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Here come the #stormtroopers
#Pentagon approves use of #Navy base for #Chicago #ICE operations
*#Defense* officials have said the installation also could be used by #military forces who are called on to *assist* ICE.
#law #PosseComitatusAct #Trump #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #fascism #autocracy #authoritarianism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/04/chicago-navy-base-great-lakes-pritzker-trump-ice/
had not read the whole Caroline Kennedy letter rebuking her cousin as a sadist who got off on putting LIVE baby chickens on a blender to feed his pet birds of prey, which he kept in his drug den.
knew of Robert Kennedy Jr being a drug dealer but had never heard of the depths of his depravity.
#animalCruelty is a HUGE red-flag for domestic #abuse, #rape, mass #murder
indifference to suffering is a rejection of the #GoldenRule and all social contracts. it’s corruption that ends in #fascism.
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
https://www.hcn.org/articles/firefighters-question-leaders-role-in-ice-raid-near-bear-gulch-fire/
"...Since the incident became public, the wildfire world has been abuzz with anger at that team — California Interagency Incident Management Team 7. Made up of federal, state and local fire professionals, the team was assigned to oversee the response to the Bear Gulch Fire, which has burned 9,000 acres in and around Olympic National Park in Washington state. .."
"Trump says 'troops to Illinois' just hours after a federal court said that’s literally illegal. This is straight-up authoritarianism."
~ The Other 98%
#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #elections #voting #fascism #military
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"Trump's intention to send military troops is about escalating conflict, creating a spectacle and distracting from his other problems—not about fighting crime."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #fascism #military #Epstein #economy
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a-hostile-plan-to-invade
''No major country has suffered a greater reversal of speech rights than the United States over the past year. The federal government is using economic coercion and weaponizing the legal system to restrict viewpoints in private and public universities, law firms, museums, media and corporations."
~ Katherine Stewart
"One of the most insidious things about the current iteration of authoritarianism is that it has coopted and perverted the language of liberal democracy. When it speaks about individual rights, it is really just pushing for ever greater power over individuals. When it speaks about 'speech rights,' it aims to suppress those with whom it disagrees, even by force of law."
Heather Cox Richardson talks about what the Trump administration tried to pull off early Sunday morning "in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend":
"In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, the Trump administration attempted to take children out of government custody and ship them alone to their country of origin, Guatemala."
#Trump #immigrants #children #cruelty #fascism
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-2-2025
Joyce Vance notes that Trump's increasing threats to place Democratic-voting cities under military control is also about trying to intimidate voters in 2026:
"It’s important to see the potential tie-ins between activating the military based on claims that states can’t handle their own law enforcement and the upcoming elections."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #WashingtonDC #Chicago #elections #voting #fascism #military
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/can-federal-troops-be-stationed-at
SHEEP 1: We should mount a resistance.
SHEEP 2: now is not the time.
#politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #tyranny #Nazis #fascism #RESIST #TACOpresident #Sheeple
At this point, I have to assume the only reason we have guns in this country is for mass shootings because it definitely isn’t for fighting tyranny.
— We The People
#guns #MassShootings #tyranny #politics #treason #Traitor #FascistAmeriKKKa #nazis #fascism #SchoolShootings
One of the most enduring images of this #military parade took place before the first cannon was fired.
President #XiJinping welcoming #NorthKorea’s #KimJongUn with a long handshake, then moving onto greet #Russia’s Vladimir #Putin before all 3 walked together to watch the parade…it is this meeting, not just the weapons & troops on show that appears to have grabbed the attention of #Trump.
This was the first time all 3 leaders have been seen in public together….
#China unveils new weapons in massive parade attended by Vladimir #Putin & #KimJongUn.
President #XiJinping said his country was "unstoppable" & will "never be intimidated" by bullies, in a speech before the event.
Laser weapons, nuclear ballistic missiles & giant underwater drones were among the new #weapons China unveiled at a massive #military parade.
#geopolitics #autocracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #totalitarianism #fascism #tyranny #Russia #NorthKorea
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yl1e5gvznt
It doesn’t mean that all these countries & leaders are 100% on the same wavelength. They’re not. Differences remain.
But the direction of travel is clear. As a headline in Russian news outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda declared this week, in reference to #Russia, #China & #India: “We will build a new world.”
#geopolitics #autocracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #totalitarianism #fascism #tyranny #NorthKorea
ABC7: Tiktoker arrested by federal agents while live streaming to thousands in downtown LA
"..."The reason she didn't come out is, these are, these are masked men, and they said they had a warrant. She just wanted them to display it, 'Show me the warrant,' and they never displayed anything," her attorney, Carlos Jurado, said...."We believe, at this point, based on things that have been said to her, is that, because she was out filming ICE activities, she was targeted," Jurado said. "
It's just so refreshing to hear the truth about Labour today said, and the truth about our coward Prime Minister, the liar.
