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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

A few days ago I wrote about Trump's authoritarian investigation into ActBlue in the context of rigging American politics, now the AP is reporting that Democratic Party-aligned activist groups like Indivisible are also preparing for the possibility Downmarket Mussolini and the Republican Party will come for them next.

apnews.com/article/democrats-t

Core Democratic groups are preparing to be targeted by the Trump administration

"The Democrats’ dominant national fundraising platform, ActBlue, and the party’s largest protest group, Indivisible, are working with their attorneys for just such a scenario, according to officials within both organizations. Trump’s top political allies have suggested both groups should face prosecution.

Other Democratic allies are planning for Trump-backed legal crackdowns as well. Wary of antagonizing the Republican president, most prefer to stay anonymous for now.

“Every one of our clients is concerned about being arbitrarily targeted by the Trump administration. We are going to great lengths to help clients prepare for or defend themselves,” said Ezra Reese, political law chair at Elias Law Group, which represents Democratic groups and candidates and is chaired by Marc Elias, the lawyer who has himself been a Trump target."

I generally don't have time to talk about speculative write ups like this one, but given that Trump has already ordered an investigation into ActBlue, and appears to be governing by fascist conspiracy theories embraced by the GOP at large, I think this one is worth keeping an eye on. In particular, any authoritarian repression directed at Indivisible would represent "crossing the streams" of the various fascist interests operating within the Trump administration because that group has intimately been involved in the anti-Trump, anti-Musk "Hands Off" protests; Musk in particular has publicly described them as "criminal."

Obviously I can't predict the future, but targeting activist groups aligned with his political opposition would definitely fit the pattern of building a patchwork Enabling Act that Trump has adopted so far. The regime is already creating the ideological justification to criminalize a key funding apparatus for the Democratic Party, and given that both DHS and the DoJ have directly implied that protesting the regime amounts to "domestic terrorism," I think it would be foolish to assume the Trumpenreich *isn't* coming for groups like Indivisible in time; and clearly Democratic Party-aligned groups of all stripes agree with me or they wouldn't be lawyering up in preparation.

Community organizer Emerson Wolfe leads a march hosted by Indivisible Greater Grand Rapids down Ottawa Avenue during a Hands Off! rally, April 5, 2025, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Arthur H. Trickett-Wile/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
AP News · Democratic groups like ActBlue and Indivisible prepare to be targeted by TrumpBy Steve Peoples
#Fascism#Trump#GOP
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Alexander Karn

Be concerned. Be VERY concerned.

Only MAGA, the “Camp Auschwitz” clique can say what anti-Semitism is.

Only MAGA, the “internal enemies and vermin” clique, can say what genocide is.

Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust Museum

nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/poli

Douglas Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, was appointed to the board of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. earlier this year.
The New York Times · Trump Fires Biden Appointees, Including Doug Emhoff, From Holocaust MuseumBy Katie Glueck
#history#uspol#fascism
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Martin Holland

Extremely chilling text! If you are in the US you absolutely have to read the whole thing, if you are not you should, too. 👇🏼

The odds that we can vote our way out of this in four years seems implausible as well. In competitive autocracies (like ours is becoming), #elections are used as a popular anesthetic. If you give people the false hope that they can change things at the ballot box, they won’t rise up. They live in a perpetual state of hoping “maybe next time.” The #GOP learned this from #Hungary, where #Orban’s Fidez party continually employs this trick. So do the autocratic regimes in Venezuela, Belarus, and elsewhere: #Election wins are rigged, but seem just close enough to keep people from revolting.
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Very rarely has a country that has descended this far into #autocracy recovered without outside intervention (like, say, the combined allied armies fighting all the way to your capitol). Most warning signs of impending #genocide are here. I know I’m a pessimist. But, as Jewish producer Billy Wilder once said in 1945, “The optimists all died in the gas chambers. The pessimists have pools in Beverly Hills.” This brutal observation reveals a truth: when it comes to the threat of genocide, listen to the intellectuals … and the pessimists.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/
#DonaldTrump #Fascism #Trump #Autocracy
Dame Magazine - · Why I Am Leaving the USA - Dame MagazineMy family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house. Instead of planning summer vacation and planting flowers, we're tackling a mountain of overdue home repairs, painting, carpeting, and deep
#orbans
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Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴

Yes, I share LGBTQIA+ content from time to time-after all, I’m Bisexual, Gender-Fluid, and Ambiamorous!

I wholeheartedly support everyone’s right to be who they truly are and to identify however they wish.

However, I have zero tolerance for fascists and far-right extremists, they threaten the values of love and acceptance we all deserve.

