A quotation from Oliver Markus Malloy

Fascist dictators don’t announce that they’re fascist dictators.
They announce that it’s illegal to be anti-fascist.

Oliver Markus Malloy (contemp.) German-American writer, cartoonist, musician
Post (2026-07-01), @malloyrocks, Substack.com

More about this quote: wist.info/malloy-oliver-markus…

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon/117321831710020132

USA has never had a ruling king or queen on its soil but it has had slavery and plantations.

❝ A society where the rulers live in
privacy while the population lives under
surveillance is the very definition of tyranny. ❞

that definition of #tyranny is the #slaveocracy of the South, better known as the #confederacy.

the #gringolarchy want a new confederacy of #prisons and plantations; where they get to rule in #secrecy and from the #privacy of their homes.

but Versailles was a home too.

The Whore of Blahbylon » 🌐 2026-09-23
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social

#USPolitics #Government #Privacy #Surveillance

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Free Talk Live posted: You have every right to know what your government is doing, and they have no right to know what you are doing. That is why they are called public servants and we are called private citizens. Instead, the relationship has been inverted. The state hides behind secrecy, classified files, and redactions while demanding total visibility into your finances, communications, movement, and behavior. A society where the rulers live in privacy while the population lives under surveillance is the very definition of tyranny.

A quotation from William Pitt

It is true, the bill is said to be founded on necessity; but what is this? Is it not necessity, which has always been the plea of every illegal exertion of power, or exercise of oppression? Is not necessity the pretence of every usurpation? Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt (1759–1806) British Prime Minister (1804–06) [William Pitt the Younger]
Speech (1793-11-18), House of Commons, London

More about this quote: wist.info/pitt-william/3164/

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William Pitt quote

A quotation from Twain

Why, it was like reading about France and the French, before the ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell. There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror — that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 13 “Freemen”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85886/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #connecticutyankee #frenchrevolution #bloodshed #oppression #perspective #proportionality #revolution #terror #tyranny #uprising

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The [American] Founding Fathers never believed that tyranny could arise out of the executive office, because they did not see this office in any different light but as the execution of what the legislation has decreed in various forms. I leave it at that. We know today that the greatest danger of tyranny is, of course, the executive.

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/76120/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #America #Constitution #executive #founders #legislature #president #tyranny #separationofpowers #checksandbalances

A quotation from Hugo Black

In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

Hugo Black (1886–1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937–71)
New York Times Co. v. United States 403 U.S. 713, 717 (1971) (concurring)

More about this quote: wist.info/black-hugo/36400/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hugoblack #scotus #censorship #firstamendment #fourthestate #freepress #freedomofthepress #government #journalism #media #meme #priorrestraint #SCOTUS #tyranny #watchdog

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The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. - Hugo Black

A quotation from Graham Ericsson

Most tyrants are, by nature, short-sighted. Though they aspire to an eternal panoply of statues and symphonies in their honor, they rarely focus on constructive present actions that will lead to a future where their name is even known, let alone praised. As time goes on, they either fall into the delusion of omnipotence, or else become obsessed with holding onto embattled power until the bitter end. Neither mental state leads to laying a healthy foundation for posterity.

Graham Ericsson (b. 1961) American technologist, writer, aphorist
Journal (2026-04-22)

More about this quote: wist.info/ericsson-graham/8573…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #grahamericsson #constructiveness #delusion #desperation #glory #history #posterity #power #renown #shortsightedness #stability #statues #tyranny #tyrant

A quotation from John Lescroart

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

John Lescroart (b. 1948) American novelist
A Plague of Secrets, Part 1 (2009)

More about this quote: wist.info/lescroart-john/85629…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #JohnLescroart #lescroart #fascism #injustice #law #lawenforcement #lawfare #totalitarianism #tyranny

A quotation from Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don’t really worry about the young, whose excesses are confined to lecture halls and quadrangles, so much as I fear the old, whose tyrannies are legislative.

Ta-Nehisi Coates (b. 1975) American writer, journalist, educator
The Message, ch. 3 “Bearing the Burning Cross” (2024)

More about this quote: wist.info/coates-ta-nehisi/855…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #TaNehisiCoates #debate #elders #extremism #legislation #power #tyranny #youth #radicals

Literally planning for #PoliceBrutality

#ICE is pitching a plan to help shield local #police officers who make #immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty #misconduct.

#Trump #law #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #Constitution #DueProcess #CivilRights #HumanRights #RightToProtest #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/ice-liability-insurance-misconduct-civil-lawsuit-af330d49dcb9e40295c1fea4fc9ae6f6?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

Don't read Cioran to fall asleep. Most who know me know that I don't support Democracy (or Republics for the pedants out there) as a political system.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/put-a-face-on-it

This distrust of Democracy predates Trump by decades, in case you might be wondering.

#philosophy #politics #language #democracy #tyranny #enlightenment #Plato #Cioran #republics #fantasy #blog #substack #podcast

A quotation from Mark Twain

I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85458/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marktwain #twain #connecticutyankee #church #churchandstate #corruption #freedomofthought #humannature #liberty #oppression #organizedreligion #religion #religiousintolerance #tyranny

#Trump’s attack on a #ThinkTank is an affront to the #FirstAmendment

#Republicans would be rightly irate if a Democratic president threatened to sue a conservative think tank & punish its corporate #donors over #research the White House didn’t like, but Trump’s attack this week on the Center for American Progress [ #CAP ] & its funders has been met with shrugs & silence.

