Christopher L. Nelson
@nelsoncl80.bsky.social
Author of WHERE YOU ARE FROM, available now from Redhawk Publications.
Teacher, writer, WNC Native with a healthy hatred of fascism.
https://sites.google.com/view/where-you-are-from/home
Teacher, writer, WNC Native with a healthy hatred of fascism.
https://sites.google.com/view/where-you-are-from/home
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So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?
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Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
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Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.
They aren't subtle.
More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.
October 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
They aren't subtle.
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🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
She also knows that puppies have it coming, so ... grain of salt?
Kristi Noem: "I do know that LA wouldn't be standing today if President Trump hadn't taken action."
August 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
She also knows that puppies have it coming, so ... grain of salt?
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@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
August 31, 2025 at 11:39 AM
@radiofreetom.bsky.social explained it better than anyone; this is from a thread he posted after the 2024 election. For us, it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character. ⬇️
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It's really hard to avoid this conclusion.
MAGA, at its core, is a cult of abuse. The right to abuse, the justification for abuse, the dopamine rush they get from abusing others, is built into every policy, every program, every line of rhetoric. They identify with abusers because they want to abuse people.
So this is happening
August 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's really hard to avoid this conclusion.
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Trump named Pete Hegseth as defense secretray because he knew Hegseth wouldn't hesitate to order American troops to fire on American civilians. Sending the military into our cities is a major step toward imposing a dictatorship.
It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.
It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.
August 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Trump named Pete Hegseth as defense secretray because he knew Hegseth wouldn't hesitate to order American troops to fire on American civilians. Sending the military into our cities is a major step toward imposing a dictatorship.
It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.
It's so obvious that mainstream media are afraid to say it.
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Trump’s FCC chair stooge says @cbsnews @60minutes will now have a “bias monitor that reports directly to Trump”🤔 as a condition of the Paramount/Skydance merger
Honestly why even bother at that point? Don’t we have enough regime propaganda networks already?
Honestly why even bother at that point? Don’t we have enough regime propaganda networks already?
July 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Trump’s FCC chair stooge says @cbsnews @60minutes will now have a “bias monitor that reports directly to Trump”🤔 as a condition of the Paramount/Skydance merger
Honestly why even bother at that point? Don’t we have enough regime propaganda networks already?
Honestly why even bother at that point? Don’t we have enough regime propaganda networks already?
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More of this. Yelling works. Bullying works. The Tea Party learned this in 2009-2010.
Angry US civilian speaks out against fascist governor Ron DeSantis and his subservience to Jeffrey Epstein ally Donald Trump:
“You bow down to a fucking pedophile! You’re a fucking pedophile! Donald Trump and all of you are fucking Nazis, fuck you all.”
“You bow down to a fucking pedophile! You’re a fucking pedophile! Donald Trump and all of you are fucking Nazis, fuck you all.”
July 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
More of this. Yelling works. Bullying works. The Tea Party learned this in 2009-2010.
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FOX: Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
July 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
FOX: Is The View now in the crosshairs of this administration?
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: It's entirely possible there are issues over there ... the consequences aren't quite finished
The key word here is "willingly."
You cannot convince me that anyone with a semblance of critical thinking skills ever thought that the same people pushing a volkish narrative cared about antisemitism. It was just a convenient vehicle for anti-Palestinian/anti-POC bigotry to cover up a genocide.
You cannot convince me that anyone with a semblance of critical thinking skills ever thought that the same people pushing a volkish narrative cared about antisemitism. It was just a convenient vehicle for anti-Palestinian/anti-POC bigotry to cover up a genocide.
"Anti-semitism" was just the foot wedged in the door. The actual intent has always been to destroy academia as a bastion of liberalism, then replace it with nonsense racial and theocratic propaganda.
This was never about protecting Jews, but many in politics and the press willingly fell for it.
This was never about protecting Jews, but many in politics and the press willingly fell for it.
Linda McMahon on Columbia settlement: "This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."
July 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The key word here is "willingly."
You cannot convince me that anyone with a semblance of critical thinking skills ever thought that the same people pushing a volkish narrative cared about antisemitism. It was just a convenient vehicle for anti-Palestinian/anti-POC bigotry to cover up a genocide.
