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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic Party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic Party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-mamdani-moment

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

Normal Times in Dire Times

Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

frederickjoseph.substack.com

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Cafecito @speedyrick.bsky.social · 2d

How sick and debilitated is Trump. Short answer: Extremely bad and getting worse. Here are the receipts. Very much worth a watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzz_...

Trump's Cognitive Collapse is Clear: Psychologist | The Daily Beast Podcast

YouTube video by The Daily Beast

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Peacenotwar @peacenotwar2024.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. My concern as well is that freedom
of religion (expressed as tolerance) is not even aspirational. Conformity basically prepares the way for fascism. External violence, war, has always been identifier for fascism. The conformity of our politicians around war has been long concerning.

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 7d

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

www.newyorker.com

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

Of course, I realize you are referring to the state embracing a specific religion, but even that doesn’t not imply fascism necessarily. When the state aggressively asserts a religious doctrine and punishes those who don’t follow, that is a tripwire for a social explosion.

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

There never has been a separation. Religion plays a role in politics everywhere. Christian leaders were instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement and all anti-war movements, but when Christians (or Israelis or Hindutva Hindus, or anyone) turn to fascism, it’s time to resist with all of our energy.

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

The No Kings protest against Trump by 7 million people proves that we are not violent and can discipline ourselves, despite MAGA’s provocations. Now, we must begin to confront them directly and bring about the fall of the Trump regime.

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

Get ready to fight against the horrors of Christian fascism in 2026 and 2028

www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-...

Bannon Says Trump Will Run for an Illegal 3rd Term Because ‘He’s a Vehicle of Divine Providence’ | Common Dreams

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon says Trump is "gonna get" an unconstitutional 3rd term and that there's a "plan" to make it happen. "We have to finish what we started," Bannon said, adding that Trum...

www.commondreams.org

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

A boy:

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/my-s...

My son was love and light, snuffed out by Israel's machinery of death

Abdullah left a world that did not resemble him. He died before he could even grasp the cold reality: that Palestinian children can be killed for no reason

www.middleeasteye.net

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

Israeli forces in Gaza:

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Map of Gaza shows where Israeli forces are positioned under ceasefire deal

Satellite imagery shows Israel holds about 40 active military positions beyond the yellow line.

www.aljazeera.com

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

www.democracynow.org/2025/10/23/h...

Protesters Confront Masked Federal Agents Carrying Out Arrests in Illinois

In Illinois, protesters confronted masked federal agents Wednesday as they carried out multiple arrests in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood and the bordering suburb of Cicero. The agents were joi...

www.democracynow.org

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

Here in New York, protesters marched Wednesday in solidarity with street vendors who were harassed and detained Tuesday by federal agents during immigration sweeps targeting Manhattan’s Canal Street.

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says no Feds in San Fran, but Oakland, across the Bay, is another matter:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Bay Area Protesters Try to Block Base Entrance Before Immigration Operation

www.nytimes.com

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 3d

Protesting Trump is not enough. We need to change the U.S.:

48hills.org/2025/10/prot...

Protesting Donald Trump is not enough - 48 hills

We need to demand elected officials address economic inequality at every level—including here at home

48hills.org

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

A day of the week ending in day, feds are gassing Chicago again.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 3d

tear gas as residents scream "go home!" and blow whisltes at 10-15 militarized border patrol agents wearing gas masks.

greg bovino is there. people are calling him "bombino" and asking him about his fall.

alder byron sigcho-lopez is also at the front of the crowd, per a facebook live feed.

tear gas used by border patrol on a residential street in chicago's little village neighborhood

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 3d

Is this believable? Keep up the protests at Coast Guard Island, Alameda!

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 3d

None of this shit is inevitable. I suspect that the intense local pushback against these deployments in other cities—and the broad popularity of that pushback—helped cause this u-turn. So, fuck yeah, and let's turn it up.

Trump backs off planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after talking to the mayor

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.

Now, thanks to his shutdown, millions of Americans in at least 25 states will lose access to food stamps on November 1st.

The perfect storm of cruelty.

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RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 3d

Meta can go away and die please, along wall of the other Big Tech vampires, Google, Twitter, Tesla, etc.

RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 3d

Map of access routes to Coast Guard Island, Alameda, CA

moovitapp.com/index/en/pub...

How to Get to Coast Guard Island in Alameda by Bus or BART?

Moovit helps you to find the best routes to Coast Guard Island using public transit and gives you step by step directions with updated schedule times for bus or BART in Alameda.

moovitapp.com

RichWood @richwood.bsky.social · 3d

To hell with Google:

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/g...

Google donates $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund, joining other tech giants

Google becomes the latest tech company to donate to Trump's inauguration fund

www.cnbc.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3d

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, I forgot to mention the protestors are part of an interfaith coalition organizing to get ICE out of the Bay Area. Feds are attacking ministers and people of faith.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 3d

Sixteen-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim has described horrific conditions in Israeli prison: overcrowded cells, no heating or cooling, and barely enough food to survive. Democrats in Congress are demanding his release, but he remains detained without trial.

American Child Details Abuses in Israeli Prison as Democrats Demand His Release

Mohammad is imprisoned in an overcrowded cell with no heating or cooling and “extremely insufficient” meals, he said.

truthout.org

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