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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 45m

I can’t help thinking about Posobiec’s "LORD PUTIN" tweet from July 2016.

Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 1h

"Today, every one of us is —metaphorically — a customer at Rick’s café. Faced with a global far-right threat, there are few places left to hide."

Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 20d

In How to Stop Fascism (2021), Paul Mason uses "Casablanca" as an example of anti-fascist ethos. "The moral lesson of Casablanca is that, in the face of fascism, nobody can stay neutral... In every scene, the implicit question is: What would you do?"

Victor Laszlo Gets a Crowd To Sing "La Marseillaise" (Clip) | Casablanca (1942) | TCM

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 1h

Posobiec is more than just a Pizzagate guy. His overtly fascist book was blurbed by JD Vance, among others.

Opinion | JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman (Published 2024)

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 11h

The media's really just going to bounce over the fact that at Trump's meeting today they said "we've been fighting antifa for a hundred years, since they tried to stop us in 1930s Germany" and everyone nodded along, huh

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 1h

Posobiec is more than just a Pizzagate guy. His overtly fascist book was blurbed by JD Vance, among others.

Opinion | JD Vance Just Blurbed a Book Arguing That Progressives Are Subhuman (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 10h

From 1944: "No Hitler symphonies, no Goering operas, no Goebbels quartets, no Horst Wessel tone poems. Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 10h

From 1944: "No Hitler symphonies, no Goering operas, no Goebbels quartets, no Horst Wessel tone poems. Although money and power were offered as never before, good music and honest musicians were and always will be arch-enemies of fascism."

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Trump has to rush his consolidation of power before he’s debilitatingly unpopular. That’s what authoritarians do.

What we do is organize massive, peaceful resistance that unifies the opposition, retakes power, and ushers in an era of accountability & reform: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 2d

Come on
Baby, don't you wanna go?
Back to that same old place
My sweet home Chicago
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"The music migrated north -- from Mississippi Delta to Memphis to my hometown in Chicago. It helped lay the foundation for rock and roll, and R&B and hip-hop." President Obama, White House, 2012

Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Chapman, Jeff Beck & Beth Hart – “Sweet Home Chicago” (Kennedy Center Honors)

YouTube video by Tracy Chapman Online

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 3d

Jason Stanley, the author of How Fascism Works, left in 2025: "I’d been sitting on this offer from the Munk School for a while, and the US was getting more and more fascist... I’m leaving because I have two Black Jewish kids, and I want them to grow up in a free country."

"I want my kids to grow up in a free country": Philosopher and professor Jason Stanley on his decision to leave the US - Toronto Life

The author of How Fascism Works talks Trump’s working-class appeal, how to keep Canada from following in America’s footsteps and why Toronto is the best...

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 3d

Jason Stanley, the author of How Fascism Works, left in 2025: "I’d been sitting on this offer from the Munk School for a while, and the US was getting more and more fascist... I’m leaving because I have two Black Jewish kids, and I want them to grow up in a free country."

"I want my kids to grow up in a free country": Philosopher and professor Jason Stanley on his decision to leave the US - Toronto Life

The author of How Fascism Works talks Trump’s working-class appeal, how to keep Canada from following in America’s footsteps and why Toronto is the best...

torontolife.com

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 3d

"The only thing I did was this: in long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity." Albert Einstein, 1954

Albert Einstein on the Interconnectedness of Our Fates and Our Mightiest Counterforce Against Injustice

“There is [a] human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperatin…

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 3d

"The only thing I did was this: in long intervals I have expressed an opinion on public issues whenever they appeared to me so bad and unfortunate that silence would have made me feel guilty of complicity." Albert Einstein, 1954

Albert Einstein on the Interconnectedness of Our Fates and Our Mightiest Counterforce Against Injustice

“There is [a] human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperatin…

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

It remains to be explained what makes Russia neo-fascist rather than just authoritarian. If it was authoritarian at first and then suddenly became fascist, when did the transition happen?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

I think Russia is neo-fascist, yes. Close, but not yet at North Korea levels. (I think NK is the only thing that really qualifies as a fascist regime in the world right now.)

txdcny.bsky.social @txdcny.bsky.social · 4d

Do you think Russia is currently fascist?

