Mark Royse

Will you build something liberated instead of trying to reform the rot?

Because history’s not repeating.
It’s remembering."

So the question isn’t whether fascism can happen here, it’s whether you’re willing to do anything different this time.
Will you divest from the systems that protect whiteness at all costs?
Will you refuse the comfort of neutrality?

You’re watching the great-grandchildren of Confederates, Klansmen, WASPs, and Nazi/Nazi sympathizers reenact the script they inherited, because America has never been held accountable and never held them accountable. These are the chickens coming home to roost.

...were turned away to die.

So when people ask, “How did we get here?”
The answer is: we never left.
We just changed uniforms.

After the war, America didn’t “defeat” Nazism, it absorbed it. German scientists who built the Nazi war machine were granted citizenship and six-figure government contracts under Operation Paperclip. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees (white-bodied but still “undesirable” under immigration quotas)...

When we talk about Nazi Germany, people act like it was some isolated evil, when in truth it was America’s ideological cousin. Hitler himself looked to the U.S. for models of racial hierarchy: Jim Crow laws, Indigenous genocide, and eugenics programs that started here first.

"We Are the Nazis: A Hard Look at State-Sanctioned Violence in America" Exploring Parallels in Policing

This provocative article by Desiree B. Stephens was written about policing and state-sanctioned violence in July 2024. A little over a year later, amidst ice raids and military forces occupying American cities, it's even more chilling...

open.substack.com/pub/desireeb...

9/6/1994, 1999, 2000, 4/6/2000, 9/29/2011, 2012, 5/27/2012, 5/18/2013, 9/28/2015, 6/9/2019, 2020, 7/22/2020, 2021, 2025 (aka the Tik Tok Prophecy), 2028, 2029, 2057, 2060 (this last prediction from none other than Sir Isaac Newton!)

1915, 1917-1930, 1930-1939, 1935, 1943, 10/1964, 1972, 1975, 6/21/82, 1988, 1989, 1993 (Edgar C. Whisenant predicted the previous three believing the rapture would coincide with Rosh-Hashanah),

Predicted Raptures: 500, 1260, 1368, 1370, 1492, 1504, 2/20/1524, 1525, 1526, 10/19/1553, 1673, 1694, 1700, 1757, 1770, 1770, 1793-95, 12/25/1814, 9/15/1829, 1836, 10/22/1847, 8/7/1847, 1861, 1874, 1890, 1891, 1901, 1914 (this one actually happened according to Jehovah's Witnesses),

standing stones at sunset

You want it darker? Happy Equinox.

@tsusanchang.bsky.social I think you will especially appreciate this :)

And an empowered lynch mob will be convinced the only way to achieve justice for their fallen hero is to cleanse the country of trans folks, immigrants, and the homeless. Pure. Nazi. Bullshit.

Certainly Trump and Vance will be on hand to install Kirk as MAGA-martyr. Dogwhistles will be loud and clear to whip up the white-supremacist base.

I can only assume Steven Cheung is following Goebbels' propaganda strategy to turn Charlie Kirk into this regime's Horst Wessel. Expect the "memorial' this weekend in Arizona to be a gaudy display of Christo-fascist political opportunism.

Pray for America

Lost In the Kingdom of Kitsch Kitsch, addiction, and the emotional architecture of MAGA

"Think of kitsch as an anxiety management technology: it rejects ambiguity, nuance, and difference— precisely the qualities in life that create emotional friction and require the ability to manage discomfort. Instead, it offers emotional clarity: stock images, stock emotions, stock answers."

Thanks to Spotify for including me in this ambitious, uber-queer project. It's an epistolary archive from nascent days of the internet. "Scratch" & "Winc" use the untamed frontier of cyber-space to eschew any fixed identity of gender or sexuality. Timely. Transgressive. Wild. tinyurl.com/ytc77a2a

Cover of Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira

Lordy! This marvel from @meakoopa.bsky.social... A riot of language. An orgy of ideas. Sacred. Profane. Wretched. Sublime. It healed Southern Baptist scars I didn't know I still had. The audiobook is transcendent--a Hallelujah Chorus of spoken word. OMG (literally). tinyurl.com/y4m26ths

Cover of Kiss the Villain by Rina Kent

@rinakent.bsky.social delivers another violent, transgressive MM romance with lots and lots of pulse and spice. Mafia scion hot for teacher. Veteran romance narrators Stephen Dexter & Grayson Owens lead a full cast, but its their chemistry that grounds this lubricious romp. tinyurl.com/55b4h29r

Cover of The Lesser Known Monsters Series by Rory Michaelson

@rorymichaelson.com charmed my curmudgeonly heart with this series. Contemporary dark fantasy. A world full of monsters and magic and teleporting ducks. A coterie of queer characters who bond amidst one world-ending catastrophe after another. Inventive. Soulful. Magical. tinyurl.com/4yavf49w

Rocks and Sea - 1616-1619
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103190

Satan in Red - 1900
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105353

Sad that the most spirited outcry and resistance I've seen to everything going on in our country is over the Cracker Barrel logo. ICE goons? Military occupation of US cities? Whole scale corruption and looting of the government? Crickets. An uglier version of an already ugly logo? Firestorm!

Self-Portrait in Hell

Self-Portrait in Hell 1903 #artbots #munch
https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25370

French Six-day Rider - 1937
https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104288

The Sleeping Smoker

The Sleeping Smoker

This twisted tale from @caitlinstarling.com grabbed me by the short hairs. What a work! A claustrophobic fever dream of hunger, desire, and despair. Inventive, imaginative, yet seemingly inevitable. A virtuosic feat of horror. Wow.

I'm such a fan of @leethomas1.bsky.social. He has a genius for blending atmospheric, suspenseful noir with creepy, supernatural dread. Masterful storytelling from a Lambda and Bram Stoker award-winning author.

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