This Week in Fascism #133: Communities Continue to Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks as New Fascist Formations Emerge | It’s Going Down

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This Week in Fascism #133: Communities Continue to Mobilize Against Anti-LGBTQ Attacks as New Fascist Formations Emerge by This Week in Fascism (It's Going Down)

photo: Kurtz Frausun Welcome fellow antifascists! Since our last column, much has happened. After Elon Musk took over Twitter and quickly moved to align with the far-Right by removing anarchist and antifascist accounts, we wanted to bring back this column and use it as a vehicle to promote antifascist theory, action, and research.

The wave of threats, deadly attacks, and harassment that began last year against the LGBTQ+ community, Pride celebrations, and drag events has only continued into the new year. With it, we are seeing new far-Right, neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, and white supremacist groups emerge.Some of these groups seem to be splits from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi formation…

Christopher Luxon initially ‘not sure’ if women face more abuse in politics, later admits they do | Newshub

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It’s no secret the Prime Minister faced vitriolic, often sexist, comments, but Jacinda Ardern denies misogynism fed into her decision to quit.

When he was asked about it Christopher Luxon said he didn’t believe women in politics face more abuse than men, but then quickly conceded that wasn’t true.

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DeSantis’s “War on Woke” Is As Troubling As We Feared

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DeSantis’s “War on Woke” Is As Troubling As We Feared by Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)

In the spirit of taking a closer look at the new and frankly increasingly disturbing crop of GOP leaders, let’s head down to the political swamplands of Florida to examine the education and culture wars recently ignited by Gov. Ron DeSantis. These provide a preview of what we might expect to hear more regularly as DeSantis weighs a primary challenge to reigning MAGA king Donald Trump.

DeSantis was back in the news on Wednesday with an unusual direct challenge to the College Board. As the National Review breathlessly reported, on January 12 the DeSantis administration, through its Department of Education’s “Office of Articulation,” blocked approval for an AP African American Studies (APAAS) curriculum in the state, claiming to the College Board…

CrimethInc. : The Defense of Lützerath : A Photoessay and Poster Documenting Ecological Destruction and Resistance

Lützerath Warrior Monk holding up a night-stick he took from the police raiding the resistors.
The Defense of Lützerath : A Photoessay and Poster Documenting Ecological Destruction and Resistance by an author (crimethinc.com)

Over the past week, police have taken brutal steps to suppress ecological movements in Europe and the United States. In Germany, police evicted and destroyed the long-occupied village of Lützerath in a massive operation in order to expand an ecologically devastating open pit coal mine.

Over the past week, police have taken brutal steps to suppress ecological movements in Europe and the United States. In Germany, police evicted and destroyed the long-occupied village of Lützerath in a massive operation in order to expand an ecologically devastating open pit coal mine. Today, in Atlanta, Georgia, police murdered a person in the…

Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google — ProPublica

Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google
Websites Selling Abortion Pills Are Sharing Sensitive Data With Google by an author (propublica.org)

Some sites selling abortion pills share information with Google. This data could be used to prosecute people who end their pregnancies with medication.

These third-party trackers, including a Google Analytics tool and advertising technologies, collect a host of details about users and feed them to tech behemoth Google, its parent company, Alphabet, and other third parties, such as the online chat provider LiveChat. Those details include the web addresses the users visited, what they clicked on, the search…

Blackhall Intensifies Destruction of Weelaunee People’s Park in Atlanta Forest – UNICORN RIOT

Various shots of the destruction of the forest, At the bottom left, amid the rubble is some graffiti with "Burn the prisons".The one in the bottom right shows a candle holder posted in the park for the solstice as a symbol of hope.
Blackhall Intensifies Destruction of Weelaunee People’s Park in Atlanta Forest (unicornriot.ninja)

Atlanta, GA – One week after a multi-agency raid on those camping out in the Atlanta Forest, the company behind the land swap of 40 acres of Weelaunee People’s Park (aka Intrenchment Creek Park), Blackhall Real Estate Phase II, LLC, instructed its contractors to dig up the park’s concrete park…

Atlanta, GA – One week after a multi-agency raid on those camping out in the Atlanta Forest, the company behind the land swap of 40 acres of Weelaunee People’s Park (aka Intrenchment Creek Park), Blackhall Real Estate Phase II, LLC, instructed its contractors to dig up the park’s concrete parking lot, trail head, and the…

Former Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians’ homes – Albuquerque Journal

Former Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians’ homes - The suspect with hands behind his back, escorted by police officers with impressive facial hair and sunglasses.
Former Republican candidate arrested in shootings targeting Democratic politicians’ homes by Elise Kaplan, Ryan Boetel and Jessica Dyer / Journal Staff Writers (abqjournal.com)

Albuquerque SWAT officers take a man into custody Monday afternoon in Southwest Albuquerque. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
Albuquerque police on Monday arrested the man they say is the “mastermind” behind a recent string of shootings targeting Democratic lawmakers’ homes.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBHV4yAybcI[/embed] The suspect, Solomon Pena, is a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for office in November, has made repeated claims that the election was rigged and appears to have attended the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in Washington, D.C.Around 3 p.m. APD’s SWAT team swarmed a condominium complex near the ABQ BioPark Zoo to execute a search…

LAPD’s Release of Drug Tests Is Smearing Keenan Anderson, Groups Say

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LAPD’s Release of Drug Tests Is Smearing Keenan Anderson, Groups Say by Manisha Krishnan (VICE)

“I think the goal of the LAPD’s PR machine is to have the public believe that the victim somehow caused their own death.” 

LAPD did not respond to VICE News’ question as to why it released preliminary drug test results while awaiting an independent autopsy. But it’s not uncommon for police departments to disseminate information about the drug use of someone who was killed after interacting with cops. And, as seen following the murder of George Floyd, once…

Comparison of US Firearm-Related Deaths Among Children and Adolescents by Race and Ethnicity, 1999–2020 – PMC

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Comparison of US Firearm-Related Deaths Among Children and Adolescents by Race and Ethnicity, 1999–2020 (PubMed Central (PMC))

An analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mortality data found that firearm-related deaths surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for US children and adolescents aged 1 to 19 years (hereafter “youths”) for the first time in 2020.1 The 2019 to 2020 increase in the crude rate of firearm-related…

Women work harder than men – our anthropological study reveals why

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Women work harder than men – our anthropological study reveals why (The Conversation)

Men in rural China spend more time in leisure or social activities, or just hanging around and resting.

For most people around the world, physical work takes up a great amount of time and energy every day. But what determines whether it is men or women who are working harder in households? In most hunter-gatherer societies, men are the hunters and women are the gatherers – with men seemingly walking the furthest. But…

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