davidakThe New Red Scare is Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4aTVko9ks
CW: Police Violence, ICE
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🍉Karl☭Skalidin🌱https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk4aTVko9ks
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The New Red Scare is Here
DoomsdaysCWA wake-up call for #WhiteAmericans
The deaths of #ReneeGood and #AlexPretti are forcing white people to face hard truths about power and violence
By Chauncey DeVega, Senior Writer, February 1, 2026
"None of what we have seen over the past few weeks — not the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers, the seizure of children by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, the callous disregard of civil rights and liberties from an increasingly authoritarian administration — is supposed to be happening in America. But it is.
"American citizens are being arrested and brutalized for exercising their constitutional rights — recording ICE, standing nearby or simply being the 'wrong' color in the wrong place. The Trump administration has labeled these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' claiming they posed existential threats to heavily armed federal agents, despite clear video evidence to the contrary. Immigrants are hiding, afraid to go outside. Entire neighborhoods and communities are under siege. Even though it’s only January, at least eight people have died from their encounters with ICE.
"The #CognitiveDissonance is dizzying. #Disorientation is one of the #authoritarian leader’s most powerful weapons.
"Hours after Pretti was killed on Jan. 24, hundreds of people protested near the site in Minneapolis where he died. There, an older white woman told a reporter that 'the government is not supposed to be doing these horrible things to the American people. It is unbelievable. This is something like Nazi Germany or Russia.'
"I yelled at the television. 'What d**n country do you live in?'
"But her sentiments are common among people who are gathering at protests, community meetings and town halls all across the country.
"Like many other white Americans, and too many Black and brown Americans, she seemed willfully ignorant of her own country’s history, which includes #genocide and #LandTheft against #FirstNations; white-on-Black chattel #slavery; #JimCrow and #JaneCrow; the #BlackCodes; the #RedScare; violent social and political repression of #LGBTQ Americans; the #PalmerRaids; mass #incarceration and the #WarOnDrugs, to name just a few examples."
Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/01/a-wake-up-call-for-white-americans/
#AmericanHistory #Racism #SystemicRacism #USPol #Authoritarianism
WIST QuotationsThis has happened before in our history — in fact, it’s a pretty predictable reaction to fear. We get so rattled by some big Scary Thing — communism or crime or drugs or illegal aliens or terrorism — something that scares us so much, we think we can make ourselves safer by giving up some of our freedom. Now, not only does that not hold a drop of water as a logical proposition but it has consistently proved to be an illusion as a practical matter. Empirically, when you make yourself less free, you are not safe, you are just less free.
Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Bill of Wrongs, Introduction (2007) [with Lou Dubose]
More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/81677/
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Ivins, Molly - Bill of Wrongs, Introduction (2007) [with Lou Dubose] | WIST Quotations
This has happened before in our history -- in fact, it's a pretty predictable reaction to fear. We get so rattled by some big Scary Thing -- communism or crime or drugs or illegal aliens or terrorism -- something that scares us so much, we think we can make ourselves…
Ms. Que Banh#Westerners have been terrified about a #communist invasion that never fucking happened. While seemingly OK tolerating #fascist regimes, actually happening in 2026.
#Gay #Communist and #UnionActivist! Grampa Walton — #WillGeer: a #Radical with Woody Guthrie, et al
"[Will Geer] began his acting career touring in tent shows and on river boats.
"Geer was also the lover of #GayActivist #HarryHay. In 1934, Hay met Geer at the Tony Pastor Theatre, where Geer worked as an actor. They became lovers, and Hay credited Geer as his political mentor. Hay and Geer participated in a milk strike in Los Angeles, where Hay was first exposed to #RadicalGay #Activism in the person of '#Clarabelle,' a #DragQueen who held court in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, who hid Hay from police.
"Geer made his Broadway debut as Pistol in a 1928 production of Much Ado About Nothing, created the role of Mr. Mister in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, played Candy in John Steinbeck’s theatrical adaptation of his novella Of Mice and Men, and appeared in numerous plays and revues throughout the 1940s. From 1948 to 1951, he appeared in more than a dozen movies, including Winchester ’73, Broken Arrow, Comanche Territory (1950) and Bright Victory.
"Geer became a member of the #CommunistParty of the United States in 1934. Geer was also influential in introducing Harry Hay to organizing in the Communist Party.
"Geer became a dedicated activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like #BurlIves and #WoodyGuthrie (whom he introduced to the People’s World and the #DailyWorker; Guthrie would go on to write a column for the latter paper). In 1956, the duo released an album together on Folkways Records, titled Bound for Glory: Songs and Stories of Woody Guthrie. In his biography, fellow organizer and gay rights pioneer Harry Hay described Geer’s activism and outlined their activities while organizing for the strike. Geer is credited with introducing Guthrie to #PeteSeeger at the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ benefit Geer organized in 1940 for #MigrantFarmWorkers.
"Geer did summer stock at the Pine Brook Country Club located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut with the Group Theatre (New York) studying under Lee Strasberg.
"Geer was blacklisted in the early 1950s for refusing to testify before the House Committee on #UnAmerican Activities. As a result, Geer appeared in very few films over the following decade. Notable among them was Salt of the Earth which was produced, directed, written, and starring blacklisted Hollywood personnel and told the story of a miners’ #strike in New Mexico from a pro-#union standpoint."
#TheWaltons #GrandpaWalton #GBLTQ #GBLTQActors #Activists #RedScare
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History December 21, 1919: U.S. immigration deported anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman to Russia. The authorities deported, arrested and killed hundreds of anarchists, communists, labor leaders, IWW members, and oter radicals during the Palmer Raids (also known as the First Red Scare).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #IWW #deportation #redscare #Revolution #russia #soviet #prison #unionbusting #PalmerRaids
Can't share this often enough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwL1mSrPLA
#Communism #Redscare #Politics #Anarchism #Antiauthoritarian #Anarchy #Socialism
Debunking Every Anti-Communist Argument Ever
Die Sowjetunion - ein totalitäres Regime?
דער קערפער פֿון השם"The show, “#Art of Freedom: The Life and Work of #ArthurSzyk” (pronounced Shik), includes dozens of #artworks that have been rarely or never displayed. The #exhibit is a major step in a growing revival following decades of obscurity after heady celebrity during #WorldWarII and ignominy, though no prosecution, during the #RedScare of the 1950s.
The exhibit also portrays a lesser-known side of the stridently #antifascist #Szyk — as an avid popularizer of the #AmericanRevolution nearly a century before Ken Burns.
“I am but a #Jew, praying in art,” Szyk wrote in a dedication to one of his most famous #illustrated works, a #Passover #Haggadah.
Sara Softness, the show’s #curator, said it aimed to portray “an #artist rooted in his #Jewish identity, but not exclusively — a person of the world..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/arts/design/arthur-szyk-museum-of-jewish-heritage.html
