What is happening is what the McCarthyites warned: that once the Communists were elected to office they would never leave and the US would be transformed into a Russian state.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/us-trump-boycott
#McCarthyism #Democracy #Trump #Musk
“Trump is bringing back McCarthyism to go after Mahmoud Khalil
The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.”
by Gaby Del Valle
Mar 12, 2025, 5:00 PM EDT
“Civicus described Trump’s actions since taking office as an “unparalleled attack on the rule of law” not seen “since the days of #McCarthyism in the twentieth century”, stating that these moves erode the checks and balances essential to democracy.”
"unparalleled attack on the rule of law" not seen "since the days of McCarthyism,"
The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries experiencing rapid decline in civic freedoms. The US joins the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia on the first watchlist of 2025.
H/t @adirtyhippie
Anna Betts: ‘Reeks of #McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains #Palestinian student activist: Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups
#FirstAmendment #freespeech #civilrights #greencard
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/10/palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil-reactions
#palestine
#israel #ADL #mccarthyism
@palestine
ADL, Anti Defamation League. You need to drop the Anti to indicate what it really is: a Defamation League.
This clip explains where the ADL comes from and what it does. Just listen to this Jonathan Greenblatt character, unashamedly fascist. Zionists rule the US: congress, media, even payment systems.
@EndIsraeliApartheid
... as I go whislting past your daddy's, past your daddy's grave ...
"Let's redo #McCarthyism but this time we swap a bullshit fantasy of what antisemitism is for communism. And, just like the Nazis, we'll use computers to make up lists of targets. #AGreatSpectacle! And it'll get us closer to #MartialLaw I'm sure!"
Fueled by #McCarthyism and #MoralPanic, it destroyed careers and lives, leading to suicides but also sparking a civil rights movement. Now, Trump bans #trans people from the #military, rolls back #healthcare, and fuels fear for political gain, echoing history’s worst #injustices. 
I did it! I'm an official card-carrying #Socialist! If I'm going to be rounded up and sent away with everyone else, I want to make sure TPTB know which side I'm on (as if there was any doubt). I always figured if I were alive during #McCarthyism, I'd be targeted for being a "Commie pinko weirdo", so fuck it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
#MaineDSA #DemocraticSocialist #DSA #CommiePinko #CommiePinkoWeirdo #WeirdAndProud
The #FarRight Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
#BetarUS said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”
"This conflation of speech critical to #Israel with #antisemitism or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said #JonahRubin, with #JewishVoiceForPeace, a progressive #JewishAmerican group that advocates for #Palestinian #HumanRights."
Jonah Valdez
February 6 2025
"The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in #ProjectEsther: a treatise by the authors of #Project2025. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'
"Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures.
"#Academia is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages #surveillance in specific areas, such as #universities and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report #InternationalStudents for possible deportation.
"On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — #ColumbiaUniversity; #UCLABerkley; #NorthwesternUniversity; #UniversityOfMinnesota, Twin Cities; and #PortlandStateUniversity — for #antisemitism, the first use of the executive order.
"'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the #Israeli government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [#ICC], #AmnestyInternational, #HumanRightsWatch, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'"
"Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On #SocialMedia, groups such as #MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism and the #ChicagoJewishAlliance have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/betar-palestine-school-activists-target-deport-trump/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fCZve
#McCarthyism #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #DontSnitch #ICE #ICERaids #ICEArrests #Deportation #CollegeStudents #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #USPol
Just a ping to @academicchatter since there doesn't yet seem to be an academicchatter English-language thread on this #TrumpCensorship of US academic research.
"CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed." https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction (archive: https://archive.today/2025.02.02-081031/https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction )
#FederalWorkers Told to Inform on Colleagues Trying to Dodge #DEI Crackdown
The #Trump admin on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge #diversity, #equity & #inclusion efforts from their agencies.
#labor #law #DEIscare #Gestapo #Tyranny #Totalitarianism #Dictatorship #McCarthyism #MafiaState #Felon47 #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #Heterosexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/trump-order-discrimination-federal-hiring.html?smid=url-share
Rep. Melanie Stansbury:
So..WELCOME, to the new House Committee on Un-American Affairs & to the new #McCarthyism. Bc we've arrived here today w this bill
Rando #MAGA:
Will the gentlelady yield? [Rep. Stansbury talks right over both his attempts to ask her to "yield"]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yBc9GPy3P8 #news #politics #press #media #socialmedia #ukraine #russia #podcast #video #usa #us #humor #nato
US Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/18/us-congress-revives-cold-war-tactics-with-new-anti-communism-school-curriculum/
Alan MacLeod on the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act,” which is now being read in the U.S. Senate, where it is all but certain to pass. By Alan MacLeod MintPress News Congress has just passed a bill that will see the…
#Politics #Books #Censorship #Chile #Commentary #Cuba #Propaganda #Taiwan #U.s. #U.s.Congress #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Venezuela #:AlanMacleod #ColdWar2.0 #Communism #Mccarthyism #RedScare #TheCrucialCommunismTeachingAct
Lavender & Red (Parts 25-29) (2005) by Leslie Feinberg. 
History Meets ☭ History. Audiobook.
#socialism #socialist #communism #communist #marxism #marxist #usa #lavenderscare #redscare #coldwar #mccarthyism #lgbtq #gay #lesbian #trump
#US passed a law saying that all students must be taught that #communism is evil:
the Critical Communism Teaching Act.
#McCarthyism come back
About 6-7 years ago I stopped identifying as a Democrat (for obvious reasons) and Bernie Sanders gets credit for introducing me to the term Democratic Socialist. From there, I continued learning. In the last year or two I've come out as simply a Socialist.
I recognize many others are on that path as well. I would like to say to them:
The reason the word Democrat is so commonly put in front of Socialist is because of internalized fear mongering and misinformation regarding what Socialism is. It takes time to un-learn the cold war propaganda. It feels safer to take baby steps. That's valid. People still respond in unpredictable ways, socially, when they hear the S word. But give it a try. Seek out information, question your own beliefs.
"Did US sanctions cause the issues in Cuba, and blame it on Socialism? Why does National Socialism use that word even if it's not Socialism?" Is a good place to start.
Ditching the D word in front of the S word is a little scary at first, but it's liberating to break free from the angry mob's expectations as puppeteered by US Imperialism.
Think I'll start rewatching "Good Night, and Good Luck," dir. George Clooney (Warner Bros, 2005). Seems all too relevant again. #movies #NewsMedia #McCarthyism
I know this story is several weeks old, but I wanted to talk about it because I'm not sure the mainstream media, which almost universally decried a racist cartoon about Rashida Tlaib being a potential target of an exploding pager in the wake of Israel's (widely-celebrated) terrorist attacks using exploding pagers in Lebanon, entirely understood or was prepared to talk about the ideas the "artist" involved was promoting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/20/rashida-tlaib-cartoon-pager
Rashida Tlaib condemns cartoonist for racist image of her with exploding pager
"Rashida Tlaib, the Palestinian American congresswoman, has accused a political cartoonist of racism after he depicted her next to a pager exploding days after such devices blew up across Lebanon in what the Arab country has said was an attack by Israel.
A statement from the Democratic US House representative also expressed concern that the cartoon by Henry Payne would “incite more hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities”.
“And it makes everyone less safe,” Tlaib said of the cartoon – published by the Republican-friendly National Review – which also showed her thinking how “odd” it was for the nearby pager to explode. Pagers had been a preferred method of Hezbollah members in conflict with Israel, before such devices exploded across Lebanon recently. “It’s disgraceful that the media continues to normalize this racism against our communities,” she said."
Now on the surface here, the media (and Tlaib herself) are obviously correct in saying that the cartoon the National Review published is racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab. Tlaib is also absolutely correct to point out that American is rapidly returning to an early-War on Terror state of open bigotry against Arab Americans, fueled by racist propaganda that is being normalized as a result of political actors, as well as U.S. support for Israel's genocide in Gaza and military actions against Lebanon; this is a larger, purposely-engineered problem in our society and it does make us all less safe - particularly Arab Americans.
With that having been noted here, there is also a fascist/McCarthyist subtext to this cartoon that as far as I can tell the media is largely ignoring, but the reactionaries pushing white nationalism and US imperial ambitions definitely picked up on. After all, this cartoon is referencing a method of assassination Israel deployed against people it identified as "enemies" and the clear implication of the cartoon is that Rashida Tlaib qualifies under that description and assassinating her might be a good or at least reasonable idea. This is, to put it succinctly, an extension of the fascist propaganda the American Right, all the way up to former President Donald Trump, is pushing regarding the need to take action against "enemies within." Which as we discussed yesterday, is not only straight out of the propaganda playbook for every fascist regime in human history, but ultimately a pretext for purging folks who oppose fascism and the hyper-reactionary nationalist order the larger American right is seeking to impose on our country. The idea that an elected American Congresswoman from Detroit is an enemy of the state, and thus a legitimate target for assassination is not-so subtly woven into the cartoon, and echoes the longstanding hate campaign establishment figures on the right in American politics have been directing against Tlaib for literally years now.
So yes, the cartoon is racist, yes it's Islamophobic, yes it's anti-Arab, yes it's a thinly veiled incitement for violence; but it's also important to understand that what the National Review has published here is straight up fascist propaganda and it has a clear goal of manufacturing consent for a new type of McCarthyism and the purge of "enemies" defined as anyone, including US politicians, who oppose fascism and American imperial violence. It would have been nice if even one publication I read mentioned that, but American fascism is so ingrained into our society at this point that I question whether folks in our media can even recognize it in the moment anymore.
Spartacus 
