#ACLU took out a full-page ad in the #NYT
Time to say we are not taking any of it, back the fuck up !!

#TrumpAdministration #election2024 #Fascism #Resistance

"And more alarming: Asked for good ways to run a country, 42 percent of those 18 to 35 globally believe the answer is 'army rule' and 32 percent of that age group believe it’s 'leaders who do not bother with parliaments or elections.'”

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/13

"An average of 86 percent of the global respondents said it is important to them to live in a country that is democratically governed, yet only 80 percent of Americans did. That put America in the bottom five of thirty countries, below Turkey, China, India, Egypt and Mexico, to name just a few.

Just 57 percent of 18- to 35-year-olds said democracy is preferable to any other form of government; 71 percent of older respondents said the same."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/12

And a Jewish American voice, Steven Beschloss:

"Now we have more evidence that the appeal of authoritarianism is on the rise, in America as well as globally."

He cites a poll last year by Open Society Foundations polling 36,000 people in 30 countries, which finds commitment to democracy strong but waning globally.

Two key findings that bode ominously for the future of democracy in America:

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/11

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/what-i-wont-get-over-and-some-of

"This includes a majority of white men and white women. Without that bloc, Trump never comes close to being President. This bloc also includes margins of Latino, Black and Asian men. The two groups that understood the assignment were 90% of Black and Jewish women who voted for Harris. A majority of Black men also came through. The two religious groups that voted for Harris were Jews and Muslims, although many defected from Muslim and Arab communities due to the Gaza war."

#Trump #fascism
/10

From Wajahat Ali, son of Pakistani immigrants:

"We knew exactly what we were getting. And despite everything he’s done, millions of Americans would rather have a cruel, aging vulgarian than a competent Black woman become President. This is more a revelation of their lack of character than anything else. They chose to vote for him. No one forced them to do it."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/9

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/america-shit-in-its-milk-but-the

And from Black historian Jemar Tisby:

"I find most of the postmortem pontificating about why Democrats lost the presidential election unpersuasive.

The reason, not the only one but a major one, Democrats lost the presidential election is disinformation and misinformation super-charged by billionaires and Russia through a network of right-wing media outlets and institutions."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/8

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-democrats-lost-the-2024-presidential

"He will be president again because he, and perhaps he alone, saw us for how truly base, depraved, and uninformed we are as a country. Trump is not a root cause of our ills. He did not create the conditions that allowed him to rise. He is, and always has been, a mirror. He is how America sees itself."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/7

"America did this. America, through the process of a free and fair election, demanded this. America, as an idea, concept, and institution, wanted this. And America, as a collective, deserves to get what it wants. ...

Now that he is here, we deserve our fate, because the most fundamental truth about Trump’s reelection is that Trump was right about us."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/6

Another piece of eloquent testimony from a brilliant Black man that won't be taken seriously by lots of us as we engage in the futile game-playing of the circular firing squad:

"America deserves everything it is about to get. ...

The conversations about who is to blame, the hand-wringing about who showed up and who failed the moment are largely academic and pointless."

~ Elie Mystal

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/5

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-is-america-not-a-fluke/

"The fact is, is that they did everything that a campaign can do and more. But we as a country really have a lot of soul searching to do.”

But what Black people have to say isn't really important to a lot of us, right? Never has been. Never has been taken as seriously in the opinion pages of our major media outlets as the verbiage of any white person anywhere. Right? And it's never about racism or misogyny even when it's always about them.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/4

"The unfortunate reality is that this country is still steeped in racism, sexism and misogyny. I am personally proud of her, and I know that so many others are the same. We appreciate her tenacity, her focus, her decency and how she handled herself throughout this campaign. And I don’t want to hear anybody saying that they should have done something different, she should have been running longer."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/3

A large percentage of those gleefully playing this blame game right now, including here on my feed, are white men, young white men at that.

