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@jensorensen@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word

#media #journalism #authoritarianism

"Polarization"

IT'S A COMMON REFRAIN THESE DAYS.

NATTERING NOGGINS HOSTS:

THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME TOO POLARIZED.

YES, IT'S SO SAD.



BUT THE TERM "POLARIZATION" CAN BE A FORM OF BOTH-SIDESING THAT OBSCURES SPECIFICS.

ARMED EXTREMIST: I'M HERE TO STOP THE TRANSGENDERS FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY.

TRANSGENDER PERSON: I PREFER NOT TO DIE, AND SOMETIMES SHARE THIS OPINION!



WHEN A MOVEMENT BECOMES EXTREMIST, DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION AS PART OF THE PROBLEM?

MAN: ANYONE WHO HELPS A 10 YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM GET AN ABORTION SHOULD GO TO JAIL!
	
WOMAN: THAT'S BARBARIC AND I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO FIGHT IT.

POLARIZATION ALERT




WOULD THIS BE BETTER?

MAN IN MILITARY GEAR: YOU WILL DO AS I SAY, SUBHUMAN!

LATINO MAN: I WILL POLITELY ACQUIESCE!

HOW NICE! NO MORE POLARIZATION!
"Polarization" IT'S A COMMON REFRAIN THESE DAYS. NATTERING NOGGINS HOSTS: THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME TOO POLARIZED. YES, IT'S SO SAD. BUT THE TERM "POLARIZATION" CAN BE A FORM OF BOTH-SIDESING THAT OBSCURES SPECIFICS. ARMED EXTREMIST: I'M HERE TO STOP THE TRANSGENDERS FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY. TRANSGENDER PERSON: I PREFER NOT TO DIE, AND SOMETIMES SHARE THIS OPINION! WHEN A MOVEMENT BECOMES EXTREMIST, DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION AS PART OF THE PROBLEM? MAN: ANYONE WHO HELPS A 10 YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM GET AN ABORTION SHOULD GO TO JAIL! WOMAN: THAT'S BARBARIC AND I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO FIGHT IT. POLARIZATION ALERT WOULD THIS BE BETTER? MAN IN MILITARY GEAR: YOU WILL DO AS I SAY, SUBHUMAN! LATINO MAN: I WILL POLITELY ACQUIESCE! HOW NICE! NO MORE POLARIZATION!
"Polarization" IT'S A COMMON REFRAIN THESE DAYS. NATTERING NOGGINS HOSTS: THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME TOO POLARIZED. YES, IT'S SO SAD. BUT THE TERM "POLARIZATION" CAN BE A FORM OF BOTH-SIDESING THAT OBSCURES SPECIFICS. ARMED EXTREMIST: I'M HERE TO STOP THE TRANSGENDERS FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY. TRANSGENDER PERSON: I PREFER NOT TO DIE, AND SOMETIMES SHARE THIS OPINION! WHEN A MOVEMENT BECOMES EXTREMIST, DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION AS PART OF THE PROBLEM? MAN: ANYONE WHO HELPS A 10 YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM GET AN ABORTION SHOULD GO TO JAIL! WOMAN: THAT'S BARBARIC AND I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO FIGHT IT. POLARIZATION ALERT WOULD THIS BE BETTER? MAN IN MILITARY GEAR: YOU WILL DO AS I SAY, SUBHUMAN! LATINO MAN: I WILL POLITELY ACQUIESCE! HOW NICE! NO MORE POLARIZATION!
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@1kmadleenfr@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

🇵🇸 🎦✊ #1000Madleens sortie debut mars de notre film "Madleens"

78 années de colonisation de la #Palestine par #Israël et tous les gouvernements complices qui participent au #genocide en cours.

Depuis des décennies, pour contester le blocus israélien de #Gaza et des opprimés du monde entier, les mouvements civils fleurissent, les peuples s'organisent et se soulèvent !

👉 Sortie de notre film Madleens début mars, plus d'informations à venir !
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@susurros@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"The report draws on in-depth interviews from 59 Palestinian journalists. Of those interviewed, 58 reported being subjected to what they described as torture while in Israeli custody."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/dozens-of-palestinian-journalists-beaten-starved-or-raped-report-alleges

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #journalism #media #press

the Guardian

Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges

Israeli prison service and IDF reject allegations after research by Committee to Protect Journalists
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@susurros@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"The report draws on in-depth interviews from 59 Palestinian journalists. Of those interviewed, 58 reported being subjected to what they described as torture while in Israeli custody."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/dozens-of-palestinian-journalists-beaten-starved-or-raped-report-alleges

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #journalism #media #press

the Guardian

Dozens of Palestinian journalists beaten, starved or raped, report alleges

Israeli prison service and IDF reject allegations after research by Committee to Protect Journalists
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@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-inhumane-treatment-of-immigration

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage

The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting
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"Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Why does someone who isn’t a flight risk need to be indefinitely confined in a filthy overcrowded cell? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody at all deserve to be forced to sleep on a concrete floor, or underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care?"

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #cruelty #immigrants #media
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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/the-inhumane-treatment-of-immigration

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage

The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting
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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

As I mentioned in the post above, the US corporate media's response to the seismic event that was Downmarket Mussolini signing NSPM-7, was pretty much a collective yawn; but antifascist organizers and independent journalists took the threat of a new fascist COINTEPRO operation seriously. In early December, 2025, Ken Klippenstein once again broke a story of the decade when he obtained a leaked memo from Trumpenreich Attorney General Pam Bondi ordering the FBI to compile political "enemies" lists, bribe Americans to snitch on each other for thought crimes, and seed supposed "terrorist organizations" with informants. So, literally the full J. Edgar Hoover.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals

"Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.

The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”

That language echoes the so-called indicators of terrorism identified by President Trump’s directive National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, which the memo says it’s intended to implement. Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level."

This is a much shorter article that's probably worth your time to read in full. The quick version here however is that in addition to making an "enemies" of the Trumpenreich watchlist, Bondi also wants to beef up the FBI tip line to make it easier to snitch on your neighbors, doll out cash rewards for snitches who help them round up pinkos and other undesirables, and funnel Justice Department grant money into this new "war on terror" (read: opposition to fascism) right here at home. She also instructed the feds to cultivate "cooperators to provide information and eventually testify against other members" of the groups (read: more than half the country) she's identified as a terrorist threat.

Finally, because literally all fascist laws are retroactive, Bondi also wants reach into the past to punish thoughtcrime, dissent, and political opposition.

"The memo also directs the FBI and JTTFs to retroactively investigate incidents going back five years, authorizing the JTTFs in particular to use everything at their disposal to do so.

“Upon receipt of these referrals, the JTTFs shall use all available investigative tools, consistent with law enforcement internal policies and statutory obligations, to map the full network of culpable actors involved in the referred conduct inside and outside the United States,” the memo says."

So, the fascist Trump regime is tasking the FBI with making political enemies lists, and the fascist Attorney General wants cops all over the country to investigate and hopefully arrest you for that post you made calling Trump "Cheeto Mussolini" back in 2021. Furthermore, the Department of Justice has created a roadmap to persecute anyone a random MAGA cultist wants to punish for talking back in precisely the way Trump's fascist advisor Stephen Miller promised the Trumpenreich would immediately after Kirk's assassination. Shit man; that sounds serious, doesn't it?

That may be so. But whatever you do however, don't tell the corporate American media about all this - because as Klippenstein notes, they've been fast asleep this entire time.

#Trump #Fascism #NSPM7 #StephenMiller #PamBondi #PoliceState #COINTELPRO #Dictatorship #FBI #KenKlippenstein #Media #DepartmentOfJustice #DoJ

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

So what exactly does it mean when the President signs a "domestic terrorism," or rather a national security directive declaring anyone left of Bull Connor is a terrorist? Well, I'm glad you asked, because for the most part US corporate media either didn't bother to report it, or treated it like another in Trump's long line of unhinged executive orders that are terrifying, but do not by themselves spring the full power of the US government into action. As this important article published by independent national security state critic Ken Klippenstein makes abundantly clear - this order has teeth, and represents "a declaration of war on anyone who does not support the Trump administration and its agenda."

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

"With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence. Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.

“This is the first time in American history that there is an all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,” Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, referring to the issuance."

Okay you'll have to forgive me for heavy quotations, because what Ken articulated here, still hasn't sunk in enough to factor into the analysis of most corporate media minions. NSPM-7 is not only the backbone of Trump's authoritarian agenda right now, but if indeed America does become the nazi dictatorship of Trump (and the right)'s dreams, this barely reported national security directive may be the critical reason why. Since we already covered who NSPM-7 instructs to target (everyone who isn't a MAGA nazi and opposes Trump's fascist agenda, even nonviolently) I want to focus on the forces the Swine Emperor is bringing to bear on not just protestors, and activists, but scholars, media critics, elected officials, and literally anyone who isn't nice enough to nazis.

"NSPM-7 is fundamentally a law enforcement directive, and it dispenses with the complications of using the active duty military or the National Guard in pursuit of political violence. It directs the Department of Justice to focus the FBI’s approximately 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) to the new mission. The FBI network of task forces comprises over 4,000 members—including FBI personnel and task force officers (or TFOs) from more than 500 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies, including special agents, police officers, intelligence analysts and surveillance technicians. First established in New York City in 1980 to systematize FBI and NYPD cooperation, today there are task forces around the country, including at least one in each of the FBI’s 55 field offices.

For the Trump White House, the beauty of using an already existing network is that it bypasses Congressional oversight and scrutiny and even obscures federal activity to governors and legislatures at the state level. States, cities, and local police have already signed Memoranda of Agreements with the feds to fight terrorism and officers are already assigned as task force officers."

You read that correctly; by signing NSPM-7, the Swine Emperor just repurposed the entire federal counterterrorism apparatus consisting of thousands of murderpigs spread across the country to go after wine moms who call him a nazi, journalists who report on the nazi shit he does, and politicians who criticize his nazi regime in the public discourse. It's a microwave COINTEPRO operation, made to order.

"Now, with Donald Trump’s directive retooling the counter-terror apparatus to go after Americans at home, this means monitoring political activity, or speech, as an investigative method to discover “radicalism.”

The focus on speech is evident throughout NSPM-7. The directive says that political violence is the result of “organized campaigns” that often begin (with the left) dehumanizing targets in “anonymous chat foras, in-person meetings, social media, and even educational institutions.”

Of course, NSPM-7 is written in enough right wing newspeak about "fomenting violence" to throw casual observers off the trail, but I think the part where NSPM-7 tells us who decides what is terrorism gives the game away.

“The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder,” NSPM-7 says.

So Pam Bondi gets to decide who is a terrorist now and yes folks, that says "civil disorder." Or, you know, a protest. Cool country we got here, huh?

#Trump #Fascism #NSPM7 #StephenMiller #PamBondi #PoliceState #COINTELPRO #Dictatorship #FBI

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

As I mentioned in the post above, the US corporate media's response to the seismic event that was Downmarket Mussolini signing NSPM-7, was pretty much a collective yawn; but antifascist organizers and independent journalists took the threat of a new fascist COINTEPRO operation seriously. In early December, 2025, Ken Klippenstein once again broke a story of the decade when he obtained a leaked memo from Trumpenreich Attorney General Pam Bondi ordering the FBI to compile political "enemies" lists, bribe Americans to snitch on each other for thought crimes, and seed supposed "terrorist organizations" with informants. So, literally the full J. Edgar Hoover.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-list-of-extremists-is-coming

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals

"Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.

The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”

That language echoes the so-called indicators of terrorism identified by President Trump’s directive National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, which the memo says it’s intended to implement. Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level."

This is a much shorter article that's probably worth your time to read in full. The quick version here however is that in addition to making an "enemies" of the Trumpenreich watchlist, Bondi also wants to beef up the FBI tip line to make it easier to snitch on your neighbors, doll out cash rewards for snitches who help them round up pinkos and other undesirables, and funnel Justice Department grant money into this new "war on terror" (read: opposition to fascism) right here at home. She also instructed the feds to cultivate "cooperators to provide information and eventually testify against other members" of the groups (read: more than half the country) she's identified as a terrorist threat.

Finally, because literally all fascist laws are retroactive, Bondi also wants reach into the past to punish thoughtcrime, dissent, and political opposition.

"The memo also directs the FBI and JTTFs to retroactively investigate incidents going back five years, authorizing the JTTFs in particular to use everything at their disposal to do so.

“Upon receipt of these referrals, the JTTFs shall use all available investigative tools, consistent with law enforcement internal policies and statutory obligations, to map the full network of culpable actors involved in the referred conduct inside and outside the United States,” the memo says."

So, the fascist Trump regime is tasking the FBI with making political enemies lists, and the fascist Attorney General wants cops all over the country to investigate and hopefully arrest you for that post you made calling Trump "Cheeto Mussolini" back in 2021. Furthermore, the Department of Justice has created a roadmap to persecute anyone a random MAGA cultist wants to punish for talking back in precisely the way Trump's fascist advisor Stephen Miller promised the Trumpenreich would immediately after Kirk's assassination. Shit man; that sounds serious, doesn't it?

That may be so. But whatever you do however, don't tell the corporate American media about all this - because as Klippenstein notes, they've been fast asleep this entire time.

#Trump #Fascism #NSPM7 #StephenMiller #PamBondi #PoliceState #COINTELPRO #Dictatorship #FBI #KenKlippenstein #Media #DepartmentOfJustice #DoJ

FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Frankly, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to spend a ton of time analyzing stories from last September, but I think it's still important for us to note how immediate, obvious, and direct the connection was between Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump's increased efforts to consolidate dictatorial power, and the larger American fascist movement's propaganda to justify those measures. Take for example this September 2025 article published in Rolling Stone magazine.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-authoritarian-week-kirk-kimmel-antifa-khalil-1235431626/ (archive: https://archive.ph/UOKcQ )

Donald Trump’s Most Authoritarian Week Yet

"It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet.

The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the air by threatening companies’ broadcast licenses if they continued to run his show. Trump and his team threatened to strip the tax-exempt status of liberal nonprofit groups, while the president called for left-wing activists to be jailed for protesting him at dinner. Trump announced he’ll once again try to designate “antifa” — America’s disparate anti-fascist movement — as a terrorist group, with no legitimate basis, clarifying once again where he stands on the whole fascism question.

Meanwhile, the administration worked toward its goal to deport a legal U.S. resident for speaking out against Israel’s relentless assault on Palestine. Reports trickled out that Trump would fire a U.S. attorney for failing to bring charges against one of his enemies, before Trump publicly called for his departure and he quit.

This ugly, authoritarian week didn’t happen in a vacuum. Trump just last month mused about how Americans want a “dictator,” and the administration now appears to be using Kirk’s shocking murder as an excuse to escalate Trump’s ongoing campaign for total power."

With all due respect to Perez, Ramirez, and Suebsaeng, who are all fine journalists, this is hardly Woodward and Bernstein hooking up with Deep Throat to expose Nixon's Watergate conspiracy here. The entire fascist American right, including the Trump administration itself, spent the first week after Kirk's death openly arguing that Trump was now allowed to do fascist dictator shit because "the left" (read: some individual person disgusted by Kirk's hatemongering) killed Charlie - and then testing the limits of how far that presumed power to transform America actually goes. At one point Trump was literally threatening to pull media broadcasts licenses for outlets that criticized him "too much," while implying that NPR (a government-supported public broadcaster) might be working with the very same "antifa" he just said he wanted to declare a terrorist organization.

I'm not going to summarize the rest of the article here, but if you actual do read it you'll see that in each and every power grab, or authoritarian exercise of state power to force compliance with fascist ideological goals, Trump regime officials directly linked the justification for doing so to the idea that "the left" was a domestic and even national security threat because Charlie Kirk caught a bullet and expired. This wasn't a mystery you had to solve, this was the Trump regime's openly articulated intention. Which probably should leave you asking why, if the guys at Rolling Stone could sniff out that Trump was using Kirk's death to do dictator shit, this same realization escaped so much of our (complicit) corporate media complex - who spent most of that same week decrying political violence and weeping crocodile tears for poor ole deadass Charlie. I guess they were just too afraid of Brendan Carr and the Trumpenreich FCC; which doesn't bode well for US media independence going forward under the Swine Emperor.

#Trump #GOP #Fascism #antifa #Dictatorship #PorkReich #CharlieKirk #FCC #BrendanCarr #Media #Censorship

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I've been staring at this empty box for a while now, because the first and perhaps most important event shaping the fascist environment in America today that happened while I was away from writing, was the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The simple truth is that I don't have anything important to say about the assassination, the person who shot him, or the various conspiracy theories surrounding Kirk's death that you haven't already heard elsewhere. Furthermore, I have almost no desire to talk about dead ass Chuckie himself, if I'm being quite honest. I don't think the world is a worse place without Charlie Kirk, I'm not sad he's dead, and asking me to mourn a guy who was in the middle of arguing trans people like myself are inherently mentally unstable and should be locked in camps to protect American society when his words finally caught up with him, is an intentional act of subjugation I refuse to participate in.

If at this late an hour, you still have any questions whatsoever about why I feel that way, please allow Charlie to tell you himself in the article below. This is a collection of direct quotes from Kirk, about a variety of subjects that are super important to American nazis precisely because they are nazis, that should more than demonstrate why Kirk's passing was not a significant loss for American society or indeed human civilization. Please keep in mind, these quotes are by no means exhaustive; nor does this represent the worst things Charlie Kirk has ever said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs

Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’

"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023"

"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.

– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024"

Right, so the guy was a fucking nazi and I've got too many tears to cry for the victims of nazi violence and oppression in America, to spare any for dead ass Chuckie fucking Kirk. So why are we talking about him here? Well, unfortunately and as we'll see going forward in this thread, pretty much everything the Trump administration has done to accelerate its project to transform America into a literal fascist dictatorship under a quasi-permanent state of martial law, has been justified in whole or in part, by the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Furthermore, because of the way all of the events immediately after Kirk's assassination played out in the political discourse, most Americans don't realize the Trump regime is still openly behaving as if everything they said about leftists and Democrats organizing terrorist cells to commit political violence is true.

In the wake of the assassination, the larger fascist American right tried to transform Kirk into a martyred civil rights icon on par with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, but for the rights of cracker Christian Nationalists and other assorted nazis. This when combined with Trump regime accusations of left wing organized terrorism, and right wing media arguments that Democrats and "liberal" media outlets (rightly) calling the Trump regime fascist were responsible for Kirk's murder, was ultimately supposed to be Trump's "Reichstag Fire." Using Kirk's murder as a pretext, the regime sought to suppress online speech, repurpose the counterterrorism apparatus to punish his perceived political and social enemies, and by transforming Kirk into a modern Horst Wessel figure, generate widespread popular support to literally turn the Hitler trick and complete America's transformation into a real as steel fascist dictatorship under the Swine Emperor.

The problem (for the regime) is the propaganda portion of this operation didn't work. After a few days of handwringing and several hundred illegal firings for social media comments, even America's "liberal" centrists came to their senses and cried bullshit. Kirk didn't become a civil rights martyr, Trump's fascist dictator agenda didn't garner widespread support, and nobody, not even the actual goddamn nazis, really believes milquetoast lib No Kings protestors are terrorists or doing a terrorism. There is however just one problem for the rest of us too; namely that hasn't stopped Trump's Injustice Department and the larger War on Terror-fueled counterterrorism apparatus from behaving as if Stephen Miller's antifa insurgency fantasies involving liberal wine moms going full Al-Qaeda are entirely real. Much in the same way everyone knowing the regime's bullshit about a drug cartel invasion is fake hasn't stopped them from using the US military to do white nationalist repression on our streets, the Trump regime clearly intends to fake it until they make it - where "it" remains a fascist dictatorship under Trump and his shadow chancellor Miller.

#Fascism #Trump #CharlieKirk #HorstWessel #Dictatorship #GOP

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@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@social.treehouse.systems replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

Frankly, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to spend a ton of time analyzing stories from last September, but I think it's still important for us to note how immediate, obvious, and direct the connection was between Charlie Kirk's assassination, Trump's increased efforts to consolidate dictatorial power, and the larger American fascist movement's propaganda to justify those measures. Take for example this September 2025 article published in Rolling Stone magazine.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-authoritarian-week-kirk-kimmel-antifa-khalil-1235431626/ (archive: https://archive.ph/UOKcQ )

Donald Trump’s Most Authoritarian Week Yet

"It was clear Donald Trump and his allies would ramp up their crackdown against any and all opposition in the wake of the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk — and this week, the president’s second administration unleashed its most authoritarian blitz yet.

The Trump administration got late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show taken off the air by threatening companies’ broadcast licenses if they continued to run his show. Trump and his team threatened to strip the tax-exempt status of liberal nonprofit groups, while the president called for left-wing activists to be jailed for protesting him at dinner. Trump announced he’ll once again try to designate “antifa” — America’s disparate anti-fascist movement — as a terrorist group, with no legitimate basis, clarifying once again where he stands on the whole fascism question.

