"Don't you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition."
~ Mehdi Hasan quoted by The Bulwark
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/12
"Trump and MAGA did not get Kimmel suspended for a joke. They got Kimmell suspended for a show of power. They are sending the message to stick to their approved MAGA script or they will come for you."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/11
"This approach has been widespread in the punditocracy, which has almost uniformly moved to hold Kirk up as a rare avatar of civil disagreement in an uncivil era.
These pundits' paeans to Charlie Kirk's 'civil' approach to politics ignore the many illustrations of his incivility."
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/10
"As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright ignore the ugly things that he said and instead to stress the polite ways he said them. It's an emphasis on style over substance."
~ Kevin Kruse
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/10
"It is really important to understand the contrast between Trump’s behavior and those of previous presidents for two reasons [after a highly publicized murder of an outspoken ideologue]: First, to get a clear measure of the extent of our moral descent. And second, to fully understand the authoritarian dangers our republic is facing."
~ Berny Belvedere
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/9
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The contrast between their and his behavior is a measure of America's moral descentBerny Belvedere (The UnPopulist)
"Fueled by the rhetoric of prominent politicians, social media platforms have turned into a staging ground for collecting names and orchestrating campaigns to call for firings. Conservative social media influencers have encouraged people to submit posts of coworkers or community members, and then have used their large platforms to amplify calls for punishment."
~ Daniel Moritz-Rabson
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/8
truthout.org/articles/conserva…
The US has entered a new era of McCarthyism as the Trump administration equates leftist critique with “terrorism.”…britney (Truthout)
"What happened to Jimmy Kimmel Live! is not just about a late-night host or a single corporate decision. It is a flashing red warning sign of how fragile the foundations of free discourse have become in the United States."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/7
aaronparnas.substack.com/p/bre…
In a stunning move that exposes the fragility of free expression in American media, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been pulled indefinitely.Aaron Parnas (The Parnas Perspective)
"We are governed by liars and crooks whose agenda is to demolish the rule of law and the rights of the rest of us, including our First Amendment right to free speech (Happy Constitution Day, by the way!)."
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/6
meditationsinanemergency.com/t…
Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e.Rebecca Solnit (Meditations in an Emergency)
"Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show program was indefinitely suspended so billionaires can continue abusing Charlie Kirk’s murder to gain control of our media and lay the red carpet for Trump’s fascist agenda.
That’s the truth. Everything else is just propaganda, obfuscation, and pretext."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/5
thelefthook.substack.com/p/jim…
The broligarchy is consolidating power for Trump and MAGA, using Charlie Kirk's murder, to gain control of our media, crush dissent, and punish critics and comedians like Jimmy KimmelTHE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"Do people understand now what the authoritarian project is aiming for? ...
What happens in a society where one side is required to operate at all times and in all places in perfect good faith and the other side faces no such constraints?"
~ Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/4
thebulwark.com/p/emergency-tri…
What happens when comedians are held to stricter standards than vice presidents?Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"Kimmel’s suspension has produced an uproar. Comedian Paul Scheer noted that Kimmel is off the air but Brian Kilmeade of the Fox News Channel, who recently called for killing homeless Americans by 'involuntary lethal injection,' is still employed."
~ Heather Cox Riichardson
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/3
heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"This is the way Putin runs Russia. Threaten newspapers and broadcasters that they will be shut down unless they take the Kremlin’s line. ...
Nobody is safe with this fascist regime in power. Free speech is dead so long as Putin’s best friend is in the White House."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
/2
luciantruscott.substack.com/p/…
ABC just announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will be suspended “indefinitely” over comments he made on Monday night about the killing of right-wing Christ figure, Charlie Kirk.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make dictatorship possible at home."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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As the US government sabotages its own climate web site (along with many other science-based or truth-based sites), a new site is the phoenix borne of its ashes. May it thrive. Please consider donating or otherwise supporting their efforts (e.g., by sharing notice of the site).
#climate #ClimateDenial #resist #science #truth #media #journalism #ClimateData #ClimateReporting #propaganda #hope #politics #USPolitics #fascism #PostTruth
Here's another URL that might be worth sharing:
dw.com/en/fired-climate-scient…
After cuts by US President Donald Trump forced the closure of the popular climate.gov website, experts have launched an independent successor. They say climate literacy is important in Trump's war against science.Stuart Braun (Deutsche Welle)
Well done Channel 4. Now do Farage..
"More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.
#Channel4 #Trump #Fascism
#UKPolitics
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/s…
Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statementsMichael Savage (The Guardian)
BRASILIA — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he createdReuters (NBC News)
Yeah. That sums it up.
#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #CharlieKirk #MAGA #Conservatives #Fascist #Fascism
Since I was a kid, I've always wondered how people could have let the Nazis do it... now I know : « #Google’s $45 million contract to spread #Netanyahu's #propaganda »
(all sources in the article)
› jackpoulson.substack.com/p/goo…
#BigTech #GAFAM #Colonialism #Fascism #Palestine #FreePalestine
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million propaganda contract with Netanyahu’s office and was described as a “key entity” supporting Israel's messaging.Jack Poulson (All-Source Intelligence)
"They would rather send the military against Americans than stand with Ukraine against Putin. They would rather attack disabled people and marginalized communities than confront real problems facing Americans that require difficult solutions. When you go on offense against Trump and MAGA, they quickly play the role of victim and show what sociopaths they are."
~ Ben Meiselas
"There is no emergency in Chicago that calls for armed military intervention. ...
Donald Trump wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents, and score political points. If this were happening in any other country, we would have no trouble calling it what it is: a dangerous power grab.”
"This is not about fighting crime. This is about Donald Trump searching for any justification to deploy the military in a blue city in a blue state to try and intimidate his political rivals. This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey Stephen Miller searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections."
~ J.B. Pritzker via Heather Cox Richardson
"Something shifted between last week and this one. Almost overnight, a growing chorus of political elites became comfortable calling America under Trump a fascist state or an authoritarian state. Trump’s escalation is terrible, but it’s an objectively good thing to see more elected officials and public figures acknowledge what’s happening and sound the alarm."
~ Melissa Ryan
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Building power in a nation where our rights and freedoms have become more limited is a challenge. What do we do now?Melissa Ryan (Ctrl Alt Right Delete)
"If the deployments were really about crime, he would be threatening to occupy cities with rates much higher than that of DC, like Memphis, Cleveland, and Hattiesburg, but instead those GOP states have sent their guard members to DC. ...
DC is just the beginning, an appetizer before the main course."
"Thus far, President Donald Trump has deployed National Guard members in two major American cities. He’s not going to stop there. ...
Every city he has alleged is a crime-ridden hellhole that must be fixed by military occupation is a sanctuary jurisdiction."
~ Lisa Needham
publicnotice.co/p/trump-red-st…
DC is just the appetizer.Lisa Needham (Public Notice)
"Trump is trying to normalize the militarization of our country. This is where it starts, not where it will end. Trump is dropping the pretense of abiding by the rule of law. ...
This manner of operation makes it clear that it’s not about democracy and the American people; it’s about Trump and protecting Trump."
~ Joyce Vance
joycevance.substack.com/p/only…
Armed National Guardsmen have been deployed in the District of Columbia to keep American citizens in line.Joyce Vance (Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
Hmm, have any countries start to think about an LA Olympics boycott yet? Will we be seeing a complete choreographed opening ceremony celebrating Dear Leader? Will they be renditioning and probing the gender of athletes at the events, or at the border?
LA Times: Trump names himself chair of L.A. Olympics task force, sees role for military during Games
latimes.com/politics/story/202…
Trump’s news conference may prompt questions about whether a president with a penchant for showmanship might assume an unusually active role in planning the Olympics.Michael Wilner (Los Angeles Times)
With over six month into his second term, Mary Trump breaks down what it means to resist Donald Trump in today's world. What does resistance look like? How c...YouTube
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AOC wrote on BlueSky, a good summary of the Trump budget bill adopted in Congress.
"I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing."
#usa #budgetbill #aoc #fascism #geopolitics #ICE #trump @geopolitics
If you are in the US and are not trembling in fear right now, you have not grasped the full seriousness of the situation we are now facing.
Please join the discussion on what to do about it here:
We are at the 11th hour.
The dust has not even settled from the announcement that ICE will be receiving more funding than the entire US prison system, and that a new concentration camp is opening in Florida, and already Trump is announcing he will deport US citizens.
#FuckYouFascists
#fascism
#ICE
#NoKings
We need urgent community action to stop this incredibly ableist plan from moving forward.
The DOE has ruled that new federal buildings don’t have to meet accessibility standards.
That will mean many disabled people won’t be able to work in or access these places.
They’re literally excluding us from as many facets of life as possible, because they have a eugenics plan.
Call, email, speak out!
Accessibility is not a “nice to have”. It’s a legal right. It’s necessary for our survival.
