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Truth from #dragqueen Lil Miss Hot Mess: "Many of the current attacks on art & education are absurd and ridiculous — but, much like the art of drag, that hardly means we should not take them seriously. Since those currently in power claim to support #freedom when, in fact, they promote #fascism, it is no surprise that they seek to eradicate public institutions & art forms that promote freedom of thought & expression. We’ve seen that show, & its finale doesn’t end well."

huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-ta

HuffPost · Marjorie Taylor Greene Showed My Photo In A DOGE Hearing And Called Me A Monster. Here's Why I’m Fighting Back.Av Lil Miss Hot Mess

Truth from #dragqueen Lil Miss Hot Mess: "Many of the current attacks on art & education are absurd and ridiculous — but, much like the art of drag, that hardly means we should not take them seriously. Since those currently in power claim to support #freedom when, in fact, they promote #fascism, it is no surprise that they seek to eradicate public institutions & art forms that promote freedom of thought & expression. We’ve seen that show, & its finale doesn’t end well."

huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-ta

HuffPost · Marjorie Taylor Greene Showed My Photo In A DOGE Hearing And Called Me A Monster. Here's Why I’m Fighting Back.Av Lil Miss Hot Mess

"Inscribed above the front entrance of the U.S. #SupremeCourt is a simple, four-word inscription: Equal justice under law. The phrase doesn’t require a great deal of explanation, but it does require fortification. At the moment, the nation has a president who cares deeply about due process for himself but wants to strip it from others."

#trump
#democracy #autocracy #fascism

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar

The Atlantic · Due process for me, not for theeAv David A. Graham

Interview: Trump's War on the First Amendment: Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & Journalists

Legal scholars say the country is facing a constitutional crisis as Trump:

* ignores judicial decisions

* targets law firms

* uses the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expel Venezuelan immigrants without due process.

Trump “is trying to neutralize the opposition [&] violate the law with impunity.”

~David Cole

democracynow.org/2025/4/9/davi

#firstamendment #trump #fascism #uspol #studentprotests .

Democracy Now! · A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & JournalistsAv Democracy Now!

Impossible to overstate how perverse it is to target people who are paying their taxes.

People say ‘both-sides’ when they hear that Biden or Obama deported as many people as #Trump but he’s inverting the priorities of every other modern president and just tearing communities apart out of spite.
#fascism #immigration

huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-irs-i

HuffPost · IRS Acting Commissioner Is Resigning After Deal To Share Immigrants' Tax Information With ICEAv AP

#TheAmericanFascist uttered this morning.

“I’m proud to be the President for the workers, not the outsourcers; the President who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street; who protects the middle class, not the political class; and who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.”

The left wing social democratic forces of the world (including the #Liberals and #NDP in Canada) have been so neutered and brow beaten into incrementalism and neo-Liberal corporate capture, that a right wing, billionaire-wannabe, near-Nazi fascist, and politicians who want to be like him (Pierre Poillievre) have stolen the rallying cries of working men and women (but mostly men).

These were the warnings working people and socialist forces screamed when Free Trade and privatization was born by Reagan and Mulroney, Thatcher and Chirac. The de-unionization of western economies, the decimation of public infrastructure for private “partnerships”…

Now here we are, it all got so bad that the regular person, struggling to put inflated food on the table, or put their children through inflated college, are so fed up that they submit to the regressive, racist, anti-human, bloviations of populist tyrants.

A pox on you, “Liberals” and “Democrats” of the world.

You chose corporations while you placated people with false promises and false hopes.

You enabled the worst of the human condition through complacency and greed.

Your limp, unconvincing defence of Liberalism and Democratic values destroyed both.

What will you do to win back the podium to speak for working people? Perhaps you don’t deserve to.

I can't say this enough. Vote parties out of our municipal elections! I can't believe the Premier of Alberta openly made such an autocratic move to so drastically change our independent democratic system with such obvious bias towards her Conservative big party politics and election-buying agenda. It would have been unfathomable without all the other money-driven power grabs going around all around North America.

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53 reaksjoner · 30 delinger | Your Voice is at Risk

Bill 50 continues the legacy of Bill 20 which harms our local democracy. I can’t cover all of the troubling changes in Bill 50 in one short video but this covers how it expands the harm from Bill 20.

#yeg #yegcc #Edmonton | Andrew Knack
www.facebook.com53 reaksjoner · 30 delinger | Your Voice is at Risk Bill 50 continues the legacy of Bill 20 which harms our local democracy. I can’t cover all of the troubling changes in Bill 50 in one short video but this covers how it expands the harm from Bill 20. #yeg #yegcc #Edmonton | Andrew KnackYour Voice is at Risk Bill 50 continues the legacy of Bill 20 which harms our local democracy. I can’t cover all of the troubling changes in Bill 50 in one short video but this covers how it expands...
#yeg#yyc#abpoli

Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my ass … Please, Sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything. I’ll do anything, Sir’

independent.co.uk/news/world/a

Anyone check Starmer and Mehole’s lips recently? Might need some strong disinfectant.

