#rightwing
#England's conservation charity the #NationalTrust is still facing attempts at a takeover by #RightWing #ThinkTank loonies. If you live in England you should probably join and make sure you vote against the #RestoreTrust slate at the AGM
#TuftyClub #TuftonStreet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/24/vote-no-to-the-thinktank-pod-people-trying-to-body-snatch-the-national-trust?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
more #evidence to #proof my statements.
situation: #leftist #looney tried to #weaponize her audience to #cancel mean #rightwing youtuber for hurting her #feelings.
https://youtu.be/_ssTnZPnv_w?t=213
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#evil rightwing youtuber's conclusion:
fuck banning. let the #court of #public #opinion decide which one is more worthy of supporting.
https://youtu.be/_ssTnZPnv_w?t=423
Dangers of allowing news monopolies supported by special interests of business and government. News becomes denialism and personal. This choice should be removed from reach.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rupert-murdoch-worst-person-ever
#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #News #RightWing #Extremists #Danger #Risk #Climate #ClimateChange #Nature #Wars #Disease #Pestilence #Denialism #FakeNews
“They’re going to continue the same business formula, which is whipping up hysteria around manufactured crises, they’ll continue to foster outrage and division, and gin up support for #conservative causes. I don’t see any of that changing dramatically anytime soon,” said @victorpickard
“They’ll continue to play this central role in #rightwing political discourse whether we’re talking about #FoxNews and its audience, #FoxNews and the #Republican party” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/sep/23/fox-news-republicans-murdoch-2024-election
A candidate of the #RightWing #extremist #AfD party is on course to become mayor of #Nordhausen in #Thuringia, #Germany. The town is the site of a #Nazi concentration camp. Around 20,000 people died at #MittelbauDora, where an underground factory produced #V2 #rockets and #aircraft parts. It's one of the most sinister- and moving- places I've ever visited. If elected, the new mayor won't be invited to commemorative events
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ob-wahl-nordhausen-afd-100.html
#America's #RightWing war on #truth is going to new levels, endangering the nation's #health, #academic freedom,and making the #US vulnerable to #interference from nations like #Russia and #China
https://infosec.exchange/@JosephMenn/111115656305522884
JosephMenn@infosec.exchange - Our story today on the successes of the GOP campaign against disinformation research. FREE. https://wapo.st/3ZvQNTF
#Academics, #universities & #GovernmentAgencies are overhauling or ending #research programs designed to counter the spread of #online #misinformation amid a #legal campaign from #conservative politicians & activists who accuse them of colluding w/ #tech companies to #censor #RightWing views.
The escalating campaign — led by #JimJordan & other #Republicans in #Congress & state gov — has cast a pall over programs that study not just #political falsehoods but also quality of #medical info online.
The Wrecking-Ball Caucus: How the #FarRight Brought #Washington to Its Knees
#RightWing #Republicans who represent a minority in their party & in #Congress have succeeded in sowing mass #dysfunction, spoiling for a #shutdown, an #impeachment & a #House #coup.
"When Murdoch’s tabloid practices reached the US in the form of Fox News, it had the power of kryptonite. As he finally exits the scene, American democracy hangs by a thread.”
#Murdoch #democracy #propaganda #disinformation #CultureWars #RightWing #Fox
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“Murdoch’s biggest legacy is the damage his media did to democracy around the world — from Australia to the UK and finally the USA. From the beginning in the British tabloids 50 years ago, he unleashed the power of hate-filled rhetoric, setting the working-class ‘blokes’ against the elites, a crucial step in creating a movement of rightwing populism."
~ Linda Hirshman
#Murdoch #democracy #propaganda #disinformation #CultureWars #RightWing
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/rupert-murdochs-out-at-fox-but-the
The #American Brand of #RightWing #Nationalism has Infected the World
https://www.opednews.com/articles/The-American-Brand-of-Righ-American-Imperialism_Nationalism_Nationalism-230922-285.html
Nationalism in the past 10 years has been on the rise with #isolationism and #xenophobia now being accepted as a normal part of #political discourse.
