Lots of flag-waving, parades and bands everywhereโ€ฆ.

As Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany, observers wrote repeatedly about how exciting this all was โ€” both to Germans and outside observers (that is, observers who ignored thugs beating and disappearing folks as the "excitement" unfolded).

There were parades! Torchlight processions! Pageants and festivals! Lots of singing, marching, bands galore! Flags waving everywhere! (Book burnings and pogroms.)

#FourthofJuly #Trump
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in reply to William Lindsey

And right in the thick of it was the church. Over 95% of Germans were Christian. Everywhere, people, including their pastors, were talking about how God had sent Hitler to save the nation, how manliness was on the rise again. Hitler was refocusing the German nation on the manly Christ, the real Jesus.

As Charles Marsh writes in his book Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (NY: Knopf, 2014),

#FourthofJuly #Trump #ChristianNationalism #masculinity
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in reply to William Lindsey

"By June [1933], German Protestant leaders were united in their praise of the Nazi regime. 'Christ has come to us through Adolf Hitler,' one minister gushed. 'Through his power, his honesty, his faith and his idealism ... the Redeemer has found us, [and] we know the Savior today has come!; Passion and vigor, a brash and cocksure manliness, a Fรผhrer whose countenance fairly radiated these virtues โ€”a nation was smitten."

#FourthofJuly #Trump #ChristianNationalism #masculinity
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Russland setzt laut Geheimdiensten vermehrt verbotene Chemiewaffen ein


Russland hat nach BND-Angaben den Einsatz von chemischen Waffen in der Ukraine verstรคrkt. Die Erkenntnis mehrerer Geheimdienste passe zu der Feststellung, dass der Krieg mit immer hรถherer Brutalitรคt und Intensitรคt gefรผhrt werde.#Chemiewaffen #Russland #Ukraine
Russland setzt laut Geheimdiensten vermehrt verbotene Chemiewaffen ein


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Footage of Palestinians in Gaza being shot at by US contractors with bullets, stun grenades and pepper spray at nearly *every* food and aid collection site www.instagram.com/reel/DLpdYrs...

FDA Announces New Safety Warning on All mRNA COVID Vaccines โ€” Cites โ€œExtremely Highโ€ Risk of Myocarditis and Long-Term Heart Damage in Young Men

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/fโ€ฆ

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Trump administration has formally updated the safety labeling on all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to reflect what many Americans have been warning about for years: a disturbingly high risk of myocarditisโ€”particularly in young menโ€”and

Direct hit with an #Iskander M1 missile on a Syrian Islamist ship carrying ammunition to #Odessa.

The attack took place at a very difficult time for the Ukrainians who are in need of any source of supply after the cessation of #US military aid.
#Damascus, under the new Islamist administration of #ISIS terrorists, as it โ€œowesโ€ the West its recognition and the lifting of the embargo, supplies #Kiev with ammunition from the reserves of the former #Syrian Arab Army.

Well....not this time ๐Ÿ˜œ

Crimes Against Humanity!

15 Killings Friday Morning

The U.N. human rights office recorded 613 killings in Gaza near humanitarian convoys and as Palestinians try to reach aid at distribution points run by an Israeli-backed American organization since it first began operations in late May.

Trump, who is complicit, refuses to hold Israel and its far-right administration of Benjamin Netanyahu accountable!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas

apnews.com/article/mideast-warโ€ฆ

"Die Geschรคdigte wollte ein selbstbestimmtes Leben fรผhren und den Kontakt zu anderen Mรคnnern aufrechterhalten. Aber das duldete der Angeklagte nicht."


Sakar M., 38, #Iraner, und Isabelle D., 66, lernen sich im #Sprachkurs kennen. Die Lehrerin verliebt sich in den Mann, sie werden intim.

Doch Isabelle mรถchte ihr selbstbestimmtes Leben nicht aufgeben, sich nicht den Vorstellungen von Sakar M. unterwerfen, sich nicht einschrรคnken und kontrollieren lassen.

