#totalitarism — Public Fediverse posts

The day after the second general strike in Minneapolis, the labor unions of Portland, Oregon, marched in solidarity. It was the warmest day that Portland had seen in a while, with sun peeking out from the clouds here and there. Many people had brought their entire families; not just older children, but toddlers in strollers and wagons, too. Some brought their dogs. The chants were typical: “ICE out of Portland” and “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here.” But the children were so visible that City Councilor Mitch Green felt a slight twinge of awkwardness. “There’s some other folks saying, you know, ‘Fuck ICE,’ but, like, there’s children in front of me. I don’t want to say the F-word, you know?”

But that was very soon the least of his concerns, as tear gas engulfed the protest at approximately 4:30PM. He and other witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs; a video posted on social media recorded eight, as well as countless smaller pops. At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads, as though aimed at the back of the crowd.

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, before introducing Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT), reflected on how Renee Good, by coming to the aid of her community during an ICE action in exercising her constitutional rights, was “shot in the face three times for it, and labeled a terrorist” to send a message to those protesting the “Fascist takeover of our government.”

Senator Murphy spoke against the hateful and divisive things happening in America and of how important our immigrant communities are in adding strength to the country along with their hard work and vast cultural and social reservoirs created by immigrants, adding to our unique American experience. “The United States Congress should not fund the Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America,” he said. “They instead are in our cities to seek out confrontation and chaos.”

He accused Donald Trump of fomenting fear and division among Americans by “trying to convince us that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy, to disguise the fact that he [Trump] is the greatest threat to our democracy.”

Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), a victim of ICE violence, was roughed up and handcuffed for attempting to enter a room during a news conference in Los Angeles last year to ask a question of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “Imagine what they are doing when the cameras aren’t on in every corner of the country, if that’s how fearful this administration is with one person with a question. Imagine how fearful they are with gatherings like this.”

Padilla closed by referring to two bills he has authored. The Visible Act, S.2212 he introduced “To require all immigration enforcement officers to display visible identification during public-facing immigration enforcement actions and to promote transparency and accountability.”

And the Accountability for Federal Law Enforcement Act, S.2103, is a remedy for sovereign immunity under which “Victims of constitutional violations by federal law enforcement officers often have no legal means to seek justice because Congress has never passed a law allowing such lawsuits. Unlike state and local officers, who can be sued under a specific statute, federal officers face little accountability. This lack of remedies weakens the rule of law, erodes public trust, and fosters a sense that federal officers can violate rights without consequence.”

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who went to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison in seeking the release of his constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was kidnapped by ICE, characterized Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller and JD Vance as “liars headed by the Liar in Chief, the Law Breaker in Chief Donald Trump.”

Going further, Van Hollen said that Trump had originally promised that ICE would only be “going after the worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants. That, instead, has become “One of the most lawless and obscene examples of this administration’s abuse against the people of this country,” he noted. “ICE’s own data shows that more than 80 percent of the people they are rounding up pose no public threat.” Once that was revealed, “ICE decided to get rid of the data. We are here to say, not in our country. We will not let this continue to happen.”

In Pryluky, Chernigov region, the only specialist who serviced elevators in the city was mobilized, according to media reports. After that, local residents began to complain about interruptions in the operation of elevators — most of them actually stopped working.

A similar situation had previously arisen in Kanev, Cherkasy region, where the only worker responsible for street lighting was mobilized.

Media representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and politicians demanded physical punishment for those involved in the incident at the 7th Kilometer market (in Odessa - my note), where military commissars were expelled and their bus was overturned.

The commander of the Luftwaffe* UAV battalion, Nikolai Kolesnik (known as “Tyson”), proposed striking them with drones and then covering them with MLRS fire.

"We can provide support to law enforcement against pro-Russian organized elements from the 7th Kilometer market. We guarantee effective support with FPV strike crews, Mavic with drop-off, for particularly aggressive ones, to calm them down, we will use Vampirе (Czech MLRS)," Kolesnik-Tyson wrote.

The commander of the Da Vinci battalion's medical service, Alina Mikhailova, a member of the Kiev City Council from the Voice party, called on military commanders to “shoot to kill those who oppose them.” In her words: “It is unclear why the TCK servicemen did not take out their standard-issue weapons, as required by the charter, and did not make additional holes in these roosters, if not out of a sense of dignity, then at least out of self-preservation instinct.”

Mikhailova added that without such measures, “it is unclear how/on whom you intend to rely to prevail in this war.”

2/2 Siguiendo la línea, el adoctrinamiento en las aulas a través de la COACCIÓN a los centros educativos, las PURGAS de los que se consideran DESAFECTOS en todos los niveles de la Administración, la PROHIBICIÓN DE LIBROS, la elaboración de listas negras de "arte y literatura degenerada", la falsificación de la Historia en los propios museos, la NEOLENGUA y la manipulación del lenguaje mismo hasta el punto de "renombrar" oficialmente las cosas al arbitrio del Gobierno, la extensión de la POBREZA GALOPANTE y el ENDEUDAMIENTO entre capas cada vez más amplias de la ciudadanía y un largo etcétera de barbaridades que se han de quedar en el tintero por mera cuestión de espacio y tiempo.
Este es el modelo de las ultraderechas europeas (una entente que encuadra en España, entre otros, a V🤮X, CitizenGo, Hazte Oír, Manos Limpias, Empieza por Educar/Teach for America, El Yunque y cierto sector del Partido Popular). Sin duda, la deriva de EEUU nos va afectar mucho más de lo que ya nos está afectando.
NOS NECESITAMOS MÁS QUE NUNCA.
#Fascismo #Fascism #EEUU #USA #Totalitarismo #totalitarism #dictadura #maga #TrumpRegime

"Democracies don't die suddenly; rather, their opponents are normalized step by step by simply being there, simply tolerated, contributing their viewpoints, and shifting the window of what can be said.

And then the abolition of democracy seems like a small, tiny step in a logical chain.

And we must not allow that."

- M. Weisband @afelia

#democracy #fascism #totalitarism #dictatorship #authoritaranism

Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk. Your are not gods. You are men, and you are careless.

You think that by allying yourself with an autocrat you will be protected. That's not how history works. It's not even how oligarchy works.

[…]

You are sucking up to a tuyrant who is trying to destroy the laws who made your businesses possible.

You are collaborators.

You are complicit in a regime of fear and cruelty.