As, if not more important than clocking the fascist propaganda that helped usher in the current situation is highlighting the kinds of propaganda that will help get us out. That Mychal was propelled into this position from blowback from rightoid rage baiting is a *Huge* W. youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

Impossible not to smile when watching this.

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

This. More of this kind of thing. It sucks, but maybe it has to come more from outside the US given the current climate: Focusing less on Trump and more on outing the propagandists and architects of the regime.

> The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, we can hope, is better than what came before. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

Kristi Noem's on the roof at Broadview surrounded by snipers and Kat is still out there demanding to see what horrific conditions are going on inside.

“Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: entertainment movies. They are the most political films because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine… a continual advertisement for things as they are.” - Wim Wenders

US State Dept on X: Earlier today, Colombian president stood on a NYC street & urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence Petro: I ask all of the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity Fuckin based

'Self' isn't real. We made it up. Doesn't mean there aren't narcissists that will kill for it. Sorta like whiteness.

READ THAT AGAIN

Ruin a book with a car: The Phenomenology of the Dodge Spirit

Someone with a bigger platform than me really, really needs to spread the word on Stephen Miller, the contemporary right-wing, and George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party.

How TF could *anyone* who has been anywhere near political social media buy the old 'you think anyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi' canard? Oh right, the media glutted popular consciousness has the historical memory of a fruit fly.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Why do we keep getting caught up in these 'who has best ego projection' games? Why?

Yes! Unprincipled opportunists must be in leadership. That's never gone wrong before!

There is a middle way between doomerism and popping off unstrategically. Find it.

People are having a hard time getting logged on to my. disney. com. i don't have any way to confirm this, but the notion that the decision to cancel Kimmel provoked a wave of people logging on to cancel that they effectively DDOS attacked their own website tickles me.

if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

This guy. This is the guy who apparently decides which 'left influencers' get DNC dark money.

If you wanna help independent journalists do so, you can become a paid subscriber to me or any of my colleagues. www.joeyscott.xyz

These charges either stick or they don't depending on how ravenously bloodthirsty a judge is, but the legal structures ARE there to illegalize virtually all protest and activism as "terrorism." It's well established that it's "terrorism" to cost a company money: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Hu...

been thinking about this A LOT Dems lied about what student protestors were saying/doing because they couldn’t handle young people questioning the interests of the American imperial project and Trump just picked up that ball and ran with it

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I am so here for a 2025 Chumbawamba revival

We really need to get serious about building alternate *accessible* information and social media environments and organized campaigns to get people to move to them, like, five years ago.

Somebody TOLD YOU what a “beautiful woman” looks like and you just said “ok” and now you’re wandering around and calling all types of women ugly and “mid” and “she’s a 4” Shut the hell up. You are literally not attracted to women. End of discussion.

Vance, Trump, and Bondi each said things yesterday that were horrifying on their own. Taken together, a very clear roadmap for the future emerges Trump is actively preparing a large-scale crackdown on left-wing dissent. The threat of widescale repression is no longer abstract; it is imminent

This is a very good quote

Man, if it wasn't predictable, clichéd, and totally typical of grandiose narcissists, this hamming up playing the victim business around Kirk's killing from Trump, Miller, et al would be wild. Y'all already picked a fight with *everyone* and NOW its 'no more mister nice guy?'

People who have never really entertained the notion that there are deep political problems that require popular action to address take note who is dogpiling on to make Charlie Kirk a saint, and attack those critical of his legacy: mostly those who run our financial and media infrastructure.

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Settler colonialism and the European ties between 'Volkishness' and ethnonationalism/ecofascism make this subject super tricky. A colonized people trying to retain their connection to the Land and their Ways is not the same as 'Blood and Soil'. But making the distinction to people who don't have 1/2

This is insidious as fuck. The news outlets that are running with this are, intentionally or not, fulfilling their intended function of simultaneously confusing the information environment where what is true *stops mattering* while associating Kirks killing with the *targets of reactionary hatred*.

Charlie Kirk was shot by a follower of Nick Fuentes. You know, that neonazi you and Kanye had lunch with? But of course we're not gonna talk about RICO charges about your antisemitic brunch date. Nope, instead we're gonna go after *checks notes* a Holocaust survivor.

Neo-Nazis seen hear violently attacking a Charlie Kirk supporter who did not support white supremacists being part of the memorial. Will the media cover this?

People really do not understand the level of manipulation going on right now and how much of that is trying to amplify and push towards open kinetic conflict both in the United States and across Europe right now.

A. Literal fascist propagandists: Bari Weiss, Chris Rufo, Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson B. Centrists that normalize the moral panics started by A: Noah Pinion, Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein C. Annoying dorks: Nate Silver, Will Stancil Opposing A, dismissing B, and calling C dorks:

If we don't rally (and rally around) the effective counter-propagandists around this shit, which exactly who is being opportunistically and reactively targeted around this, we are well and truly cooked.

The reason that the right is currently dog walking us is that we are sitting in privilege won by generations of brutal political struggle against violent suppression and sold as a fantasy of politics without risk.

The far right has been demonstrating the efficacy of international solidarity across broadly authoritarian lines for a decade at least. There are lessons to be learned here by those who would prefer not to be political victims.

Ahhh yes, a white nationalist propagandist who is a political asset to the current regime built on white nationalist propaganda gets shot and the WSJ puts out an article that bullets believed left by the shooter were inscribed with *slogans of white nationalist political targets* from 'sources'.

Protect Ya Neck is trending on r/hiphopheads. youtu.be/R0IUR4gkPIE?...