DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush & Cheney"</p><p>In the so-called "Global War on Terror", the CIA held incommunicado & tortured captives in secret "black sites” around the world.</p><p>The administration's "argument implies it can deport & incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-autocratic-planted.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-</span><span class="invisible">autocratic-planted.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dickcheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dickcheney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blacksites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacksites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> .</p>
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DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush & Cheney"</p><p>In the so-called "Global War on Terror", the CIA held incommunicado & tortured captives in secret "black sites” around the world.</p><p>The administration's "argument implies it can deport & incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-autocratic-planted.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-</span><span class="invisible">autocratic-planted.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dickcheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dickcheney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blacksites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacksites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush & Cheney"</p><p>In the so-called "Global War on Terror", the CIA held incommunicado & tortured captives in secret "black sites” around the world.</p><p>The administration's "argument implies it can deport & incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-autocratic-planted.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-</span><span class="invisible">autocratic-planted.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dickcheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dickcheney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blacksites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacksites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush & Cheney"</p><p>In the so-called "Global War on Terror", the CIA held incommunicado & tortured captives in secret "black sites” around the world.</p><p>The administration's "argument implies it can deport & incarcerate any person, including U.S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-autocratic-planted.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/04/harvests-</span><span class="invisible">autocratic-planted.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dickcheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dickcheney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blacksites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blacksites</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> .</p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>The Skinny is a cleaned up collection of my Fediverse blog posts; this time from April 16th to April 19th. Topics explored include Trump's ICE Gestapo, the anti-trans pogrom, signs that a Christian Nationalist purge is brewing in the Trump administration, Broligarchs, and why Seb Gorka just implied half the country are aiding and abetting terrorists by fighting back against the Trump agenda.</p><p>The Skinny: Climate of Fear and Indifference</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21/the-skinny-climate-of-fear-and-indifference/2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/21</span><span class="invisible">/the-skinny-climate-of-fear-and-indifference/2/</span></a></p><p>"As such, it should absolutely alarm you when Seb Gorka goes on TV to repeat and reinforce the US government’s fact-free claim that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is literally a “terrorist,” and starts characterizing people who oppose Trump’s illegal “deportation” of Garcia as folks potentially “aiding and abetting” terrorists; because again, for some mysterious reason (they’re all nazis too) the Trump regime gave this disgraced War on Terror-era reject authority over protecting America from whoever the hell the regime says are “terrorists” apparently. How Gorka finds the time to do so amid his typically busy day of doing Islambophia, warmongering, and spreading fascist ideology, remains a mystery."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AntiTransPogrom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTransPogrom</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TransRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/IdeologicalPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdeologicalPolicing</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gorka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gorka</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Broligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Broligarchs</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a></p>
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET<p>According to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> logic and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PeteHegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeteHegseth</span></a>'s tattoos, he's the member of the following gangs:<br>– "We the people": <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SecondTrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondTrumpAdministration</span></a> <br>– 🇺🇸 🔫: US Army (<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/CollateralMurder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CollateralMurder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JulianAssange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JulianAssange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a>) and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/NRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NRA</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SecondAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondAmendment</span></a>)<br>– ⚔️✝️☩: <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChristianFundamentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianFundamentalists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChristianNationalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChristianNationalists</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a>)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SecondTrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecondTrumpAdministration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlienEnemiesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlienEnemiesAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KilmarAbregoGarcia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HabeasCorpus</span></a></p>
