The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer
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The Background Noise of a Fascist Regime
As horrifying ghosts from the Swine Emperor’s dark past threaten to engulf the regime, the larger fascist project mostly appears to have carried on unabated. The Gestapo pigs are still wilding through the streets wearing masks and packing enough firepower to clean out a spider hole in the Afghani mountains. Trumpenreich regime officials are now crassly revealing that contrary to their propaganda, the mass deportation program really is an ethnic-cleansing project targeting brown people. And Downmarket Mussolini is now fucking around in Brazilian politics to protect fellow traveler Jair Bolsonaro – a man who can lay as strong a claim as anyone to the title of Trump’s mini-me minion in Latin America. This situation is objectively terrible and folks with fear in their hearts have long since fled for the hills, but a little police state repression isn’t enough to scare The Skinny off the trail and we hit the ground running to bring you the best of my blogging about Trump’s fascist America. As always you can follow the links below to check out these stories on my Fediverse blog, or simply read them in their entirety on page two by using the navigation buttons at the bottom of this article.
July 11th – July 20th, 2025
Threats, Confessions, and the Ethnic Cleansing Czar
“On the larger question of what kind of policy Trump’s mass deportations actually are, and what purpose they serve however, there really can no longer be any debate. Live on Fox News, Homan happily admitted what was already obvious to everyone but sophists and bootlickers: the Trump regime is engaging in a white supremacist project, targeting brown people, as part of a larger ethnic cleansing operation to re-whiten America. There really is no other conclusion to draw when the regime is willing to openly admit the Gestapo is actively choosing its targets based on location, occupation, and physical appearance. Shouting “we’re not doing ethnonationalism” while describing your goons doing ethnonationalism isn’t going to cut it anymore.”
Fascist Propaganda, Secret Police, and the Antifa Scare
“After semi-anonymous groups of heroic citizens worked to publicly identify masked ICE Gestapo agents openly violating the civil rights of Oregonians, noted puppy-murderer Noem publicly promised swift prosecution of “anarchist and Antifa-affiliated groups” who acquire or share “personal information” of federal law enforcement officials. That’s a problem, not only because its entirely unclear any laws have actually been broken, and Gestapo thugs are operating like a secret police force, but also because it hints that Trump may be looking to revive “Antifa terrorism” and “anarchist cities” as the next crisis he’ll use to keep transforming America into a fascist dictatorship.”
The Swine Emperor’s Soft Power Play in Brazil
“Trump’s latest ultimatum then can be seen in part as a continued attempt by the American government to control Brazilian politics while shifting the country’s policies even further to the right to facilitate American corporate colonial extraction, and in part as a way to make further Trump regime interventions to ensure the installation of fascist, pro-Trump political allies in Brazil possible – a maneuver which tracks closely with the regime’s efforts to bolster other fascist parties in the so-called West: in countries like France, Germany, and throughout Latin America.”
Criticism and Reprisal in the Corporate Trumpenreich
“So Paramount rolled over even though they would have won on the merits in court; meaning they more or less just gave Trump sixteen million dollars and a key political win (after all, he can now say “if I’m lying that the media is out to get me, why do they all keep settling with me?”) to just bribe him, and thereby get the FCC to approve their merger. Colbert is right, it’s an obvious bribe, and whether or not Trump directly had a hand in the network’s decision not to renew his contract, criticism of the President and his corrupt enablers in the US establishment is now resulting in a reprisal by a media company already collaborating with a fascist would-be dictator.”
Protecting the Complicit in Mass Deportations
“If you know what you’re doing is illegal, because you’re a lawyer, “I was just following orders” has a pretty poor track record as an excuse in court. So you can understand why it might behoove immigration judges, who literally work for Trump’s executive branch, not the judiciary, to hide the names of government attorneys doing the legal legwork for a fascist ethnic-cleansing project; a project that probably represents a real as fuck crime against humanity if several international scholars are to be believed. This isn’t about protecting ICE attorneys, it’s about protecting folks complicit in criminal atrocities.”
Gestapo Kidnappings and Unworthy Victims
“Migrant sex workers are migrants. Migrant sex workers are also workers. Most importantly, migrant sex workers are human beings. That makes the issue of Gestapo kidnappings targeting migrant sex workers a labor issue, a civil rights issue, and a human rights issue all rolled up into one horrifying fascist jelly roll of oppression. Which of course then brings us to the long term costs of ignoring carceral violence, oppression, and civil rights violations of sex workers in the first place; because right now those consequences are unfolding all around us in the form of a Gestapo police state and a slow-motion ethnic cleansing project in America.”
ICE Hides Trans Migrants in Custody
“Context is crucial here as this decision to cease tracking trans inmates in the migrant carceral complex, comes at the same time the Trump regime is arguing that trans people don’t exist, working to deny trans medical care nationally, and erasing evidence of trans people from public life and official government websites. Please remember this is a regime that already had to be taken to court multiple times to force them to stop housing trans woman inmates with male prisoners in the regular carceral system, despite clear and unambiguous evidence that doing so exposed trans inmates to discrimination, violence, and sexual assault.”
– Nina Illingworth
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