@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
The #WhiteNationalist #Bigotry is stunning. I guess that's today's #GOP, now 171 years old.

The transition from the Party Of Lincoln (small business/anti-slavery, 1854) the the party of big business (1930-ish)to the party of oligarchs and bigots (2016) took about 160 years.

The actions come as #Trump & his top aides seek to bend #academic institutions to their #ideological beliefs. The #State Dept’s public *diplomacy* office is run by #DarrenBeattie, a political appointee who was fired from a job during the first Trump admin after he gave a talk at a #WhiteNationalist conference. He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.”…

Overnight the far right church leaders who led the fascist riot in Seattle yesterday vowed a night march starting from their church in U District tonight.

These guys typically march the one block around their church then call it quits. The issue tho is AFTER these events riled up fascists sometimes look for gay people to harass.

Most of their last minute events are a snoozefest, so likely to fizzle tonight imo.

I am often baffled by a mainstream media establishment that has learned the phrase "every accusation is a confession" by rote, but continues to report on TrumpWorld Republican efforts to transform US public education into a fascist indoctrination factory as if it were a parental rights, or religious liberty issue. These folks are openly and blatantly turning the odious and reactionary belief cluster around Trump's cult of personality into enforced reality, and while they probably can't convince *you* that up is down and fascism is freedom, they're determined to make sure that's the only reality your kids ever know.

I wrote about a recent example of this indoctrination project in action on NIDC, while examining the recent news that noted fundie fascist ideologue Ryan Walters has passed education standards that attempt to force teachers in Oklahoma to present Trump's 2020 election conspiracies (aka The Big Lie) as factual analysis.

https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/20/26643/

Nina-Bytes: Poisoning the Well

"Folks who aren’t familiar with politics in Oklahoma or unhinged fascist cultists who worship Trump may not be familiar with state school superintendent Ryan Walters, but calling him an “ideologue” really doesn’t cover how entirely committed he is to Christian Nationalist ideology and the Trump regime’s enforced unreality. This is the guy behind Oklahoma’s wasteful and corrupt attempted purchase of Trump-branded Bibles, as well as a Project 2025-style plan to restore “religious education” to Oklahoma public schools. He’s also a big proponent of new innovations in trying to make state taxpayers support religious charter schools that will presumably teach Christian Nationalist doctrine. As the article notes, in addition to teaching the Big Lie as fact in Oklahoma schools, Walters also wants to teach kids that Covid came from a lab in China and “remove education about Black Lives Matter and George Floyd’s murder,” just in case you were worried he might not be racist enough. In other words, it’s safe to say that indoctrinating kids with horrifying reactionary ideas that support an objectively fascist agenda is Ryan’s jam."

#Fascism #Trump #TheBigLie #$2020ElectionConspiracies #Oklahoma #ChristianNationalism #Propaganda #Indoctrination #TrumpCult #HitlerYouth #Homphobia #Islamophobia #Racism #WhiteNationalist #Nativism #RyanWalters #Education #GOP #RepublicanParty #ReligiousSchools

#RachelCauley also handled media requests for the group. In 2022, the founder of the #PatriotFreedomProject gave a lengthy interview to the explicitly #WhiteNationalist website #CounterCurrents. (The editor-in-chief of Counter-Currents authored a book called The White Nationalist Manifesto & has written about "#Hitler's Significance for Our Struggle.") After that interview received wider attention online, it appeared to be removed from the website.

Ingrassia was also seen at a June 2024 rally in Detroit led by #NickFuentes, a #HolocaustDenier & #WhiteNationalist.

As Fuentes began his speech, his supporters chanted, "Down with #Israel!"

"I don't know about you," Fuentes said at the rally, "but calling Donald #Trump a #racist only makes me like him more."

Amanda Moore, a freelance journalist, spotted Ingrassia in the crowd & reported for The Intercept that he stayed for approximately 20 minutes.

#DickDurbin, the top Dem on the #Senate #Judiciary Cmte, pressed #KashPatel on appearances he made on a podcast hosted by #StewPeters. Peters has often expressed #antisemitic & #WhiteNationalist views.
Pressed by Durbin about why he has associated w/so many #extremists & #ConspiracyTheorists, Patel claimed he went on podcasts to take on people putting out #ConspiracyTheories in order to disabuse them of their false impressions & to talk to them about the truth. A flat-out #lie.
#NationalSecurity