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Research on the right-wing and conservative theology. Fifteen Minutes of Fascism: https://soundcloud.com/user-627234964 https://www.youtube.com/@fifteenminutesoffascism Author, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism: https://shorturl.at/jjwZz DMs open.
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Newsom is doing what almost every Democrat in the country is afraid to do right now and he is going to reap all the rewards if they don’t hurry. As a California voter intimately familiar with Newsom’s actual policy bonafides, I am loudly imploring someone else to do that hurrying.

A Field Guide to ‘Accelerationism’: White Supremacist Groups Using Violence to Spur Race War & Create Social Chaos | This primer provides an overview of some key groups that have embraced accelerationist thinking, posing significant threats to public safety, democratic institutions & social cohesion

just finished a radio interview and when i told the host about the other antifascist work i'm doing her response was "you've found your niche" disturbing but accurate

Trump wins the feud, he's the President folks www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW from LCRW: @jwcroxton.bsky.social covered Sunday's San Francisco anti-ICE protest, where police arrested 154 people, then talked to one of the arrestees about their experience.

“This could poll well with midterm swing voters in Ohio” I remark sagely as I watch a fourth grader get bundled into an unmarked van at recess by armed and masked agents of the state.

BREAKING: Gov. Newsom is asking for a restraining order on Trump/Hegseth's use of the military in Los Angeles, saying they are preparing to go on immigration raids with ICE. He wants a ruling within two hours. "They must be stopped immediately." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

It is important to remember that Trump wanted to send out the military for black lives matter protests. He is itching to kill protesters to prove a point and to quell dissent. This time he's not even holding up a Bible...

anybody have a link to the text of this article? www.ft.com/content/ae02...

www.newyorker.com/culture/anna....

When was the last time the Marines were deployed on US soil against US citizens? www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Seems like the claim is "we've trapped you in a sci fi hellscape and you can't do anything about it"

Good day to listen to my new interview with @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social about how to talk to your son about fascism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

people tell me I'd like burning man but about half the pictures I see look like a parking lot, and my opinion on parking lots is very clear i do not like them

The discourse about how to protest right is a distraction from what the protests are actually about: SECURITY FORCES CAME IN THE NIGHT AND TOOK 2000 PEOPLE AWAY Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

small complaint in a world falling apart but one of the biggest small annoyances of contingent academic life is the massive proliferation of emails, logins, and online systems work at a uni for a semester, get an email, not rehired, lose the email, rehired after a year, get a diff email, repeat

shooting international journalists who are reporting on police brutality is not a distraction, it *is* their policy Trump is about both violence and deregulation/wealth extraction, an impossible combo, one will have to give

“the authoritarian military takeover of los angeles is a distraction from tax cuts” will you listen to yourself man

You will always see the right and center blaming the left for the right-wing's crimes

When people said “abolish ICE,” this is why. The politicians from both parties who called that “radical,” blindly funded them and called it “immigration reform,” because they were getting campaign donations from the corporations getting ICE contracts. And now we’re here.

the fact that this is both illegal *and* the new normal shows exactly how Trump intends to govern

the point of protests is that they are inherently "illegitimate" expressions of dissent in a society where "legitimate" expressions of dissent are either impossible or so insufficient that they become a joke

Trump has a fundamental misunderstanding of how to be an authoritarian. He seems to think that now he's at the top, he can't ever lose power and can piss off whomever he wants. This is not true! You need the Army and business leaders on your side at a minimum.

extremely good point -- Naziism worked great for you if you were a member of the military or the Party (before the war, that is) members of Trump's coalition get...?

Statistically “America” is its cities. But we’re stuck with an 18th century political architecture that gives votes to cornfields & thus makes it politically viable to treat them as some kind of weird tumor.

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

important note: the LAPD has figured out it can get footage from Waymos: www.404media.co/lapd-publish...

During the dictatorships in South America the words they used were "subversive" and "criminal"

I think the easiest historical way to view this is that these are a bunch of white men of a certain age who fantasize about going back in time and murdering every person of color who dared protest over the Rodney King trial verdict. And here they are, salivating at sending the army to LA.

Trump is at a UFC fight tonight as Pentagon announces it is deploying federalized National Guard troops in California. Very weird/disturbing alignment. Historic moment perhaps. Pool reports included here from Myah Ward White House reporter

“We do not seem to be returning to a world in which the center left and the center right compete over tax rates or budgets,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social writes. “Policy arguments just don’t matter as much to people right now as these deeper cultural divides.”

The Base is one of the more violent neo-Nazi organizations out there

i’m a mainstream democrat and i know two things that are 100% true: 1. kamala harris’ plan to allow small businesses to take a standard $50k deduction on start up expenses when filing their taxes spoke directly the american working class 2. any amount of mild criticism means you voted for trump

The worst person you met at the worst frat party you ever went to is leading anti terrorism in the USA

NEW: A recent college grad now leads the Trump admin's terrorism prevention efforts. If I drank coffee, I would've spit it out reading this amazing story from @propublica.org's @hannahallam.bsky.social. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

the National Guard is being mobilized to invade and occupy the United States to enforce Trump's anti immigration race war www.stripes.com/branches/arm...

we have transformed all urban and suburban space into a killing field, and then blame the dead and their loved ones for trying to live their lives

get in loser we're doing Monarchianism

Dude promoted the Protocols

folks, i implore you, remember every other time you thought "CERTAINLY he can't come back from this one? surely this is curtains for Trump? Right? ...right?"

why do folks seem to think that joe six pack will side with Elon Musk, a tech bro they associate with San Francisco, over Donald Trump?

do you think Trump's base will chose him over Musk? why?