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"The #rightwing #authoritarian comeback is here, it is accelerating, and it is ruthless. Across the U.S. and Europe, the far right have seized power, stacked courts, rigged elections, and gutted democratic institutions with surgical precision. Trump and his allies have weaponized the government against dissent… Their assault on #transgender people is an active state-sponsored persecution, backed by bans on healthcare, forced detransition, and legal erasure."

theindex.media/the-pundit-clas

The Index. · The Pundit Class Played Devil’s Advocate. Now the Devil’s at the Door.Pop intellectuals flirted with reaction, thinking history was on their side—now the backlash they fueled is here, and there's no escape.

This is the #gaslighting, reprehensible, Nazi-loving scumbag destroying our country 🤬

Musk Retweets ‘Hitler Didn’t Murder Millions’ Message Amid Ongoing Nazi Controversy

#Tesla chief and presidential adviser Elon #Musk shared a post Thursday that said public sector workers, not Nazi dictator Adolf #Hitler, murdered millions of people, marking the #billionaire’s latest #Nazi-related post as he and his electric vehicle company face continued backlash and boycotts as critics say his embrace of #RightWing politics is veering more extreme.

#x #twitter #Autocrat #autocracy #fascism #ketamine
forbes.com/sites/antoniopequen

The #Plutocrat-#Bigot #socialMedia axis takes race swapping characters in #movies seriously

Because it's a pipeline to #farRight #politics, weaponized fake outrage

And they get to engage in #racism and #hate

"#AyoEdebiri ‘got insane death threats’ after Elon #Musk shared fake report about #PiratesoftheCaribbean casting

#TheBear #actor called Musk a #fascist and an idiot after his reaction to a post from a #rightWing account that claimed she was replacing Johnny Depp"

theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/

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@ohmu @Kierkegaanks

some #nonvoters are #rightWing turds too

we see the #toxicIdealism on the #left, the "it's not perfect so i won't #vote" because we're on #mastodon and in other social silos on the left, which amplifies our impression

still, it's a lot of people like that, enough to make a difference

which is why some of these toxic idealism voices we see are just #geopolitical #trollFarm #psyop, cosplaying their fake #leftWing bonafides and working hard to suppress the vote on the left

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@jaycee

the #conservative mind operates on #fear

overactive amygdala

it crowds out the prefrontal cortex: reason

#plutocrat #rightWing #media and #socialMedia amplifies the imbalance on purpose

pushing lies that goose the fear, #ignorance and #hate, capturing their minds, addicting them, controlling them

as suitably brainwashed zombies, programmed like robots, they dutifully and enthusiastically go to #vote

while the #left is not so engaged

this is our problem

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/th

#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding

Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.

by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025

"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.

"The crackdown was just getting started.

Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.

"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.

"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.

"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.

"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'

"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.

"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."

Read more:
theintercept.com/2025/03/08/co

Archived version:
archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech

The Intercept · Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks — And Trump Still Cut Federal FundingBy Natasha Lennard

Via #WantedInRome - Mar 08, 2025

#Italy must pay compensation to #migrants who were not permitted to disembark from a coast guard ship in August 2018, the country's top court ruled on Friday, sparking a furious reaction from the #RightWing government.

The 177 migrants who were held aboard the #Diciotti ship for 10 days were deprived of their personal #freedom, the #CassationCourt ruled, and accordingly are entitled to damages from the #Italian state.

wantedinrome.com/news/italy-to

Wanted in Rome · Italy's government slams court order to pay compensation to stranded migrantsBy Wanted in Rome