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Thanks @VE3RWJ for posting this on Linkedin. I am sharing it here.
#Americans, and #Canadians, too, everyone should watch this, and pay close attention to the message. 20 ways to fight and recognize #Tyranny #Politics #Authoritarianism #Dictator #OnePartyState https://youtu.be/cXR5HLodsT8
US neo-Nazi group with Russia-based leader calls for targeted #Ukraine attacks: The Base, terrorist group founded in 2018, free to export violence abroad as #tRump pulls #FBI from pursuing far right
#neonazis #thebase #terrorism #authoritarianism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/the-base-neo-nazi-russia-ukraine
The Guardian · US neo-Nazi group with Russia-based leader calls for targeted Ukraine attacks
Maya Yang: ‘Hands Off’ protests begin across US to oppose #tRump agenda: More than a thousand events expected in a show of defiance against US president’s ‘authoritarian overreach’
#HandsOff #authoritarianism #Democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/apr/05/hands-off-protests-trump-administration
the Guardian · ‘Hands Off’ protests take off across US and Europe to oppose Trump agenda – liveProtesters gather at more than a thousand events across the US and in cities abroad, such as London, Berlin and Paris
“He tried to kill his own Vice President, do you think he cares about you?”
— Barack Obama
Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:
"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."
https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/science-on-screen-dont-look-up/
Ethan Zuckerman · Science on Screen: Don't Look Up - Ethan ZuckermanDon't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.
TODAY WE MARCH
TODAY WE PROTEST
Nonviolent action.
most important: BE THERE FOR ALL OF US.
#protest #RESIST #HandsOff #politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism handsoff2025.com
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… legitimized rather than condemned. #Dugin presents himself as a philosopher, but he’s really just a second-rate #Rasputin cosplayer. His “theories” are nothing more than dressed-up justifications for #authoritarianism, #genocide and imperial conquest.
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And Carlson isn’t alone. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria also platformed #Dugin, referring to him as a “#Russian political philosopher” instead of an #extremist fascist. This normalization is dangerous and shifts the #Overton window in favor of #authoritarianism. To be fair, CNN REALLY…
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if Harvard -- the richest university in the world -- submits to lawless extortion by the Cult of Trump, we all are truly lost
#universities #CultOfTrump #extortion #intimidation #politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #nazis #authoritarianism https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/04/opinion/harvard-antisemitism-trump/
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
"President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology.
History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by deifying the ruling elites of the past. It will disappear the suffering of the victims of genocide, enslavement, discrimination and institutional racism. The repression and violence during our labor wars — hundreds of workers were killed by gun thugs, company goons, police and soldiers from National Guard units in the struggle to unionize — will be untold. Historical figures, such as Woodrow Wilson, will be social archetypes whose darker actions, including the decision to re-segregate the federal government and oversee one of the most aggressive campaigns of political repression in U.S. history, will be ignored.
In the America of our Trump-approved history books — I have read the textbooks used in “Christian” schools so this is not conjecture — equal opportunity for all exists and has always existed. America exemplifies human progress. It has constantly improved and perfected itself under the tutelage of its enlightened and almost exclusively white male rulers. It is the vanguard of “Western civilization.”
X (formerly Twitter)Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) on XRestoring Lies and Insanity to American History
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”The plan, as Vice President J.D. Vance explained in a 2021 interview, is to destroy the current government, business, educational, cultural, and scientific pillars of the United States in order to replace them with a new system… …it will be an authoritarian government in which power and money concentrate in a very few hands.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 3, 2025
#trump #vance #usa #authoritarianism
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"History shows us, over and over again, that ordinary people have immense power. Regimes that look invicible can end up being houses of cards. The appearance of power doesn’t always translate to actual power. …
Tomorrow, April 5, everyone has an opportunity to show up in person, protesting what organizers “the most brazen power grab in modern history.” It’s for all of us."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Republicans #authoritarianism #solidarity #resistance #April5
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Du Mez CONNECTIONS · Showing up
Maggot McFearTrump regime says Harvard must "commit to full cooperation with DHS (Homeland Security) and other federal regulators”. You don't have to imagine too hard what that means.
These racists then try to make themselves out to be the good guys. "DEI programs teach students, faculty, staff, and leadership to make snap judgments about each other based on crude race and identity stereotypes, which fuels division and hatred based on race, color, national origin, and other protected identity characteristics. All efforts should be made to shutter such programs."
That's not their concern. They just want mediocre white men to be at the front of the line again.
They're the baddies.
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Commentary by J. J. Sedelmaier about what happened to Musk in Wisconsin, which has now gone viral
#Republicans #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #CoryBooker #Wisconsin #ElonMusk #solidarity #resistance
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https://www.threads.net/@meidas_societyschild/post/DH8xFS4Os6D/meme-of-the-day-winner
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"‘Liberation Day’ may have belonged to Trump, but Wisconsin voters offered their own declaration of independence on Wednesday – is it a sign of what’s to come?"
#Republicans #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #CoryBooker #Wisconsin #ElonMusk #solidarity #resistance
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"The momentum is shifting. Wisconsin was a decisive win. Gaps in Florida’s US House districts are narrowing. And Democratic Senator Cory Booker just shattered segregationist Strom Thurmond’s record in congress with a 25-hour protest speech – a symbolic moment, but one that suggests renewed energy on the left."
~ Matt Gallagher
#Republicans #authoritarianism #destruction #chaos #CoryBooker #Wisconsin #ElonMusk #solidarity #resistance
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/sorry-elon-wisconsins-justice-system
Byline Supplement · Sorry Elon – Wisconsin’s Justice System Isn’t For Sale
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"Authoritarians want us to feel hopeless and helpless. It’s up to us to show them that we will not submit quietly and that we believe in struggle and collective action. Like Sen. Booker, each one of us can do something, using the spaces and means we have, to meet this moment with the same resilient and resolute spirit he showed on the Senate floor."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Republicans #authoritarianism #democracy #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #CoryBooker
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-sen-bookers-speech-teaches-us
Lucid · What Sen. Booker’s Speech Teaches Us About Effective Resistance Strategy
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"Republicans are backing DOGE because it’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to incapacitate the federal government once and for all and forever alter the public’s ability to demand more from their leaders."
#Republicans #authoritarianism #democracy #destruction #chaos #FederalGovernment #DOGE
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