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"The MAGA claim that white Christians in the United States and Europe are engaged in an existential fight to protect their superior race from being overwhelmed by inferior racial stocks has roots in the U.S. that reach all the way back to the fears of white southerners in the 1850s" (continued in /7)
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The coercive powers of the state would be mobilized to curtail the rights of those who dare to deviate and entrench a tiered system of participation defined by hierarchies of race, gender, religion, wealth, and ancestry. A segregationist policy would restore white male dominance in elite institutions as well as across all spheres of American life."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism #patriarchy #heterosexism #women #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"Donald Trump pursues a political project for which white nationalism serves as an organizing principle. ...
The Trumpists desire to drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong, they seek to purge all others from the 'homeland.' Those who are left would be living in a society that is not only unequal but has ostracized egalitarian aspirations as heresy."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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(continued from /3)
"and to fight instead for white Christian male supremacy at home and in the world. ...
That is true for Donald Trump himself also. He is not just a grumpy old man indulging in racist stereotypes, but a politician committed to a worldview shaped and organized by racism and white supremacy. What is on display here is not just personal bigotry."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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"They are tied to a much broader rightwing attempt to reconceptualize national identity and drastically narrow the boundaries of who gets to belong. They are actualizations of the Right’s defining project: To roll back any progress towards egalitarian pluralism, to vanquish the very idea that America should aspire to be a nation defined by equal citizenship in a pluralistic, multiracial society," (continued in /4)
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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The NSS document tries to bully Europe into adopting MAGA notions of white supremacy and Christian nationalism as guiding principles. Zimmer says,
"These aren’t just a few racist outbursts or isolated escalations. These are not separate policy initiatives. These are manifestations of a worldview defined by white nationalism as its organizing principle."
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism #ChristianNationalism
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Thomas Zimmer notes that after the shooting of National Guard members in D.C., Trump said that he would shut the doors of America to anyone "non-compatible with Western civilization." He then attacked Somali immigrantss and Ilhan Omar, calling them "garbage." Kristi Noem's followed by calling immigranta "foreign invaders." Stephen Miller attacked birthright ciitzenship. Then there's the new NSS document.
#Trump #immigrants #WhiteSupremacy #racism
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Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalistSteady
Jeremy Scahill is arguably the best investigative journalist for West Asia affairs. His interview is also a history lesson.
Scahill: "I'm not pro Hamas. I'm not anti Hamas. I'm pro truth. I just.. I'm trying to state facts"
I'll add the segments by title, if you're interested only in some aspects or don't have the time to listen to all of it.
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@palestine
#Gaza #NoCeasefire #Trump #Israel #Colonialism #Fascism
Israel commits genocide while demanding its neighbours demilitarise | Jeremy Scahill | UNAPOLOGETIC
In this UNAPOLOGETIC episode from the Doha Forum, investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill examines how Israel has carried out a campaign that meets the legal...YouTube
"If history is any guide, Trump’s next moves will be even more over the top as he seeks to reassert his relevance and turn the headlines his way."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #immigration #healthcare #authoritarianism
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"Trump is looking like a weak second-term lame duck who is untethered from the political process and whom others are now prepared to ignore despite his excessive shouting and threats. That doesn’t normally happen within the first year of any second term presidency, so it is notable that Trump is losing his grip on power before 2025 is even over."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #immigration #healthcare #authoritarianism
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A Hurl The Heinz Day for the White House
The Trump regime was humiliated across the board yesterday in a clear sign of the President’s loosening grip on power.Jay Kuo (The Status Kuo)
"Preventing that shift is the single most important thing on the American people’s plate right now. The fact that Donald Trump is the most hated, loathed, jeered-at and loathsome human alive on Planet Earth, well, that can be a powerful tool in that fight."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #immigration #healthcare #authoritarianism
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"Trump will get less and less popular, but Orbán and Putin are loathed by their people. They just don’t have the ability at the moment to do anything about it, because the state isn’t accountable to the people anymore. (Though there are big elections coming in Hungary that might reveal that Orbán’s power is not absolute.)"
~ Evan Hurst
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #immigration #healthcare #authoritarianism
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Trump More Hated, Mocked, Loathed And Loathsome Than Ever. Does It Matter?
Yes! But let's contextualize that!Evan Hurst (Wonkette)
"Campaigning in 2024, Trump said about Kennedy, 'I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines.'”
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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"According to the Johns Hopkins Measles Tracker, by the 48th week of the year in 2023, there had been 41 cases of measles in the country. In 2024, there were 284 cases. In 2025, there were 1837 cases.
