Fascism watch thread/news and discussions

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/ ... 31.article

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Manosphere idiots in a nutshell

https://bsky.app/profile/internethippo. ... akfq7zyc2m

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Trump’s Anti-DEI Order Stops Maryland National Guard from Celebrating Frederick Douglass

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... -douglass/

Fuckers

Nazi flags can fly in Utah schools, but not pride flags, GOP lawmaker says

https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/20 ... chool-not/

Florida Jew opens fire, injures 2 Israeli tourists mistaken for Palestinians

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hydrbolqkl

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Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?

https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fa ... merica-its

White House posts video of immigrants in shackles, calls deportation footage ‘ASMR’

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/white-h ... video.html

Congresswoman Tenney Moves to Make President Trump’s Birthday a Federal Holiday

https://tenney.house.gov/media/press-re ... al-holiday

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Acting U.S. attorney for D.C. opens inquiries into Democrats, alleging possible threats to DOGE, Supreme Court justices

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/acting-u-s ... -justices/

Ridiculous. Garcia was obviously speaking figuratively and Schumer is not the violent type.


Also Hillbilly Elegy is under review at military schools. LOL

https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/dod- ... k-removal/

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French far-right leader cancels speech, accusing Bannon of 'Nazi' gesture

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2glydm3gmo

Mississippi judge ignores constitution to order takedown of editorial

https://freedom.press/issues/mississipp ... editorial/

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Kash Patel to be named acting ATF chief, sources say

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kash-patel ... f-sources/

Rolling Stone- Critics Worry Kash Patel Will Purge the FBI. Would He Even Need To?

https://archive.ph/IJQoR

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J6 Prison Choir to Perform at Kennedy Center

https://consequence.net/2025/02/j6-choi ... dy-center/

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Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/ope ... 201819.php

Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “I'm tempted to call the cops” on Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)

https://www.mediamatters.org/greg-kelly ... otkin-d-mi

“DEI judge”: Right-wing media personalities attack Amy Coney Barrett for order requiring the Trump administration unfreeze foreign aid

https://www.mediamatters.org/supreme-co ... -requiring

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Ben Shapiro Calls for Trump to Pardon Convicted George Floyd Killer Derek Chauvin: ‘It’s Absolutely Necessary’

https://www.mediaite.com/news/ben-shapi ... necessary/

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DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-governm ... nce-policy

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Technically Maoism, but you get the point

NYT- Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America

https://archive.ph/4Xcut

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ICE agents with no warrant violently arrest migrants

https://rangemedia.co/federal-ice-break ... t-warrant/

The return of Erik Prince: How a notorious military contractor maneuvered his way back inside Trump’s orbit

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics ... rump-orbit

Holy shit American Prigozhin

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Trump reposts Nazi-era gay symbol

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/rep ... ay-symbol/

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THREAD

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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

March 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM EDT

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-03-14 ... t-detained



Credit: Courtesy/Astrid Senior

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Alarm Over Trump DOJ Speech
by Jessica Corbett
March 15, 2025

Introduction:

(Common Dreams) U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign-like speech at the Department of Justice on Friday sparked a fresh wave of alarm over the Republican's attacks on his critics, disrespect for the rule of law, and plans for his second term.

Trump—who was convicted of 34 felonies in New York before returning to the White House—slammed his perceived opponents as "scum" and "thugs," called efforts to hold him accountable for alleged criminal activity "bullshit," and declared: "We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government. We will expose... their egregious crimes and severe misconduct."

Trump's appearance with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and props promoting drug enforcement displayed his intent to remake the federal judiciary and fueled speculation that he will appoint Florida-based District Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed the classified documents case against him, to the nation's Supreme Court.

"Some of the most hallowed halls of justice in America were disgraced by the president of the United States, who has inappropriately installed his personal lawyers and other loyalists into leadership roles at the Department of Justice," said Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program and an adviser at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

"This reinforces what we knew: The independence of the department has been compromised. During his remarks, the president sought to undermine faith in our judicial system, attacked lawyers who support due process and the rule of law, and made it clear that he expects the attorney general and other leaders to use the full force and resources of the Justice Department to roll back our civil and human rights, target his enemies, and operationalize a worldview that perpetuates white supremacy," she said. "The anti-immigrant rhetoric that both he and the attorney general used was reprehensible and unacceptable."

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/trum ... -justice

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Crossing the Line
by Jay Kuo
March 17, 2025

Introduction:

(The Status Kuo) Our federal courts form the last guardrail against autocratic rule in the U.S. And the Trump administration hates that about them. Because the courts keep issuing orders stopping the administration from doing whatever it wants, legal experts have warned that a clash is inevitable. The fear is the White House would one day simply defy a direct court order and plunge us into a full blown constitutional crisis.

Many don’t know this quite yet, but that day came yesterday.

Despite a direct court order demanding that planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador be turned around mid-flight, and that no further flights bearing such migrants take place, the White House thumbed its nose at the judge. Two planes en route to El Salvador via Honduras failed to turn around, and a third plane bearing detained migrants took off, long after the court order had issued.

There are press accounts that the administration was well aware of the order and that it weighed turning the flights around but ultimately decided not to. In typical form, the White House later claimed that it was not in violation of the order at all, but the plain record says otherwise, and we are going to get a full court hearing soon about what happened.

There are many aspects to this story, from the outrageous use of a wartime law from 1798 to shred constitutional due process, to the “disappearing” of migrants who were not criminal gang members as the White House broadly asserts. Most ominously, the administration’s bad faith refusal to abide by both the letter and spirit of a direct federal court order has now pushed us into a direct constitutional clash between the Trump White House and the federal judiciary.

Read more of the article here: https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/cross ... ect=true

caltrek's comment: This reminds me of the proverbial camel's nose in the tent. They are going to start out picking on the most vulnerable populations then work their way from there to the rest of us.