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Natalie Davis
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@NatalieDavis@journa.host  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

‘Minneapolis is the test case’: Trump threatens Insurrection Act to put down protests

https://therealnews.com/minneapolis-trump-insurrection-act-protests

#news #left #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

The Real News Network

‘Minneapolis is the test case’: Trump threatens Insurrection Act to put down protests

“The Insurrection Act was always the plan,” warned one critic of the president.
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@NatalieDavis@journa.host  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

‘Minneapolis is the test case’: Trump threatens Insurrection Act to put down protests

https://therealnews.com/minneapolis-trump-insurrection-act-protests

#news #left #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia

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‘Minneapolis is the test case’: Trump threatens Insurrection Act to put down protests

“The Insurrection Act was always the plan,” warned one critic of the president.
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European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Europe is scaling up.

Over the past year, we have been working to further complete our Union👇

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@DBG3D@masto.es replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@EUCommission

To everyone posting #against #AI, including me, this stupid morons of the #EU do not care about what we say.

They care about how many more years they can keep stretching the planet for a few #euros. Specialy the right wing parties like the #european #popularparty. And the #ultra #rightwing ones.

The #left #parties are completely sleep and clueless. We do not see them opossing with enough strength to this #corrupt #madness.

#politics

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Talking to Our Left Friends

We need to have an honest conversation with our left friends.

Keep this simple:

Fear / control → right-wing

Trust / open → left-wing

That’s #KISS, everything else is noise.

To understand why we’re in such a mess, look at the loop we’ve been trapped in:
Fear of the right feeding a right-wing agenda to fight the right - which only feeds the fear.

That’s the mess of today’s politics. We’ve been running on it for decades, and it’s burning everything.

So ask yourself - look at your actions, your projects, your compromises over the last 10 years - Where is the left?

When did we stop building on trust?
When did we start mirroring the very control we said we were resisting?

It’s time to come back to first principles — trust, openness, and shared struggle.
If we can’t live them, we can’t build them.

#KISS #OMN #4opens #left #trust #openweb

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@witchescauldron@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Talking to Our Left Friends

We need to have an honest conversation with our left friends.

Keep this simple:

Fear / control → right-wing

Trust / open → left-wing

That’s #KISS, everything else is noise.

To understand why we’re in such a mess, look at the loop we’ve been trapped in:
Fear of the right feeding a right-wing agenda to fight the right - which only feeds the fear.

That’s the mess of today’s politics. We’ve been running on it for decades, and it’s burning everything.

So ask yourself - look at your actions, your projects, your compromises over the last 10 years - Where is the left?

When did we stop building on trust?
When did we start mirroring the very control we said we were resisting?

It’s time to come back to first principles — trust, openness, and shared struggle.
If we can’t live them, we can’t build them.

#KISS #OMN #4opens #left #trust #openweb

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@bad_immigrant@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

How many leftists would it take to stop a Shahed drone? Do your local leftist groups know what Shahed drone is at all? Do those who shout "Peace with #Russia!" understand the cost of that peace for everyone around the globe? I'm really confused in modern leftist ideas... #Left

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@bad_immigrant@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

How many leftists would it take to stop a Shahed drone? Do your local leftist groups know what Shahed drone is at all? Do those who shout "Peace with #Russia!" understand the cost of that peace for everyone around the globe? I'm really confused in modern leftist ideas... #Left

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Heidi Li Feldman
Heidi Li Feldman
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Oklahoma promoting Hitler-Youth-like Turning Point U.S.A. clubs in public schools. State government joining with Charlie Kirk’s organization to indoctrinate high school students into Republican Fascism. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/24/turning-point-oklahoma-high-schools

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Oklahoma official says all high schools will have Turning Point chapters after Charlie Kirk killing

Conservative youth group chapters will counter ‘woke indoctrination’, says Ryan Walters
Regendans
Regendans
@regendans@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Do I understand correctly that the Third Red Scare in USA has arrived ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism#

Asking for a friend.

#uspol #woke #left #antifa

McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the Second Red Scare, also known as the McCarthy Era.[1] After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false.[2][3] The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare.[4][5][6]
McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the Second Red Scare, also known as the McCarthy Era.[1] After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false.[2][3] The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare.[4][5][6]
McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the Second Red Scare, also known as the McCarthy Era.[1] After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false.[2][3] The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare.[4][5][6]

McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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Nonilex
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Confirmed, even at 11:30PM MT suspect still at large.

Every “ #left” politician & talking head has decried the fatal #shooting of #CharlieKirk, but the #RightWing peeps like #SteveBannon & #FoxNews‘ #JesseWaters are saying we are at WAR. Disgusting. They’re not calling for unity or an end to #PoliticalViolence. They are fanning the flames of #division & #hate.

#law#GunControl#GunViolence#FarRight #extremism

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

While the shooter’s identity & political beliefs remained unknown in the hours after the shooting, that didn’t stop many on the #right from framing the #CharleKirk killing as an indictment of the #left.

“No more mercy for leftists,” wrote the Malaysian MAGA influencer Ian Miles Cheong. “They want you dead. They truly want to kill you and desecrate your body and erase your memory.”

“THIS IS WAR,” wrote Chaya Raichik, the person behind the Libs of TikTok account.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-shot-dead-turning-point-usa-founder-death.html

Nonilex
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

“The Left is the party of murder,” #ElonMusk wrote.

“The Left wants us dead,” wrote C.J. Pearson, a Gen Z conservative influencer. “This is not hyperbole. This is now the ONLY logical conclusion that any sane human being can reach after a repeated pattern of demonstrated behavior & violence.”

