Feds again show us who the real fascists are. "I am Anti-fascist" should be our rallying cry.

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This is what residents of Chicago are reading today. The headline ought to be “Fascist Feds…” 

Sabrina Haake, who writes the Haake Take Substack, and works in Chicago, has been posting links to stories about ICE brutality on her Facebook page.

She hadn’t posted this one so I did. Here’s what I wrote:

Here’s the latest from YOUR city. Consider that they want to call people in MY city of Portland wearing chicken and frog suits terrorists and people playing the theme from Ghostbusters dangerous. Fact is that they will become dangerous if and hopefully when peaceful and even mocking resistence work to turn enough people against this Hitlerian regime. Our D-Day can’t come soon enough.

In referencing this Chicago story I wanted to put a link to Sabrina’s Substack here and saw she’d just posted this new one:

The word “eejits”didn’t register with me as a way to pronounce idiots at first… hey it’s 6:00 AM here and I am still on my first cup of coffee. This pronunciation comes from Ireland where it is usually meant as a friendly retort but no doubt Sabrina uses it much more harshly with the third defintion below: 

This is a crucial point Sabrina makes in her subtitle, “Has MAGA really forgotten what WWII was about? and here:

She concludes:

‘Antifa’ is Trump’s rallying cry. When he calls Democrat-run cities a “war zone” before he invades them with occupying forces, understand that he is planning to turn them into one.

I have a suggestion. It isn’t enough to try to educate the eejits about what Antifa means. We have to stop using the abbreviation. We should always spell it out and proudly call ourselves

Addendum 1:

You can buy Aunt Tifa t-shirts.

They are good but, like Sabrina and I have said, we are dealing with eejits. Perhaps we should forgo trying to be clever since this doesn’t register with imbeciles and we should spell it out. We are Anti-fascists. 

You can order “I AM ANTI-FASCIST” t-shirts by desgining them yourself on lots of “make you own” company websites like this.

Of course you can get the simple statement on signs too. Perhaps the next Indivisible protest will be called “Anti-fascist” instead of the more benign sounding “No Kings.” I’d suggested called it “No Hitler in America” (here), and even ordered signs for the Oct. 16 protest, but I think “Anti-fascist” is better.

Addendum 2:

RawStory summarized this story (here) where it led (at this writing) to 139 comments, some with illustrations like this:

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HOLY F**K! Portland thugs out of control and they aren't protestors. Meanwhile, Fox News hypes up an Oct. 5 Boston drag race incident with police as if it was an anti-ICE protest which just happened.

 

 

Above is the headline on the KOIN News TV website (read article with video) Excerpt:

A clarinet player is apparently being held without bail on no specific charges at the Clark County Jail in Vancouver after her husband said she was arrested Sunday during a protest across the street from the ICE facility in South Portland.

The woman’s husband — who asked KOIN 6 News not to identify either of them for safety reasons — said his wife was tackled by federal agents while she was playing her clarinet around 5 p.m.

Only the lower part of one leg is seen in this photo:

A clarinet player was arrested at the ICE facility in Portland, October 12, 2025 (Kenneth Avery)

“It is a beautiful party atmosphere. Everybody’s really excited. Then the band hits into ‘Ghostbusters’, and then at ‘Ghostbusters’, that’s when ICE start storming in,” the husband said. “Why are they targeting a clarinet player? A clarinet player standing on the sidewalk far away from the street, following instructions.”

Video of the arrest obtained by KOIN 6 News shows the woman face down in the mud with her clarinet on the ground next to her.

This is from KATU, the local Sinclair owned station:

See article about the Sinclair right-wing bias.

Perhaps KATU is ignoring messages from their home office to make Portland look like the dangerous terrorist Antifa controlled city Trump and Kristi Noem say it is. They have reporters and photographers at the ICE facility (16 minutes from my house) so their viewers see photos not only of ICE agents pointing real guns at people but also of protesters looking like these:

In adding links to the Portland media I follow to this ( I will keep them on all my Substack), since I don’t look at KATU because it is a Sinclair station, I thought it only fair to check it out. I was pleased to see they are reporting the truth. I added it to my links.

