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Kinoc-Kayfar ΘΔ⌛I need to get back into making art, my general plan is once I fully transition to Linux I will get back into making art, since currently I feel like much of my stuff isn't safe having windows and all that, especially with the fascist takeover happening in the US currently<a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/furries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#furries</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/scalies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scalies</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musk</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#project2025</a>

R. Scott Pert<a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldNews</a> 04MAR ICYMIFrench Tesla Dealership Torched By Anarchist Group in Proclaimed 'Offensive Against Techno-Fascists'> An <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/anarchist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchist</a> group in southwestern <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#France</a> is claiming responsibility for setting a <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> dealership ablaze Sunday night> [..] taking credit for the attack, branding it part of a broader movement against what they call "techno <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a>" The statement linked the attack to international protests targeting Tesla > "Welcome Spring, burn a Tesla" <a href="https://www.latintimes.com/french-tesla-dealership-torched-anarchist-group-proclaimed-offensive-against-techno-fascists-577465" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.latintimes.com/french-tesla-dealership-torched-anarchist-group-proclaimed-offensive-against-techno-fascists-577465</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesAll of the above then brings us to last night, when Trump attempted to declare all of former US president Joe Biden's outgoing pardons "void" based on the purported use of an autopen, and treating longstanding winger conspiracy arguments about why certain presidential orders signed by Democrats (and seemingly *only* Democrats) aren't legal because using said autopen means the president didn't officially sign them into law; a nonsensical theory that has no legitimate basis in law, and owes more to schoolyard games of Simon Says than any sort of official rule or policy. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/trump-biden-pardons-void" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/trump-biden-pardons-void</a>Trump makes unsupported claim Biden pardons are ‘void’ as he used autopen"Trump made his claim in a post to his social media platform that used his abusive nicknames for Biden and members of the House January 6 committee, writing: “The ‘Pardons; that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen.“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!”I'll be honest in saying that I don't think this is a great article by The Guardian because it spends way too much time proving that Trump's autopen argument is "wrong," and that there is nothing abnormal about the president automatically producing his or her signature as part of their official duties. After all, being wrong about the law has done little to stop Trump's fascist agenda so far, and given that this is a conspiracy argument that has repeatedly been deployed by the ultra-right reactionary "fringe" of the larger Republican coalition against former US president (and Democrat) Barack Obama, a simple one paragraph debunking and a greater focus on why this conspiracy argument has resurfaced now that this same ultra-right reactionary "fringe" has become the dominant force in GOP politics, would likely have been more productive. Furthermore, the Guardian repeatedly frames this as a "claim" by Trump, when Downmarket Mussolini's Truth Social post at least, clearly indicates that the president is trying to void Biden's pardons by fiat, over social media, in a very direct sense. Legally speaking Trump doesn't have the power to do that just because he's president, and social media posts aren't legal edicts, but that just brings us back to the fact that Trump being wrong about the law and trying to rewrite it via public proclamations against his enemies, hasn't really stopped him from turning his animosities into official policies so far during his second term in office. Given Trump's own words as reprinted here however, it is abundantly clear that he's pursuing the autopen argument to allow himself to target members of the January 6th Committee that investigated his 2021 coup attempt, which in turn ties into both Downmarket Mussolini's quest to punish officials that brought accusations or charges against him, and his efforts to seize control of the Justice Department and use it as an instrument of authoritarian vengeance for those (completely legal) activities. Here too we find the previous pattern by which the regime turns unreality into official action occurring once again; the Heritage Foundation, the same fascist thinktank that wrote the Project 2025 document we can now confirm lies at the heart of Trump's fascist agenda, produces a report attacking the validity of Biden's pardons and pushing the autopen conspiracy argument, Trump then immediately repeats those claims to reporters on Air Force One before saying the courts will have to decide but he thinks the pardons are "null and void," and then early the very next morning Trump attempts to literally void the pardons via fiat in a Truth Social post with no mention of courts whatsoever. At this point, all we're waiting for is the larger Trump regime to begin acting as if Der Führer's ranty argument has the force of law and the unreality cycle of transformational autocracy is complete.Can president Trump actually get away with this scheme? I don't have the slightest idea, but the aggressiveness with which he's pushing the autopen argument, and the speed with which his larger political movement as already laid the groundwork to give it a go, strongly suggests that Trump isn't just ranting and he means to actually turn this aggrieved conspiracy bullshit into a very real attempt to persecute and neutralize his political enemies through the force of law. <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Autopen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autopen</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ConspiracyTheories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConspiracyTheories</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ManufacturingConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ManufacturingConsent</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HeritageFoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HeritageFoundation</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/January6thCommittee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#January6thCommittee</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dictatorship</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Pardons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pardons</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈What is it about the Trump White House that emboldens Racist Rapists?<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/17/conor-mcgregor-anti-immigration-rant-white-house-condemned-by-irish-pm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/17/conor-mcgregor-anti-immigration-rant-white-house-condemned-by-irish-pm</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misogyny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Patriarchy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ConorMcGregor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ConorMcGregor</a>

