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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
US capital v DSA : Nazis v communists--the annihilation of which being the primary driving force of its existence. Capital "turns" fascist in the same way a madman forever resisting and biting at his restraints at last succeeds and sets himself loose upon the world. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Judeo-Bolshevist Target | Omer Bartov
Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The only force that has ever falsified that prophecy of the unchecked power grab is the deliberate, organized, unglamorous refusal of citizens to let it come true..." @washspectator.bsky.social washingtonspectator.org/its-the-powe...
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It’s the Power, Stupid: Dancing in the Dark, Part 4 | Washington Spectator
The enlargement of unchecked presidential power, with impunity and partly for personal profit, is the strategic objective of the Trump Presidency.
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Melville was right: The corporation, the joint-stock, the limited company is a detestable and ignominious morality hack at best--a weaselly permissions structure for antisocial and antihuman behavior at all levels, a mindless belly, an all-consuming charybdis of the commonweal, and its certain doom.
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wrote something else to cheer myself up. open.substack.com/pub/pipingho...
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How to American
Should the president and the men behind him declare a national emergency, and command his private army, the National Guard, or shock troops to assist with live ammo the death of our republic, it will ...
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail..." - Winston Churchill's Ghost
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Cubans yesterday, Americans today: “The Revolution is forced to radicalize in order... to defend this agenda of real sovereignty and social justice.” The natural consequence of the limitlessness of capitalist depravity. Real sovereignty must now mean freedom from corporate rule. tinyl.co/4UEj
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Cuba Pt. 3: Che Guevara and the Building of Socialism w/ Helen Yaffe
Podcast Episode · Upstream · March 24 · 1h 32m
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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
NEW EP the brilliant Helen Yaffe joins us to discuss the lesser-known side of Che Guevara and the difficult but exciting process of building socialism in Cuba in the first decade or so after the 1959 revolution
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@mbcbrews.bsky.social: a MN-style strike "structure test" must be the next step for all states. Govs must withhold fed taxes and call up Natl Guards now. @indivisible.org et al must hand out and collect strike pledges on March 28 to begin to prepare for a general strike that could last months.
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Trump's Regime Wouldn't be Destroying MAGA Base if They Intended to Participate in the 2026 Elections
We have to organize as if November's elections will be stolen
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The *other* modern authoritarianism - unchecked AI - is already taking jobs and undermining the arts in a battle that is rapidly accelerating The new robots might have agency, but so do we. We can fight to save our jobs, our schools, our humanity My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ai-a...
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Is AI’s authoritarianism a bigger threat than Trump’s? | Will Bunch
As predicted, or feared, rapid advances in artificial intelligence are poised to upend U.S. society. We are not ready.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 13/02/2026
US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A senator needs to start ending every speech they give on the floor with "furthermore, Palantir must be destroyed."
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
After weeks of racist propaganda, a federal assault by 3,000 violent gestapo, two summary executions, and the arrest of Black journalists using the symbolism of slavery, I think the answer to Tim Walz’s question—“Is this Fort Sumter?”—has been answered. www.mind-war.com/p/chains-min...
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Chains: Minneapolis Is Fort Sumter in Reverse
The Confederacy has returned—in the form of the federal government.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
They're killing those who see and document them because they're ashamed of themselves and what they are doing, and they know that they're going to pay for it.
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"...we have to prepare for a showdown—a decisive, probably drawn-out power struggle involving politicians, judges, media, and mass mobilization of the citizenry. That’s the size and nature of the challenge. I believe we’re up for it. We have to be."
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 24/01/2026
“The Republican Party, animated by fantasies of crushing liberals and minorities once and for all, is fundamentally devoted to achieving one-party rule.” —an interview with @josephoneill.bsky.social
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The Politics of Raw Power | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake
On Wednesday a group of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis pinned a man to the ground and, while he was immobilized, blasted pepper spray into his face
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ICE is leaving Vietnam-style death cards in the wake of their kidnappings because they are the saddest, most embarrassing military wannabes to ever live coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/a...
Ace of Spades card that says:

ICE Denver Field Office
3130 N. Oakland St.
Aurora, CO 80012
303-361-6612
18546241477
pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“...fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles. Fascism is a false revolution. It propagates a 'new order' while saving the same old moneyed interests.”
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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If there is one thing the government has already made clear in 2026: It no longer cares about your vote. They just don’t care what you think anymore. The Trump regime murdered politics as surely as it murdered Renee Good. It is time to plan accordingly. www.mind-war.com/p/murdering-...
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Murdering Politics: They Don’t Care What You Think Anymore
The end game is to make your opinion irrelevant. They are well on their way.
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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
My bill, the No Kings Act, is being voted on in committee this week. It would allow you to sue federal agents if they use excessive force, illegally detain you, or violate your right to free speech. In a democracy no one is above the law, including the President & federal agents.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!" This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIME‼️ youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...
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Minneapolis pastor: ICE 'pointed a gun at me' and 'put me in the back of an SUV'
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We need to be honest with ourselves and our leaders about Venezuela We are a rogue state, a global pariah Trump is ruling as a dictator, period An axis of evil wants to carve up small, resource-rich nations The message for 2026 is clear: No kings! My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
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America launches its 250th birthday year by becoming a rogue state | Will Bunch
Trump's illegal war on Venezuela cemented his claim to dictatorship and marked the U.S. as a global pariah.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
"...in the big towns... the Fascists were defeated by a huge effort, mainly of the working class... It was the kind of effort that could probably only be made by people who... believed that they were fighting for something better than the status quo." —Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
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pipinghotspur.bsky.social @pipinghotspur.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I was feeling down, so I wrote something to cheer myself up. Figure I can't tell people they need to speak up if I don't do it myself! tinyurl.com/42kzcvzn
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Great Expectations
Men in street clothes and ski-masks jumping out of unmarked cars, pulling guns on families and motorists, snatching people without warning, warrants or badges, caging them in blacksites thousands of m...
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