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The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.
Some politicians have already stated this plainly.
This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.
This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.
This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.
This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.
This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.
Do not let them do this to us.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights
First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for ...
#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
US veteran charged with ‘conspiracy’ over ICE protest refuses to plead guilty;
The right to protest is ‘fundamentally American’, says Bajun Mavalwalla who awaits trial and faces six years in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-army-veteran-ice-protest-trial
#resist #protest #news #ICE #immigration #authoritarianism #fascism
The ever prescient @kixes:
“Nobody ever told me that the hardest part of living under authoritarianism—especially Singapore’s insidious, “soft” version that seems to be becoming attractive to other governments around the world—is not what they do to you, but what they make you do to yourself and to the people around you”
https://adimagazine.com/articles/no-free-labor-for-authoritarians/
"Unlike FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, Pope Leo warned that 'the media must guard against the risk of becoing propaganda so as not to become a mouthpiece for those in power.'”
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"In a rebuke to Trump’s flippant attitude toward war and anti-media tantrums, the pontiff implored news outlets 'to show the sufferings that war always brings to the people; to show the face of war and to relate it through the eyes of the victims, so as not to transform it into a video game.'"
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"The world rank fell from 20th to 51st out of 179 nations in one year. We went from light of the world to barely in the top quarter of it."
Sattler is reporting on the V-Dem Institute’s Democracy Report 2026, found at the link below.
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism
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https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf
"Trump may regret shredding America’s moral stature, a historically indispensable part of our influence around the world. He has eradicated the difference between the U.S. and other rogue regimes that invade neighbors and kill innocent people indiscriminately.
Pope Leo XIV has been more vocal with each passing day."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism #morality #PopeLeo
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"For the first time in over 50 years, the United States has lost the designation as a liberal democracy. The country’s Liberal Democracy Index score dropped from 0.79 in 2023 to 0.57 in 2025. That single-year plunge is the largest in American history — going back to 1789 and covering the entire period for which V-Dem has data."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #democracy #authoritarianism #fascism
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/the-worst-decline-of-democracy-ever
From 2021... This started before #Trump, but things are way worse now!
#AntiProtestLaws Threaten #Indigenous and #Climate Movements
“#CriticalInfrastructure” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting #PipelineProtesters.
Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021
"In 2016 as a member of Congress, #DebHaaland stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the #StandingRockSioux Reservation against construction of the #DakotaAccessPipeline. Today, as the first #NativeAmerican to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the #FirstAmendment rights of the protesters she joined in the past.
"With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.
"Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'
"Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas #pipelines. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as #ALEC, a powerful lobbying group funded by #FossilFuel companies like #ExxonMobil and #Shell.
"Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under #Ohio’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.
"Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down #SafetyCones and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.
"The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the #BayouBridge charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.
"Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in #Minnesota, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In #Oklahoma organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.
"The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of #HomelandSecurity and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as #DomesticTerrorists and violent extremists in order to justify further #surveillance and #policing. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '#AnimalRights / #EnvironmentalExtremism,' describing even #NonviolentProtesters as #extremists.
"At Standing Rock, a private security firm [#Blackwater] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the #KeystoneXLPipeline protests in 2018, #DHS agents held an '#AntiTerrorism training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the #FarRight militant group the #ThreePercenters have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.
"To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural #GasPipelines and experience higher #CancerRisk due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the #SiouxTribe’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.
"The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 #BlackLivesMatter protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating #FirstAmendment challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.
"As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."
#BrennanCenter #Authoritarianism #Fascism #NoDAPL #NoKXL #PipelineProtests #WaterIsLife #ACAB #ErikPrince #BigOilAndGas #Oiligarchy #CorporateColonialism #EnvironmentalRacism #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife #ExxonLied #Blackwater #StandWithStandingRock #StandingRockSioux
"The US is no longer a democracy. One of the most credible global sources on the health of democratic nations now says this outright. The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University reaches the alarming conclusion in its annual report, that the US is hurtling towards autocracy at a faster rate than Hungary and Turkey."
~ Martin Gelin
#Trump #Republicans #democracy #dictatorship #authoritarianism
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Americans aren't facing a democratic collapse. We’re living in its aftermath | Eric Reinhart
“The US was an oligarchy well before Trump’s first term. Recognizing this reality is essential to building a true democracy“
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2026/mar/08/trump-democracy-oligarchy-policy
Fascist paramilitary invaders hit and run a protester (Los Angeles, CA - date unknown)
If this angers you, organize to fight fascism.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rux74w
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #california #crimesofice_videos_misconduct
"Searching for reason in the jungle of Trump’s tales may compel hopelessly sensible people to superimpose logic where there is none in order to satisfy the need for some semblance of soundness."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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"'Mr President,' said a reporter. 'You’ve said the war is "very complete" but your defence secretary says, "This is just the beginning". So which is it?' Donald Trump’s eyes darted left and right then down. 'Well, I think you could say both,' he parried."
