Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social

The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?

Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute

Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

Fake emergencies to justify crackdowns-not very original

There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump to a reporter who asks him about Russia breaking a ceasefire: "What if a bomb drops on your head right now ... Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt."

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So do we get why I was banned from speaking about Pinochet at the Naval Academy now?

Regimes seem solid until they are not. Every resistance act matters because often regimes are crumbling from within from corruption and yet good at hiding that fact. cc: Russia

All Putin puppets must go

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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In Nazi Germany, the targeted population was encouraged to self-deport and the state sought to impoverish them to force them to leave.

Authoritarian Party Line Alert. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Justice Dept. suspends lawyer who acknowledged deportation was a mistake

Erez Reuveni had worked at the Justice Department for nearly 15 years, most recently as the acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation.

Flip the script on democracy's destroyers. It's Day One of the new phase of the fight for our democracy.

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Authoritarians want you to betray each other but they also encourage you to betray yourself through an inner moral collapse- you give up your agency and let the leader "fix it," and you disregard your moral compass.

That's the authoritarian dream

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

Let it all come out. There will be a reckoning. Zelensky is a hero.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com

Vance: I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media...You should be thanking the president... Zelenskyy: Have you ever been to Ukraine?... Vance: I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour...

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A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Authoritarians will stop at nothing to feel safe. Since they have no concept of public welfare and consider everyone an asset to be used and discarded, they will easily enter into a military conflict without a long-term strategy, regardless of the casualties it causes.

What? Is it now taboo to name Nazis as far right because that's the profile of our next govt? Or has she fallen for the old right-wing talking point that Fascism was "left wing," even though the first and most consistent victims of Fascism were leftists?

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com

Dana Bash comments on the Neo-Nazis marching in Ohio and says "we don't know what side of the aisle this comes from"

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This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.

Yes. To gain points with Leader, the capitulation must be as public and humiliating as possible. Shows you mean business --the business of "getting along" with Leader.

Fascists want to provoke violence so they can justify crackdowns and get some good footage to distort for state propaganda outlets

I will continue to teach about these heroes, including in my current WW2 class, as was on the syllabus long before Trump tried to suppress these histories.

Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social

The Air Force will no longer teach its recruits about the Tuskegee Airmen, Black pioneer pilots honored for their service during World War II. Also halted, teaching the history of Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, the female World War II pilots who were essential in ferrying warplanes…

Happy Thanksgiving to all in the US. Remember: all of the organizing and outreach we did was not in vain. We carry the knowledge and experience we gained within us, and we will put it to good use in the months and years to come. 💕

As I have said since Feb 2025, Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems. How else are you going to ensure that Putin's failed state becomes prosperous? it is already having to be propped up by China.