Here's the response of a young Black leader, Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott, to these folks:

"It is really on my heart this morning to say that as a man, but more importantly as a Black man, that this country does not deserve Black women or Black people, but specifically Black women."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/2

It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it? And Black women in particular. That's what's going on right now, of course, in the orgy of recrimination mounted by those blaming Democrats, and a Black woman, Kamala Harris, for the triumph of fascism in the recent election. Blaming Democrats for the free choice of nearly half of our citizens to usher in fascism by electing Trump president….

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/1

https://www.wonkette.com/p/democratic-state-leaders-prepare?

It's hard to know whether these aren't just troll accounts, but you cannot be opposed to #fascism and embrace it as well.

#Skwawkbox | Scratch a #liberal – #Harris supporters turn fascist at Arab-Americans, Hispanic community over Trump win

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/10/scratch-a-liberal-harris-supporters-turn-fascist-at-arab-americans-hispanic-community-over-trump-win/

Video: “Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-gas-oil-and-trouble-in-the-levant/5362955

There is an unspoken "Big Money Agenda". Netanyahu's objective is not only to exclude Palestinians from their homeland, it consists in confiscating Palestine's multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves…

#BloodMoney #Gaza #GasReserves #BigMoneyAgenda #Netanyahu #Fascism #Resources #MassMurder #EthnicCleansing

Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims support terrorism.
Noah Hurowitz
November 10 2024

"Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire for revenge.

"On the campaign trail, he joked about being a #dictator on 'day one' in office, pledged to jail #journalists, and threatened to retaliate against political foes who he felt had wronged him.
Now, just days after he secured a second term in the White House, Congress is already moving to hand a resurgent #Trump administration a powerful cudgel that it could wield against ideological opponents in #CivilSociety.

"Up for a fast-track vote next week in the House of representatives, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act, also known as #HR9495, would grant the secretary of Treasury Department unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a 'terrorist supporting organization.'"

https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/

#SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists #FreePalestine #Activists
#NoDAPL #Section25 #Fascism #Greenpeace #Project2025
#Blackwater #ErikPrince
#CriminalizingDissent
#CrackdownOnProtests
#AntiProtestLaws
#Genocide #ClimateActivists
#ErikPrinceColonialism
#CorporateFascism #CorporateColonialism
#ClimateProtestors #CharacteristicsOfFascism

Normally I don't share Left Laser, because Bob is a bloody Maoist, but for this I make an exception. Strange days, strange exceptions. 😉

Left Laser: *How Zionist hooligans provoked chaos in Amsterdam*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPFJD3L16k

#Amsterdam #repression #Zionism #fascism #Haccabi #TelAviv #Israel #Halsema #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine

Probably shared by many, but another great video by @owenpeterjones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pTFovHpft5M

I've studied #journalism and what now is happening (worldwide, not only .nl) is completely the opposite what journalists were trained for. What is going on!? I'm not a conspiracy person, but why does that happen all at once? Why exactly days after the re-election of #Trump? Why while Israel is finishing their ethnic cleansing of North-Gaza? Is this all related or just by accident? I don't know what to think anymore. Only that the capitalist #media overlords are completely claiming their influence now and that many journalists are complicit in this road to an authoritarian clusterfuck!

#Amsterdam #repression #Zionism #fascism #Haccabi #Israel #policeViolence #ManufacturedConsent #Halsema

The west deserves to be flooded by immigrants.

#usa #trump #west #Palestine #immigration #europe #fascism #xenophobia

Eat your heart out, Rupert.

Analysis: "Musk Just Became One of the Most Powerful Men in the World"

His "bet pays off, & he’s not done playing. He's made himself a major force in politics."

America PAC will "begin to prepare for 2026’s midterms, judicial contests, & other local races."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/elon-musk-donald-trump-win/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/09/elon-musk-trump-administration

Wtf will it take for so-called progressives & leftists to ditch X?

#Musk #Trump #USElection #Fascism #Project2025 .

