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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella

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Educate yourself, because we will need all our intelligence. Mobilize yourself, because we will need all our enthusiasm. Get organized, because we will need all our strength. Welcome to the interregnum - Gramsci Америка область | Socialist Humanist

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · Feb 16

The US VP in 1943. Our issues are not because of Khrushchev, they are home grown. Even earlier Louis Brandeis commented "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 3h

We're not sending our best...

Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 5h

It's telling that some can't imagine doing something out of a sense of duty and not money.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is abrogating the First Amendment of the Constitution, knowing that no power in the United States will stop him – certainly not the corrupt Supreme Court.

American fascism seems inexorable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Basically an Honest Bobo in Paradise @boboinparadise.bsky.social · 11h

Coinkydinky

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 11h

apnews.com/article/myan... children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 13h

Awesome!

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 13h

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 14h

The vandals seeking to destroy the government want us to believe it’s critical to keep open the same programs they cut.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Shutdown Politics Has G.O.P. Singing Government’s Praises

www.nytimes.com

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 14h

Correct. That’s how Trump uses anger to his benefit. He labels other Americans as enemies (and allows real foreign enemies inside the tent if it helps him). Politics only works if we realize we are on the same side, the American side.

stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 14h

They are not Trump's enemies. They are critics and opponents. He sees them as enemies, because that's how autocrats perceive their critics. NYT should not repeat and normalize authoritarian discourse.

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies

President Trump has long spoken of seeking vengeance against his political enemies. Here’s a list of whom he is targeting.

www.nytimes.com

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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 14h

Here, again exactly on Putin's birthday yesterday.

Pravda Publisher Dies After Fall From a Window in Putin’s Moscow

Authorities claimed Vyacheslav Leontyev had a “nervous breakdown” and stumbled out of a window.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way.

Winter @winterpolitics1.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just took back control of the national guard.

She is sending the Oregon national Guard back home and is directing the California national guard to leave the State.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 23h

This is the way.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 23h

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

- Thurgood Marshall

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes! KF is flaming porta-potty level trash. But, IMO, the video is pretty clear. Sometimes there is no good guy.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 4d

It is estimated that there are 14,000 undocumented immigrants in the US convicted of violent felonies.

In June alone, there were nearly 35,000 ICE arrests.

When they tell you they are detaining "the worst of the worst", they are lying.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

I went through one of these as a kid when we lost our home, and it was just devastating. So awful that the government did so much for kids in poverty during Covid but is actively harming families now.

Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 1d

US bankruptcies have already exceeded 2020 levels.

So. Much. Winning.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 2d

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 1d

Fascist cruelty porn...

White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 1d

Homeland Security released this video thinking it made them look good.

"I used to help run this Department. This is the creepiest, stupidest, and most wildly irresponsible video it’s ever released."
~ Miles Taylor

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Nichole Hiltz @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ 🎶

Bonchien Teku @bonchienteku.bsky.social · 1d

🎶She lies and says shell vote any dem
But fuck John Fetter man

She dreams in color, she dreams in red
But fuck John fetter man
Fuck John Fetter man, can't we find a better man, yeah🎶

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4d

It's literally the same people

2 frame comic. first we see a guy with a thin mustache. 2015 : you're just a feminazi if you think women deserve equal rights. second frame, it's the same guy, with a fuller mustache like a certain dictator. 2025 : oh, of course, everybody you disagree with is a nazi, huh?

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 2d

"What is fascism?"

Throughout history, each iteration of fascism came with its own particularities. Political theorist R. Griffin posits that the one thing they have in common is palingenetic ultranationalism. (Picture : Mussolini giving a speech) Palingenetic ("born again in ancient greek) ultranationalism is a far right narrative that frames the nation as decadent, as having lost its way, as being betrayed by dark elites. To save it, it needs to be destroyed, then reborn. (Picture: Trump giving a speech in front of a MAGA flag) with that goal in mind, an authoritarian power with divisive rhetoric channelsbthe population's anger towards a scapegoat demonized outgroup: migrants, religion, sexual and gender minorities... (picture : three masked ICE agents are handling someone.) Fascism is like a chameleon : it constantly adapts to eras and cultures. It is vital to learn to identify it and call it out. (Picture: a chameleon)

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 1d

ICE snipers on the roof, pointing their guns at peaceful protesters in Portland, Oregon.
www.fascism.link/p/snipers-on...

Snipers on the roof, pointing their guns at peaceful protesters.

Welcome to Nazi America.

www.fascism.link

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Mad Makhno🏴‍☠️ Antifa Fella @madmakhno.bsky.social · 1d

Do they get SorosBucks™ too?

OC Media @ocmedia.bsky.social · 1d

Days after an attempt to storm the Presidential Palace on the elections day, Georgian PM Kobakhidze downplayed the significance of the daily anti-government protests, threatening a policy of ‘zero sympathy’ against the protest movement.

🔗 Read more: oc-media.org/kobakhidze-t...