"it was just that the authoritarianism extended to specific groups. Indigenous people, Black people, and women, those who didn’t own land.

By refusing to resolve these issues, the right has created an opening by which to expand the scope of their oppression."

#eliminationism #history #Trump #EthnicCleansing #ICE #DHS
/6

Authoritarianism, fascism, and all forms of right wing politics, “moderate” or not, are defined by the never-ending desire for power. And for someone in power with this mindset, there is no amount of power that is enough. ...

America has been authoritarian from the moment it was founded:"

~ Elad Nehorai

#eliminationism #history #Trump #EthnicCleansing #ICE #DHS
/5

https://eladnehorai.substack.com/p/none-of-this-is-new-why-americas

"In order to gain control of a nation accustomed to democratic rule and the gradual progress of its culture and human institutions, you have to destroy any sense of their shared interests and common ground across all demographic and cultural groups—the meat of our real history, with its warts and missteps and atrocities in open view."

#eliminationism #history #Trump #EthnicCleansing #ICE #DHS
/4

"This is why it’s so essential, in the view of Trump and his MAGA movement, to whitewash our history this way: It creates the possibility that the atrocities—which they perversely like to portray as good things—can be recreated again and again.

This is in fact what all authoritarian regimes do:"

#eliminationism #history #Trump #EthnicCleansing #ICE #DHS
/3

"The primary function of eliminationist rhetoric throughout its long and sordid history has been simple and direct: It creates permission.

It’s a green light for violence and the annihilation of common human decency. ...

The whole point of eliminationism is to create permission for violence and exclusion, and it’s difficult to do that when the memories of the misery and pain caused by previous atrocities remains fresh."

#eliminationism #history #Trump #EthnicCleansing #ICE #DHS
/2

At this point, I think we're probably still a long way from identifying the full web of influence, corruption, and misappropriation of resources behind Governor Ron DeSantis' concentration camp in the Florida Everglades, the obnoxiously named "Alligator Alcatraz." As such I'm going to keep this post pretty brief; more or less to keep the issue on our radar as more information emerges.

With that caveat noted however, this Talking Points Memo article talks about the outlet's extremely nascent investigation into how DeSantis built the concentration camp, who paid for it, and who profits from it. Would it surprise you to learn that Florida's fascist governor is using a fake "emergency" to make this monstrous bullshit happen, the money trail is a hot mess, and Florida taxpayers are going to be the folks footing the bill for Ron's nazi apology to Downmarket Mussolini? Yeah, it didn't surprise me either.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contracts-desantis-alligator-alcatraz

Contracts Show Millions of Dollars and Diverted Disaster Resources Were Used to Build DeSantis’ ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

"TPM has obtained and analyzed over a dozen contracts and invoices related to the construction and operation of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp in the Everglades. The documents identify eight previously undisclosed companies — including two firms with a Fortune 500 pedigree — involved with the controversial facility. They also show that, in at least one instance, resources allocated for the state’s “disaster preparedness” apparatus were diverted to the site as DeSantis’ office used emergency powers to quickly establish the camp, causing a shortfall that needs to be addressed during the ongoing hurricane season."

I must confess that part of me feels like I'm insulting my readers' intelligence when I remind folks, over and over again, that nightmare concentration camps for migrants, many of whom are guilty of nothing more than a civil violation, would be an unacceptable eliminationist outrage even if nobody was profiteering from it and it cost the public coffers zero dollars. In the grand scheme of things the lies, corruption, and misappropriation of public funds are a side story compared to the fact that we've just opened a real as fuck concentration camp in a remote part of Florida and there are already reports of widespread human rights abuses and unsafe conditions emerging mere weeks after "Alligator Alcratraz" opened. With that having been said, informed observers must know by now that the rich nazis running the larger American fascist movement do have designs on profiting from fascist repression, ethnic cleansing, and the migrant carceral complex - and projects like Alligator Alcatraz demonstrate how that odious business functions.

If you want to know the names of the eleven companies already identified as working with the government of Florida to make this eliminationist bullshit possible, who is getting paid for what, and how many of the folks directly profiting from this are DeSantis donors (there are several) I recommend you just read the article. The short version here however is that like Trump, DeSantis has declared "an alarming number of migrants in Florida" to be a state level crisis, he then used emergency powers to divert a bunch of money, including from disaster prevention and relief funding in a state notorious for having a "hurricane season," to build a fucking concentration camp surrounded by alligators as a make up gift for his ally and former GOP nomination opponent, President Trump. Along the way a bunch of very shitty companies are raking in the money for substandard work, and the entire DeSantis administration is working overtime to keep as much of this as possible a complete secret from anyone who might be in a position to conduct any oversight on this genocidal nazi boondoggle. Think "Halliburton in post-Saddam Iraq" but on a smaller scale.

#Fascism #Trump #RonDeSantis #AlligatorAlcatraz #Racism #ConcentrationCamp #MigrantRights #Immigration #EthnicCleansing #Corruption #Graft #Bribery #Eliminationism #EthnoNationalism #Investigation

In a ruling that simultaneously demonstrates that "the cruelty is the point" and "the American legal process is designed to work for the oppressor," the Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration an emergency stay of lower court orders blocking their unconstitutional and frankly eliminationist trans military ban; allowing the government to immediately begin discharging trans service members while lawsuits against the ban make their way through the courts.

https://www.advocate.com/news/scotus-allows-trans-military-ban

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to enforce transgender military ban

"LGBTQ+ advocates condemned the ruling. In a joint statement, Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, which represent plaintiffs in the case, called the decision “a devastating blow to transgender servicemembers who have demonstrated their capabilities and commitment to our nation’s defense.” The groups argued the policy “has nothing to do with military readiness and everything to do with prejudice,” adding that the ban “violates constitutional guarantees of equal protection and will ultimately be struck down.”