#RightWing #Religious, #Political Groups Expand Hostile #SchoolBoard Takeover Efforts
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-religious-political-groups-expand-hostile-school-board-takeover-efforts/
“If #sportwashing is going to increase my GDP by way of 1%, then I will continue doing #sportwashing,” #BinSalman told Fox’s Bret Baier. “I don’t care … I’m aiming for another 1.5%. Call it whatever you want, we’re going to get that 1.5%.”
“It is certainly the case that the #rightwing American broadcaster #FoxNews was the place to make off-the-cuff jokes about #sportswashing”
“#SaudiArabia is now a geopolitical power in a multipolar world” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/sep/23/bin-salmans-sportswashing-quip-reflected-growing-power-but-was-perhaps-a-mistake #MBS #humanrights
‘The state says our kids don’t exist’ - how LGBT life is changing in Italy - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66860266
List of three groups to ban, counter, block and ignore. Censor those on the side of censorship.
#StitchedInkMedia #BookBans #Politics #RightWing #World #Books #WritingCommunity #Creativity #Hate #Idealism #Bookstodon #ArtistsofMastodon #Flipboard #Novels #Fiction https://www.them.us/story/book-bans-conservative-advocacy-groups
@ProPublica Thank you for your unrelenting, expert and comprehensive investigative journalism that is bringing much light and scrutiny to the #corrupt #rightwing #billionaires who have literally #controlled and #paid for #SCOTUS decisions for decades. Folks who read @ProPublica, please join me in contributing to this organization to support their work now and in future.
* Anecdotal experience with right-wing news in India (relatable with my experience in the US) *
I'm visiting India and the TV news here is skewed to the right. My aging father watches these news channels in the evening and over the years, I have noticed his views shift further to the right.
The issue dujour is the escalating tensions between Canada - India and anger against Justin Trudeau. What was shocking to me today was, on one of the news channels a talking-head was trying to link Trudeau to George Soros (a typical antisemitic right-wing talking-point in the west).
It's hard not to see how the right-wingers around the world learn from each other.
#misinformation #rightwing #india #USA #Canada #antisemitism
#Students Confront #RightWing #Bigot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jfq4SMaad4
Right-Wing pundit #CharlieKirk visited the campus of #NorthernArizonaUniversity and was met with numerous students flipping him off to his face while chanting “F—K YOU, #FASCIST!"
Germany: Right-wing hostility toward #democracy growing
2,000 people between 18 and 90 took part in the most recent survey.... According to the researchers, 8% of respondents this time held a clear #rightwing #extremist orientation. In earlier studies, it was only between 2–3%.
Currently, across all age groups, between 5-7% of those surveyed support a #dictatorship with a single strong party and leader for #Germany. This result is double the long-term average.
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-right-wing-extremism-and-hostility-toward-democracy-growing/a-66881144
Bolsonaro met with army, navy and air force heads to discuss coup – reports | Jair Bolsonaro | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/bolsonaro-military-coup-plans-former-secretary-reports
"Jair Bolsonaro’s former secretary has reportedly told investigators his ex-boss met the heads of Brazil’s army, navy and air force late last year to discuss a “putschist plan” for a military coup."
Tom Phillips: #Bolsonaro met with army, navy and air force heads to discuss coup – reports: Claims by former Brazilian president’s ex-secretary prompt calls for alleged #rightwing conspirators to be brought to justice
#jairbolsonaro #brazil #coup
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/bolsonaro-military-coup-plans-former-secretary-reports
Oh, look! It's more #bullshit #fabrications by #GymJordan! This guy lies as prolifically as Donald #Trump, but with less scrutiny. And of course the credulous #rightwing #media just amplifies the bullshit without applying a shred of critical thinking. Jordan is a knowing and intentional #liar who's running a #sham investigation devoid of factual basis.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/jim-jordan-second-subpoena-elvis-chan-fbi/
