles controlled by a trusted group who verifies ICE activity? Or put a siren on top of a house in each neighborhood?

We have 3 choices: we can be the Francis Troutmans of the world, or the mob of neighbors standing in the way of the Troutmans, or the indifferent neighbors who sit back and do nothing.

It is a large percentage of who we are. Democrats and Republicans have been building towards this, Republicans more so.

This is the USA: a mix of white supremacist slave catchers (and those who support them) and anti-racists who put their bodies on the line to protect their neighbors. We must overcome the white supremacist element.

Runaways, Rescuers, and the Politics of Breaking the Law Christopher Bonner William Dixon did not want to spend another night in a dank, crumbling cell in Bridewell Prison. But on the afternoon of April 12, 1837, inside a courtroom at New York City Hall, Judge Richard Riker announced that he had not yet decided whether Dixon was free, as the prisoner so vehemently claimed. Two sheriffs approached the African American defendant and prepared to escort him to the nearby jail. Dixon had been arrested the previous week by a group of slave catchers who claimed that he was a fugitive from Maryland. As the sheriffs led Dixon downstairs and toward the doors of City Hall, he would have looked through the large windows that lined the front of the building and had a clear view of the massive crowd waiting outside.' City Hall stands today, as it did on that spring afternoon, in the middle of an eight-acre park carved out of lower Manhattan's irregular blocks. On April 12, as Dixon sat in the courtroom, more than one thousand African Americans congregated in that park. The sheriffs escorting Dixon out of City Hall were apparently unconcerned about the crowd. Just after 3 o'clock they led Dixon through the front doors and the people in the park surged toward the captive. Several attacked the sheriffs with wooden clubs. A woman pulled a knife from beneath her dress and passed it to Dixon, who, in his surprise, stood by for a few minutes while a thousand strangers fought to seize his free-dom. When he overcame his shock, Dixon fled toward Broadway to seek shelter in the busy city streets. The crowd continued to struggle with authorities. A judge ran out from City Hall to support the sheriffs, but "a strapping negro wench" grabbed him in a chokehold, and a group of young black men "pretty well pummeled him, and tore the coat completely off his back." Meanwhile Dixon ran north along Broadway. A man on horseback tried to stop him, but Dixon's new escort-several black men armed with clu…

Yesterday the students in one of my classes discussed this excellent 2018 article by historian Chris Bonner which opens with this incredible story of direct action from 1837 that, sadly, hits especially hard in 2026.

Some people run for office thinking that "governing" means being an agent for the interests of large corporations.

Olivia Clark’s re-election campaign appears to be “I am close friends with every rich conservative and corporate lobbyist” which is refreshingly honest and straightforward.

If you build good public transit, people will choose public transit.

When people say Nazi-like things, they're a Nazi until further notice.

Now they're going after Robin Hood.

That's next level Nazi stuff.

Don't worry folks, he homeschools so his kids for sure won't go "no contact" once they leave the house.

Bald white man in a truck

This emotional white guy says a lot of Cottage Grove teachers are part of a group run by Antifa terrorists, at least that's what he's been told by "reliable sources." 🤡

He's organizing a protest against a drag show in Coos County tomorrow, Feb 14th.

Scott Benthin repost of a Ryan Fournier post showing a truck pulling a large USA flag along the USA/Mexico border.

MAGAs are really good at disrespecting the USA flag, both with their handling of the flag and the anti-democracy ideology they attach to the flag. What uh, what happens when the truck slows down? Half the flag will drag in the dirt.

To answer my own question - yes, there are queer car clubs. www.lambdacarclub.com

I just found out CCC has a weekly "Slavs and Friends" event. Is that white enough for Jake?

Are there any classic car shows that actively make themselves unwelcoming to white supremacists, male supremacists, and queerphobes?

Why is it there's an inordinate number of MAGA white supremacists who frequent classic car shows?