With less than 3 weeks left for the general elections, nearly 150 #Kurdish journalists, politicians, lawyers, and artists have been detained today in #Turkey. #AKP government is trying to destroy the Kurdish media and human rights organizations right before the elections.

https://www.gerceknews.com/turkey/nearly-150-kurdish-journalists-politicians-lawyers-artists-detained-219762h

#Trump #CentralParkFive #TrumpIndictment

#anti-abortion protesters at Walgreens on 2/4/2023. Protests took place in Santa Monica and Chino against the pharmacy chain’s plan to sell over the counter abortion pills.

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), who has been passing out assault rifle lapel pins to his colleagues this week, cowers in terror behind an officer at the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection Jan. 6, 2021. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-andrew-clyde-assault-rifle-pins-house_n_63defb68e4b01e928871b032

4/ More at these links... OE may have been part of the same California #DCBrigade Telegram #Jan6 planning group as the 6 in the Hostetter/Taylor/3 Percenters Conspiracy case. They say they met them in a group chat and hung out with them in DC.

Others in the Telegram group were #BlackHatSprayer/Jeffrey Scott Brown/CostCo Guy and #PuffaLumper/Benjamin Martin/Trader Joe's Guy).  
https://twitter.com/DianthaSol/status/1614386044794699777?s=20&t=EjBc53XiOYPyJEokBaRzjg​
https://twitter.com/DianthaSol/status/1572280836917178370?s=20&t=EjBc53XiOYPyJEokBaRzjg​

3/ Still up, confirmed filmed by them in the comments. Jan 8 filming of the mob harassment (and I think one is harassing?) of congressman Lindsey Graham at Dulles Airport. They get very close to him.
https://twitter.com/SayWhatUCrazy/status/1347625258610692096?s=20&t=6VJoXiuabb1s_LtLiEEyMQ

2/ Two posts by them with their own #Jan6 clips, still up... full video archived above.

On the eve of Jan 4, they put masks on to hide their identity, then tore BLM signs down, ripping up signs that said things like "Defend Black Lives" while calling the signs "trash". Video archived here: https://archive.org/details/m5vEyKi8qKpBqW88t
H/t @karma161

1/ Many archived videos, mainly from Jan 4 to 7 2021, filmed by infamous RW extremist livestreamer duo (and #Jan6 insurrectionists) O-eo Express, including two filmed on restricted ground at the Capitol:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Oreo+Express%22

It's funny. Two weeks ago, I had a friend tell me, genuinely, that no good music was released in 2022.

So I sat down with him and reviewed some albums released in 2022.

He retracted his opinion, and said, "Well, why haven't I heard any of this?"

It's because -- for whatever reason -- the music industry doesn't want to promote fresh sounds.

I genuinely wonder why someone as innovative and talented as Nwando Ebizie gets ignored.

We have genuine Afro-futurist music right here, right now.

The music press has a chance to bang the drum on this exciting development.

What happens?

Crickets.

https://nwandoebizie.bandcamp.com/album/the-swan

And the Darren Merager/ WiSpa case has just been rescheduled for preliminary hearing Feb 7.

I’m in court at LAX courthouse (in Los Angeles) to observe the pre trial hearing of Darren Merager, the trans person who is charged with exposing themself in the women’s area of WiSpa last year. The incident was used by the far right to incite outrage and two protests which resulted in violence and arrests as well as police abuse (firing “less lethal” weapons directly into the bodies of trans allies.). There were also stabbings, attacks on journalists, and incidents of pepper spray being deployed.

I’m sitting in the court room and we’re about to start the pre trial hearing. Merager is being brought in now.

Paula Vogel’s play about censorship and American antisemitism and fascism censored in Florida, due to American censorship and fascism: “The play was written as an homage to Sholem Asch's play GOD OF VENGEANCE, written in 1906, which was a big success all over Europe. Presented in Yiddish, both Jewish and Gentile audiences in Berlin, Poland, Russia, England and Eastern Europe flocked to the play.
Asch's play documents the violence against women, the antisemitism of the time, and respectfully depicts two young women who fall in love. The depiction of love in 1906 between two women was tastefully done and hailed as "pure" by Yiddish writers of the time.
It became a standard in the repertory of Yiddish theatres.
Only in 1923 on Broadway in an English production were the vice cops called in to arrest the cast; the play was deemed obscene. Using the lesbian characters as a pretext, the Broadway Production was shuttered due to the rising antisemitism in the 1920's: an American fascism.” 🤬 https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Paula-Vogel-Issues-Statement-on-INDECENT-Cancellation-at-Florida-High-School-20230108

Today, far-Right supporters of ousted President Jair Bolsonaro, (who is currently in Florida), stormed the National Congress building and have attempted to enter the Planalto Palace. Check @CrimethInc for updates.

Since Bolsonaro lost the election, far-Right figures like Steve Bannon, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and head of the pro-Trump white Breitbart, has pushed election denial conspiracies while building ties between far-Right movements in Brazil and the US.

Jair son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, is also a part of Steve Bannon's group, "The Movement," which has linked together neo-fascist, white nationalist, and far-Right political parties across the US, Europe, and Latin America. Eduardo has also helped bring the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) conference to Brazil, further linking fascist leaning elements in the GOP with those from the Bolsonaro camp.

In November, the Washington Post reported that Eduardo Bolsonaro met with Trump at Mar-a-lago as well as with Bannon and "former Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, now CEO of the social media company Gettr."

Bannon has pushed Bolsonaro not to concede to losing the election and is clearly helping to craft a strategy that seeks to seize state power by force - just like on January 6th in the US.

Like the fascists, our movements need to be global in opposition and just like in the US, we can't put our hopes on the neoliberals to contain and stop the spread of authoritarianism.

#Brazil #Bolsonaro #Bannon #SteveBannon #Trump #JairBolsonaro #BrazilCoup

Fascist coup attempt is underway in Brasil by supporters of Bolsonaro. As with the January 6th coup attempt in the USA, several videos show police smiling and taking selfies with the rioting Bolsonaristas. https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1612152507727499265

AGORA:
Bolsonaristas invadem STF:

https://twitter.com/choquei/status/1612160426275381248?t=QUkQJa-wiirlhxx_5z3j3A&s=19

3/ Welp redux.

Kyle Cheney:

Yep. Here’s a Jan. 6 defendant

Was just doing research for a book I #amwriting and discovered that in the U.S., over 1600 #books were banned in school libraries in 2022 -- as compared to just 175 being "challenged" in 2015 (books that are challenged are rarely banned, according to the American Library Association, so the numbers of banned books that year were much lower).

In 2022, 41% of books were banned for LBGT content. 40% had BIPOC characters.

Citations:
2022: https://pen.org/report/banned-usa-growing-movement-to-censor-books-in-schools/

2015: https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/statistics/2015infographiclong

10/ The long Proud Boy #Jan6 insurrectionist ID thread by @seditiontrack mentioned above archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20220106185331/https://twitter.com/seditiontrack/status/1426319927066206209

Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