~ David Smith
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/trump-iran-war-chaos
"The confusing answer at a press conference in Doral, Florida this week did not befit a wartime leader armed with stirring rhetoric and a lucid plan. ... as the conflict with Iran enters its third week, impacting nearly every corner of the Middle East and causing economic tremors around the world, Trump has emerged as America’s commander-in-chaos."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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"Personalist regimes always suffer from this, but then on top of that we have a personalist regime built on a man who is not just ignorant and malign, he is properly non compos mentis. Pretending he's capable of holding public office and giving orders at all is a kind of mass delusion."
~ Andy Craig
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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https://bsky.app/profile/andycraig.bsky.social/post/3mgwt7hgxnk25
"Donald Trump is lost in his fog of war. ...
The belief that coherent sense can be made out of Trump’s shuffling words is a weakness of the rational mind that refuses to accept the impulses of the inveterate demagogue for what they are."
~ Sidney Blumenthal
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/trump-iran-vietnam
Fascist Paramilitary Invaders Violate Use of Force Law (South Burlington, VT - 03/11/26)
If this angers you, organize to fight fascism.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rrd87k
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #vermont #crimesofice_videos_use_of_excessive_force
What I find baffling, is that people on a global scale, do not go on the streets, literally march on the streets, to tell their governments that this totalitarian movement on a global level needs to stop, otherwise we will stop the governments...
#InfoSec #AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."
Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
We need to push much harder against
Age Verification laws and law proposals.
Contact your local representatives NOW to tell them you firmly oppose these privacy-destroying laws that will harm democracy and civil liberties in unprecedented ways.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
Two people abducted by fascist paramilitary invaders pretending to be locals, car left in the middle of the street. (Vancouver, Washington - 3/10/2026 - 9:14 am PDT)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rq5mnq
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #washington #crimesofice_videos_abduction
A Concentration Camp in All but Name: Dilley ICE Detention Center Where Infants Stop Breathing and Pregnant Women Go Into Seizures
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rq31u3
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #politics #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #crimesofice_videos_concentration_camps #texas
"Reliable information is both more available and harder to find than ever—and those who spread misinformation have been rewarded with positions of power, platforms they can exploit to further pollute the information environment. ...
The spread of anti-vax conspiracy theories is just another example of the gullicism that defines our age."
#gullibility #credulity #vaccines #research #science #ConspiracyTheories #gullicism #SocialMedia #disinformation #Covid #authoritarianism
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$890 million per day for the war in Iran, but no money for the basic needs of American citizens.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1roc12u
#iran #usa #Israel #warcrimes #politics #resist #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #epsteintrump #releasetheepsteinfiles #epstien_distraction
The muder of 23-year-old American citizen Ruben Ray Martinez by fascist paramilitary invaders (South Padre Island, TX 03/15/25)
Source:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bodycam-video-ice-fatal-shooting-ruben-ray-martinez-texas/
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #texas #crimesofice_videos_murder
"When the most bloodthirsty and immoral president in American history, Donald Trump, appointed a high-octane oil slick like Pete Hegseth to lead that shell-shocked department, it should have been dreadfully obvious that human beings, not soaring prices, would be under steady attack as long as this violent regime could hold onto power."
~ D. Earl Stephens
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
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"A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or 'federalize' the coming Congressional elections.
Self-terrorism might not have been the initial aim; but as time goes by, and failures and atrocities mount, its appeal will grow."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #elections
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There is no question that it is indefensible to use generative AI systems as they are currently constituted, especially the commercial ones, once one becomes aware of how they are made and operated and the destructive consequences they have already had and will surely continue to have. Among the many reasons using these tools is indefensible is that they represent an authoritarian invitation. You're invited to trade your morals and ethics for a bit of convenience, a reduction in friction, a learning experience, a rhetorical flourish, or maybe (a kind of) status. You thereby align yourself more and more with people who say things like "water is fake" or "fuck earth" as they make the computer systems enabling the horrors we're watching unfold on social media. You start to tell yourself stories, complexifying stories that explain why it's OK you did this thing that you know is not OK. You move in the direction of people who are already telling themselves stories like this. Maybe their stories have superior analgesic qualities to yours.
Nobody needs to go down this path.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #ethics #morality #authoritarianism
"Earlier this week, we attacked a girls’ school. The Wall Street Journal reported that, 'U.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for a strike that killed dozens of children at a girls elementary school in Iran, a U.S. official said. The investigation hasn’t reached a final conclusion.'”
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
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"The New York Times reported that the strike on the school in Minab 'appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating'.”
Today, Trump was asked about the attack and who was responsible. He answered with a lie. He said Iran was responsible."
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
/5
"Even Pete Hegseth couldn’t back that up. Standing next to the president, he said the attack was still 'under investigation.'
Where is the outrage? ...
We need the kind of national courage that took us from Selma to the Voting Rights Act in the space of five months."
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
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"When asked about reports that a strike killed about 175 people at an Iranian elementary school, Donald Trump claimed Iran was responsible due to inaccurate munitions, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the incident is still under investigation."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-iran-threatens-trump-says-he
"This, despite the fact that the Administration told Congress that it was bombing near the region and analysis conducted by CNN, the New York Times, and others suggested that it was the United States that struck the school in Minab, Iran."
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
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"As the AP said, it’s 'Donald Trump’s war.' He chose to kill those schoolgirls.
And then lie about it."
~ John Stoehr
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism #children
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"'Because CEOs and investors do likewise to fill their coffers. Because to some people, whether he is insane or malevolent or repugnant or not matters less than whether his actions will feather their nests, increase their power.'
'Because they, the billionaires…play their games and the consequences for the little people down below, the consequences for us, hardly matter a whit.'”
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism
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"Why has Trump launched a war against Iran on a whim, attacked other countries, and upended world trade, Rothkopf asked.
'Because he’s insane. Because he’s venal. Because he’s a malignant narcissist. Because he’s a sociopath. Because he has a fragile ego. Because those around him exacerbate and play to those traits to advance their own interests.'"
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism
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Yet another video of #ICE #shooting of Texas man raises questions about government “claim” [lie]
An #Immigration & Customs Enforcement official said #RubenMartinez “intentionally ran over” an agent before being killed by another agent last March.
#Trump #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #fascism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/07/ruben-martinez-dhs-killing-texas-video/
"David Rothkopf today called out the madness of the fact world trade and global security is being shattered by a single man. 'Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism
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"There’s less logic to it than most imagine. ...
All of this is is rooted in Trump’s psyche, which is as transparent as he is malevolent. His need to compensate for ebbing power is inevitable and unstoppable."
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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"This is Trump's great understanding of American politics, which is that formal restraints are few. And if you don't have any shame or dignity, you can simply blow past them. And we saw him do that time and again during his first term. And then he had four years to stew while Joe Biden was in the White House. And as soon as Trump came back into office, he turbocharged that attitude."
~ David Nir
"What Trump has done a hundred times since coming back into the White House is engage in impeachable offenses. And the Iran war absolutely is impeachable. And I want to emphasize, whether or not he gets impeached, and I don't think he will, but whether or not he gets impeached, he should be. This is unquestionably a crime, and he should immediately be removed from office."
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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"And I say that to emphasize, Republicans could stop this if they wanted. That this is entirely on them. That if they wanted to remove Trump from office, they easily could. And that they refuse to is a massive indictment of them. And for all the fecklessness that Democrats have shown on so many fronts so often in Trump 2.0. We have to remember where the blame for this one lies. It lies on Trump and the GOP. "
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
/11
"And even if the media insists on [sanewashing him], it's really important that we not do that because we have to understand him not as some extremist right wing fascist, though he is, but as a crazy person, a genuinely crazy person who's wakes up every day and you never know what he's going to do. And you never know what he wants because he doesn't know what he wants and he doesn't know what he's going to do."
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
/12
"A couple [of] months ago, I said that we were starting to see a pattern. As Trump grew less popular and less powerful at home, he would need to compensate to maintain his psychic equilibrium. He’d lean more and more into the presidency’s prerogative powers that are untrammeled and unrestrained regardless of what’s going on at home or how much support he has."
~ Josh Marshall
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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"He’ll be increasingly aggressive and violent in those realms of power as he becomes more constrained and limited in others. In Trump’s world, there is dominating and there is being dominated. For him, the latter is a psychic death. So leaning hard into these prerogative powers where a president is, in effect, all powerful amounts to a kind of grand and bloody self-care."
#Trump #Iran #war #Republicans #fascism #authoritarianism
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In this #HotTake I explore the idea that #authoritarianism and #communism are not the same thing.
To cling to authority, means to give your #power of decision making away to somebody else.
To prioritize a particular group of people, in a community, means to give them the first deal available that's close at hand.
A world without privacy is also a world without intimacy, without individuality, without diversity, and without democracy.
Certain politicians have clearly expressed they want a world without privacy.
We cannot let them have it passively. We must fight back for our rights. Now.
Or we will lose them.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification
The proposal would give the #USattorney general the right to review misconduct allegations against current or former #DOJ #attorneys & request that disciplinary authorities at the state level suspend their investigations.
That would mean that the #US AG, by dragging out such a review, could stall any such investigation.
#Trump #law #LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #AmericanBarAssociation #Federalism #states #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
The proposal takes aim at the actions of #bar associations & similar professional organizations, not government entities, that investigate alleged #unethical conduct by #lawyers & consider actions such as #disbarment, which involves revoking a #license to practice #law [cuz, yeah, sane humans believe Rudolph Giuliani should still have legal authority /s].
#LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #ABA #Federalism #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
Under the new proposal, current or former #DOJ lawyers would be prohibited from assisting state-level investigations until the #US AG's “review” is finished.
#Trump appointee AG #PamBondi already signed the draft rule, which will be open for public comment for 30 days starting on Thursday before it can go into effect.
#law #LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #Bar #AmericanBarAssociation #Federalism #states #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
Coverage from @democracydocket @marcelias
#DOJ attempts to evade state #ethics oversight of its attorneys
#Trump #law #LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #Bar #AmericanBarAssociation #Federalism #states #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-attorneys-state-bar-investigations-newrule/
Of course they do…
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#Trump #DOJ aims to limit #ethics probes into its lawyers
The #US “Justice” Department is seeking to constrain ethics investigations conducted at the state level into alleged #misconduct by its lawyers, according to a proposed rule submitted on Wednesday that would shield prosecutors pursuing Trump's agenda.
