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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 59m

I keep seeing this idea that only one thing has ever beaten fascism. Only, it didn’t, obviously, since it’s still here. Leaving aside fact that all great powers are fascist now or headed that way—this isn’t 1936–there is one thing that’s never been tried: Building an actual, equitable democracy.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2h

🚨The new escalation of “normal” violence includes breaking into homes, ransacking/destroying property and THEN disappearing families. 🚨🚨We. Are. Occupied. 🚨🚨
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 5d

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 10h

Having been to the last one really not worried about people who show up legitimately. Umbrella men types on the other hand …

GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 21h

Remember these would this Saturday for No Kings...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“Kids”

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 11h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 12h

So are you arguing with me, Stancil, or Talia? Either way, you go get em!

Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 12h

That’s why I have 3 shirts, a hat, and tons of bumper stickers that all say “fuck ICE” and the like (chinga la migra is a fave). All I ever get is positive feedback or an occasional flustered dipshit resolving to a sneer. I aspire to exude ICE-melting cheer everywhere I go!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 17h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 12h

🤣 Thanks for getting to the point 🤣

Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 12h

I’m no Stancil groupie but he seemed to just be talking bigger turnout. Also inapt to label the “civil rights movement” as some undefined period when it’s actually never ended. He’s no intellectual but he also was confronting a common fallacy that the Anarchist Rulebook is law of the rebel land

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 13h

Oh yes. I will.

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 13h

You wallow in the fallacy that something must have “verifiably” happened in the past for it to happen the future. You embrace this dumbfuckery because you are so doctrinaire as to have forfeited all capacity for tactical thought. 🫡

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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 13h

Nailed it.

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 13h

Nice extrapolation of isolated incidents + your orthodoxy to an unfolding modern iteration of fascism 🫡

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 14h

The ‘real’ antifascists hate any tactic that is not within their rigid orthodoxy. I suggested people dial 911 at armed masked kidnappings & was admonished that no cops are ever to be called. 🫡 Strict doctrine

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The One and Only Kay @theonekay.bsky.social · 14h

No, you own this.

www.alternet.org/send/trump-f...

'Conservative Republican' in deep-red Idaho pleads with Trump as 3rd-gen farm flails

A conservative Republican farmer from Idaho is making an unlikely appeal to President Donald Trump: “Do the right thing.” His call comes as his family farm struggles to survive amid labor shortages he...

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 14h

Anti-socialist farmer begs for socialism

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 15h

Great piece.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 14h

Nazis be naziing

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14h

“Physician payments” might make this sound less serious than it is.

150M Americans are covered by Medicare & Medicaid (CMS), close to half of all healthcare coverage. 98% of hospitals accept CMS, and the majority rely on it because it’s the biggest insurer by far. (And healthcare is 20% of US GDP.)

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 16h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 15h

With all that self-executing fiscal ‘authority,’ no wonder they don’t give a shit about ending the Epstein Shutdown. The gestapo is funded.