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Diseased mind centrists got us here.

Their preemptive, insistent apathy is a form of passive collaboration. Nay, ACTIVE collaboration, because the modus operandum for centrists is to be LOUD AF, IMMEDIATELY about nazis getting punched, but being obtusely QUIET when nazis do the punching.

Fuck the Vichys.

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The larger American establishment's ongoing surrender to Trump and his fascist regime is a story with many high-profile cowards, culprits, and collaborators. But given the frequently self-declared role of American media to speak truth to power, and protect our "democracy," I think it's entirely fair that corporate news outlets paving the way for Downmarket Mussolini to install a fascist dictatorship come in for extra vigorous criticism by honest observers who understand what they're doing. Take for example this recent piece for the Intercept by Natasha Leonard, examining how corporate media outlets reported the Department of Justice's outrageous plans to prosecute Democratic Congresswoman LaMonica McIver on wholly fabricated assault charges, after she attempted to conduct legal oversight on a privately-run ICE facility in her district.

theintercept.com/2025/05/20/tr

Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal.

“Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says,” The Associated Press reported. “Rep. LaMonica McIver charged by DOJ over incident with ICE agents,” read the ABC News headline. “The Justice Department charged a New Jersey congresswoman with assaulting federal agents during a clash outside a Newark immigration detention center,” began the New York Times’s coverage.

All of these are technically accurate: Alina Habba, Trump’s sometime personal lawyer and the interim federal prosecutor for New Jersey, announced on X that the administration was charging the member of Congress with “assaulting, impeding and interfering with law enforcement” after an incident when McIver and two other House members went to view ICE’s privately run Delaney Hall detention facility.

News organizations should, however, have long ago stopped affording the Trump administration such credulous coverage. Even the most bare-bones, facts-only reporting here fails the basic task of truth-telling if it doesn’t lead by pointing out that these charges are manufactured, malicious, politically motivated attacks."

I've written a bit about both the (now dropped) charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and the pending charges against Congresswoman McIver so I won't rehash all the details here again; needless to say I agree wholeheartedly with Leonard's assertion that the charges against McIver are trumped up fascist nonsense, a clear case of attempted political intimidation, and part of a seemingly racist pattern of targeting its political opponents with the Justice Department, by the Trump administration. Furthermore, given that the incident that motivated interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba to file assault charges that each carry a maximum sentence of eight years was captured entirely on video, I don't think it is at all reasonable to pretend the Trump regime might have a point, or that this is a "she said, they said" kind of issue. Yet as Leonard documents, that's exactly how subservient media reported not only the story of McIver's targeting, but also the attempted prosecution of Baraka as well.

Look folks, this isn't a question of partisan political coverage; I'm no friend of the Democratic Party, and based on the significant quantity of her writing I've read, I'd be willing to bet neither is Leonard. There is something fundamentally wrong, and actively dangerous, about a US corporate media complex that can watch a fascist, white nationalist, and openly nativist regime engage in a clear act of authoritarian political intimidation against its duly-elected political opposition, to protect a nightmare mass deportation scheme built on legal arguments you know are extremely dubious, and report it as a "clash" while accepting Alina Habba of all people's arguments at face value. This isn't bad journalism, this is paving the way for the fascist repression of Trump's political opponents in real time and whether its a result of cowardice, or open collaboration, is absolutely fucking irrelevant. The United States is speedrunning a descent into a fascist dictatorship run by a brainwormed septuagenarian racist and his openly white nationalist toady Stephen Miller, and these chucklefucks are out here pretending just maybe a Congresswoman should do a couple decades of hard time for bumping into an ICE murderpig while literally being prevented from doing her job; even though we have the entire interaction on fucking video.

If this is the kind of coverage corporate media outlets intend to provide during the second Trump administration, then Downmarket Mussolini doesn't need to suppress the media. After all, they're already happy to work for him and his fascist agenda right now, and Der Leader is rather busy tearing what passes for American democracy apart as we speak.

The Intercept · Trump Is Prosecuting a Congressional Democrat for Doing Her Job. The Media’s Response: No Big Deal.By Natasha Lennard
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the WHITE, brain diseased centrists, the both-siders, pearl clutchers, #Vichy #collaborators have quickly forgot #ICE dragged infants and toddlers away from mothers, put them into cages, like animals.

We remember.

We will also remember those making apology for the #nazi #MAGAts

All will be remembered, in the coming #Nuremberg. And we don't need COURTS to make sure those remembered will be punished, since new regime disdains those.

"Rep Malinowski outlines some real tangible steps Dems could take to disabuse would be Trump from collaborating."
-S Stein

"Bukele, presents the clearest case because has crossed a line that few foreign dictators ever have: Not only is he relishing the support of an American president for human rights abuses💔in his own country;🚨he's engaging in a with that pres to subvert the rule of law in America itself."

thebulwark.com/p/make-it-painf

The Bulwark · Make It Painful to Collaborate with TrumpBy Tom Malinowski

Fucking idiot privileged white boi come at me telling me he doesn't get "good vibes" from me.

Goddamned both-sider cretins gave us this whole state of affairs.

Their brain worms will be yammering about this in the line for the concentration camps.

The blind privilege is deafening, staggering.