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #ZackPolanksi #Polanski #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #RefugeesWelcome #AsylumSeekers #Fascism
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social finally, people are calling out the Fascism for what it is.
#Fascism #Polanski
"As just one example of this systematic effort to force Farage on the country, Jeremy Corbyn has been on BBC Question Time three times in 42 years as an MP. Left-wing MP Zarah Sultana has never been on it. Farage, who was elected an MP only last year, has appeared 38 times."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-media-are-helping-reform-carry-out-flag-coup
" Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect. Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right up and down the country. When you demonise migrants, the far-right listen. When you post video footage of detaining and deporting migrants, the far-right watch. When you speak of an ‘island of strangers’, the far-right mobilise"
Jeremy Corbyn
On why and when Hitler was admired within the Zionist right
The Zionist Revisionist movement, known for its advocacy of forceful action to achieve its goals (i.e., colonizing Palestine at any cost preferably with Britain as an ally), has, at times, been susceptible to the perceived 'strength and decisiveness' of the Nazi regime. The Nazis’ willingness to use force to achieve their objectives resonated with some. But to what extent?
Historian Amir Goldstein explores the significant (though ultimately contained,) attraction of a "maximalist faction" within the Revisionist movement to fascism and, to a degree, Nazism, which was largely spearheaded by the influential figure of Abba Ahimeir.
Emerging in the late 1920s, this faction grew out of a core group of individuals who had previously been involved in the labor movement and became disillusioned with its perceived shortcomings. Unlike the more "moderate" Revisionists, they rejected the idea of the movement as merely an opposition party to mainstream political leadership within the Zionist movement, and strongly supported Vladimir Jabotinsky’s drive to separate from the Zionist organization. However, they sharply diverged from Jabotinsky’s vision in crucial ways
Central to this faction was Abba Ahimeir, who expressed deep dissatisfaction with democracy, viewing it as a "parliamentary patter," "spoiled liberalism," and "coddling" – terms he used to dismiss what he saw as the ineffectiveness of democratic principles. He actively sought a more forceful and centralized model of leadership, drawn to the perceived power and effectiveness of fascism. The rise of fascism in Europe had a profound appeal to Ahimeir and his circle. They admired how fascist movements could generate momentum, mobilize mass support, seize political institutions, and establish authoritarian regimes that effectively dismantled opposing political forces.
Ahimeir became a key advocate for this shift within the Revisionist movement. He openly embraced a "national dictatorship" as a path to achieving a Jewish state and frequently invoked the leadership styles of figures like Mussolini as examples to emulate. He even referred to Jabotinsky as "the Duce" and actively sought to build paramilitary forces within the movement, modeled on fascist organizations. This involved encouraging a culture of forceful action and openly rejecting the emphasis on democratic values championed by Jabotinsky.
While the maximalist faction, with Ahimeir at its core, briefly gained influence, Jabotinsky’s strong opposition ultimately prevented the movement from fully embracing fascist ideals. The assassination of Chaim Arlozorov further complicated the situation, with rumors and accusations linking Revisionist extremists to the act, damaging the movement's reputation.
[...] At this stage, the Nazi anti-semitism was not perceived by the radical right circles as sufficient reason to condemn Nazism as a phenomenon in its entirety. In the movement’s newspaper, Hazit HaAm, (חזית העם) the writings of maximalist lawyer Zvi Eliyahu Cohen appeared, among others: ‘Had Hitler not been anti-Semitic, we would not have opposed his ideology. Hitler saved Germany.’ In another article, just weeks after Hitler’s rise to power, it was written there: ‘The socialists and democrats of all stripes believe that the Hitler movement is merely a shell. And we believe there is both a shell and a core. The anti-Semitic shell must be discarded, but not the anti-Marxist core within.’"
Although the flirtation with fascism remained a contained phenomenon, the story of Abba Ahimeir and his circle reveals an undercurrent within early Zionist thought, more relevant than ever today.
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/the-edge/2025-05-08/ty-article/.highlight/00000196-af2c-d9bf-a1b6-efacf11a0000 or https://archive.is/jrnQy
Amir Goldstein is a historian from Tel Hai College (an institution under development). The article is based, among other things, on the research of pioneers in the study of Zionist revisionism: Joseph Heller, Yitzhak Weitz, Aryeh Naor, Eran Kaplan, Jacob Shavit, and Colin Schindler.
@histodons
@palestine
@israel
#Zionism #Fascism #Nazism #antiesmitism #marxism