The Independent · Trump brags world leaders are ‘kissing my a**’ and celebrates ‘great Hannibal Lecter’ at NRCC dinnerAv Mary Papenfuss
Continued thread

For the past several years, I've been arguing with AI advocates about the purpose of the technology they're enamored with. I mean don't get me wrong, I'm aware that there are use cases for so-called AI programs that aren't inherently evil, but when you take a look at the nazi billionaires who're behind the projects to force widespread adoption, their long term plans to establish city-state dictatorships out of the hollowed out core of the nation-state era, and what these guys ultimately do with it, it's pretty clear AI is a fascism machine; just as much as IBM's punch card computers were a genocide machine for the Nazis. It doesn't have to be this way, but this is the way it is.

As such, I can't say I'm shocked that after Elon Musk bought himself a president, the first thing he started doing is using AI purge his political enemies as well as their ideas, sort surveillance data to identify targets for a white nationalist regime, and now spy on federal workers in search of those with insufficient loyalty to God Emperor Trump, the regime, and Musk himself.

reuters.com/technology/artific

Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say

"Reuters’ interviews with nearly 20 people with knowledge of DOGE’s operations – and an examination of hundreds of pages of court documents from lawsuits challenging DOGE's access to data – highlight its unorthodox usage of AI and other technology in federal government operations.

At the Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, some EPA managers were told by Trump appointees that Musk’s team is rolling out AI to monitor workers, including looking for language in communications considered hostile to Trump or Musk, the two people said.

The EPA, which enforces laws such as the Clean Air Act and works to protect the environment, has come under intense scrutiny by the Trump administration. Since January, it has put nearly 600 employees on leave and said it will eliminate 65% of its budget, which could require further staffing reductions.

Trump-appointed officials who had taken up EPA posts told managers that DOGE was using AI to monitor communication apps and software, including Microsoft Teams, which is widely used for virtual calls and chats, said the two sources familiar with these comments. “We have been told they are looking for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language,” a third source familiar with the EPA said. Reuters could not independently confirm if the AI was being implemented.

The Trump officials said DOGE would be looking for people whose work did not align with the administration's mission, the first two sources said. “Be careful what you say, what you type and what you do,” a manager said, according to one of the sources."

Naturally the regime and DOGE have denied that they're using AI to conduct "thought" policing inside the federal workforce, but I think given how readily the Trump administration has engaged in clear ideological warfare and suppression against its perceived political enemies, that denial sound a lot like a hollow lie. Speaking broadly however, I can't say I'm surprised at all that this is where a technology like AI and the billionaire nazis who're pushing it, have lead us as a society. There are a near infinite number of things "AI" technology is terrible at, but one thing it does really well is sort through the vast amounts of data and metadata collected as part of our already existing police state panopticon society; in fact, without automation we really wouldn't be able to sift through that amount of data at all with human eyes. AI doesn't have morals, it doesn't have humanity, it doesn't have any sense of what's right and wrong; it presumes the world it's programmed to presume, and engages in the tasks it's purposed to engage in - and billionaire nazi cultists who want to build their own technofeudalist dicatorships are the guys in charge of the coding and tasking of this technology. Whether it's picking out targets for extermination by the IDF during a genocide in Gaza, hunting down student protestors in vast seas of education and immigration data, or spying on federal workers for anti-Musk sentiments, the fact is fascist oppression and violence *can* be automated - particularly if you don't give a fuck about false positives because you're a soulless nazi murderbot.

Capitalists: capitalism and democracy are inextricable.

Also capitalists: “US Marine Corps Maj Gen Smedley Darlington Butler claimed he was recruited by a group of Wall Street financiers to lead a fascist coup against FDR and the US government in the summer of 1933 … Members included JP Morgan, Jr, Irénée du Pont, Robert Sterling Clark of the Singer sewing machine fortune, and the chief executives of General Motors, Birds Eye and General Foods.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

None of this is new or surprising.

The Guardian · Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR?Av Guardian staff reporter

"President Donald Trump's 'reciprocal' tariffs on dozens of countries took effect on Wednesday, including massive 104% duties on Chinese goods, deepening his global trade war...

"Trump's punishing tariffs have shaken a global trading order that has persisted for decades, raised fears of recession and driven worldwide stocks sharply downward.

"The S&P 500 has shed nearly $6 trillion in value since Trump unveiled the tariffs a week ago, the deepest four-day loss since the benchmark's creation in the 1950s."
reuters.com/world/trumps-lates