Ik... Ik had eigenlijk nooit verwacht dat ik uiteindelijk m'n heil bij een Bender video moest zoeken om objectieve verslaggeving te krijgen.

Translation: "I... I never actually expected that I would eventually have to turn to a Bender video to get objective reporting."

Hilarious shenanigans from the citizens of a rogue state that thinks they can treat everyone like they treat Palestinians. And the betrayal of the Netherland's own politicians by carrying water for fascists, exposed in 4K.

https://youtu.be/ySHIOYyJ95A #Israel #Fascism #Netherlands #europol

"Somebody will tell me many of those who voted for it didn't know what they were voting for, and I imagine that's true. I have to say, though, that the ignorance and complacency demonstrated by Republicans and their allies is an ignorance and a complacency so vast and unfeeling that it must be taken as interchangeable with malice. …

I'm disinterested in the usual circular firing squad."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
/3

"Everything they did was a shitshow and all of it was washed in threats of brutality and malicious lies and promises of retribution and revenge and destruction, none of it offered any solutions that didn't involve hurting lots of people, all its proponents went out of their way to disparage any fine aspiration or principal that anybody, including themselves, has ever claimed to hold. Their standard bearer is a criminal and a rapist. And he won."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
/2

"Fascism is, it turns out, very popular. It won on Tuesday, seemingly without even having to try. The side that won barely campaigned."

~ A.R. Moxon

But the problem, let's remind ourselves, is the Democratic party. The problem is not the voters who, told that one party will usher in fascism, went right ahead and voted for that party — choosing to usher in fascism.

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
/1

https://www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-the-dark/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

So my partner posted a quote by Hannah Arendt on Facebook: "The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."

People have been blocked from seeing it.

Zuckerberg is as much of a fascist stooge as Musk. Do he not look to Putin's Russia and see how the oligarchs were treated there? Does Zuckerberg honestly believe that the Trumps and Musk won't steal his empire from him? If he does, he's a fool.

#FaceBook #Fascism #Trump

“If you’ve been fighting for Covid mitigations for the last five years - you more than likely saw this coming. It was painfully obvious when the great unmasking occurred that many people on BOTH sides of the aisle didn’t care about the “vulnerable”. Didn’t care about community or protecting their neighbours. Didn’t care about anything other than their own ability to go to brunch, travel, socialize and get ‘back to normal.’

I’m not saying people should have shuttered inside their homes forever. None of us are. But they should have kept masking. There was no reason to stop. Respirators are highly effective at stopping the spread of Covid. The vast majority of people CAN wear them. We have mask blocs all over the world to provide masks to people who can’t afford them. It’s a simple thing you can do to protect yourself and - perhaps more importantly - protect others.”

If you missed my latest - it’s about the U.S. election, disability rights, eugenics, fascism and how we got to where we are. Perhaps more importantly - it’s about what comes next.

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/how-did-we-get-here-and-what-comes

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans #fascism #election2024

A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.

It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.

#fascism #cruelty #USA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland,_California._Kimiko_Kitagaki,_young_evacuee_guarding_the_family_baggage_prior_to_departure_._._._-_NARA_-_537890.jpg

I've had this #cartoon in my files for decades. It's no longer a cartoon but the reality many Americans voted for.
#election #politics #fascism #pollution #press #news #trump #corporatism

Another great success for #Biden's government, after helping the #genocide of #Palestinians by #Israel in #Gaza:

Defend democracy!
(some other day, maybe, or never)

4 years were not enough for his hand picked AG, Garland, to bring the fascist insurrectionist to justice. But "defend democracy" was on the ballot.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/special-counsel-jack-smith-seeks-pause-trumps-election-interference-cr-rcna179335

#USpol #fascism

"Aside from the horrific reality of Trump 2.0, the atrocities continue in the Middle East, Spain is drowning and the Crisafulli LNP Queensland Government is preparing to get “tough on crime” by locking up children as young as ten (which is already happening in the NT). Oh, and in case you missed it, overturning abortion is also back on the agenda up there."
#auspol #USA #election2024 #Harris #KamalaHarris #Trump #DonnieDiaper #ElonMusk #BatshitCrazy #LockHimUp #TrumpCrimeFamily #MAGAlies #Democracy #Fascism #AbolishElectoralCollege
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/trump-won--but-wait-albo-just-got-another-flight-upgrade,19150

📢

Stating the obvious for those who need to hear it:

Sharpen your critical thinking skills and

Never
believe
the
media

Never
Again

#Media #Fascism #USA #Canada

Welp, the #press #normalization of actual #fascism is off to a flying start 🤮

Mass deportation isn't "a huge challenge" that "requires collaboration" - it's literally impossible & trying to do it anyway will be a humanitarian disaster & also utterly destroy the entire US economy.

But sure, just let him say "no price tag" without pointing out that there is one & it's over a trillion excluding the concentration camps. And don't ask about the concentration camps.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-no-price-tag-mass-deportation-plan-rcna179178

Ok. #Trump won.
Quit bitching
& join the Resistance.
What #Resistance, you ask?
Well, do you think the #Italians & the #French went around asking "what Resistance?" in the 1920's as #fascism was spreading across #Europe??

If you can't find it, it means 1 of 2 things:

1) it's so well hidden, you can't find it.
But it's there. Look harder

2) it doesn't exist. Yet.
So build it. Reach out to other resisters. Meet. Discuss. Plan. Prepare.

I've said enough
___

#ResistanceIsNotFutile #StopFascism

#Toolkit: #Protest #safety tips from #Greenpeace

"Protest is a powerful strategy to demand #justice. Greenpeace has been holding and supporting protests around the world for nearly 50 years. Because of this, we’ve received requests and messages asking for advice on protest tactics, digital, and physical security against #militarized #police forces. While we have compiled this from a US point of view where this Greenpeace team is based, we hope some of what is here is helpful beyond the US.

"We are continuously learning, learning from mistakes, learning from each other. The #activists that make up our Greenpeace community, also come from many protest practices and methods, including #Indigenous-led resistance to #FossilFuel #extraction, the #ImmigrantRights movement, the Movement for Black Lives, [#BLM] and others. We wanted to share some of our learnings so that you can join us in protests that demand systemic changes from fighting for #ClimateJustice to dismantling #WhiteSupremacy. We support you and are fighting with you.

"We want to acknowledge that there are many different types of protest tactics, and that this is not an exhaustive list. We also want to acknowledge that communities of color, especially Black communities and other non-Black Indigenous and communities of color, are policed differently than white communities.

"When we protest we have an opportunity to demand the world we need and to understand how the issues we face are interconnected. As we fight for environmental justice, we show up for racial justice, Indigenous rights, immigrant rights, disability rights and more. While this guide focuses on protests, even if you are not able to join us in the street you can support those who are protesting by providing supplies, donating to bail funds, providing rides, having important conversations with your coworkers, friends, families, and neighbors.

"Also, we want to remind you that we are not your lawyers. This is not legal advice, any tips contained here are only to assist you in thinking through how to engage in protest activity. We urge you to connect with your local organizing and legal community for additional support."

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/toolkits/protest-safety-tips-from-greenpeace/

#DigitalFreeSpeech #ACAB #DirectAction #Fascism #CriminalizingDissent #WaterProtectors #ForestDefenders #EnvironmentalActivists #ClimateActivists #ClimateJustice #SilencingDissent #CorporateColonialism #EcoActivists #Censorship #HumanRightsViolations #Article20 #RightToProtest #SlowMarch #BigOilAndGas #SLAPPs

And how much economic damage is from climate change and pollution from #FossilFuels? #BigOil is the real criminal here!

#ClimateProtesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves

By Kara Fox, CNN
September 14, 2024

London CNN — "As #RightWing rioters attacked communities with #racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old #ClimateActivist #CressieGethin sat in a prison cell.

"Her crime? Organizing a disruptive protest against new government-granted licenses to drill for oil — a planet-heating #FossilFuel — in the #NorthSea.

"In late July, a London court found #Gethin and four other members of the #JustStopOil activist group guilty of 'conspiring intentionally to cause a #PublicNuisance,' after recruiting protesters to climb structures along the M25 — a major ring road around London — bringing traffic to a standstill in parts over four days in November 2022.

"Prosecutors alleged that the protests, organized over a #ZoomCall, disrupted more than 700,000 drivers, caused economic damage of over £760,000 ($980,000) and racked up £1 million ($1.3m) in policing costs.

"Now Gethin and three others — Louise Lancaster, #DanielShaw and #LuciaWhittakerDeAbreu, who planned the disruption on the call — are serving four-year jail terms, while Just Stop Oil co-founder #RogerHallam was given five years. All are appealing.

"The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for #nonviolent protest and were delivered under two new controversial laws that supercharged #policing powers to crack down on disruptive protests, even when they are peaceful.

"They place the act of planning a 'public nuisance' event, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, on a similar footing as #ViolentCrimes like robbery, for which punishments range from community service to 12 years’ jail, or rape, which is four to 19 years.

"The judge — who in court referred to the activists as '#extremists' — justified the long jail terms because all five activists had previously been convicted of one or more offenses in relation to direct action protest. Each were on bail for another set of proceedings when the Zoom call took place. He also noted people missed important doctor’s visits and funerals because of the protest.

"But activists like Gethin say their demonstrations are proportionate to the problem at hand — a rapidly warming world that threatens to transform life as we know it, through deadly #ExtremeWeather events and by pushing #ecosystems to their brinks. They are now battling the bolstered powers of the #police and courts to get their point across.

“'A very harsh sentence like this doesn’t make sense morally or legally — but it does make sense politically,' Gethin told CNN in a handwritten letter from HMP Bronzefield, a women’s prison just south of London’s Heathrow Airport.

"The laws have drawn criticism from the UN’s special rapporteur on #EnvironmentalDefenders, #MichaelForst, who said not only do they criminalize peaceful protest, but they are being enforced in 'punitive and repressive' ways."

Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/14/climate/uk-climate-protests-policing-laws-prison-intl/index.html

#BigOilAndGas #ClimateActivists #ClimateProtest #SLAPPs #CorporateColonialism #WaterDefenders
#ClimateDefenders
#EnvironmentalActivists
#SilencingDissent #SLAPPs #ClimateActivists #CorporateColonialism
#EarthDefenders #CriminalizingDissent #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #BiodiversityNecessityDefense
#EarthDefenders
#SLAPPs #Fascism #CivilDisobedience
#Activism #ClimateStrike
#HumanRights #Article20 #2023PublicOrderAct #ClimateNecessityDefense #Corporatocracy #CorporateFascism #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe

And if the absolute weapon who delivered my shopping yesterday is any indication, it'll probably work.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/07/nigel-farage-populist-right-trump-win-build-momentum

#UKPolitics #Fascism

There's an interesting phenomenon. I saw it with France when the National Front arrived first in some of the recent elections, and now I see it with the US.

Everyone is blaming everyone else for the fascists winning, except... you know... the people who actually vote for the fascists and who want a fascist regime.

Maybe we could start with them, just saying.

#France#UnitedStates#fascism#election

“The Madison Square Garden rally, the increasingly unhinged speeches, the shocking vulgarity on full display—it was all there for everyone to see.

And, more than 50% of Americans saw it and said that’s exactly what they wanted.

I don’t have numbers yet, but I anticipate the white evangelical vote will be over 80%, white Catholic and mainline over 60%.”

~ Kristin Du Mez

#fascism #future #cruelty #Christians
/3

https://open.substack.com/pub/kristindumez/p/this-time-is-worse