"What this moment reveals is not merely the fragility of white political innocence, but the durability of a system that has survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights reform, and the carceral turn by continually redefining violence as order."

"The most dangerous moment for any abusive relationship, whether one-on-one, or one-to-millions, comes when the victims want to leave. It’s why all cult leaders try to isolate their victims from external information and contact. Everything that’s not about the leader is a threat."

~ Jim Stewartson

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/7

https://www.mind-war.com/p/when-the-mirror-cracks-the-most-dangerous

"Trump’s paranoia at losing his power will not lead to a sudden rash of moderation. It will not lead to less violence. It will not lead to a lowering of tensions." ...

Trump wants to remake America to be his personal Jonestown, an isolated compound separate from any external accountability or internal dissent—a giant island only existing to serve himself."

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/8

"Destroying our ability to reality test is the only way he can maintain his own delusion."

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
/9

"Trump’s paranoia at losing his power will not lead to a sudden rash of moderation. It will not lead to less violence. It will not lead to a lowering of tensions." ...

Trump wants to remake America to be his personal Jonestown, an isolated compound separate from any external accountability or internal dissent—a giant island only existing to serve himself."

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/8

"Frst you get Epstein, which gets you Greenland, which gets you ice in Minneapolis. which now gets you raiding the Georgia [election board]. I mean, the distractions are actually piling up the scar tissue that's being pulled apart here."

~ Joe Trippi

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation
/10

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/minneapolis-mayhem-what-comes-next

@wdlindsy More like North Korea than Jonestown.

@wdlindsy More like North Korea than Jonestown.

"Authoritarian systems do not begin with overt tyranny. They begin with a normalization process. Each move is framed as temporary, necessary, or targeted at 'bad people.' Each expansion of power is justified by manufactured crisis. Each erosion of civil rights is sold as a trade-off for safety."

~ Oliver Kornetzke

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/2

https://substack.com/home/post/p-186140376

"Silicon Valley was once viewed as a tool for liberation. Now, from blocking apps to banning groups, it is helping the White House suppress dissent."

Named here as agents helping Trump suppress dissent: TikTok, Apple, Google, Meta, Facebook.

~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims

#Trump #ICE #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder #lies #disinformation #TikTok #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook
/11

https://popular.info/p/social-media-as-state-media

"Authoritarian systems do not begin with overt tyranny. They begin with a normalization process. Each move is framed as temporary, necessary, or targeted at 'bad people.' Each expansion of power is justified by manufactured crisis. Each erosion of civil rights is sold as a trade-off for safety."

~ Oliver Kornetzke

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/2

https://substack.com/home/post/p-186140376

@wdlindsy A tool for liberation but the part not spoken was liberation for whom? Nazis? Toxic-males? White supremacists?

@wdlindsy

"I sometimes fear that people might think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis. Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you…It doesn't wal…" — #MichaelRosen

https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/i-sometimes-fear.html

#fascism

“Federal agents continue to rain terror on Minneapolis, Minnesota, and other U.S. cities including Portland and Lewiston, Maine. That violence has made it crystal clear that the goal of attacking immigrants is not simply to create a white nation; it is also to terrorize Americans into accepting the domination of MAGA Republicans.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #WhiteSupremacy #violence #MaskedThugs #authoritarianism #immigrants #LawandOrder
/4

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28-2026