S Hammel
@lasteve423.bsky.social
An authoritarian party found its perfect vehicle to permanent power. White nationalist oligarchy is the goal. Let’s call fascism fascism.
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S Hammel
@lasteve423.bsky.social
· Dec 9
This isn't just a takeover by an authoritarian President. It's a takeover by an authoritarian political party.
Well, X is behaving like it crashed today.
May 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Well, X is behaving like it crashed today.
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Especially disturbing. You can now be fired for not lying in intelligence reports to support Trump’s false premises.
Tulsi Gabbard Fires Two Top National Security Officials Over Intel Assessment that Contradicted Trump Claims https://twp.ai/4inbFB
www.mediaite.com
Tulsi Gabbard Fires Two Top National Security Officials Over Intel Assessment that Contradicted Trump Claims
twp.ai
May 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Especially disturbing. You can now be fired for not lying in intelligence reports to support Trump’s false premises.
Brown shirts.
'When they finally returned our electronics, they issued a chilling warning to my husband: “You have been here seven times without an issue. Stay away from political activity, and everything will be fine.”'
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Fear and intimidation at Newark airport
The harassment I faced returning to the US as a Palestinian-American makes it clear the US government is afraid of me.
www.aljazeera.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Brown shirts.
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Trump just announced the largest tax hike in U.S. history.
April 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Trump just announced the largest tax hike in U.S. history.
Then there’s this.
Tariffs are supposed to be the job of CONGRESS. Except during a war or emergency. I guess we're at war with the entire world?
April 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Then there’s this.
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Tariffs are supposed to be the job of CONGRESS. Except during a war or emergency. I guess we're at war with the entire world?
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tariffs are supposed to be the job of CONGRESS. Except during a war or emergency. I guess we're at war with the entire world?
See how hard the fever is to break.
Even having ICE arrest his wife can’t snap this guy out of it.
Even having ICE arrest his wife can’t snap this guy out of it.
Trump voter has 'no regrets' after wife arrested by ICE on their way home from honeymoon www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
Trump voter has 'no regrets' after wife arrested by ICE
A man says he still doesn't regret voting for Donald Trump in November, despite his wife being arrested and held for weeks by ICE
www.themirror.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
See how hard the fever is to break.
Even having ICE arrest his wife can’t snap this guy out of it.
Even having ICE arrest his wife can’t snap this guy out of it.
All roads lead to the supposition this court has been carefully constructed to rubber-stamp MAGA fascism.
The judge blocked DOGE from further action. DOJ will appeal to the US Court of Appeals, then potentially the Supreme Court.
March 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
All roads lead to the supposition this court has been carefully constructed to rubber-stamp MAGA fascism.
Post Dobbs we’ve got to start realizing this court is in place to enact a fascist agenda and rubber-stamp Trump.
The Supreme Nazi, Chief Justice Roberts, does as Trump requests, granting a stay putting on hold lower court order for USAID to pay by tonight about $2B in foreign-aid bills.
Sets response by Friday noon.
www.documentcloud.org/docu.../2554...
Sets response by Friday noon.
www.documentcloud.org/docu.../2554...
February 27, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Post Dobbs we’ve got to start realizing this court is in place to enact a fascist agenda and rubber-stamp Trump.
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A prescient post from Twitter in February, 2017.
A good account to follow.
A good account to follow.
This isn't just a takeover by an authoritarian President. It's a takeover by an authoritarian political party.
February 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A prescient post from Twitter in February, 2017.
A good account to follow.
A good account to follow.
This is some N Korean kind of bullshit.
February 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is some N Korean kind of bullshit.
Remember when HANDMAIDS TALE seemed like dystopian fantasy?
First Thing: Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
First Thing: Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law. Plus, the Australians lining up to sniff a flower that smells like a rotten carcass
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Remember when HANDMAIDS TALE seemed like dystopian fantasy?
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First Thing: Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
First Thing: Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law. Plus, the Australians lining up to sniff a flower that smells like a rotten carcass
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
First Thing: Trump Pentagon nominee endorses extremist Christian doctrine
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth wants to make government subordinate to Old Testament law.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Right now four more years of this level of Trumpness is feeling unfathomable.
January 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Right now four more years of this level of Trumpness is feeling unfathomable.
We don’t have the money for cancelling college loans, continuing Social Security or universal healthcare.
But we do have the money to do a Louisiana Purchase of Greenland?
But we do have the money to do a Louisiana Purchase of Greenland?
January 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We don’t have the money for cancelling college loans, continuing Social Security or universal healthcare.
But we do have the money to do a Louisiana Purchase of Greenland?
But we do have the money to do a Louisiana Purchase of Greenland?
He’s not even in office yet and it’s already nuttier than could be predicted. 😱
January 8, 2025 at 7:37 AM
He’s not even in office yet and it’s already nuttier than could be predicted. 😱
Trump has us at war with three other countries and he’s not even President yet.
You know, the guy who ran on the notion he didn’t start any wars.
You know, the guy who ran on the notion he didn’t start any wars.
January 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Trump has us at war with three other countries and he’s not even President yet.
You know, the guy who ran on the notion he didn’t start any wars.
You know, the guy who ran on the notion he didn’t start any wars.
Think of all the MSM currently equivocating. ABC. CNN. TIME. WP. NYT.
This is before this fascist regime starts coming for free speech.
This is before this fascist regime starts coming for free speech.
Bravo, @anntelnaes.bsky.social.
I guess the new slogan for the Washington Post ought to be:
“Newspapers die in cowardice.”
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
I guess the new slogan for the Washington Post ought to be:
“Newspapers die in cowardice.”
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Think of all the MSM currently equivocating. ABC. CNN. TIME. WP. NYT.
This is before this fascist regime starts coming for free speech.
This is before this fascist regime starts coming for free speech.
You recall that moment in IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT when Lee Grant looks around at the bumbling bigots of Sparta and says, “Who ARE you people!?”
That’s how I feel every day now.
That’s how I feel every day now.
January 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
You recall that moment in IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT when Lee Grant looks around at the bumbling bigots of Sparta and says, “Who ARE you people!?”
That’s how I feel every day now.
That’s how I feel every day now.
Now that federal regulation is going away, can they put the cocaine back in Coca-Cola?
January 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Now that federal regulation is going away, can they put the cocaine back in Coca-Cola?
When our Supreme Court is this corrupted and crooked for the foreseeable future, we’re pretty much screwed.
January 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
When our Supreme Court is this corrupted and crooked for the foreseeable future, we’re pretty much screwed.
Nearly ten utterly exhausting years since the nightmare came down the escalator and never went away.
January 2, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Nearly ten utterly exhausting years since the nightmare came down the escalator and never went away.
Alt headline: Hawley rushes to politicize a terror attack.
January 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Alt headline: Hawley rushes to politicize a terror attack.