German Parliament Rejects Migration Bill Backed by Far-Right AfD

https://ground.news/daily-briefing/german-bill-calling-for-tougher-rules-on-migration-narrowly-defeated_16e4a6

#GERMANY #AFD #MIGRANTS #XENOPHOBIA #PRESS

"I don't need to apologize" -- Bishop Mariann Budde
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/22/i-dont-need-to-apologize-bishop-angered-with-sermon-speaks-out
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270918/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-trump-interview

#MariannBudde #courage #honor
#USpol #USlaw #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #Project2025
#xenophobia #racism #ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #hatred
#antiLGBT #TitleIX #transphobia
#Christofascism #transgenocide #theocracy #DominionTheocracy
#sexism #paternalism #HegemonicMasculinity #ToxicMasculinity
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #abortion #SelfDetermination

[continued]There are important differences between our epoch and that of the McCarthy period, but these can cut both ways. For one, the anticommunism of the 50s was actually made possible by white supremacy, the New Deal and the post-war boom. For another, despite the existence of the Soviet Union and a formally "bipolar" world, the U.S. was unquestionably the dominant military and economic power. We are in a period that starkly contrasts with the "American Century."

For one thing, we are in a state of economic decline and growing social polarization. For another, the Democratic Leadership Council put the nail in the coffin of Roosevelt's "liberal-labor alliance" in the late 80s, after a decade of bipartisan-supported "one-sided class warfare." The labor movement, has been further shredded by four more decades of the same and its own unwillingness and inability to undertake a frontal assault on racism and xenophobia.

MAGA demagogically claims that pandering to oppressive ideologies will restore economic ascendancy and wellbeing for the (white, male) masses. This is where any attempt to impose a witch-hunt cuts both ways. The economic leg is missing, a hegemonic bloc with labor as a junior partner is missing, leaving white supremacy. The ball is in our court.

https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-two-thirds-of-trumps-first-executive-orders-mirror-project-2025s-aims/

#maga #trump #fascism #resistance #antifa #ecosocialism #capitalism #racism #xenophobia #misogyny #homophobia

Private Prison Stocks Soar; Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Fight Trump Mass Deportations
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/12/silky_shah_mass_deportations_under_trump

* Trump vows to deport millions undoc. immigrants
* private prison stocks soaring
* Trump1: border wall
* Trump2: mass deportations
* Immigrant rights advocates preparing for Trump2’s threats of mass deportation
* private prison companies take more & more of immigration detention

#PrisonIndustrialComplex #PrivatePrisons #Trump2 #fascism #libertarianism #corporation #xenophobia

"[A]t the exact moment that the unimaginable has happened—that #Syria has finally thrown off a half-century of dictatorship and might see the end of its civil war—many of #Germany’s politicians are more interested in establishing their opposition to migration and playing to what they imagine is an anti-refugee crowd than in celebrating."

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/syrian-refugees-germany-elections/

#SyrianRefugees #refugees #AsylumSeekers #SyrianDiaspora #xenophobia @syria

What is resistance? From a second Trump presidency to the carnage in Gaza, it takes various forms
https://theconversation.com/what-is-resistance-from-a-second-trump-presidency-to-the-carnage-in-gaza-it-takes-various-forms-243511

#DonaldTrump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #xenophobia #Project2025
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #freedom #Israel #Netanyahu #genocide #WarCrimes #ICC #ICJ
#resistance #protest #solidarity #organizing #unions

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In 2019 Hegseth, laughed on air [comment: Fox News, I presume 🤔🤦‍♀️] about not washing his hands for 10 years, saying,

“Germs are not a real thing. I can’t see them, therefore, they are not real.”

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism #antiLGBT #antiDEI #racism
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#ConspiracyTheorists #pseudoscience

Trump’s New Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth a Total Nightmare
https://newrepublic.com/post/188349/donald-trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-nightmare

* no women in combat, just white men in military
* Islamophobia
* ramblings about “woke” military leadership
* complained about Muslim birth rates in states such as MI
* supporter, “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer
* criticized elite universities

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

Doom 2024 [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak Portra 400]

#trump and #ElonMusk are #fascism #womensrights are lessened
#genocide in #gaza is glorified #climatechange and #xenophobia rage #profitsarepreferable to #people , convenience and security to #freedom opinion bests reality
compassion cedes to indifference

Do not let the anguished cries fall on deaf ears. Engage in radical #directaction and #mutualaid

@analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #analog #FilmMastodon #filmisnotdead

The west deserves to be flooded by immigrants.

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

Who's to blame for the so-called #BorderCrisis?

#Trump and the Republicans.

#GOP #xenophobia #HarrisWalz2024