Solarbird :flag_cascadia:You've got 'til 9PM CASCADIAN/PACIFIC or Midnight EASTERN time to sign public comments against Musk and Trump's anti-trans passport rules.There are THREE open comments sections. If you use the ACLU's site, it'll cover all three. But if you want to do it directly, you can. just do it all three places.<a href="https://action.aclu.org/reg-action/hands-off-our-passports-stop-attacking-transgender-americans" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://action.aclu.org/reg-action/hands-off-our-passports-stop-attacking-transgender-americans</a><a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.murkworks.net/tags/AntiTrans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiTrans</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesOkay, so given Trump's move to undo pardons granted by outgoing US President Joe Biden so he can target DoJ officials who prosecuted him for real crimes he actually committed, and the above-mentioned pattern of Trump's aggrieved fascist ranting transmuting into official, state-recognized reality, while serving to justify oppressive action by the regime, what are we to make of Trump declaring media outlets that report on him critically, including named organizations MSNBC and CNN are "illegal" during that same speech at the US Department of Justice? Well, I think for starters it's safe to assume that none of this means *anything* good.<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-claims-msnbc-and-cnn-are-illegal-in-doj-speech_n_67d4a0a4e4b0a37116aefc88" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-claims-msnbc-and-cnn-are-illegal-in-doj-speech_n_67d4a0a4e4b0a37116aefc88</a>Donald Trump Claims MSNBC And CNN Are ‘Illegal’ In DOJ Speech"The president gave a speech Friday at the Justice Department railing against news outlets he says have unfairly targeted him.Trump singled out CNN and MSNBC, which he called “MSNDC,” claiming those outlets “literally write 97.6% bad about me” and are “political arms of the Democrat Party.”He added, “In my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal, what they do is illegal.”Trump then argued that media organizations that report negative things about him “are really no different than a highly paid political operative,” insisting, “it has to stop, it has to be illegal” because “it’s influencing judges and it’s really, eh, changing law, and it just cannot be legal.”He additionally claimed that news outlets cover him negatively “in total coordination with each other.”Whether they're playing it cool on purpose, or not, this story is once again mostly being reported in corporate media as an extension of Trump's longstanding grievances with anything he perceives as critical media coverage and the outlets that produce it; although boutique "progressive" websites and nonprofit media have been a little quicker to realize why this isn't just "Trump being Trump" anymore and how dangerous it is to assume our new American Mussolini lacks purpose in his actions here. Frankly, I don't think it's an accident that in the very same speech Trump previewed loyalty investigations into Justice Department officials, and attempted to usurp the power of his Attorney General by declaring himself the country's "chief law enforcement officer," he declared liberal establishment media an active political arm of the opposition party, and accused them of both actively conspiring against him, and engaging in criminal activity. What does it mean when the "chief law enforcement officer" declares media critical of him "corrupt" and "illegal?" And how much more ominous is that meaning when its set against the backdrop of a US president celebrating his election as a victory against (what is now) his own Justice Department, while promising what sure sounds like legal investigations into DoJ lawyers and officials that dared to bring charges against him? The obviously implication here is that Trump thinks the DoJ should target and prosecute media outlets that are critical of him, he has the right to order the department to do so because he's running the DoJ, and anyone who opposes that activity is likely to find themselves purged from the department at a minimum, and quite possibly prosecuted themselves. What many of the corporate media outlets likely to be targeted by Trump's assault on free speech rights and critical media coverage have passed off as a vengeful old man "playing the hits" is actually a fully formed operation to seize control of the American legal apparatus or at least the prosecution portion of it, redefine what is a crime, manufacture consent to target his enemies with the US Department of Justice, and threaten to punish or dispose of anyone who dares to get in his way over a silly little thing like "the law." Trump may have delivered it like a drunk racist grandpa, but his speech is clearly a calculated attempt by the president to drastically expand his own powers, and prosecute his fascist agenda - whether he's doing it for revenge or not (he is), is ultimately the *least* important factor here.This then dovetails into the methods by which Trump is actually attempting to accomplish this fascist, anti-free speech bullshit; specifically the larger narrative of unreality the Trump regime is constructing day by day. Trump is working to equate critical media with his political opposition, his political opposition with protestors, and protestors with terrorists, while his larger regime takes actions against that opposition as if what Trump is suggesting here were already indisputable truth. I hate to keep bringing up literally Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the German Enabling Act of 1933, but students of history will gladly tell you that Hitler's playbook for transforming Germany into a autocratic one-party dictatorship looks an awful lot like exactly what Trump is doing here.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoJSpeech</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NaziParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaziParty</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/EnablingAct1933" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnablingAct1933</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MSNBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSNBC</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CNN</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

