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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 12h

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 · 1h

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 · 12h

Remember these would this Saturday for No Kings...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

“Kids”

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 2h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

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 · 3h

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

Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 8h

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 · 3h

🤣 Thanks for getting to the point 🤣

Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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
U.S. Code
Notes
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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 · 4h

Oh yes. I will.

Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

Nailed it.

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

Anti-socialist farmer begs for socialism

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6h

Great piece.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 5h

Nazis be naziing

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

“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 · 6h

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 · 6h

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

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

In October 1962 Barry Goldwater insisted that the editor of the University of Colorado student newspaper be fired, even after that student apologized for printing a piece critical of the Arizona senator, and self-proclaimed staunch advocate of individual liberty.

Dismiss Colorado Daily Editor
B. Goldwater
Althen's firing came after a con- then wrote another letter to New-fused series of charges and coun-
ton, attacking the alleged freedom
In Controversy
ter-charges
between himself,
the
with what he called "socialists and
university, Sen. Barry, Goldwater
other
un-Americans"
could
get
and the Rocky Mountain News.
their views heard at Colorado.
BOULDER, Colo. (Special)-The
Earlier in the controversy, pres-
-Newton counter-attacked in the
editor of the Colorado Daily was
ident Newton attacked Goldwater
letter which said true freedom of
fired late Wednesday, setting off as "... a symbol of the repressive expression existed at Colorado. a major controversy on the Uni-
forces on the march in America'
"Senator, I shall not silence them
versity of Colorado campus.
today..." and said he "would not
..." he wrote.
Gary Althen, a senior, was dis-
silence" freedom of speech at the
missed as editor of the student
Colorado campus.
-On Oct. 3, the Daily printed
daily after he printed attacks on
another Mitcham article, attacking
Sen. Barry Goldwater and former
But Althen said he was called
ex-President Eisenhower as a "fut-
President Dwignt D. Eisenhower.
out of class Wednesday and asked
zer" and incompetent.
The firing — which was made to go to the
where Newton handed him a one-
by Colorado President Quigg Newton despite faculty and student
paragraph letter saying that he was fired.
protests-followed nearly a month of heated and sometimes bitter con-
Immediately
after the firing,
pickets started to march in front
troversy at the university and throughout Colorado.
of the president's house, and the Colorado Student Senate met in a
Editorial Irresponsibility
special session to write a resolution
In announcing the firing of Al-
censuring and
condemning the
then, Newton said the editor "dis-
president, according to a Roosevelt
played a pattern of editorial irre-
Torch reporter who spoke with Al-
sponsibility that required his re- then.
moval"
…

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Final Soln. 2 the Fascist Question @thefascistquestion.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks! Historical context is incredibly helpful in getting our bearings for the struggle we face now