"...The federal government is hunting for a justification to eliminate key bike lanes in the nation's capital, sources say — and if the feds are able to push that controversial agenda through, some fear it could set a disturbing new precedent for federal interference into active transportation projects across the nation...."

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2026/01/26/the-talk-of-d-c-rumors-flying-that-trump-wants-to-undo-bike-lanes-in-capital

#BikeTooter #Fascism #Cycling #DC

Christian Nationalism is Roman Constantinian Idolatry

This political idolatry of 'Christian Nationalism' is not new. Only the wide perception of it is new due to everyone now being plugged into the Internet via their ever-present phones and tablets.

In the 1600s through the 1800s we see the political idolatry was at fever pitch and full swing, giving a host of politically-oriented cults, such as Witch-burning Puritanism, Swedenborgianism, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, etcetera. Even the Anglican church is an Imperialist political cult and has no warrant or sanction in the Holy Scriptures. It is a 'nationalist' tyranny over the mind. And then we see Islam, which Christians mistakenly believe to be a non-Christian religion. Islam is a Christian heresy, founded by heretical Catholics. Even the name, "Mohammed" is a corruption of the earlier Arabic, "Mahmed" meaning, "Messiah". Islam is an offshoot of medieval Christianity with its Saturn idolatry gone to seed. Islam is a daughter of Babylon, the Judeo-Roman prostitute.

Christianity has always been a politically idolatrous cult. For instance, The council of Nicea was convened by the Apollo-worshiping, Luciferian Emperor Constantine for nefarious and ungodly political purposes. Every bishop who was a political apparatchik showed up, ironing out a fascist version of Christianity that was forced on the empire by the sword for centuries.

The luciferians try to repeat this in every generation in which it looks like Christians will flee the Church plantation for the true body of Christ outside the Church.

Remember, the outer sea court of the temple was for the Gentiles (nations). The kingdom was removed from the inner court and given to them without. Christian authoritarians still have not recognized this.

If you want to advocate for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity you need to leave behind the Imperial leadership model of the Church. The Apostles and the Reformers warned us about the man of sin sitting in the chair of the bishopric building his tower of Babel using the people (laity) as their bricks.

This thing commonly called, 'Christianity' is the backsliding idol worship of Israel in the Old Testament, brought to life in our current age. Jesus Christ is not a Christian. The Apostles of the Lamb are not Christians. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the Prophets would recognize Christianity as legitimate. The sum of all their teachings mark Christianity as an impostor religion of idolatrous customs trading darkness for light.

There is no municipal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God cannot be brought about by the force of arms of mortal men. It comes by the Spirit of the Lord, not by the spirit of the world. Everyone pretending to build God's kingdom by inveigling, shaming, brow-beating, force, intimidation, fear-mongering, or authoritarianism, or civil government sanction, is an anti-christ, no matter how much they pretend to worship the Father and the Son and no matter how many zillions of times they claim their names.

In the Old Testament the Father prophesied to us the rise of the Christian world empire and its eventual destruction in the turning of the ages ahead. The Imperialist Christian cult likes to distract from its own wickedness by pretending Islam is the scapegoat, or by pretending Jews are the scapegoat. It might work for a time for their politics but God the Father is not fooled.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ..... How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

The 'she' is the Christian Church. She is the harlot Babylon with her many Church babies, a true mother of political prostitutes and abominations of the earth. The Christian church glorifies herself and her system of bishopric authority instead of glorifying the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is a machine for perpetuating its own system instead of setting the spiritual captives free.

We can truthfully say to the Christian Church what Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees of ancient Judea:

"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

In this age the first Adam who fell is the Church, the continuation of temple idolatry on life support. The second Adam who rises is Christ, or Jacob, who will supplant the first Adam as Jacob supplanted Esau in the birthright, as Jacob crossed his arms to swap the birthrights of Ephraim and Manasseh, as Isaac supplanted Ishmael, even as Paul the Apostle told us plainly. God has repeatedly told us how this Christian empire will be supplanted by Jesus Christ in the last days, yet Christians do not see what is plain in the scripture because they want political and spiritual power over other men, rather than being like Christ and humbly desiring to be a servant of servants for the love of God rather than recognition of position.

We learn from the Bible that God doesn't value man's concept of the birthright of authority, and freely supplants the older with the younger, even as he will supplant the older religious and Christian empire of the world with the younger Jesus of Nazareth.