You cannot convince me that anyone with a semblance of critical thinking skills ever thought that the same people pushing a volkish narrative cared about antisemitism. It was just a convenient vehicle for anti-Palestinian/anti-POC bigotry to cover up a genocide.
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While at the same time reducing non-elite institutions' ability to provide well-rounded education (i.e. killing the humanities).
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
the minute universities start using class preferences, reactionaries will sue them because the actual goal is to make elite institutions inaccessible to everyone other than rich white kids
July 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
While at the same time reducing non-elite institutions' ability to provide well-rounded education (i.e. killing the humanities).
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
The non-white/rich kids will have access to nothing but job training--which is a massive subsidy to corporations who can then train their workers at taxpayer expense
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The Great American Experiment is now facing the age old question I’m sure was on the top of everyone’s minds: what if people who nod along to racist threads on 4chan ran the government
The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”
July 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
The Great American Experiment is now facing the age old question I’m sure was on the top of everyone’s minds: what if people who nod along to racist threads on 4chan ran the government
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Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
July 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Fascism is evil. Fascism is scary. Fascism is awful.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
But goddamn it is also so fucking whiny and intellectually vapid and incredibly annoying.
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Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.
Floridians are taking pictures of themselves next to the sign for their new death camp
As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible
As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible
July 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.
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This piece from May provides essential context for the big bill the GOP just passed. To some extent, the bill is just the latest example of bad GOP policy making. It is that, but it's also part of a broader ideological project to dismantle the New Deal state.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
www.theatlantic.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This piece from May provides essential context for the big bill the GOP just passed. To some extent, the bill is just the latest example of bad GOP policy making. It is that, but it's also part of a broader ideological project to dismantle the New Deal state.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter
July 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter
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July 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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This is the same senator who two months ago said she and her colleagues literally fear for their lives voting against him. That doesn't justify it but you don't need to look much further for an explanation
Murkowski votes yes and hopes it doesn’t pass.
Hawley says it’s terrible for his constituents and the middle class … yet votes yes.
It’s pretty simple: words don’t matter. Votes do.
Hawley says it’s terrible for his constituents and the middle class … yet votes yes.
It’s pretty simple: words don’t matter. Votes do.
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is the same senator who two months ago said she and her colleagues literally fear for their lives voting against him. That doesn't justify it but you don't need to look much further for an explanation
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This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.
June 29, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This how I know black folk and white folk live in different realities. Because I coulda told you in my teens that some people in this country have so much hate in their hearts that they’d burn this country to the ground just to be rulers over ashes, if it meant people they don’t like get hurt more.
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Iowa probably wasn't invited. That is the only reason I can think of why our chuckleheaded leadership didn't sign on.
I told you all that accreditation wouldn't save us. FL, TX, GA, NC, SC and TN are creating a new accrediting body: thehill.com/homenews/edu...
![“[The new body] will upend the monopoly of the woke accreditation cartels, and it will provide institutions with an alternative that focuses on student achievement, rather than the ideological fads that have so permeated those accrediting bodies over the years,” DeSantis said at an event at Florida Atlantic University on Thursday. “We care about student achievement; we care about measurable outcomes; we care about efficiency; we care about pursuing truth; we care about preparing our students to be citizens of our republic.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yfjyxzzvqhjzkz6wtdxggmgd/bafkreih7j2zcthta6ccxff4aimnsw4z5btii65qmlxnbncxscxuecbvbpi@jpeg)
June 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Iowa probably wasn't invited. That is the only reason I can think of why our chuckleheaded leadership didn't sign on.
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insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
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I'm an employment lawyer; I represent unions; and I very specifically represent ~building trades~ unions. The majority of my clients are construction workers. All of that is to say that I know my way around construction work.
This required multiple different failure points and should never happen.
This required multiple different failure points and should never happen.
One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here
June 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm an employment lawyer; I represent unions; and I very specifically represent ~building trades~ unions. The majority of my clients are construction workers. All of that is to say that I know my way around construction work.
This required multiple different failure points and should never happen.
This required multiple different failure points and should never happen.