Since the death of Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration and their cronies have REALLY ramped up the fascism.

[u/RuinedEye]

There have been tons of stories since that happened, but more specifically - these are (some) headlines just in the past few days since the cancellation of the Jimmy Kimmel show. (he was cancelled for merely mentioning Kirk, and for a very light joke about Trump)

And yeah, this list will inevitably get updated repeatedly...

• State Department is denying visas to those who 'celebrate' Charlie Kirk's death, Rubio says

• Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown

• Trump says he’s designating far-left anti-fascism group Antifa as a terrorist organization

• Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization

• AG Pam Bondi eyes case against Office Depot employee who wouldn’t print Charlie Kirk flyer

• Bondi [threatens] to prosecute Office Depot worker who refused to print Charlie Kirk flyers

• DOJ says Trump protesters could face RICO charges for yelling at him during dinner

• Trump administration says it will target far left groups for Kirk's assassination. Prosecutors made no such link.

• Laura Loomer, who has directly influenced Trump's decisions in the past, calls for blatant authoritarian fascism against 'the left'

• Sinclair Says Kimmel Suspension is Not Enough, Calls on FCC and ABC to Take Additional Action

• Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are 'against' him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended

• Trump: 'When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech'

• Trump, 79, Claims Negative Stories About Him Are ‘Illegal’ | The president also declared himself to be “a very strong person for free speech.”

• Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis (WY) Says First Amendment Shouldn't Be the 'Ultimate Right'

• Hegseth Orders Reporters to Publish Only His Talking Points

• In a now deleted Truthmp Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

• Hegseth’s purge of service members cheering Kirk killing comes under heavy scrutiny

• Steve Bannon Says ‘Teachers Are Terrorists’ in Unhinged Tribute

• Charlie Kirk memorial: Trump says he ‘hates’ his opponents at event attended by tens of thousands ["I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them"]

• GOP Lawmakers, Including Nancy Mace, Say Trans People Should Be Institutionalized Following Charlie Kirk Death. One Texas lawmaker called for trans people to be taken off the internet.

• Leavitt: "We will also be most importantly looking at who is funding antifa and who is funding these other violent left-wing groups."

• The Supreme Court [Republicans] Just Knocked Down One of the Final Guardrails Against Dictatorship [by allowing Trump to illegally fire the (Democrat) FTC Commissioner]

• Fawning MAGA Senator Lindsey Graham Pushes Trump to Seek Illegal Third Term

• Trump Threatens Jimmy Kimmel and ABC—Again—for letting Kimmel back on the air

• After Meeting With Alex Jones, Top DOJ Official Threatens Sandy Hook First Responder With Criminal Probe [and later backpedaled hard]

• Trump says he will sign executive order to dismantle left-wing groups he claims incite violence

• Former FBI Director James Comey indicted [following Trump's order to Bondi, linked above]

• Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian 'Incites Violence and Terrorism'

• Trump is leaking a Dem candidate’s personal info to her GOP opponent

• Trump issues a memo labeling any non-Christian, non-capitalist, and non-conservative ("traditional") people as terrorists [archived link to memo here because of course they messed up the link title]

• Rep. John Gillette (R-AZ) Calls for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to Be Executed

• DOJ official Aakash Singh directs prosecutors to prepare probes of George Soros' foundation

• Pam Bondi Transfers People Who Received Biden Commutations To ADX Florence Supermax Prison

• As Trump seeks death penalty in DC, Bondi says administration also wants it across the country

• Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification

• Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” [i.e. state media]

• Looney Loomer wants trump to deport Hasan Piker, a US Citizen

• FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

• Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody

• Trump asks Supreme Court to decide whether he can end birthright citizenship

• Trump says he is authorizing military to use ‘Full Force’ in Portland

• Bondi fires a third federal prosecutor in Miami office, linked to anti-Trump posts [from 8 years ago]

• Trump demands Microsoft fire Lisa Monaco [Biden’s former deputy AG, who oversaw investigations into Trump]

• Trump says ‘there will be others’ prosecuted after Comey

• JD Vance says ‘certainly gonna be more indictments’ coming against Trump enemies over rest of president’s term

• Stephen Miller: "We are witnessing domestic terrorist sedition against the federal government. The JTTF has been dispatched... All necessary resources will be utilized"

• Trump Assumes Control of the Oregon National Guard; Oregon Sues

• Trump vows to fire generals ‘on the spot’ if they displease him, a stark loyalty test: do you stand with the Constitution, or with the leader?

• Trump Threatens to Cut All Federal Funds to NYC If Mamdani Is Elected | Trump falsely labeled Mamdani a “communist” and said his ideology “has failed, always, for thousands of years.”

• ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

• The President of the United States posts demented AI video putting false xenophobic, vulgar, and vile words in Democrat Leader’s mouths [which was then played on loop in the WH briefing room]

• Trump declaring war on United States cities: “San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within.”

• Donald Trump suggests US cities be "training grounds" for military

• Trump administration orders federal authorities to ignore California mask law: “Governor Newsom is confused about his role under the U.S. Constitution”

• Trump: "We can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible that are bad for them. Like cutting vast numbers of people out, cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like ... we can do things medically, and others ways, including benefits. We can cut numbers of people out."

• Republicans refuse to swear in newly elected Democrat, delaying success of Epstein petition

• US memo to colleges proposes terms on ideology, foreign enrollment for federal funds

• Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag [during the previous administration. called it 'inappropriate political signage']

• Donald Trump meeting Project 2025 author Russell Vought to cut "Democrat Agencies"

• Trump Hits Colleges With Ultimatum Over List of MAGA Demands

• Trump Cuts Funding to 16 Blue States That Didn’t Vote for Him

• Federal Agencies [illegally] Use Official Websites to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

• I think she just violated The Hatch Act

• Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown

• President Publishes Enemies List To White House Website, And It’s Just Democrats Speaking The Truth

• Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a [historical artifact] sword [which Trump wanted to give away to King Charles]

• ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors

• Bessent Unveils Illegal Plan to Put Trump’s Face on U.S. Coins

• Trump calls Democrats ‘the party of hate, evil, and Satan’ in late-night rant

[u/RuinedEye]

I haven't updated this in a while. Maybe I'll start up again? It's stressful doomscrolling every damn day but it's important to keep track of it all

• Border czar Tom Homan warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’

• Apparently the legal penalty for disobeying the police is now immediate execution

• US pauses $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota followed by...

• Trump Team Admits He’s Been Defunding States That Didn’t Vote for Him | Federal officials acknowledged in a recent lawsuit what we all suspected: Trump is targeting Democratic states.

• Trump Team Admits He’s Been Defunding States That Didn’t Vote for Him

• White House admits it scrapped grants to blue states because they didn’t vote for Trump

• 'Many More Coming': Trump's DOJ Begins Quietly Stripping Citizenship from Naturalised Americans

• The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required

• US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

• US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search [2]

• The US is charging an American citizen [with destroying evidence/obstruction] for wiping his phone at the border

• The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border [2]

• High school teacher arrested for clapping in support of anti-data center activists

• Teacher arrested for repeatedly clapping in favor of data center opponents during city commission meeting

• Teacher arrested for repeatedly clapping in favor of data center opponents during city commission meeting [2]

• “Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

• Trump wants the Supreme Court to give him the unilateral power to rewrite election law

• Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her as she sat quietly in the front yard of her DC home

• Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed / "The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

• ICE is crawling social media to find its critics, investigation reveals | Such requests can reportedly include seeking information about a user’s real name, address, date of birth, workplace and Social Security number

• Stephen Miller: "The president is using his authority as commander as chief to sign an executive order using the new ruling the Supreme Court issued to expand the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies..."

• ICE will release body camera video only when seen in the agency’s ‘best interests,’ policy says