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wdlindsy

@wdlindsy@toad.social

Interested in building a better world and standing in solidarity with others who share that goal.

For biographical information, please see https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/109539508828689842

"Writing is the way I fight." ~ James Cone

#solidarity #democracy #HumanRights #LGBTQ

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wdlindsy, to random
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"Alito and his robed gang are modern American fascism's real bulwark—the final reason that this cult of creepy religious bigots really could get their way in the end. There's no law these justices can't abrogate, no protection of citizens they can't demolish with a wave of a manicured hand, for whatever reason they want to make up," (continued in /2)

~ A.R. Moxon

#fascism #theocracy #Alito #SupremeCourt
/1

https://www.the-reframe.com/lying-to-fascists/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter

wdlindsy,
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(continued from /1)… "This makes American fascists bold. They are very clearly intending to make IVF and birth control illegal, and they're talking openly about punishing women for having abortions, and tracking the movement of pregnant people, and criminalizing gay and trans people, and outlawing even talk of diversity and inclusion,"

#fascism #theocracy #Alito #SupremeCourt
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wdlindsy, to random
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"All six Republican-appointed justices reached the Court with the backing of the Federalist Society, with a billionaire-funded, religious-right-backed mandate to 'make America great again' – that is, to take us back to the America of the 1920’s, when capitalism was unrestrained and racial and gender hierarchies were uncontested."

~ Michael Podhorzer

#SupremeCourt #corruption #FederalistSociety #LeonardLeo

https://www.weekendreading.net/p/supreme-gaslighting

wdlindsy, to Israel
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“I’m a German-Polish Jew. My last name is Wexler. …

We are told that we need a state that is based on ethnicity in the 21st century and that’s the only way Jewish people can be safe. But it is really for Britain and America and other imperialist states to have a presence in the Middle East.”

~ Sara Wexler


/1

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nations-conscience

wdlindsy,
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@DeeGLloyd I find Sara Geller's historical knowledge first-rate, and think she's making a very important point when she says, "It makes no sense to have a place for Jewish people that requires other people to suffer and die.”

wdlindsy, to MIguns
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"Evangelical MAGA lawyer Michael Farris (who helped lead the effort to overturn Roe v. Wade) has acknowledged in a videotaped interview from 2022 that reversing Roe was just an interim step. In fact, he and his colleagues plan to also amend the U.S. Constitution to ban abortion in all 50 states 'from conception until natural death' once they amass enough power.

~ Jennifer Cohn

#abortion #Republicans #evangelicals #RoevWade #Constitution

https://crownewsletter.substack.com/p/christian-right-observer-weekly-volume-f2e

wdlindsy, to humanrights
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Matthew McManus writes that those who imagine that there was a pre-Trump iteration of the US right in which the right was moderate are indulging in fantasy.

The right has long been driven by the radical determination to turn back the tide of equal rights for minority groups and legislate the notion that some people are superior to others.

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-rights-reactionary-spirit-predates

wdlindsy, to random
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Because the law does not apply to members of the former Law and Order party, Rudy Giuliani has for weeks been mocking those trying to serve him with a subpoena.

Two days ago, he tweeted a taunt about the inability of the law to find him. The law then used the tweet to geolocate him and he was served. Lucian K. Truscott writes,

"It is said that 'the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.' It’s rare to see the wheels laughing out loud."

#Giuliani

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-wheels-of-justice-howl-with-laughter

wdlindsy, to geopolitics
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As with all of her postings, everything Heather Cox Richardson says today deserves attention. She opens by noting that the Dow Jones closed above 40,000 for the first time in history. But "in comparison to the breathless coverage of the stock market during Trump’s administration, this milestone is getting very little coverage."

#Biden #Trump #economy #SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #Jan6
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-17-2024

wdlindsy, to random
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“These people [Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas] are such a disgrace to America. And it’s worth remembering that unlike Trump, they’re not really fascists. They’re more Leninists than fascists.”

~ Michael Tomasky

#SamuelAlito #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt
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https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=3cf166c6b73f030b4f67eeaeba301103.566&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

wdlindsy,
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“They’re part of a revolutionary vanguard that’s going to transform society into a right-wing theocracy whether the people want it or not (they don’t). As such, they see breaking the normal rules as part of their duty to their movement, and they see nothing wrong with having a wife who flies a MAGA flag or, in the case of Ginni Thomas, engages in ceaseless radical political activity.”

#SamuelAlito #ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt
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wdlindsy, to random
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“This attitude that our Bible and our interpretation of the Bible is the truth, it is the correct one, it is the only one we should be listening to, and our laws should be drawn from that, and we're going to force you, whatever you believe, to live by those laws is the very essence of fascism.”

