Great local reporting here. Because this is America, fascism will be a largely decentralized phenomenon, rooted in towns and counties. But also tied together through national media, and rooted in one of our two national political parties. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/4...
When we set out to look at far-right extremism in Upstate New York, we had a few basic questions. First, we wanted to know the status of the far-right movement here. What do people believe in? What gr...
I SOOO wish that Biden and Dems had plowed voting legislation through in that first year. Make national voting: 1) a paid national holiday 2) ranked choice 3) mandatory Such a lost opportunity to combat these insane times.
it's weird they don't mention that mizrahi was arrested for bringing a loaded weapon to that boston nazi free speech rally in 2017
Yeah, it's said that the farther up in New York you go, the more it becomes the south. Definitely scares me, since part of me knows I can't afford the city forever and need a backup plan, but moving upstate is a huge risk in so many ways... the potential for fascism also doesn't help.
Also, as Sinclair Lewis said, wrapped in the flag and carrying a Cross.
These are the guys that make you say the names of some cereals while they beat on you as initiation, right?
I love how this article just states known facts instead of carefully couching them in quotes or “people say”-type distancing. The NYT could learn a lesson from this type of plainspoken news writing.
Ohio's pretty bad as well.
You see it here in California too. Granted, far less frequently than I saw it in Florida, but it's more than you would think. The division has no borders. It's just everywhere.
Correction: Both political parties. Dems aren't doing shit to get literal J6 fascists out of government.
A little context given the "rural" in the headline. The first few towns noted in the article are all suburbs of the state capital or industrial towns. Not remote farming communities, but decent sized towns in well-populated areas trending towards suburban sprawl.