"That could never happen here, right? Not with our long tradition of a vibrant, free media?

Well, the MAGA Right is on the verge of controlling the vast majority of the American media ecosystem.

A dynamic highlighted by the fact that Disney announced it was bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration and pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
/19

"Time and again, the corporate media would rather surrender than fight for their First Amendment rights.

But ownership is also driving the shift. …

There are exceptions, but much of the corporate press is now too loyal to, or too afraid of, Trump to act as a true check on power."

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
/20

"The timing isn't coincidental. This is happening while people are still being fired for not mourning Charlie Kirk appropriately. Karen Attiah lost her Washington Post column. Airline pilots got grounded. Hospital workers were terminated. Now a comedian with one of the longest-running shows on television gets yanked off the air for making a joke about Trump…."

~ Parker Molloy

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism #media
/21

https://www.readtpa.com/p/read-the-jimmy-kimmel-monologue-that

As the US government sabotages its own climate web site (along with many other science-based or truth-based sites), a new site is the phoenix borne of its ashes. May it thrive. Please consider donating or otherwise supporting their efforts (e.g., by sharing notice of the site).

https://www.climate.us

#climate #ClimateDenial #resist #science #truth #media #journalism #ClimateData #ClimateReporting #propaganda #hope #politics #USPolitics #fascism #PostTruth

Here's another URL that might be worth sharing:

https://www.dw.com/en/fired-climate-scientists-crucial-extreme-weather-data-cut-us-president-donald-trump/a-73977766

Trump is just murdering people, without an arrest or trial, against all known laws....
#trump #fascism #geopolitics #usa @geopolitics

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Trump just killing people in international waters

"To pretend that Kirk was this other, more civil person is to do two things. First, it is to lie, and to pretend that homophobia and racism and antisemitism and sexism are tolerance. They are not. But second, it is to put conditions on our denouncements of violence. I don’t need Kirk to have been good to think that it was bad he was shot."

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence #homophobia #racism #sexism #fascism
/2

#evangelicals #usa #america #ChristoFascism #fascism #religion #dogma #rightwing #farright #ausgov #politas

#shitler #germany #europe #fortresseurope #ausgov #politas #fascism #capitalism #classwar

Les roseaux sauvages (André Téchiné, 1994)

#movie #quote #classwar #fascism #oppression #repression #imperialism #statism #racism #colonialism #eattherich

#fyi #psa #nazis #neonazis #ausgov #politas #symbols #signs #rightwing #farright #bigots #hypocrites #fascism #capitalism #racism #statism #colonialism #imperialism

BUT BUT TECH AND UI/UX ARE APOLITICAL!!!

just came across a post with racist asshats complaining that Mastodon will finally turn into Blacktwitter with quoted posts and i want to burn all the things down.

fuck those people and fuck everybody catering to their racist, white supremacist asses by refusing to add features to the software lest the UI/UX becomes too Black and Proud to handle.

#tech #racism #fascism #Mastodon #UIUX

don’t call it an assassination. call it another school shooting.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/charlie-kirk-dead-conservative-leader-turning-point-usa-1236367580/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#USpol #gunViolence #fascism

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#CharlieKirk #USPOL #Fascism #Fascist

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Jalls Stacey Patton © eee ® 7h-Q I am on Charlie Kirk's hit list. His so-called “Professor Watchlist,” run under the umbrella of Turning Point USA, is nothing more than a digital hit list for academics who dare to speak truth to power. | landed there in 2024 after writing commentary that inflamed the MAGA faithful. And once my name went up, the harassment machine roared to life. For weeks my inbox and voicemail were deluged. Mostly white men spat venom through the phone: “bitch,” “c*nt,” “n****r” They threatened all manner of violence. They overwhelmed the university's PR lines and the president's office with calls demanding that | be fired. The flood was so relentless that the head of campus security reached out to offer me an escort, because they feared one of these keyboard soldiers might step out of his basement and come do me harm. And | am not unique. Kirk's Watchlist has terrorized legions of professors across this country. Women, Black faculty, queer scholars, basically anyone who challenged white supremacy, gun culture, or Christian nationalism suddenly found themselves targets of coordinated abuse.

In June, two Democratic legislators were shot along with their spouses. Even their dog was shot.

One had to dive on top of their child to protect them.

Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed.

Trump didn’t attend the funeral.

There was no widespread condemnation of political violence.

Shortly after a gunman targeted the CDC and killed a police officer.

There was a school shooting in Denver today that sent 3 kids to the hospital.

The culture must change and gun control is long overdue.

No more “thoughts and prayers”. It’s time for action and change.

#uspol #guns #charliekirk #fascism #guncontrol

"Fascists do civil violence better than civic democrats. It’s a foundational element of their political philosophy. It’s the verdict of logic and history."

~ Josh Marshall

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/12

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-death-of-charlie-kirk

"Things have changed and it’s not hard to pinpoint the moment when the normalization of political violence re-emerged among our political elites. To pretend otherwise would be to hide our heads in the sand—to deny the plain political reality of the moment."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/13

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk

"And that means doing the distressingly difficult work of persuading Americans to reject demagogues who relentlessly hunt for scapegoats."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/16

"• The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

• The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter."

