New Documentary on DeSatan’s Takeover of Florida's New College

CBS Enforcing What Trump’s FCC Is “Thinking About"

Colbert’s James Talarico Interview Censored by CBS

Will the Volunteer State Soon Be Infamous As The Concentration Camp State??

Tennessee "No details about the size, scope, purchase price or street address of the facility in Lebanon, about 30 miles east of Nashville, were immediately made available Friday, and news of the purchase took state and local officials by surprise..." tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/13/i...

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— Rachel Maddow (@maddow.bsky.social) February 16, 2026 at 1:01 PM

Make Sure Your Community Says NO to New U.S. Concentration Camps

$38 billion for U.S. concentration camps? In 2009, the Feds offered $3.2 billion for all the nation’s 90,000 schools to fight for in the Race to the Top. This fascist fever dream can’t happen if states and cities say NO! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) February 14, 2026 at 8:06 AM

Will Tennesseans Turn Over Their State to Fascist, Stephen Miller?

Will Tennesseans soon be subject to the dictates of Trump's right-hand nazi, Stephen Miller? If TN House Speaker, Cameron Sexton has his way, that will be case after the current legislative session. Sustain Resistance! @philinvestigates.com @aclutn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 8:18 AM

We Will Rebuild – Defiant Protest Song of Hope, Democracy, and Resistance

Avoid Red State Universities If You Want An Uncensored Education

Plato and Aristophanes too hot for Texas’ censorious fascists? Thought, itself, is at risk in these bastions of bigotry. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) January 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM

Make 2026 the Last Year of Funding ICE

The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.

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— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM

Support Trumpism by Choosing Northwestern U.

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— Milan Markovic (@profmarkovic.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM

Cornell Sells Out to Fascists

 

Whore-nell bends over for Trump Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM

NYTimes Says Dems Should Appeal to Moderate Fascists?

WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!

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— James Horn (@schools-matter24.bsky.social) October 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Home Depot Lets ICE Goons Into Stores

Why TF is anyone shopping at Home GD Depot anymore. Boycott

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— DC Shari G 🦅 (@dcsharig.bsky.social) October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM

The Martyrdom of Horst Wessel: Will Charlie Kirk be the 21st Century Version?

In 1930 a young rising star of the Nazi Party in Germany was shot in the head and killed by two members of Communist Party.  Yesterday attorney and former Trump supporter, George Conway, reminded us of that  history most of us never knew, and he wondered aloud if something similar could be happening as MAGA’s attempted martyrdom of Charlie Kirk has seemingly begun in earnest.  

The White Nationalist rage machine was quick to react, demanding Conway apologize.  Conway would have none of it. From Raw Story:

George Conway, a former Trump associate and now vocal critic, is continuing to double down on comparisons to Charlie Kirk's killing with what happened in Nazi Germany — the assassination of Horst Wessel.

"They may not want to hear it, and it may incense them, but the parallels between what the Nazis did then, and what Trump and MAGA are doing today, are striking, chilling—and as any expert on authoritarianism will tell you, straight out of the same toxic, but dog-eared, playbook," Conway posted on X.

Conway shared an image and link to a Wikipedia page about Wessel, a 23-year-old member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing who was assassinated in 1930 by members of the Communist Party and hailed as a "martyr" in Nazi propaganda. Nazis used his death to mobilize others in their movement and target Communists, using the "Horst Wessel Song" as the co-national anthem of the Nazi Party and memorializing him during their reign of power.

Here is a clip from the Wikipedia article on Horst Wessel:

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After his death, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels elevated him into a martyr for the Nazi Party.

Wessel first joined a number of youth groups and extreme right-wing paramilitary groups, but later resigned from them and joined the SA, the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. He rose to command several SA squads and districts. On 14 January 1930, he was shot in the head by two Communists. According to sources, his murder was due to a dispute related to his procuring of women.^[2][3][4] Albrecht "Ali" Höhler was arrested and charged with his murder. Höhler was initially sentenced to six years in prison but was forcibly removed from jail and killed by the SA after the Nazis came to power in September 1933.

Wessel's funeral was given wide attention in Berlin, with many of the Nazi elite in attendance. After his death, he became a propagandasymbol in Nazi Germany. A march for which he had written the lyrics was renamed the "Horst-Wessel-Lied" ("Horst Wessel Song"), and became the official anthem of the Nazi Party. After Adolf Hitler came to national power in 1933, the song became the co-national anthem of Germany, along with the first verse of the previous "Deutschlandlied", also known as "Deutschland über alles”. . . .

Meanwhile, there’ growing evidence mounts that Conway could be correct.  Yesterday, for instance, the Vice-President of the U. S. flew to Salt Lake City, accompanied Kirk’s casket to his home in Arizona, and was seen helping United States uniformed military carry the casket.

Even more bizarre, yesterday Republican Representative, Nancy Mace, announced that a resolution would be introduced in Congress to allow Kirk’s body to lie “in honor" in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.  

Will a tribute song from Kid Rock be next!!

And this morning the Felon-in-Chief, himself, was on Fox and Friends to remind his cult that he supports the Radical Right and that the problem is with the Radical Left.  He had this to say when asked about radicalism of the Left and Right in America:

“The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime. They’re saying: we don’t want these people coming in; we don’t want you burning our shopping centers; we don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.

“The radicals on the left are the problem,” he said, “and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy.”

So the Right is justifiably radical because “they don’t want to see crime.”  And who are the criminals that should be persecuted and targeted, according to Felon and his minions?  Brown and black immigrants, black and brown citizens, black and brown people anywhere in the world, the poor, the homeless, the sick, the needy, anyone who is not heterosexual, and women who do not bow to their men.  

I am wondering which groups Hitler’s Nazis targeted, besides the 6,000,000 Jews they starved and slaughtered.  Oh, I found it in the Holocaust Encyclopedia:

The Nazis targeted people as members of the following groups (listed in alphabetical order for ease of reference): 

• Black people in Germany;
• civilians (non-Jewish) accused of disobedience, resistance, or partisan activity; 
• gay men, bisexual men, and other men accused of homosexuality in Germany; 
• Jehovah’s Witnesses; 
• people with disabilities; 
• Poles; 
• political opponents and dissenters in Germany; 
• Roma and other people derogatorily labeled as “Gypsies”; 
• social outsiders in Germany derogatorily labeled as “asocials” or “professional criminals”; and 
• Soviet Prisoners of War.

The Fascist War on Diversity Now in Accreditation Business. Call to Action!!

From the Academe Blog:

BY MATTHEW BOEDY

Every AAUP member should be concerned about the new accreditation group recently birthed in Florida. This week Louisiana became the seventh state to say it was joining.

While only for now targeting states in the South the group’s business plan shows its strategy is to take on as clients public schools in any state. Its political strategy has been named by Governor Ron DeSantis as eliminating “woke” from schools. The governor of Louisiana said its goal was the ending of DEI-driven mandates. Its academic goals are to “streamline” accreditation so that institutions can innovate more quickly.

Whatever the words by its supporters, it would be the state controlling higher education to such a degree as to merit comparison to the era when the AAUP was founded. Whatever the faults of the accreditation system and any specific outlet, the system has stood in the way of those who want to move fast and break things such as academic freedom and shared governance. 

The Florida university system was the first to join the new group. I can only assume that as boards begin to meet for the academic year, other states that initially expressed interest like mine in Georgia will officially join. And soon thereafter comes a director and board members. From there the business plan suggests six schools in those states as its first clients. 

The only obstacle may be the price tag. That business plan says each founding state will give $4 million or equal labor to get the effort off the ground and into a future where it can rely on accreditation fees. It may take up to two years for the new group to get federal recognition and the prize of federal funding for its accredited schools. But the pieces will be put in place this fall. The time for faculty to act is now.

This is why I am calling on all faculty senates in public colleges across the South (and beyond) to pass resolutions disapproving of the new group and urging its administration and overseers at all levels not to join.

