Apr 21, 2026 · 21 min · 19 segments
Repression of protest has ramped up in the U.S., but everything that's happening now began with the backlash to the Standing Rock protest back in 2016. In today's episode we look at the connections…
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Amy WesterveltHostA small fringe is stuck in the past.
They oppose growth, expansion, and new infrastructure.
They're against new jobs, higher living standards.
Trump, the president with the most fossil fuel money backing of any president ever, is not so subtle.
What they've done to the country is just incredible.
The, the environmentalists, I mean, they are terrorists.
They were terrorists.
I call them the environmental terrorists.
Repression of dissent is a key marker of fascism, as is the targeting of an internal enemy, which for the Trump administration includes climate activists, the nebulous catch-all Antifa, and of course, immigrants.
Breaking into people's cars and homes in scenes that evoke Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.
What is happening right now in America is evil, and it is completely illegal.
We're even hearing about it from folks who helped elect Trump in the first place.
You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up.
Are we really gonna be the, the Gestapo? "Where's your papers?" Is that what we've come to?
The immigration enforcement apparatus is being used to punish non-citizens who engage in protest of any kind, for example.
Arresting and threatening to deport non-citizen students and faculty for engaging in local political protest is a practice we associate with authoritarian regimes.
For the record, the courts have ruled over and over again that non-citizens do have the right to free speech.
And of course, we laid out in our season, The Real Free Speech Threat, how the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the US war on terror led very quickly to an expanded definition of terrorist, which led to the targeting of environmental and animal rights activists, not just in the US, but everywhere.
[somber music] We don't have a globally agreed definition of terrorism.
As the ash was sm- smoldering at, as the Twin Towers had fallen, Security Council meets, and in that first month, they create a new resolution, UN Security Council Resolution 1373.
We have adopted a very ambitious, comprehensive strategy to fight terrorism in all its forms throughout the world.
The meeting is adjourned.
Requires them to legislate against terrorism.
A small fringe is stuck in the past.
They oppose growth, expansion, and new infrastructure.
They're against new jobs, higher living standards.
Trump, the president with the most fossil fuel money backing of any president ever, is not so subtle.
What they've done to the country is just incredible.
The, the environmentalists, I mean, they are terrorists.
They were terrorists.
I call them the environmental terrorists.
Repression of dissent is a key marker of fascism, as is the targeting of an internal enemy, which for the Trump administration includes climate activists, the nebulous catch-all Antifa, and of course, immigrants.
Breaking into people's cars and homes in scenes that evoke Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia.
What is happening right now in America is evil, and it is completely illegal.
We're even hearing about it from folks who helped elect Trump in the first place.
You don't want militarized people in the streets just roaming around, snatching people up.
Are we really gonna be the, the Gestapo? "Where's your papers?" Is that what we've come to?
The immigration enforcement apparatus is being used to punish non-citizens who engage in protest of any kind, for example.
Arresting and threatening to deport non-citizen students and faculty for engaging in local political protest is a practice we associate with authoritarian regimes.
For the record, the courts have ruled over and over again that non-citizens do have the right to free speech.
And of course, we laid out in our season, The Real Free Speech Threat, how the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the US war on terror led very quickly to an expanded definition of terrorist, which led to the targeting of environmental and animal rights activists, not just in the US, but everywhere.
[somber music] We don't have a globally agreed definition of terrorism.
As the ash was sm- smoldering at, as the Twin Towers had fallen, Security Council meets, and in that first month, they create a new resolution, UN Security Council Resolution 1373.
We have adopted a very ambitious, comprehensive strategy to fight terrorism in all its forms throughout the world.
The meeting is adjourned.
Requires them to legislate against terrorism.
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