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#uspol #fascism #disability #chronicillness #ableism #accessibility #doe
Someone captured the moment an Australian reporter was shot by a rubber bullet at the anti-ICE protests in LA.
It’s wildly concerning that a country which prides itself on freedom of the press is now shooting at journalists.
Also, watch closely. She was away from the crowds. She was clearly reporting and no threat to anyone.
Yet the agent took direct aim & shot.
This is enraging. This is state sanctioned violence. This is an attack on the press. An attempt to silence.
Keep speaking out.
#ice #fascism #la #losangeles #abolishice #uspol
Despite what appears to be a broad, albeit primarily rhetorical, shift in mainstream establishment opinion about Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza across most of the Pig Empire, Very Serious People TM in the US remain inside a disturbingly bipartisan, pro-genocide unreality bubble. Inside that bubble it seems far more reasonable to discuss Trump's personal relationships with Israel's fascist PM Benjamin Netanyahu than it would be to talk about all the ways his regime has actively expanded on the Biden administration's open facilitation of that genocide, even as it continues to this very moment. Yet outside that bubble, across the broader planet and even in the US discourse that exists beyond corporate media and in pocket political actors, the reality that this is America's genocide too is inescapable.
Take for example the absurd "humanitarian aid" scheme the Trump regime and Netanyahu cooked up to pretend Israel wasn't trying engineer a famine as part of its broader, openly stated project to ethnically cleanse, occupy, and colonize Gaza, that was nevertheless treated as a plausible sign Trump was reigning Israel in by a credulous, pro-genocide US establishment and media complex. The moment the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" and the plan to distribute aid under the watchful eye of the IOF and U.S. mercenary contractors was revealed, everyone living in the real world, including UN aid officials and humanitarian relief experts immediately said this wasn't going to stop the intentional starvation and the whole thing smelled fishy. Folks who truly understood the nature of Israel's genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza however, spoke of a far darker possibility; that the reason to march Palestinians halfway across the Gaza strip and herd them like cattle into a heavily-surveilled area surrounded by soldiers, was to directly facilitated and further the genocide and mass displacement of Gazans itself.
Well, now that IOF forces have engaged in a massacre at one of these sham food distribution sites, actively engineered, supported, and protected by the Trump administration and our hired military contractors, I think we can chalk this one up as yet another L for team genocide and the US establishment unreality bubble. As Israel sprints towards pariah state status, and the international community is searching for an off ramp before public opinion drowns their formerly pro-genocide leaders, the Trump regime has responded by actively facilitating and even participating in a settler colonial massacre that's part of a larger ongoing genocide. Yet somehow, despite plenty of corporate media coverage of the incident, this reality largely escapes Very Serious People TM in the American discourse.
commondreams.org/news/witkoff-…
'The Witkoff Massacre': Hundreds Killed or Wounded as Israeli Forces Open Fire on Gaza Food Aid Site
"Health officials in Gaza and multiple witnesses at the site near the southern city of Rafah reported that "Israeli forces fired on crowds around a kilometer (1,000 yards) away from an aid site run by an Israeli-backed foundation," according to the Associated Press.
"The international community must act immediately and decisively to compel Israel to end its inhumane aid distribution mechanism in Gaza, following today’s massacre near a U.S.-backed aid centre south of Rafah, where Israeli forces killed or injured over 220 starving civilians," said the Switzerland-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med), in a Sunday morning statement, which had personnel on the ground near the aid station."
Folks, we are literally luring starving Gazans out of hiding with the promise of food, concentrating them in pens, and then letting IOF soldiers shoot at them while calling that "humanitarian aid" and pretending we're doing something about an ongoing genocide. There are no words I'm comfortable uttering in this political climate that can adequately cover the outrage, revulsion, and loathing I feel towards a Trump regime, US corporate media, and a broader bipartisan American establishment that contains plenty of rich Democrats, that has brought this livestreamed genocide into being. Even now, even among those who at this late an hour have finally decided that TikTok videos of starving toddlers means this really is a genocide, are trying to couch this in terms of "Netanyahu's genocidal war" despite the fact that literally none of this would be possible with direct American material support, and a US corporate media complex devoted to manufacturing consent for murdering babies and bombing hospitals. Infuriating.
The truth however is that 19 months into an ongoing genocide, the propaganda bubble is starting to burst; you can't stop reality from being real, forever. We, the United States of America, own this genocide, and the whole world is watching while we pretend our government isn't an active participant.