What is crucial is that Portland has led the way, and other cities like Chicago are following in their costumed footsteps. They are making sure they don’t give Trump the ammunition he so desperately wants to use. I have no doubt he wants to use violent protests as a rationale for invoking the Insurrection Act. 

Unfortunately, incidents may happen, but it seems that if they do they will either be isolated, provoked, or actually committed by Trumpers as classic false flags.

Then we have false flags which aren’t false flags, but are stories that play on people drawing incorrect conclusions. This is the lead on the Fox News website:

The “OUT OF CONTROL” incident happened on Oct. 5th. This was nine days ago. Why is it the lead today? It had absolutely nothing to do with Donald Trump or ICE. It involved street drag racers. I would venture to suggest that many of them don’t even follow political news. There is nary a mention of Trump or ICE in the article. There is no relevance to using “Blue city streets” in the title which more than merely implies that there are riots against the police in other Democratic cities. 

Trump can try to say that only martial law and the military can save America, but no matter how many misleading AI videos or pictures he wants to show of violence only the truly brainwashed and braindead (B and B) will believe them when exposed to the truth. Lamentably, there are lots of people who fit into the B and B category. My hope is that there aren’t enough of them to enable Trump to act on his “fuck the facts” impulse. This is an impulse I believe he not only has had in his mind, but has periodically voiced out loud with people he trusts.

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And, then there’s this:

Also read this:

You can count the lies and over-the-top exagerations in just the first three paragraphs. Also note that chanting something is proteted free speech and not the same as doing something.

Addendum:

This hs nothing to do with the topic I wrote about. However the story was just on CNN and I want to share it without going into what it says about the psychopathology of the president:

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I'm not the only one harping on Hitler, Hartmann is too.

 

This is the third Substack I've posts about Hitler and Trump. I wasn’t going to write on this subject, but then I read Thom Hartmann’s “The Brutality is the message…” Substack.

In it he refers to Hitler five times and the Nazi’s seven times. Below I highlighted most of the references.

Of course, Trump referred to “nuclear” as the “N-word” during that cringeworthy speech to military leaders. He said “there are two N-words, and you can’t use either of them.” He was discussing U.S. nuclear capabilities. The generals sat in stunned silence. In fact, the other n-word which should send chills up and down our spines when applied to Trump and MAGA that people like Thom Hartmann (our number one progressive radio host) is starting to use is Nazi.

Below is the comment I posted on Hartmann’s Substack:

The subtitle “Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission...” is so true and should be incredibly terrifying. It is, as you say, without using the word “Hitlerian” right out of Hitler’s playbook. I haven’t read that this was spelled out in Project 2025. I don’t think there’s a chapter on the use of systematic sadistic terror as a major tactic in their overrall strategy. What has been transpiring with this use of brutality as major modus operandi to instill obediance through fear has led me to do my own rebranding for No Kings day. I hate to throw shade on the original intention and coining of the label, but King George III was not Adolph Hitler.

Trump is not Hitler either, but he is much closer in his actions and personality than he is to King George. This is why I compared Trump and Hitler in yesterday’s Substack.

I give huge credit to the “No Kings” protest organizers and recognize that when they selected the label for their first and hugely successful protest on June 14th (Trump’s birthday) the president hadn’t yet emerged as an Americanized and somewhat sanitized version of Alolph Hitler. 

I don’t advocate for a name change. “No Kings” is too well established. There is also a risk in going overboard with what can be seen as hyperbole and this plays right into the hand of Trump and MAGA accusing critics of having Trump derangement syndrome. 

Not to dwell on naming protests too much, but “No Kings” was a much better name than the “Workers over Billionaires” protests held on Labor Day. I had to look that up.

Having an American oligarchy is far less of a concern than the country turning into a facsist autocracy ruled by a brutal dictator. 

What I dread is looking back at the “No Kings” and other national protests, regardless of what they were called, and seeing that any protests had been made illegal, labeled acts of treason, with attempts to organize them punishable by imprisonment or worse.

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