Love, acceptance, and respect for all! 🌈✨

In this candid shot, an individual relaxes on a couch indoors. Two flags stand prominently in the background, along with a water bottle and a book titled Anarchy-Syndicalism.
The image features a young person standing in what appears to be a hallway. They are holding a rainbow flag in one hand and a genderfluid pride flag in the other. In the background, there's a framed certificate on the wall and a potted plan.
#LGBTQIA#LGBTQ#LGBT
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JuneSim63

"We are now almost 100 days in and almost all the warning signs are happening. Key parts of US science are toppling. Since 8 March 2025, I’ve mapped another 51 actions attacking science and universities"

Excellent from Prof Christina Pagel on the threats to science & academia from the Trump dictatorship.

#Trump #Science #Fascism #USPolitics

Warning signs realised: Trump’s war on science and the fight to save American academia
christinapagel.substack.com/p/

Diving into Data & Decision making · Warning signs realised: Trump’s war on science and the fight to save American academiaBy Christina Pagel
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

In what would likely be a major scandal under any other administration, but feels a bit like a "well duh" moment after the first 100 days of the Trumpenreich's fascist rule, recent polling indicates that a majority of American voters now support impeaching President Trump a third time.

commondreams.org/news/trump-im

Majority of US Voters Support Third Trump Impeachment: Poll

"Specifically, a polling memo published Friday by ASO Communications and Research Collaborative shows that just a few months into Trump's return to the White House, 52% of likely voters across the ideological spectrum somewhat or strongly support impeaching him—including 84% of Democrats, 55% of Independents, and even 20% of his fellow Republicans."

While I don't believe there's any amount of polling that will make the Trump regime surrender, and I remain doubtful a fascist GOP is likely to risk reprisal from Trump's hardcore nazi base in the party to impeach Der Leader, I still think it's pretty relevant that experiencing the reality of Trump's authoritarianism in action is driving a majority of Americans to desire his removal from office.

Much of Trump's presumed authority to install himself as a dictator comes from the regime's invocation of a popular mandate to transform America into a white ethnostate, as well as a complicit media's refusal to address a clear lack of that mandate while they focus on "will he or won't he" coverage of Trump's obviously fascist activities. As more and more evidence comes in that the regime's Christian Nationalist agenda is in fact not popular, and Americans do not believe Trump has the authority to enact it, it's going to become harder and harder for both the regime and collaborators in the mainstream establishment to keep pretending there might be a veneer of legality or popular support behind all the government's nazi bullshit.

In the end, I'm pretty sure there's no way to topple the Trump regime that doesn't involve putting millions of people in the street to actively disrupt the police state and make it impossible for the collaborator class to profit from all that fascism. By that same measure however, I don't think Americans are going to rise up and stop their fascist government until they're completely sure there are no easier options for ending Trump's reign of tyranny and they believe the majority of people in this country are ready to rise up with them. In my opinion, polls like this one help shatter the fascists' false projection of invincibility, and bring us closer to that uprising; and as such that makes these numbers a welcome sight for my exhausted eyes at least.

Common Dreams · Majority of US Voters Support Third Trump Impeachment: Poll | Common DreamsNew polling shows a majority of U.S. voters support impeaching President Donald Trump a third time.
#Fascism#Trump#USPolitics
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MissConstrue

Well, we know why he was strong arming all those white shoe law firms into donating half a trillion in legal work...they’ll be defending cops who kill citizens the administration doesn’t like. You remember all the cops who have been trained by the IDF on how to treat “enemy civilians”? Yeah, we now have as much right to oppose police actions as the Palestinians.

Oh, and in direct opposition to the constitution, military will now be used for civilian disorder. Welcome to the SS. I did try to warn everyone.

#uspol #fascism #ss #gestapo #47 #authoritarianism #cops

whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac

The White House · Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent CitizensBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Over the course of both Trump administrations so far, I've always felt that one of the easiest ways to spot the odious fascist inclinations of the regime is to observe the Trumpenreich's malevolent disdain for, and gleeful desire to harshly police, migrant children. No matter how wrong a person is about immigration policy, there's a demarcation of human decency line that should come into play before you decide to take out your nativist authoritarian fantasies on innocent children who're in the United States through no real fault of their own; yet in Trumpworld that line simply doesn't seem to exist.

Take for example the news that Trump's DHS and the ICE Gestapo have been tracking "unaccompanied alien children" with an eye towards deporting or prosecuting them, under the guise of benevolent "wellness checks" and yet another far right conspiracy theory about child trafficking.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute them

"Although DHS is characterizing the welfare visits as benevolent, an internal Ice document accessed by the National Immigration Project advocacy group and then shared shows Ice is also seeking out children who came into the US alone as immigrants – and their US-based sponsors – for immigration enforcement purposes and/or to pursue criminal prosecutions. The recent operations and document confirm a February report from Reuters, that the Trump administration has directed Ice to track down and deport this group.

