In Arizona armed goons force the closure of a Democratic field office. In North Carolina they drive away FEMA responders trying to aid hurricane victims. These are not two separate stories. Trump’s Brownshirts aren’t coming; they’re here.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4929899-arizona-democrats-office-closed-after-shooting/

https://wapo.st/3BM0GEP

Democrats shut down Arizona office after shootings

Arizona Democrats closed their field office in Tempe, Ariz. after three shooting incidents. The office served as a base for the Sun State’s congressional campaigns and Vice President Harris’s…

The Hill
@gleick right out of early Nazi playbook
We Are All Don Bacon's Wife: The Threats Trump Elicits for Personal Gain - emptywheel

The list of people against whom Trump has elicited threats is perhaps the best indication of what a second Trump term would look like.

emptywheel
@gleick This is terrorism. It should be prosecuted as terrorism.

@KathleenC
#PostOfTheWeek (season 1):
Arizona Democrats closed their field office in Tempe, Ariz., after three shooting incidents. The office served as a base for the Sun State’s congressional campaigns and Vice President Harris’s presidential effort in recent weeks.

The Tempe Police Department said the latest incidents on Oct. 6 involved gunshots fired at the Democratic campaign office at around 12:30 a.m

@gleick
And where are the feds?
They should have been on top of that within 15 minutes.

@palin @gleick
...should have been.

Just another day in the good ol' USA.
'Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida'👇
https://www.newsweek.com/swastika-flags-flown-donald-trump-boat-parade-florida-us-presidential-2042-election-1968426
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️

Swastika flags flown during Donald Trump boat parade in Florida

A boat bearing Nazi symbols alongside Donald Trump flags was hosed down after trying to join a Trump event in Palm Beach County.

Newsweek
@palin @gleick it's the same reason Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana aren't in the same place.
@gleick My daughter has a small business in Arizona and the Harris campaign moved into the offices next door. Hidden from public view with outside security.
@gleick The gop have nazi stormtroopers and they will not stop while shitzizpants is not in jail. Where is DOJ on the Logan Act?
Of course nobody's talking about the FEMA shooting except the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times. #suspicious

https://www.wbtv.com/2024/10/14/fema-contractors-ordered-stand-down-hotels-after-security-threats-messages-show/
In a press release, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said reports of militia units were unfounded and that Parsons is accused of acting alone.
"Recently in the mountain region, there have been threats made against them. This has not happened in Ashe County or the surrounding counties."
Maybe you should pass on reading fascist propaganda...
FEMA contractors ordered to “stand down” after security threats, messages show

An inspection agency that works as a contractor for FEMA ordered its employees in western North Carolina to cease inspections over the weekend and return to hotels, WBTV has confirmed.

WBTV

@gleick

You should have protected your democracy whilst you still had it.

https://medium.com/@colingajewski/the-usas-putin-2a239a146258

The USA’s Putin? - Colin Gajewski - Medium

The United States today bears a striking resemblance to pre-Putin Russia. Both societies fell prey to self-serving oligarchies, with extreme wealth and power concentrated among a select few. These…

Medium
@gleick meanwhile #jillsteim voters specially in swing states "we are so anti genocidal, progrssive, principaled we will vote for our russian plant that will result in russian agent orange winning and likely result in a genocide in our own country for various marginalized groups, won't save the Palestinians, but that's good as it will lead to our political system to fail through a revolution or some sh1t ". How psychotic you have to be reason like that.

@gleick Republicans' use of violence under Trump's leadership is growing more bold, but it isn't new.

As with Hitler's brown-shirts: It's a feature, not a bug.