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“And therefore, we [would] have some additional powers that don’t exist right now,” Honey said in March, according to a recording reviewed by The New York Times from someone who joined the call, “and therefore, we can take these other steps without #Congress & we can mandate that states do things & so on.”
#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
On a call with #FarRight activists in March, before her appointment to #DHS, Honey suggested that the new #Trump admin could declare a “national emergency” & justify dictating new rules to state & local governments. She said this could be based on an “actual investigation” of the 2020 election if it showed there had been a “manipulation” of the vote.
[There have been countless exhaustive investigations]
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #US
In the past few months, #Trump has elevated multiple proponents of his false fraud claims into high-level admin jobs. Now, as government insiders, these activists could wield their newfound power to discredit future results or rekindle old claims to argue for a federal intrusion into locally administered voting systems.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
The remark parroted a widespread view on the right that #CISA had sought to silence supporters of #Trump’s false fraud claims. Honey also repeatedly mentioned a false report often cited by #election conspiracists to support their claims that voting machines were rigged to favor Democrats, acc/to the people familiar with the call.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
Heather Honey, a leader in that movement until her appointment in August as deputy assistant secretary for *election integrity*, complained that her department’s #cybersecurity experts tasked with combating #disinformation about #elections had “strayed from their mission.”
#Trump #law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
Rather than offering assurances that the federal government’s #election protection programs would continue uninterrupted, the new official, #HeatherHoney, instead used portions of the meeting to echo rhetoric that has infused the #FarRight *election activist* movement that emerged since #Trump falsely claimed that his 2020 defeat was the result of widespread fraud, acc/to 5 people with knowledge of the call.
#law #ElectionLaw #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #US
#Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month with #DHS’s point person on “election integrity,” eager to hear how the woman filling a newly created #Trump admin position might help safeguard the #vote ahead of next year’s #midterms.
But many of them left alarmed.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #BigLie #propaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
🚨🚨🚨
#Trump Empowers #ElectionDeniers, Still Fixated on False 2020 Grievances
Trump has placed proponents of his #BigLie into government jobs while dismantling systems built to secure voting, raising fears that he aims to seize authority over #elections ahead of next year’s #midterms.
#law #ElectionLaw #coup #TrumpCoup2 #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #UnitedStates
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/trump-election-deniers-voting-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Is MAGA a Fascist movement? Oscar nominated filmmaker Matthew Cook Explains Fascism so you can decide for yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0omFLljygY
#Fascism #Mussolini #MAGA #RepublicansOwnThis #FightFascism #USPol
"My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these five hundred thousand soldiers advocating anything smelling of fascism, I am going to get five hundred thousand more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.” --Smedley Butler, retired MajGen, USMC, in 1934 upon being asked to lead a coup, a Mussolini-style march on Washington #antifa #fascism https://www.thehistoryreader.com/us-history/smedley-butler-a-gangster-of-capitalism/
Fuck every country supporting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. And yes, that includes the UK.
Look at the state of these genocidal fascists… arresting a British-Palestinian NHS doctor for speaking out against Israel’s genocide.
History sees. History remembers.
👇
#UK #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #fascism https://mastox.eu/@GlobalSumudF/115412880357475334
With the headline "Only the Best People," David Kurtz reports:
"A Trump-pardoned Jan. 6 rioter has been charged with threatening to kill House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) ahead of his a Monday speech to the Economic Club of New York."
#Trump #MAGA #HakeemJeffries #fascism #violence
https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/lindsey-halligan-gets-her-very-own
Pedro Molina comments on the … strangeness … of Trump's belief that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize as he puts out an AI video of homself as a king bombing his fellow citizens with excrement.
#Trump #MentalDecline #dementia #rage #dissociation #fascism #NoKings #ShitShow #NobelPrize
/3
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/21/2349573/-Cartoon-Nobel-Peace-Prize-2026
"Anti-fascist is the most accurate term to describe the vast cross-section of Americans of different ages, races, creeds, ethnicities, beliefs, geographic locations, jobs, specific complaints, and political affiliations who turned out to demonstrate peacefully (unlike ICE agents who kidnap and brutalize Americans in the streets, use pepper spray and other weapons, and show up masked and unidentified)."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #NoKings #fascism #antifa
/2
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-we-could-do-without-e7c
"Putting out an AI video of himself dumping shit on protestors suggests panic, not strength. But his claims about what’s happening in America and the world keep getting stranger and wilder.