Meanwhile, in Donald Trump’s second term, legal services provided to unaccompanied minors have been slashed and funds are not flowing despite court intervention. And the federal agency monitoring unaccompanied immigrant children has begun sharing sensitive data with Ice.

The Ice document shows “ it’s not just about checking in on kids, making sure that they can account for them and that they’re not being exploited”, said Michelle Méndez, the director of legal resources and training for the National Immigration Project. “It shows they have other goals, and the goals are criminalization of the kid or criminalization of the sponsor. It’s backdoor family separation.”

Look, I don't know about you but I definitely remember a time when Americans were up in arms because Trump was separating migrant families in detention and essentially trafficking children to Christian American foster families. So for the Trump regime to be working on a backdoor way to deport unaccompanied migrant children under the guise of fighting a made up reactionary moral panic about stopping "child trafficking" under Joe Biden, is both nauseating and outrageous. I can think of dozens of more appropriate government agencies than DHS and ICE to monitor the welfare of what amount to child refugees, but it's irrelevant because the Trump regime's own internal documents say they picked the Gestapo because they want to deport literal children. I don't know who needs to be told that a government pretending it cares about helping and protecting migrant children while simultaneously slashing all the programs that would actually do that is lying, but clearly that's what's going on here. These people are fucking heartless animals; and I don't mean the kids.

It should also be noted that here again we can observe the same "inversion of purpose" the regime has been using to justify enacting other aspects of its authoritarian Christian Nationalist agenda; for example transforming the Department of Justice's civil rights division into a vehicle for state prosecution of white grievance, or arguing that illegally kidnapping anti-genocide protestors on behalf of our bloodthirsty client state Israel is actually "fighting antisemitism on college campuses," and so forth. I'm sure it amuses Stephen Miller, Trump's unofficial Secretary of Nazi Shit, to no end that he's able to weaponize the language of tolerance and equality to straight up do state-sanctioned white supremacist dictator shit and enforce mass acceptance of the regime's fascist "unreality."

Finally I would encourage folks not to sleep on the fact that ICE's own internal documents are instructing agents to target, um, children with “gang or terrorist ties/activities.” Even setting aside the fact that the regime is implying literal children might be a national security threat or in a nacro-terrorist organization, we already know the Trumpenreich is prepared to accuse anyone they don't particularly like of being in a terrorist gang so they can traffic them to a torture prison in El Salvador without due process. I can't say why the regime wants to mark again, literal children, as narco-terrorists but given the fascist bullshit they're already using that designation to accomplish, I can pretty much guarantee you it won't be anything good.

The Guardian · Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecuteBy José Olivares
#Fascism#ICE#DHS
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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

France24’s great piece on the race to archive threatened data.

It features DRP, PEDP, and our team, @SafeguardingResearch. And @lavaeolus got some quotes in there as well (he started our project). Notably:

“There is a historical precedent for autocratic regimes changing what they want people to know, or changing reality according to their point of view…the end goal is controlling the population.”

france24.com/en/americas/20250

FRANCE 24 · First 100 days: The race to save digital records from the Trump administrationBy Lara BULLENS
#SafeguardingResearch#Data#Research
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

Media sources have obtained a March 14th Department of Justice memo the Trump regime released after a FOIA request, revealing that the Pork Reich wants ICE agents to ignore the Fourth Amendment to fight a fake war against "narco-terrorist gangs." If they get away with this, we'll truly be in the V for Vendetta era of Trumpism.

Nina-Bytes: Jackboots at the Door

ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/29

"As someone who has spent many years studying fascism, authoritarianism, and police states however, I’m pretty sure you don’t issue a Department of Justice order like that unless you intend to use ICE to start going house to house in American communities; and once a fascist government grants itself the power to do that, it really doesn’t matter why they claim they’re doing so anymore. This is quite literally the beginnings of the dystopian police state winger prepper reactionaries are always going on about guarding against, and in anything resembling a functioning democracy US Attorney General Pam Bondi would be arrested immediately for even signing it. As both the article and your middle school civics class will tell you, absolutely none of this is legal no matter what ancient laws Trump tries to invoke and Bondi’s Justice Department is basically telling ICE to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, “because we say so.”

Nina Illingworth Dot Com | "When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution" · Nina-Bytes: Jackboots at the Door | Nina Illingworth Dot ComA recent DoJ directive reveals that the Trump regime is ordering ICE to violate the constitution to fight a made up war against "narco-terrorist gangs."
#Fascism#Trump#ICE
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風曜日琳子 ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭

#Authoritarianism, when it is applied at the national level to ethnic, racial, or immigration status results inevitably in #Fascism.

#Fascism is a specific case of #Feudalism, in which the rightful control of territory belongs only to a specific group of people, defined by genetic heritage/purity, justified by divine providence, "destiny", or conquest.

Once you accept the idea that only a certain people can own a certain place, you can justify denying legal rights to any outsider. #USpol

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