#Christianity #Religion #Cults #Idolatry #Church #Imperialism #Authoritarianism #Fascism #ChristoFascism #Gospel #Jesus

Folks, our very own @gerrymcgovern has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.

https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/

“99th Day is essential reading for anyone who cares about our planet. Prepare to be disturbed, enlightened and inspired.” – Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times

And, if you’re in Ireland, Gerry has a book tour in February. If I’m in the country, I’ll be at the Dublin event on the 9th. Hope to see some of you there :)

https://gerrymcgovern.com/tour/

💕

#99thDay #books #environment #climateChange #capitalism #technology #BigTech #technoSolutionism #fascism #ireland

RE: https://mastodon.social/@adastra1930/115907889643635879

If it CAN be used for surveillance, it WILL be used for surveillance - it's only a question of when.

People kept saying it & were called alarmist & hyberbolic & worse.

God, how I wish we were learning from our mistakes, world. Pleeze. Pleeeeze.

#tech #surveillance #capitalism #fascism #privacy

#^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)

Maybe a good time to watch this movie again. The idea is quite similar: In a future world war between countries is replaced by deadly sports games between company/city/country teams. The movie also mentions a world ruling supercomputer, whose memory is corrupt. AI?

#uspol #worldpol #denpol #imperialism #fascism #Rollerball #JimmyKimmel

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

"...404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer...."

https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/

#bigbrother #surveillance #ice #fascism

LA Times: More than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage

(paywall, probably)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-02/more-than-100-detained-in-central-coast-holiday-immigration-raids

#SanLuisObispo #SantaBarbara #VenturaCounty #Fascism #ICE #Racism

i cannot see Venezuelans rolling over and allowing for this gringolarchy invasion to go forward. the #petromafia is in for a rude guerrilla war awakening.

#Venezuela #USAterrorism #fascism

❝ As Mr. Grenell and Mr. Maduro’s envoys negotiated a deal, the leader of Venezuela’s main opposition movement, María Corina Machado, pitched her own economic proposal in New York.

She argued that even greater economic wealth — $1.7 trillion in 15 years — awaited U.S. companies in Venezuela if her movement launched a political transition…

"… We want you here…"❞

Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maduro-venezuela-us-oil.html

#petromafia #fascism #Venezuela

Chuck Schumer’s strongly worded letter about #Venezuela from last November. can’t find any official pronouncements about Trump’s criminal incursion into the country nor about the capture of #Maduro.

Democrats have a funny way to standing against American #fascism, on a day that will forever live in infamy.

Leader Schumer Floor Remarks Urging Senate Passage Of The Venezuelan War Powers Resolution
The Senate Democratic Caucus
https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/leader-schumer-floor-remarks-urging-senate-passage-of-the-venezuelan-war-powers-resolution

“But now things suck even for me and I’m sad!”

Oh, the gravy train ran out of gravy, did it? Something about leopards eating people’s faces?

Here, have a very fucking tiny violin.

🎻

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

“How could we have known?!”

Maybe if you’d listened to those of us warning you – often times your own damn friends – instead of siding with the corporations that paid your salaries/consulting fees/sponsored your conferences/invited you to parties and bought you free booze…

🤷‍♂️

#BigTech #BigWeb #SiliconValley #SiliconRoundabout #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #fascism

@benroyce @georgetakei
I would name him as one of my (few) favorite politicians, beside José Mujica.😏

The question remains:
How do we get similar personalities as our elected deciders as quick as we need them by now? 🤔
#climate #fascism #warmongers #ClubOfOligarchs ....

KCLU: Community group reports surge in immigration raids in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo Counties

https://www.kclu.org/2025-12-29/community-group-reports-surge-in-immigration-raids-in-santa-barbara-san-luis-obispo-counties

#ICE #Fascism #SantaBarbara #SanLuisObispo

@AndreaPitzer has been a great help to me in these awful times. Here is her latest. #fascism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyyDWfSpTcU

LOL! I'm sure he does! Fuck all Bolsonaros and the populists they rode in on!

Jair Bolsonaro Backs Son's Brazil Presidential Bid, Undergoes Hernia Surgery
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jair-bolsonaro-backs-son-presidential-bid_n_694e38abe4b06782d2040279

#Brazil #Bolsonaro #Fascism

KPIX: Central Valley produce goes unharvested as immigration arrests keep workers away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9qb6MddOAg

#fascism #ice #hunger #inflation #immigration #farming

Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, died three years ago on December 12th.

Until his last breath, he represented the armed revolutionary struggle in the Philippines. Watch Sison explain how, before a mass movement can build socialism, the capitalist class will "unleash fascism...just to hide the roots of the crisis."

.red Media

#Socialism #Capitalism #Fascism #JoseMariaSison #Phillipines

...We have experienced the fact that men have the power, if they wish, to tear away our thoughts from the objects to which we applied them, and to force upon us an obsession that we have not chosen...."

