Mark Rupert

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(around an image of a map of No Kings events) NO KINGS JUNE 14 - NATIONWIDE DAY OF DEFIANCE nokings.org

Over 1,400 No Kings events are planned in all 50 states and abroad. We truly have the opportunity to make June 14 (the day of Trump’s military birthday parade) one of the biggest days of mass protest of our lifetimes, but we need everyone who's able standing with us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Immigration Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’ The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.

Politico reports this morning that Erik Prince, the war profiteer behind Blackwater, the PMC which engaged in extensive human rights violations in Iraq, is part of a group of military contractors that is asking the Trump White House to get in on the deportation game. The blood chills at the thought.

I can’t resist observing how bananagrams this is from an accountability-to-the-people-through-the-President standpoint, the basic justification for the “unitary executive” and critiques of independent agencies.

No accountability, at all.

RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks Over recent weeks I’ve told you several times that while Democrats are...

RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/red-a...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

By selecting Joe Kent to head up central office, Trump signals how domestic terrorism will be weaponized Former congressional candidate freely fraternized with violent insurrectionists and ardently defended them, while embracing the conspiracy theories that have inspired multiple acts of mass violence.

By selecting Joe Kent to head up central office, Trump signals how domestic terrorism will be weaponized
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What most pisses me off about the MAGAs is their delight in spectacles of cruelty combined with their smugness in their own ignorance. Meanness + stupidity = MAGA.

The commenters seem to want to compete with one another to see who can be the most callous and brutal. Almost a lynch mob mentality.

Netanyahu grinning while Trump babbles on about ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Trump’s comments on the crash clearly illustrate that our president is both an idiot and a racist.

An efficient facism does not require much direct state violence. It merely requires the assurance that private violence aligned with the desires of the regime will go unpunished.

Meet your upstate fash, now exempt from legal accountability.

Here are the Central NYers who attacked the Capitol Jan. 6; Trump pardons the criminals The attack led to the largest-ever investigation undertaken by the U.S. Department of Justice.

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/01...

He always promised this is what he would do with his power. He pardoned war criminals in his first term to send this message. He appointed Hegseth to send this message.

Not for nothing, this is also what "thin blue line" flags represent, and people have been slow to understand that, too.

Truthiness

Hitler’s Enablers | Christopher R. Browning The complicity of conservative nationalists in the Nazi takeover of Germany in 1933 offers disturbing parallels to the current American political situation.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Trump's imminent pardons will green-light another wave of far-right violence Granting clemency to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists won't just 'own the libs.' It will send a message that anti-democratic violence will have the president's blessing. With video

I assembled last week’s thread into a single piece for The Spyhop. We need to start thinking about how to organize to deal with what’s coming.

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Not just incompetence — remember that Trump *literally* made COVID worse on purpose.

(Thinking it would make blue state governors look bad: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...)

The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project

The Modern Conservative Tradition and the Origins of Trumpism
 
Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.
 
New piece:

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-modern...

Grateful to the Korean people for defending their democracy and showing us the way.

Neoliberalism is all about sharpening the “dull compulsion of the economic”.

Niagara Mohawk bldg, 2018

Giralda dawn, Seville, 2014

Kayfabe education, of course.

As we wonder whether the carrots we ate last night might have been among those contaminated with E Coli, we look forward to the GOP rollback of consumer safety regulations because then we will know for sure that we have been poisoned.🤮

Plaza de Espana, Seville, 2014

Plaza de Espana, Seville, 2014

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2022, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.

The search for the unknown photographer began in the summer of 2020, with the discovery of an old photo album at a flea market in southern France.