And Trump’s denial of reality is already having devastating consequences for America, with more to come."
#Trump #MentalDecline #dementia #rage #dissociation #fascism #NoKings #ShitShow
/2
"Trump is clearly getting worse, growing even more out of touch with each passing week. Regardless of whether it’s advancing age or growing frustration, even Trump, I think, realizes that his efforts to suppress all opposition are running into serious resistance."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #MentalDecline #dementia #rage #dissociation #fascism #NoKings #ShitShow
/1
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-has-lost-touch-with
Of course they would
#ICE would need more #money to expand use of #bodycams in #Chicago crackdown, official says
Many federal officers assigned to #immigration enforcement in the Chicago area have body cameras but #Congress would have to allocate more funds to expand their use, officials testified Monday at a hearing about the violent tactics agents are using in #Trump admin’s crackdown.
#law #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #PoliceBrutality #Gestapo
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-crackdown-chicago-bodycam-9aea34c3a48bc63cfb9d128159c5fdc9
"But it was his invitation to Robinson that outraged many Israelis: Two people, including a rabbi, were arrested outside Chikli’s home earlier in the day after protesting Robinson’s visit.
British-Israeli strategist Raoul Wootliff shared their outrage. “Tommy Robinson is a racist thug who has built a criminal career on spreading hate, including antisemitic libels. Watching him treated like a visiting dignitary by the Israeli government is an obscene insult to both ordinary Israelis and Jews in the UK,” he said.
Wootliff also questioned why the Israeli government had rolled out the red carpet for a far-right agitator with nothing approaching a government position.
“Diaspora minister Amichai Chikli has turned his ministry into a platform for the far right, attacking the Board of Deputies and dismissing Jewish communities who fight this hatred every day,” he said. “It is a betrayal of the people he is meant to protect.”"
part of why things don't work in the world is because the good people are simply are not going though the motions to increase #trust and interact to discover people and use them how they want.
So your reasons are justified about evil but doing 0 #interaction online is also not #helping what we need to #build something else!
To some level you are mostly a #fascist ⬅️ if we take it as today's meaning of 'not caring a lot' as #fascistic / part of #fascism who is also not putting the time in towards good people / just spread the bad shit / not finding the good and pumping that up
🏀 shoot some hoops with good people - talk to them! yo!
@LeilahLilienruh #Translation
+ my comments after about:
#Capitalism / #Fascism / #Trump / #Musk / #Tyrants Etc + #NoKings
"Never again! Not here, not anywhere else.
There are things where you have to show your colors. There's no “a little bit,” “so-so,” “we'll see”...
Only for or against.
It means taking a clear stand or, through vagueness, also taking a stand in a certain way...
Backbone is out in this mediocre, shallow-minded world: committing to something that you can be measured by and that can be held against you later.
“Which side are you on?” is the question."
MY COMMENTS:
I AGREE (even though ultimatums often aren't the way OR it's not clear to people what you mean to choose, BUT STILL YES)
So I think we the good maybe general #AntiFa / #AntiFascist can be more precise (like a list) and often my own problems is that 'EVERYTHING' IS FASCIST because it's born from #Capitalism / #BigTech #Fascism SO REALLY HARD FOR #NoKings and it's people not to kind of refer to themselves (on a day to day basis)
- so morally I agree but my 'problem' slightly is this:
❓ What #trust and #interactions are people building beyond the protest days...
❓ What other system if not this (I have ideas but asking you the author and reader of post)
Thank you. #FreeSchool (said more with love than critique)
“Supercharging this law enforcement agency and at the same time you have oversight being eliminated?...This is very scary.”
“ICE, their secret police, is their tool...Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.” #ICE #DHS #fascism #SecretPolice https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-ice-secret-police-civil-rights-unaccountable
#Fascism = anything "Bad" ⁉️❓
(modern day version incorrectly used)
#Fascistic is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)
#AntiFascist / #AntiFa also a good thing
...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to #AntiFa or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / #DIY. It's #virtuesignalling which I accept a #virtuesignal is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.