Message to all privileged whites (who smugly want to pretend they are nice and feel gooder about themselves), who don't think people who are actually in danger of being summarily kidnapped and deported should be allowed to resist at the same level of force used by gestapo thugs:

FUCK YOU.

Insta block at the slightest whiff of reply-guy-ism from you.

Come at me going "oh, but we must not use violence" and watch how fast you get to talk to the void.

David Hogg should make it an #antifa litmus test through show not tell ―and should extend it to the Senate because fuck Chuck Schumer

politico.com/news/2025/04/15/d

btw: this is for next year’s congressional midterm elections. this is Hogg’ double-dog dare to #GOP and their Democratic Party #fascist #collaborators in their most likely attempt to not hold federal elections next year.

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@tankgrrl Harvard Class of 1979 here (AB, magna cum laude in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts). I am proud to say that on the #MAGA #Collaborators tracker website, #Harvard — which was previously listed in the "Capitulating Schools" category, as having bowed unwillingly to pressure — has now been moved to the "Resisting Schools" category, as having "actively chosen to resist the fascist regime":

maga-collaborators.net/Schools

Also currently listed as resisters: Brown, Caltech, Cornell, MIT, Princeton, the University of Rochester — and the New York Public Schools system, the only non-university shown as resisting. (I can take pride in #Princeton as well: PhD in Philosophy, 1985.)

www.maga-collaborators.netSchools - MAGA Collaborator Tracker

@Remittancegirl @huntingdon Speaking of lawfirms having the courage to resist #Trump: there is now a #MAGA #Collaborators #Tracker, which also tracks #capitulators (those who knuckled under and complied under threat) and active #resisters:

maga-collaborators.net/

The lawfirms category shows dozens if not hundreds of resisters: apparently the majority, and a larger proportion than in any other category. By comparison, the corporations category shows only two resisters: Costco and Disney.

Those lawfirms will be needed after the end of the regime. #Nuremberg

www.maga-collaborators.netHome page - MAGA Collaborator Tracker
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Speaking of cowardice, complicity, and paving the road for fascism, let us not forget that the Trump regime's enabling of an ongoing genocide by Israel in Gaza, their fascist kidnapping spree against student protestors, and their quest to control American universities under the guise of "fighting antisemitism" are built on the back of policies, and in particular ideological justifications, provided by a Democratic Party that picked supporting genocide, hunting down migrants, and building out a police state over winning "the most important election in American history."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown

"For instance, the reason Trump could plausibly refer to Gaza a “demolition site” is because, for more than a year prior to his re-election, his Democratic predecessor (urged on by Schumer and others) supplied unlimited weapons to Israel to carry out a campaign of destruction that has few modern equivalents – a campaign that was not just restricted to Gaza, but also extended to the West Bank, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Biden’s planned successor, Kamala Harris, and her surrogates repeatedly stressed to voters that these policies would continue largely unchanged under her watch.

Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses. Democratic lawmakers put aggressive pressure on the former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to crush the protests. She ultimately did so with the assistance of New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams (who justified his clampdown via evidence-free statements that the protests were driven primarily by “outside agitators”). Trump celebrated the pictures and videos of students getting roughed up by the NYPDand, upon Trump’s reclaiming the White House, the justice department interceded on behalf of Adams – making his criminal investigation go away in apparent exchange for the mayor adopting a more aggressive posture on immigration – a move that critics claim is a quid pro quo.

In a similar vein, it was Biden who enshrined the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal guidance, despite the definition’s author repeatedly describing it as a “travesty” to use this definition to regulate speech and behavior. Building on Biden’s introduction, Trump is poised to sign a bill that would implement this same definition into federal anti-discrimination law – and in the meantime, he’s insisting Columbia and other schools adopt this definition in their own codes of conduct. NYU and Harvard have already taken this step, overriding concerns by civil rights and civil liberties organizations – from the ACLU, to Fire and the AAUP, to Israeli civil rights groups – who stressed that IHRA’s definition is extremely vague and provides strong leeway for institutional stakeholders to censor most critical discussion of Israel, Zionism or Judaism more broadly, by Jews and non-Jews alike."

Look, you can criticize me for playing "the blame game" all you like, but every goddamn thing Trump is doing surrounding the US-backed genocide in Gaza, including the domestic installation of fascist ideological policing, was and is facilitated by a Biden administration that was warned all of this - from Trump winning, to deploying War on Terror logic repression on anti-genocide protesters - was on the table if they didn't change course. If you want to know why only fourteen Democrats signed a letter decrying the fascist abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, and only thirty-four Democrat lawmakers signed the letter demanding the release of Rumeysa Ozturk (whose only "crime" appears to be have been writing an op-ed calling for her University to divest from Israel and condemn a genocide) you don't have to look any further than a mainstream Democratic Party leadership class that's fat on AIPAC donations and happily told you student protestors were violent antisemites who endorsed terrorist organizations, demanded colleges take action to suppress the protests, and justified a brutal police crackdown on... college kids who don't want their government to facilitate a genocide. It's kind of hard to criticize all that fascism when your donors love it and you directly made the arguments Trump is using to conduct it, after all.

The Guardian · Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdownBy Musa al-Gharbi
#Fascism#Trump#Israel