#law #LegalEthics #judiciary #Constitution #SeparationOfPowers #Bar #AmericanBarAssociation #Federalism #states #authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-justice-department-aims-limit-ethics-probes-into-its-lawyers-2026-03-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement
#UmbertoEco’s List of the 14 Common Features of #Fascism
in History, Literature, Politics | November 1st, 2024
"While Eco is firm in claiming “There was only one Nazism,” he says, “the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical” features. “These features,” writes the novelist and semiotician, “cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.”
1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.”
2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.”
3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.”
4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.”
5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”
6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.”
7. The obsession with a plot. “Thus at the root of the Ur-Fascist psychology there is the obsession with a plot, possibly an international one. The followers must feel besieged.”
8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.”
10. Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.”
11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.”
12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.”
13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.”
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
#DoublePlusUngood #Authoritarianism #Project2025 #TechnoFacism #January6 #CharacteristicsOfFascism #MAGA #ChristoFascism #ChristianCoalition
#ChristianNationalism
#AntiGBLTQLegislation #PressFreedom #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #StopHR9495
Over 75 Colorado residents resist a fascist paramilitary raid (Lakewood, CO - 2/28/26)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rjd2a9
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #colorado #crimesofice_videos_reaction_of_the_public_to_ice
“Time & again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation,” #Sotomayor wrote. “Time & again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an election. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, & except for this one.”
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
#Alito is essentially saying that districts drawn under the #VotingRightsAct or other federal & state laws to remedy centuries of racial #discrimination are as #racist as the #racism (including the legacy of #slavery & #JimCrow) they were meant to rectify.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
Court watchers speculate that #Alito, because he has not authored an opinion from the court’s term last October, is writing the majority opinion in a hugely important case the court has yet to rule on concerning the constitutionality of the last remaining section of the #VotingRightsAct. If that’s the case, the #VRA — and by extension, the fate of American #democracy — will be in very, very bad shape.
#law #SCOTUS #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
Justice #Alito’s Latest Opinion Is a Very, Very Bad Sign for #VotingRights
A decision upholding a #NewYork #GOP congressional district could be a prelude to killing the #VotingRightsAct.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/samuel-alito-opinion-new-york-voting-rights-act-supreme-court/
#SCOTUS on Monday evening overturned a #NewYork state court ruling that found that the Staten Island-based district of #Republican US House Rep. Nicole Malliotakis discriminated against #Black & #Latino voters & needed to be redrawn. The Supreme Court’s intervention preserves a #GOP led seat that would have been likely to shift to #Democrats this November.
#law #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
The court’s ruling sets a disturbing #precedent for #VotingRights in several ways. Federal courts are supposed to defer to #state courts on matters of state #law. And #SCOTUS has repeatedly ruled that courts should not change election laws in the middle of an #election season, & in this instance the filing deadline for candidates in #NewYork has already passed.
#law #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
In her dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justices #KetanjiBrownJackson & Elena #Kagan, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor blasted the court’s conservative majority for using one set of rules to uphold #redistricting maps that benefit #white voters & #Republicans in states like #Texas while using a completely different set of rules to strike down maps that benefit racial “minorities” & #Democrats in places like #NewYork.
#law #SCOTUS #democracy #VRA #ElectionLaw #gerrymandering #authoritarianism
"The grim takeaway is that even the Supreme Court justices, with all their power and prestige, are no longer living in a democracy."
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #StochasticTerrorism #SupremeCourt #retaliation
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"An alarming emergency motion filed on Wednesday night alleged 'flagrant violations' by the Trump administration of a federal court order that it not retaliate against witnesses who are providing information to the court in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s anti-trans prison policies."
~ Chris Geidner
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #trans
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https://www.lawdork.com/p/trans-inmates-retaliation-contempt-motion
(continued from /1)
"setting them up to force them to back off their insistence on reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol by demanding that they stand to show their support for the statement: 'The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
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"It was a deliberate division of the country into 'us' and 'them,' a classic authoritarian move, that he followed up by calling the Democrats 'crazy' and claiming that 'Democrats are destroying our country.'”
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
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"It is now simply a standard, often unmentioned part of our politics that those who the president dislikes, within his own party or outside it, will be the target of stochastic terror. ...
The rule seems to be that Trump can direct his violent minions at absolutely anyone, and there will be no consequences and barely any comment."
~ Noah Berlatsky
#Trump #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #StochasticTerrorism #SupremeCourt #retaliation
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supreme-court-justices-families-tariffs
"Trump’s tax cuts primarily benefited the wealthy and corporations, and pinning their effects on immigrants illustrates how Trump’s strongest calls were to his base. Not only did he portray immigrants as violent criminals, in a moment scripted for television, he then turned on Democrats in the chamber," (continued in /2)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #StateoftheUnion #authoritarianism #fascism #violence #threats #scapegoating #immigrants #Democrats #retaliation
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-25-2026
#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).
