Metropolis (1927) is set in 2026.

Homeland Security * @DHSgov X.com The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world. America After Terrible AI image of classic car on a beach with text that reads “America after 100 million deportations”

They want to wipe out almost a third of the country. It’s got nothing to do with illegal immigration.

It’s white nationalism pure and simple. They’re fascists, and there’s no reason to doubt it.

the thing is, “differing political views” used to be about what percentage to tax high earners and not whether brown people are humans

Much of the Minnesota Fraud, up to 90%, is caused by people that came into our Country, illegally, from Somalia. “Congresswoman” Omar, an ungrateful loser who only complains and never contributes, is one of the many scammers. Did she really marry her brother? Lowlifes like this can only be a liability to our Country’s greatness. Send them back from where they came, Somalia, perhaps the worst, and most corrupt, country on earth. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

We Are Free To Change the World by Lyndsey Stonebridge, a literary biography of Hannah Arendt

My wish for 2026 is that Europeans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in their own country as they are about them in the U.S. and that Americans will be as critical and vigilant about authoritarianism and racism in the U.S. as Europeans are.

About one-third of people (36%) thought a person must be born in Britain to be truly British, up from one in five (19%) in 2023, a YouGov poll carried out this month for the thinktank found.

Could this have anything to do with the two major parties and all the media hyping far-right narratives and "dining across the divide" increasingly unashamedly in the past couple of years?

No, it must be those grassroots "legitimate grievances" I keep hearing about...

The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.

The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

@thenerve.news Hi! We're theatre academics who research about far-right politics. Are you accepting pitches for articles?

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

A thoughtful review by ‪Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social‬ of Richard Seymour's new book 'Disaster Nationalism'. Trilling invites us to think harder about what this conjuncture really means: Birth of Fascism 2.0 or a New Popular Conservatism?

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Origins of Trumpism and the Birth of the Present Reflections on the pre-history of Trump’s rise, the peculiar nature of Trumpism, and the radical politics of white despair – based on John Ganz’s masterful "When the Clock Broke"

When the Clock Broke by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social looks like the book we all need to be reading to understand the political and cultural forces that brought us to this historical moment. Excellent summary by @thomaszimmer.bsky.social

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-origin...

“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over,” as we “simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring.”

W.E.B. DuBois, “The Propaganda of History”

Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck on Substack @Chris Hedges saying it ALLLLL!

'With magic Jesus you don't need labour unions or health care'

Chris Hedges has been warning the world about the rise of Christian American fascism since the early Obama era.

substack.com/@smfleck/not...

Fight For America!

Fight for America! is a live tabletop wargame based on the January 6 insurrection. It has it's London premier June 8- July 6

www.fightforamerica.games

the church pete hegseth is a part of, the CREC, is led by a lunatic who gives talks about "the lost value of sexism" and wants to drive women out of public life. this fully accords with hegseth's public comments. and he's been selected to run the largest corporation on earth

Yes it was a Nazi salute

Agreed. The corporate capture of public spaces is corroding democracy

She shone a spotlight on BBC mendacity in the face of oligarchic power

Total information collapse It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.

We need to start thinking of Facebook and Xwitter as weapons of information warfare @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

substack.com/home/post/p-...

ChatGPT v The Guardian Take my hand and come with me down into information dystopia...

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social will be one of the most essential voices to listen to this year. Her investigations into Russian interference in Brexit and '16 US election were ignored, dismissed, mocked, and derided by the BBC and the press. And here we are.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

One of the very few hologram stories I like, mainly due to Aaron Eisenberg's performance

What I wouldn't give for the classic Voyager reset button. I'd even settle for 'it was all holograms so nothing matters'

It begins

Peak liberal bias is believing with virtually no evidence that publics in authoritarian states only venerate their leaders out of fear. Hatred of LGBTQ+ ppl (for example) is deeply embedded in many cultures. It isn't just for show.

Theatre as a weapon against fascism is the big theme in V For Vendetta. V mobilises theatricality to perform resistance to tyranny. He embodies a suppressed idea of freedom to expose the weaknesses of autocracy.

The alleviation of women's abuse "is made less likely by the mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists. What is especially disappointing...is the docile acceptance by so many strong Christian women of their subjugation & restricted role." - Jimmy Carter (RIP)

'The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true'

It would be bloody Ezri wouldn't it :)