Es gab Streit und am Ende, so die Anklage, tรถtete der Iraner seine Freundin aus Eifersucht, warf die Leiche anschlieรŸend von einer Aussichtsplattform in den Neckar.

Kurz nach der Tat googelte der Angeklagte, wie die deutsche Polizei bei Kapitalverbrechen ermittelt.

Vor Gericht will er erklรคren, dass er im Affekt getรถtet hat. So kรถnnte er einer Verurteilung wegen Mordes entgehen, stattdessen stรผnde Totschlag im Raum.

Der Prozess wird fortgesetzt.
Ein Urteil ist fรผr Ende Juli zu erwarten.

m.bild.de/regional/stuttgart/aโ€ฆ

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gรคste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gรคsten an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration #Remigration #Bevรถlkerungsaustausch

The American repression apparatus pretending to be immigration enforcement will soon have more money that the vast majority of militaries in the world.

The United States got so accustomed to promoting violence and repression abroad that it has finally turned the gun back on itself.

newsweek.com/immigration-ice-bโ€ฆ

Handy-Videos die dem Sender Al Jazeera in Quatar zugespielt wurden zeigen apokalyptische Zustรคnde an den GHF-Verteilzentren in Gaza, wie man es sich in deutschen Wohnzimmern kaum vorstellen kann.
600 Hilfesuchende sind dort seit 27. Mai 2025 nach UN-Angaben getรถtet worden. Ein Genozid vor unseren Augen - und mit deutscher Unterstรผtzung.

aje.io/xoi4su

#Gaza #idf# #warcrimes #netanyahu #israel #IsraelWarCrimes #hamas #un #genocide #genozidingaza #genozid

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The wonderful Newt Gingrich has just written a book that is the talk of D.C. Itโ€™s called, โ€œTRUMPโ€™S TRIUMPH, Americaโ€™s Greatest Comeback.โ€ Word is that itโ€™s Fantastic, but I havenโ€™t read it yet - Iโ€™ve been a little too busy. When I do Iโ€™ll let you know what I think, but Newt always does it right!!! BUY A COPY NOW.

Video. Gaza families turn to the sea as heat and water crisis worsens
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/07/04/gaza-families-turn-to-the-sea-as-heat-and-water-crisis-worsens?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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in reply to Rose

no one with dual citizenship should be an electric official of any state or federal government. Not should a person with dual citizenship be an employee of state or federal services. Because where does the person's loyalty last if the USA and that other nation state come to a disagreement, or worse to war? As for birth, what is good for any federal office, ie presidency, should also be applied to every other federal office.

Okay, I've mentioned this a few times, but let's talk about The Orange Alternative. It's Poland in the 80's and an art history student noticed that when someone would paint an anti-authoritarian message, it would very quickly get painted over by the government. He decided to paint a dwarf with an orange hat any time he'd see the white paint that covered these messages. Soon other people were doing the same. They embraced this kind of absurdism, what the government was doing was ridiculous, so they leaned into it. The paintings of dwarves soon became organized street parties. They would all wear orange pointy hats and walk through the streets with banners, chanting Dwarf Dwarf Dwarf! They would pool what little extra funds they had together and buy things that people needed like toliet paper and tampons, and would have street fairs with food and dancing, and hand them out. At Christmas, they would dress as Santas, and do the same. The police were flummoxed by what to do, if they arrested people for wearing hats and giving out tampons, they looked foolish and would be embarrassed, not sure what to do with these surreal forms of protest.

There is so much more to this, definitely read up on it, but it was an effective form of protest, creating community, spreading joy and absurdism, because authoritarian governments are absurd. Protests are going to look like a lot of different things, and this is just one of them.

In Russia, they have created Little Picketers, tiny rough clay figures holding banners, that they press into people's hands to remind them, that they aren't alone.

So, don't believe the propaganda, you aren't alone in caring, you aren't alone in wanting a different world, put on your goofiest hat, and let people know they aren't alone either.

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Gerade eben hab ich den Film 'Gaza:Doctors Under Attack' geschaut,
die BBC-Doku, die die BBC nicht austrahlen wollte.

Ein grusliges Dokument รผber alle die systematische Zerstรถrung des Gesundheitswesen in #Gaza - und insbesondere der Healthcare Worker.
Entmenschlichung, Zerstรถrung, Tod, Folter.

>'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' โ€“ The Full Film They Didn't Want You To See<< #Israel #Genocide #WarCrimes
zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-docโ€ฆ

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Eine Menge der Inhalte waren mir schon bekannt. Aber all das nochmal geballt zu sehen - all die Brutalitรคt, das Leid, den Horror - ist dennoch erschรผtternd.

Da geschah und geschieht ein Zivilisationsbruch - nachvollziehbar fรผr alle die nicht absichtlich die Augen davor verschlieรŸen.

Wenn es eine Hรถlle geben wรผrde, hรคtten alle die daran beteiligt sind, alle die das gerechtfertigt und unterstรผtzt haben einen Platz daran verdient.

Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media


This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.

Special thanks to:
@sknob@mamot.fr for help with the French translation
Tarcรญsio Surdi @tarcisiosurdi@bolha.one for the Portuguese Brazilian translation
Jan Dytrych @jan@social.dytrych.cloud for the Czech translation
Claudio Brugnoni for help with the Italian translation

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The proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist group starts tomorrow.

This is a dangerous escalation in the criminalisation of political dissent in the UK.

Itโ€™ll increase surveillance, particularly under the Prevent Duty, and censorship under the Online Safety Act.

Read our blog โฌ‡๏ธ

openrightsgroup.org/blog/banniโ€ฆ

#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech

in reply to Open Rights Group

At the heart of this decision is the logic of โ€˜pre-crimeโ€™.

Where the state intervenes not just against unlawful acts, but also against political expression that it considers might become threatening.

This turns activism into extremism. Legitimate political demands into a national security threat.

#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech

in reply to Open Rights Group

As thereโ€™s no public evidence of any link to terrorism or support of terrorist groups from Palestine Action, Open Rights Group supports their decision to appeal proscription.

While we may have differing opinions on their tactics, we stand against this attack on their right to exist and speak out.

#palestineaction #freedomofexpression #preventduty #ukpolitics #ukpol #protest #palestine #freespeech

One reason I am angry at Jeffries, Booker, Gillibrand, etc. is they are not articulating a VISION for what to do, let alone hardcore strategies to block trump (natiomal strike, anyone?) But if they want to, they should get out in front, co-sponsore and PUSH MEDICARE-FOR-ALL now as we are going to lose all health care now. I may not get Medicare. People I know will not get meds and help they need: suffering and death wave is coming.
nationofchange.org/2025/04/30/โ€ฆ

โ€˜US Mercenariesโ€™ Killed 510 Starving Palestinians in Gaza โ€“ Former EU Chief


By Palestine Chronicle Staff Borrellโ€™s condemnation comes amid growing calls for the US-backed Israeli aid scheme under the auspices of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to be shut down, with one UN official describing the [...]

The post โ€˜US Mercenariesโ€™ Killed 510 Starving Palestinians in Gaza โ€“ Former EU Chief appeared first on Palestine Chronicle.

#JavierMilei

Die #UNO ist ein #Leviathan mit mehreren Tentakeln und ideologischer Agenda.


