“The right-wing populist party Motorists for Themselves, part of the Patriots for Europe group, has made significant gains, according to new polling data published by the Median agency.”

“This rise in the polls follows the Motorists' remarkable performance in the European Parliament elections in June. They ran in coalition with the right-wing Oath party and came third with 10.26% of the vote, securing two seats in the European Parliament.”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/new-polls-show-growing-support-for-czechias-populist-motorists-party/

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“Many postmortems of last week’s election have tried to preserve the notion that Trump’s voter’s did not endorse him and his vision – that they know not what they do. This is dishonest, and a bit patronizing toward Trump’s supporters.

Trump’s voters, for the most part, know exactly what he is, and what voting for him means. They are not ignorant or mistaken about him. They endorse him and what he is.”

Also, ‘your body, my choice’ is a rape threat, plain and simple, and should be dealt with as such.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/your-body-my-choice-maga-men

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“With only two months left until Donald Trump returns to the White House, the president-elect and convicted felon has been waging lawfare by a flurry of lawsuits against media companies and publishers that have been critical of him.”

“On Thursday, Columbia Journalism Review revealed that just days before the presidential election, Trump’s lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik issued a letter to the New York Times and Penguin Random House that demanded $10bn in damages over articles critical of Trump.”

All that both sides sure worked out great, huh?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-sues-media-outlets-bias

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“Since August there has been a concerted effort to legitimise the violence of the summer. We show how it has happened.”

"In late July and early August, mobs across the country descended on sites of temporary migrant accommodation – some of which were subjected to vandalism and attempted arson – and fought with police, chanted racist slogans, targeted mosques and engaged in bouts of mindless destruction and looting.”

As expected, it got framed as 'concerned citizens’ venting their ‘legitimate anger’ against 'disconnected elites’. Familiar, no?

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/14/deflecting-minimising-and-justifying-three-months-on-from-the-race-riots/

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"HOPE not hate can reveal the location of plots of land in Wales owned by the Woodlander Initiative, a land-buying scheme with links to Patriotic Alternative, the UK’s largest fascist group.”

“The scheme is spearheaded by Simon Birkett (AKA Woodlander), a tattoo artist with a past in the National Front, the British National Party (BNP) and the Conservative Party. From his ‘off-grid’ cabin near Warminster, Wiltshire, Birkett has built an online following among the far right via his YouTube and Telegram channels and guest appearances on various fascist streams.”

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2024/11/15/the-woodlander-initiative-far-right-land-buying-scheme-exposed/

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This photo, taken by Go Nakamura for Reuters, feels almost like a Renaissance painting, and serves as a reminder that you can cover Trump without showing his fucking mug all the time.

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“[…], we noticed a very different attitude among our male peers. Subtle high-fives were exchanged and remarks about the impending success of the next four years were whispered around. It didn’t make much sense. We live in a mostly liberal town in the Hudson Valley where Harris-Walz signs were posted outside of most of our friends’ houses. This is not to say that families with dissenting opinions don’t live in our town. But the boys that were the most vocal in their enthusiasm about the election results have progressive parents just like ours.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/the-boys-in-our-liberal-school-are-different-now-that-trump-has-won

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“The complaint concerns two Hungarian lawmakers who are key members of the country’s ruling Fidesz party, Kinga Gál and Ernő Schaller-Baross; the Alternative für Deutschland MEP Maximilian Krah, who stood down as his party’s lead candidate after saying the SS were “not all criminals”; a former mayor in Italy’s far-right League party, Susanna Ceccardi; and a leading figure in Austria’s anti-migrant, anti-Islam Freedom party, Harald Vilimsky.”

Organised, affiliated fuckers, attending a Trump-headlined NYYRC gala dinner in New York.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/16/call-for-investigation-into-far-right-eu-politicians-flights-to-trump-gala

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“Republicans have spent at least $215 million on network ads that paint trans people as a menace to society. The ads have become a rallying cry for a number of candidates, including Trump, who has made ‘Kamala is for they/them’ a signature phrase. But several of those pictured in the ads say their images were taken without their permission and their stories misconstrued.”

The story of Gabrielle Ludwig, a trans woman and registered Republican, who suddenly found herself, without her permission, as the face of Republican attack ads framing her as a threat to women.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/11/05/election-trans-sports-trump-campaign/

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