"the pattern is clear to anyone willing to see it. When someone shows you who they are through sustained action, believe them. When they openly perform #Nazi salutes, support Nazi-adjacent political movements, spread Nazi conspiracy theories, & provide a platform for Nazi rhetoric, it's time to state the obvious: This is what a 21st-century Nazi looks like. He just happens to own rockets, electric cars, & the means to spread his ideology globally."
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-nazi/
[#]ElonMusk #Musk #News
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""It was a #Nazi salute and a very belligerent one, too."
The gesture was immediately met with celebration among #NeoNazi groups, with the leader of the Blood Tribe, Christopher Pohlhaus, declaring his joy and the neo-Nazi forum Stormfront featuring the image under "Heil Hitler."
This wasn't an isolated incident. It was not a misunderstanding. It was the culmination of years of increasingly overt Nazi behavior"
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-nazi/
[#]ElonMusk #Trump #GOP #Politics #USA #US #News #Media
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The article doesn't mention it, but apx 1.7% of babies born are #Intersex, meaning at birth, they are not definitively male or female.
"Intersex people are born with sex characteristics (such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of #male or #female bodies. Experts estimate that up to 1.7% of the population are born with intersex traits."
https://www.ohchr.org/en/sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity/intersex-people
[#]LGBTQ #HumanRights #Politics #US #USA
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From #DonaldTrump EO:
"“‘Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,”... “‘Male’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.”
...All fetuses have phenotypically female genitalia until they reach six to seven weeks of gestation...
By describing a fetus as a person from conception, Trump has legitimized fetal personhood."
https://newrepublic.com/post/190506/donald-trump-fetal-personhood-executive-order
[#]Politics #Women #HumanRights #US #USA
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Rolling Stone gets its headlines right:
Here We Go Again:
Convicted Felon Sworn In As President
[#]Press #Media #News #Headline #Trump #Felon #DonaldTrump #Crime #Criminal
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"The Trumps have been trying to get into #crypto for a while, and they saw an opportunity to cash in this weekend. Just as #Trump sold his #MAGA devotees Trump-branded Bibles & sneakers, he has now sold them a Trump memecoin. Of course, if someone pays $60 for a Trump-branded Bible, they may have overpaid, but at least they got a holy book in exchange; if you lose all your savings on Trump’s memecoin, you have nothing to show for it."
https://archive.is/xkhPP
[#]Ponzi #DonTheCon #USPol #US #News
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Two days before his inauguration, #DonaldTrump abruptly launched a new cryptocurrency, traded as “$TRUMP”...
[#]memecoins have no cash flow, no fundamental value. There’s no claim to a business’s future profits, nor even the pretense of a business model...
Rather, people buy memecoins such as $TRUMP solely because they think someone else might be willing to pay more for them someday. It’s basically a whizbang-sounding #Ponzi scheme."
https://archive.is/xkhPP
[#]Corruption #Politics #News #USA
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Here's a larger photo of some of the plants in our garage.
I put a red arrow pointing at the caterpillar returned to one of the leaves on one of the butterfly weed plants. If you look closely, I think you can see the little stripey larva hanging on to the leaf.
[#]Gardening #Winter #Caterpillar
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I love my Hubby.
As he was driving, he noticed a caterpillar on his sleeve that undoubtedly came from one of the butterfly weed plants overwintering in our garage. So he turned around and called me so I could help him put the caterpillar back on the plant.
Realistically, the late caterpillars (and chrysalises) will most likely not survive till spring, but it's still awesome that he will go out of his way to try and help them survive, even with such long odds.
[#]Nature #Caterpillar #Winter
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Lose your democracy vs Lose your TikTok
by Nick Anderson
https://www.gocomics.com/nickanderson/2025/01/18
[#]Cartoon #EditorialCartoon #TikTok #Democracy #Politics #USPol #US #USA
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Many of us see it and are terrified.
[#]SocialMedia #Twitter #TikTok #Facebook #Trump #Politics #USPol #US #USA
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"The brief proceeding [Trump's inauguration] will begin with sharp irony as Chief Justice Roberts, whose Supreme Court has given the president immunity to act as he pleases, reads the oath. It will end with the absurdity of Trump responding that he will in fact preserve, protect, and defend a document that he has openly ridiculed."
https://steady.substack.com/p/i-do-solemnly-swear
[#]Politics #USPol #Corruption #SCOTUS #Trump #Inauguration #US #USA #News
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" #Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the #WhiteHouse National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election...
Trump’s pick for national security adviser, #Florida Rep. Mike Waltz... publicly signaled his intention to get rid of all nonpolitical appointees & career #intelligence officials serving on the NSC... to ensure the council is staffed with those who support Trump"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jan/13/incoming-trump-team-questions-civil-servants-natio/
[#]Politics #USA #News
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"Smith concluded that #DonaldTrump would have been found #guilty on each of 3 conspiracy counts, had he not won reelection this year, a result that forced Smith to dismiss the charges per Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president. Despite the required dismissal, the admissible evidence, Smith stated in blunt terms, was “sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”"
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/jack-smith-has-his-say
[#]JackSmith #Report #Trump #Jan6 #Insurrection #Politics #US #News
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This is how the #GOP treats Pete Hegseth's history of infidelity, spousal abuse, and rape.
https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DE0J3HHgtnD
Republicans do not care if Pete Hegseth is actually qualified to be Secretary of Defense (He is most definitely NOT), they will approve his nomination because Trump told them to, and they're afraid of Trump.
This is how #Tyranny takes over the USA. The GOP helps usher it in.
[#]PeteHegseth #SecDef #Hearing #Military #US #USMilitary #USA #GOP #Politics #Fascism
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Here is the official DOJ online post of the "Report of Special Counsel Smith, Volume 1"
https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf
How soon after Jan 20 will that official posting be removed? The corrupt #Trump administration will certainly not leave it up.
[#]SpecialCounsel #JackSmith #Report #Jan6 #Insurrection #GOP #Corruption #Politics #US #USA
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"worth noting that #Trump challenges none of the actual findings in Smith’s #report, which was based on interviews with more than 250 individuals, grand jury testimony from more than 55 witnesses, & evidence from searches of numerous electronic devices.
...Trump’s lawyers were granted the opportunity to read Smith’s report prior to its release, & in their letter to AG #MerrickGarland objecting to its release, they also challenged none of his facts."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whines-in-victory
[#]Crime #USA #News
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Fuel on the Fire:
An Ominous Preview of Propaganda to Come
by David Pepper
https://davidpepper.substack.com/p/fuel-on-the-fire
[#]Cartoon #EditorialCartoon #Humor #Politics #Musk #ElonMusk #Trump #TrumpLies #Lies #Disinformation #ConspiracyTheories #California #CaliforniaWildFires #Fires #Wildfires
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If you're a teacher who lost books due to the California fires, or if you're a parent whose child(ren) lost books, author Veronica Bane is organizing help.
If you are willing to donate books, you can also help.
Here is the form for either requesting help or donating:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScW0VHXo3teTViHaFTHdEyqrIkXalQ75lXvXywQ3Qbij4jhew/viewform
Here's the link to the original post:
https://www.threads.net/@veronicabane/post/DEtaT2ypGON
[#]Books #Bookstodon #California #Fire #Fires #Wildfire #Wildfires #Teachers #Parents #Libraries #US #USA #Donations #Library
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"My election postmortem boils down to these observations... perhaps helpful for winning elections. I'll name them, then spend a few paragraphs on each.
https://www.the-reframe.com/being-more-like-republicans/
[#]Democrats #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Newsletter #Dems #Political #Opposition #GOP
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