fascism
Jeff Bezos threats to buy Conde Nast should absolutely be taken seriously.
It would give him control over a number of media outlets that are strong voices in opposition of fascism (like Wired and Teen Vogue)
Under the oligarchs control they would be forced to become right wing propaganda.
Now more than ever we must support independent journalists… many of whom are speaking truth to power despite the personal risk.
If you can boycott Amazon, please do it. Send a strong message with your wallet that you don’t support fascism or the billionaire class.
If you can’t boycott, please don’t feel guilty. Many disabled people and those in poverty may be reliant on Amazon for supplies they can’t get elsewhere.
Trust that your community is boycotting on your behalf.
We’ve got you, and you need to take care of yourself in order to survive.
No guilt. We all resist in whatever way we can.
Fox News has removed the stock market data from the chyron.
"What I refer to as The Iron Triangle of #Fascism ..A new paradigm--RW #media, corporate media & weak Dem leadership combine to pave a path to perdition.
A major event occurs. It can be the #CharlieKirk shooting or Benghazi..And here’s how it goes from there.."
https://www.blueamp.co/p/charlie-kirk-holds-up-a-mirror-to #shooting #tv #news #politics #press #donaldtrump #trump #russia #china #eu #tech #ai #memes #ukraine #israel
DuckDuckGo is experiencing an “outage” and searches are not rendered; YET, somehow if i turned on "AI Features", it might.
more like FuckFuckNO, amirite?
Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people?
Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes.
Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE.
That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.
It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.
Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.
"Trump was speaking quietly and privately to Bukele in the Oval Office away from reporters during that conversation, but was captured on a hot mic from the Salvadorian govt’s livestream: "Home-growns are next."
[...]
"Bukele also did not wear a suit, opting for a suit jacket, shirt without a collar, and no tie. Nobody in the Trump WH seemed to mind though. I guess they are only outraged when our closest allies do it."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-161301118 #Trump #Bukele #OvalOffice #fascism
wants to read A Pocket Guide To Passively Resisting Tyranny
Found on Mastodon: https://beige.party/@photovotary/114756656832562859
Why isn't the world going insane at Republican politicians visiting concentration camps and posing in front of people who will likely be dead within the decade.
This wasn't even normal in 1942. It's not even normal in North Korea - Fascist regimes usually keep their death camps a secret.
#USA #USPol #Fascism #Nazis #concentrationcamps #deathcamp #CECOT #MAGA #Religion #Supposed #Catholic
We’re proud to welcome to the Observer masthead @candicequestions and Mary Tuma as special investigative correspondents, joining @stevanzetti as freelance reporters helping us tackle the #environment, reproductive rights, and #extremism respectively: https://www.texasobserver.org/home/staff/
#ReproductiveRights #abortion #healthcare #ClimateChange #news #fascism #journalism #nonprofit #media #environment
"The #monopoly #media morons for whom he’s entertained tens of millions of ad-viewing viewers deemed it so, and I’m sure it has nothing to do w Stephen #Colbert using his brilliant timing and razor-sharp wit to disembowel Don-Don on the regular"
CONT-> https://www.blueamp.co/publish/post/168652683 #writing #humor #funny #tv #ai #usa #america #unitedstates #fascism #us #russia #democracy #tech #news #politics #press #entertainment
#Auspol #USpol #History #ItalianHistory #Fascism #DodgyAndGreatLeaders
#Reading or more like dipping into
B. A. SANTAMARIA
ITALY CHANGES SHIRTS:
THE ORIGINS OF ITALIAN FASCISM
MA THESIS
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
1934
and am enjoying focusing on sentences and letting my mind mull over ideas while i do/ watch/ read other stuffs. this might become a thread with occasional ramblings.
i’m struck by some parallels with USA (how could one not be?) but for context am reminded mussolini had established himself as leader much earlier than hitler and was, in fact, admired by hitler. (i think a great deal of hitler’s success was down to goebbels.) both mussolini and hitler lived in a time when the ongoing war of ideas between communism and capitalism were front and centre.
the labels and the details morph and change over time, but when our previous opposition leader threw words like “liberal”, “commie” or “woke” around, i suspect it was really more of the same.
in the red corner, people who think governments can and should care about everyone, and in the blue corner, those who think individualism is essential to god’s grand design.
I wonder, sometimes, if the USA is one western country that never really had a “left” at all.
On the very first page of his thesis, Santamaria suggests the Italian public embraced fascism (and the idea of a strong leader) because parliamentary democracy seemed to suck.
(Echos of this in Trump’s “drain the swamp” rhetoric, and his now open contempt for the system altogether)
Discussing Mussolini, Santamaria goes on to say Lenin believed “the only man who could successfully rule Italy was the one who reproduced in himself the main characteristics of the great mass of Italians”
The USA has a problematic electoral system, and many people are disenfranchised in one way or another. I don’t want to slander an entire nation, but I do wonder how many people found it easier to identify with Trump than with Harris?
Closer to home, how well do we identify with this or that type of leader in Australia? Do we reject potential leaders more easily than we embrace them?
1975 in Australia was a disappointment, but I distinctly remember that, apart from the scare about whitlam overspending/ seeking dodgy loans from someone with a foreign name, a lot of people were fed up with having to vote, and all the campaigning that goes with more-frequent-than-usual elections.