AnarchoNinaAnalyzesWhen this story broke a few days ago, I decided to skip covering Trump's shocking DoJ speech because I only have so much time to write each day, and applying a power dynamic analysis to the news at the time lead me to believe focusing on Trump's anti-trans policies, attacks on protest rights, and direct violation of judge's orders designed to protect marginalized targets of the Trump regime from state oppression, was more important than raising awareness about Downmarket Mussolini's so-called "airing of grievances" towards government lawyers who prosecuted him for very real crimes he absolutely committed. If nothing else I assumed the media would swiftly jump to the defense of DoJ lawyers, but they'd be less inclined to do so for incarcerated ppl, deported migrants, student protestors, and trans Americans. Unfortunately in the time since, corporate media coverage of Trump's threats during his DoJ speech has become extremely squishy, actively working to minimize the gravity of what Trump said, while simultaneously Dowmarket Mussolini has revealed that said speech was simply an early salvo in what is almost certainly going to be an ongoing quest to root out and punish anyone who dared to bring court cases (criminal or civil) against him. Given that this is *not* going away, we're gonna have to back up a few days here and talk about Trump's DoJ speech and why its implications are far more serious than the "airing of grievances" many larger media outlets reported it as.<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-justice-department-speech_n_67d4a1ace4b08455bb0719ee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-trump-justice-department-speech_n_67d4a1ace4b08455bb0719ee</a>Trump Pledges To 'Expel Rogue Actors' In Political Speech At Justice Department"Though other presidents have spoken from the Justice Department’s ceremonial Great Hall, Trump’s address amounted to an extraordinary display of partisan politics and personal grievance inside an institution that is meant to be blind to both. Casting himself as the country’s “chief law enforcement officer,” a title ordinarily reserved for the attorney general, he promised to target his perceived enemies even as he claimed to be ending what he called the weaponization of the department.The speech marked the latest manifestation of Trump’s unparalleled takeover of the department and came amid a brazen campaign of retribution already undertaken under his watch, including the firing of prosecutors who investigated him during the Biden administration and the scrutiny of thousands of FBI agents who investigated the president’s supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.“Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice. But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back and never coming back,” Trump said to cheers from a crowd that included local law enforcement officials, political allies and FBI Director Kash Patel. “So now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.”There's a lot to unpack here; including Trump's effective termination of the official independence of the Department of Justice, his direct identification of individuals in the DoJ he intends to target for reprisals, and the transformation of the department into his de facto private legal team by way of placing people who acted in his legal defense in positions of power throughout the DoJ. While this article still doesn't seem to grasp the full scope of Trump's fascist intentions here, I recommend reading it in its entirety anyway because it does a good job of not minimizing what he said and demonstrating a pattern of persecution in how Trump uses the law and the DoJ to target his enemies. Additionally however, I think it's important to acknowledge how this story now fits into a larger, identifiable pattern in how Trump rules and how he's prosecuting his fascist agenda, in light of recent attempts to declare Biden's pardons invalid based on a longstanding right wing conspiracy about autopens and what "signing" a presidential order actually means. Whether we're talking about annexing Canada, mass deportations, kidnapping student protestors, or illegally handing over the power of the purse to Elon Musk, Trump appears to always preview his fascist activities by bringing them up, often casually, in his rambling public appearances first. This then establishes his personal antipathies as state antipathies, and his personal definition of reality as officially recognized reality. Once that is accomplished, the fascist administration will increasingly operate as if Trump's public utterances have always been known reality, and prosecute the regime's agenda based on that; "Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia" indeed. As such, it's no longer reasonable to question which of Trump's fascist ravings are "serious," but rather we must question when they will become "reality" and what fascist agendas they will ultimately support.<a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DoJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoJ</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a>

RealJournalismBig <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> Companies Creating Legal “Patchwork” to Undermine Data <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Privacy</a> Rights <a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/big-tech-patchwork-data-privacy-rights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.projectcensored.org/big-tech-patchwork-data-privacy-rights/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