This kind of effort must be networked and done with speed. Fortunately for traditionally slow moving senates we have a model of a quickly developing process in the Mutual Defense Compact that flew through this spring in mainly Big Ten schools. There must be SEC and ACC and Big Twelve versions.

I took the liberty of revising that initial resolution for this new use. Feel free to revise and use as you see fit:  

Faculty Statement Against Political Power Grab of Accreditation  

WHEREAS recent and escalating politically motivated actions by governmental bodies pose a significant threat to the foundational principles of American higher education, including the autonomy of university governance, the integrity of scientific research, and the protection of free speech;

WHEREAS state governments across the South and aligned political actors at the federal level have targeted the independence of institutional accreditation with legal, financial, and political incursion designed to undermine the accrediation process and exert improper control over academic administration;

WHEREAS these state governments have routinely undermined faculty governance and academic freedom with state laws and policies;

WHEREAS these same state governments will choose the board members of the Commission for Public Higher Education and that board will chose a director, offices that will direct the commission; 

WHEREAS these same state governments will financially invest in the commission up to $4 million;

WHEREAS that money and influence will corrupt the independent accreditation process and allow states to steer colleges and universities toward policies, curriculum, hiring standards, and institutional benchmarks that will undermine higher education’s role in our democracy;

THEREFORE, be it RESOLVED that this faculty senate urges the administration of this school and its state higher education system leaders to formally declare it won’t become a client of the commission as long as it is overseen by state governments.  

Matthew Boedy is president of the Georgia AAUP. He can be reached on X/Twitter and Bluesky. 

 

Andy Ogles Turns Christofascist Disciple of Steve Berger

 

Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers

by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski

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For a project explicitly designed to influence Congress, Steve Berger’s operation has left a scant paper trail. The archconservative evangelical pastor, who started a D.C. nonprofit a few years ago to shape national policy, does not file lobbying reports. His group does not show up in campaign finance records.

There is a simple way to glimpse his effort’s expanding reach in Washington, however: Pay attention to who is walking out the front door of his Capitol Hill townhouse. New evidence suggests Berger may be running what amounts to a group house for conservative lawmakers, with multiple members of Congress living with him at his organization’s headquarters.

The six-bedroom, $3.7 million home is owned by a multimillion-dollar Republican donor.

Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican who is among President Donald Trump’s most aggressive allies in Congress, has been at the house on multiple days over the past two weeks, according to people who live in the area. Video reviewed by ProPublica showed Ogles leaving the townhouse with bags on Feb. 27. As he left, he locked up the front door and pocketed the keys to the house.

As ProPublica reported last week, House Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the townhouse. And Dan Bishop, a former congressman from North Carolina now nominated for a powerful post in Trump’s White House, appears to have lived there until recently as well.

Berger has said his goal is to “disciple” members of Congress so what “they learn is then translated into policy.” He has claimed to have personally spurred legislation, saying a senator privately credited him with inspiring a bill.

Berger, Bishop and Ogles did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Johnson previously said the speaker pays fair-market rent for the part of the townhouse he occupies but didn’t answer questions about the specific rate. He said Johnson has not spoken to the pastor about “any matter of public policy.”

Ogles is in only his third year in Congress, but he’s drawn attention for his bombastic displays of fealty to Trump. He recently introduced a resolution to amend the Constitution so that Trump could serve a third term as president. He’s filed articles of impeachment against multiple judges who’ve ruled against the new administration. (Last week, Elon Musk posted a video of Ogles touting his impeachment efforts, set to the beat from the rap song “Shook Ones, Pt. II.”)

Ogles’ short tenure is also notable for the pace of scandal that’s followed it. He has faced allegations that he inflated his resume, claiming alternatively to have been an economist, a member of law enforcement and an expert on international sex trafficking, NewsChannel 5 in Nashville reported. (Ogles has acknowledged at least one mistake on his resume but said that “my body of work speaks for itself.”)

Last year, the FBI seized his phone during an investigation and obtained a search warrant to review records associated with his personal email address. Federal investigators were seeking evidence related to potential campaign finance violations, according to a court filing. The scope of the FBI investigation remains unclear.