“This is the most massive secrecy grab in #Texas since the adoption of the Public Information Act.”
New today from Michelle Pitcher: A move to "standardize" #police personnel files could have devastating consequences for #transparency. https://www.texasobserver.org/secrecy-g-file-police-records-texas-legislature/
#news #politics #USpol #fascism #TXlege #journalism #HumanRights #news #democracy
How Dems Come Back: Be Real; FIGHT #Trump & His #MAGA Mobsters - I debated Jonathan Larsen on #Substack!
Check it out!! Then Subscribe!!
https://www.blueamp.co/p/cliff-v-jonathan-fight-ordebate-about #news #politics #donaldtrump #russia #usa #us #america #unitedstates #ukraine #fascism #democracy #sherrodbrown #workers #workingclass #economy
Department of Homeland Security called the supreme court decision a victory and vowed to continue to “flood the zone” in Los Angeles while accusing LA mayor Karen Bass of “protecting” immigrants. “DHS law enforcement will continue to FLOOD THE ZONE in Los Angeles. This decision is a victory for the safety of Americans in California and for the rule of law. DHS will continue to arrest and remove the criminal illegal aliens that @MayorOfLA is protecting,” read the social media post.
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These fuckers speak in the cartoonishly evil style of Hollywood movie gestapo Nazis, and there's a reason for that. The groyper shitstains running their comms literally admire those characters as the "good guys".
#ice #Gestapo #nazi #sturmabteilung #MAGA #trump #fascism #racism #scotus #brettkavanaugh #dhs #USPol #MassDeportations #papersplease #altright #groypers #whitenationalism #losangeles
"𝐇𝐨𝐰 #𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 #𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐈𝐧 𝟐 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 #𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬"
𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒐𝒃 𝑹𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 #𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 & 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 #𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒔m / #𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑨, 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏:
https://www.blueamp.co/p/how-rob-reiner-decoded-our-politics-fa0 #politics #news #culture #military #BAM #film #ai #venezuela #usa #america #unitedstates #russia #tv #economy #tariffs #nato #us #writing #pr #narrative #ukraine #europe
Here's that 60 minutes segment - not the Canadian guy filming his TV (thank you), but a 1080p grab from a browser someone posted to Internet Archive.
That 1080p video is 1.4GB. This 720p version (crf:35) is under 40MB, which just happens to be the default / most common media size limit for mastodon instances.
NOTE: mastodon re-encoded the upload to 100MB so HERE'S THE 40MB version
👉 https://drive.proton.me/urls/XA5XYQV47M#VSGTMh8TpDEO
This is unconscionable, and must not be covered up. Apparently CNN is running "the story" now; those jackals just want the clicks.
share / download / re-post elsewhere, etc.
Welcome to the so-called "Dark Enlightenment", aka, neo-feudalism.
An important talk by Sarah Churchwell
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/sarah-churchwell-america-democracy/105871364
#neoFeudalism #DarkEnlightenment #USPol #Europol #fascism #racism .
"Over the weekend I talked to a couple of people, people who generally try to keep abreast of the news, about the Chicago apartment raid last Tuesday — and discovered that they hadn’t heard about it. And that’s extremely worrying. It suggests that many people don’t realize how fast and aggressively the Trump administration is moving to end rule of law and convert America into a full-fledged autocracy."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #StephenMiller #fascism #Chicago
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/state-terror-american-style
Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
｢ According to internal correspondence reviewed by Migrant Insider, Apple told developer Rafael Concepcion that the app violated Guideline 1.1.1, which prohibits “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content” directed at “religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.” ｣
https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents
As a kid, you go to the beach and after a swim, you get the idea that the sand around you could be something else, so you start to form it into shapes. Then, other kids come along and they help you. Before you know it, you have created a castle together. Then, you start to create something else but suddenly an angry foot comes along and kicks it all down because the foot doesn't get it and its only way to cope is to destroy whatever it doesn't understand.
I really like Brooke Harrington, Gil Duran and Adam Becker in this. (more please)
Project 2025, Silicon Valley & Tech's AI War on Democracy | The Nerd Reich Podcast Mailbag
#TheNerdReichwithGilDuran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ehiUoU8ts
#BrookeHarrington #GilDuran
#AdamBecker #NerdReich
#Project2025 #AI #SiliconValley #Fascism #Billionaires #TechBros #DarkEnlightenment #Vote #Broligarchs #PeterThiel #AntiChrist #Leak #Mammon
Don't be surprised if, in the coming days, the United States drops all charges against Maduro.
Trump can never say no to a good bribe, especially if it includes cash AND oil rights.
"Trump's airbrushed version of Jan 6 distorts history. See the evidence for yourself. "
NPR does a great job sharing details -
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/04/g-s1-102891/jan-6-archive
@NPR #uspol #jan6 #history #democracy #trump #freedom #liberty #washingtondc #law #ruleoflaw #fascism #antifa
#ICE Is Cracking Down on #Chicago.
Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.
Residents have begun forming volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal #immigration agents. Others honk their horns or blow whistles when they see agents nearby.
#Trump #law #Rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/chicago-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare