It was a whole thing for a while, liberals getting irate with liberals for throwing around the “Nazi” label too casually. I got emails from people telling me to cool down the rhetoric, and I did. I shouldn’t have.
The University of Pennsylvania has been asked to give the Trump administration a list of Jewish faculty.
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is demanding the university turn over names and personal information about Jewish members of the Penn community as part of the administration’s stated goal to combat antisemitism on campuses. But some Jewish faculty and staff have condemned the government’s demand as “a visceral threat to the safety of those who would find themselves identified because compiling and turning over to the government ‘lists of Jews’ conjures a terrifying history”, according to a press release put out by the groups’ lawyers.
Huh. What “terrifying history” would that be, I wonder. I also wonder who specifically is behind this initiative to construct lists of Jews. Stephen? Is that you?
You might be thinking that this is just one example, that the similarity to the Nazi agenda is coincidental, and that the intent of the list is entirely benign, to protect Jewish people. Sure. Keep telling yourselves that. Americans have been blind to this sort of thing for decades, it’s traditional.
But have you looked at @DHSgov on Twitter? I know most of you don’t bother with that far right propaganda site anymore, but right now it’s full of Nazi shit.
In this context, one might think the White House would be bending over backward to make the goals of its immigration policy appear as benign as possible: If you want to persuade voters to accept ICE’s radical methods, you’d presumably want to assure them that it has mainstream objectives.Instead, the administration opted to associate its immigration agenda with a Nazi slogan.
Adolf Hitler’s regime famously advertised its rule with the tagline, “One People, One Realm, One Leader.” Three days after Renee Good’s killing, Trump’s Department of Labor tweeted, “One Homeland. One People. One Heritage. Remember who you are, American.”
This post is, on its face, evocative of white nationalism. The United States is a multiethnic society. To say that it has only “one heritage” is to suggest that only one of its ethnic groups is truly American.
But the remarks are even more sinister when the Nazi allusion is taken into account. And this echo is almost certainly not coincidental. Under Trump, the official accounts of federal agencies have repeatedly referenced white nationalist memes and works.
On January 9, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted, “We’ll have our home again,” a lyric from an anthem adopted by the neo-fascist group The Proud Boys and other white nationalist organizations. This was accompanied by a link where one could sign up to join ICE.
Last August, DHS shared an ICE recruitment poster beneath the phrase, “Which way, American man?” — an apparent reference to the white supremacist tract, “Which Way, Western Man?” which argues that “Race consciousness, and discrimination on the basis of race, are absolutely essential to any race’s survival. … That is why the Jews are so fiercely for it for themselves…and fiercely against it for us, because we are their intended victim.”
In October, the US Border Patrol posted a video on its Facebook page of agents loading guns and driving through the desert, as a 13-second clip of Michael Jackson’s song “They Don’t Care About Us” plays — specifically, the lines “Jew me, sue me, everybody do me, kick me, k*ke me.”
Other Trump administration posts have suggested that its immigration policy aims to return the United States to its condition in 1943 (it is hard to see what specifically this could reference beyond the nation’s racial composition at that time) and implored ICE recruits to “Defend your culture!”
Meanwhile, last fall, Vance refused to condemn a group of Republican activists who had praised Hitler and disparaged Black people as “monkeys” in their private group chat.
We have put Nazis in positions of power to run the whole goddamn country. They call themselves “MAGA”, but don’t be fooled. They’re Nazis. Nazis through and through. And what do we do with Nazis?
Of course people don’t mean Nazi as literally the Nationalsozialist party in 1930s Germany. But it could be an acronym for Neoconservative Authoritarian Zealous Individuals.
When smiling, saying, “I’m not mad at you”, and pulling away earns three bullets to the face – punching might not be the wisest strategy.
But I endorse the sentiment. Resist. Do not comply.
Yeah, they just want to know about Jewish faculty at the U of P to ask them about antisemitism. By which they mean they want to know if those Jewish faculty have the “right” beliefs, and if they don’t they can accuse them of being self hating Jews or something along those lines.
BTW didn’t Nixon purge people with Jewish-sounding names from one department?
German nazis are (incorrectly) associated with efficiency.
It might be more apt to use an analogy with the blackshirts, as Benito did not enjoy the sheer dumb luck Adolph did at the beginning of the war.
For reference, consider the big heaps of junk that passed for Italian “tanks”.
Next up: Trump admin demands that Jewish faculty wear yellow “Stars of David” on their sleeves so they know “which ones to protect”.
Right? Seems likely.
1943 was the year the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act passed (in December) and Chinese people were more freely allowed to immigrate to the US (though with severe limits) and allowed some who were already in the US to become naturalized citizens.
Post the repeal, on 18 January 1944 the Chinese immigrant, Edward Bing Kan, became a naturalized US citizen. He had come to the US in 1892 and had worked for the US government (in the immigration service) as an interpreter since 1909. The naturalization procedure was expedited for him since he was married to a US citizen and (unofficially) because he worked for the very service that handled naturalization. https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/stories-from-the-archives/edward-bing-kan-the-first-chinese-american-naturalized-after-repeal-of-chinese-exclusion
Apparently Trump is thinking of /threateneing to invoke the Insurrection act agaisnt the Minnsoat protestors..
