"Trump Withdraws U.S. Attorney Nominee, Whose Extremism Tested Limits for G.O.P. Senators. The means of Ed Martin’s ascent as the leading prosecutor for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington was his path out of power":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/ed-martin-justice-department-republicans.html #politics #extremism
Terrorist leader organised funding for radical preacher's hate-speech trial
By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Notorious Australian terrorist leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika organised funding for radical preacher Wisam Haddad's hate-speech legal battle against Australia's peak Jewish body.
The world can't afford another Hitler. #rightwing #extremism #democracy
Trump's Trump’s new Surgeon General of the United States nominee is Dr. Casey Means. Jeff Timmer wrote:
"She’s not a licensed physician. She cannot practice medicine. She’s unqualified. And she’s a lunatic."
I believe that makes her a lot like RFK Jr.
#healthcare #extremism #politics
Noul guvern al Germaniei, condus de CDU, se confruntă cu provocări semnificative din partea partidului de extremă dreaptă AfD, care a devenit a doua forță în parlament și a fost desemnat organizație extremistă. Discuțiile vizează rolul parlamentar, posibila interdicție și tacticile AfD. #Germania #AfD #Politica #Opozitie #Extremism
Детальніше: https://newsru.us/node/5840
Fucking hell
#JDVance’s half brother advances in #Cincinnati mayoral primary
2 #Republicans challenged incumbent Cincinnati, #Ohio #Mayor Aftab Pureval, a #Democrat, in the nonpartisan primary.
#FarRight #extremism #radicalization #indoctrination #propaganda #media #VoteBlue #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/cincinnati-mayor-jd-vance-brother/
Cadwalladr: "This reverse attack approach is what it makes it so incredibly difficult to fight back against the far right. They have captured the language of defenders of democracy defenders and reversed the meanings of these terms." #extremism #rightwing #fascism #democracy https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/springtime-for-hitler
#Germany's #Merz fails to be elected chancellor in unprecedented debacle
German conservative leader #FriedrichMerz failed to secure enough parliamentary votes to become chancellor on Tuesday, throwing politics in #Europe's largest #economy into disarray as it seeks to emerge from #recession and stem #FarRight #extremism.
#geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/merz-fails-be-elected-chancellor-by-german-parliament-2025-05-06/
You can tell when the day shift comes on at CBC because stories like this get shoved off the Top Stores section and down the World feed as fast as possible like so much garbage.
Or like the tens of thousands being exterminated before the eyes of the world.
Tomorrow, it'll be forgotten and the business of slaughter can can continue unrestrained by morality or international 'law' from which fascists simply excuse themselves.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-gaza-offensive-expansion-1.7526358
Carole Cadwalladr’s latest on the #broligarchy:
Springtime for Hitler
It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.
#UKPol #USPol #Musk #Zuckerberg #NickClegg #extremism #FarRight #oligarchs #oligarchy
https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy/p/springtime-for-hitler?r=4nvm&utm_medium=ios
The reich-wing administration has criticized #Germany's decision to ban #afd the far-right party, after a deep review of their activities.
According to columnist Heather Cox Richardson, Germany's Foreign Office responded thusly:
This is #democracy. The decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our #Constitution & the #ruleoflaw. It is independent #courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that #rightwing #extremism needs to be stopped.
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Our Founders believed in freedom of #speech, but were alert to the threat of #populism. Some of their attempts to mitigate that threat through representation government worked out reasonably well — separation of powers, the House of Representatives — while others — the Senate, the Electoral College — developed largely as sops to smaller states or slave states, have not.
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Germany's AfD files a lawsuit over 'right-wing extremist' designation.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a lawsuit against the country's agency tasked with protecting the constitution.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution designated the AfD as a "right-wing extremist" organisation last Friday, meaning authorities can step up their surveillance of the party.
The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis. The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust anti-fascist consensus | by Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomaszimmer/p/the-american-government-sides-with?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios #AfD #Germany #MAGA #fascism #extremism #neoNazi
"JD Vance’s Little Brother Tries His Hand at Politics. It’s Not Going So Well" for him:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/03/jd-vance-brother-cory-bowman-cincinnati-mayor-00323667 #politics #extremism
Colin Jost: "Donald Trump said he is bringing back #ColumbusDay.
And, as a tribute to Columbus, RFK Jr. said he is bringing back smallpox."
#healthcare #RFKjr #MakeSmallpoxGreatAgain #extremism #humor #politics #SNL
In response to RFK Jr., Neil Stone wrote:
"Yes, it's absolutely true - the human race survived hundreds of thousands of years without vaccines. They just died at age 40, and half the babies never saw their first birthdays, but hey, those were the good old days."
#healthcare #extremism #politics
They included #jurists appointed by both #Republican & #Democratic presidents. Most requested anonymity, citing the potential for further inflaming #security fears or raising questions about their impartiality. Additional information was gleaned from #legal records & interviews with half a dozen ofcls involved in #court security.
As #Trump & his allies call for #judges to be impeached or attack them as “radical left” political foes, the #families of judges are being singled out for #harassment.
Since Trump returned to power, at least 60 judges or appeals courts have slowed or blocked some of his admin’s initiatives. Reuters spoke w/ 12 federal judges who raised concerns about the #security of their own families or of the relatives of colleagues handling Trump-related cases.
#Boasberg & #McConnell are among at least 11 federal #judges whose #families have faced threats of #violence or #harassment after they ruled against the new #Trump admin, a Reuters investigation found.
The broadsides are part of an #intimidation campaign directed at federal judges who have stood in the way of Trump’s moves to dramatically expand #PresidentialAuthority & slash the federal govt.
WILL NOT COMPLY 
