AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>Like many folks who study how fascist governments operate, I've been quick to warn people that given the blatantly illegal methods by which the Trump regime has targeted migrants, foreign visitors to the United States, and student anti-genocide protestors legally in the country, it was only a matter of time before Downmarket Mussolini tried to expand those tactics to target dissidents born in the United States. After watching the US Attorney General call Tesla vandalism "domestic terrorism" yesterday, and reading Trump's unhinged social media rants about shipping folks caught vandalizing Tesla cars or dealerships to El Salvador, I think it's safe to say we're already here.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-tesla-el-salvador" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/trump-te</span><span class="invisible">sla-el-salvador</span></a></p><p>'Delusional' Trump Threatens to Send Tesla Vandals to Prison for 20 Years... in El Salvador</p><p>"People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes the funders," Trump stated overnight, adding in all caps: "WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!"</p><p>Several hours later, Trump took up the issue again on his TruthSocial platform, saying: "I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!"</p><p>Civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill said the threat, which follows on Trump's highly controversial deportation of alleged gang members to El Salvador last week, should not be taken lightly.</p><p>"Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began," said Ifill in response to Trump's rantings on Friday. "The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador. We cannot sleepwalk through this."</p><p>Well folks, smoke 'em if you got 'em because I'm pretty sure this bloviating nazi windbag is serious. Given the pattern we've been observing by which Trump's musing are treated as "objective" reality by his fascist minions, and how the regime then transforms that (un)reality into enforcement action regardless of the law, I don't think it's a good idea to wave this off as 'Trump being Trump." Just yesterday regime Attorney General Pam Bondi was publicly making the argument that what is, legally speaking, mere vandalism, is actually a "wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties," and that line was then parroted by a variety of regime-loyal mouthpieces in the larger discourse. This process of laying the ground work to transform fascist unreality into a presumed mandate to act is precisely the tactic we saw the Trump regime employ to justify kidnapping student anti-genocide protest leaders residing legally in the United States, render over 200 prisoners to a slave labor dungeon in El Salvador without due process, attempting to either seize control of, or destroy Columbia University, manufacture consent to annex Canada, and even attempt to shutter the US Department of Education. Furthermore, given the regime's continued insistence that invoking the word "terrorism" is a magic spell that allows them to ignore US law and our constitutionally-protected rights, you'd have to be some kind of rube to assume Bondi's media performance yesterday, and Trump's late night social media rant, aren't a coordinated effort to manufacture consent to escalate the regime's war on resistance to include American protestors and dissidents opposing the administration's fascist fuckery. </p><p>Of course it almost goes without saying that what Trump is proposing here, the rendition of American citizens to a slave labor prison in El Salvador for the high crime of vandalizing some cars, is highly illegal and a blatant violation of our legally-enshrined civil rights, but that hasn't really stopped the Trump administration from plowing ahead with its war on protest and resistance so far. Furthermore, decades and decades of bipartisan demonization of "criminals" and protestors, particularly those engaging in direct action, likely ensures that many Americans aren't going to notice this fascist repression, or care very much if they do. Naturally, the Trump regime is relying on that attitude prevailing in the larger public consciousness, which is why they're employing a boiling frog strategy of going after people they say are "gang members," "terrorists," "illegals," "antisemites," "troublemakers," and "criminals," first.</p><p>As I've noted in the past, whether or not the Trump administration is *successfully* able to get away with blatant violations of the law while enacting his fascist war on our civil rights is unknowable in the present, but the pre-existing pattern of regime behavior in the Trump 2.0 era makes it pretty clear that if Trump says it, he at least means to *try* and do it; which makes all of this an ominous warning for everyone.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ElSalvador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElSalvador</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PamBondi</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protests</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ManufacturingConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManufacturingConsent</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USConsitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USConsitution</span></a></p>
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Philip C James<p>Dear legacy media, especially in the US, </p><p>please stop referring to the destination for President Donald Trump's extraordinary rendition of hundreds of individuals rounded up in America by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> as "a super-max prison" in El Salvador.</p><p>Prisons are places where convicted criminals are incarcerated following due process conducted at a fair and just criminal trial.</p><p>Call it what it is - "a Concentration Camp."</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SlavaUkrayini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlavaUkrayini</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/KZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KZ</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/KZlager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KZlager</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/POTUS45" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS45</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/POTUS404" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS404</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Kraznov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kraznov</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AgentOrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AgentOrange</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a></p>
Pekka Kallioniemi<p>Despite claiming to be a <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> nation, <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> has repressed <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> when it doesn’t serve the state. Under the <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> – and especially under <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stalin</span></a> – churches were demolished, priests executed, and believers sent to the <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a>. Today, this same persecution continues. </p><p>4/22</p>
