as liberals critically underestimated the ruthless sadism of the right, the right underestimated the alienated lack of observation inherent in current liberalism

Hey so yeah it does seem like seizure of actual state power is more or less complete and jurisprudence doesn’t matter because a critical mass of law enforcement are MAGA loyalists and they’re all just smirking and waiting for everyone to finally notice

RE: https://mastodon.world/@MJmusicinears/114323325885466196

'Extremely troubling': Judge questions why US cannot locate deported man - Al Jazeera
#TrumpNaziMafiaRegime #TrumpNaziDeathParty #TrumpDeportations
https://apple.news/AC-rck_GKRk6rRtrb7hwLew

The absolute state of Elon Musk fans

👆 see above for full poster

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Closer view…

#Jan6Database
#SeditionHunters
#Jan6 #J6 #CapitolAssault
#AssaultOnPolice

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#SmilesPB
#Scallops
#SgtPepperSprayer
#InfoSprayer
#GreenHeavySprayer

It's working! Keep it going! Join #TeslaTakedown for a day of peaceful protest around the world on March 29 and make your voices heard! Join the protest or organize one in your city at Teslatakedown.com!

Tesla’s Europe sales drop near...

To celebrate one year of FOIAFridays, MuckRock’s data journalist Dillon Bergin shares five things he’s learned through these monthly conversations. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2025/mar/17/five-things-i-learned-from-a-year-of-foiafridays/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ForTheRecord

“'What I’m saying is hang on to your stock,' Musk said."

And while he was saying this to the rank-and-file, board members and other insiders have been cashing out in a big way. (https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-board-members-executive-sell-off-100-million/story?id=119889047)

Exactly the same thing happened at Enron when things started to go south.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/elon-musk-asks-tesla-employees-to-hang-on-to-stock-despite-40-drop
#elonmusk #tesla #trump

City of Portland comms departments need to fully stop using Twitter.

even now that it’s a de facto Nazi website owned by a deranged fascist illegally looting the country, they still fucking tweet more than they even use flashalerts.

They should at least be regularly using flashalerts, but even better would be the city making a dedicated mastodon server for its departments & offices. Easy, open source, has rss feeds, etc etc

#pdx #portland #Oregon #pnw #flashalerts #pdxfire #portlandPolice #pdxwater #Twitter #elonmusk #MAGA #coup #January6 #j6 #jan6 #Nazi #massShooter #stormfront #Mastodon #fediverse #orpol

As previously mentioned, here's what Einstein had to say about segregation:

"There is a separation of white people and colored people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."

For the last 20 years of his career, Einstein declined almost all public speaking engagements, except those at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

This photo was taken at Lincoln University, an HBCU.

@bytebro @pluralistic

I like this one too... ;)

Learning David Lynch was once distressed by the sight of a tenement-dweller cooking an egg on an iron is one thing; learning it was a tenement his grandfather owned, in which none of the rooms for rent had kitchens, is quite another.

<creepy little girl voice>

They're HEeeeere....

(#7 ran off when I opened the door...)

#jackrabbit #hare #winter #prairie #SK #Canada #wildlife #rabbit #lagomorph #lepus

edit: it works better when you attach the photo...

History may not repeat, but it rhymes.
#USPol #Trump #FascistRoadmap

banger alert: Contagion Funk by @Synthesizer.repair@bandwagon.fm

Statutory toilet

like maybe #lemmy & #mbin have similarly good comment threading, but I think of those as pretty different platforms than this.

#akkoma still has the best comment threading I’ve encountered on the micro-blogging part of the #fediverse

the US’ social immune system against fascism is currently in terminal decline.

that doesn’t mean pockets of genuine resistance (not liberal bullshit) don’t remain vital, but they can’t rely on mobilizing broadly generalized social revulsion against outright nazism, fascism, & kkk stuff. the GOP has absorbed that stuff.

none of this means “just give up” on any front. but be clear eyed.

#uspol #fascism #maga #nazis #pdx

there are a lot of intermediary steps / forms, but think of the progression from Unite The Right to January 6th.

after UTR, they were in total disarray. enough of the GOP mainstream felt too repulsed to double down and defend the nazis.

gradually, though, with repetition of violent MAGA nazi rallies, and with the mainstreaming of alt right propagandists like Andy Ngo & ghoulish GOP functionaries like Harmeet Dhillon (plus whole lot of dark money from a cadre of fascist billionaires) – their revulsion toward outright nazism waned. after J6 it only took a couple of weeks for the mainstream GOP to consolidate around a cluster of apologist and denialist positions. And their well-funded (possibly some of the most funded media in history) propaganda organs went into overdrive.

when the next UTR style fascist atrocities happen (& they will be bigger and worse), they will not hesitate to circle the wagons.

#uspol #fascism #maga #nazis #pdx