The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.
Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-advancing-anti-trans-bill
#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx
"The warnings were there all along.
Years from now, someone will write about this period the way we now write about Munich and Berlin and London and New York in the 1930s. They will describe the weather. The headlines. The conversations that seemed harmless at the time.
And they will describe, in careful detail, exactly who was warned, and when, and how clearly."
"The question history keeps asking is the same one it always asks at this point in the story: when did you know?
Most people do not embrace authoritarianism. They wait it out. They hope it will burn itself down without requiring their involvement. They confuse endurance with resistance. By the time waiting becomes impossible, participation has already been assigned."
~ Gloria Horton-Young
#Trump #MAGA #fascism #authoritarianism #Nazis
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/perfect-storm-trump-nazi-germany
Judge says #government may not search devices seized from #WashingtonPost #reporter
The ruling suggested that the federal judge in Virginia did not #trust the government [not this one anyway] to conduct a narrow search of Hannah Natanson’s devices.
#law #democracy #FreePress #journalism #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/24/washington-post-reporter-search/
"On February 6, four direct descendants of President Theodore Roosevelt wrote to United States senators to ask them to vote against a measure that opens up the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota to the Chilean mining giant Antofagasta Plc and its subsidiary Twin Metals Minnesota."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #BoundaryWaters #Minnesota
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-22-2026
"Antofagasta wants to build a copper-nickel mine just outside the BWCAW on national forest land. ...
The Roosevelts noted that the proposed mining is 'the opposite of America First.' 'The mining company in question is foreign owned, will use Chinese state-owned smelters, and will then sell the extracted metals on the open market.'”
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #BoundaryWaters #Minnesota
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"Opening the area to mining 'removes the American public from public land decision making,' as hundreds of thousands of Americans have made it clear they overwhelmingly want the BWCAW protected forever."
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #BoundaryWaters #Minnesota
/2
"From Donald Trump in the United States and Javier Milei in Argentina to the far-right resurgence in many parts of Europe, the pattern is unmistakable: The convergence of ecological disaster, resource scarcity, a flagging and disoriented liberalism, and climate-driven displacement leads to an authoritarian turn."
~ Kohei Saito
#Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #nature #environment #ClimateChange #capitalism #ecology
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/free-gift-alyssa-battistoni-capitalism-enclosure-nature/
Students led a peaceful protest. The police chief showed up in plain clothes and assaulted two students. (Quakertown, PA - 02/20/26)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1rat1fy
Article:
Bucks County DA launches investigation into Quakertown PD protest response
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bucks-county-da-launches-investigation-145323524.html
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #abolishcbp #acab #pennsylvania #crimesofice_videos_other
"The Trump administration, [Anat Shenker-Osorio] argues, is running a classic authoritarian playbook: foment a counterrevolution against a revolution that never was—tell people you’re protecting them from a threat that your own regime manufactures and amplifies, so they don’t notice it’s actually the billionaires picking their pockets."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #authoritarianism #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing
/1
https://thecause.substack.com/p/if-we-dont-call-for-the-camps-to
"ICE isn’t law enforcement. It’s a narrative delivery system for MAGA from the gnarled mind of Stephen Miller. The violence is the point."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #immigrants #authoritarianism #MaskedThugs #violence #EthnicCleansing
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Citing the deaths of #ReneeGood & #AlexPretti in #Minnesota, the judge said that the White House had also “extended its #violence on its own #citizens.”
“The threats posed by the executive branch cannot be viewed in isolation,” US District Judge Sunshine Sykes in Riverside, California said in a scathing decision.
Ruling∶ https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210.116.0.pdf
#Trump #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #CivilRights #DueProcess #UseOfForce #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung
A daytime #TalkShow NOT a #news program FFS. This is fascist persecution.
#FCC chairman says the agency is investigating #ABC network’s '#TheView' over equal time rule
#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #independence #FederalAgencies #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/view-fcc-stephen-colbert-abc-cbs-4fd679462e08de2cdc340071f48a83a9?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-19-Investigation+into+%E2%80%98The+View%E2%80%99
“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of #Minneapolis #LegalObservers
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as #Trump’s #BorderCzar #TomHoman calls on locals to “end the #resistance.”
By Ryan Devereaux, February 9, 2026
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice-minneapolis-legal-observers-abduction/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #DefundCBD #Disappeared
#DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #ThoughtPolice #Orwellian #IndefiniteDetention #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
“We looked & we can’t find one example of this rule being enforced for any talk show interview, not only for my entire late-night career, but for anyone’s late-night career going back to the 1960s,” #StephenColbert said.
Although #BrendanCarr said in January he was thinking about getting rid of the exemption for late-night talk shows, he hadn’t done it yet. “But #CBS generously did it for him,” Colbert said.
#law #FirstAmendment #FCC #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
As of Wednesday morning, Colbert’s YouTube interview with #Talarico had been viewed more than five million times, or roughly double what the comic’s #CBS program draws each night. The Texas Democrat also reported that he had raised $2.5 million in campaign donations in the 24 hours after the interview.