Debate welcome on this #audio...
Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ. #justice #fascism https://www.cbsnews.com/news/erez-reuveni-justice-department-whistleblower-kilmar-abrego-garcia-60-minutes/
"I have written before about how traditional Supreme Court journalism’s myopic focus on technical questions and judicial philosophies too often obscures the motives of the real people who are empowered to make these decisions."
~ Jay Willis
#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #fascism #media
/1
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-roberts-killing-voting-rights-act/
A sign carried by Indiana protesters at a No Kings gathering yesterday. shared by daghost_official.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence #churches #ReligiousFreedom #NoKings
/11
CBS News reports on how ICE's terrorism — the terrorization of the immigrant community — is affecting churchgoing immigrants who fear being assaulted by ICE while they're at church, something previously unheard of.
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence #churches #ReligiousFreedom
/10
@xankarn I like your post at the top a lot -
I saw after something I think we have to be careful with as there is a fine line between many people who do care on low / high spectrum (even to comment otherwise wouldn't care enough to ask why) so it's good to not really quickly exclude these people or even write them off so easily as all or nothing support us or fuck off.
I don't mean those that have a profile full of bad stuff more professionally - but really at protest people have asked me similar things (which in person is more clear) and they have been mom and dad people too full of weird concern / old or new ways and yes some fascistic things they will take to their death. But it's good not to condemn them so quick, even online.
I'll give you an example but from the 'best of us' types of people here on #Fediverse - some of hero level (Teachers, Privacy advocates, whole range) and they have said some actually wild or vile stuff (like seconds from the message of me saying I'm a fan or appreciate them) - and THAT got me angry. "Lesson I learned" was "from nothing" people can actually create more antagonism or enemies from someone actually over-genuine or over-writing (as you do to your hero's or wanted to help overly).
It was like totally unexpected - I totally was not sending those vibes and they literally created it double back to me (I don't know how guessing so clearly wrong or not asking more or not reading more into my message or all my posts allows people made them make such big mistakes - so it shows even the best have these things. Almost opposite and this 'fine' line of fascism (I could say they are... and actually I'm reconsidering this post but I'm sure in person they are better or their history says so, so I have to forgive and not chase them as a fan or co-creator, or anything - which is a human shame and part of all this problem when you can't even join the good people even a bit)
So seriously careful with PUTTING people into labeling them and blocking quickly and therefore not even allowing much room to work with them slowly (or indirectly from your good posts) - the long-burn convincing or even let them realise on their own,,, is golden - and it may even be low % but usually the people who care also speak so again have to be careful and see from profiles or not have to guess and condemn people so wildly to lose even 20% of those asking what's the point...
Again I know there is a % nativity and plenty of bad - but responding in unhelpful way also isn't great - even in my nativity saying MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT THAT FASCIST or as extreme as we feel asking questions we find hard to answer.
It's true they don't care but I've been writing about #fascism as a word being used for people that don't care enough (and there is a BIG difference).
So don't be too quick, check their profile and honestly even from the left that block the left - It does create *more* anger rather than allowing people to speak a bit - as there is a natural sparring or sword fighting that happens to get our minds in better shape... nothing that wrong with saying "what's the point?" and letting people practice answers if they are not a professional fascist.
Remember fascism come frmo authoritarian hierarchical government (or governing) like #state and #banks (which many people are under IF NOT ALL and some thing negative maths or numbers are neutral - even Left / Liberal people so needs a whole re-format of people brain since they were born into money thinKING is ok), Obviously money and that hierarchy is the problem (but not everyone is there yet or willing to do everything without money more often)
LONG STORY SHORT:
It is going to take a long time for all the specrum and points - and sometimes it's not as clear getting rid of Trump either - and getting the next one to jump in the financial hot-seat. It's all the rich-isms and even comfy people with it too (sorry a lot have it after spending time in studying / wondering why good people have similar isms)... ⏲️ Time.
Thanks for reading, even reading once more to get the points...
