Dan Sigward
@repeatdrone.bsky.social
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We are losing the last of the generation who understand just how evil actual fascism is, how hard it is to rid the world of authoritarian governments once they’re established, and how hard it is to build a successful alternative. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation
It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We are losing the last of the generation who understand just how evil actual fascism is, how hard it is to rid the world of authoritarian governments once they’re established, and how hard it is to build a successful alternative. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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Every word of this is nonsensical garbage that reflects the offal excreted by the nest of snakes in Stephen Miller’s brain. But I want to focus on “America will be for Americans again,” & offer a thread on exclusion & inclusion in the history of California specifically. 🗃️
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“I am reversing the Invasion. It's called Remigration.”
June 13, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Every word of this is nonsensical garbage that reflects the offal excreted by the nest of snakes in Stephen Miller’s brain. But I want to focus on “America will be for Americans again,” & offer a thread on exclusion & inclusion in the history of California specifically. 🗃️
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The House Ways & Means Committee advanced a tax bill that includes a dangerous provision granting the executive branch the power to effectively shut down any non-profit by accusing them of “supporting terrorism” and using that to suspend their tax-exempt status without any real due process.
Republicans Sneak Nonprofit Killer Bill Into the Tail End of Trump’s 389-Page Tax Plan
It would give the Trump administration the power to strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems a “terrorist-supporting organization.”
theintercept.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The House Ways & Means Committee advanced a tax bill that includes a dangerous provision granting the executive branch the power to effectively shut down any non-profit by accusing them of “supporting terrorism” and using that to suspend their tax-exempt status without any real due process.
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In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
www.theatlantic.com
April 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.”
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too.
April 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Tonight, between Booker and the Florida results, is a night to remember that the unraveling of American democracy is not inevitable. Trumpism’s vision for the future is not inevitable. We have a voice—and a vote too.
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California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
April 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas): "there are currently more kids with measles in Texas than there are transgender athletes in the NCAA. That's the epidemic we should all be worried about."
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Really liked this @aaronrosspowell.com piece as an antidote to the idea, valorized by a lot of the internet left in the 2010s, that being an asshole is good praxis.
That idea failed miserably. It's time to rediscover being decent. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...
That idea failed miserably. It's time to rediscover being decent. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...
The Necessary Virtue of Not Being an Asshole
No matter what you tell yourself, you can't be a moral person if you're an asshole.
www.aaronrosspowell.com
March 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Really liked this @aaronrosspowell.com piece as an antidote to the idea, valorized by a lot of the internet left in the 2010s, that being an asshole is good praxis.
That idea failed miserably. It's time to rediscover being decent. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...
That idea failed miserably. It's time to rediscover being decent. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/the-necess...
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"Khalil was not imprisoned because Trump wanted to take away his freedom. He was imprisoned in order to take away freedom from all of us by causing us to question whether we should speak out."
Speak Up. Now.
Donald Trump isn’t trying to silence Mahmoud Khalil. He’s trying to silence you.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Khalil was not imprisoned because Trump wanted to take away his freedom. He was imprisoned in order to take away freedom from all of us by causing us to question whether we should speak out."
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...
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Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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Anybody who actually knows gender nonconforming kids could tell you that they are some of the most courageous people in the world.
Let’s hope the rest of us can rise to their standard.
Let’s hope the rest of us can rise to their standard.
January 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Anybody who actually knows gender nonconforming kids could tell you that they are some of the most courageous people in the world.
Let’s hope the rest of us can rise to their standard.
Let’s hope the rest of us can rise to their standard.
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Driving into work on this dark wintry morning, thinking about our moment & about folks I respect saying that “the America we’ve known is over” & the like. Saw the montage I’ve built next to my office door, & wanted to say a little about the America I know. 🗃️ Thread+
January 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Driving into work on this dark wintry morning, thinking about our moment & about folks I respect saying that “the America we’ve known is over” & the like. Saw the montage I’ve built next to my office door, & wanted to say a little about the America I know. 🗃️ Thread+
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Written in broad language, with only a narrow exception for those “not subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. (eg, diplomats), the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on “all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.”
January 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Written in broad language, with only a narrow exception for those “not subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. (eg, diplomats), the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on “all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.”
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A lot of people think of history as boring. But if done well, it's not. It's challenging, and really unsettling. That's why fascists hate it, and want to replace the actual practice of history with their nostalgic, ethnonationalist narrative of national greatness.
January 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A lot of people think of history as boring. But if done well, it's not. It's challenging, and really unsettling. That's why fascists hate it, and want to replace the actual practice of history with their nostalgic, ethnonationalist narrative of national greatness.
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If your zip code started with 45 you can smell this picture
November 29, 2024 at 12:18 AM
If your zip code started with 45 you can smell this picture
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Timothy Snyder's latest:
October 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Timothy Snyder's latest:
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NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL:
A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion.
"Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually.
It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion.
"Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually.
It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
Mass Deportation
The mass deportation of millions of undocumented individuals would be tremendously expensive and would have a catastrophic impact on our economy—one that would be expansive and impact every American. ...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
October 2, 2024 at 12:55 PM
NEW FROM THE AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL:
A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion.
"Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually.
It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...
A mass deportation op would cost the US government an estimated $315 billion.
"Starting" at 1 million/year? That's $88B annually.
It'd cut GDP by 4.2-6.8%. That's the Great Recession on the LOW end.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mas...