All this from just a kid with a dream, that one day people would die by the millions from preventable diseases."
Paul Waldman
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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The RFK Jr. Catastrophe Holds An Important Lesson In the Uses of Power
Just a kid with a dream, that one day millions more people could die from preventable diseases.Paul Waldman (The Cross Section)
"in what strikes me as an unintentional acknowledgment of weakness, the full membership of the editorial board --which the Post used to proudly list under every unsigned editorial -- is now a closely guarded secret. Either [opinion editor Adam] O’Neal is too embarrassed to list them, or they’re too embarrassed to be associated with the garbage they are forced to produce."
#WashingtonPost #Trump #JeffBezos #AdamOneal #media #ParodyofSelf #AbdicationofMission #ethics #failure
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In a posting entitled "Washington Post readers revolt against Bezos’s editorial board," Dan Froomkin says,
"The AI summaries of reader comments have become a must read. ...
The reader-comment summaries are also wonderfully brutal for the Post’s many MAGA opinion columnists."
#WashingtonPost #Trump #JeffBezos #AdamOneal #media #ParodyofSelf #AbdicationofMission #ethics #failure
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"Robinson, who is affiliated with the U.K. branch of Charlie Kirk’s political organization Turning Point, has been supported in previous efforts by far-right figures like Steve Bannon and Elon Musk.
The Church of England responded to Robinson’s planned rally with a poster campaign featuring an immigrant holy family in a bus stop and phrases like 'Christ has always been in Christmas,' 'Christmas started with love,' and 'Outsiders welcome.'”
"Churches in England are trying to save Christmas from Christian Nationalists. Far-right Islamophobic political activist Tommy Robinson is planning a rally in London on Saturday called 'Putting the Christ Back into Christmas.'”
~ Brian Kaylor
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#religion #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism #Trump #TommyRobinson #CharlieKirk #SteveBannon #ElonMusk
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Weekly Roundup: Dec. 12
Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. This week, we published our list of favorite books of the year and an exclusive report on the first prayer service at the U.S.Word&Way (A Public Witness)
"Now is the time to build the movement that not only says, 'No' to extremism but also says, 'Yes' to the work of building a political economy where everyone can thrive.
This week offers more concrete evidence that we can build a moral fusion coalition for that work anywhere."
"The moral collapse that we have witnessed under the Trump regime has been excruciating, outrageous, and exhausting. The damage is real, and it demands mourning, accountability, and work toward a viable alternative. But this level of collapse also reveals the possibility for a Third Reconstruction."
~ William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#religion #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism #Trump
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The Moral Collapse of MAGA
How a moral fusion lens can help Americans see through the "red state" mirageWilliam J. Barber, II (Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
"In Donald Trump’s America and Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, this project has furnished a spurious religious underpinning to a politics of authoritarian power and exclusion.
Nothing could be further from the spirit of St Paul when he asserts: 'There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.'”
#religion #authoritarianism #violence #ChristianNationalism #Trump
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"An ethnocentric politics legitimising xenophobia, cultural exclusivism and indiscriminate deportations is fundamentally unchristian, as the late Pope Francis repeatedly underlined. ...
In its various guises, the contemporary far right is seeking to transform Christianity into a vehicle for cultural and ethnic supremacism, exploiting and corrupting desires for meaning and belonging."
~ The Guardian
#religion #authoritarianism #violence #ChristianNationalism #Trump
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The Guardian view on far-right perversions of the Christmas message: promoting a gospel of hate
Editorial: A Tommy Robinson-inspired carol service is the latest sign of a burgeoning Christian nationalist movement. The Church of England is right to push backEditorial (The Guardian)
"This [NSS document] is the 'Great Replacement' theory, applied globally. It is the same might-makes-right worldview of the worst neocons, but in service of the abhorrent principle of segregation instead of democracy, and suggesting a future of American imperialism unmoored from any pretense of a belief in the equality of mankind."
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #TechBros #broligarchy
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"That strategy is consistent with Trump’s belief in his prerogative to tell our European allies how they should run their countries. Unsurprisingly, that means urging them to embrace right-wing extremist political parties and white nationalism if they want to avoid what he deceptively calls 'civilizational erasure.' That same person is fine with the desire of Russia’s Vladimir Putin to erase Ukraine’s free society."
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #NSS #Europe #Russia
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Come to Trump's America...If You Dare
The Trump regime is pushing a paranoid new policy that will further discourage international travelers. The reputation of America's aggression is growing.Steven Beschloss (America, America)
"Donald Trump hasn’t hidden the fact that he disdains Europe, even to bemoaning that 'Paris is no longer Paris.' But his—and, by extension, America’s—role in sowing discord on the continent seems far greater than what is publicly known."
