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The only real reason a President would pardon hundreds of violent murderous insurrectionists—who killed numerous police officers, injured hundreds more, and tried to kill the second and third in line to the Presidency—is in case he needed them to act again while again claiming plausible deniability.

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My doctor (she's an amazing LGBT+ ally doctor) is now unsure if she is ALLOWED to continue my birth control prescription, or if my medicaid insurance will soon not cover it anymore for my MEDICAL CONDITION THAT REQUIRES IT. Not because I dont want to have kids

My OBGYN I see for my reproductive medical condition called today and cancelled my upcoming appointment and is not taking any appointments "until further notice"

Oh and reproductiverights.gov is gone

🙃 #ReproductiveRights #USA #news

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It was a #Nazi salute.

#Fascism #Fascist #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk

Oh and if you disagree you're a nazi sympathiser. Fuck you. Cunt.

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The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

- George Orwell, 1984

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Just saw the headline "Elon Musk accused of making what appeared to be fascist salute" from CBC. Is mainstream journalism too cowardly to call a straight up, broad daylight nazi salute for what it is now? How can you still be in denial about it?

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(Meaning of different arm angles, from straight up, to straight down) CALL WAITER NAZI (where Elon held his arm today) CALL TAXI PET CHILDREN PET DOG REST

It was a #Nazi salute.

#Fascism #Fascist #Trump #Musk #ElonMusk

Not that my lack of compassion for the protesting farmers was in doubt, but chief duckweed Clarkson being behind them just solidified my feeling that they can all go fuck themselves.

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Well, this can't be right. I'm sure Mr. Starmer promised us, on May 24th to be precise, that Labour would cut energy bills by £400 if Labour won the general election. Or perhaps he was just lying through his teeth. Again.
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/24730123.energy-bills-set-rise-january-uk-households/

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➡️Selling weapons to those committing genocide is complicity.

🇵🇸It's time for the UK Government to act, and end arms sales to Israel.

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👩‍⚖️Today, a High Court in London began hearing a legal challenge to the UK Government over arms sales to Israel.

➡️We're calling on Keir Starmer and Labour to stop them now, push for an immediate ceasefire and recognise the state of Palestine.

@Raccoon Super useful, thank you!

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A lot of folks are worried about the U.S. “turning” fascist—no longer questioning if it will happen, but speculating on what it will look like. There’s this idea floating around that fascism is some shocking failure of the system, an accident, or an outside force creeping in. But if you dig into fascism’s roots, it’s clear that it’s not an anomaly; it’s colonialism turned inward. Fascism is just the state using the same strategies it has always used to control and dominate marginalized people, only now, those tactics will be aimed at a wider swath of the population.

The US is an interesting subject in this case, because it already maintains multiple colonies within its territory - like the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where me and my family live. The tools used against Indigenous nations like the Lakota to get us into these places - surveillance, land theft, forced assimilation, criminalization of culture - are the same ones that, under fascism, will turn inward to impose “order” on a larger scale. The tactics honed against the Lakota to get us into Prisoner of War Camp #334 (the original designation of Pine Ridge) are what you'll see applied under a fascist regime.

As Aimé Césaire put it, what the West “cannot forgive Hitler for…is the crime against the white man…that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved [for colonized peoples].” Fascism isn’t something foreign. It’s those same colonial “procedures,” just applied closer to home. And in the U.S., those procedures aren’t just present—they’re foundational to what this country is and how it was built. Surveillance, land grabs, forced submission—these are all baked into the DNA of America. That’s why so many Americans struggle to recognize fascism’s creeping return: they’ve been living with it all along. It’s the air, the background, the norm.

So if you’re wondering what American fascism will look like, start listening to Indigenous people, to Black and Brown communities who have faced these tactics for centuries - and continue to be the first targets.

Our past and present is the future fascism is bringing for settlers. While what folk experience won’t be identical to our colonization, it’s not far off. If folk want to know what might be coming, pay attention to the people who have been dealing with these systems of control and dispossession all along—because what’s being done to us is the fascist playbook.

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