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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4h

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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This Is Completely Unprepared, and I Am Real @jsx.bsky.social · 4h

The White House:
"For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property — yet the Fake News remains in shameful denial about the Radical Left’s reign of terror."

The reign of terror:

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 6h

Every day he makes more and more sense to me

image of michael caine in the movie children of men. he has long white hair and a white beard and is on a couch surrounded by books and his dog and plants.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 6h

Proud to say I continue to put the vast majority of my content out free to the world, without ads, without using AI, and I try to source as much of my work as possible. Am I making a livable wage? Absolutely not! But have you seen the people who make money recently? I'm good, thanks.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 6h

well I loved it (I wrote one yesterday as well, I think it is absolutely important to have moments of reflecting on the past -- both recent and not so recent).

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

jokes on her Burgerville is unionzed with the IWW

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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos of nothing, Sec. Kristi Noem is currently praying over Burgerville with Portland ICE officials.

A screenshot of a video of Noem praying at a conference table with other people wearing suits. Fast food bags and water bottles sit on the table.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

BTW James Dobson started the Alliance Defending Freedom legal organization, which is set to undo Colorado's ban on gay conversion therapy. Dobson really, really loved conversion therapy of all types (for autistic kids AND queer kids).

Jonathan R-E (He/Him) @elyeasbane.bsky.social · 1d

Learning about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child from @rlstollar.bsky.social and @dlmayfield.bsky.social and dreaming of an America not run by religious nuts who consider child abuse a sacrament.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

This will be a vote to erase 50 years of medical and psychiatric knowledge and kill gay and trans kids, because MAGA Republicans feel that in a better world, fewer of them would exist. It is that simple. Democrats must make SCOTUS expansion part of the party platform. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

You can give all the proof in the world that the the core of white evangelicalism is the belief that everyone should be ruled by white Christian men and people will still be like but hurting the feelings of fascists is not good you should stop that

D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

me: shares the information that Dr. James Dobson was taught everything he knew about marriage and family counseling by the man who inspired the Third Reich to implement their eugenics program.

white person in my DM's: I really don't think we should equate white evangelicals with Nazis

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

me: shares the information that Dr. James Dobson was taught everything he knew about marriage and family counseling by the man who inspired the Third Reich to implement their eugenics program.

white person in my DM's: I really don't think we should equate white evangelicals with Nazis

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

When I say global strike I mean STRIKE. stop investing your emotional support in authoritarians -- who have made it clear they do not have the moral courage or clarity to meet this moment.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

Honor Greta, Palestinians, and the global movement for liberation by deciding today not to hang out or celebrate any of the upcoming holidays with authoritarians who do not care about the survival of the planet or of our species.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 1d

If you are a Christian writer, academic or historian trying to prove you are one of the good ones these days and you ignore or dismiss anyone who left Christianity I’m sorry you are still perpetuating the supremacist norms.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel was right. Greta is the anti-christ heralding the apocalyptic end of a terrorizing genocidal state.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Dobson's parenting methods impacted upwards of 1/3 of the US population. His methods were highly influenced by Paul Popenoe the father of modern eugenics, who Dobson worked with for ten years. The Nazi's used Popenoe's work to implement mass forced sterilization and so did the state of California

D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Do you want to be James Dobson's worst nightmare? Then listen to this podcast episode where I break down his white supremacist eugenicist roots and how his parenting methods create a population of folks who wouldn't resist authoritarian rule: www.strongwilledproject.com/focus-on-the...

James Dobson’s Worst Nightmare Part 1 — Strongwilled

A history of James Dobson, his eugenic beginnings, his work on the Meese Commission, and how he ushered in religious authoritarianism in the US

www.strongwilledproject.com

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Dobson's parenting methods impacted upwards of 1/3 of the US population. His methods were highly influenced by Paul Popenoe the father of modern eugenics, who Dobson worked with for ten years. The Nazi's used Popenoe's work to implement mass forced sterilization and so did the state of California

D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Do you want to be James Dobson's worst nightmare? Then listen to this podcast episode where I break down his white supremacist eugenicist roots and how his parenting methods create a population of folks who wouldn't resist authoritarian rule: www.strongwilledproject.com/focus-on-the...

James Dobson’s Worst Nightmare Part 1 — Strongwilled

A history of James Dobson, his eugenic beginnings, his work on the Meese Commission, and how he ushered in religious authoritarianism in the US

www.strongwilledproject.com

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

You can listen on our website, or find the STRONGWILLED podcast wherever you normally get your audio content. I look forward to making the white supremacist patriarchy annoyed with you!!!

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Do you want to be James Dobson's worst nightmare? Then listen to this podcast episode where I break down his white supremacist eugenicist roots and how his parenting methods create a population of folks who wouldn't resist authoritarian rule: www.strongwilledproject.com/focus-on-the...

James Dobson’s Worst Nightmare Part 1 — Strongwilled

A history of James Dobson, his eugenic beginnings, his work on the Meese Commission, and how he ushered in religious authoritarianism in the US

www.strongwilledproject.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 3d

America should listen to Black people

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

I promise you we are going to get through this together. You aren't alone, you DO have a strong will, and a better world is not only possible -- I believe we will get to see glimpses of it in our time.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

Let yourself feel the feelings + spend some time connecting to your true self and your core values (I hope they include some kind of desire for the survival of the planet and humanity as a whole). Use your values to guide your actions /resist authoritarian rule in whatever ways make sense for you.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

It was beaten into your body at a young age that to disobey or assert your own will brought pain, isolation, and estrangement from your community and caregivers. But that doesn't mean we can't overcome the authoritarian programming we received. We just have to acknowledge that it exists.

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 3d

Hey if you were raised evangelical or your parents used James Dobson parenting methods (corporal punishment for every act of willful defiance) then you might be struggling right now. It might feel terrifying, shameful, and hopeless to stand up to authoritarian rule. That's very much on purpose.

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