1 Million March met with thousands of #counterprotesters across #Canada.
“These (Farright) #protests are supported by a big tent of #rightwing and #conspiratorial #groups, including #ChristianNationalists (#Fascists) , #conservative #Muslims, #COVID19 #conspiracytheorists, #sovereigncitizens, anti-#publiceducation #activists,”
"The multi-billionaire #rightwing #climatechange skeptic is back in the #Canadian Rockies with a new company to resurrect old plans to develop an open pit metallurgical #coal mine. It starts with new requests for drilling deep exploratory wells at Grassy Mountain in the headwaters of the Oldman River." https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/20/Australia-Coal-Miners-Gina-Rinehart-Target-Alberta-Rockies-Again/
#abpoli #cdnpoli #WaterisLife #ClimateBreakdown #Australia #mining #CorporateGreed
#Germany #rightwing #extremism
Germany: Right-wing extremism and hostility toward democracy growing https://www.dw.com/en/germany-right-wing-extremism-and-hostility-toward-democracy-growing/a-66881144?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
"Rupert Murdoch stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp"
No one person has done more to promote #rightwing #fascist #propaganda since 1996 when Fox first started broadcasting in the #unitedstates
Fox, the #republican answer for #cnn and #nbc,
Likely will be #bankrupt soon. A reflection of it's #shabby self.
#foxcorporation
#foxnews
#foxbusiness
#foxsucks
#rupertmurdoch
#dominion
"Die Wirtschaft fungiert seit Generationen als Ersatzchauvinismus."
Sehr intelligente Gedanken von Oliver Decker in der @tazgetroete zum Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland: https://taz.de/Rechtsextremismusexperte-ueber-Rechtsruck/!5958358/
Oh the irony: Founder of ‘#AntiTrafficking group’ #OperationUndergroundRailroad (O.U.R.) #TimBallard accused of multiple claims of #SexualMisconduct 😱
“Since its July 4 release, low budget action #movie “#SoundofFreedom” has been criticized on multiple fronts. Critics say the drama features misleading depictions of #ChildExploitation and point to #Caviezel's association with #RightWing #conspiracy theories purported by the #QAnon movement”
#sextrafficking
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2023/09/19/sound-of-freedom-tim-ballard-sexual-misconduct-allegations/70903439007/
Conservatism is just what happens to the human brain when it can't get laid.
#republican #altRight #proudBoys #oathKeepers #maga #trump #gop #conservative #rightWing
#Rightwing #groups are planning #transphobic #demonstrations across #Canada this week.
A #ragtag group of #conservatives and #Fascists marching under the 1 Million March 4 Children banner is calling for #protests over #queer-#inclusive #education.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Canada #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/right-wing-protest-september-20-1-million-march-256870
"But #1MillionMarch4Children was never really about the kids. It’s an embarrassing, poorly constructed platform for parents who are afraid of losing control in a world that continues to evolve beyond their grasp." #cdnpol #rightwing #fearmongering
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/20/Who-Are-1-Million-March-4-Children-Fighting-For/
#Americans Don’t Want #Rightwing #Politicians #Focusing on #Transgender #Issues, #Survey Finds.
Most #Americans also believe that #lawmakers don’t know enough about #transgender #issues to make sound public policy.
https://www.advocate.com/news/americans-dont-focus-transgender-issues
Most #Americans Want #Rightwing #Politicians to #Stop #Attacking #Trans #People
In a new #survey, only 17% said that #politicians should focus on #restricting #genderaffirming #Healthcare.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.them.us/story/survey-results-americans-trans-rights
Sen. John Fetterman is selling 'body double' T-shirts, leaning into the right-wing conspiracy theory
https://www.businessinsider.com/john-fetterman-body-double-merchandise-conspiracy-theories-2023-9
#JohnFetterman #BodyDoubleMerchandise #ConspiracyTheories #RightWing #TShirts #PoliticalMerch #Politics #News
If you're wondering why the latest #COVID #COVID19 #VACCINE #VACCINES #BOOSTER #BOOSTERS are no longer #FREE...
And you must pay out of pocket...
Or pay your #Health #Insurance...
Look no further than the #RightWing #Republican that #MSNBC #CNN #CBS #ABC #NBC have been praising for weeks...
Mr. #CitizensUnited...
Mr. "Corporations are people too, my friend."...
It's the cowardly two-faced soon departing worthless #Senator #MittRomney of #Utah #UT!
#Romney reneged on the deal he made with #Democrats #ChuckSchumer #Schumer #President #JoeBiden #Biden and Mitt joined his fellow #Republicans to BLOCK $10Billion in #COVIDFUNDING for #USA #US #America #American #Americans!!!
"Senate Republicans unanimously voted to block an effort to advance the $10 billion legislation, struck by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah. GOP senators demanded votes on amendments to the legislation that would revoke Biden's move and reinstate the policy."
American Library Assoc. Report - #Texas Had Most #Book Challenges #Books are not the sole target of attacks orchestrated by #conservative parent groups and #rightwing #media. Both #school and #PublicLibrarians are increasingly in the crosshairs of conservative groups during book challenges and subject to defamatory name-calling, #onlineharassment, #socialmedia attacks, and #doxxing, as well as direct #threats to their #safety, their #employment, and their very #liberty https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/by-the-numbers
Man Shuts Down #ProLife Protester By Using The #Bible
https://flip.it/OsiFIn
#religion #abortion #rightwing
The hard right, once fringe, is gaining power and popularity across Europe, Latin America and elsewhere.
Axios has a collection of stories on the topic, noting "Immigration, inflation and the rising cost of climate policy are creating potent new targets for populism."
Legacy #medias new favorite beat is doomerism, driving outrage clicks on the defeatist idea that none of us can do anything to improve the state of the world.
Their narrative of despair actively helps the #rightwing #politicians responsible for the current state of affairs. It helps bad actors who are ruining things for money keep doing it. It helps keep them in power because people are convinced #voting them out won’t change anything.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/09/19/the-media-is-bumming-people-out-thats-intentional/
What.The.Fuck??!!
#Våldet i #Sverige beror till 100% på #Migration och #Migrationspolitiken
Med samma logik anser jag att 100% av våldet beror till 100% på #sverigedemokraterna
Att denna clown #JimmieÅkesson får säga obegripliga saker utan att bli ifrågasatt. Och att #migrationsministern från #Moderaterna ger honom validering är en #skam för #politiken #svpol #Migpol #rightwing #farright #AsylumSeekers #asyl #polisen #socialtjänst #skola
“The #RightWing #ConspiracyTheory that Joe #Biden, as VP, pushed for #Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor in order to aid his son #Hunter’s business dealings is a pillar of #HouseRepublicans’ push to #impeach him. Even some #GOP members of #Congress have pointed out there is ‘no evidence’ to support this long-debunked narrative.
What's on my mind, #Mastodon ?
I've been doing the engaged citizen (aka #activist) thing for most of my 64 years
Grocery store parking lots were prime turf for gathering sigs until about 10 years ago
Since then they've been uniformly posted as off-limits for any 'political' activity
Until this week in #Tacoma
At #FredMeyers & @costco sig mercenaries were soliciting patrons to sign on to 3 #RightWing ballot initiatives
Security at FreddyM's sd they'd called #Police 2x w no response...
#Maryland #Rightwing #DomesticTerrorist #Admits Sending #Terror #Threats to #LGBTQ+ #Group, #Allies.
The man #deliberated #targeted #supporters of the #trans #community.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #DomesticTerrorism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes
https://www.advocate.com/crime/maryland-terror-threats-lgbtq-group
Hard right rising
“The Trump T-shirt above was being worn in Italy, during yesterday's annual rally of the far-right #Lega (League) party in northern #Italy.
International #Trump support reflects a global phenomenon: The hard right, once fringe, is gaining power and popularity across #Europe, #LatinAmerica and elsewhere.
#Immigration, #Inflation and the rising cost of #Climate policy are creating potent new targets for #Populism”
#rightwing #fascism #authoritarianism
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-a244a616-5eba-4ed4-81e3-a275ec988900.html?chunk=0&utm_term=twsocialshare#story0 #axiosam
"The second aspect of the New Right that deserves attention is its flirtation with anti-Semitism and racial bigotry."
