@burnoutqueen Please don't compare innocent #pigs to class traitors and fascists, pigs are maligned enough by cultures already. Not insulting pigs in our everyday language is a small step we can take to reduce speciesism in the world and then maybe more ppl will consider not killing them. #Specieisism is the root of #carnism #police #fascism

Alt...

Cartoon of 2 anthropomorphised pigs sitting back to back 1 has a white tank top "LOVE PIGS" the other has a black jacket with a veganarchist symbol and the words "HATE COPS"

Wheee

EFF: That Drone in the Sky Could Be Tracking Your Car

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/drone-sky-could-be-tracking-your-car

#privacy #fascism

They locked this firefighter up for FOUR WEEKS without due process (finally released). He had proper paperwork and status to work in the US--visa being processed, he was contributing to helping fight fires in Washington. He was ONLY released because of legal action.

"The attorneys argued immigration officers wrongfully arrested Hernandez and violated his constitutional rights. They say his arrest was made without a warrant, based on no information beyond Hernandez’s race and his invocation of his constitutional right to silence, according to the suit.... Hernandez’s attorneys say immigration officials concealed Hernandez’s whereabouts from his family and attorneys for 48 hours after his arrest... Late Tuesday morning, Hernandez’s attorneys got word the federal government had decided to move to dismiss the removal proceedings against him and were releasing him that day. He was released around noon."

Fire Engineering: Firefighter Arrested at WA Wildland Fire Released from ICE Detention

https://www.fireengineering.com/firefighting/wildland-firefighting/firefighter-arrested-at-wa-wildland-fire-released-from-ice-detention/

#wildfires #firefighting #fascism #ice

Afeared ICE agents in Maryland and they aren't wearing masks!
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents-guns-arrest-hyattsville-witnesses
#ICE #Gestapo #Fascism

So…this is it. The end of everything as we know it. The escalation that we’ve feared.

“Full force.”

Portland is about to become ground zero for live rounds and the civil war between fascism and everything that is good.

I’m very, very frightened for what is upon us here. In my own backyard, where kids are playing and people are walking by the river. The propaganda is insanity.

💔😭

#WarRavaged #Portland #PDX #CivilWar #Fascism #Military

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Screenshot of a post from Donald Trump that reads: At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

City sends cease-and-desist after Flock reinstalls license plate cameras

The city sent a cease-and-desist to the company Tuesday and said ‘Flock reinstalled the cameras without the city’s permission’

September 24th, 2025

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/09/24/flock-safety-reinstalls-evanston-cameras/

#privacy #surveillance #bigbrother #fascism #alpr #flock

@arstechnica

Good to see that Sinclair gives in and now also broadcasts Kimmel again.

The power of people in display.

Resistance works!

#Resist #Trump #Fascism #Kimmel

#USpol #TrumpCoup #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#History #Hitler #Fascism
#OccupyDemocrats

(1/3)

👉#ElonMusk is close to become today's #Hugenberg, #AdolfHitler's ill-fated centrist financier. He brought #FakeNews into the playbook of #fascists:
#Katastrophenpolitik.👈

"He was among the richest men in the world.
He made his first fortune in heavy industry. He made his second as a media mogul. And in January 1933, in exchange for a political favor, #AlfredHugenberg provided...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/?gift=v9U0_p_NTkyWcE-gGTMhOowiSWDKIZwz1mo0VVCMuGc

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A meme-like image post from the Occupy Democrats' Instagram account shows a statement in all caps with yellow text on a black, textured background. The post reads, "WATCHING THE RISE OF TRUMP HAS BEEN WILD BECAUSE IT'S SO CLEAR HOW UNEDUCATED MOST AMERICANS ARE. IS HE 1944 HITLER? NOT YET. BUT AS OF A FEW WEEKS AGO WE ARE SOLIDLY IN THE 1933 TIMELINE AND THINGS ARE MOVING FAST. IT MAKES ME SAD THAT WE VOTED FOR THIS (NOT ME,) BUT HITLER WAS ALSO PLACED IN HIS POSITION THROUGH A VOTE. MOST AMERICANS DON'T KNOW HISTORY WELL ENOUGH TO SEE IT'S ALL REPEATING." The Occupy Democrats logo is in the top left corner, and a star and three vertical dots are on the top right. The image is framed by a gradient of orange and red on the sides." Provided by @altbot, generated using Gemini

Portraying the far right in political cartoons.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cartoonmovement/p/portraying-extreme-right-in-cartoons?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Cartooning #Politics #Fascism #SocialMedia

@ChrisMayLA6 @BylinesScotland Our media is largely owned by ultra-rich people, who believe they would benefit from the increased social stratification and regulatory laxity that #fascism would bring.

