I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

shot, chaser.

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

Update on this: The City of Evanston isn't waiting for Flock to take the cams down, and staff have covered them up with bags and tape. Writing up a quick story to post before I go do (another!) citywide site visit to confirm all are covered (Picture taken yesterday by @joergmetzner.bsky.social)

the levers of power

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

Holy shit they made it real

Out of fucking control and if I were an elected Dem or running for office I’d be in front of every camera I could find telling America your prescriptions just got twice as expensive, your health insurance premiums are about to skyrocket from ACA subsidy cancellation, and oh the gov shuts down Wed.

I would suggest our job is to protect all of us, but i agree they do not have the infrastructure or manpower.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Tylenol’s official response:

The police are not going to help you fight ICE. They are going to help ICE fight you.

Los Angeles, CA

MAGA trolls showing up to HBCUs, holding signs against "illegals" and "DEI," got opposed by large group of students on campus. "Within 10 minutes, [they] were escorted off campus when students let them know they weren’t going to participate in their game." www.theroot.com/maga-activis...

yes! and as tim implies here, share that information with the journalists!!

Not just senior members, the NSA to the VP and DNSA to the principal, which is why it’s incredibly hard to take this paragraph seriously

Don’t do it Erika. No matter what don’t accept that man’s cum.

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

TROY210 is up again. Flying low and slow along I-290 right now.

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

EXCLUSIVE: 'Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile' is a very silly deep dive on a very serious issue. In the current media landscape, it’s a wonder it even got made. www.wired.com/story/the-on...

Curse of private equity. After US hospitals were acquired by private equity firms, patient death rates in the emergency depts rose by 13% compared with similar hospitals. PE cut staffing, wages, investment; hiked profits. People killed for profit. Yet UK handing healthcare to PE.

Good job, mate. Top notch. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

The vast majority of people do not want any of this. Most of our lives are not animated by spite and revenge and a desire above all else to do harm. Most of us do not derive our sense of well-being from abusing our power over others. Most of us are normal. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-hear-the-g...

just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it

I’d seen the nutty excerpts of Miller’s speech at Kirk’s memorial, but hadn’t seen the whole thing. It’s easily the most unhinged, unapologetically fascist rhetoric I’ve ever seen from someone in US government. It’s more of a discount, Dwight Schrute Goebbels than Goebbels. But still.

I’ll never tire of sharing this screenshot

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

I genuinely cannot emphasize this enough. Law enforcement manufacturing evidence and testilying isn't novel to the Trump administration. It's not even more common. They're just worse at it so they're more easily caught doing it.

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To be clear - this plan can’t succeed without mass violence against immigrants. One reason we know that is because it’s the carbon copy of a plan pushed by the German far-right, whose main thinker (Götz Kubitschek) recently expressed the hope that a few thousand German men would do it one day.

Just a reminder that these "pivotal votes" that the Democrats got in these recent special elections aren't pickups. They are pivotal seats that have been vacant for months because the Democrats who previously held them ran for office notwithstanding age and cancer diagnoses, then died in office.

0.000% of Communism has been built. Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself *sad*. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov *fucked him over* personally with his socio-economic theory.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

people will say "this shows it's a bad slogan" and no what it shows is that a bipartisan ratfuck can kill a good idea

What do the political scientists call it when simply talking about political violence and extremism is self-censored for fear of political reprisal? Asking for a country

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Even when I would point this out to people for the next 6 months, the response was always "Well look at all these things they found! The feds should have been talking about these projects and explaining them!" They were, I've read this shit for years. You're just incurious and uninformed.

When DOGE dropped as a concept in like 11/2024 I knew we were doomed because the entire press was like "Wow, what a great idea!" and not "We already have two agencies that do that job and President Trump historically ignores them".

Telling a bunch of foreign leaders you might kidnap and disappear their citizens AT THE U FUCKING N is wild

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-warns-mistress-that-condoms-cause-autism/

We're watching this playout in some of the dumbest ways possible right now.

The administration is not powerful enough to crack down on all opposition to fascism. In all likelihood, this is chiefly a performative measure intended to intimidate people. It will only be possible to impose fascist control on this society as a whole if people stop resisting. Keep fighting. 🏴

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating