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@georgetakei The whole #MAGA lot are completely insane. They have no active brain cells left at this point. When did we stop hospitalizing people with debilitating mental illnesses??
Souviens @heidilifeldman Come now... the #MAGA crowd is having fun being powerful. Don't go and spoil their fun...
These tariffs are doomed to eventually fail as at their thug core they are rooted in greed.
Global stocks and US futures plunge as Trump tariffs reverberate across the world
> The declines signal another day of massive losses ahead when U.S. trading officially begins.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/us-stock-futures-plunge-ahead-monday-open-trump-tariffs-shock-continue-rcna199924 #MAGA #economy #US #TradeWar #stocks #tariffs
#US President #DonaldTrump and his #tariffs have taken a bull stock market and are on the precipice of turning it into a bear faster than any president has overseen in modern history.
> If the stock market closes in bear territory – a drop of 20% from a recent peak – it would be the earliest [..] bear (market) in the history of the S&P 500, which dates back to 1957.
> These same tariffs may also take a booming economy and turn it into a #RECESSION https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-netanyahu-news-04-07-25/index.html #stocks #economy #MAGA
@SocraticEthics #BoycottUSA to quickly end the global #TrumpTaxes - aka ‘reciprocal #tariffs ‘ - and #SaveAmerica from the #MAGA cult of hate and ignorance.
Trump and the Republicans raised taxes on working families last week.
Because those government subsidies for Musk’s companies, Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink aren’t going to pay themselves.
How it started / how it's going, "MAGA intelligentsia" top finance bro edition:
The U.S. government’s decision to arrest a Maryland man and send him to a notorious prison in #ElSalvador appears to be “wholly lawless,” a federal judge wrote Sunday in a legal opinion explaining why she had ordered the Trump administration to bring him back to the United States.
> There is little to no evidence to support a “vague, uncorroborated” allegation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was once in the MS-13 street gang
https://apnews.com/article/ice-trump-immigration-el-savador-5d2f7b919cb1a4ed5ce31d44f391d8f5 #MAGA #immigration #deportations #ICE
@jeff
#MAGA - National Park Services removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage
> An image of and quote from #HarrietTubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
> The National Parks Service webpage for the “Underground Railroad” used to lead with a quote from Tubman, the railroad’s most famous “conductor” https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/us/national-parks-underground-railroad-harriet-tubman/index.html
@xerophile I just read a piece about the #GirlsGoneBible! Along the same lines...!
"Girls Gone Bible": Spicy Christian podcast sells young women on MAGA. Will scandal hurt or help?
April 4, 2025
"Halili and Reitsma look nothing like stereotypical church ladies, to put it mildly. They look like sexy young actresses on the outer fringes of Hollywood, which is what they are: According to IMDB, their movie roles include the horror movie victim in 'Spin the Bottle' and the 'slutty girl' in 'Rock of Ages.' This incongruity between cosmopolitan appearance and fundamentalist message is central to their popularity.
"Whether or not this is entirely strategic, 'Girls Gone Bible' and other female-centric, Christian-themed podcasts can be understood as parallel to the better-known '#manfluencer' content of Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson and others. Although their content manifests first and foremost as lifestyle advice on dating, working out and fashion, for example, those influencers are perceived as driving younger men into the #misogynistic far right and the #MAGA movement, and may have been a decisive factor in the 2024 presidential election. Halili and Reitsma are offering a sense of community and religious fellowship to younger women who want to be seen as feminine, fashionable and sexually attractive. But the political and cultural ramifications of their messaging, which includes urging young women to accept a 'submissive' role in marriage and overt support for the Trump agenda, are impossible to miss."
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/04/girls-gone-bible-spicy-christian-podcast-sells-young-women-on-maga-will-scandal-hurt-or-help/
#MAGABabes #Looksmaxxing #Manosphere #GirlsGoneBible
Brooke Rollins says Trump's Cabinet are "some of the smartest people she's ever worked with." But it's all a hack she uses.
Trump Loves Her. His Allies Don’t Trust Her.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/25/brooke-rollins-trump-transition-afpi-00184083
Super exciting and inspiring to see so many people out there yesterday. Truly historic numbers of participants. And in spite of my following comments, I think demos like these are critical. If nothing else, they show the world that we are not sheep, that we oppose the fascist regime. It gives the government a taste of how strong we can be. Large demos like these provide a forum for activists to communicate with each other, share ideas, agitate for more radical changes. And it is empowering to be part of large demos, particularly for those who haven't done it before, instilling some hope in these dark times.
But here are a couple of things to consider:
(1) "Hands Off" is a liberal, not a leftist, slogan, devoid of anti-capitalist critique. Consider that the posters included "Hands Off NATO." That piece suggests that at least some organizers and participants actually support imperialist wars and interventions. NATO is one of the most anti-working-class organizations there is. Its entire purpose (contrary to the propaganda) is to pit working-class soldiers against each other in order to protect existing, and acquire new, territory, markets, and workers for the benefit of capitalists.
(2) "Hands Off Medicare, Social Security, libraries, immigrants, trans folks, etc." are necessary and existential short-term goals. But, at best, success brings us back to the pre-Trump status quo, which wasn't particularly good for most working-class people, nor for members of most marginalized communities. We need to be demanding a lot more (which many activists at yesterday’s demos were calling for).
(3) Some of the posters demanded "Fair Elections." But what does this even mean in a representative democracy? Yes, the Republicans have certainly exploited gerrymandering, the electoral college system, and voter suppression to win elections, sometimes even in spite of losing the popular vote. In fact, there are some who think Texas, with the 7th & 8th largest African American communities in the country (Dallas, Houston), would vote blue if not for gerrymandering and voter suppression. But then what? We'd still just be voting for who gets to rule over us and those rulers would still be primarily rich people, whose interests and policies align much more with the CEOs and corporate bosses than with working-class people. If the past is any indication, Democrats would still be supporting Zionism & Genocide, government suppression of strikes and worker movements (e.g., the recent train strike), imperialist & NATO interventions abroad. We'd still have millions living in the streets and millions dependent on food stamps and food pantries. We'd still have snowballing climate change and a government hamstrung by its subservience to capital. Let’s not forget, under Clinton, a Democrat, we got NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the anti-worker NAFTA, and an “End to Welfare as We Know It.” And under Obama we got drone assassinations of U.S. citizens living abroad and a continuation of Bush’s mass deportations and imprisonment of immigrant children.
Optimistically, there were many people at yesterday’s demos who ARE thinking about these issues and fighting for far more than just a return to the pre-Trump status quo. There were lots of anti-genocide signs and posters and solidarity with Palestinians. Many demanding bodily autonomy for all, including both access to birth control and abortion, as well as access to gender affirming care. There were many demonstrators calling for a General Strike, which has far more potential to achieve results than do mass demonstrations. (Direct Action gets the Goods!)
So, let’s continue with these large mass demos. But let’s also start organizing direct actions that hurt the rulers’ bottom line. And let’s also remember that the most enduring North American General Strikes (e.g., Saint Louis, 1877; Seattle, 1919; Winnipeg, 1919; Minneapolis, 1934) all involved incredible organization and coordination, including the delivery of free food to residents; worker control of policing and emergency services; shutdown of corporate media and worker control of mass communication; worker control of transport and shipping.
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I want to share a few words from Michel Feher, a French researcher who works on the French far-right's political tactics to reach the working class
because clearly the American republicans are doing the same thing and the democratic party gets it completely wrong.