~ Bulwark
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #Russia #China #Brexit
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Trump’s Hand-Picked RNC Chair Predicts Doom
This is not your usual party committee script.Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)
"What should have been clear as early as November 2024 should, by now, be abundantly so. This version of the US is worse than simply 'not our friend': it is an actively hostile actor seeking to fracture European society in the same way that Russia sought to fracture British society by promoting Brexit, and US society by fuelling disinformation, Maga and Trump."
~ Alexander Hurst
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #Russia #China #Brexit
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If the US forces me to choose between my two nationalities, I choose France – and Europe
Proposals to change US citizenship rules leaves dual citizens like me caught in the crossfire. If push comes to shove, I know where my loyalty lies, says Guardian columnist Alexander HurstAlexander Hurst (The Guardian)
"The Trump administration wants to persuade four more countries to leave the European Union to 'Make Europe Great Again', according to reports of a longer, still-classified version of the US national security strategy released last week.
There are also suggestions of creating a new elite C5, or Core Five, forum of world powers to sideline the G7, comprising America, China, India, Japan and Russia."
~ David Charter
"Over the summer, President Trump made headlines when he lamented the expulsion of Russia from the Group of Eight—now the Group of Seven—as a 'very big mistake.' He even suggested that he’d like to see China added to form a 'G9.'
His national security strategy proposes taking this a step further, creating a new body of major powers, one that isn’t hemmed in by the G7’s requirements that the countries be both wealthy and democratically governed."
"Working from the premise that Europe is facing 'civilizational erasure' because of its immigration policies and 'censorship of free speech,' the NSS proposes to focus U.S. relationships with European countries on a few nations with like-minded—right-wing, presumably—current administrations and movements."
~ Meghann Myers
#Trump #NSS #Europe #NATO #immigrants #racism #WhiteSupremacy #TechBros #broligarchy
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‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
A fuller version reviewed by Defense One outlines the Trump administration’s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.Meghann Myers (Defense One)
"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, [Trump's NSS document] is what it would spit out. ...
It’s not an overreaction to call this 'soft power suicide,' as Jamie Shea, a former NATO official, told the New York Times."
~ Lisa Needham
#Trump #NSS #NationalSecurity #Europe #NATO #Russia
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We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.Lisa Needham (Public Notice)
"The non-partisan Tax Foundation: 'The Trump tariffs are the largest US tax increase as a percent of GDP in over 30 years.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #tariffs #economy #affordability #ApprovalRating #EconomicElites #TaxCuts
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 269. 12/12/25
… The fallout and recriminations from the Indiana Senate refusing to back down from Trump’s threats on redistricting have been reverberating throughout the Republican Party.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"No foreign entrepreneur or high-skilled immigrant student will look at the US with the sense of safety, security, and opportunity that they did before January 20th. Once-secure research positions at labs, universities, and medical centers will never feel as sure-a-thing as they did."
#Trump #ApprovalRating #economy #immigrants #Republicans #MAGA #cruelty #racism #misogyny
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"We now recognize and confront strains of our neighbors — especially racism and misogyny — in a way more naked and violent than most of us had believed possible in the 21st century. Decades of progress in welcoming trans people and people with disabilities and different learning styles into American life have been unwound; decades of hard-fought progress by Blacks and women in the military and government have been undone."
"Even if Trumpism fails, America is fundamentally changed. We have always told ourselves 'it can’t happen here.' But it now has — and we can never look at our country the same again. Trump has made American daily life coarser, more rude, and less welcoming to others. We have seen fundamental tears this year in the civic fabric of our country and communities."
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #ApprovalRating #ICE #immigrants #economy #cruelty #racism #misogyny
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"Plenty of American CEOs have proven themselves to be quite morally flexible; plenty of them appear willing to pay once-unthinkable bribes if it helps their business, even unconstitutional export taxes! …
That fundamental cowardice and weakness stands in sharp contrast to the many Americans who have bravely stood up at an individual level…."
#Trump #MAGA #ApprovalRating #ICE #immigrants #economy
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"As my final column of the year, I wanted to take some stock of where our country stands as 2025 winds down. The events of this week drive an inescapable conclusion: Donald Trump is losing. …
Never this year has Donald Trump looked as weak as he did yesterday."
~ Garrett Graff
#Trump #MAGA #ApprovalRating #ICE #immigrants #economy
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