The administration had sought an emergency stay from the Supreme Court after the Ninth Circuit denied a similar request on April 18. In their response brief last week, attorneys for the plaintiffs said the government’s request was based on a “shocking proposition that transgender people do not exist,” and argued the policy “fails under any level of review.” The brief emphasized that the active-duty plaintiffs have over 115 years of combined military service and over 70 commendations."

Alright, let me state up front that I remain a committed anti-imperialist, peace advocate, and anarcho-syndicalist. I am not for war, militarism, or gunning down brown kids in far away lands on behalf of American oil companies and calling yourself a hero afterwards. If I had my way, there would be no military for trans service members to be banned from. But this ruling isn't about banning military service for everyone, it's about banning military service for trans people specifically because the government has legally declared that trans people don't exist while simultaneously implying that being trans is a type of mental illness that makes folks unsuitable for employment by the Department of Defense. In that regard then, this ruling is a part of the Trump regime's ongoing anti-trans pogrom and the larger fascist right's open attempts to drive trans people out of American public life. There are real people here, who even if I strongly disagree with their career choices are being harmed for nothing more than their gender identity; the fact that this is happening in the US military with the support of a Christian Nationalist-friendly SCOTUS doesn't make it any different than if McDonald's were firing trans people because "they're too unstable to operate a fry cooker." This similarity is of course intentional, because anti-trans fascists don't want to just remove trans people from the military, they want *everyone* to stop employing trans people entirely; that's how a pogrom works.

All of which of course leaves us with the harms themselves, and the lawless, vindictive nature of the Trump regime's war on trans existence. The fact is it remains highly unlikely that the Trump trans military ban is going to ultimately survive the numerous legal challenges against it; and the six fascist or fascist-friendly judges sitting on SCOTUS know that. Unless they're prepared to effectively invent new law, the ban will ultimately be struck down; which begs the question of why they would allow the Trump regime to start enacting the ban in the meantime while the suits against it make their way through the courts? Particularly given that discharge will irreparably harm the careers of trans service members who are likely to successfully sue the government for doing so once the ban is ultimately overturned. The answer of course is that doing so will allow the regime to harm, purge, and demonize some trans people in the interim, and since all these folks would be for simply locking up or eliminating trans people if the law would allow it, they're happy to err on the side of destroying trans lives and careers to feed raw meat to the Christian Nationalist base this movement relies on for support.

#Fascism #Trump #SCOTUS #TransRights #AntiTransPogrom #LGBTQ #ChristianNationalism #TransMilitaryBan #Transphobia #Eliminationism

I don't usually pin back-posted material to this thread, but last night I published a couple of theory blogs from about six weeks ago that aren't time sensitive.

On why a wealthy ruling class has so gleefully collaborated with fascism to install the Trump regime - it's not just that they're awful people, it's also all that filthy lucre.

Theory Blog: Fascism For Profit

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/03/12/theory-blog-fascism-for-profit/

"All of which brings us to Trump and the rapid expansion of the carceral complex necessary to enact his fascist agenda. When Downmarket Mussolini moves to conduct the mass deportation of millions of people, that creates an enormous pot of money that can be looted by his rich donors in various ways. Are these folks motivated by white supremacy? Yes, definitely. But even if they weren’t we’re talking about billions, if not trillions of dollars worth of government contracts at stake here; a whole lot of people are going to get very rich off Trump’s ethno-nationalist policies regardless of what they believe in their hearts."

#Fascism #Capitalism #Billionaires #MassDeportations #Trump #ChristianNationalism #Eliminationism

After watching Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spout ableism and eugenic theory on live TV while lying about and dehumanizing folks with autism, I'm alarmed that the story here appears to be "wow RFK Jr is a total crank" What it should be is that everything about RFK Jr’s sham HHS study into the “causes” of autism is a reactionary eugenicist nightmare that threatens the health & lives of autistic people, particular children.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/04/18/nina-bytes-kennedy-conspiracies-and-kids/

Nina-Bytes: Kennedy, Conspiracies, and Kids

"Reading this piece, two things immediately sprung to mind. First, I wouldn’t let Robert F. Kennedy Jr within ten feet of any child whatsoever if I had the ability to prevent it. Secondly; are we sure putting RFK Jr. in charge of Health and Human Services isn’t just a way to let some sadistic eugenicist freaks torture autistic children and profit from it? Because from out here, it sure does seem like that’s Kennedy’s plan and the reason for his department’s “massive testing and research” effort. I’m not a scientist, but somehow I doubt that conspiracy crank Kennedy and a fake doctor whose family business is apparently torturing children have the best interests of autistic Americans at heart; particularly when Kennedy is openly promoting the eugenicist idea that autism is an “epidemic” that is “destroying our children.”

#Fascism #TrumpRegime #RFKJr #Autism #Eugenics #Ableism #HHS #ConspiracyTheories #AntiVax #Vaccines #Eliminationism #Grift #USPol #Healthcare #Nazis #DavidGeier #Kennedy #AmandaMarcotte #Salon #Blog