Rede #Milei vor Der #UN Hauptversammlung

Einige Aussagen Mileis in Deutscher Sprache:
Eine Organisation, die im Wesentlichen als Schutzschild zum Schutz der Menschheit gedacht war, verwandelte sich in einen Leviathan mit mehreren Tentakeln, der nicht nur entscheiden will, was jeder Nationalstaat tun soll, sondern auch, wie alle Bรผrger der Welt leben sollen. So sind wir von einer Organisation, die den Frieden verfolgt, zu einer Organisation รผbergegangen, die ihren Mitgliedern ihre ideologische Agenda aufzwingt

Die Agenda 2030 ist zwar in ihren Zielen gut gemeint, aber nichts anderes als ein sozialistisches supranationales Regierungsprogramm, das darauf abzielt, die Probleme der Moderne mit Lรถsungen zu lรถsen, die die Souverรคnitรคt der Nationalstaaten gefรคhrden und das Recht auf Leben, Freiheit und Eigentum der Menschen verletzen. Es ist eine Agenda, die darauf abzielt, Armut und Diskriminierung mit einer Gesetzgebung zu lรถsen, die sie nur vertieft.

Zur gleichen Zeit fรถrdert die UN im wirtschaftlichen Bereich kollektivistische MaรŸnahmen, die das Wirtschaftswachstum verhindern, Eigentumsrechte verletzen und den natรผrlichen wirtschaftlichen Prozess behindern, indem sie sogar die รคrmsten Lรคnder der Welt daran hindern, ihre eigenen Ressourcen frei zu nutzen, um voranzukommen. Diese Regulierungen und Verbote werden von Lรคndern durchgesetzt, die sich genau deshalb selbst entwickelt haben, weil sie das getan haben, was sie heute verbieten.

Es wurde eine vergiftete Beziehung zwischen globaler Regierungspolitik und internationalen Finanzinstitutionen gefรถrdert, um die รคrmsten Lรคnder dazu zu bringen, Ressourcen, die sie nicht haben, fรผr Programme zu verwenden, die sie nicht brauchen, und die sie in ewige Schuldner verwandeln, nur um die Agenda der globalen Eliten umzusetzen.

Hier sind wir also mit einer Institution, unfรคhig die weltweiten Konflikte wie den schrecklichen รœberfall Russlands in die Ukraine zu befrieden, der schon 300.000 Menschenleben gekostet hat und eine Spur von 1 Million Verwundeten hinterlรครŸt, investiert diese Organisation Zeit und Mรผhe, um den armen Lรคndern aufzuzwingen, wie und was sie produzieren sollen, mit wem sie sich verbinden sollen, was sie essen sollen und woran sie zu glauben haben, wie der sogenannte Pakt fรผr die Zukunft es diktiert.

Wir sind Zeugen des Endes einer ร„ra des Kollektivismus mit seiner Woke-Agenda und seiner moralischen รœberheblichkeit. Sie sind mit der Realitรคt kollidiert und es gibt keine glaubwรผrdigen Lรถsungen mehr, die sie den wirklichen Problemen der Welt bieten kรถnnen. Tatsรคchlich hatte sie diese nie.

Das passiert immer mit den Ideen, die von der Linken kommen. Sie entwerfen ein Modell, das dem entspricht, was der Mensch ihrer Meinung nach tun sollte, und wenn die Individuen freiwillig anders handeln, haben sie keine bessere Lรถsung, als ihre Freiheit einzuschrรคnken und sie zu unterdrรผcken.

Wir Argentinier haben schon gesehen, was am Ende dieses Weges liegt. Armut, Wohnungslosigkeit, Anarchie und das Fehlen jeder Freiheit. Es ist noch nicht zu spรคt, diesen Weg zu verlassen.

Wir glauben an das Recht auf Leben fรผr alle.
Wir glauben an das Recht auf Eigentum fรผr alle.
Wir glauben an die Freiheit, sich auszudrรผcken fรผr alle.
Wir glauben an Religionsfreiheit fรผr alle.
Wir glauben an das Recht auf freien Handel fรผr alle.
Und wir glauben an die Beschrรคnkung des Staates fรผr alle.

Wir glauben, dass alle Menschen frei von Tyrannei und Unterdrรผckung leben sollten, unabhรคngig davon, ob es politische Unterdrรผckung, wirtschaftliche Versklavung oder religiรถser Fanatismus ist.