~ Mehdi Hasan

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/17

https://zeteo.com/p/charlie-kirk-killing-political-violence

"• The man convicted of orchestrating a series of hootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

• The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

• The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/18

"• The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.

• The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.

• The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/19

"• The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.

There is no equivalent or even similar list of Obama or Biden supporters who have carried out murders, attempted murders, or violent attacks against Republicans or conservatives in recent years."

#CharlieKirk #Trump #guns #violence #fascism
/20

"Trump orders flags lowered for Charlie Kirk but after Trump supporter killed Dems in Minn, he refused to even call Governor"

https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/trump-orders-flags-lowered-for-charlie?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#Trump #HateSpeech #Fascism #BulletsOrBallots

Mathew Dowd fired by MSNBC for what seems to me a thoughtful answer to the sort of questions MSNBC hired him for.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/matthew-dowd-fired-msnbc-charlie-020835082.html
#MSNBC #FreeSpeech #CharlieKirk #Fascism

Looks like they're about to make the Hyundai raid go from "very bad press for the US" to "very, very, very bad press for the US", if someone is thwarting the release of these folks to the South Korean government.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/115180513497568117

#ICE #Fascism #immigration

Is there any good way to alert community of ICE location? Two black SUVs with government plates parked in the neighborhood.
#ICE #Immigration #Fascism

Korean Air plane to depart for U.S. to bring home detained Koreans

"SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- A chartered Korean Air Co. plane will depart for the United States this week to bring home hundreds of South Korean workers detained in a sweeping immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor Group-LG Energy Solution Ltd. battery plant construction site in Georgia, industry sources said Tuesday. "

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20250909003352320?section=national/diplomacy

#korea #ice #georgia #fascism

Illegitimate Supreme Court Justice says an end to abortion is what most Americans want and other bullshit as SCOTUS hacks away at the US Constitution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/amy-coney-barrett-supreme-court-rulings
#Barrett #SCOTUS #RobertsCourt #Trump&Epstein #Fascism

"Tonight, we have the specter of an American president trying to take control of an American city for thinly veiled political reasons. Not for the first time, or even the second, but for the third. This time, Donald Trump lacks even the veneer of justification he asserted in Los Angeles, when he claimed anti-ICE protests were out of control."

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military #Chicago #Epstein #economy
/1

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-american-dictator

"He lacks the unique status he holds in D.C. as the head of the National Guard, which gives him greater latitude to act than anywhere else in the country."

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military #Chicago #Epstein #economy
/2

"Although it has become trite to speculate about what Republicans would say if a Democratic president engaged in the behavior Trump exhibits daily, this open attack of the president on an American city is a new level of unhinged. …

Trump’s threats against American citizens are outrageous, but they also feel desperate."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military #Chicago #Epstein #economy
/3

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-6-2025

"Trump’s popularity is tanking, the economy is faltering, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing a chorus of calls to resign or be fired, and the American people are taking to the streets."

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military #Chicago #Epstein #economy
/4

"The Epstein scandal does not seem to be going away — no matter how much Donald Trump does his best to put a lid on it. While most members of Congress have fallen in line with his demand to stop all talk of Jeffrey Epstein, the same cannot be said for some charter members of the MAGA base, from Marjorie Taylor Greene to James O’Keefe."

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military #Chicago #Epstein #economy
/6

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trump-unleashes-the-dogs-of-war

"The economy is tanking — no matter how much the White House attempts to spin away dismal jobs numbers, shift the blame to Jerome Powell or otherwise pretend that his ridiculous tariff policies are not making the cost of nearly everything more expensive.

This is why, I fear, the winds of war are blowing."

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military #Chicago #Epstein #economy
/7

#smithsonian #donaldtrump #usa #america #comic #cartoon #meme #fascism #racism #classwar

"In a series of developments this week, President Donald Trump has even further pushed the United States military into actions that appear to be illegal, in service of his fascist aims, or both.

Earlier this week, in one of the more alarming actions of this administration, Trump ordered the murder of 11 people that the Trump administration claims were drug traffickers on international waters."

~ Chris Geidner

#Trump #fascism #dictatorship #military
/1

https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-steps-toward-a-fascist-war-machine

Looks like firearms-prevent-tyranny activists are gonna get their last chance to get off the goddamn pot:

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/doj-plans-to-label-trans-americans-as-mentally-defective-to-take-away-their/

I mean, this is right on the nose - _right on the nose_ - to the core of their main issue. Either this counts as a red alert and they have a last opportunity to come out doing some actual effective fighting, or it doesn't because they like persecuting the icky queers, in which case they can SHUT THE FUCK UP forever about liberty and tyranny.

I don't think it's a big step to imagine which I think will happen.

Love to be wrong, though. Love to be wrong. (eta: they've taken the first half-step. see replies.)

#uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism

#usa #america #acab #AllCopsAreBastards #classwar #fascism #capitalism #imperialism #statism #colonialism #racism #oppression #repression