"But the Trump administration is unusual in its apparent commitment to destroying the pillars of America’s long-term prosperity – education, health, research, and climate policy – and decimating trust in, and goodwill toward, the US abroad."

#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism #GreatReplacement #fascism #authoritarianism
/15

“The Nazis never were in the majority. Those who simply ‘went along’ were absolutely critical to the regime's success.”

“It is easier for you to speak up and stand out if you see others already doing so. So, find these others. Run with them.

Let their examples strengthen your resolve.

Then, be such an Other for others, in turn.”

~ Ibid., pp. 68-9

#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
/2

According to a recent study by the Brookings Institution, Trump has assembled the least diverse administration in decades. Of his appointees confirmed by the Senate, 91 percent are white and 84 percent are men!

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-remigration
#whitesupremacy #racism #misogyny #trump #dei #fascism #authoritarianism

"But the Trump administration is unusual in its apparent commitment to destroying the pillars of America’s long-term prosperity – education, health, research, and climate policy – and decimating trust in, and goodwill toward, the US abroad."

#Trump #NationalSecurity #Europe #Russia #NATO #WhiteSupremacy #racism #GreatReplacement #fascism #authoritarianism
/15

Who’s Trying to Bring Down GrapheneOS? The French Authorities Go on the Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veqfy8IwKDQ

Something serious is happening in France right now — a quiet but very real shift toward digital authoritarianism. A major French newspaper recently published a story, backed by statements from a deputy prosecutor, claiming that GrapheneOS isn’t a respected open-source security project… but the “secret weapon of drug traffickers.”

This kind of rhetoric is dangerous. It pushes the idea that protecting your privacy or encrypting your data is somehow suspicious. In this video, I break down this media and judicial offensive, the drastic reaction from the GrapheneOS project — which now considers France an unsafe jurisdiction — and why defending our right to a private, secure digital life has become absolutely urgent.

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@GrapheneOS

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#grapheneos #cybersecurity #privacy #France #surveillance #authoritarianism #opensource #News #freesoftware #freedom #freespeech #youtube

@paninid

I think the only reason these fuckos are not shot on sight by the "I got guns to stop the tyrants" folk because #ICE are the very same people.

Seems #2a 'right to bear arms' was never about #freedom but about #authoritarianism and enforcing THEIR notions.

According to a recent study by the Brookings Institution, Trump has assembled the least diverse administration in decades. Of his appointees confirmed by the Senate, 91 percent are white and 84 percent are men!

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-remigration
#whitesupremacy #racism #misogyny #trump #dei #fascism #authoritarianism

Somehow, I missed this story. The local news just reported on a follow-up today -- all charges against the woman were dropped! Cops lied! Imagined that!

Texts appear to show #Maine #BorderPatrol agent bragging about shooting a woman in #Chicago

By the Associated Press
Updated November 6, 2025

CHICAGO — "Text messages sent by a Border Patrol agent appear to show he bragged to colleagues about his shooting skills after wounding a woman charged with assaulting a federal officer in Chicago.

"Agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times on Oct. 4 after authorities say she and another driver rammed vehicles into an SUV Exum was driving on the city’s Southwest Side.

"The messages were presented as evidence in federal court Wednesday. Martinez, a 30-year-old US citizen, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, are charged with assault on a federal officer using a deadly or dangerous weapon. [LIES!]

"In the text, agent Exum wrote that he had 'an amendment to add to' his story. 'I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys,' the text read. [WTF!]

"The shooting occurred as President #Trump’s escalation of federal law enforcement continued in cities across the US.

" 'On Oct. 5, the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged the shooting, saying in a statement that agents 'were rammed by vehicles and boxed in by 10 cars.' When agents exited their vehicle, 'a suspect tried to run them over, forcing the officers to fire defensively,' the statement continued. [Which was a lie!!! See related story below...]

"No officers were seriously injured."

Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/nation/chicago-border-patrol-agent-shooting-texts-bragging/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/d5bA5

Related story:
Judge dismisses charges against Chicago woman shot by Border Patrol
Prosecutors had accused Marimar Martinez and another defendant of ramming their cars into a federal vehicle in October. Her legal team argued it was federal agents who rammed her.

By Daniella Silva, November 20, 2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chicago-woman-shot-border-patrol-marimar-martinez-charges-dismissed-rcna244979

#MaineBorderPatrol #MurderPatrol #CBP #ACAB #ResistICE #DHS #Resistance #USPol #Authoritarianism

Who’s Trying to Bring Down GrapheneOS? The French Authorities Go on the Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veqfy8IwKDQ

Something serious is happening in France right now — a quiet but very real shift toward digital authoritarianism. A major French newspaper recently published a story, backed by statements from a deputy prosecutor, claiming that GrapheneOS isn’t a respected open-source security project… but the “secret weapon of drug traffickers.”

