ben chambers 🏴
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remember, fascists are small men who want to feel big, dorks who want to look cool, simpletons who cant handle complexity
theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something
theyre losers who embrace a low effort ideology that lets them win, playing on easy mode to feel like theyve conquered something
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I see we're not even bothering with civil assert forfeiture figleaf for theft anymore
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 15, 2026 at 5:53 AM
I see we're not even bothering with civil assert forfeiture figleaf for theft anymore
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Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
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I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
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Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
GOP lawmaker said trans people “harm” children. Now he's going to prison for child porn. - LGBTQ Nation
He was caught sharing hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
www.lgbtqnation.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Republican South Carolina state Rep. RJ May sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison today.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
5 counts of distributing child sex abuse material.
He shared hundreds of images of kids, including pictures of adults raping seven-year-olds.
Moms of Liberty had named him its Legislator of the Year.
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As always I am 100% in agreement with @machete.gay that the existential struggle for humanity is for those of us who believe in society and civilization and the barbarians who do not and seek to destroy it.
January 15, 2026 at 3:22 AM
As always I am 100% in agreement with @machete.gay that the existential struggle for humanity is for those of us who believe in society and civilization and the barbarians who do not and seek to destroy it.
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It means men (or children) who sell their capacity for violence on the labor market, and is a way to analyze cops, criminals, soldiers, mercs, etc, as the same "class" of person. It doesn't mean the speaker likes them. They've been thugs for all recorded history
January 15, 2026 at 5:25 AM
It means men (or children) who sell their capacity for violence on the labor market, and is a way to analyze cops, criminals, soldiers, mercs, etc, as the same "class" of person. It doesn't mean the speaker likes them. They've been thugs for all recorded history
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Cops and professional criminals *do* pretty much have the same basic skill-set
January 15, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Cops and professional criminals *do* pretty much have the same basic skill-set
wartime consigliere he is not
It is wild how fast Walz has gone from a savvy maverick vp pick the establishment is cagey about but the base loves to a guy who really is just absolutely failing the moment
State investigators have been on the scene in North Minneapolis.
I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets.
But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
Don’t give him what he wants.
I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets.
But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
Don’t give him what he wants.
January 15, 2026 at 5:22 AM
wartime consigliere he is not
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It is wild how fast Walz has gone from a savvy maverick vp pick the establishment is cagey about but the base loves to a guy who really is just absolutely failing the moment
State investigators have been on the scene in North Minneapolis.
I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets.
But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
Don’t give him what he wants.
I know you’re angry. I’m angry. What Donald Trump wants is violence in the streets.
But Minnesota will remain an island of decency, of justice, of community, and of peace.
Don’t give him what he wants.
January 15, 2026 at 5:18 AM
It is wild how fast Walz has gone from a savvy maverick vp pick the establishment is cagey about but the base loves to a guy who really is just absolutely failing the moment
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Thinking back to how the Dragonnades were one of the anti-canon of government atrocities the Founders deliberately designed the US governmental structure to frustrate, and how Trump is trying his damnedest to bring them to America.
Because that is what they were--marauding thugs to punish enemies.
Because that is what they were--marauding thugs to punish enemies.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 AM
Thinking back to how the Dragonnades were one of the anti-canon of government atrocities the Founders deliberately designed the US governmental structure to frustrate, and how Trump is trying his damnedest to bring them to America.
Because that is what they were--marauding thugs to punish enemies.
Because that is what they were--marauding thugs to punish enemies.
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Minnesota is effectively in a 21st Century Bleeding Kansas situation
January 15, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Minnesota is effectively in a 21st Century Bleeding Kansas situation
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Lots of people quoting that Margaret Atwood line after Renee Good’s murder—“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”—and it’s making me feel a kind of gendered chauvinism. Imagine being so scared just of being laughed at.
As a small woman I think it’s pathetic to feel the need to carry a gun everywhere to feel safe. If I don’t feel the need how tf do these men that think they’re so big and tough.
January 15, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Lots of people quoting that Margaret Atwood line after Renee Good’s murder—“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them”—and it’s making me feel a kind of gendered chauvinism. Imagine being so scared just of being laughed at.