~ Andra Watkins

https://thecause.substack.com/p/taking-project-2025-personally-with

wdlindsy, to business
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“Lenin is supposed to have said that when it came time to hang them, the ‘capitalists will sell us the rope.’ These capitalists are deluding themselves if they imagine that another Trump term in office will be good for them. Yes, Trump is a ‘businessman,’ but more in the style of Tony Soprano than Andrew Carnegie.”

~ Mona Charen


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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/flirting-with-disaster-trump-second-term

wdlindsy,
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“What these Trump backers seem not to appreciate is that their riches are only possible because the United States is a stable, democratic country. If we cease to be stable—and perceived as such by investors around the world—our national debt, already among the highest in the world, would become a potentially crushing burden.”


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wdlindsy,
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“What these Trump backers seem not to appreciate is that their riches are only possible because the United States is a stable, democratic country. If we cease to be stable—and perceived as such by investors around the world—our national debt, already among the highest in the world, would become a potentially crushing burden.”

/2

wdlindsy, to Ukraine
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“We are living through one of the most disgraceful times in our nation’s history, and Ukrainians are paying in blood for the soulless, moral desert Republicans are trying to force on this country.

It’s about time we started to think about whose blood will be shed in our own country if Donald Trump and his Republican Party prevail in November.”

~ L. Truscott

#Trump #Republicans #Ukraine

https://open.substack.com/pub/luciantruscott/p/how-bad-is-it-in-ukraine-right-now?r=2xjx0&utm_medium=ios

wdlindsy, to random
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Robert Reich on what Trump’s trial is showing us about Trump world:

“This cast of characters — and there are many, many others like them in Trump world — are loathsome not because they have violated the law, but because they have contributed to creating a harsh society in which everyone is potentially bought or sold.”

#Trump #trial #character #morality
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https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/the-loathsomeness-of-trump-world

wdlindsy, to journalism
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“In a fair world, in a just world, the mainstream media would be covering these cases with the weight they deserve, with at least some of the intensity they have devoted to Biden’s age, how much milk has cost under his presidency, or how the withdrawal from Afghanistan was executed.”

~ Oliver Willis

#Trump #crime #criminal #media #MediaFail
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https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverwillis/p/donald-trump-is-on-trial-democrats

wdlindsy,
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“But we don’t live in a fair world and while the media needs constant and intense criticism and oversight, the likelihood of them getting better at their jobs is remote — at best.

So the task falls to the opposition party. That is not ideal but it is where we are.”

#Trump #crime #criminal #trial #media #MediaFail
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wdlindsy, to random
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"One of the marks of fascism—real-deal, capital-F fascism—is the propensity to view the less fortunate not as fellow sufferers in the journey of life, but as Untermenschen. Vermin to be removed. Or, as Johnny McEntee might put it, cleansed.

This is what America is in the process of choosing. And we’re not being hoodwinked. None of this stuff is being hidden behind a façade of civility and normalcy. This cruelty is the selling point."

~ J;V. Last

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/demographic-winter-is-coming

wdlindsy, to random
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Jay Kuo's assessment of New York Times' latest poll:

"Let me say this plainly: The Times poll is intentionally Trump- and conservative-leaning, both in how it was structured and how it was promoted. There may be fine reasons for this, but they are not discussed anywhere. And its data contains some eyebrow raising anomalies that it either glosses over or ignores completely."

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/do-better-new-york-times

wdlindsy, to Women
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"Stormy Daniels has reminded us of what a disgusting misogynistic creep Donald Trump is: unable to control his carnal impulses, eager to exploit his power and influence and wealth to procure sex, devoid of shame or guilt or remorse, incapable of fidelity, focused completely on his own sexual satiety, and totally fine about said sexual satiety being generated by violent means."

~ Greg Olear


/1

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/rape-and-pillage-republican-primary

wdlindsy,
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"A quarter of the way through the 21st century, a predilection towards sexual misconduct and misogyny is practically a BFOQ of a Republican politician. The party of trickle-down economics and tax cuts for gazillionaires has long been the party of plunder. As long as Donald Trump is its leader, it will also be the party of rape."


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wdlindsy, to Women
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A national database of pregnant women with Trump as president: nothing dystopian about that idea, is there?

It would be, as Stepford Wives GOP senator Katie Britt says, designed to "help" pregnant women.

All this, and polls that may or may not be rigged still show Trump leading Biden in various states?

The Trump era is pulling back the curtain and showing us something that's deeply disturbing about many of us.

#Trump #Republicans #women #abortion
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-13-2024

wdlindsy,
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"The proposed law provides for direct, personal contact to be initiated by a cadre of newly installed, theocratic government employees toward pregnant patients who register their contact information with the site in order to pressure them in their reproductive decisions. … What it reveals, however, is not compassion, but coercion, harassment, and ultimately, control."

~ Dartagnan

#Trump #Republicans #women #abortion
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/13/2240134/-Pregnant-The-GOP-wants-to-track-you-and-any-decisions-you-make

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