#USpol #right #left#CharleKirk#FarRight #extremism#PoliticalViolence

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#MatthewDowd responded: “He’s been one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly…pushing this sort of hate speech…aimed at certain groups. I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. I think that is the environment we are in. You can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have & then saying these awful words & not expect awful actions to take place. That’s the unfortunate environment we are in.”
Nonilex
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

While the shooter’s identity & political beliefs remained unknown in the hours after the shooting, that didn’t stop many on the #right from framing the #CharleKirk killing as an indictment of the #left.

“No more mercy for leftists,” wrote the Malaysian MAGA influencer Ian Miles Cheong. “They want you dead. They truly want to kill you and desecrate your body and erase your memory.”

“THIS IS WAR,” wrote Chaya Raichik, the person behind the Libs of TikTok account.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/09/charlie-kirk-shot-dead-turning-point-usa-founder-death.html

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

Confirmed, even at 11:30PM MT suspect still at large.

Every “ #left” politician & talking head has decried the fatal #shooting of #CharlieKirk, but the #RightWing peeps like #SteveBannon & #FoxNews‘ #JesseWaters are saying we are at WAR. Disgusting. They’re not calling for unity or an end to #PoliticalViolence. They are fanning the flames of #division & #hate.

#law#GunControl#GunViolence#FarRight #extremism

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Nathaniel Gregory
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@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Too many Americans think " #socialist" & " #communist" are just synonyms for "bad person I don't like". Those words have meanings, you know.

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#Harris#TimWalz#Walz#Democracy#US#USA#ElonMusk#Musk#Fascism#Fascist#BernieSanders#Sanders#AOC#FraudSquad#Progressive#Progressives

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@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Like hell, no wonder #liberals hate people to their #left. They honestly think fucking #DonaldTrump, the #billionaire #capitalist, is a #socialist.

Aren't these the people that used to brag in 2016 about how "smart" and "well-educated" they were?

#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#DNC#RepublicanParty#RNC#GOP#DonaldTrump#Trump #JDVance#Vance#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#US#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist

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Marc Trius
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@alter_kaker@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

I had a chat yesterday with an old #Jewish comrade last night. I mentioned that I'm mad that there is so much #antisemitism on the #Left. My friend murmured, there's a lot of antisemitism everywhere these days.

But the Left was supposed to be the safe place! Where we prefigure a better world! So it's not the same.

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Toni Aittoniemi
Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

An additional thought here is, that arming up to face the threat of Russia contains a flipside not often discussed:

Putting a lot of money on weapons can cause money put on wellfare setvices to decline.
When wellfare declines, Russia has a new front of attack: Farright propaganda that can flip the table and result in a pro-russian administration!

This usually happens because patriotic people tend to lean right-wing. It is of paramount importance that #left-wing #patriotism makes noise here!

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Nithin Coca నితిన్
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@ncoca@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
#Jacobin is really the king of commissioning older western white #leftists to write about the global south. This piece does no original reporting, has no Indonesian voices, and makes blanket statements.

It's not bad, but I can think of dozens of Indonesians who could have written a far better piece than this.

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/indonesia-suharto-genocide-revisionism-authoritarianism/

#Indonesia#Suharto#Prabowo#Left#Tankies #AccidentalCommunism

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Toni Aittoniemi
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

As long as the ”left wing” in capitalist western societies keeps letting down the poor & working class, there will be enough ears for far-right preachers telling them to blame whoever the enemies are this time..

Before the ”left” gets it’s act together, this spiraling down to fascism will not end. And it’s getting pretty close right now..

Right now they’re all just talking in capitalist words, juggling capitalist concepts, wondering why they can’t make anything change!
#left #politics

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Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

As long as the ”left wing” in capitalist western societies keeps letting down the poor & working class, there will be enough ears for far-right preachers telling them to blame whoever the enemies are this time..

Before the ”left” gets it’s act together, this spiraling down to fascism will not end. And it’s getting pretty close right now..

Right now they’re all just talking in capitalist words, juggling capitalist concepts, wondering why they can’t make anything change!
#left #politics

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Kobiety w Sieci
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@kobietywsieci@pol.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

[repost The Left EU] What does an illegal abortion clinic look like?

In Warsaw, just steps from the Polish Parliament, stands the country’s first abortion clinic. A colourful place of care, resistance, and solidarity. Run by courageous feminist activists, it offers what the state refuses: access to safe, self-managed abortions.

A delegation from The Left visited the clinic and brought abortion pills in solidarity, but it is not enough. The need is relentless, and the supply cannot keep up.

This is not freedom. This is not democracy. It’s a systematic violation of human rights.

We want safe and accessible abortions — for everyone, everywhere.

Support their fight: 🔗 abotak.org

#abortion #womenrights #humanrights #poland #eurepe #left #theleft #warsaw @razem @polisz

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@kobietywsieci@pol.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

[repost The Left EU] What does an illegal abortion clinic look like?

In Warsaw, just steps from the Polish Parliament, stands the country’s first abortion clinic. A colourful place of care, resistance, and solidarity. Run by courageous feminist activists, it offers what the state refuses: access to safe, self-managed abortions.

A delegation from The Left visited the clinic and brought abortion pills in solidarity, but it is not enough. The need is relentless, and the supply cannot keep up.

This is not freedom. This is not democracy. It’s a systematic violation of human rights.

We want safe and accessible abortions — for everyone, everywhere.

Support their fight: 🔗 abotak.org

#abortion #womenrights #humanrights #poland #eurepe #left #theleft #warsaw @razem @polisz

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