“Video: Streeting admits Labour worse than Tories”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox

@UKLabour

‘’We’re doing things Tories only talked about’, says red Tory health secretary – before going on to list cuts and warmongering”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/13/video-streeting-admits-labour-worse-than-tories/

One cannot make this up.
#resistance #usmaffia #europe #gaslighting #betrayal #krasnov #democracy #authoritarian #trumpregime #SecuringOurFuture #jddunce #50501protests #ukrainerussiawar #zelensky #ukraine #tariffs #canada #mexico

« Renowned #German classical violinist #ChristianTetzlaff was blunt in explaining why he & his quartet have cancelled a summer tour of the US

“There seems to be a quietness or denial about what’s going on,” Tetzlaff said, describing his horror @ the #authoritarian polices of #Trump @ the response of US elites to the country’s growing democratic crisis

“I feel utter anger. I cannot go on with this feeling inside. I cannot just go and play a tour of beautiful concerts" »

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/12/i-feel-utter-anger-from-canada-to-europe-a-movement-to-boycott-us-goods-is-spreading#Echobox=1741770477

"A single bee is ignored, but when millions come together, even the bravest run in fear ...

The one thing that government fears is the day we all stand together."

"Trump vows to find, apprehend and deport student 'terrorist sympathizers'
Donald Trump pledges to deport pro-Palestinian protesters"
- #DonaldJTrump is again short-circuiting for its convenience. Pro-Palestinian is not the same as anti-Semite. Pro-Palestinian is not the same as pro-Hamas. There are spectra like any human beliefs. #Trump #MAGA #GOP dumbs down complex matters into a black-and-white. That scheme is that of #authoritarian regimes’. And it is very dangerous.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5186225-trump-columbia-ice-arrest-mahmoud-khalil-pro-palestinian-protests-hamas-israel-war/

Back in 2018-2019 I began a little vanity project*: Trump's pompous, hateful, spiteful, anti-democratic, #authoritarian, etc. pronouncements interspersed with fictional emails based closely on real emails etc. from university administrators (i.e., presidents et al.). The idea was to show that some of the language and many of the actions of the university administrators were nearly identical to Trump's, though in slightly different domains and using differently-coded language.

Maybe I should make time for continuing that. I am of the opinion that Americans' habit of turning everything possible into an authoritarian hierarchy is one of the underlying reasons for the "success" of the current national authoritarian coup.

This would perhaps not have any positive effect for anyone except me*.

*all of my art

US to stop participating in future #military #exercises in Europe, Swedish media reports

#TrumpIsTheEnemyWithin

The #UnitedStates notified its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises held in #Europe beyond those already scheduled in 2025

The #US historically has regularly carried out joint operations with #European #allies each year to increase cooperation and test #troop readiness.

https://kyivindependent.com/u-s-to-stop-participating-in-future-military-exercises-in-europe-swedish-media-reports/

Familiar to those who have lived under #authoritarian regimes’: #FirstAmendment experts implore judge to side with #AP in dispute over White House access

#FreePress #FreeSpeech #Democracy #DemocracyNotAutocracy

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/familiar-to-those-who-have-lived-under-authoritarian-regimes-first-amendment-experts-implore-judge-to-side-with-ap-in-dispute-over-white-house-access/

"Even longtime Republican hawks on Capitol Hill, stunned by President Trump's revisionist history that Ukraine is to blame for its invasion by Russia, and his Oval Office blowup at President Volodymyr Zelensky, have either muzzled themselves, tiptoed up to criticism without naming Mr. Trump or completely reversed their positions.

More than six weeks into the second Trump administration, there is a chill spreading over political debate in Washington and beyond.

People on both sides of the aisle who would normally be part of the public dialogue about the big issues of the day say they are intimidated by the prospect of online attacks from Mr. Trump and Elon Musk, concerned about harm to their companies and frightened for the safety of their families. Politicians fear banishment by a party remade in Mr. Trump's image and the prospect of primary opponents financed by Mr. Musk, the president's all-powerful partner and the world's richest man."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html

Some good news to #USA according to political scientist Staffan Lindberg within a year USA will no longer be a Flawed #Democracy

USA will be a kind of a copy of #nazi #russia with other words an #Authoritarian regime

Source (paywalled): https://www.gp.se/nyheter/varlden/statsvetare-demokratin-i-usa-avvecklad-inom-ett-ar.9fe778e9-77e8-4ee4-a9f6-99ac1c0a32cc

Just in case people feel that it's time to change some old shopping habits, this is one of the interesting sites if you're looking for some #european alternatives for #americanproducts https://www.buy-european-made.eu/

Where are the times that, when the president of a country claims the #annexation of parts of another sovereign kingdom, that immediately would lead to recalling the ambassador and severing all diplomatic ties. Really curious what #mexico's #PlanD is all about.

I'm sure I speak for many Canadians

So let's make this clear:
#Canadians don't hate #Americans.
Canadians hate the Orange #Mussolini that Americans voted into the #WhiteHouse.

Canadians can't really do anything about that.
But Americans can.
And Canadians want Americans to do something about it.

You're smart.
You'll come up with something.
#Canada, your ally for generations, is counting on you.

Alarm bells ringing! Trump threatens with expulsions, jail and deportation of student protesters.

https://uncensoredecho.wordpress.com/2025/03/04/authoritarian-alarm-bells-trump-moves-to-crush-campus-protests-with-threats-of-jail-and-expulsion/

I saw the #firefly live lunar landing stream last night.

The thing that struck me, was not the #space accomplishment.
But the acting #NASA administrator fellating tRump in her brief speech.
There was no need for her to do it.
The #US has become like the communist #authoritarian regimes, cult of personality.

Imagine Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon, "This is one small step for mankind...
...and a giant leap for the Nixon Administration."

"Every dictatorship has one obsession and that's control."

Scene from Enemy (2013)

#Dems who think the #Trump #Vance #Musk #Thiel will self-destruct in 30 days are delusional! The former Republican party continues to collude in an ongoing bloodless coupe, an act so unbelievable, most people are still in denial, imagining the anti-democratic #authoritarian #regime now in power can be "reasoned" with.