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 3d

It’s revealing that Tom Nichols cannot pinpoint the exact moment when Putin’s Russia became fascist. (Assassinating political opponents isn’t a litmus test because opposition politicians have been assassinated since at least 2003, including radioactive poisoning with chemical weapons.)

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 3d

Before Putin, there was an independent press and a genuine opposition. Putin didn’t need to declare a one-party state or create a propaganda ministry to establish a modern fascist regime by hollowing out all institutions. Those who called it fascist early on were ridiculed for being hysterical.

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

In September 1983, Reagan described the USSR as "a society which wantonly disregards individual rights and the value of human life and seeks constantly to expand and dominate other nations." He wasn’t skilled with semantics.

September 5, 1983: Speech on the Soviet Attack on a Korean Airliner | Miller Center

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

Sergei Yushenkov, an opposition leader, was shot on the street in 2003. In 2005, Putin started referencing Ivan Ilyin, a Russian fascist philosopher. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/570367... It took years for the ideology to develop into a justification for the invasion of Ukraine.

Sergei Yushenkov - Wikipedia

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

It remains to be explained what makes Russia neo-fascist rather than just authoritarian. If it was authoritarian at first and then suddenly became fascist, when did the transition happen?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

I think Russia is neo-fascist, yes. Close, but not yet at North Korea levels. (I think NK is the only thing that really qualifies as a fascist regime in the world right now.)

txdcny.bsky.social @txdcny.bsky.social · 4d

Do you think Russia is currently fascist?

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

Putin’s Russia has multiple parties, privately owned media, and locally elected officials. It’s all a sham, of course, but how could anyone possibly justify calling it fascist?

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4d

I've said it many times. One-party state, total control of the media, abolishing of local control, among many things

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

The 1983 USSR was not fascist but totalitarian, according to Reagan, who warned against the failure to recognize it. "I think the refusal of many influential people to accept this elementary fact of Soviet doctrine illustrates an historical reluctance to see totalitarian powers for what they are."

Evil Empire speech - Wikipedia

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

During the 2001 scandal with Aldrich Ames and Richard Hanssen, Richard Shelby, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the counterintelligence leaders for failing to "think the unthinkable." In 2018, Shelby was among the Trump-supporting Republicans who visited Moscow on July 4th.

Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · Feb 20

"Most fundamental to counterintelligence - as true today as ever - is the need to 'think the unthinkable.' Yet this is one of the most difficult attitudes to instill and maintain because it runs contrary to human nature, especially in open societies like the United States." (Senator Richard Shelby)

Intelligence and Espionage in the 21st Century

I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this distinguished group on a topic that is a critical part of my responsibility as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In the four years ...

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

"The next year, when a classmate taunted Sylvia saying that Mexicans didn’t belong there, she went home in tears, begging to leave the school. Her mother wouldn’t have it. She told Sylvia, 'Don’t you realize that’s why we went to court?…' And Sylvia took those words to heart."

Remarks by the President Honoring the Recipients of the 2010 Medal of Freedom

East Room 1:40 P.M. EST

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Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · 4d

The USSR took a fascist turn during the "anti-cosmopolitan campaign" of the 1950s. That was when Francis Parker Yockey, an American fascist, became a fan of Stalin. The campaign ended after Stalin’s death. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-co...

Weary Throat @sfomel.bsky.social · Jan 29

Irony: In November 1952, Yockey witnessed the antisemitic purge in Prague and became a fan of Stalin. He argued that “by thus playing off Russia against the leadership of American Jewry, Europe can bring about its own liberation from the perils of Jewish Democracy imposed by American bayonets.”

The Fascist and the Preacher: Gerald L. K. Smith and Francis Parker Yockey in Cold War–Era Los Angeles | Los Angeles Review of Books

Anthony Mostrom revisits the sordid careers of racists Gerald L. K. Smith and Francis Parker Yockey.

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