Aho<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BarentsObserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BarentsObserver</span></a> published an article in 2019 from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arjeplogsnytt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arjeplogsnytt</span></a> about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homosexual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homosexual</span></a> Dan. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> blocked the site and Barents Observer went to court and in European Court of Humans Rights they won their case.</p><p>Now <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kremlin</span></a> claim they are stirring up revolutions in northern russia and forbidden people from accessing or work with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheBarentsObserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheBarentsObserver</span></a> and those who do so can get 6 years in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> </p><p>Source: <a href="https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/moscow-declares-the-barents-observer-an-undesirable-organisation/424417" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebarentsobserver.com/news/mo</span><span class="invisible">scow-declares-the-barents-observer-an-undesirable-organisation/424417</span></a></p><p>Alt source: <a href="https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/barents-observer-forbjuds-i-ryssland-efter-att-ha-vunnit-i-europadomstolen" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbott</span><span class="invisible">en/barents-observer-forbjuds-i-ryssland-efter-att-ha-vunnit-i-europadomstolen</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SocraticEthics</span></a></span> What percentage of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> prisoners in this <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/mobilization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mobilization</span></a> will surrender to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> instead of probably dying in a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MeatWave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MeatWave</span></a> , or if they survive being sent back to a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>. (Nobody believes 'promises' made by a psychopath like <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a>.) </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/StandWithUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithUkraine</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The Japanese-American internment is now broadly recognized as an American travesty, a horrible mistake made under the duress of wartime that in fact deeply betrayed core American values regarding citizenship and civil rights, not to mention basic decency."</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Guantanamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guantanamo</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JapaneseAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseAmericans</span></a> <br>/9</p><p>See also <a href="https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/trumpian-gaslighting-on-deportation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davidneiwert.substack.com/p/tr</span><span class="invisible">umpian-gaslighting-on-deportation</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"The last time America built concentration camps to hold a hated and feared minority—in 1941-42, when we rounded up all Japanese-Americans on the West Coast and herded them into 'relocation centers'—it did not work out well. Things will not be any different this time."</p><p>~ David Neiwert</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Guantanamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guantanamo</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/JapaneseAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseAmericans</span></a> <br>/8</p><p><a href="https://davidneiwert.substack.com/p/trumps-mass-deportation-plan-revives" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">davidneiwert.substack.com/p/tr</span><span class="invisible">umps-mass-deportation-plan-revives</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"'America’s gulag’: Trump’s Guantánamo ploy tars migrants as terrorists. ...</p><p>'What Trump is doing in sending migrants to Guantánamo – a place of torture and death – makes me think that the author of the book about Trump being the antichrist is on to something,' tweeted the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff."</p><p>~ Tom Phillips</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Guantanamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guantanamo</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> <br>/7</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trump-guantanamo-migrants" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">an/30/trump-guantanamo-migrants</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"On Wednesday, Trump proposed sending up to 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo Bay: 'We don't want them coming back so we're going to send them out to Guantanamo.'"</p><p>This is what he’s doing."</p><p>~ Chris Geidner</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/migrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Guantanamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Guantanamo</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ConcentrationCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConcentrationCamp</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> <br>/6</p><p><a href="https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-mission-discrimination-destruction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lawdork.com/p/trump-mission-di</span><span class="invisible">scrimination-destruction</span></a></p>
Polylect<p>Yury Alexeyevič Dmitriev, born Jan. 28, 1956, historian of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> and civil rights activist, has to spend his birthday in solitary confinement in a Russian camp in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mordovia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mordovia</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/news/gulag-historian-faces-solitary-confinement-amid-repression" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">occrp.org/en/news/gulag-histor</span><span class="invisible">ian-faces-solitary-confinement-amid-repression</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/yurydmitriev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yurydmitriev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dmitriev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dmitriev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politicalprisoner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politicalprisoner</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dontforget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dontforget</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/injustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>injustice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Memorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Memorial</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilrights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofRussia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofRussia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stalin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stateterror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stateterror</span></a></p>
