"Trump Immediately Tried To Fundraise Off Of Possible 2nd Assassination Attempt"
"After shots were fired in his vicinity, Donald Trump sent out a fundraising email looking for cash."
gop
BECAUSE, OF COURSE THEY DID. 🤬
#NorthCarolina's State Board of Elections… acting on "complaints" from the #GOP… has removed 747,000 #voters from the voter roles on the grounds they are "ineligible" to vote (when the voters don't support you, don't bother trying to win them over, just stop them from voting.) 😒
And all it takes to get you scrubbed from the voter rolls is to MOVE WITHIN THE STATE TO A DIFFERENT PRECINCT.
Check your voter registration if you live in NC.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/
🛑🇺🇸Ukraine investigating over 178,000 war crimes that Trump and Republicans want to cover-up and silence (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4062148-ukraine-investigating-over-178000-war-crimes-amid-talks-on-peace-plan-and-possible-amnesty-for-russia.html #Ukraine #Poland #Mastodon #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #Hague #ECHR #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #GOP #USA #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #UnitedNations
“It strains credulity that this was a simple mistake,” the group wrote. “Tom Barrett and his Campaign placed two nearly identical ads in two different newspapers within a week of each other. The ad placed in the newspaper read predominantly by Black voters has the wrong election date; while the ad placed in the newspaper not read predominantly by Black voters has the correct election date.”
#votersuppression #racism #gop #Election2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/10/14/tom-barrett-michigan-election-misleading-ad/
As a trans woman, I often find myself struggling to properly articulate the real purpose of modern Pig Empire fascism's eliminationist campaign against trans people and anyone else who doesn't fit into the heteronormative binary on which their fragile, but wholly malevolent and dominance based conception of masculinity rests.
On one hand it would be a gross misrepresentation to say that fascists, the political actors driving their movements, and the rich people paying for modern nazism don't really hate trans people and wish to eradicate the public existence of trans identities, because they absolutely do. On the other hand however it would also be a grave mistake to forget that these people foundationally "use the whole cow" and their pogrom against the existence of trans people is also intentionally acting as a type of skeleton key to justify and facilitate a larger eliminationist agenda that revolves around purging their political enemies, removing civil rights and buttressing support for important ideological planks in the fascist platform - like violent nationalism, colonial extraction, white supremacy, eugenicist ableism, patriarchal dominance and so forth.
Indeed, while the fascists certainly do hate trans people and any sort of gender nonconformity, their decision to make anti-trans hate the tip of the fascist spear in a war for control pretty much comes down to the fact that trans people aren't particular numerous, visible, or empowered in our society, which itself has been mainlining normalized transphobic ideology for decades. It's much easier to convince people to hate folks they don't know in everyday life, and the pre-existing marginalization of trans people ensures that these pogroms can be abstract and ideological in a way that greases the path for violent eliminationism more effectively. We are, to put it succinctly, an easy gateway target for fascist repression that in turn can be used to expand the sphere of fascist influence and allow for the elimination of much larger portions of the population down the line by repurposing the justifications for repressions of trans people in a very "first they came for" sort of way.
While all of this is difficult to explain to folks not directly in the fascist crosshairs at any given moment, it's not all that hard to see this principle in action when empowered fascists are able to exercise control over our laws and state structures. Which is why I was utterly unsurprised to learn that American fascists in governments all over the United States are now using their actualized anti-trans pogrom to push a eugenicist agenda designed to target the rights, protections, and threadbare support programs for disabled Americans pretty much anywhere they control the government.
Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules
"But gender dysphoria is just part of the 130-page federal rule. It also protects disabled parents’ rights in child welfare cases and prevents hospitals from using disability as a factor in determining who gets care in crisis situations, such as equipment shortages during a pandemic. It adds Long Covid to the list of conditions that may constitute a disability and strengthens protections against unnecessary institutionalization, requiring that care be offered in the least restrictive setting and, ideally, in a patient’s community.
Striking down the entire rule would have wide-reaching implications for all disabled Americans and other marginalized groups who rely on federal agencies’ interpretations of decades-old laws to enforce their rights, says Mia Ives-Rublee, senior director of the Center for American Progress’ Disability Justice Initiative. “They’re utilizing LGBTQ issues as a wedge,” Ives-Rublee says. “The attack is really about the regulatory process of the federal government, and this will impact almost every interaction that a disabled person has with the services and supports that they receive.”
As I've written many times in the past, fascism isn't ultimately a violent chud rush similar to what we say during the January 6th 2021 coup (or autogolpe if you prefer) attempt by Trump supporters, so much as a legalist doctrine enforced by empowered nazis and the state at their disposal; a sort of violent game of "Simon Says" with prison camps and pogroms. The use of politically activated anti-trans sentiment to eliminate protections for disabled people isn't a bug in the fascist program but rather an intended feature; and it certainly won't be the last legalist application of fascist ideology if this movement continues to accumulate power in our society. Cis people should of course oppose the fascist anti-trans pogrom in action because it's the right thing to do, but also because you can bet your bottom dollar that it won't, and isn't stopping after they drive trans people out of public life - you and yours may well be next.
#TransRights #Fascism #Ableism #Pogrom #USPol #GOP #Eugenics
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"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn
https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/
#HowardZinn #Democracy #Resist #Protest #Invincible #USPol #Trump #Musk #DOGE #GOP #ICE #Fascism #NoKings #Vote #VoteBlue
"We knew something was coming...