RealJournalismLibrary workers deserve protection, not prosecution <a href="https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/17/library-workers-deserve-protection-not-prosecution/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/17/library-workers-deserve-protection-not-prosecution/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libraries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Kierkegaanks regretfullyGrowing up I thought body horror was the exotic perversions of “Alien” and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Lovecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lovecraft</a>, not the sad pedestrian “Brazil”-looking conformity of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Kinoc-Kayfar ΘΔ⌛Many people have old class narratives for why fascism is rising across the world, such as economic anxiety and others, narratives I have even promoted in the past, however me being a more 21st century intersectional feminist and a pro-tech leftist, I propose a different hypothesis. I think what's going on is that the internet is a revolutionary technology that has accelerated social progress when it comes to the awareness of marginalized groups, such as queer people, alterhumans, plural systems and more.It has also created a more global and interconnected world, to the point that authoritarian regimes have to censor the internet, because now any atrocity is now instantly known across the world, even when a US aligned country like Israel commits an atrocity it's no longer possible to hide it.And I think because of all of the above, I think there's a global reactionary backlash to the accelerated social progress and interconnectedness the internet has created. As you will notice, the reactionary backlash exists regardless of ideology.From fascist who I don't have to explain why are opposed to it, to transphobic liberals, to communist who see queer people as bourgeois decadence. essentially what's happening is all reactionary forces are uniting regardless of ideology to oppose the accelerated social progress and liberation of marginalized groups, or what these people call "wokeness." in fact I'll go as far as say it's the reason why now the reactionary forces are trying to censor the internet with things like project 2025. Because they're so scared of the way the internet is creating an interconnected world, that they're afraid of the possibility of it taking away their power.ultimately the 21st century will be the battle between ultimate progressivism and ultimate conservatism within the ruins of liberalism.<a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transhumanism</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/postscarcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postscarcity</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/progressivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progressivism</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#progressive</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://dragonchat.org/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)I think it's important to keep in mind that what Trump does is sign a paper or give a written or verbal order.What makes the horrible shit he's ordering happen is a series of people carrying it out. Any one or all of whom could have refused to do so.One person refusing slows things down.The more people who refuse, the more hope we have of not going further down this road.You fear getting fired? Are they not firing ppl anyway?<a href="https://mas.to/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

William Lindsey :toad:I shared this statement by Lee Bollinger here previously, but want to highlight it again today as David Kurtz makes it his quote of the day:"We're in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuleofLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RuleofLaw</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> /16<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trumps-open-defiance-of-federal-courts-is-now-at-hand" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trumps-open-defiance-of-federal-courts-is-now-at-hand</a>

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦PS:to those who asked me about this pinned post, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113484331199042724" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113484331199042724</a> use this thread as an explanation to the very serious joke. when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> happens to BPIOC it’s called <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a>; but that racism is sometimes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sexism</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misogyny</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#homophobia</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transphobia</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xenophobia</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ableism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ableism</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eugenics</a> ―and when against entire nations, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#colonialism</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a>.so whatever you let the ruling classes get away with racism will come back to haunt you as fascism.get it now?

William Lindsey :toad:Asked whether Trump's implementation of Project 2025, the Christian nationalist gameplan to abolish democracy, has been successful so far, Paul Dans, architect of Project 2025, responds:"It’s actually way beyond my wildest dreams."<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RobertsCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertsCourt</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/UnitaryExecutive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitaryExecutive</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> /2<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/16/project-2025-paul-dans-qa-00228890" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/16/project-2025-paul-dans-qa-00228890</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"The president of the United States is not a king. He’s not a monarch ordained by a god."~ Marcie Bianco<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RobertsCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RobertsCourt</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/UnitaryExecutive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitaryExecutive</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> /1<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mass-protests-donald-trump-remind-people-hold-power-rcna196622" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mass-protests-donald-trump-remind-people-hold-power-rcna196622</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Each time we show solidarity with others, or support those who are protecting the rule of law, helping the targeted, or exposing the lies and the corruption, we are standing up for democratic values of justice, accountability, equality, and more. In doing so, we model the behaviors the authoritarian state wants us to abandon."~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuleofLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RuleofLaw</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> /15<a href="https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"You know who's doing great organizing for us right now? Elon Musk and Donald Trump, that's who. By attacking and alienating more and more swathes of the American public, they're handing us the possibility of a coalition bigger and broader than maybe anything we've ever seen in this country before. A gift, if we take it and do something with it."~ Rebecca Solnit<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuleofLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RuleofLaw</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> /14<a href="https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-ground-plant-some-flowers-on-it-too/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stand-your-ground-plant-some-flowers-on-it-too/</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"The unitary executive theory is really just a way to cloak the morphing of a democratically elected president into a dictator with the appearance of legality. If presidents can do whatever they want, including putting people on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, then really, who are we?"~ Joyce Vance<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#courts</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/RuleofLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RuleofLaw</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#migrants</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportations</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/UnitaryExecutive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitaryExecutive</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> /13<a href="https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-a7d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-a7d</a>

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