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Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

UNREAL there were no air traffic controllers at Burbank Airport amid the government shutdown.

Republicans would rather protect child predators & deny you healthcare than staff our airports 🥴

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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📌 Historic fascists with plenary authority:
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Stalin

Plenary authority or plenary powers: Absolute and without limitations.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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More than three hours in, Pam Bondi has repeatedly refused to answer questions about her involvement in and knowledge of the forced resignation of Erik Siebert, the former U.S. attorney in eastern Virginia.

Siebert was replaced after refusing to prosecute James Comey.

A year ago, both Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly and his top military advisor Mark Milley warned America that Trump was a “fascist.”

As Milley said:

“He is the most dangerous person ever…he's a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

Miles was chief of staff at DHS in Trump’s first term 👇🏽

Throughout history, each iteration of fascism came with its own particularities. Political theorist R. Griffin posits that the one thing they have in common is palingenetic ultranationalism. (Picture : Mussolini giving a speech) Palingenetic ("born again in ancient greek) ultranationalism is a far right narrative that frames the nation as decadent, as having lost its way, as being betrayed by dark elites. To save it, it needs to be destroyed, then reborn. (Picture: Trump giving a speech in front of a MAGA flag) with that goal in mind, an authoritarian power with divisive rhetoric channelsbthe population's anger towards a scapegoat demonized outgroup: migrants, religion, sexual and gender minorities... (picture : three masked ICE agents are handling someone.) Fascism is like a chameleon : it constantly adapts to eras and cultures. It is vital to learn to identify it and call it out. (Picture: a chameleon)

"What is fascism?"

2 frame comic. first we see a guy with a thin mustache. 2015 : you're just a feminazi if you think women deserve equal rights. second frame, it's the same guy, with a fuller mustache like a certain dictator. 2025 : oh, of course, everybody you disagree with is a nazi, huh?

It's literally the same people

title : This government shutdown didn't happen by accident. it happened by design. 4 frame comic. we see Russell Vought, Curtis Yarvin, Russell Vought again, and the White House. Text reads : russell vought is the director of the u.s. office of management and budget and the key architect of project 2025. the nyt called him "the man behind trump's push for an all-powerful presidency." project 2025 includes a roadmap to achieve curtis yarvin's butter- fly revolution, in which the neo-reactionary leader advocates for replacing non-partisan gov't employees with loyalists, seizing control of public assets and centralizing power in a small group of elites. what vought aimed to do was create the conditions in which he could strip bare what he calls the "unelected fourth branch of government". back in february, he instructed agencies to prepare for mass layoffs on sept. 30th. this shutdown will give Trump the power to bypass Congressional oversight: Trump can just declare which areas are considered essential services, and ignore the 1974 law that prevents presidents from withholding federal dollars. this shutdown was the goal all along.

This shutdown happened by design.

4 frame comics. in the first frame theres a MAGA hat. text reads : fascism is a "cult of the leader who promises national resto- ration in the face of humiliation brought on by supposed commu- nists, Marxists and minorities and immigrants who are supposedly posing a threat to the character and the history of a nation." (j. stanley, 2018) 2nd frame we see Trump's silhouette. text reads : authoritarianism is a political system that revolves around a central figure, a party or the military. it rejects political pluralism and the rule of law. in 3rd frame we see the Texas proposed congressional districts. text reads : An illiberal democracy is a governing system that "hides its nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures" (bonet & zamorano, 2021) while suppressing opposing views. 4th frame we see Curtis Yarvin. text reads : the neo-reactionary movement, or dark enlightenment, is an anti-egalitarian ideology advoca- ting for a return to monarchy and a dismantlement of the state. yarvin, its founder, is backed by peter thiel and an influential friend of jd vance, as well as the thinker behind elon musk's d.o.g.e..

A useful glossary for 2025.

psycho of the day : peter thiel. a name all should know

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

For the record.

My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers.

I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink

Sunday reading: The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.

This week’s piece:

In their defense, some social media posts do incite political violence…

That's right, all tied together. Through multiple admins
Cohn's clients, life of crime

Trump Race Discrimination 1973, with his father
Hired notorious mob lawyer Roy Cohn, lost case

CDC quietly stopped checking food supply for 6 pathogens (campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and yersenia) about two months ago, leaving everyone more vulnerable.

Less food surveillance = less food safety.

Hey where are you RFK Jr and MAHA moms?

Save this in your galleries, friends. I promise you'll find a use for it every single day.

Despite voters’ dissatisfaction with it, the economy Trump inherited from Biden was actually pretty good: Unemployment was low, and inflation was under control.

Now, jobs reports show tariff-driven inflation and a downturn in hiring.
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Our constitutional order is rotted out. There’s not much left once you start sending military personnel to police your own people in peace time.

Those who once railed against the dangers of a “military state” have nothing to say as they watch one take shape. For the first time in modern history, National Guard troops are patrolling the streets of our capital armed with pistols and rifles… not overseas, but here at home! 🇺🇸 💔

We all know the goal was always to “own the libs.” And in chasing that, too many have given up their own freedoms just to claim a hollow “win.” What they don’t see is that the monster they fed never stops, it eventually comes for us all. And now their silence is deafening.

Some National Guard units in Washington are now carrying firearms in escalation of Trump deployment Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.

Well, this has certainly escalated quickly. National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital under Trump’s orders are now carrying firearms. The moment our military turns its weapons on American citizens will mark a point of no return.

It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.

Criticize Trump, and the FBI shows up at your door wrapped in the excuse of “no one is above the law.” For all his rants about others weaponizing the system, it seems weaponization is the only thing he knows how to do.