More than a week ago, Aure Free Press posted that Trump will create a diversionary tactic to deflect his actions regarding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Unfortunately, we didn't think Trump would resort to kidnapping another country's leader and bombing the large city of Caracas, Venezuela"
- Aure
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #Venezuela #epstein #epsteinfiles
A #Reminder from #FerrisBuellersDayOff to #TeamTrump and the rest of #GOP how that works
Well then
BREAKING, as they say:
AP:
"Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally, dies after a brief and unexpected illness, his office says"
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. foreign policy, has died after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said. He was 71."
The thot plickens...
Here: https://apnews.com/article/lindsey-graham-dies-south-carolina-bfa556e170f2df22ce9ffc7165da3dfa
#DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP #Traitors
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Madman In The Oval Office!
Trump posts image of himself saying he is the "Acting President of Venezuela."
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
the orange rapist + GOP: meeting under the dark of night to realize their dream of making ameriKKKa into a surveillance state
#NaziAmeriKKKa #fascism #SurveillanceState #politics #PoliceState #GOP
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#project2025 #heritagefoundation #trump #newyear #uspol #uspolitics #usa #us #politics #president #election #maga #gop #america
Netherlands says Trump is 'blackmailing' NATO with his Greenland tariffs.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116427965708802609
this 🔥🔥🔥 thread on the #GOP #MAGA #Republicans #AI misinfo machine. it’s older than most folks think.
[thread 3/x] Transphobia
[thread 2/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448330077621809
[parent 1/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113126756218775408
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #ParentalRightsMovement #populism #CultureWar
#DivisiveRhetoric #SocialMedia #memes #polarization #WedgeTactics #WedgeStrategy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#WeaponizationOfLanguate #transgenderism
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #HeritageFoundation #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny #SelfDetermination
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"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
— Howard Zinn
Full text: https://www.howardzinn.org/collection/a-marvelous-victory/
#HowardZinn #Resist #Protest #USPol #Democracy #Trump #GOP #Musk #DOGE #ICE #Antifa #Vote
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/116658435990021975
This is abhorrent.
Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion bans and forced birth laws are about misogynists forcing control over women.
Forced birth laws strip women of rights as people and turn pregnant people into property of the state.
When the state controls who gets what healthcare it does not and will not stop with abortion.
Criminalization are attacks on all women.
Abortion is a #privacy #law #issue.
I hope these #ChristoFascists burn in their own version of hell.
#NorthCarolina #Misogyny #GOP #WarOnWomen #Abortion #ForcedBirth
Via @indivisibleteam:
#Republicans have a new talking point for gutting #Medicaid & #SNAP to give #billionaires even more #TaxCuts:
“We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a #GOP ghoul like #JoniErnst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with #Trump’s #TaxScam
#IApol #USpol #Senate #law
https://indivisible.org/resource/call-now-tell-your-republican-senators-you-dont-want-pay-price-their-billionaire-tax
Reading #DonaldTrump's first interview on #FOXNews @ #Twitter since getting back from #China and I won't even bother transcribing and posting any of it
Trump is being "interviewed" by #BrettBaier (think it is) and Trump is utterly incoherent
No big surprise there, I guess...
#Taiwan #China #Iran #IranWar #SaudiArabia #DonaldTrump #Trump #PeteHegseth #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller #MAGA #RepublicanParty #Republicans #GOP
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Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson urged fellow Republican lawmakers on Tues to avoid #public #TownHall meetings with #voters after some events turned into angry confrontations over #Trump's moves to fire #FederalWorkers & defund government programs.
#cowards #PublicDisservice #Republicans #GOP #RepresentationMatters #USpol #Musk #DOGE #FederalAgencies #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #Veterans #children #seniors #disability #PublicHealth #weather #DisasterPreparedness
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-urges-lawmakers-avoid-town-hall-meetings-2025-03-04/
[thread] Resisting Trump2/GOP fascism
#HumanRights #SocialJustice #resistance #CivilDisobedience #ConscientiousObjection
#transgender #TransRights #TransLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter
#Trump #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy #extremism
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #whiteSupremacism #antiLGBT #transphobia
#misogyny #paternalism #sexism
#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #SelfDetermination
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s office says a bipartisan #funding deal has been reached to avoid a government #shutdown as #Senate #Republicans try to set up a Thursday vote.
The deal, according to the minority leader, includes the separation of the 5 bipartisan appropriation bills that #Democrats had asked for & a 2-week stopgap funding extension for #DHS.
Senate #GOP leadership is now taking steps to schedule a vote for Thursday night.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-01-29-26?post-id=cmkzuzwml000f3b6p8b0rkied
Democrats in the United States Congress must show they are serious about fighting back and need to take a lesson from the legislators in New Zealand who refuse to let #Parliament ignore their voices. To paraphrase MTV "It's time to stop being polite and start being real" #RESIST
tinyurl.com/yc3bn9cs
@democratsabroad @uspolitics @aiop #ElbowsUp #GOPtraitors #GOP #Trump #GQP #NoTrumpNoKKkNoFascistUSA #democrats #USpolitics #senate #house #queer #ice #NewZealand #congress
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