Politics Fascist takeover US 2025.

[ferball]

Great new tune by Billy Bragg re: Minneapolis

There's so much good music coming out right now.

 

[ferball]

 

[kranky al]

 

[JoinDate]

So POTUS is not only a compulsive lying, cheating P.O.S that scammed his own citizens with memcoin before ordering his taxpayer funded personal army to kill them - but he's also a truly sick P.O.S PDF file.
****ing disgraceful.

 

[bourbons]

Actions have consequences. Both ways. “Reported on” = took part in storming a church.

Suuuure he did buddy

Shouldn't you be on all fours somewhere licking a boot?

 

[Gralin]

imagine describing a protest as storming a church

 

[Neese]

Great new tune by Billy Bragg re: Minneapolis

Oh I am wearing my Billy Bragg tshirt from 2008 BDO today.

 

[Gough]

Oh I am wearing my Billy Bragg tshirt from 2008 BDO today.

If memory serves he had Tom Morello and Sarah Blasko onstage with him that day.

 

[Neese]

He was perfection.

 

[darrenmorgan]

Great new tune by Billy Bragg re: Minneapolis

The Lesson of Niemöller, Rewritten on the Streets of Minneapolis (Guest Editorial)

In a new guest editorial, Billy Bragg reflects on the rise of modern-day resistance and how protest songs can turn bystanders into resistance.

consequence.net

 

[kranky al]

A Texas man is facing 40 YEARS in federal prison for moving a box of “antifa” pamphlets. Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the July 4th protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. His wife was.

After she was arrested and called him from jail, the FBI watched him load a box from his family home and drop it at a friend's apartment. Inside that box: zines, artwork, and political pamphlets including a squatting manual and an anarchist think piece.

Not weapons. Not bomb-making instructions. LITERATURE.

This is not a dystopian novel. This is Tuesday in Trump's America.

Prosecutors are charging him with conspiring to "transport a box that contained numerous Antifa materials intending to conceal the contents." The concealment charge only makes legal sense if owning the literature was already a crime.

This marks the first time the federal government has used federal terrorism statutes against "antifa", a loose ideological movement, not an organization.

His wife attended the protest outside an ICE detention center. An officer was shot. Des WASN’T THERE. The FBI watched him move a cardboard box, and now he's been offered two plea deals, both ending in deportation to a country he left when he was 14 years old.

In court filings, prosecutors have used defendants' black clothing, Signal app usage, possession of first-aid kits, and political zines as proof of criminal conspiracy.

Dressing in black. Encrypting your texts. Reading. That's their evidence of terrorism.

Nineteen people have now been arrested in connection with the same protest, many of whom weren't even there.

History is screaming at us right now. The U.S. government has always stress-tested authoritarianism on its most vulnerable people first, enslaved people punished for reading the Bible, incarcerated people thrown in solitary for possessing books about civil rights heroes.

What gets normalized in prisons and on protest lines eventually comes for everyone.
Once the state can brand a political idea "terrorism," everything connected to it becomes criminal.

Sanchez Estrada said it himself: "If this is happening to me now, it's only a matter of time before it happens to you."