A number of commentators in the past several days suggest that the tide is turning for Trump with the Jimmy Kimmel débacle and other major losses:

Paul Krugman

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-the-jimmy-kimmel-saga-a-sign-that

Jay Kuo

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-shift-in-the-political-winds

Robert Reich

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-sleeping-giant-is-awakening

#Trump #fascism #JimmyKimmel #ApprovalRating #polls

Today’s autism announcement was just as bad as we feared

Trump blamed Tylenol & vaccines for autism

He encouraged women to just “tough out” their pain

He praised people who don’t “need” meds or vaccines

These are eugenicist talking points & they’re devastating to the disability community.

My latest looks at the threat to our lives, as well as how we can support one another.

We must not give up hope, but we need our non disabled allies to fight with us.

Refuse to see us as expendable and help us demand better:

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/trumps-big-autism-announcement-and

#uspol #autism #eugenics #disability #fascism #maha #rfkjr #tylenol
#vaccines #ableism

LA Times: Predator drones shift from border patrol to protest surveillance

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/predator-drones-shift-from-border-patrol-to-protest-surveillance

#fascism #ice #privacy

@benroyce @Maxfieldripken @stacey_campbell @openculture

Edit: I had misread the article, so the initial toot included below was wrong. I stand corrected.

Well, by doing that, #Bethesda has taken the very political stance to mark #CharlieKirk as a #Fascist . Because, honestly, why else would that particular clip need removing?

#Fascism #USPol #Game #Gaming #IndianaJones

#colonialism #fascism #palestine #gaza #rafah #freepalestine #ausgov #politas #classwar

#Disney Pulled #JimmyKimmel As Pressure Built On Multiple Fronts

For #BobIger & his leadership team at Disney & #ABC, time was running out.

Jimmy Kimmel, one of the company’s biggest stars, was preparing to tape the Wednesday edition of his late-night show in Hollywood at 4:30PM. And he had written an opening monologue that would address a cascading political firestorm head-on.

#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/business/media/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#Conservatives had accused #JimmyKimmel of mischaracterizing the #politics of the man accused of killing the #FarRight activist #CharlieKirk. #Trump’s chair of the #FCC had just warned #ABC of serious consequences, telling the network that “we can do this the easy or the hard way.” And a #Texas-based owner of many #ABCaffiliates was preparing to pull #Kimmel from its stations indefinitely.

#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #autocracy #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism

#BobIger, #Disney’s chief executive, & #DanaWalden, his head of #TV, were also hearing from skittish #advertisers & #employees who had begun to receive threatening messages. When the team reviewed #JimmyKimmel’s planned remarks, they grew concerned that his monologue would only inflame the situation further.

#law #FirstAmendment #censorship #dictatorship #autocracy #authoritarianism #fascism #MafiaState #StochasticTerrorism

"The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make dictatorship possible at home."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/1

https://snyder.substack.com/p/show-of-force

"This is the way Putin runs Russia. Threaten newspapers and broadcasters that they will be shut down unless they take the Kremlin’s line. ...

Nobody is safe with this fascist regime in power. Free speech is dead so long as Putin’s best friend is in the White House."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/2

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/trump-is-trying-to-cancel-the-first

"Kimmel’s suspension has produced an uproar. Comedian Paul Scheer noted that Kimmel is off the air but Brian Kilmeade of the Fox News Channel, who recently called for killing homeless Americans by 'involuntary lethal injection,' is still employed."

~ Heather Cox Riichardson

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/3

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-17-2025-wednesday

"Do people understand now what the authoritarian project is aiming for? ...