Max Gross<p>Australia's abuse of asylum seekers is its eternal shame and a bottomless moral sinkhole. <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/asylumskeers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asylumskeers</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Nauru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nauru</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/ManusIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManusIsland</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/10/a-short-history-of-nauru-australias-dumping-ground-for-refugees" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2016/aug</span><span class="invisible">/10/a-short-history-of-nauru-australias-dumping-ground-for-refugees</span></a></p>
Max Gross<p>Moral crossroads??? Australia left that behind decades ago, with both major political parties in agreement on the torment of asylum seekers. <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/refugees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>refugees</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/asylumskeers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asylumskeers</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/Nauru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nauru</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/ManusIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManusIsland</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> <a href="https://theblower.au/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/i-felt-less-human-not-human-at-all-australia-faces-moral-crossroads-over-nauru" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/jan/11/i-felt-less-human-not-human-at-all-australia-faces-moral-crossroads-over-nauru</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History December 18, 1878: Joseph Stalin was born. He ruled the USSR from 1922-1952. There were up to 1.2 million executions during the Great Purge (1936-1938). Another 1.7 million died in his gulags. While up to 9 million more starved during the famines that occurred during his reign. The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), during which 3.5 million died, is considered by many to be a genocide. Various historians estimate that anywhere from 10-60 million people total died because of Stalin’s policies, placing him up there with Hitler and Mao as one of the top three most murderous rulers of all time.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stalin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mao" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mao</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hitler</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/famine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>famine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/massmurder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massmurder</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p>It disgusts me that so many people cheer this country as the "land of the free" when the United States was built on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/misogyny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>misogyny</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchy</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nativism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nativism</span></a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a>. We aren't free; we're a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a>-loving <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceState</span></a> full of cowardly flag-bedecked faschy clowns.</p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Npars01" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Npars01</span></a></span> </p><p>>> 1.2 billion potential inmates for the slave prison system & Trump's immigrant detention centers. </p><p>There's a shorthand for that: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> </p><p>Looking forward to a definitive history of the American version from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@anneapplebaum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>anneapplebaum</span></a></span></p>
Aho<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MAKS23</span></a></span> tomorrow they have "paid" vacation in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a> this makes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> to the best place to live in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hell</span></a></p>
Brother Kane37I am planning to publish some posts on anarcho-mysticism. Its history, main ideas and modern state of affairs. First some history - and It is a sad story, as you may guess.<br>The term «anarcho-mysticism» was used in 1906 by a writer Chulkov. It was the first time. The term back then has almost nothing to do with anarchy. It was used in an article, that speculated with some purely philosophical ideas. <br>Everything changed in 1917, where a first founder of anarcho-mystical brotherhood Apolon Karelin returned from his exile to Russia. He spent most of his years fighting against tsarist regime during revolts, and mutinies. Writing revolutionary articles, helping workers etc, but in 1905 was arrested and pressured by the state so bad that he had to run to Europe. In Europe, specifically in France, he “created” (though anarcho-mystics probably would use the word he was “given”) his new theory. Karelin’s was quite a famous anarchist theorist back then. He was an intellectual and scholar, and wrote some books on anarchism including “state and anarchy”, knew Kropotkin personally. He created anarcho-mystical brotherhood and called it the “Order of light”. Members of the order considered themselves as knights. After Kropotkin’s death, its main base of operations situated in Kropotkin museum in Moscow.<br>After Karelin’s death in 1926, Solonovich became a main figure in the brotherhood. At his time, several branches were created. A lot of connections were made – including communist officials, scientists and different artists and occultists. He wrote books, read lectures and perform experiments a long side with other members of the brotherhood and all the people, who want to be involved, sometimes even with famous soviet scientists, like Vasilev. An influence of brotherhood was growing especially in a sphere of culture. Why it was so attractive? Brotherhood created its own mythology, that was based on Christian Gnosticism and Occultism. Unlike the original systems, it has a lot of similarities to modern fantasy, like Tolkien Silmalirion, but the ideas, that translated through these myths were daring and risky, it is daring even now, and in Stalin’s USSR, knights of the order were doomed to become martyrs for their dream. Despite the fact that legends (that is how stories from this mythology were called) were spread only orally – it didn’t help during mass terror. Why legends worked for soviet people? Imagine that you have entire fantasy epic, that actually have a secret meaning and is spreading by a secret society. Surely soviet citizens were attracted by such daring endeavor. But, the price was ultimate. In 1930-s the pressure of the state on the brotherhood ramped up. Active members were arrested. Hostilities between any leftist ideologies and Stalinists had risen up. During the peak of mass terror campaign, when most active members had been already arrested, the Moscow branch of occultists Ashem redivivous, which were indirectly connected to order even made a desperate attempt to telepathically influence Stalin and were caught in the process. You may think – it is like a movie, why no one has ever written about this? – Even in 1990-s the ideas of anarcho-mysticism was somewhat scary for FSB, and they still are trying to hide this story from public.