"The first thing to say about the New Right is that it can get weird. Its ranks are composed almost entirely of men. They inhabit a social-media cocoon where they talk a lot about manhood, and strength, and manliness, and push-ups, and masculinity, and virility, and weight-lifting, and testosterone."
~ Matthew Continetti
#rightwing #gender #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/new-right-vs-conservatism/
#RightWing #ThinkTanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the #BBC
It just dawned on me that the Rapture is actually that moment when #Jesus saves the world by suddenly removing all the #fundamentalist #rightwing #Christians from the earth.
#Biden's office put out a statement a few months ago saying there would be no #pardon for #HunterBiden. Nobody is talking about pardons... except #rightwing operatives and sensationalist #media. And no matter how many times it's shot down, they just keep bringing it up. These individuals and entities have an interest in fabricating controversy, and keeping the non-issue front and center in the minds of Americans. When you see shit like this, always question the #motives.
Of course they are: #RightWing lobby group campaigns to undermine UK four-day week
In his interview with #tuckercarlson the Argentinean candidate said that #climatechange is a socialist hoax, pope francis is paid actor, that he would burn all marx's books and "eradicate" the opposition movement (which is openly feminist)
"They called me a nazi but the socialists are more nazi"
like bruh, what?
#twitter #argentina #rightwing #libertarian
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/javier-milei-claims-pope-francis-is-on-side-of-bloody-dictators-in-tucker-carlson-interview.phtml
We missed out on seeing family in #BC this summer due to #covid, #ableism and #exclusion.
Just days after arriving from England they all came down with covid, cancelling our imminent trip up north to see them.
The caravan then came to town a week later, led by my #ableist sister and #RightWing father fresh off #paxlovid.
My #immunocompromised wife and I were asked how we felt about spending two entire days at the PNE. My sister already knew we were opposed, this query was simply to demonstrate to visiting family how difficult we were due to our covid concerns.
We again respectfully declined, explaining this excursion was well beyond our daily risk level. We suggested a covid safe meetup outside the fair instead.
The group of 8, who had shared covid just ten days prior, then told us that this “would be difficult”.
It was explained by my sister that “unfortunately they only had 1.5 days” to spend at a crowded, wildfire smoke filled fair for what she called “A once in a lifetime experience for the kids”.
In response, she offered us a mere hour long breakfast at 8am on Sunday morning before they all returned to the fair for another 12 hours without masks.
I turned down this awkward meetup as we would have ended up driving longer than we would have seen them, and I was quite upset at being treated like we were being difficult simply because we wanted a family only visit outdoors in an unmitigated pandemic.
I suggested lunch, dinner or evening drinks on a porch; we would meet them anywhere in the city. I received no further response.
Family members I hadn’t seen in over five years chose to exclude and ignore us for their 2 days in the city due to our “paranoid” covid conscious mentality.
They came and left. No apologies or acknowledgement of what had happened, just silence and exclusion. We both felt beyond insulted and angry.
Weeks later (days ago) the phone rings. It’s my ableist right wing father who has only called me twice this whole pandemic.
He insinuates that it was disrespectful and selfish for us to miss their city visit, he’s let down that we didn’t join them at a pricey two day event with thousands of screaming strangers.
I am told that I can make it up to them by going out to the airport tomorrow morning at 8am to “spend a couple hours and see them off”.
I point out that the only reason we missed seeing everyone is because THEY all refused to put aside a moment for a covid safe visit with us.
I then explain that sitting on a covid skytrain tube for an hour to briefly meet family at an busy international airport terminal for a 2 hour long visit is once again, a risk that far exceeds my comfort level.
Dad scoffs, laughs at me and hands off the phone. “They never do anything anymore, a bunch of lazy disrespectful idiots.”
So ultimately, we the #vulnerable, not wanting to take unwarranted risks became the issue, rather than the ever-present virus itself.
All but two of the eight (including the kids who have had covid multiple times now) contracted covid on their extended vacation from reality.
My wife and I are still covid free but this time it came at a real cost. Anger, sadness, exclusion and disrespect.
We are now the black sheep of the family. Deemed selfish for not sacrificing ourselves. This is our new #covid19bc reality. Alienated, discriminated against, sacrificed and forgotten.
Can’t help but think how all this could’ve been avoided if my family had selflessly worn #masks and taken preventative measures to ensure a safe visit rather than doubling down on lies spun by #BonnieHenry and this soulless #BCndp govt.
#Romney calls, & #King informs him of a conversation he’s just had w/a high-ranking #Pentagon ofcl. #Law enforcement has been tracking online #chatter among #RightWing #extremists who appear to be planning something bad on the day of #Trump’s upcoming “rally” in #DC The president has been telling them the election was stolen; now they’re coming to steal it back. There’s talk of #gun smuggling, of #bombs & #arson, of #targeting the #traitors in #Congress who are responsible for this travesty.
50) To the absolute non surprise of anyone following #USPolitics, #KevinMcCarthy gave the green light to an #impeachment inquiry directed against #JoeBiden
In times past, presidential impeachment was reserved for overt misdeeds, think Nixon and the #Watergate break in. Now #GOP politics has degenerated to the point where political payback and #Trump fealty outweighs facts and evidence gathering
#Politics #Biden #HunterBiden #HardRight #FreedomCaucus #RightWing
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/12/1198922531/mccarthy-biden-impeachment-inquiry
~ Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism, on how the right-wing conspiracy-fest in the US is getting more bloodthirsty than ever, and it behooves the rest of us to pay attention
#RightWing #Republicans #ReligiousRise #racism #WhiteSupremacy #violence #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://newrepublic.com/article/175514/reawaken-america-political-violence-conference
Will Rubbish Biden Impeachment Inquiry Boomerang on McCarthy? https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/will-impeachment-inquiry-boomerang-on-mccarthy
This week #JoeBiden’s #grandcanyonnationalmonument is under attack by #rightwing #Arizona lawmakers and even members of the #NavajoNationCouncil.
DANGER!
The takeover plan by the #RIGHTWING
The 920-page fascist manifesto of the ultra-conservative #Heritage Foundation (not to be confused with the #Federalist Society, the successful usurper of the Supreme Court)
Elements of this are already in #Florida
https://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
#ElonMusk is doing everything he can to avoid #accountability, and keep his agenda to advance vile, #rightwing #hateSpeech cloaked in darkness. #Elon is a #racist. He is a #bigot. And he has a very specific desire to normalize #hate through the #Twitter #platform he purchased specifically to achieve that goal. If you are still using Twitter, you are directly supporting hatred, bigotry, and the promotion of rightwing #disinformation.
https://www.teslarati.com/x-lawsuit-california-moderation-bill/
Congratulations #canada. #rightwing lunacy is equally home here as the US. You cowards.
Nice democracy you’ve got there as Mike Huckabee Warns 2024 Will Be the Last Election 'Decided by Ballots Rather Than Bullets' if Trump Loses | Right Wing Watch
Understanding dawns at last 🙄Inside the far right's roadmap to introduce #Christian #theocracy: Conservatives often frame their policy crusades as part of an effort to expand “religious freedom,” & gut #CivilRights protections. But now “Project 2025” is saying the quiet part out loud: #RightWing groups do not want to ensure all US have religious freedom, but want to impose conservative Christian views on the country.
@atrupar We had better hope for a blowout wins for Democrats or I honestly doubt we can avoid becoming an actual failed state. If, as being threatened by likes of Huckabee/Gaetz, "bullets" begin to fly, bombings increase, etc, we will become more of a #PoliceState in response. It will be ironic when draconian measures are imposed to deal with #RightWing #Fascist violence. Not hard to see becoming a failed state with such a huge part of the population willing to support the GOP no matter what.
After #X’s new CEO, #LindaYaccarino, met w/ #ADL’s chief exec, #JonathanGreenblatt, last month in an effort to improve relations, some X users launched a campaign w/the hashtag “BantheADL”.
Jake Shields, whose bio on X IDs him as a “mixed martial arts champion & #RightWing #extremist,” led the charge. “Let’s get this trending to help wake the masses of how evil they truly are,” Shields posted.
