Also the official petition & portal would not have a huge-ass dropdown at the signup page if it wasn't permissible as non-citizen/resident to register and none of the Terms of Service mandate signatories to be residents or citizens of Germany.

• Petitioning is a human right in Germany
• All it does mandate is correct details at signup.
• All signatures are pseudonymous unless you explicitly choose to be listed by name (which is entirely your decision.
• Also one can withdraw from signing at any point in time with the same convenience (no Idea why you would, but I just want everyone to know!)

So yeah, please do sign the petition even if you are from overseas / outside of Germany.

• But please don't provide false details - SERIOUSLY, DON'T!

#DEpol #Petition183950 #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HumanRights #CivilRights #TransRegistry #Trans #Inter #Nonbinary #TransLists #TransListen #Listen #Privacy #SelfDetermination #SelfID #legislation #OutingBan #FDGO #LitmusTest #Society #Fascism #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #FascistBullshit #Sexism #Cissexism #Cisbinarysexism #HIV #AIDS #Register #TransRegister #Lists #Intersectionality #Disabled #DisabledRights #inclusion #accessibility #InformationControl #InformationRights #LGBTQIA

Kevin Karhan

2025-12-31 11:14:49

Come on people, sign and boost it!

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.nc.html 🗳️ ☑️(only till 13.1.2026)

• No "Pink Lists" - NEVER AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES!

WHY?

• That's why!

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!

• HUMAN RIGHTS ARE THE PRECONDITION TO EVEN CONSIDER NEGOTIATIONS!

The human rights of trans*, Inter* and nonbinary people are the litmus test for the free and democratic societal order:

• If we fail to protect them, then we failed as society!

Don't believe for a second this fascist bullshit, once installed, won't be expanded upon.:

• I.e. towards disabled people or those having HIV/AIDS...

infosec.space/@kkarhan/1158136…

Update: 11.300+ signatures!
Quota necessary: 30.000

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#DEpol #Petition183950 #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HumanRights #CivilRights #TransRegistry #Trans #Inter #Nonbinary #TransLists #TransListen #Listen #Privacy #SelfDetermination #SelfID #legislation #OutingBan #FDGO #LitmusTest #Society #Fascism #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #FascistBullshit #Sexism #Cissexism #Cisbinarysexism #HIV #AIDS #Register #TransRegister #Lists #Intersectionality #Disabled #DisabledRights #inclusion #accessibility #InformationControl #InformationRights #LGBTQIA

♲ @bookstardust@bildung.social:

Fedi,
Ich hab nen Vorschlag für euch:
Ihr nehm nehmt jetzt den Link für die Petition gegen das Trans* Melderegister und haut das in eure Whatsapp uns Signal Messenger.
Einfach alle.
Ich hab euch ein Share Pic gemacht. Ihr müsst nur noch den Link einfügen, es dauert eine Minute.

Wir brauchen noch mehr als 20k Unterschriften. Wir haben nicht mal 10k geschafft. Macht euch ein eigenes Share Pic, setzt es einfach als Link auf den Status, aber verteilt halt bitte den Link!

epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit…

Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)

Attached: 1 image @bookstardust@bildung.social +9001% Direkt *mitgezeichnet!* - Frist läuft bis: 13.1.2026 https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.nc.

^{Infosec.Space}

Come on people, sign and boost it!

https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2025/_07/_14/Petition_183950.nc.html 🗳️ ☑️(only till 13.1.2026)

• No "Pink Lists" - NEVER AND UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES!

WHY?

• That's why!

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE!!!

• HUMAN RIGHTS ARE THE PRECONDITION TO EVEN CONSIDER NEGOTIATIONS!

The human rights of trans*, Inter* and nonbinary people are the litmus test for the free and democratic societal order:

• If we fail to protect them, then we failed as society!

Don't believe for a second this fascist bullshit, once installed, won't be expanded upon.:

• I.e. towards disabled people or those having HIV/AIDS...

infosec.space/@kkarhan/1158136…

Update: 11.300+ signatures!
Quota necessary: 30.000

(translation of this post)

#DEpol #Petition183950 #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #HumanRights #CivilRights #TransRegistry #Trans #Inter #Nonbinary #TransLists #TransListen #Listen #Privacy #SelfDetermination #SelfID #legislation #OutingBan #FDGO #LitmusTest #Society #Fascism #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #FascistBullshit #Sexism #Cissexism #Cisbinarysexism #HIV #AIDS #Register #TransRegister #Lists #Intersectionality #Disabled #DisabledRights #inclusion #accessibility #InformationControl #InformationRights #LGBTQIA

radioactivestardust

2025-12-31 09:51:40

mastodon

Fedi,
Ich hab nen Vorschlag für euch:

Ihr nehm nehmt jetzt den Link für die Petition gegen das Trans* Melderegister und haut das in eure Whatsapp uns Signal Messenger.
Einfach alle.
Ich hab euch ein Share Pic gemacht. Ihr müsst nur noch den Link einfügen, es dauert eine Minute.

Wir brauchen noch mehr als 20k Unterschriften. Wir haben nicht mal 10k geschafft. Macht euch ein eigenes Share Pic, setzt es einfach als Link auf den Status, aber verteilt halt bitte den Link!

epetitionen.bundestag.de/petit…

Petitionen: Verwendung von Cookies nicht aktiviert

^{epetitionen.bundestag.de}

if it does then it needs to double-time on it.