Much love to the #NoKings people and #Animal dressers out there (#Frogs and #unicorns etc),
⚠️ Admittedly lots of hashtags to really sort this #Fascist thing a bit more - as people unversed use for everyone imperfect much like those being a #Terrorist incorrectly used by the other sides. Too easy to call people fascist and terrorists. Could say people don't care or have relativity (it's not the same but often more true)
#Portland #Antifa #Frog #Frogs #AntiFascistFrog #Trump FrogBrigade
P,S For those that can talk 'long' -
I'd like to know how we can continue this good work with the lesser / smaller #bigboss baddies ❓ ...because after this I feel like they go under the radar because it's so integrated and born-in as a system.
(just an after-thought).
Thanks again for reading / considering / adjusting / staying true and passionate.
"'Kardon was part of a clergy group that was to lead a worship service outside the Chicago facility…. ...
Kardon has never been arrested before. She said she was beaten with a baton while she prayed and was then dragged from the group and handcuffed.'"
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/9
"On October 17, another pastor was assaulted by ICE while praying. According to Baptist News Global:
'United Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church of Rogers Park, Ill., was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility this morning.'"
~Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/8
"Immigration enforcement isn’t the problem. Dehumanization and injustice are."
~ Esau McCaulley
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/7
https://www.holypost.com/post/what-does-it-profit-a-nation-to-deport-immigrants-lose-its-soul
"And in Tuesday’s raid in Chicago, teenagers were reportedly 'slammed to the ground' by masked agents and one U.S. citizen may have been detained for five hours."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/6
"Consider some recent horrors: an American citizen wrongly detained and treated with shocking brutality. A Mexican immigrant fatally shot by ICE officers for stated reasons that are falling apart under journalistic scrutiny. A minister shot in the head by a pepper ball while he had his arms raised in prayer."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/5
https://newrepublic.com/article/201802/trump-ice-raids-chicago-democrats
"Federal agents have been caught on video body slamming people to the ground, kneeling on people’s necks, and pointing weapons at close range. Dozens of people have already died at ICE’s hands , including US citizens, but this tally is artificially low because the Trump administration tightly controls media access to ICE detention facilities."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/4
"On too many videos circulating on social media to count, masked ICE agents have been recorded getting more and more aggressive with members of the public, deliberately escalating non-violent exchanges into violent ones."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/3
"More than that, his statement was meant to groom the public. The Trump administration is trying to get US citizens used to the idea that federal agents could use lethal force—to the point of killing people— against anyone who exercises their Constitutional right to peacefully protest against government actions they don’t like."
#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/2
"This week, blind to Constitutional law and US history, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan said that protests at ICE raids 'could lead to bloodshed and people dying.' Suggesting that masked ICE agents might kill protestors for simply shouting hateful slogans at them, Homan was building the permission structure for federal agents to use 'full force' violence against non-violent protestors."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #ICE #TomHoman #cruelty #fascism #immigrants #violence
/1
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/james-madison-smiled-on-no-kings
Trump dumping shit on protesters in a video he posted himself is not a headline in the New York Times. This tells us everything about the level of self-censorship and acceptance of fascism and authoritarianism. In any other normal democratic country this would be a headline...
#trump #fascism #nokings #shit #newyorktimes
#NoKings - Proteste in den USA
Bei landesweiten Massenprotesten gegen die Trump-Regierung gehen laut Veranstaltern rund sieben Millionen Menschen auf die Straße…..
@bibliolater #AI = might still use a lot of people doing things manually behind the scenes
And be based on a history of using people's trust.
Even if bettering automation in its own way slowly - for #trust it's far from something you can #trust with people doing things behind the scenes more like Wizard of Oz!
1- lack of data safety
2- lots of humans manually doing things and making it look like AI
3- telling it to do things the right way (#FarRight #Fascism included if owner is so inclined!)
Still humans behind the scenes either way and dangerously connects to other things...🚪🏃⚠️
💥 IBM did the same with Nazi Germany.
「 Screenshots of internal documents and communications obtained by The New York Times show that Salesforce has pitched Immigration and Customs Enforcement on using the company’s artificial intelligence capabilities to help ICE staff up as Mr. Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the country 」
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html
Sorry that's much like partially shooting yourself in the foot and then blaming rich people / bad leaders.
So you if you don't see Banks as bad / funding wars - there is something seriously wrong. If you're keeping money there and going to protest - no matter how hard you #protest your money is with them and doing bad things overnight.
