The Content Regime Cranks Out More Content

People on social media platforms that are not controlled by fascist-boosting algorithms – Bluesky, namely – are becoming more conscious of the Trump regime's content obsession, and I think that's a good thing.

In the 48 hours since I published the BFT blog post on the regime kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro strictly for social media content purposes, folks on Bluesky have tagged me with other egregious examples of regime officials taking action – harnessing the power and resources of the federal government – in order to make cool social media posts meant to impress their black-hearted supporters and intimidate their pro-democracy opponents.

Kristi Noem, replete with even longer extensions and even more pancake makeup, stormed into Minneapolis on Tuesday with 20,000 henchmen from Homeland Security because a few daycare facilities in the city had possibly violated Medicare funding rules. This has become a matter of national import on the X platform formerly known as Twitter, where chinless boys who ask Elon Musk's bot to create hot nazi ladies give orders to Noem and Gregory Bovino and other regime officials who love to scroll and scroll and scroll and carry out the wishes of fundamentally unlovable human beings.

Noem and her masked secret police took hours to set up a movie trailer-style shot of the regime forces in action against Minnesotans just living their lives, unaware that they have been besieged by malevolent foreign forces in the form of Somali families trying to make a living in the world's richest nation.

The point of this little excursion was not to liberate Minneapolis from the foreign scourge of daycare workers, but to create content – videos in this case – of an unstoppable paramilitary force barging into an opposition stronghold and arresting whoever they want because they can do that with Brett Kavanaugh's blessing.

It's not just regular folks who are starting to notice we're being ruled by a group of dopamine-addicted content creators trying to make their unreality our reality. Elected Democrats are (finally) starting to catch on, it seems. That includes U.S. Senator Tina Smith and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who called Noem's content-centric, fascistic stunt "bafoonery" on the deepfake-porn and CSAM website formerly known as Twitter.

Then there's Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for civil rights at the Trump's personal law firm known as DOJ, bemoaning her lack of engagement on the X platform. Regime officials like Dhillon see it as their job to be online constantly, spreading lies and misinformation – including the absurdist right-wing unreality in which white men are victimized by DEI initiative – on Elon Musk's child sexual abuse material platform.

None of this is to dismiss the real and lasting harm regime forces are doing in communities across the United States. They are ruining lives and tearing apart families and instilling pulsating fear in the hearts of the country's most vulnerable people. But they're not doing this with any hope that they will create the white supremacist ethnostate they daydream about; otherwise they would be taking an entirely different and far more terrifying and deadly approach. That's not to say that the regime's attack on immigrant communities hasn't already been deadly. On Wednesday in Minneapolis, an ICE agent shot and killed a woman at point blank range. When the content creation involves loaded guns and men recruited from right-wing circles, it can turn bloody.

They take these actions for content purposes because they know reality in this third decade of the 21st century is formed entirely online, within the internet-connected machines we carry around and stare at all day every day. Think of it as hypnotism via constant content: They need you to believe that their unreality – forged through bad faith interpretations of actual reality – is the only thing that exists. View their actions and statement through this lens and I think you'll see more clearly that they are not an unbeatable Leviathan.

Follow Denny Carter on BlueSky at @dennycarter.bsky.social