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Federico Finchelstein. Historian & Immigrant. 8 books on fascists & populists. Words
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Federico Finchelstein is an Argentine historian and chair of the history department at the New School for Social Research and is director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies. .. more

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h
“The notion that [Trump] claims this is somehow making the country safer is absurd. It’s making the country more dangerous. The domestic terrorists are ICE. It’s hard to believe we have a criminal president running a lawless government trying to intimidate the people of this country through force.”

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 20h
Over 100 members of Congress have mounted replicas of a plaque honoring the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th insurrection outside their offices -- because House Speaker Mike Johnson has disgracefully refused to install the official one.

#TrumpCoupAttempt

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 21h
Fascist deceptions are situated beyond the more traditional forms of political duplicity. Fascists consider their lies to be at the service of simple absolute truths, which are in fact bigger lies. From my book, A Brief History of Fascist Lies, page 3.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 1d
In fascist ideology, the leaders personified an epochal continuum establishing a direct link, a unitary front with the people and the nation. In turn, the leader was the ultimate source of popular sovereignty, responsible only to himself. From my book, The Wannabe Fascists, p. 75

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 2d
Perpetrators like this one had different names in different fascist or pseudo fascist regimes: squadristi, grupos de tareas; ss. This cannot be normalized as mere continuity with the past. Democracy is rapidly breaking

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote a book on the history of fascist lies and this propaganda operation belongs to this history as a new chapter
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting, who then violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer, who seems to have shot her in self defense. Based on the attached clip, it is hard to believe he is alive, but is now recovering in the hospital. The situation is being studied, in its entirety, but the reason these incidents are happening is because the Radical Left is threatening, assaulting, and targeting our Law Enforcement Officers and ICE Agents on a daily basis. They are just trying to do the job of MAKING AMERICA SAFE. We need to stand by and protect our Law Enforcement Officers from this Radical Left Movement of Violence and Hate!

Reposted by Federico Finchelstein

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 3d
Per @reuters.com , US now seizing Russian-flag Venezuelan tanker Bella-1 / Marinera
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Exclusive: US seizing Venezuela-linked, Russian-flagged oil tanker after weeks-long pursuit
The United States is attempting to seize a Russian-flagged oil tanker with links to Venezuela after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic and as a Russian submarine and warship were cl...
www.reuters.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d
Now that Trump says Venezuela will hand over 30-50 million barrels of oil, with proceeds of sales to be controlled by him, I want to reiterate: He's inviting our oligarchs to reap great riches by buying into his scheme of imperial hemispheric domination.

newrepublic.com/article/2049...

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 3d
"the dominant predator force". More fascist talk and who can be surprised?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 3d
He is our representative and not our king. it's pathetic that we have to make this clear

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 3d
from Venezuela, Greenland, mid-terms, suspension of federal funds to dem states, to internal reppresion and consolidation of party press (CBS, etc), Trump is turning upside down our worlds (of yesterday?)

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 3d
Trump operates as a dictator without dictatorship...he understands his power not as representation but as delegation. This is not how democracy works. Red flags happen every day & we cannot ignore his words because they mean testing the waters for what can become a dark reality

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d
Here's the clip of Tony Dokoupil ending tonight's broadcast by absolutely gushing over "ultimate Florida Man" Marco Rubio.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists.

Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election.

Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot.

It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 4d
Yes that plus a brutal ideology and cult of the leader involving fantasies of total power & domination
lincolnproject.us The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5d
Venezuela isn't about fentanyl or national security. It's about oil and Epstein.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 4d
Emperor is naked but the fanatic followers of his cult don't see it! and, of course, enablers know it but ignore it...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
photos from Trump's speech to House Republicans

(Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 4d
Not Brazil. That candidate is in prison now...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
photos from Trump's speech to House Republicans

(Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d
Look who's willing to dis Bongino (now that he left the FBI).

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d
I’m running for Congress in NY-12, my home.

We have a demented, criminal president running the country like a mob operation—government by the boss, for the boss.

We need Democratic fighters who will defend the rule of law and deliver government by the people. Join us.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 4d
In Nazism, this personification of the followers in leadership was called the Führerprinzip, which meant that everything Hitler wanted was legitimate and beyond the rule of law. In fascism, the will of the was superior to any written law...Just saying!
mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d
Trump said today:

"MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."

If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned.

Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 4d
Today we remember the Trump failed coup and wonder about his legitimacy

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 5d
Trump said today:

"MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too."

If your toddler spoke to you like this, you'd be concerned.

Most powerful man in the world, ladies and gents. Still hard to believe, I know.

Reposted by Federico Finchelstein

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5d
Venezuela isn't about fentanyl or national security. It's about oil and Epstein.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 7d
We need to use the right words: Trump's fascist vocational
War in venezuela. There is a special place in the chambers of shame for Trump academic normalizers. Their lives (and jobs) on campus are 0 affected by trumpism but they claim this is more Of the same.

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Federico Finchelstein @finchelsteinf.bsky.social · 7d
Trump's press conference was both full of lies and also explicit about his milistaristic ideology: ocuppation? running it? from where? from air? Asking for specific information is pointless...this is why independent journalism is essential...now more than ever!