#StephenColbert #law #FirstAmendment #FCC #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
#StephenColbert then took a copy of the #CBS statement, wrapped it in a dog poop bag, & tossed it away.
#Colbert had instead shown his Talarico interview on YouTube, but told viewers why he couldn’t show it on CBS. The network was concerned about #FCC Chair #BrendanCarr trying to enforce a rule that required broadcasters to give “equal time” to opposing candidates when an interview was broadcast with one of them.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
#StephenColbert isn’t backing down in an extraordinary public dispute with his bosses at #CBS over what he can air on his late-night talk show.
On “The Late Show” Tuesday, Colbert said he was surprised by a statement from CBS denying that its lawyers told him he couldn’t show an interview with Democratic #Texas #Senate candidate #JamesTalarico — which the host said had happened the night before.
#law #FirstAmendment #FCC #censorship #Trump #authoritarianism #fascism
https://apnews.com/article/colbert-talarico-cbs-trump-fcc-014a0531715f098fbcd7902476a22590?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-18-Colbert-Talarico+interview
Remember what conservatives used to sound like? George Will on #trump and our current predicament. https://youtu.be/gwdHz1Xnfm0?si=XSTlCMsb2Xgk2xSe
22 minute video. Highly recommended!
#uspol #authoritarianism #History #resist #conservatism #GeorgeWill
#Colbert Says #CBS Pulled #Senate Candidate Interview
#StephenColbert said he had to drop an interview with #JamesTalarico from his Monday broadcast because of new #FCC guidance that targeted political interviews on late-night shows.
#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #Trump #dictatorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/business/media/colbert-cbs-fcc-talarico-carr.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Shown hidden video files within the Epstein files on the Department of Justice website. Change the file extension from ".pdf" to ".mp4", ".avi", ".mkv", ".webm" etc.
Source:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUrdk7hjazW/
#groundtruthpodcast #epstein #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #pedophile #pedo47 #ghislainemaxwell #epsteintrump #releasetheepsteinfiles
F*CKING DICTATOR!!! Impeach this PEDO ASSHAT!!!
#Trump floats #ExecutiveOrder on #VoterID if #SAVEAct stalls in Senate
Ryan Mancini
Fri, February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM EST
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-floats-executive-order-voter-002730882.html
#USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship
Wow. A woman betraying other women! There's a word for women like that...
#PuertoRico governor signs law to recognize #fetus as human being as critics warn of consequences
By DÁNICA COTO, February 12, 2026
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — "Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday signed a bill that amends a law to recognize a fetus as a human being, a move doctors and legal experts warn will have deep ramifications for the U.S. Caribbean territory.
"The amendment was approved without #PublicHearings and amid concerns from opponents who warned it would unleash confusion and affect how doctors and pregnant or potentially #PregnantWomen are treated.
"The new law will lead to 'defensive health care,' warned Dr. Carlos Díaz Vélez, president of Puerto Rico’s College of Medical Surgeons."
#ReproductiveRights #USPol #PuertoRicoPol #WomensHealthcare #ProBirth #ProBirthIsNotProLife #Authoritarianism #ReproductiveFascism
Lying sacks of sh*t!!! #ICEOutForGood !
#Trump's #borderCzar says a 'small' security force will stay in #Minnesota
byAlina Selyukh
February 15, 2026
"#Homan said an additional security force — described in size only as 'small' — will stay to 'respond to when our agents are out, and they get surrounded by #agitators and things got out of control.' "
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/15/nx-s1-5715151/minnesota-immigration-homan-security-force-stay
#USPol #NPR #AbolishICE #DefundICE #AbolishCBP #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #SilencingDissent #Disappearing #ImmigrantsRights #Authoritarianism #SecretPolice #Gestapo
A fascist paramilitary invader aimed a grenade launcher inches from a protester’s face, at this range, "less-lethal" rounds can be deadly. (Los Angeles, CA - 2/13/26)
Outside the Metropolitan Detention Center (535 Alameda St) in downtown Los Angeles at 10:09 pm
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r50n30
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #crimesofice_videos_misconduct #california
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerlessness-to-power/ #ice #fascism #maga #trump #authoritarianism
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Text Shot: In 2026, agents of the federal government murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. Seventeen days later, they murdered Alex Pretti. Pretti was peacefully filming these same federal agents as they laid siege to his home city, going door to door without warrants, breaking into homes, snatching people off the street. A half-dozen agents wrestled Pretti to the ground. After he was immobilized at least two of them began firing at him, one of them emptying his magazine into Pretti's defenseless back.
Massive #immigration raid on #Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
#DHS said federal agents with #CBP, the #FBI & the #ATF arrested 37 people in the raid.
#Trump #law #US #MilitaryState #democracy #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #coup #TrumpCoup2
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
Beware of false nostalgia.
#populism #authoritarianism #fascism #history
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Cartoon showing a ramp with the earth (shown with arms and legs) walking on it. The ramp is tilting backwards and the earth is losing its balance, because below the ramp Trump is turning a big wheel to the left. A sign next to the wheel says 'Past, turn left, future, turn right'. Left of the ramp, we see a pit out from which flags with swastikas and hands giving nazi salutes emerge. Geert Wilders is standing on a ladder pouring green soap onto the ramp, as Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán look on. Behind the ramp is a big billboard: 'Authoritarian Populism: Taking You Back to the Good Old Days'
Edit - Apparently, this website is somewhat out of date, and may not be as helpful as one would like. If anyone knows of a similar list that's been recently updated, please let me know.