What happens in a society where one side is required to operate at all times and in all places in perfect good faith and the other side faces no such constraints?"

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-triad-first-they-came-for

"Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show program was indefinitely suspended so billionaires can continue abusing Charlie Kirk’s murder to gain control of our media and lay the red carpet for Trump’s fascist agenda.

That’s the truth. Everything else is just propaganda, obfuscation, and pretext."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/5

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimmel-cancelled-as-trump-uses

"We are governed by liars and crooks whose agenda is to demolish the rule of law and the rights of the rest of us, including our First Amendment right to free speech (Happy Constitution Day, by the way!)."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/6

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-war-on-truth-heats-up-just-in-time-for-constitution-day/

"What happened to Jimmy Kimmel Live! is not just about a late-night host or a single corporate decision. It is a flashing red warning sign of how fragile the foundations of free discourse have become in the United States."

~ Aaron Parnas

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/7

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmels

"Fueled by the rhetoric of prominent politicians, social media platforms have turned into a staging ground for collecting names and orchestrating campaigns to call for firings. Conservative social media influencers have encouraged people to submit posts of coworkers or community members, and then have used their large platforms to amplify calls for punishment."

~ Daniel Moritz-Rabson

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/8

https://truthout.org/articles/conservatives-are-using-charlie-kirks-death-to-enact-sweeping-speech-crackdown/

"It is really important to understand the contrast between Trump’s behavior and those of previous presidents for two reasons [after a highly publicized murder of an outspoken ideologue]: First, to get a clear measure of the extent of our moral descent. And second, to fully understand the authoritarian dangers our republic is facing."

~ Berny Belvedere

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/9

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/other-presidents-tried-to-heal-america

"As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright ignore the ugly things that he said and instead to stress the polite ways he said them. It's an emphasis on style over substance."

~ Kevin Kruse

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/10

https://campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-civility-council/

"This approach has been widespread in the punditocracy, which has almost uniformly moved to hold Kirk up as a rare avatar of civil disagreement in an uncivil era.

These pundits' paeans to Charlie Kirk's 'civil' approach to politics ignore the many illustrations of his incivility."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/10

"Trump and MAGA did not get Kimmel suspended for a joke. They got Kimmell suspended for a show of power. They are sending the message to stick to their approved MAGA script or they will come for you."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/11

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/kimmel-wasnt-suspended-for-a-joke

"Don't you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition."

~ Mehdi Hasan quoted by The Bulwark

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/12

“You may think you’re angry over Colbert and Kimmel but as someone who is familiar with the history of Nazi Germany I promise you, you’re not nearly angry enough yet.”

~ J David Clark

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/13

https://www.threads.com/@officialjdavidclarke/post/DOuyza8j3vZ

"Kimmel’s accusation that Trump is using the Kirk murder for political payback was right on the money.

It’s not as if this is surprising. It’s not as if we haven’t been warned about what’s coming again and again. It’s not as if the President of the Right hasn’t signaled his yearning for absolute rule day after day after day."

~ Lewis Grossberger

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/14

https://grossbergerbulletin.substack.com/p/jimmy-kimmels-show-assassinated-by

"It’s not just about one late-night comedian or even one assassination.

It’s about when America will finally wake up.

Or fail to."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/15

"Donald Trump and his loyal enforcer Stephen Miller have once again revealed the heart of their political project: to recast the state as an instrument of vengeance against dissent. ...

Trump and Miller do not simply want to punish their critics—they want to reshape America into a machine of loyalty and fear. Their vision requires enemies because enemies justify repression."

~ Mark Mansour

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/16

https://mmansour.substack.com/p/the-death-of-free-speech

"And while they cloak their project in American flags and talk of law and order, the blueprint is the same one authoritarian regimes across the twentieth century wrote in blood: silence the critics, glorify the leader, criminalize dissent."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/17

"One of the necessary conditions for an authoritarian takeover is control of the media. It’s a critical step to quash dissent—turning a free press designed to hold power accountable into a propaganda organ that amplifies the state’s message."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
/18

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/does-maga-control-the-media-now