This kind of rhetoric is dangerous. It pushes the idea that protecting your privacy or encrypting your data is somehow suspicious. In this video, I break down this media and judicial offensive, the drastic reaction from the GrapheneOS project — which now considers France an unsafe jurisdiction — and why defending our right to a private, secure digital life has become absolutely urgent.

- -

@GrapheneOS

____
#grapheneos #cybersecurity #privacy #France #surveillance #authoritarianism #opensource #News #freesoftware #freedom #freespeech #youtube

@paninid

I think the only reason these fuckos are not shot on sight by the "I got guns to stop the tyrants" folk because #ICE are the very same people.

Seems #2a 'right to bear arms' was never about #freedom but about #authoritarianism and enforcing THEIR notions.

“The Nazis never were in the majority. Those who simply ‘went along’ were absolutely critical to the regime's success.”

“It is easier for you to speak up and stand out if you see others already doing so. So, find these others. Run with them.

Let their examples strengthen your resolve.

Then, be such an Other for others, in turn.”

~ Ibid., pp. 68-9

#authoritarianism #fascism #immigrants #marginal #racism #xenophobia #Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #resistance #solidarity
/2

Not good… Rutger Bregman's BBC lecture about the ‘paralysing cowardice’, by fx universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism is censored … out of fear for authoritarianism (and lawsuits)

#censorship #democracy #authoritarianism

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/25/rutger-bregman-accuses-bbc-of-censoring-his-reith-lecture-on-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Authoritarian nostalgia is rising across Southeast Asia, as leaders and societies whitewash past dictatorships, threatening democratic institutions and stability throughout the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/26/world/asias-tyrants-seen-as-heroes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #suharto #indonesia #ferdinandmarcos #philippines #thailand #cambodia #globalsouth #asia #authoritarianism #democracy #humanrights

Proud owner of a number of #Anarchist books -- starting with #AbbieHoffman's #StealThisBook and #PrairieFire - The politics of revolutionary anti-imperialism ( #WeatherUnderground, 1974). Also a proud subscriber to #InTheseTimes 'zine, and frequent #Antifa stickerer! I've never hid what I believe in -- I'm not about to start now! #Resist!

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an #Anarchist #Zine

#DanielSanchez is facing federal charges for what #FreeSpeech advocates say is a clear attack on the #FirstAmendment.

by Seth Stern, November 23 2025

Excerpt: "Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the #PrairielandICE #DetentionFacility in #AlvaradoTX, during which a police officer was shot.

"There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas #artist who wasn’t even at the protest. Daniel 'Des' Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained ' #Antifa materials' after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.

"But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever #MAGA officials claim 'Antifa' uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled ' #InsurrectionaryAnarchy' — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administration’s intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing #activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating 'Antifa' as a 'major terrorist organization' — a legal designation that doesn’t exist for domestic groups — following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

"Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of 'corruptly concealing a document or record' as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.

"It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed #ZineDistribution as part of the #conspiracy charges against 61 #StopCopCity protesters in a sprawling #RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KEoxE

#AntiFascism #Resistance #Antifa #Movements #USPol
#WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Disobey
#Resistance #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Not good… Rutger Bregman's BBC lecture about the ‘paralysing cowardice’, by fx universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism is censored … out of fear for authoritarianism (and lawsuits)

#censorship #democracy #authoritarianism

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/25/rutger-bregman-accuses-bbc-of-censoring-his-reith-lecture-on-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[Thread] #ItsGoingDown announcement (includes valuable resources, linked in thread)

Oct 18, 25
IGD: 2015 – 2025

Filed under: Featured, IGD — It's Going Down

"About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce.

"But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism. In the face of this reality, we feel its important to be clear about our inability to continue, in the hopes that more people can push themselves to build and grow media projects and platforms.

"We should all have a sober and clear-eyed view of what is happening. The current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power. People are being silenced and working-class people are being attacked. A police state is being constructed. Conditions are worsening. Inflation and prices are exploding and the entire country feels like it is slipping into dictatorship and economic collapse, as most people struggle to put food on the table.

"While this reality is bleak, we are excited about the flood of new media projects taking off and reporting from the ground level and covering evolving social movements. We want to take a moment to shout out some of these projects and encourage you to support and follow them... [Links in thread]

"As corporations and the State consolidate news into fewer hands and the far-Right pushes to silence those who speak out, the need for dynamic and vibrant grassroots media that amplifies working-class voices and gives a platform to social movements is needed now more than ever. We hope those that enjoyed IGD over the years can help in constructing new infrastructure that can help meet our present moment."

