I can’t stand these leftist piss contests. My best friend barely survived Israeli bombings as a kid. While terminally online westerners, neck deep in the cult of contrarianism, cheer on atrocities committed by Hamas— many who actually deal with Israel’s violent responses can’t fucking stand Hamas.
I can’t believe two prominent ideologues of the Republican Party declared that transgender and Jewish people must be eradicated in March of this year and it already feels like people forgot.
Republicans are literally in a neo-Nazi Christian fascist party, y’all. They stopped hiding it a while ago.
Liberals debate fascists and tell leftists to tone down confrontation while mainstream conservatives celebrate our own getting murdered and sneeringly harass grieving loved ones. Your respectability politics is a death sentence. You have to fight these bastards, grow the fuck up and face the music.
It’s been over a month since the leader of the Bakersfield Proud Boys committed a hate crime against me on camera and in front of around 20 LAPD officers— who all walked away in unison from me being assaulted. Zero arrests. Zero statements from press freedom groups. Zero media coverage.
LA Times actually went out of their way to cover up this hate crime. Why? I’m not sure. What I DO know is in their article about the anti-LGBTQ+ rally I was reporting on, they favorably quoted far-right extremists, let them use fake names, and platformed genocidal anti-trans hate speech.
BREAKING: California governor Gavin Newsom unexpectedly vetoed AB957, a bill protecting the lives of transgender and non-binary children that was overwhelmingly supported by his fellow Democrats and the state legislature. The bill would classify refusing to affirm a child’s gender as potential grounds to lose custody. https://www.vpsreports.com/post/a-stunning-betrayal-gavin-newsom-vetoes-bill-protecting-trans-kids
The NorCal Active Club neo-Nazis have edited three videos of me being hanged. Nazis even have a custom emoji sticker pack exclusively with images of me. Of course there’s the lynching sticker, but there’s also my face bloodied from a far-right mob assault, me with a gun to my head, and me underaged.
Reporting on American Fascism is not fun. I’d literally prefer doing anything else. I went to a film and journalism school but I majored in film. I just wanna make movies and play video games. But when journalists abdicated their responsibility, I decided to use the skills I have. This is the price.
Stop praising community notes. They’re a vital misinformation tool for Twitter/X. They’re extremely selective about what they fact check and their refusal to fact check far-right harassment campaign accounts like Libs of TikTok helps canonize far-right conspiracy theories and make them appear true.
It’s insane how easy it is for fascist militants to assault people on camera and then jump in front of mainstream news cameras and rewrite what happened at the event while simultaneously bragging on social media about being the violent ones. Journalism is completely broken in California.
Elon Musk wants more antisemitism. He’s not “falling” for it. He’s actively catapulting it into the mainstream while knowing the consequences. He sees Nazi propaganda as a feature of Twitter/X, not a problem. But losing advertisers IS a problem. So he blames the Jews for it instead of Nazis. Subtle.
The richest man on Earth is an antisemitic fascist using a social media platform he purchased with nepotistic wealth to fund and promote Nazism into the mainstream. On that platform, he has over nine times as many followers as there are Jewish people on Earth. Read that again. Do you get the danger?
Documentary filmmaker and independent journalist covering protests, far-right extremism, and law enforcement. Based in Los Angeles. Worked with Netflix, National Geographic, and Disney. (They/He)