The Israeli government is doing its best to escalate a military conflict with Hezbollah. In addition to threatening the lives of countless ordinary people, this also undermines the possibility of positive social change throughout the region. Permit us to make the case as to why. 🧵⬇️
"Nothing could be further from the truth. We're not a monolith with a singular purpose or a pied piper stealing your children away. We're just people. I'm just a person. No amount of fantastical fearmongering will change the facts." Via @alanaferal.bsky.socialwww.newsweek.com/alana-mclaug...
There is a demand that trans people, especially trans women, just roll over and be silent. Be invisible. Or just don't be at all.
Trumpism tries to divert concerns of working + poor people, degraded by decades of neoliberalism, by offering false solutions in the form of calls to violence + racist attacks on immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ folks, + the Left, in an effort to protect + strengthen the power of the ruling class.
![Scene from 'The Office,' with images of JD Vance and Donald Trump placed over the heads of Michael Scott and Dwight. Michael Scott replies to warehouse workers looking to join them in unionizing by attempting to re-direct their anger against "the women." He says, "The problem is the [Haitian immigrants] and you gotta blame them."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:exgbhwnyahjgwru4hnmzm7u5/bafkreievhcmlfj5qkekgonrhomj7popkgh3rs7nzblvbb6ypjhiq7pv5vu@jpeg)
This week: *Trump 💘's white nationalist Laura Loomer *Wendy Rodgers praised fascist AfD party with Nazi slogans *Tucker Carlson interviewed Holocaust denier *National Review editor called Haitians N-word *GOP candidate for Governor praised Hitler + slavery, called himself "Black NAZI!" on porn forum
On the latest episode of #ThisIsAmericaitsgoingdown.org/this-is-amer...
Welcome, to This Is America, September 17th, 2024. On this episode, first we present an interview with a community member and participant in the local Really Really Free Market in Carrboro, North...
On the latest episode of #ThisIsAmericaitsgoingdown.org/this-is-amer...
Welcome, to This Is America, September 17th, 2024. On this episode, first we present an interview with a community member and participant in the local Really Really Free Market in Carrboro, North...
SOME RARE GOOD NEWS: the Georgia Attorney General is dropping the money laundering charges in the Stop Cop City RICO case against the Atlanta Solidarity Fund members –– they were forced to do so, because they are bogus charges, as we've said from the start!!
That's cool I wonder what the parents in springfield are telling their young children about why their elementary school keeps getting evacuated in the middle of the day
As the news cycle focuses on the latest apparent assassination attempt, the real story here is that arms profiteers have flooded the United States with weapons—while social crises have intensified—to such an extent that even billionaires like Donald Trump sometimes experience the consequences. 🧵⬇️