Perhaps no one is more responsible for Ogles’ rise in politics than Lee Beaman, the Tennessee businessman who owns the Capitol Hill townhouse. When Ogles announced a short-lived Senate bid in 2017, Beaman said he planned to raise $4 million to support the run. Beaman, whose wealth derives from a large car dealership chain, then served as campaign treasurer in Ogles’ successful 2022 run for the House.

Beaman and Berger have publicly advocated together for numerous specific policy changes, in areas including foreign affairs, fuel efficiency standards and removing barriers to firing federal employees. After the 2020 election, they both signed a letter declaring that Trump was the rightful winner and calling for Congress to overturn the results. (Beaman did not respond to requests for comment. ProPublica could not determine whether he and the pastor have discussed policy issues with Ogles during his time in Congress.)

In sermons, Berger has devoted long stretches to attacking the separation of church and state, as well as COVID-19 vaccines. The pastor used violent language to describe his disdain for “LGBTQ+ Pride” parades and “drag queen story hour” during an interview for a podcast in 2022, according to unpublished footage obtained by ProPublica.

“If I was left to myself, I’d take a baseball bat and beat the hell out of every single one of them. And not feel bad about it,” Berger said. “I have to go, ‘You know what? That’s probably not the will of God, is it?’ And obviously it’s not.”

Beyond his ownership of the townhouse, Beaman’s role in the pastor’s influence project is unclear. After Beaman purchased the house in 2021, a lawyer sought to change it from a single-family dwelling to a “boarding house/rooming house,” according to Washington, D.C., property records. Around that time, Berger’s nonprofit group, Ambassador Services International, registered the home as its address.

Members of Congress are allowed to live anywhere, as long as they pay fair-market rent, experts said. Discounts on rent are generally seen as improper gifts and prohibited by House ethics rules.

Beaman has said he got to know Ogles when Ogles was the Tennessee director of Americans for Prosperity, part of the Koch brothers’ political network. Beaman and Ogles joined forces to fight a mass transit project in Nashville and reportedly worked together on a successful effort to repeal the estate tax in their home state. After leaving the Koch network, Ogles served four years as the mayor of a Middle Tennessee county with a population of roughly 100,000. He held that role until 2022, when he was elected to Congress.

Ogles’ 2022 campaign was the subject of a blistering House ethics report released this year. The nonpartisan Office of Congressional Ethics concluded that there is “substantial reason to believe” that Ogles’ campaign had accepted illegally large donations and then falsely reported that the funds had come from Ogles himself. Ogles has said he is “confident that any reporting problem was at worst an honest mistake.” (Beaman was not named in the report and has not been accused of wrongdoing.)

The report said that Ogles refused to cooperate with the investigation. It recommended that the House Ethics Committee issue a subpoena to the congressman.

Do you have any information we should know about Steve Berger, Rep. Andy Ogles or Speaker Mike Johnson? Justin Elliott can be reached by email at justin@propublica.org and by Signal or WhatsApp at 774-826-6240. Josh Kaplan can be reached by email at joshua.kaplan@propublica.org and by Signal or WhatsApp at 734-834-9383.

Sen. Chris Murphy Educates Homeland Security’s Mean Barbie, Kristi Noem

When a government is out of control it’s time to say so by Truth Matters

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The Fascist Attempts to Erase History

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Trump Polls Sinking Like “a cinderblock in an ocean trench."

A difference is a difference that makes a difference.—Gregory Bateson

House Reps are in their districts right now.  It is time to call their local offices, visit their offices, or turn over rocks until you find one.  Let them know what’s on your mind and in your heart.  

Continuing to pressure Republican members of Congress is one of the big wrenches we have to break this fascist machine. Be a difference!!

Maddow clip is from Feb. 20, Block 1.

Gov. Pritzker delivers Illinois State of the State Address 2025

Fast forward to 26:00 and watch the last ten minutes. Please! Really!

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance; democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and your humanity . . . and do not let the tragic spirit of despair overcome us when our country needs us most.  —Gov. J.B. Pritzker