Markus Werle<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Nonya_Bidniss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Nonya_Bidniss</span></a></span> that is what <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/Guantanamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guantanamo</span></a> and the <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> was all about. Now we reap what we sowed since 2003.</p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>On the fascist theater, propaganda, and deceptions that may lead to the birth of a US dictatorship under Trump unless Americans rise up and stop him. An essay about fascist unreality and the nazi game of Simon Says the Trump regime played during the President of El Salvador's official White House visit, and why the evidence suggests the United States just officially slipped into authoritarianism.</p><p><a href="https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16/fascist-word-games-and-the-birth-of-an-american-dictatorship/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/16</span><span class="invisible">/fascist-word-games-and-the-birth-of-an-american-dictatorship/</span></a></p><p>Fascist Word Games and the Birth of an American Dictatorship</p><p>"t this point I’m honestly not sure how much more evidence fair minded people need to see before they understand the Trump regime’s farcical yet terrifying trafficking of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador had no basis in law or public safety, but was rather just a form of highly-effective fascist propaganda; a grand act of nazi theatre designed to inspire white nationalists, terrorize brown people, and shatter the legal checks on the Klepto Kaiser and his Christian Nationalist regime’s power."</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USConstitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USConstitution</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbregoGarcia</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Kidnapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kidnapping</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/HumanTrafficking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanTrafficking</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MarcoRubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarcoRubio</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StephenMiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StephenMiller</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/NayibBukele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NayibBukele</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/MassDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDeportations</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WhiteNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>Let's not forget that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> argued to get the endorsement of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeorgeWBush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeWBush</span></a> along with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DickCheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DickCheney</span></a>, who led the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a>, expanded <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSA</span></a> Spying and did the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> that destroyed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> with privatization of their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> & stole their <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> to pay back companies.</p><p>Only to welcome them cos they hate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a></p>
HeiDe<p><a href="https://taz.de/Einreise-von-Gefluechteten/!6079286/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">taz.de/Einreise-von-Gefluechte</span><span class="invisible">ten/!6079286/</span></a> Wer hat Angst vorm „<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Afghanen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Afghanen</span></a>-Flieger“?<br>Kommentar von Emran Feroz<br>Gefährdete Afghanen kommen nach <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Deutschland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deutschland</span></a> – und <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Medien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medien</span></a> und Politik kübeln ihren <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hass</span></a> aus. Dieser Diskurs, der seit Monaten geführt wird, könnte gar nicht menschenfeindlicher und ignoranter sein. Dabei war es der absolut gescheiterte „ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a>“, der die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Taliban" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taliban</span></a> nicht besiegte, sondern zurück an die Macht brachte. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trumpismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trumpismus</span></a> ist schon längst in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> angekommen.</p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>In an ominous episode that is still being treated as "Trump being Trump" by some portion of the corporate media, Downmarket Mussolini has once again floated the idea of transferring American citizens to a slave labor torture prison in El Salvador:</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-el-salvador" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/trump-el</span><span class="invisible">-salvador</span></a></p><p>Trump Backs 'Blatantly Unconstitutional' Proposal to Send US Citizen Inmates to El Salvador Prisons</p><p>"With a deadline looming for the Trump administration to return a Maryland resident to the U.S. after expelling him along with hundreds of other people to an El Salvador detention center under a shadowy deal with the Central American country, U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stunned observers by expressing a desire to send U.S. citizens into El Salvador's prison system.</p><p>In a press briefing aboard Air Force One Sunday evening, Trump was asked by a reporter about an offer made by Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to accept prisoners sent by the U.S. from its federal prison population.</p><p>"I love that," Trump said. "If we could take some of our 20-time wise guys that push people into subways and hit people over the back of the head and purposely run people over in cars, if he would take them, I would be honored to give them."