All Projects - #PRISMBreak
Opt out of #GlobalDataSurveillance programs like #PRISM.
Includes: Anonymizing Networks, App Stores, Email, File Storage and more!
[I noticed the site did NOT include #ProtonMail. Does anyone know why PM wasn't included?]
https://prism-break.org/en/all/
#Google #Amazon #BigTech #ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Orwellian #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech
HT @skeletor
#DirectAction #Authoritarianism #Resistance #ResistFascism
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A photo of a He-Man figurine sitting on a toilet sea. In the foreground is a Skeletor figurine holding toilet paper.
Text: "Stop praying for your enemies' downfall. Get directly involved."
#GeoGroup once converted a #warehouse into a holding center for 500 people about 30 years ago — nothing like the enormous size of the facilities being proposed now, Zoley said. “The operational implications of how you manage such a facility, particularly a large-scale facility, is going to be concerning,” Zoley said. [ya think???]
#Trump #ConcentrationCamps #law #immigration #HumanRights #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Nazis #Tyranny #SocialCleansing #ICE #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
Tom Homan lied. The fascist paramilitary invaders are still in Minnesota. Don't stop until ICE is abolished. Patrol, Observe, Support, and Stay Viigilant. (2/12/26)
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r30z0a
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #Minnesota #crimesofice_videos_other
Detainees would spend an average of 3 to 7 days at the processing sites before being transported to the larger “facilities”, where they would be held about 60 days before being deported [if they survive], acc/to the document. The additional detention space is necessary, the document states, due to #ICE’s hiring of more agents & an expected surge in arrests.
#Trump #ConcentrationCamps #law #immigration #HumanRights #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Nazis #SocialCleansing #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
#ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire #warehouses across the country & retrofit them into #immigrant “#DetentionCenters” that can hold TENS OF THOUSANDS of immigrants, acc/to documents the agency provided to New Hampshire’s governor & published on the state’s website Thursday.
#Trump #ConcentrationCamps #law #immigration #HumanRights #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #Fascism #Nazis #Tyranny #SocialCleansing #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.governor.nh.gov/news/dhs-releases-new-documents-merrimack-facility
Here come the #ConcentrationCamps
#ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning #warehouses into “#DetentionCenters”
Documents released Thursday offer the most complete picture to date of the #Trump admin’s controversial & costly plan to overhaul immigrant detention using industrial buildings.
#law #immigration #HumanRights #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #Fascism #Nazis #Tyranny #SocialCleansing #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://wapo.st/3OfarSk
#Google Fulfilled #ICE Subpoena Demanding #StudentJournalist’s #Bank and #CreditCard Numbers
#AmandlaThomasJohnson didn’t know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena until months later. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.
Jessica Washington. February 10 2026
Excerpt: "Amandla Thomas-Johnson had attended a protest targeting companies that supplied weapons to Israel at a #CornellUniversity job fair in 2024 for all of five minutes, but the action got him banned from campus. When President Donald Trump assumed office and issued a series of executive orders targeting students who protested in support of #Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding.
"Google informed Thomas-Johnson via a brief email in April that it had already shared his metadata with the Department of Homeland Security, as The Intercept previously reported. But the full extent of the information the agency sought — including usernames, addresses, itemized list of services, including any IP masking services, telephone or instrument numbers, subscriber numbers or identities, and credit card and bank account numbers — was not previously known.
" 'I’d already seen the subpoena request that Google and Meta had sent to Momodou [Taal], and I knew that he had gotten in touch with a lawyer and the lawyer successfully challenged that,' Thomas-Johnson said. 'I was quite surprised to see that I didn’t have that opportunity.'
"The subpoena provides no justification for why ICE is asking for this information, except that it’s required 'in connection with an investigation or inquiry relating to the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws.' In the subpoena, ICE requests that Google not 'disclose the existence of this summons for indefinite period of time.'
Thomas-Johnson, who is British, believes that ICE requested that information to track and eventually detain him — but he had already fled to Geneva, Switzerland, and is now in Dakar, Senegal.
"The #ElectronicFrontierFoundation, which is representing Thomas-Johnson, and the #ACLU of Northern California sent a letter to Google, #Amazon, #Apple, #Discord, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Reddit last week calling on tech companies to resist similar subpoenas in the future from #DHS without court intervention. The letter asks the companies to provide users with as much notice as possible before complying with a subpoena to give them the opportunity to fight it, and to resist gag orders that would prevent the #TechCompanies from informing targets that a subpoena was issued.
" 'Your promises to protect the privacy of users are being tested right now. As part of the federal government’s unprecedented campaign to target critics of its conduct and policies, agencies like DHS have repeatedly demanded access to the identities and information of people on your services,' the letter reads.