(Appreciate the reply by the way / let's try work on this)
I know alternatives are seemingly few or hard to do but don't let that stop you trying for those things and not just protesting -
*This* more-human part or real #boycott is part of the REAL "protest" (I.E. other protests are real but THEY ARE *JUST PROTEST* as in 'asking' / begging constantly for them to change.
Protest in many senses we know is low change / 💯 % not going to happen (a lot of protest in history!) so by not moving what power / money (or things similar) out of their control / abuse) this is basically not clever protest
(measurably not just my opinion - there is a direct power construct to paying for #war and #bad things).
I don't think you got it as much as this above (with respect) so I'm adding this...
I'm saying yes to your list as partially good but not physically changing enough in core areas. (d it all but don't avoid the more core things and not just 'support' stuff which will be infinite unless your change the core).
The picture (newer version + others added) was trying to show we are born into all this / part of the system and showing you (the public) are part of it's thinking too if you are thinking you are not part of fascist structures (the whole #State and #Bank #hierachy / #authority / #monopoly).
I know you don't want to label yourself / agree you're part of #fascism BUT if people are using banks / bad maths / cheating systems and think it's ok and just neutral numbers paying each other less calue THEN YOU ARE PART OF FASCISM AND NEED TO COME OUT OF THAT THINKING!...
VICTIMS
*I do blame* victims AFTER they know this and continue. While all victims should have a chance and need time - some are WAY TOO COMFORTABLE and went into settling for it.
No longer victim here as bourgeois (LOTS of people here very comfortable)... *and they* play their part in I'm a victim by going to the same theater or opera / shops / institutes / city.
And they think all people online are doubtful - might as well did you're own grave that way.
When the crowd pays to go in and boo the actors and want to pay bad people for their goods (and then complain). Just playing into it too much.
So there's a measurable limit even to "victim" I'm sympathetic for (to a limit), but not settling comfortably into and not even in blaming-mode constantly helps (which is a lot of #Fediverse too).
They spend 100's of hours (go check all the hashtags - again it's measurable) - but nearly nothing on forging friends... all the Tech people work on machines, code and then blame #Musk for using it. Short examples like that (more of a long chain but you get the picture).
"It's not our fault we don't like giving time to other humans online or offline and play with PlayStation Linux all day, all our life..."
#Trump #Musk bla bla bla hashtags and near-0 on building #trust / #friendship / giving #time to random people here between themselves. And poor you now getting a long detailed reasoning you might avoid replying.
Just blame and #caturday cat pics?
Na. Not working.
HOPE THAT'S CLEARER FOR YOU!
🧑🤝🧑 + 🏦 🤑 = FASCISM HIERARCHY / AUTHORITY / POWER / MUSK or whoever
Even using #Amazon back ends to fuel instances without non-interactive human instances to change... is passing time like watching one-way TV news and never using ourselves / adding others almost whoever they are.
SO WHAT NOW -
Let me know where we can go for participating in circles...
Let me know what you think of each part of this.
We're all recovering but #Mastodon etc as a #social engine is largely empty software without a kind of department dedicated to actually doing social on any deeper level than complaining - an organized social - not one way stuff ... our stuff - 2-way into deeper things, not just text but audio chat that people can dedicate to every days as part of the whole #therapy of life. And create our way out of it into the new (not spread their crap).
My whole #FreeSchool account shows I've genuinely tried to find and #failed to find much and many are not interested.
I appreciate your reply and this isn't damning you or to win in the end an argument...
....unless you choose to end it here.
About resources:
I think it is more #emotionally yes and not having will-power needs working on to encourage each other (hence having chats with people and not necessarily having to say everything but enough to really push past alone-ism)- time seems plenty for many (you can tell but their profile posts)
It's the #will or constancy in others encouraging / asking for / seeing and accepting others as imperfect (naturally) and not being so doubtful - as that scuppers any chances too.
Wwithout even testing people out people have resigned / accept fascism and even play their part.
Part of the answer we need to do is in testing and solving real communication - no more bashing #trump #ETC.
Agree? / Disagree?
Want to work on it?
⬆️ These are clear questions -
please don't avoid.