<br>During 1930-s Solonovich and his wife were killed. Solonovich was tortured so bad, that he didn’t manage to survive long enough to get officially shot. He knew in advance, that he will be arrested and killed, it is no surprise to anyone who is studying anarcho-mysticism, that Solonovich could see the future. His last words before arrest were “at least some small roots will remain”. I decided to write a little bit about their story. And just put a link to Nalimov’s “farewell” English article about them. Nalimov was a member of Order during his student years, not very active – but he spent most of his life in prison camps for it. He knew the members and in the 1990s, as a very old man, tried to find out at least something about his brothers and sisters from the order. Rest in Peace, knights! Roots indeed remained! Ордену слава в веках и мирах!<br><a href="https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1283&context=ijts-transpersonalstudies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1283&context=ijts-transpersonalstudies</a><br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/anarchism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/mysticism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mysticism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/history" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/anarchy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#anarchy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/nalimov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nalimov</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/karelin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Karelin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/solonovich" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Solonovich</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/gnosticism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gnosticism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/terror" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terror</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/stalin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stalin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/ussr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USSR</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/occult" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#occult</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/paranormal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paranormal</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/revolution" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolution</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/knights" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knights</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/aran" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aran</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/ran" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ran</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/gulag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GULAG</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/sad" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sad</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/martyrs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#martyrs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/utopia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Utopia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/mysticism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mysticism</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/mystic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mystic</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://mycrowd.ca/tag/nalimov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nalimov</a>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@MishaVanMollusq" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MishaVanMollusq</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USSR</span></a> is no more. But if you take this map to present day <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a>, they will put you in a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Siberia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Siberia</span></a>.</p><p>Not sure if the outcome will be much different if you take this map to what is known as <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> after the 1947 partition.</p><p>You can extrapolate from these two what fate awaits you in other regions of the world with this vision.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@chiclet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chiclet</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ekis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ekis</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Properganda" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Properganda</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GatekeepKen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GatekeepKen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/@nikatjef" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nikatjef</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Grant_M" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Grant_M</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@CivilityFan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CivilityFan</span></a></span></p>
Bongolian<p>Vladimir Kara-Murza: ‘My first thought was that I was going to be led out to be executed’: I survived Putin’s prisons. Many others are left behind.</p><p>"When a group of officers burst into my cell at 3 a.m. on July 28 and told me to get up and get ready in 10 minutes, my first thought was that I was going to be led out to be executed.</p><p>The scenario seemed all too plausible because of a bizarre episode earlier that week, when a senior prison official walked me to his office and told me to sign a pardon request addressed to Vladimir Putin, complete with an admission of 'guilt.'</p><p>I told him I would never ask Putin for anything — least of all for a 'pardon' — because I consider him to be a usurper and a murderer, not a legitimate president; and because the real criminals are those who have unleashed the war in Ukraine, not those of us who are speaking out against it."</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/GiftLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiftLink</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/VladimirKaraMurza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VladimirKaraMurza</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gulag</span></a><br><a href="https://wapo.st/3AG0MgP" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wapo.st/3AG0MgP</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Sikorski and Applebaum had dreamed of a new world order <br>with their country manor somewhere near its centre.</p><p> “On this patch of land it will seem as if communism had never existed,” Sikorski wrote.</p><p> “We have won the clash of ideas. It’s now time to stop wagging our tongues and get down to work.” </p><p>In Applebaum’s case that involved researching and writing her monumental Pulitzer prize-winning book <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gulag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gulag</span></a>, <br>drawn from newly opened archives in Russia and first-hand experience of survivors. </p><p>❌She watched on, appalled, as that history and those archives were shut down again by Vladimir Putin soon afterwards.❌</p>
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