</p><p>"I don't know what the law says on that," he added. "I have suggested that, why should we stop at people who cross the border illegally?"</p><p>I know I'm not the only person working in this space that's getting sick of hanging on Der Führer's ever word, musing, and threat, but as we've discussed many times, part of the way this regime operates is by transforming Trump's ravings into presumed consent to act on its worst fascist impulses and plans, in a system of "enforced unreality." When the president says, multiple times, he wants to send US citizens to a gulag in El Salvador, he's being dead serious about the regime's intentions; whether that's legal, or anyone in a position to stop him will do so, is another matter entirely - but this guy isn't just talking to hear himself talk, no matter how hard that may be to believe for people who know how profoundly ignorant and unstable Trump actually is. Given that reality then, the regime's continued quest to manufacture consent for rendering US citizens to a foreign maximum security torture prison, brings up 4 important issues:</p><p>1) We literally have no idea what Trump's deal with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele says, and the arrangement is extra-judicial at best.</p><p>"As Trump expressed interest in expelling U.S. citizens to a foreign prison system, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council pointed out that the details of the White House's deal with Bukele have not been publicly disclosed.</p><p>"We literally know nothing about it, other than we're paying them $6 million," said Reichlin-Melnick. "No law in the United States authorizes us to pay another country to imprison people. And yet! They're doing it."</p><p>2) At the same time Der Führer is advocating for the wonders of rendering US citizens to the carceral "care" of an authoritarian foreign government aligned with the Trump regime, the US government is also arguing in court that once they send someone to CECOT, they no longer have the ability to bring them back because they don't have custody of the prisoner and El Salvador is outside of US jurisdiction. Taken together then, this means that the President of the United States is currently advocating for the wisdom of, and his right to, permanently disappear US citizens. I don't care how much of a trav-sham-mockery you think Trump is, that's arguably the most terrifying news to emerge from the entire Trump 2.0 era.</p><p>3) While Trump's current rhetoric is focused on "dangerous criminals" and the examples he gives are mostly made up violent crime stories, the reality is that this regime has been arguing that folks protesting its fascist agenda, boycotting Elon Musk, or acting to oppose a US-backed genocide by Israel in Gaza, are literally domestic terrorists and an active threat to US national security. Furthermore it requires no conjecture to connect these facts to the regime's gulag fantasies because the Attorney General has already indicated support for sending "domestic terrorist" anti-Tesla protestors to CECOT. If they want to disappear you into a gulag for depressing Elon's profit margins, you can bet they're fine with doing so for protesting a genocide, or even just opposing Trumpism in the streets.</p><p>4) While all of this sounds horrifying and impossible, the reality is that our anti-terrorism policies under the Bush administration after 9/11 have already established a precedent for the US govt shipping people to legal black holes and claiming they hold no responsibility for protecting their rights as part of the extraordinary rendition policy. As many warned at the time, the War on Terror was always destined to return home, and it seems that under Trump, it has done precisely that.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CECOT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CECOT</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/IdeologicalPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdeologicalPolicing</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Speaking of cowardice, complicity, and paving the road for fascism, let us not forget that the Trump regime's enabling of an ongoing genocide by Israel in Gaza, their fascist kidnapping spree against student protestors, and their quest to control American universities under the guise of "fighting antisemitism" are built on the back of policies, and in particular ideological justifications, provided by a Democratic Party that picked supporting genocide, hunting down migrants, and building out a police state over winning "the most important election in American history." </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump</span></a></p><p>Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown</p><p>"For instance, the reason Trump could plausibly refer to Gaza a “demolition site” is because, for more than a year prior to his re-election, his Democratic predecessor (urged on by Schumer and others) supplied unlimited weapons to Israel to carry out a campaign of destruction that has few modern equivalents – a campaign that was not just restricted to Gaza, but also extended to the West Bank, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Biden’s planned successor, Kamala Harris, and her surrogates repeatedly stressed to voters that these policies would continue largely unchanged under her watch.</p><p>Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses. Democratic lawmakers put aggressive pressure on the former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to crush the protests. She ultimately did so with the assistance of New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams (who justified his clampdown via evidence-free statements that the protests were driven primarily by “outside agitators”). Trump celebrated the pictures and videos of students getting roughed up by the NYPDand, upon Trump’s reclaiming the White House, the justice department interceded on behalf of Adams – making his criminal investigation go away in apparent exchange for the mayor adopting a more aggressive posture on immigration – a move that critics claim is a quid pro quo.</p><p>In a similar vein, it was Biden who enshrined the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal guidance, despite the definition’s author repeatedly describing it as a “travesty” to use this definition to regulate speech and behavior. Building on Biden’s introduction, Trump is poised to sign a bill that would implement this same definition into federal anti-discrimination law – and in the meantime, he’s insisting Columbia and other schools adopt this definition in their own codes of conduct. NYU and Harvard have already taken this step, overriding concerns by civil rights and civil liberties organizations – from the ACLU, to Fire and the AAUP, to Israeli civil rights groups – who stressed that IHRA’s definition is extremely vague and provides strong leeway for institutional stakeholders to censor most critical discussion of Israel, Zionism or Judaism more broadly, by Jews and non-Jews alike."