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Every two years we have R E A L I G N M E N T discourse and I have to remind people that the defining feature of fascism is the co-option of rhetoric and aesthetics of left politics to peel people away to white nationalism that will, at the end of the day, always serve capital There is no R E A L I G N M E N T there is simply more sophisticated nazis with a shit load of dark money and a liberal establishment that would rather hold on to a dying neoliberal ideology than align themselves with leftist policies in any meaningful way

Thank you, Adam.

. @adamsmith.house.gov loves to talk about how progressive he is.

Then he votes to:
✓ Honor Charlie Kirk
✓ Condemn "socialism"

You can't claim progressive credentials while voting to celebrate right-wing extremists and attack progressive policies.

Pick a lane, Adam.

Yes George bush the second was a fascist as well a genocidal war criminal stop trying to rehab people like dick Cheney and bush.

They are literal fascists who built the initial framework for the fascist police state we now exist within.

A crackpot with control over the infrastructure trying to force reality to bend to his fringe beliefs.

America Will Need a Reconstruction Project After Trump: A Conversation with Shikha Dalmia and Andy Craig Liberals will have to rebuild the institutions of governance and accountability that Trump is destroying and The UnPopulist plans to lead the way

"…the Confederacy was not a legitimate government, that it was a criminal conspiracy writ large. And that’s relevant to how we think about what’s going on now and the inevitable aftermath of it that is coming."

w/ @aaronrosspowell.com @shikhadalmia.bsky.social re: Reconstruction @theunpopulist.net

Evangelicals primarily support Israel due to a theology of Christian Zionism, which holds that the modern state of Israel's existence is a fulfillment of biblical prophecy and a necessary step for the second coming of Jesus. This belief is often combined with a biblical interpretation of a divine promise to bless those who bless Abraham and curse those who curse him (Genesis 12:3). Other factors include the belief that Israel is a natural ally of the United States and a beacon of "faith and

*taps sign*

Every time a religious nut says that elementary school kids are too young to learn about the existence of LGBTQ people you should tell them this.

Then punch them in the face.

Trans people have exhaustively detailed the links between the anti-trans and anti-abortion movements, we warned that transphobia was a wedge issue for the religious right to roll back women's rights, only for us to be ignored, and of course UK TERFs are setting their sights on abortion.

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Last month it was the Young Republicans praising Hitler. Last week it was Fuentes & Carlson criticizing "Jewry". This week, they're saying swastikas and nooses aren't hate speech. The rot is party-wide. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Today in History: November 20, Nuremberg trials begin 22 former Nazi officials went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

OTD 1945, an event with relevance to America today. One of them, Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, was charged, tried and convicted of using bombs and torpedoes to sink commercial ships—deemed by the US a grave war crime. It's exactly what Trump and Hegseth are doing in the Caribbean and E Pacific today.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

“It comes shortly after a secret memo from the Department of Justice green-lighting the strikes revealed that the justification for such force was based entirely on assertions made by the president.”

I hope we recognize the danger in this with the President calling on Congressmembers to be killed.

this defies parody. also helps explain why Sec Bessent bizarrely blamed immigrants when confronted with a question about high beef prices

Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and released by Trump, visits Capitol Hill Rhodes, the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder, was found guilty of orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a desperate bid to keep Tr...

/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force.

You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.

Completely normal and totally hinged thing for a president to post.

You guys at what point do we realize it’s no longer about individual bad actors but an entire society set up to protect and reward abusers

A screenshot of the Dallas Police incident report

A screenshot of the FBI report

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

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as somebody who writes and studies broadband access I'm constantly running into "free market" think tank nonprofits like this one who are usually covertly funded by big telecom monopolies to push misleading editorials in local papers about how community-owned broadband is the devil

Trump administration scraps Pentagon Holocaust remembrance events Decision issued by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth comes amid Trump's wider battle against DEI initiatives across the nation; move outrages local Jewish community

Hegseth issues orders to take down a commemoration of Black soldiers who died in World War II at a US military cemetery in The Netherlands. The DOS lists anti-fascist groups that fought Hitler and Mussolini as terrorists. Hegseth scraps a Pentagon Holocaust memorial. Get the message?

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

Trump is using CBP to monitor the movements of pregnant women by car from states that ban abortion into states where it is legal. To what purpose? Well, that's obvious. And it's dystopian. It's the ultimate Big Brother.

How the FBI Became the Face of Deprofessionalization What research tells us about national security under authoritarianism

New from me:
Kash Patel is engaged in purges, removal of real accountability, and impunity for loyalists at the FBI.
Researchers told me that these are the exact patterns that create abusive national security organizations under authoritarianism. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Both of these fucking dumbfucks are responsible for all of this.

Snapshot: Trump Excuses Murder and Blames the Victim Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, culpable for the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, enjoyed a warm welcome to Trump's White House

“If I thought for a split second Trump’s involvement with sex trafficker and child rapist Jeffrey Epstein—and his continuing indifferent denials—represented about as bad as it could get, his easy dismissal of murder is a reminder there is still worse to come.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...

Jesus Christ. This is monstrous. Absolutely sickening. The journalists in that room should walk out en masse.

Is there some sort of pattern here? Help me, it's so hard to see.

The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.

The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be similarly transformed if we expand the circle beyond species.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...

Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.

Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that

Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

It’s pretty simple.

When you do a huge armed midnight raid on an apartment building rounding up and terrorizing children and later find out there were no criminals there everyone involved resigns in shame and we have loud showy Congressional hearings.