Source:
https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Antifa #Antifascism #GrassrootsMedia #FarRight #USPol #WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship

Proud owner of a number of #Anarchist books -- starting with #AbbieHoffman's #StealThisBook and #PrairieFire - The politics of revolutionary anti-imperialism ( #WeatherUnderground, 1974). Also a proud subscriber to #InTheseTimes 'zine, and frequent #Antifa stickerer! I've never hid what I believe in -- I'm not about to start now! #Resist!

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an #Anarchist #Zine

#DanielSanchez is facing federal charges for what #FreeSpeech advocates say is a clear attack on the #FirstAmendment.

by Seth Stern, November 23 2025

Excerpt: "Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment in response to a July 4 noise demonstration outside the #PrairielandICE #DetentionFacility in #AlvaradoTX, during which a police officer was shot.

"There are numerous problems with the indictment, but perhaps the most glaring is its inclusion of charges against a Dallas #artist who wasn’t even at the protest. Daniel 'Des' Sanchez is accused of transporting a box that contained ' #Antifa materials' after the incident, supposedly to conceal evidence against his wife, Maricela Rueda, who was there.

"But the boxed materials aren’t Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs, or whatever #MAGA officials claim 'Antifa' uses to wage its imaginary war on America. As prosecutors laid out in the July criminal complaint that led to the indictment, they were zines and pamphlets. Some contain controversial ideas — one was titled ' #InsurrectionaryAnarchy' — but they’re fully constitutionally protected free speech. The case demonstrates the administration’s intensifying efforts to criminalize left-wing #activists after Donald Trump announced in September that he was designating 'Antifa' as a 'major terrorist organization' — a legal designation that doesn’t exist for domestic groups — following the killing of Charlie Kirk.

"Sanchez was first indicted in October on charges of 'corruptly concealing a document or record' as a standalone case, but the new indictment merges his charges with those against the other defendants, likely in hopes of burying the First Amendment problems with the case against him under prosecutors’ claims about the alleged shooting.

"It’s an escalation of a familiar tactic. In 2023, Georgia prosecutors listed #ZineDistribution as part of the #conspiracy charges against 61 #StopCopCity protesters in a sprawling #RICO indictment that didn’t bother to explain how each individual defendant was involved in any actual crime. I wrote back then about my concern that this wasn’t just sloppy overreach, but also a blueprint for censorship. Those fears have now been validated by Sanchez’s prosecution solely for possessing similar literature."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/KEoxE

#AntiFascism #Resistance #Antifa #Movements #USPol
#WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #Disobey
#Resistance #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Not on #ItsGoingDown's list is #PopularResistance! They are definitely on my list!

"With the corporate takeover of federal and state governments, growing state violence and oppression, a widening wealth gap and the climate crisis, more people are becoming politically active in new and creative ways.

A growing culture of resistance is utilizing #NonviolentDirectAction and #CivilDisobedience as primary tactics, and is forming real democratic organizations to empower local communities—as opposed to working within the corrupt government dominated by a two-corporate party system and within an unfair, big finance, #capitalist economy.

PopularResistance.org is a resource and information clearinghouse for this movement of movements. We provide a daily stream of resistance news from the United States and around the world, and a national events calendar."

https://popularresistance.org/news/

#Antifa #Antifascism #Movements #GrassrootsMedia #FarRight #USPol #WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship #FreeGaza #Disobey #Resistance #ResistanceNews #HumanRights #AntiCapitalist

[Thread] #ItsGoingDown announcement (includes valuable resources, linked in thread)

Oct 18, 25
IGD: 2015 – 2025

Filed under: Featured, IGD — It's Going Down

"About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce.

"But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more dire, it’s clear that IGD does not have the capacity to meet the moment as a hub for grassroots reporting and journalism. In the face of this reality, we feel its important to be clear about our inability to continue, in the hopes that more people can push themselves to build and grow media projects and platforms.

"We should all have a sober and clear-eyed view of what is happening. The current administration is attempting to consolidate extreme authoritarian power. People are being silenced and working-class people are being attacked. A police state is being constructed. Conditions are worsening. Inflation and prices are exploding and the entire country feels like it is slipping into dictatorship and economic collapse, as most people struggle to put food on the table.

"While this reality is bleak, we are excited about the flood of new media projects taking off and reporting from the ground level and covering evolving social movements. We want to take a moment to shout out some of these projects and encourage you to support and follow them... [Links in thread]

"As corporations and the State consolidate news into fewer hands and the far-Right pushes to silence those who speak out, the need for dynamic and vibrant grassroots media that amplifies working-class voices and gives a platform to social movements is needed now more than ever. We hope those that enjoyed IGD over the years can help in constructing new infrastructure that can help meet our present moment."

Source:
https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-2015-2025/

#Antifa #Antifascism #GrassrootsMedia #FarRight #USPol #WorldPol #Authoritarianism #Dictatorship