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A Review of the American Left Through Its Websites

I am going to lose my mind. I’m living through fascism and I’m watching everybody just live. And I do that, too. I put it out of my mind sometimes. But when is the time when people get serious about this stuff? When is it that people really think hard, really try to figure out a way past this nightmare of oppression?

After a long session screaming about the left (which you all deserved, I do not apologize), an idea popped into my head to look at the websites that represent some major tendencies on the left and see how they were handling this moment. Because if my issue here is that the left is effectively ignoring fascism, basically hoping that someone else is going to save them, then I should try and substantiate that. This is just a blog post, not a research project, so I’m going to basically take a look at their websites, check out a few articles, and give you my general impression.

Did I miss your website? Tell me about it! I’m not gonna update this list, but I am still starving for outlets which might actually give half a shit about the collapse of this government into outright tyranny.

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Noticing Fascism

I saw a very recent tweet on Bluesky by Eli Valley, which goes: “This is the culmination of a longstanding demonization campaign against a Jewish professor—advanced almost a year ago by AIPAC Congressman Ritchie Torres, who shared a graphic produced by his friends at the fascist Canary Mission harassment group:” and then he links a picture. Here’s a link to the tweet. It’s not the link or the image I want to talk about, though, or even the situation. It’s the tweet itself.

It’s not like that. I’m pretty sure that I know what you’re thinking now and that’s not what I mean. I’ve got no issue with Valley’s sentiment or even his message. It’s more that it picks at something that I want to talk about.

“AIPAC Congressman Ritchie Torres”. “fascist Canary Mission harassment group”. That’s what I want to talk about.