--Simone Weil,
in ECRITS HISTORIQUES ET POLITIQUES,
1938

#philosophy
#fascism

2/2

Mother Jones: TSA Is Forwarding Names, Photos, and Flight Details to ICE

The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/tsa-ice-deporting-traveler-flight-details/

#tsa #ice #fascism #dueprocess #aviation #travel

Attorney General Bonta Blocks Unlawful Funding Cuts to Disaster Preparedness Program

"...OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a coalition of 20 states today secured a permanent injunction blocking the Trump Administration’s unlawful attempt to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) bipartisan Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program. Since 2020, FEMA has made billions of dollars available under the BRIC program to prepare for and mitigate the risks from disasters before they happen. California is the largest beneficiary of this program and could receive over a billion dollars for future projects that FEMA had selected for grant funding before the program was unlawfully terminated. .."

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-blocks-unlawful-funding-cuts-disaster-preparedness

#fema #disasters #lawsuits #fascism

@benroyce @justbob @CStamp @elala @billiglarper @iwein
🤔 I think it is kinda "common sense" to say If you always (only have the choice to) chose the "lesser bad" in a fuckedup/lobby system it'll never change.
We experiencing this in germany too.

Worst part:
We (the people) don't have the time anymore to "wait" for the maybe or maybe not multisystemic changes that are needed now.
#Fascism on the run globally
#Climatechange worsening every year..
We somehow need to extremely "change gear". How?

Chunk of Otay Mountains Wilderness Area turned into a military zone.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-militarized-zone-california-southern-us-border

#California #Fascism #wilderness

Yeesh, per LA Times:

"Law enforcement agencies are directed in the memo, dated Dec. 4, to identify “domestic terrorists” who use violence, or the threat of violence, to advance political and social agendas, including “adherence to radical gender ideology, anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, or anti-Christianity.” "

#Fascism #1stAmendment

LA Times: Justice Department drafting a list of ‘domestic terrorists’

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-11/justice-department-drafting-list-of-domestic-terrorists

#Fascism #Ice #1stAmendment

Alt...

A Justice Department memo calls for a ‘cash reward system’ that would encourage Americans to report suspected domestic terrorist activity. The memo says domestic terrorism could be inspired by a number of things, such as ‘opposition to law and immigration enforcement’ or support for ‘radical gender ideology.’ The memo focuses on what it calls antifa-aligned extremism and omits mentions of rising domestic threats, such as violent white supremacy.

ICE Letter re: Fort Bliss

ACLU: "We write to raise concerns regarding reports of significant abuse against detained immigrants held at the Camp East Montana immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas (“Ft. Bliss"). These reports, based on interviews with over 45 detained immigrants held at the facility ,reveal alarming conditions of confinement and repeated instances of coercion, physical force, and threats against immigrants facing third-country deportations, in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections. "

https://www.aclu.org/documents/ice-letter-re-fort-bliss

#fascism #ice #CivilRights

Alt...

We write to raise concerns regarding reports of significant abuse against detained immigrants held at the Camp East Montana immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss in Ekl Paso, Texas (“Ft. Bliss"). These reparts, based on interviews with over 45 detained immigrants held at the facility ,reveal alarming conditions of confinement and repeated instances of coercion, physical force, and threats against immigrants facing third-country deportations, in violation of agency policies and standards, as well as statutory and constitutional protections.

ProPublica: Immigration Agents Have Often Grabbed and Mistreated Citizens, Congressional Investigators Find

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-agents-detained-mistreated-citizens-congressional-investigation

#ICE #Fascism #Racism

From @jackmjenkins

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

#Christmas #ICE #Fascism #Religion

Alt...

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

"...In 2022, the Biden administration directed ICE officers to consider U.S. military service when deciding whether to pursue removal, allowing exemptions for veterans without serious criminal histories.

But an internal ICE memo obtained by 11Alive Investigates shows that directive was rescinded in April of this year.

The memo preserves certain protections for active-duty service members, but leaves others vulnerable. In fact, the new directive explicitly states, "an honorable discharge does not prevent an alien from being subject to immigration enforcement."
.."

#veterans #Fascism #ICE #deportation

"65-year-old Wade said he spent his first 12 days at Stewart Detention Center sleeping on a makeshift bed on the ground, a result of overcrowding.

"We don't have any bunk space," he said. "We're given what we call boats, and those are placed on the floor with a two-inch mat."

He also said there are only two working urinals for his entire pod of 80 people.

"There's sewage water flowing on the ground," he said.

#Fascism #ICE #veterans