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Franklin's Ghosts
@franklinsghosts.bsky.social
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Patriots working in the digital shadows to resist fascism and authoritarianism in the United States.
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Also interesting. He shows up in a South Africa-related data breach. I can't tell what this was about, however, as you have to pay (a lot) to see the full information. intelx.io?s=leland.dud...
February 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Woohoo!! Just hit 300 followers! Much less than what o had at the old place, but I’ll take BlueSky over the hellsite any day.
February 18, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Awwww!! You see that @5gw.bsky.social? Their cycles are synced. I love that for them!https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t6ubj2wlhc34awzcymh3qpur/bafkreidobigbpdrxfzvqjtuqrlcryayg6rzdr2fjuv2zyz4oxovcpkyty4@jpeg
February 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We joke about leopards eating faces. But the phenomenon is real and is a theme I’m encountering repeatedly as I read Victor Klemperer’s diary of the Nazi rise to power. Even favored groups and one-time MAGA allies will not be spared.
February 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Trump and Musk are laying the groundwork to ignore decisions of federal courts. They are likely already quietly doing so. When this is all out in the open, it’s game over for the Constitution. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
February 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Happy Sunday, y’all!
"The Christian theory is little else than the idolatry of the ancient Mythologists, accommodated to the purposes of power and revenue; and it yet remains to reason and philosophy to abolish the amphibious fraud." (Thomas Paine, Isaac Kramnick, and Michael Foot, Thomas Paine Reader)
February 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Well that sounds familiar. Apparently, ADL has had a reputation as controlled opposition for quite some time.
"But he harbored resentment at the treatment received by other groups, ostensibly in the same camp: A few pro-democracy groups have shown a good deal of envy at the success of Friends of Democracy. And in time of stress they have done more harm to us than our so-called enemies. For example, one of the oldest of the self-proclaimed pro-democracy groups is the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL, celebrating its 40th anniversary, has been telling people that Birkhead is an old man and that he doesn’t have access to the materials to do the job that he was able to do years ago… ... And let the record show that when Friends of Democracy was hurt, the hand that held the dagger wasn’t the hand of the Gerald Smiths, the Gerald Winrods and the Nazi bundists –– but rather was the hand of the Anti-Defamation League who apparently decided it would be better if Friends of Democracy was put out of business. That would make it one less competitor. And old man Birkhead could be consigned to the garbage heap by one of the very groups to whom he had so often given vital assistance." (Jim Grebe, Democracy’s Defender: The Life of L. M. Birkhead)
February 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Top: FA
Bottom: FO

Any questions?
February 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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"For me the intellectual appeals to (rather than excoriates) as wide as possible a public, who is his or her natural constituency. The problem for the intellectual is not so much, as Carey discusses, mass society as a whole, but rather the insiders, experts, coteries, professionals who in the modes defined earlier this century by pundit Walter Lippmann mold public opinion, make it conformist, encourage a reliance on a superior little band of all-knowing men in power. Insiders promote special interests, but intellectuals should be the ones to question patriotic nationalism, corporate thinking, and a sense of class, racial or gender privilege." (Edward W. Said, Representations of the Intellectual)
February 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Opencorporates record for Tesla.sexy is now 403forbidden
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Excellent piece. Must read. Send this part to your MAGA friends and family, assuming you are still in contact, which I wouldn’t blame you if you’re not.
February 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Correct
February 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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“Lutheran.” I saw this coming. Christofascists do not see Lutherans as real Christians. They don’t see most other denominations as Christians. Thus, they will not see this as an attack on legitimate religion. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
February 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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As we witness blatant lawlessness by a demagogue and an unelected oligarch, plundering the national treasury and wantonly destroying government agencies, our government is no longer legitimate. There is no constitution and, hence, no law. #killtheDOGE teachdemocracy.org/online-lesso...
February 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Same
February 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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“America for the Americans” was a common catchphrase of fascists, Nazis, and isolationists in the 1930s, exactly the people FDR is talking about when he warns of those fellow citizens seeking to sow internal division. Example:
January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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WTF does this even mean??
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January 28, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Welcome to week 2.
January 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Self-coordination
Bottom-up Adaptation • Many Germans engaged in Selbstgleichschaltung (self- coordination) • Organizations voluntarily aligned themselves with Nazi ideology • Members expelled those deemed politically unreliable
January 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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This known as Gleichschaltung. #AmericanNazis
The process of Gleichschaltung (coordination) was a systematic Nazi effort to establish totalitarian control over all aspects of German society after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933. This comprehensive transformation of German society occurred through both legal mechanisms and coercive measures.
January 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Suck it, MAGA Boomers. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...
January 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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We fucking told you.
January 21, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Jared Holt jumped the shark a long time ago. I used to look up to him, but he's just a clown. #AmericanNazis #NaziElon
January 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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When the Very Smart People™ who shape public political discourse think the richest man in the world and shadow president giving the Nazi salute at the Inauguration is perhaps a mere distraction from more important issues, you can understand how we got into this mess. #AmericanNazis #NaziElon
January 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Given #NaziElon was high as a kite, I think we should call that the Sieg Highl. #AmericanNazis
January 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM