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Elon Musk made the Nazi salute twice at Trump's inauguration.

Musk bought Twitter to reinstate Nazis. He supports the German fascist party AfD. He has spread antisemitic "replacement" rhetoric.

Yet the ADL is making excuses for him because, like them, he supports the genocide of Palestinians.

Unsurprisingly, fascism looks a bit different this time around than it did a century ago. But it already has its Henry Ford, its autocrats, its scapegoats against whom to direct anger, its sacrificial violence.

We should have no illusions about what we're up against.

https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence

While some wring their hands about the return of Donald Trump, others are getting organized to resist and defend each other.

Read reports from Festivals of Resistance that drew hundreds of people to dozens of events around the United States this past weekend.

https://crimethinc.com/festivals2025

We can do this!🏴

Donald Trump is threatening to begin his second presidency with a new round of gratuitous violence targeting undocumented families.

In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts and demonstrations and barricades.

There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other.

https://crimethinc.com/ICEage

Yesterday, the Day of the Forest Defender, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. From a statement:

"The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable."

"Viva Tortuguita And All Land Defenders."

In 2017, demonstrators blockaded six of the fourteen security checkpoints around the inaugural parade for several hours. Some locked themselves to the fences meant to keep them out.

You can read our live updates from the day here, in reverse chronological order:

https://crimethinc.com/j20live

Shortly before Trump's inaugural parade in 2017, hundreds of people gathered for an anti-capitalist, anti-fascist march. This was the notorious J20 black bloc, which left wreckage in its wake.

Though it ended in mass arrests, the police lost control of the streets for the rest of the day.

The suit-and-tie fascist Richard Spencer had showed up to the 2017 presidential inauguration, hoping that Trump's success would bring fascism to power. When a participant in the black bloc punched Spencer, the punch became world-famous, reassuring millions that they would not be alone fighting fascism.