#Argentinien wird nichts unterstรผtzen, was gegen die Freiheit, den Handel oder die natรผrlichen Rechte der Menschen verstรถรŸt, egal, wer es fรถrdert oder wieviel Konsens es hat. Statt dessen laden wir die freien Nationen der Welt ein, gemeinsam mit uns eine neue Agenda zu schaffen: Die Agenda der Freiheit.

#Steuern sind #Raub
#Sozialismus = #Kommunismus = #Faschismus
#Geld #Geldsystem #Geldsozialismus = #Neoliberalismus #EUDSSR #GreatReset #China #Rohstoffmangel #Armut
#Covid #Corona #GreatReset #FED #EZB #GeldKnechtschaft #99%
#Hayek #Mises #BitCoin #SocialJustice #FabianSocialism #MoneySocialism #Socialism #Fabiansozialismus

With only 500 letters to play with, I commend this summary from Monbiot.

Successive UK governments have sought to control and suppress protest, increasingly so as an ability to communicate without relying on commercial and state media has developed. โ€˜Ourโ€™ maladministration is not only continuing the trend but attempting to accelerate it.
Blurring the lines between terrorism and protest is a means to an end.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/โ€ฆ

#Protest #Communications #PalestinianAction #UkPol #Autocracy

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A charity shop near us always does brilliant creative window displays. They often make really ingenious dresses from all sorts of materials; fabric, plastic, paper etc. They've gone for a mermaid inspired theme this time. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿงœโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Supreme Court Lets Trump Banish Immigrants to South Sudan
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/03/supreme-court-trump-immigration-djibouti-south-sudan/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-TheIntercept

Climate change satellite goes dark, becomes space junk

Tracking dangerous methane gas, the Methanestat satellite seems to have lost power after 1.5 years into 5-year missionโ€ฆ
#Climate #ClimateChange #Climate-Change #climatechange #EPA #globalwarming #GreenhouseGas #spacejunk
europesays.com/2216977/

"The economist and statistician E.F. Schumacher did not know what, exactly, would cause โ€œsocietyโ€™s collapse.โ€ But, he said, โ€œI do know that a society which seeks fulfillment only in mindless material expansion does not fit into this world for long. There simply is no place for infinite growth on a finite planet.โ€ He delivered that grim assertion in 1974"

nybooks.com/articles/2025/07/2โ€ฆ

Trump Day 163-165: Trump budget bill passed, Trump wants to deport US citizens, Abrego Garcia tells of being tortured, 200 Marines to Florida, weapons for Ukraine are withheld and Loomer โ€˜jokesโ€™ about feeding 65 million people to alligators: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-1โ€ฆ

#France and #Switzerland shut down #NuclearPower plants amid scorching #heatwave

By Euronews, Published on 02/07/2025

To cool down, nuclear power plants pump water from local rivers or the sea, which they then release back into water bodies at a higher temperature. However, this process can threaten local #biodiversity if water is released which is too hot.

euronews.com/2025/07/02/franceโ€ฆ

#RenewablesNow! #ClimateChange #NoNukes #GlobalWarming #WarmingWaters #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #NuclearWasteIsForever

Many in the US got a propaganda message from the Social Security Administration last night. It says, "The bill ensures that nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits, providing meaningful and immediate relief to seniors who have spent a lifetime contributing to our nation's economy." That sounds great, but I haven't seen any fact-checking on this email, and it seems that there will be zero benefit for the majority.

๐ŸŽ† This July 4th, light up your screen with vintage low-res fireworks! ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

The Complete Computer Fireworks Celebration Kit (1985) was created by John van Ryzin, the same developer behind Activisionโ€™s classic H.E.R.O.

Commodore 64 fans can find the pixel pyrotechnics here โžก๏ธ archive.org/details/Fireworks_โ€ฆ

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