The hashtag soon became a top trending topic, & on Fri, #Musk “liked” a post supporting the campaign.
In a rare joint op-ed, the secretaries of the #Navy, #AirForce & #Army call on Sen. #Tuberville to stop blocking #military promotions
Tuberville: Stop this dangerous hold on senior officers
#USN #USA #USAF #RightWing #Extremism #AbuseOfPower #Minoritarianism #AbortionRights #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/04/army-navy-air-force-secretaries-tuberville-military-hold/
The far right's war on higher ed. & esp. the liberal arts is an attack on democracy. Unless stopped, it will play out on many US campuses.
“This is a test case for a conservative overhaul of higher education – and it isn’t going to stay isolated to New College or Florida.”
-Gender St. faculty, New College, resigned Prof. Clarkson.
#newcollege #desantis #fl #florida #HighEducation #universities #farright #rightwing @politicalscience @histodons @sociology @anthropol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers
This has previously been posted but I don't think it got a lot of traction. EVERYONE needs to read this!
https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981
#Republicans #rightwing #trump #government #takeover #conservatives #apnews
Addendum 6 cont'd
Vancouver | British Columbia political indifference, inaction
[2023-08-01] Vancouver City Council Shutting Down Overdose Prevention Site
No Plan to Help People Who Depend On Site
“They don’t care what happens to people who use drugs”
https://pressprogress.ca/vancouvers-city-council-is-shutting-down-an-overdose-prevention-site-the-city-has-no-plan-to-help-people-who-depend-on-the-site
[2022-12-01] B.C. on track for 2nd deadliest drug poisoning year ever
https://www.straight.com/news/bc-on-track-for-its-second-deadliest-drug-poisoning-year-ever
#Canada #Vancouver #addiction #HumanRights #PublicHealth #KenSim #addiction #apathy #populism #ABCVancouver #RightWing
"Political violence in the US is at a 50-year high, and while this is often blamed on 'extremism' or 'polarization,' there’s really only one pole and one extreme committing most violent acts: the right."
~ Jill Filipovic
#violence #US #terrorism #rightwing #guns #Republicans
https://jill.substack.com/p/political-violence-is-a-right-wing
Remember that #RightWing boycott of thr "#Barbie" movie? 🤣
'Barbie' tops 'Super Mario Bros. Movie' as highest-grossing film of 2023 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/barbie-tops-super-mario-bros-movie-as-highest-grossing-film-of-2023-172503946.html
Excellent multi dimensional analysis of the #Ukraine war.
The invading Russian forces are now fighting a defensive war. #Putin hopes the defensive strategy currently employed by #Russia will provide enough time for political conditions to change in the West.
Putin dreams of a #Trump #Election2024 victory and the emergence of more #RightWing political victories in democratic Europe. Fracturing the #Biden coalition is Putin’s only hope
I prefer to call #Starmer a #Quisling! His #ShadowCabinet is a fetid nest full of Quislings! The #NEC & #PLP are full of #RightWing #Blairite #LabourFriendsOfIsrael and #JewishLabourMovement Quislings! They *all* collaborate with the #Tory #Establishment enemy & with the #Israeli #Apartheid state in undermining #British democracy!
#LabourFiles #LabourLies #LabourRacism #LabourUnfitToGovern #StarmerLies #ItWasAScam #TrilateralCommission #AssangeProsecution #StopStarmer #LabourFriendsOfApartheid
Horrifying and heartbreaking news. Media should dig up more information on this killer and which figures influenced him to take this kind of barbaric action. #LGBTQIA #uspol #rightwing https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/california-store-owner-mother-nine-shot-killed-pride-flag-displayed-sh-rcna100849
I sometimes forget that the far right is an anti enlightenment movement.
Perhaps it's my decades of being submerged in the ivory tower of the university or maybe it's just a love of logic and enlightenment principals. I don't know.
But I'm realizing what I find persuasive--evidence that's based on reason--not only fails to persuade the anti-enlightenment crowd, but actually incenses them. They hate reason the way vampires hate sunlight.