#Trump #Fascism #Media #Gaza #Propaganda #Genocide #Israel #Massacre #Palestinians #Witkoff
"The new U.S.-Israeli genocide strategy: starve the population, lure them with promises of aid, then kill them."jon-queally (Common Dreams)
I don't know if most people realize the overall quality of foreign policy reporting in American media is generally pretty horrible. Part of this is because structurally under capitalism for profit media tends to align with US imperial objectives at the expense of the truth, part of it is that reading audiences aren't diplomacy wonks so the complex details of international relationships have to be shoehorned into some form of narrative, and part of it is that most state level negotiations are conducted in secret so you can print pretty much any bullshit you want and call it "reading the tea leaves" because nobody is going to hold you to account for being wrong later. Which isn't to say it's impossible to do good foreign policy reporting, just that it usually involves interrogating primary sources who aren't going to want to talk to you if you're critical of their decisions and (often false) arguments. In a modern, eviscerated media age that places profit and cultural relevance much higher than journalistic accuracy in their hierarchy of priorities, pretty much every corporate media news outlet employs at least one name-brand foreign policy analyst who writes opinion columns based on vibes.
I mention this because over the past week I've read at least a dozen "front page" opinion pieces, primarily from "centrist" analysts, arguing that Trump's recent MENA mutual hand-job tour indicates that Downmarket Mussolini has "abandoned" Israel, or at least "put Benjamin Netanyahu on notice." Typically, the evidence to support this conclusion will revolve around Trump's cozy relationship with Qatar, sealed by an open bribe in the form of a $400M dollar luxury jet, and the fact that Der Leader's top diplomat Steve Witkoff negotiated with Hamas to secure the release of U.S. citizen and Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, apparently without consulting Israel. The implication, which is sometimes even stated openly, is that this "deteriorating" relationship and one throwaway statement about starving Palestinians, means the Trump regime may be about to break with Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza.
This is of course, absolute bullshit for one extremely obvious reason; namely that the Trump administration continues to openly greenlight Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is not supposition; between Trump's statements, the US government's actions, and the Netanyahu regime's responses it is abundantly clear that the project to ethnically cleanse Gaza and turn it into riverfront property is still on, and Der Leader is happy to trade tacit US approval for the genocide or removal of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel, to simply smooth over a MENA foreign policy initiative designed to increase Trump's global influence while enriching him and his family.
To demonstrate why I know this let's look at this detailed report by Jeremy Scahill who actually *did* contact a source for his foreign policy analysis; specifically a senior Hamas official.
dropsitenews.com/p/witkoff-ham…
Hamas Says Witkoff Personally Promised to Lift Gaza Blockade in Exchange for Edan Alexander
“It was a deal,” said Basem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who has previously engaged in direct talks with U.S. officials. He said the pledge was made by “Witkoff, himself.” In an interview with Drop Site, Naim said the agreement was: “If we release [Alexander], Trump will speak out thanking Hamas for its gesture, obliging Israel on the second day to open the borders and allow aid to come into Gaza, and [Trump would] call for an immediate ceasefire and to go for negotiations to end the war.”
“He did nothing of this,” Naim added. “They didn't violate the deal. They threw it in the trash.”
This is a detailed, granular piece of journalism that explores the genocidal behavior Israel is engaging in as it attempts to starve Palestinians to death while continually bombing hospitals and refugee camps, as well as why the things Trump claims he's actually doing to mitigate engineered starvation in Gaza are mostly bullshit. What's important for our purposes here is the knowledge that the Trump regime pretty much just straight up lied to Hamas in order to secure the release of Edan Alexander and some flattery for Der Leader, and the reality that both Israeli leadership and the President are *still* openly talking about ethnically cleansing Gaza!
Look, I have no problem believing that Netanyahu is irked at Trump for his embarrassing love affair with the Qataris, but the idea that the Klepto Kaiser is "abandoning" Israel even as his regime continues to ship Israel billions of dollars in weapons while mapping out a post-Palestinian future for Gaza, is either embarrassingly naïve, or an open admission that Palestinian lives have so little value to you that their extermination or exile doesn't rise to the level of discussion. In this media environment, it could be both.
#Trump #Fascism #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #Netanyahu #Qatar #ForeignPolicy #WarCrimes #EthnicCleansing #Media #Hamas
The U.S. immediately broke the deal, senior Hamas official Basem Naim tells Drop Site. “They threw it in the trash” and there has been “zero” progress on a Gaza ceasefire.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
