If your choice is living under Nazis with no job and living somewhere safer with a job - is it even a question?
Representative Erika Hilton reports that when applying for an entry visa for the United States, her gender was changed to male, contrary to another document from 2023, issued during the Biden admnistration, that certifies her gender as female. Outraged, Ms. Hilton says she will challenge the Trump administration at the UN, demanding respect for documents issued by sovereign nations.
On her Bluesky social media page, Ms. Hilton stated:
"What worries me is that a country is ignoring official documents about its own citizens and changing them according to the narrative and desires of the President of the day to take away rights.
Because this will not stop with us or affect only trans people; the list of targets for these people is immense.
And it was already being written when the first slave was freed, when the first woman voted, when workers demanded the first salary increase, when indigenous people claimed the right to their own land, when a Latino tried to get back some of what was stolen from him.
This list of targets continues to grow, and is part of a global political agenda of hate, which also does not stop in the US.
But, here in Brazil, it is a political agenda of hate that we have already defeated once. And we will defeat it as many times as necessary."
This. No one who works for the government in scientific research does so for the money.
Violation of the Public Records Act, more like it.
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Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein writes that the government has a new target in its war on extremism: nihilists—more specifically, Nihilist Violent Extremists, or NVEs. The government has reportedly come up with this designation as a kind of catchall for the culprits behind various violent incidents, and the term has shown up in several recent court cases.
Who is a true NVE? That’s a good question, and the answer is: anybody. Klippenstein aptly notes that the term has a conveniently loose definition that could be applied to all sorts of different groups that the government considers undesirable.
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And yet another box ticked off the checklist.
[obligatory Lebowski gif here]
I know I’ve said that Trump and his followers genuinely do believe in some things like the inferiority of other races and women, but even so this feels like projection too.
Dude, say what you will about racism combined with sexism, at least it’s an ethos.
< wink wink >
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“Noem has grown so distrustful of agency staff that she has started threatening and even administering polygraph tests to people suspected of leaking,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Yet another Trump supporter doesn’t like what she made.
This is an argument i have heard repeatedly, once directed at me over distributing red cards. That, somehow, educating people about their rights under the Constitution is effectively aiding and abetting a felony. I find that ridiculous on its face, but hearing people with the power to disappear folks spouting it suddenly makes it a lot less funny.
Under fascism, there are no rights. And acting like there are is denying the mythic truth¹ that the régime will tell you if you have any rights or not.²
Nothing is more dangerous to the Party than the idea that there is any power other than the Party.
1] “Mythic Truth” being something which is true because the Party says it’s true, and is proved by evidence which supports it, and by evidence which disproves it. Orwell was an optimist.
2] You find out when your door is kicked in at 3am, or you are blackbagged on the street in open daylight, or you discover that your job has evaporated and nobody will talk to you any more or look you in the eye or be seen in your company, and someone else is moving into your house.
You just eloquently said something I’ve been trying to articulate about why Christo-fascists hate LGTBQ+ people, atheists, furries… just about anyone who isn’t them.
Just the mere thought that there could be a different, equally valid way of living is an existential challenge to their authority.
However, he also claimed on Tuesday: “We know it’s an environmental exposure.”
There you go. Fucking assjole is gonna blame vaccines. And… ultrasounds? That is a new one. Asshole.