Toni Morrison Lists the 10 Steps That Lead Countries to Fascism (1995) Note: Toni Morrison's speech begins around the 38:30 mark. The term fascism gets thrown around a great deal these days, not always with high regard to consistency of meaning.

www.openculture.com/2022/01/toni.... This is a prophetically accurate list. We're at step all of them all at once.

#8. "Criminalize the enemy. Then prepare, budget for and rationalize the building of holding arenas for the enemy-especially its males and absolutely its children."

RIP to all the American soldiers who are about to die to protect a paedophile from accountability 😭😭😭

Today in Politics, Bulletin 307. 2/13/26 … ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted in a statement today that ICE officers lied under oath in an investigation that led to criminal charges against two innocent men: “Today, a joint review by ICE and D...

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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Ellison: "This was a family taking their kids from an athletic event and they ended up getting caught in the middle of the ICE behavior & protesters, & then, inexplicably, they shot tear gas too close to the car & that caused the infant to have some respiratory problems. CPR had to be administered."

#Kristinoemisabirdleggedhoe

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

Frey: "You cannot drag pregnant women through the snow. You're not allowed to take teenagers out of their car and detain them when they are in fact American citizens. That is against the law in every state. That is against our US Constitution."

He also wasn’t supposed to tear down the East Wing without approval. I’m sick of the word “unprecedented” with this pos. I don’t put anything past him and maga gops (including SC) anymore

And so he can screw with the 2026 elections

And “Christians”

REP. @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The biggest ‘welfare queens’ in 🇺🇸 are corporations that don’t pay a penny in federal taxes, and CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet — not hungry kids, or working parents who work multiple jobs.”

Just saw them at the Appel Farm Music festival this fall. Fun band! Great cover!
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When the streets start telling the truth, it’s because the institutions won’t.

What’s become painfully obvious is that ICE agents aren’t trained to make us safer. They’re just recruits who thirst for power, violence, and cruelty.

[street art from around the country]

I really like it. Plus the cover reminds me of me 🙂

Yes! I saw that Lunas cover got some votes. I’m wondering if I’m the only one who voted for the Taken By Trees version

Enjoying the One Vote Wonders of the #XPNcountdown on my way into work. PLEASE @kristenkurtis.bsky.social and @wxpnfm.bsky.social make this a bonus playlist! My coworkers are not as musically adventurous as my XPN FAM! (Hoping for Sweet Child of mine by Taken by trees!)

I was contemplating this show! I’d love to se Lyle. Tickets are so $$$ tho 😩

I’d add an “OFFICIAL XPN COUNTDOWN GEEK” to my XPN T-shirt collection!!

Take my money PLEASE!! THANK YOU @wxpnfm.bsky.social for one of THE BEST #XPNcountdown. Idea for fundraising T-shirt.. I’m a WXPN COUNTDOWN DATA GEEK ! 🤣😬🤣

View while I sit in my car listening to the finale of the #XPNcountdown (and wait for daughter to finish up & come home from school). It’s PERFECT 🎶❤️🎶

I hope they do!!

🤣 Priorities!!!

a man standing in a hallway with his hands on his hips saying godspeed ALT: a man standing in a hallway with his hands on his hips saying godspeed

Actual footage of me leaving work so I can listen to the rest of the #XPNcountdown

Great song cover!!