Meanwhile, the administration worked toward its goal to deport a legal U.S. resident for speaking out against Israel’s relentless assault on Palestine. Reports trickled out that Trump would fire a U.S. attorney for failing to bring charges against one of his enemies, before Trump publicly called for his departure and he quit.

This ugly, authoritarian week didn’t happen in a vacuum. Trump just last month mused about how Americans want a “dictator,” and the administration now appears to be using Kirk’s shocking murder as an excuse to escalate Trump’s ongoing campaign for total power."

With all due respect to Perez, Ramirez, and Suebsaeng, who are all fine journalists, this is hardly Woodward and Bernstein hooking up with Deep Throat to expose Nixon's Watergate conspiracy here. The entire fascist American right, including the Trump administration itself, spent the first week after Kirk's death openly arguing that Trump was now allowed to do fascist dictator shit because "the left" (read: some individual person disgusted by Kirk's hatemongering) killed Charlie - and then testing the limits of how far that presumed power to transform America actually goes. At one point Trump was literally threatening to pull media broadcasts licenses for outlets that criticized him "too much," while implying that NPR (a government-supported public broadcaster) might be working with the very same "antifa" he just said he wanted to declare a terrorist organization.

I'm not going to summarize the rest of the article here, but if you actual do read it you'll see that in each and every power grab, or authoritarian exercise of state power to force compliance with fascist ideological goals, Trump regime officials directly linked the justification for doing so to the idea that "the left" was a domestic and even national security threat because Charlie Kirk caught a bullet and expired. This wasn't a mystery you had to solve, this was the Trump regime's openly articulated intention. Which probably should leave you asking why, if the guys at Rolling Stone could sniff out that Trump was using Kirk's death to do dictator shit, this same realization escaped so much of our (complicit) corporate media complex - who spent most of that same week decrying political violence and weeping crocodile tears for poor ole deadass Charlie. I guess they were just too afraid of Brendan Carr and the Trumpenreich FCC; which doesn't bode well for US media independence going forward under the Swine Emperor.

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🇵🇸 « Tout est fait pour éteindre le narratif palestinien »
Khadija Toufik, journaliste indépendante ayant fait beaucoup de reportages de terrain en #Cisjordanie occupée ces dernières années

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video - Kadhija Toufik face camera "En Cisjordanie occupée, on a des colons israéliens et donc Israel ne peut pas bombarder comme ça n'importe comment. Donc il y a des attaques israéliennes avec des soldats armés jusqu'aux dents. Il y a plus de mille palestiniens qui ont été assassinés, plus de 200 enfants assassinés.Les journalistes aussi sont ciblés. J'ai beaucoup travaillé aussi avec Mohammed Mansour à Jénine qui est un journaliste pour l'agence de presse palestinienne Wafa qui fin 2024 a été visé par des soldats. Il était dans sa voiture, il y avait écrit presse à l'avant, il a été visé et a failli perdre la vie et il a failli perdre sa main. Il a pu s'en sortir. Ils ont pu extraire la balle de sa main mais c'est "un coup de chance" (entre guillements) parce qu'ils étaient plusieurs dans la voiture au moins 3 ou 4 et très clairement, il m'a dit : "ils nous ont visé. Ils ont bien vu que nous avions notre gilet presse, qu'il y avait presse sur le devant de la voiture" et donc c'est une attaque délibérée. Et c'est comme ça à peu près tous les jours quand il y a des attaques de l'armée israelienne, c'est ou des tirs nourris ou alors des jets de grenades ou de gaz lacrymogène. Une façon vraiment d'éteindre le narratif palestinien"
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"A lie told once is questioned. A lie repeated often enough becomes accepted. And once it becomes 'common sense,' people stop investigating it. That is how deception survives."

~ Malcolm X

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"A lie told once is questioned. A lie repeated often enough becomes accepted. And once it becomes 'common sense,' people stop investigating it. That is how deception survives."

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Damn, #ThoughtSlime pushed another obscure media into my attention...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DAN2VJKa_k
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211793/

#CyberSix #Cartoon #media #ObscureMedia #TransInMedia #MediaRepresentation #trans

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211793/

Cybersix (TV series) - Wikipedia

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