#law #Constitution #ThoughtPolice #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/08/14/trump-legal-threat-against-cap-risks-chilling-think-tank-research/?utm_medium=referral_home&utm_source=webview&no_nav=true&utm_campaign=pb_2607:variant;rct:0:0:2:20260701

A quotation from Twain

Unlimited power is the ideal thing when it is in safe hands. The despotism of heaven is the one absolutely perfect government, and earthly despotism would be the absolute perfect earthly government if the conditions were the same; namely the despot the perfectest individual of the human race, and his lease of life perpetual; but as a perishable, perfect man must die and leave his despotism in the hands of an imperfect successor, an earthly despotism is not merely a bad form of government, it is the worst form that is possible.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Part 3 “The Tale of the Lost Land,” ch. 10 “Beginnings of Civilization”

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/85346/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #twain #marktwain #connecticutyankee #absolutepower #despotism #dictatorship #humannature #mortality #perfection #succession #tyranny

A quotation from Frederick Douglass

Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and body-guards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina.

Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) American abolitionist, orator, writer
Speech (1852-07-05), “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Corinthian Hall, Rochester, New York

More about this quote: wist.info/douglass-frederick/8…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frederickdouglass #America #enslavement #hypocrisy #pretension #slavery #systemicracism #tyranny

#Trump claimed he would 'bring free speech back” [but seriously, let’s be real, it was always his version of #FreeSpeech] - yet Judges have ruled in 75 cases that he has stifled the #FirstAmendment .

#law #gaslighting #propaganda #Trumpaganda #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-vowed-bring-free-speech-back-judges-75-cases-ruled-that-he-has-stifled-it-2026-08-04/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

A quotation from Diderot

And his hands would plait the priest’s entrails,
For want of a rope, to strangle kings.
 
[Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre,
Au défaut d’un cordon pour étrangler les rois.]

Denis Diderot (1713-1784) French editor, philosopher
Poem (1772), “Les Éleuthéromanes”

Much more about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/diderot-denis/6524/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #diderot #denisdiderot #authority #Christianity #church #clergy #freedom #king #liberty #monarchy #priest #priesthood #rebellion #revolution #royalty #strangulation #tyranny

What a petulant man-baby!

Furious #Trump is considering removing Pirro over #ReflectingPool filing

How dare she go on facts & evidence instead of blindly arguing his unfounded batshit crazy #ConspiracyTheories?!

#law #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/jeanine-pirro-removal-reflecting-pool

#Asylum seekers could be sent directly to #deportation under new federal rule

The #Trump admin rule, which took effect immediately, could transfer nearly 450,000 cases to #immigration “judges” [immigration judges are part of the #DOJ not the #judiciary], who could dismiss the asylum petitions.

#law #DueProcess #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/28/asylum-seekers-could-be-sent-directly-deportation-under-new-federal-rule/

A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt

Will we ever learn to use reason instead of force in the world, and will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1939-10-16), “My Day”

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/60…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #conflict #following #force #freedom #future #hope #leaders #leadership #liberty #oppression #progress #reason #tyranny #war #WorldWar2 #ww2 #wwii

A quotation from Montesquieu

The gods […] have attached to liberty almost as many misfortunes as to servitude.
 
[Les dieux […] ont attaché à la liberté presque autant de malheurs qu’à la servitude.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Essay (1724-02), “Dialogue of Sulla and Eucrates [Dialogue de Sylla et d’Eucrate] [Sulla], Mercure de France [tr. Carrithers / Stewart (2020)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/85165/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #freedom #liberty #servitude #tyranny

Substance in #Houston #ICE #shooting van was NOT drugs, district attorney’s office says testing confirms

#Trump #law #immigration #Sturmabteilung #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #AbuseOfPower #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/24/us/houston-ice-shooting-substance-testing?cid=ios_app

A quotation from Abigail Adams

I long to hear that you have declared an independancy — and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.

Abigail Adams (1744-1818) American correspondent, First Lady (1797-1801)
Letter (1776-03-31) to John Adams

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-abigail/29421/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abigailadams #absolutepower #battleofthesexes #discrimination #equalprotectionunderthelaw #equalrights #equality #gender #power #rights #sex #sexism #tyranny #womensrights #husband #wife #feminism

In case there was any doubt, #Trump is fully condoning the #ExtraJudicialKillings by #ICE.

Federal Agents Were Told #FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE “Confrontations”

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

#law #murder #Constitution #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #HumanRights #AbuseOfPower #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #ICE #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/politics/fbi-ice-agents-investigations-shootings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A quotation from Lincoln

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Letter (1854-08-24) to Joshua Speed

More about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2555…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #America #createdequal #DeclarationofIndependence #despotism #equality #liberty #prejudice #racism #tyranny #xenophobia

A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence

A quotation from E. B. White

When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

The world rulers are playing a game of drones. Either you will serve the masters of the hive or you will be fed to their digital dragons.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #Money #Cash #Currency #Penny #SocialCredit #Tyranny

Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City

https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg

#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution