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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 7m

Remember, the hypocrisy is part of the strategy. Unless there are actual consequences for this, it's just one more example of the normalization of hate and bigotry.

Politico @politico.com · 4h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 1d

Hopefully. But I'm not holding my breath for most of them.

The bigger battlefield, one that scum like Sinclair have been fighting on for decades is the affiliate stations. Most of these news people are not big-name stars, and real pushback comes with harsher consequences and less protection.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure exactly what your point is, I think I'm just not understanding you. Are you saying that the First Amendment allows them to say whatever they want, making it hard for journalists to cover them well?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14d

That's the definition of fascism from Robert Paxton, one of the preeminent historians of the subject, from his book ANATOMY OF FASCISM which came out more than two decades ago.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15d

Oh yes, this is clearly now.

A post on X by Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan
) expresses frustration, asking how anyone can read a definition of fascism and not be alarmed, emphasizing that it is happening now. The post includes a quote from Cody Johnston (@drmistercody
) from one day ago, defining fascism as a form of political behavior marked by an obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity. The definition describes a mass-based party of nationalist militants working with traditional elites, abandoning democratic liberties, and pursuing redemptive violence for internal cleansing and external expansion without ethical or legal restraints.

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Some More News @somemorenews.bsky.social · 12d

New Episode.

youtu.be/nD3rSA4FSqk

... Can We Talk? - SOME MORE NEWS

YouTube video by Some More News

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 2d

NO. We have no way of knowing that.

He's threatening sexual violence. He's saying he would rape them. Rape is more about power gratification than sexual gratification.

These people lie like they breathe.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 2d

Eisenhower understood that the New Deal was the release valve that kept the plebs from eating the rich.

Westward expansion was the release valve before that.

Trump et al seem to think that their tools of oppression can override the societal pressures that topple empires.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate this response more than you may know...

Take care and be well :)

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 2d

All good, and also....sorry for being so harsh....

I'm just so worried and tired.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 2d

Good, then you should be able to understand why nuance matters.

They are not all stupid, and not all of them believe.

To describe them as such misrepresents the situation, to the detriment of anyone who takes those words seriously.

Maybe you're being hyperbolic but it's hard to tell with text.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

You're falling for a tried-and-true fascist tactic. Fascists use words like weapons and use confusion and distraction to their advantage.

They are happy to look stupid if it serves to distract their opponents.

Their only goal is power, don't forget that.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

Lol, two different replies to the same comment? Get a grip dude, see my other comment.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

Don't put words in my mouth.

I'd like to see every one of them, from Trump all the way back to Bush or farther behind bars. Including the democrats. War criminals one and all.

I'll ask one more time, try to pay attention. Who is the "they" that both sides answer to?

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

Oh god, they are spreading! Quick, quarantine procedures stat!

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 27d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

Both-siding this shit is just carrying water for fascists.

The Dems are pretty bad, but calling them equal to the fascists fucks destroying our country as we speak?

Who are they both "taking orders from" by the way? Please use sources.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3d

The Senate Intelligence Authorization Act contains a major change that would allow the CIA’s top lawyer to avoid the Senate confirmation process. In an era of creeping authoritarianism this could hasten the Intelligence Community’s use as a tool of political espionage. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF and Other Organizations: Keep Key Intelligence Positions Senate

In a joint letter to the ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, EFF has joined with 20 other organizations, including the ACLU, Brennan Center, CDT, Asian Americans

www.eff.org

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

I think Kimmel was a wake-up for some as sad as that is...

They have shown they will go after anyone they see as a threat and anyone who speaks counter to their message is just that.

Now that they can see a real threat to their own comfort and income maybe they will care...

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

There seem to have been a lot of people who thought that their wealth and influence would protect them, and that the US was somehow immune to this kind of thing.

I think some are finally realizing that they are in real danger and that bending the knee doesn't even protect you in the end.

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jamesrandisghost.bsky.social @jamesrandisghost.bsky.social · 3d

Why the fuck are you defending the fascists?

There ARE deporting citizens.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

www.rollingstone.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 4d

kidnapping

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 4d

You can’t hate fascists and use AI slop generators. They’re the same thing: total destruction of truth at scale.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine that

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