James Beacham

I won't link to the disgusting, flattering Washington Post piece about -- yet another another another tiresome profile of -- the fascist, pioneer-cosplaying-but-tee-hee-it's-trolling, child-abusing-but-tee-hee-it's-trolling-too eugenicists. If we don't give them clicks, they'll go away!

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

Hey, Americans, those of us in Europe are watching -- & you're blowing it. This is a legitimate emergency. If Trump & Musk get away w/this takeover, w/no mass demonstrations or blockades or actions, there's absolutely no reason for the Republicans to not just declare the 2026 elections suspended.

Germans protest against party leader who pushed migration bill backed by far right Angry rallies in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich accuse Friedrich Merz of cooperating with AfD

This is absolutely fucking embarrassing for Americans. In Berlin alone 200K people protested against a hint of collaboration w/fascists. In the U.S., where a literal fascist federal gov't is right-this-minute implementing fascism, NO ONE IS FUCKING DOING ANYTHING. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Also, very good timing that I read this @moiradonegan.bsky.social piece just before I read the spineless, delusional Emanuel nonsense. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Graffiti in NYC reading, "Republicans: We're fascists; Democrats: We're Republicans"

"Just a few years ago, Democratic mayoral candidates were proposing to slash police budgets. Now, anyone suggesting anything similar would not be taken seriously."

Yes, Democrats are still doing this.

Opinion | Democrats have become the party of permissiveness. That’s ballot box poison. A narrow definition of “kitchen table” issues does Democrats no favors.

One useful thing about Rahm Emanuel is that he's essentially the perfect anti-north-star: If he says something, you can nearly 100% of the time guarantee that the proper course of action is the opposite. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

What tools do you have at your disposal to protect the vulnerable? How can you utilize them to reduce the possibility of harm? Guess what? You have a brain to think of a protest sign, you have hands to make that sign, & you have tools to rally your communities, & you need to make some goddamn noise.

For those of you who don't know me & might think that I'm defending the institutions of liberal capitalist hegemony: Nope. But in moments of fascist takeover, everyone with a heart & a brain needs to take a position of *harm reduction*.

I understand if you're exhausted. I get it. But guess what: That's when fascists do their best work. When you are *exhausted & have given up*. They count on it. You need to be smarter & more attentive & more inventive than them. Get out in the streets. Now.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

And if you don't want to take it from me, a physicist/artist & long-time anti-racist organizer, then take it from Timothy Snyder: This is an emergency and YOU NEED TO GET TO WORK:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

Why is it impossible for people to recognize, at a core level, that there is an active, ongoing oligarchic dismantling of the entire structure of the U.S. gov't -- and then for you to MEET THE CHALLENGE IN FRONT OF YOU?

Seriously, U.S., where are your street protests? Where are your phone banks, calling, every minute, to demand your non-fascist representatives actually aggressively do everything in their power to stop or counter the Trump-Musk decimation of the government? Why are you all being so goddamn passive?

Germans protest against party leader who pushed migration bill backed by far right Angry rallies in Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich accuse Friedrich Merz of cooperating with AfD

This is absolutely fucking embarrassing for Americans. In Berlin alone 200K people protested against a hint of collaboration w/fascists. In the U.S., where a literal fascist federal gov't is right-this-minute implementing fascism, NO ONE IS FUCKING DOING ANYTHING. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The Last Days of Mankind | Pankaj Mishra Today, the war on terror is widely accepted as a military and geopolitical failure. But it is still not fully understood as a massive intellectual and moral fiasco: an attempt by the Western media as ...

“Today, each one of the assumptions that underpinned western policymaking and journalism for nearly three decades lies shattered.” Lecture by Pankaj Mishra from September of last year. @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Capitulating to Trump: why people are warning about ‘Vichy’ America As Trump creates unprecedented chaos, Democrats have offered little more than platitudes – sparking comparisons to France’s collaborationist second world war regime

Good article by @juliacarriewong.bsky.social. It’s not the most accurate analogy, but “Vichy Democrat” is still useful as a means of excoriating the shameful elective impotence of Democrats in the face of the ongoing oligarchic destruction of the U.S. government. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’ Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

"It should not surprise us then that, as völkisch-authoritarian racism surged at home, Germany yet again became complicit, through its unconditional solidarity with Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gallant & Ben-Gvir, in murderous ethnonationalism." From P. Mishra's new book. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Olaf Scholz attacks rival’s ‘unforgivable mistake’ as AfD backs migration plan Opposition leader Friedrich Merz accused of breaking longstanding political firewall against far-right populists

An extremely bad thing has just happened in Germany.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel

Huh, so this guy wants to “cleanse” some geographical area of an entire ethnic group. What could that mean? Have we ever before encountered this concept in history?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Berlin: Zehntausende demonstrieren gegen Rechts – Neubauer schießt gegen Merz Rund 35.000 Menschen kommen zusammen. Zu der Kundgebung hatte unter anderem Fridays for Future aufgerufen. Auch Luisa Neubauer war vor Ort.

Enormous anti-fascist demonstration in Berlin today. FCK AFD
www.morgenpost.de/berlin/artic...

17 Jan 2025: Éliane Radigue / The Orchestra Of Futurist Noise Intoners — LCMF LCMF 2024 17 January 2025: Éliane Radigue / The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners Wigmore Hall This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s...

Also imagine the official site for the project not once mentioning fascism.

lcmf.co.uk/17-Jan-2025-...

Play that funky noise intoner! The rumblers, gurglers and howlers of the world’s strangest orchestra With their funnel-like hooters and cupboard-like shapes, they looked bizarre, sounded wild and left audiences baffled. Now, more than 100 years on, Luigi Russolo’s orchestra of futurist machine instru...

Imagine, in 2025, writing an article about a project & concert inspired by Luigi Rossolo & not once mentioning Russolo's and the Futurists' fascism.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

You Can't Be Ambushed If You're the President The greatest propaganda this country has ever spun is that we need to treat these people as if they're both children and divine rulers.

www.discourseblog.com/p/you-cant-b...

I agree. Fuck The Telegraph. But my quick-search didn't reveal a better news source, and this particular article is a simple news report. This is also why I linked to the activists' Instagram post below my first one.

I agree. Fuck The Telegraph. But my quick-search didn't reveal a better news source, and this particular article is a simple news report. This is also why I linked to the activists' Instagram post below.

The Instagram post by @ledbydonkeys.org is here:

www.instagram.com/reel/DFKlMtU...

‘Heil Tesla’ projected on to German car factory Activists screen video showing tech billionaire’s tweets supporting far-Right party

In case you missed it, two artist / activist groups projected a video documenting Elon Musk's Nazism onto the Tesla factory outside Berlin & then christened it "Heil Tesla". A+

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Today Service Tabs I'm at your house right now. Call me.

The @rusty.todayintabs.com in question:

www.todayintabs.com/p/today-serv...

Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation On Pamela Paul, and similar.

Re: Pamela Paul leaving NYT, I'm still dead from last week's @rusty.todayintabs.com: "[U]niversally despised former book section editor turned Temu Bari Weiss, Pamela Paul, who has technically been deceased since @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social wrote" this:

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/columnists...

TV viewing figures fall for Trump’s inauguration Six million fewer US viewers tuned in than for his first inauguration – and nine million fewer people than for Biden in 2021

Nice trolling by @theguardian.com with this article on a topic that no-one-in-the-world-minus-one-person cares about and that one person cares about the topic more than anything.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...