Notices by M.S. Bellows, Jr. (msbellows@c.im), page 5

@georgetakei Here's how it might play out: Trump issues an unconstitutional executive order prohibiting mail ballots. Blue states flip him the bird and keep VBM anyway. The next presidential election is held, and a GOP congresscritter files an objection to those states' electoral votes as invalid. GOP-led Congress agrees and refuses to count them. Supreme Court declines to intervene in what it labels a "political question."

Ta-da! Tyranny unlocked!

@lyndamerry484 Vance sure takes a lot of vacations. Canoeing, Disneyland, and the UK this summer.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security today released a new ICE recruiting poster, under the stilted and sexist tagline, "Which way, American man?"

Why did they use that weird language? Because it's a dog whistle, something ordinary humans won't notice but that those attuned to it will respond to. And it's literally a Nazi dog whistle.

William Gayley Simpson was a Presbyterian pastor who decided Christianity wasn't workable and consciously decided to become a racist instead. In 1978 he published a book, "Which Way, Western Man?" – a manifesto calling on white men to defeat all other races. Some nuggets include:

"Let me preface what I am about to say by declaring frankly that I am prepared to accept violence on the part of our people. The Jews’ hold on our throat is not going to be relaxed until we break their grip. Hitler felt that he had to take to the streets. All normal approach to his people was barred. Today, we are confronted with much the same situation here."

"The point is to reveal organized Jewry as a world power entrenched in every country of the White man’s world...."

You might think that 1978 is too long ago for anyone to remember, but this book was republished in 2003 by a neo-Nazi group called the National Alliance, and is a bestseller among neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.

In other words, the federal government is recruiting Nazis and other racists to join ICE, which is being deployed in cities across the country and arresting both citizens and non-citizens alike.

Folks, this literally is fascism. You think I enjoy posting this stuff here all the time? I don't. But this literally is fascism. They're literally following following the Nazi playbook. And they'll follow it to the very end.

Unless we stop them.

Sources: https://share.google/nT0dJ8jYEQYeVoLgA
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^ @jaykuo https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/115017214198700669

@steter National parks.

@Lazarou @steter Jazz.

Our local public radio jazz station, KMHD, said the third caller would win some concert tickets, and I was the third caller! Lyricdancer and I are heading out to the Aladdin tonight to see Novos Baianos, who were unknown to me but look them up and OMG! One of their albums (Acabou Chorare, 1972) was voted the best album ever to come from Brazil -- beating Gilberto Gil and all the other bossa nova greats. And... it's an antifascist album, made by hippies living on a communal ranch, and intentionally being happy and upbeat because happiness is inherently antifash. (Brazil was a military dictatorship at the time.)

And they've never been to the U.S. before!

And we'll be there!

Which makes me feel happy and inspired!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5pIlMNPZh4D9iJSoCfMzGi?si=Dkpwlq-YS6-vHVt5Mptqjw

@aaron.rupar "They put makeup on [Biden]."

Right.

@MsMerope @steter @Gorfram @ai6yr @douglasvb @cvvhrn I longboarded Old Tunnel Road in the Berkeley hills in the Seventies. Three miles of banked curves with a steep straightaway at the end. Never thought about wearing a helmet; the percussive skull bongo was just part of the sport. My physician father and nurse mother didn't bat an eye, either.

@douglasvb @MsMerope @cvvhrn @ai6yr

@MsMerope @Gorfram @ai6yr @douglasvb @cvvhrn Hey, we hung out at Crown Beach in the Seventies too, and all I have is ADHD and Tourette's!

Today is System Administrator Day. Yesterday was World BDSM Day. Coincidence? I think not.

@ai6yr @Cristobalm Okay, but don't you put a little salt and pepper on your steak? Maybe a pat of butter at the finish? Flavored syrups etc. in good coffee are a crime, just like putting Heinz 57 on a ribeye, but cream and sugar? Fine.

Why isn't there a menopausal counterpart to coming-of-age rituals like bat mitzvahs? When women stop ovulating, there should be a millennia-old, joyous ceremony celebrating their freedom to fuck without restraint. Seriously, ancient humans: why didn't you do this? Even in patriarchal societies, the release from biological enslavement is a good thing.

South African racist Elon Musk is starting a new political party, and is clearly telling us it's the "white party."

Really.

@burnoutqueen @ratel @SrRochardBunson Yes! It's important to understand that the Nazis began with forced self-deportation: https://c.im/@msbellows/114740832294913918

@JayneMaynes The Constitution Article 3 Section 3 reads as follows: "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

King George considered anyone he seemed disloyal to have committed treason, so the Framers specifically narrowed the definition.

@steter I think the Giants should besiege and conquer the Athletics since they're no longer in a sturdy, concrete, defensible stadium, then reestablish the defeated A's as an expansion team back in Oakland.

@cdarwin Cool! Now the DOD will pay to move all U.S. power cables underground like they should be, right?

Amazing photo, borrowed from BroncRidingNation elsewhere. "[A]t Crystal Springs Rodeo (South Dakota) the grand entry featured tornadoes and torrential rains. That cancelled performance made up by a matinee today...." (photographer unknown)

The ghosts of the justices who ruled against Dred Scott and Fred Koromatsu are happy in Hell right now, because they are no longer the worst Court in US history.