</p><p>Look, you can criticize me for playing "the blame game" all you like, but every goddamn thing Trump is doing surrounding the US-backed genocide in Gaza, including the domestic installation of fascist ideological policing, was and is facilitated by a Biden administration that was warned all of this - from Trump winning, to deploying War on Terror logic repression on anti-genocide protesters - was on the table if they didn't change course. If you want to know why only fourteen Democrats signed a letter decrying the fascist abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, and only thirty-four Democrat lawmakers signed the letter demanding the release of Rumeysa Ozturk (whose only "crime" appears to be have been writing an op-ed calling for her University to divest from Israel and condemn a genocide) you don't have to look any further than a mainstream Democratic Party leadership class that's fat on AIPAC donations and happily told you student protestors were violent antisemites who endorsed terrorist organizations, demanded colleges take action to suppress the protests, and justified a brutal police crackdown on... college kids who don't want their government to facilitate a genocide. It's kind of hard to criticize all that fascism when your donors love it and you directly made the arguments Trump is using to conduct it, after all. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/StudentProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentProtests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Collaborators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Collaborators</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antisemitism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/IdeologicalPolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IdeologicalPolicing</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a></p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US"</p><p>There are parallels between attempts to expel anti-genocide student protesters and Bush-era deportations.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/how-the-war-on-terror-paved-the-way-for-student-deportations-in-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/h</span><span class="invisible">ow-the-war-on-terror-paved-the-way-for-student-deportations-in-the-us</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/georgebush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgebush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US"</p><p>There are parallels between attempts to expel anti-genocide student protesters and Bush-era deportations.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/how-the-war-on-terror-paved-the-way-for-student-deportations-in-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/h</span><span class="invisible">ow-the-war-on-terror-paved-the-way-for-student-deportations-in-the-us</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/georgebush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgebush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: The “War on Terror” Comes Home in the Trump Era</p><p>"The egalization and uses of torture in the post-9/11 years, the fabricated decision to go to war in Iraq, the mass surveillance of Americans in that era, and so much more... </p><p>"set in place a grim template for the second Trump era."</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/terror-comes-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/03/terror-co</span><span class="invisible">mes-trump.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaGenocideNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocideNotWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analys8s: The “War on Terror” Comes Home in the Trump Era</p><p>"The egalization and uses of torture in the post-9/11 years, the fabricated decision to go to war in Iraq, the mass surveillance of Americans in that era, and so much more... </p><p>"set in place a grim template for the second Trump era."</p><p><a href="https://www.juancole.com/2025/03/terror-comes-trump.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">juancole.com/2025/03/terror-co</span><span class="invisible">mes-trump.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaGenocideNotWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaGenocideNotWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> .</p>
DrALJONES<p>Analysis: "How the ‘war on terror’ paved the way for student deportations in the US"</p><p>There are parallels between attempts to expel anti-genocide student protesters and Bush-era deportations.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/how-the-war-on-terror-paved-the-way-for-student-deportations-in-the-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/28/h</span><span class="invisible">ow-the-war-on-terror-paved-the-way-for-student-deportations-in-the-us</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/us" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>us</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/georgebush" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>georgebush</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/islamophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>islamophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a> .</p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>As I've argued (with mixed success) on the other account, the Trump regime "Signalgate" scandal has political relevance for folks who want this fascist government to fail, even if you, like me, do not give one flying fuck about "national security." Trump's warmonger division willfully broke multiple laws, got caught lying about it, and currently look incompetent enough that they'd struggle to run a taco stand, let alone a government. This isn't breaking news to anyone who has been paying attention, but it has inspired the larger liberal establishment to finally make *some* effort to push back against the Trump regime, and I'd rather have them doing that than meekly accepting the boot; which is precisely why the entire fascist manufacturing consent machine in and around TrumpWorld is flailing so hard to justify the regime's actions and make this go away.