Frace24 news TV just now. C35 Aussie TV SBS Worldwatch.
@ ^ Y yes I am ’bout two thirds asleep about now and have stuffed hands and never could type properly anyhow, How d”ya guess?
Sorry folks. Hope yáll get the gist anyhow.
See also :
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/minneapolis-live-updates-tensions-flare-federal-officer-shoots-man-dhs-rcna254161
Just like he ..doesn’t.
^ Obey the law that is..
Trump & his cultists who think the law doesn apply to them and their own standards don’t apply to them becoz of course not & IOKIYAR..
According to The Guardian, John Bolton says, if you can believe him, the person behind Trump’s Greenland push is Ronald Lauder. He inherited “Estée Lauder”, and is estimated to be wroth $4.7 billion. He’s already acquiring business interests in Greenland. Per the article, the reason for the push is rare earth elements. If this is the case then no wonder it’s a must do: billionaire donor + rare earths. Note that Ronald Lauder is of Jewish descent. Sadly nothing new in that.
birgerjohansson @ 5
Only too right about Hitler inefficiency! They were going to construct a number of Hydrogenisation plants for liquid fuel and could construct them concurrently or consecutively and Hitler insisted on concurrent work so that instead of one at a time earlier that they got the lot later. There are more examples if you’ve read Speer’s book.
The registering of Jews is reminiscent of Roth’s The Plot Against America.
Even the Joker hates nazis. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fhp7l3179k6b71.jpg for the first screen capture that came up. Joker had teamed up with the Red Skull, Captain America’s nazi foe. On finding out the Red Skull is really truly a nazi, “I may be a criminal lunatic, but I’m an American criminal lunatic!” Unfortunately, RS is immune to Joker Gas so doesn’t die. But it is still a funny little scene.
Need to add Bumblebee to those images: Transformers: The Last Knight might have blown as a movie but we got a gorgeous scene of Bumblebee kicking Nazi ass.
Remember that line in the movie “Contact”,
“Fifty million people died defeating that bastard and nows he’s our spokesman!”
@12 Robro: Is it possible that Lauder isn’t really so interested in rare earth minerals, but another of Greenland’s natural resources? Namely that provided by its whale population, tons of ambergris for his massive perfume manufacturing industry ;)
@Autobot Silverwynde Really? That might be the one thing that actually gets me to watch a Bayformers movie.
#17 @crivitz
The cosmetics industry is not transparent. I prefer to think American women are unwittingly putting heavy metals on their face. :)
crivitz @ #17 — Don’t know. Could be all of the above. Apparently part of Lauder’s interest in Greenland is bottling glacial water to sell in Europe for a lot Euros.
I’ve sort of been anticipating something of this kind. Especially since the fascist government has been so focused on ridding the country of the evil brown mud-people who are diluting our pure-white society (sarcasm!!!!!)
Because, we all know that, of course, it’s International Jewry, who control all banking and media, who are responsible for bringing these inferior brown people in to accomplish white genocide. We all know that, right? (More of same!!!!) That was what the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was about. (Not sarcasm, sadly, true.)
So, this does not bode well. Lists of doubly-evil people, who are Jews+elitist intellectual college professors spreading Cultural Bolshevism (sorry, “Marxism”.) Next, perhaps….show trials of Big Rich Jewish Guys in banking and media? Perhaps it’s time for them to all take to their bolt-holes in New Zealand.
Note that until this moment no one in this thread has mentioned Epstein files. You could say his plan is working splendidly.
Sit back and post images of comic book characters punching Nazis as wish fulfillment, I guess.
Video of PZ punching a Nazi or it didn’t happen.
beholder, rhetorical punches may not be much, but sneering at them is worse.
So the quotation is: We have put Nazis in positions of power to run the whole goddamn country. They call themselves “MAGA”, but don’t be fooled. They’re Nazis. Nazis through and through. And what do we do with Nazis?
You pick the last clause, absent the context and the appeal.
What is to be done is to resist them, not to sneer at people who resist them, as you do.
And what was actually done, historically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZiDk5BBwXU
Blues brothers!
@jd142 – that’s great!
Digby is now saying Trump’s gone beyond fascism to flat out tyranny. https://www.salon.com/2026/01/15/trump-is-something-much-worse-than-a-fascist/
[I feel I should note I get PZ is already exposing himself in this current climate, and academics are not a privileged class. I put up what he could not without causing trouble to UMM.
Not a cartoon, quite literal, quite historic. I suppose content warning, but I did put it ‘beneath the fold’]
@18 That was literally the best scene out of the whole movie. We actually got a WWII Bumblebee figure as well.
If you ever do want to watch any of the Transformers movies, I highly recommend the standalone Bumblebee film. Coherent story, human lead is a young woman, her semi-love interest is non-white, fewer explosions, and the cast is much smaller and easier to follow. Also Angela Bassett is incredible as the voice of a female Decepticon. Travis Knight directed; Bay was only a producer on that one.
Hey, I hear the government is going to give each Jewish professor a gold star to wear to show that they should receive special protection.
@ beholder, #23
I’d be far more interested in seeing you provide proof prove that you’re not an agent of the Trump regime here to stir shit and spy on leftwing “extremists.” Not going to hold my breath, though.
Still, there’s a lot of suggestive hints in your behavior. From the way you drop an incendiary steamer and then flounce off to the next thread to the way you carefully refrain from any real criticism of the Ochre Ogre, it’s smells awfully Nazi whenever you disgrace this place with your presence. Hell, even your ‘nym is suggestive of the sort of thing the Very Best People this regime loves to recruit would think is clever.
I jest, but then, the whole world seems like a particularly mean-spirited bad joke these days.
vucodlak@29–
Seconded.
@ vucodlak :Thirded altho’ of c I’ve been sayin this for ages now.
Only ever criticising the Democratic party is a pretty big giveaway too as when he claimed Trump was more mentally competent than Biden. Something only Trumpists believe.
@robro #20:
If he gets access to Greenland’s glaciers as a result of Trump’s threats of violence or actual violence, you can be sure that the product will be boycotted by every European except those openly touting themselves as neo-Nazis. Even some of our far-right politicians are finding Trump too much to swallow right now.
I guess one could argue that there is one heritage you could argue as being “real” American, but I don’t think the MAGAts would like which heritage that is…
@31:
That sort of argument always makes me think of comparing the LD(50) of two well-known lethal agents — say, ricin and botulin — and declaring in favor of one because its LD(50) is greater. That carefully ignores that ordinary exposures are sufficient.
Why yes, I am saying that there’s an LD(50) for “mentally defective politicians”: 1 per 340 million is sufficient. Unfortunately, in the present environment we’re well over that doseage — in short, someone is still needlessly dead. We were presented choices boiling down to “which lethal agent do you want to be exposed to for four years?” That one of those lethal agents is a lot more insidious and difficult to treat is a really, really hard thing to communicate in soundbites; and in this sense Beholder manages to simultaneously be “right” in one frame and “wrong” in the other while ignoring the context of both.
(Yes, I know it’s supposed to be a subscript. This software doesn’t implement <sub> formatting.)
[Jaws, you can fake it with Unicode: LD₅₀]
More from Vox: https://www.vox.com/politics/475361/minneapolis-right-wing-influencers-journalist-ice-reality-immigration-social-media-internet
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In the hours and days after news and videos spread of the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, a small army of right-wing, pro-Trump creators, journalists, and influencers descended on the city and flooded social media.
They filmed protests; rode along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection; documented — and at times seemingly instigated — confrontations with protesters; and worked a competing, ICE- and Trump-friendly narrative out of what was happening in Minneapolis. From the ground, they churned out content painting protesters as lawless, demonstrations as riots, and anti-ICE activists as extremists or criminals. Outside of the state, right-wing influencers and large social media accounts amplified these videos, posts, and descriptions to reach much wider audiences.
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But social media analytics show that these right-wing influencers have been effective in flooding the zone — producing large volumes of content and drawing viewers.
To log onto social media platforms now is to not only see the videos and outrage, but also constant counter-narratives, attempts to justify Good’s killing, and arguments that ICE’s presence in Minneapolis is warranted.
And that reveals a deeper imbalance in American politics and media in 2026: While witness video, mainstream and traditional news, and liberal commentators have shaped part of the debate over ICE and Trump’s domestic immigration agenda, these critical voices and activists lack the same kind of distribution machine to push their narrative that those on the right have used to some effect.
I suspect Ronald Lauder is one of Rump’s friends that is named in the Epstein files. Asking google if Lauder knew Epstein returned some rather incriminating information. Filthy rich pigs, however Lauder is also Jewish and supports that fascist regime too.
@23. Trump supporting – at very least in the impact of their actual actions and probly in their real intnet too troll beholder :
You first. After all we know who PZ is and that he opposes nazis whereas you have enabled and helped Fascists and contnue to do so by constantly attack the non-Fascist alterntive party.
See also :
https://proxy.freethought.online/pharyngula/2026/01/16/too-soon-too-accurate/#comment-2290258
John Morales@36,
Polls indicate that the counter-narrative has not been accepted by the majority: I saw a figure from one poll of 56% saying Good’s killing was unjustified use of force, 26% saying it was justified. I guees too many people have actually seen the videos, andare subversively choosing to believe their eyes. I’m puzzled that, AFAIK, there have not yet been any AI-faked videos showing Good running over Ross, then reversing over him for good (no pun intended) measure.
Note the Trump Enabling Bad Faith troll here “Beholder” has typically boldy run away, away faster than “Brave” Sir Robin in Monty Python’s Holy Grail & typically failed to refute or address the criticisms and points raised against them
Note the cowardly disguisting toxic Trumpist troll “beholder” has still not answered these basic questions here despite having ample time and opportunity to do so.
@ StevoR
You should be lucky if they pay you any attention at all. Nobody likes bullies Stevo.
@ 39 KG
56% is shockingly low. “Women have no idea how much men hate them.”