" 'Based on our own contact with targeted users, we are deeply concerned your companies are failing to challenge unlawful surveillance and defend user privacy and speech.' "
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/zEa6d
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ICEOut #DefundICE #Orwellian #BigBrother #NineteenEightyFour #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #SilencingDissent #SilencingFreeSpeech #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
#Marine Detained in #Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
By Austin Campbell, February 12, 2026
"At first, #StevenSaari said, federal #immigration agents seemed to think he was one of them.
"Saari, a Marine Corps combat veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, went to the scene of #AlexPretti’s killing in #Minneapolis less than an hour after federal agents fired the fatal shots. He was wearing his Marine camouflage and carrying a lawfully owned 9mm Glock handgun on his right hip, as he does every day, he told The Intercept. Agents on the scene 'thought I was undercover,' Saari said. 'They kept asking what agency I was with.'
"When Saari told them he was not with any agency, their demeanor shifted. Federal immigration agents soon aimed M4-style rifles at his head, footage reviewed by The Intercept shows, their fingers on the trigger less than a minute’s walk away from where Pretti was killed.
'More and more #BorderPatrol and ICE agents gathered around me,' Saari said. 'Then they moved in with rifles and handguns drawn.'
"The encounter raises questions about how federal agents assessed threats, used force, and made arrest decisions in the immediate aftermath of Pretti’s killing. In Saari’s case, he and his attorney told The Intercept, federal agents took scans and samples of his biometric data and made a copy of his phone — without obtaining a warrant."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/minneapolis-federal-agents-phone-surveillance-alex-pretti/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/3Ywwm
#USPol #Authoritarianism #WarrantlessSurveillance #Fascism #SecretPolice #WarrentlessSearch #ICEOut #DefundICE #DefundCBD #DefundDHS #BorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
Fascist paramilitary invaders may use lights to impede recording and legal observation while abducting people with legal status (Oregon - date unknown)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qzi5sx
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Even if they want to obscure your ability to legally record, speak to your recording device and say what you can see. document using the SALUTE method. Pass SALUTE info to the rapid response network you are a part of.
Size: How many agents/ officers?
Activity: What specifically are the agents doing? If someone is detained and you know their A number and/or DOB, note it.
Location: Give an exact address or intersection and in NYC, a boro. The same address can be found in multiple boros. Include Av/St/Rd etc.
Unit(s): What letters, details, or patches are visible on the uniforms/jackets/vests/vehicles? Example: HSI/Homeland Security Investigations/Police Gang Unit, ERO, POLICE, CBP/US Customs and Border Protection, CBP Field Operations, POLICE DHS (2 kinds: NYPD Dept Homeless Services that are NOT ICE and Department of Homeland Security, who are federal agents)
Time: What precise time did you witness this? This info should be shared quickly.
Equipment: What did agents have with them? Ex: weapons, flexicuffs, dogs, door breakers, LRAD sound cannon, vans, SUVs, etc.
https://www.nysylc.org/ice-watch#politics
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #oregon #crimesofice_videos_abduction
IMPD threatened to kill a group of teenagers returning from ICE Out of Indiana, near Warren Centra High School. ”I will fucking kill you, you understand me?” (Indianapolis, IN - 2/6/26)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r1hbt1
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #indiana #acab #crimesofice_videos_other
US Citizen films being racially profiled and detained by fascist paramilitary invaders. After having his info ran, they give him red wristband to mark him as checked.
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r0vftt
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #crimesofice_videos_violation_of_the_constitution
AOC breaking down ICE in plain English. (Queens, NY - 2/6/26)
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1qzi4k6
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #newyork #AOC #crimesofice_videos_reaction_of_the_public_to_ice
"When ICE killed Mr. Pretti and Ms. Good, that was an execution, and you did not investigate it...They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog."
- Rep. Steve Cohen, speaking to Pam Bondi
Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r21zw0
#ice #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #protest #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #icestapo #policestate #paramilitary #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #abolishice #abolishdhs #abolishhsi #abolishero #crimesofice_videos_reaction_of_the_public_to_ice
#GOP Sen. #LisaMurkowski comes out against #Trump's #ElectionBill, with a warning to her party
The Alaskan reminded her fellow Republicans that they claimed to oppose any new #FederalElectionLaws just a few years ago, insisting that the issue should be left to the states.
by Sahil Kapur, February 10, 2026
WASHINGTON — "Sen. Lisa Murkowski became the first Republican senator to speak out against the SAVE Act, a sweeping election bill backed by President Donald Trump that would require proof of #citizenship to vote nationwide.
"In doing so, the Alaskan reminded her colleagues on Tuesday that they roundly claimed to oppose new federal election laws as recently as Joe Biden’s presidency.
" 'When Democrats attempted to advance sweeping election reform legislation in 2021, Republicans were unanimous in opposition because it would have #FederalizedElections, something we have long opposed,' Murkowski said in a statement. 'Now, I’m seeing proposals such as the SAVE Act and #MEGA that would effectively do just that. Once again, I do not support these efforts.' "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/cWRoV
#USPol #SAVEAct #Authoritarianism #VotingRights #VoterDisenfranchisement