Republican Sen. Lankford: A top Republican told me that if I try to move a bill that solves the border crisis during this election year, he will do whatever he can to DESTROY me. He said, ‘I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election’ 🚨
Republican fascists threaten deadly force if any measure to improve our border security.
"In 2021, C Palihapitiya -Dem Party megadonor -considered running for CA gov. on a mod.-sounding platform. He's gone full #MAGA -funding convicted FELON Trump -is BIZARRE & EXTREME. SF tech leader G Tan is closely aligned with B Srinivasan, who wants to purge Dems. Tan has depicted YC, where he’s CEO, as part of Srinivasan’s “NET state” mvt. -nightmarishly authoritarian." @gilduran https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/donald-trump-san-francisco-19495231.php
"Biden Claims Israel Isn't Starving Gazans. Rights Groups Say It Is Clear as Day"
"The fact that Israel is using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza is not in contention.
The Israeli military is "deliberately blocking the delivery of water, food, & fuel, while willfully impeding humanitarian assistance, apparently razing agricultural areas, & depriving the civilian population of objects indispensable to their survival."
SCOOP: In 2020, #magaMike Johnson took a trip to Israel with #jim_Jordan that was funded by a nonprofit led by a far-right extremist. While there, Johnson denied Palestinians were being oppressed.
NEW: Judge who led DC court that handled brunt of legal fallout from #Jan6 warns of 'authoritarian' threat from 'big lies.' Beryl Howell alludes to danger of Trump's fact-challenged rhetoric as his trial looms in courthouse she oversaw for 7 years.
I am warning about appellate court Trump-appointees Neomi Rao and Gregory Katsas, both Clarence Thomas clerks.
Both have blocked two different investigations of HUGE significance into Donald Trump and Scott Perry's phone.
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As @davidfolkenflik has pointed out the Washington Post, the WSJ, Bloomberg News, CNN are all run by British CEOs now. We should be asking tough and loud questions about why in a country brimming with talented journalistic & business leaders our major news outlets feel compelled to hire leaders from outside the country.
A Deep Dive into Corruption. MOL oil money comes from Putin, Russia fbs criminals to finance disinformation and propaganda operations in Europe to target freedom and the rule of law. 🚨
What a bastard….article 7 time! Orbáns' Scandalous Propaganda Empire Exposed.
Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), the right-wing aka fascist Hungarian educational institution funded by Viktor Orbán’s rightwing government, has been expanding internationally. It opened a centre in #Brussels, bought a university in #Vienna and has plans for new branches in other western European cities, including London.
Its' views are closely aligned with fascist Orbán, and it funds academics who disseminate Orbán’s positions to extend his influence across Europe and beyond.
MCC has tremendous financial backing, receiving more than £1.3bn in Hungarian state funding in 2020. MCC offers can be hard to turn down. It provides funding, scholarships, housing, invitations to lavish dinners, open-bar parties, trips abroad & more $$
Pure, uncut #fascism is totally mainstream in today’s #GOP.
“The Colorado Republican Party marked the start of Pride Month with a mass email attacking “godless groomers” and a social media post calling for the burning of all Pride flags.”
The GOP wants the Christian version of violent ethnonationalist state in the US. European far-right parties want something similar. They go after Muslims, immigrants, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, etc. If the far-right strengthens in Europe and #Trump gets elected in the US, say goodbye to the postwar liberal order. #fascism
I am rather mystified by all those Americans who believe that a #Trump victory will somehow cause Americans to rise up, overthrow the corrupt system, and install a Glorious Socialist Utopia.
A far more likely result is that most white liberals will hunker down and try to get on with their lives while the country gets more and more oppressive while marginalized communities try to fight for their survival like they have already done for decades.
Seriously, I see no reason why a fascist takeover of the USA should play out any differently than their counterparts in 20th century Europe. Even if there is an anti-fascist uprising, I don't expect it to be any more successful than they were in the Spanish Civil War.
🚨Fascist leaders: Putin, Orbàn... say TFG is the victim of pol' persecution.
Rs in Congress used the opp. to echo Putin & Orbàn.
US: used to be an expert at #IrregularWarfare -use of propaganda, proxies, or ppl willing to betray their own country. #Putin supervised spying & propaganda ops in E Germany. He turned the tables on us -successfully used IW to help get #TFG into the WH & before 2020 election scaring Americans re Antifa... & now for the 2024 election.
#Fascism is not an event; not some sort of moment that arises when a tyrant decides. It is a latent ideology that is ever present in society, in all of us in the form of microfascisms that gets harnessed - usually by those seeking to enshrine capitalist accumulation against the revolutionary forces of redistribution - to wield power.
Antifascism starts at home, in the streets. By the time you're trying to vote it out, you're too late.
Christian Nationalism is a giant threat to our country. A danger to women, to minorities, to the marginalized and to democracy itself. While these white, Christian nationalists believe they’re saving the country from heathenism, what they’re really offering is a theocracy of top down control with themselves at the top. We must see this threat for what it is, and that starts with understanding. Tim Whitaker is the founder of the New Evangelicals, an inclusive, Jesus-centered community that holds space for those marginalized by the evangelical church and advocates for systemic change. Raised deep in the evangelical world – Tim had a crisis of faith watching his church leaders embrace a man who was so antithetical to what he had been taught to believe. He now holds the toxic churches and their leaders accountable, while still offering a home of faith to his fellow Christians. Please join us for this incredibly engaging conversation. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.thenewevangelicals.com/ Twitter: @newvangelicals Facebook:The New Evangelicals Instagram: @thenewevangelicals YouTube: @TheNewEvangelicals As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://marleyspoon.com/offer/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://moshlife.com/politicsgirlhttps://rhone.com/politicsgirl code: PoliticsGirl https://sundaysfordogs/politicsgirl
False equivalence and demoralization are fascist gold.
The MAGA set badly want you to give up any sense of idealistic striving. They need you to believe that the system is rotten and degraded. Once the full promise of democracy has been undercut, nobody objects to its being discarded. That’s their plan: to sully everything in the political imagination until the majority relinquish any claim to something better than their violence and sadism.