</p><p>For whatever value Signalgate does (or doesn't) have in slowing the Trump regime's agenda down however, I think it says a lot about why we're facing down a fascist government requested by roughly 75M voters, that the "national security" discussion has taken overwhelming precedence over acknowledging that the attack on Yemen itself was unconstitutional, and the leaks also reveal the administration confessing to a war crime. </p><p>1) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-strikes-in-yemen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/us-strik</span><span class="invisible">es-in-yemen</span></a></p><p>A Reminder Amid Group Chat Outrage: US Strikes on Yemen Are Unconstitutional</p><p>"The advocacy groups Just Foreign Policy, DAWN, and Action Corps released a joint statement Thursday calling on Congress to take action to stop U.S. military action in Yemen by upholding "its sole authority to declare war under Article I of the Constitution and the 1973 War Powers Resolution (WPR)."</p><p>The chat messages sent between officials including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz stunned the public and Washington insiders this week because they had accidentally also been sent to Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, but the three groups pointed out that they also included an admission from Vance that the strikes were not defensive—contrary to claims by President Donald Trump."</p><p>2) <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/democrat-leaked-messages-show-waltz-admitting-to-war-crime-in-yemen-strike/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/democrat</span><span class="invisible">-leaked-messages-show-waltz-admitting-to-war-crime-in-yemen-strike/</span></a></p><p>Experts: Leaked Messages Show Waltz Admitting to War Crime in Yemen Strike</p><p>"In an exchange after the strikes first hit, as shown in Wednesday’s leak, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz says that the U.S. had collapsed a building that one of their Houthi targets was supposedly inside, calling it “amazing.”</p><p>“Their first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and now it’s collapsed,” Waltz said. Per the screenshots, Vice President J.D. Vance responds, “Excellent.” CIA Director John Ratcliffe says, “A good start.” Waltz then replies with a fist emoji, a U.S. flag emoji and a flame emoji.</p><p>According to Yemen Data Project, the first strike killed at least 13 civilians and injured nine on the night of March 15, hitting north of the capital, Sanaa. Yemen Data Project says that this was the bombing deemed “excellent” by the vice president and “amazing” by Waltz.</p><p>The messages are “prima facie evidence of at least one war crime applauded by the people who conspired to commit it,” wrote Dylan Williams, Vice President for Government Affairs for the Center for International Policy (CIP), on social media."</p><p>To be clear, I'm not saying these crimes by the regime aren't at least coming up on the margins of the liberal establishment; I've seen a few Democrat politicians expressing these critiques, and brief discussions in even the mainstream corporate media have occurred around these topics. The problem is that the vast *majority* of people with a platform to bring these crimes to light simply don't care. We live in a society where illegal military actions based on the thinnest of pretexts, and war crimes against (particularly Muslim) civilian targets are so normalized that it just doesn't move the needle for a political and media establishment that helped normalize this monstrous shit in the first place. If you haven't figured out by now that one of major reasons the Trump regime is (mostly) succeeding in installing a fascist dictatorship in America, is the powers granted to the imperial presidency to protect "national security" and to fight a racist, quixotic "War on Terror," I'm going to have to ask you how long you've been in a coma. A society that empowers and tolerates crimes against humanity abroad under the auspices of "keeping us safe," is a society that will tolerate the same when their leaders invariably bring the violence back home. </p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Signalgate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Signalgate</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Yemen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yemen</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>murder</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gaze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaze</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scandal</span></a></p>
demi7en 🎗🇪🇺<p>TL:DR: The sequel to America's "War on Terror" became "War on Liberal Democracy". Plot twist: Now it is the American rightwing hating all the rest us for our freedoms!</p><p>Anyone remember how in the GWB era of the neocons in early 2000's, the GOP rightwingers running the "War on Terror" had an excuse mantra:</p><p>"They (islamists) hate us for our freedoms". 👈️</p><p>The American Right went on to spend some 2-3 *trillion* dollars on the folly of killing an idea (actually killing and maiming hundreds of thousands as part of the process) while in reality they were fanning the flames.</p><p>On top of the gargantuan monetary and humanitarian waste, the damage of America's image across the entire planet was and is incalculable.</p><p>(One other notable thing happened in 2001: USA invited the Chinese Communist Party dictatorship into the World Trade Organization as a full member...)</p><p>Anyway, a quarter century after those massive self-inflicted wounds we now have a 2025 revision of the GOP — the current MAGA trumptard horde controlled by a handful of nihilistic and sociopathic billionaires — and what is *their* mantra?</p><p>You couldn't make this shit up: They hate LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES for their freedoms. 👀👀 </p><p>Just like the Al Queda and ISIS types did.</p><p>But instead of financially ruinous and unwinnable Mid-East wars the current "republican" US government is now harnessing its might against America's generational *democratic* allies.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/maga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maga</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/waronterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waronterror</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>The foundations of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WarOnTerror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOnTerror</span></a> legislation were left in place by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> to be used exactly like this down the line (here & now)</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/hebagowayed.bsky.social/post/3lkxws7atnc2u" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/hebagowayed.b</span><span class="invisible">sky.social/post/3lkxws7atnc2u</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Walz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
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