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These Klansmen in federal garbs are occupying a northern city and represent a total reversal of the Reconstruction’s own logic. These nazi scumbags see the chance to run around the black side of town to throw flashbangs at black children and to *shoot into a house*. Abolish ICE and hang them.
January 15, 2026 at 4:49 AM
These Klansmen in federal garbs are occupying a northern city and represent a total reversal of the Reconstruction’s own logic. These nazi scumbags see the chance to run around the black side of town to throw flashbangs at black children and to *shoot into a house*. Abolish ICE and hang them.
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before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.
oh my god????
January 15, 2026 at 4:47 AM
before I go to bed, I feel obliged to emphasize how tonight’s rampage in northern Minneapolis was, by no exaggeration, a glorified episode of klan night riding by federally deputized groypers. Yes, DHS always had these people but the difference now is that they’re in charge and with a $175B budget.
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The federal government turning a city into a warzone because it belongs to the minority party and for no other reason.
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 AM
The federal government turning a city into a warzone because it belongs to the minority party and for no other reason.
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Russia adapted their Spooky Op Shit to the digital age while everyone else patted themselves on the back about how online isn't real life and now a future history book is writing about how that shaped the first half of the whole ass 21st century
The thing about Russiagate is that it’s patently true based on outcomes and an unmitigated success as such
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Russia adapted their Spooky Op Shit to the digital age while everyone else patted themselves on the back about how online isn't real life and now a future history book is writing about how that shaped the first half of the whole ass 21st century
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The thing about Russiagate is that it’s patently true based on outcomes and an unmitigated success as such
January 15, 2026 at 2:15 AM
The thing about Russiagate is that it’s patently true based on outcomes and an unmitigated success as such
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i would like to highlight the phrase "neighborhood signal chats"
These neighborhood signal chats are absolutely crazy right now. You’ve got young activists in there with the most normie folks alive who all just absolutely fucking hate ICE so much. And they are all willing to put their bodies on the line for their communities.
January 15, 2026 at 3:27 AM
i would like to highlight the phrase "neighborhood signal chats"
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The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
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It's 2011, a disingenuous tankie is screaming about anarchist workers burning down catholic churches back in the Spanish revolution.
It's 2021, a disingenuous tankie is screaming about indigenous anarchists burning down churches in Canada.
It's 2026...
It's 2021, a disingenuous tankie is screaming about indigenous anarchists burning down churches in Canada.
It's 2026...
January 15, 2026 at 4:07 AM
It's 2011, a disingenuous tankie is screaming about anarchist workers burning down catholic churches back in the Spanish revolution.
It's 2021, a disingenuous tankie is screaming about indigenous anarchists burning down churches in Canada.
It's 2026...
It's 2021, a disingenuous tankie is screaming about indigenous anarchists burning down churches in Canada.
It's 2026...
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When we say "explicitly neo-Nazi" we mean channels that fly swastikas and praise Hitler. That's the zone of internet where DHS is apparently finding inspiration for their X posts. It's ultra unlikely they would have ever encountered that song if they weren't in that space, imo.
Our researchers found at least 450 posts on Telegram dating back to 2020 that shared the song mentioned in this reporting.
Nearly all the posts we found were from explicitly neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels. And a review of our datasets found it hasn't circulated much outside those circles.
Nearly all the posts we found were from explicitly neo-Nazi and white supremacist channels. And a review of our datasets found it hasn't circulated much outside those circles.
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
When we say "explicitly neo-Nazi" we mean channels that fly swastikas and praise Hitler. That's the zone of internet where DHS is apparently finding inspiration for their X posts. It's ultra unlikely they would have ever encountered that song if they weren't in that space, imo.
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Important reminder:
Fascists fear looking weak, silly, and impotent far more than they fear being described as scary and dangerous.
Fascists fear looking weak, silly, and impotent far more than they fear being described as scary and dangerous.
A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Important reminder:
Fascists fear looking weak, silly, and impotent far more than they fear being described as scary and dangerous.
Fascists fear looking weak, silly, and impotent far more than they fear being described as scary and dangerous.
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ICE, CBP and DHS are an axis of evil threatening our freedom
Now watch this drive
Now watch this drive
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 AM
ICE, CBP and DHS are an axis of evil threatening our freedom
Now watch this drive
Now watch this drive