Like for real:

• Refuse to and ban #US #sanctions enforcement and mandate any #sanction to be approved by @europarl_en and make it a crime to enforce or blackmail #European Banks into #US #fascist tactics. (Yes this is a hint at @glsbank vs. @RoteHilfe & @hateaid )
• Grant #Asylum and instant Right to #residency and #work to any #antifascist|s fleeing to the #EU, including their family (regardless of relationship status!).
• Recognize #women, #trans* and #nonbinary people as politically prosecuted minorities under the #Trump regime.
• Enshrine access to #Abortion, #HRT and #Healthcare as unconditional and irrevocable #HumanRights!
• Seize #funds & #assets of #Hatespeech-distributing platforms and #ban them from the EU.
• Ban any "#DataSharing" and #DataExports to the #USA as well as any #business relations with #GAFAMs or any other companies subject to #CloudAct!
• Enact a total #SeaBlockade and #TotalEmbargo against #Russia without exceptions!
• Turn over seized Russian and #US assets into a #fund to support #Ukraine.
• Enact a "#HostileNations" directive that makes it illegal to do any business with nations threatening #EU members and -Allies with violence in any form or are engaged in such acts.
• Reaffirm #Europe's strenght through #diversity #HumanRights and #MutualAid, not #fascism, #surveillance and #violence!
• Ban any #CyberFascism, #PoliceState, #SurveillanceState and associated #tech, espechally "#AI" & #BigData, without exceptions! (not just #Palantir, but also #INDECT, "#ChatControl" and whatever other anti-european bs. ) Get everyone impeached and fired who advocated for this shit too!
• Actively ban #Neonazis and make it illegal to be #racist and/or #fascist!

Your turns, @EUCommission @AuswaertigesAmt @Bundesregierung !

"The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has a new definition of “reasonable expectation.” According to the justices, it’s no longer reasonable to assume that what you type into Google is yours to keep.

In a decision that reads like a love letter to the surveillance economy, the court ruled that police were within their rights to access a convicted rapist’s search history without a warrant. The reasoning is that everyone knows they’re being watched anyway.

The opinion, issued Tuesday, leaned on the idea that the public has already surrendered its privacy to Silicon Valley.

We obtained a copy of the ruling for you here.

“It is common knowledge that websites, internet-based applications, and internet service providers collect, and then sell, user data,” the court said, as if mass exploitation of personal information had become a civic tradition.

Because that practice is so widely known, the court concluded, users cannot reasonably expect privacy. In other words, if corporations do it first, the government gets a free pass."

reclaimthenet.org/pennsylvania…

#USA #Pennsylvania #Google #Privacy #Surveillance #PoliceState

"A growing confrontation over major digital surveillance powers is unfolding within the European Union, as Denmark’s Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard stands accused of using false claims to pressure hesitant governments into backing the European Commission’s proposed Chat Control 2.0 regulation.

In a press release, digital rights campaigner and former Member of the European Parliament Patrick Breyer has denounced what he describes as a manufactured crisis aimed at forcing through legislation that would subject all private communications in the EU to automated scanning.

Classified minutes obtained by Netzpolitik from a September 15 Council meeting reveal that Hummelgaard, currently presiding over the EU Council, told interior ministers that the European Parliament would block any renewal of the existing voluntary scanning framework unless governments agreed to adopt the new regulation.

Breyer immediately pushed back on this claim.

“This is a blatant lie designed to manufacture a crisis,” said Breyer."

reclaimthenet.org/eu-chat-cont…

#EU #Denmark #ChatControl #Surveillance #PoliceState #Privacy

As it turns out, Pete Hegseth's plan for a portable military dictatorship wasn't the only horrifying news coming out of the Defense Department this week. Reports also indicate that the Pentagon is reviewing a request by DHS for a permanent force of 20,000 troops to perform immigration policing tasks directly. Furthermore, and even more ominously, the Trump regime is also exploring the use of military bases around the country to cage captured migrants, or anyone else the feds want to arrest.

usatoday.com/story/news/politi…

Trump wants 20,000 troops to hunt, transport immigrants. Cost estimate: $3.6 billion

"The Pentagon is reviewing a Department of Homeland Security request to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops to aid the Trump administration's widening crackdown on illegal immigration around the United States, according to officials and documents.

Homeland Security officials want the troops to help track fugitives, quell riots at detention centers and search for unaccompanied children in remote or hostile terrain.

Meanwhile, Pentagon and Customs and Border Patrol officials have inspected military bases in recent months from New Jersey to California as potential sites to detain an expected influx of migrants."

I don't know how many more "smoke em if you've got em" moments Trump 2.0 can produce before my lungs give out, but this is absolutely horrifying news that isn't getting nearly enough coverage in the media. What the regime is proposing here is more or less transforming 20K National Guardsmen into a militarized arm of ICE, Border Patrol, and the private prison companies we pay to warehouse captured migrants, entirely under the command of the Gestapo, and thus Trump. This brings up three major issues:

First of all this is a transparent attempt to increase the military capabilities of the Gestapo, circumventing the need to invoke the Insurrection Act and straight up just using the National Guard for immigration policing in the American interior; so your town, anywhere in the country. The tasks Noem is requesting thousands of troops for, including hunting down "fugitives," surveillance, transportation support, and guarding prisons, are all activities budgeted for and performed by other federal agencies and contractors already. How exactly this isn't Noem massively increasing the size of the Gestapo without legislative branch approval is absolutely fucking beyond me; we're out here having a debate about the optics of using National Guardsmen to protect Gestapo raids, and she's just recruiting an army as far as I can tell. If this bullshit is approved, it's going to put armed soldiers in your streets all over the country to hunt down or cage brown people, and while I am absolutely certain it's a violation of the *spirit* of the the Posse Comitatus Act, informal precedents that were never designed to facilitate a fascist regime conducting an ethnic cleansing operation against the will of state Governors, lead me to believe there's a good chance this is all "legal."

Additionally, transforming military bases into migrant prisons, and using US military personnel to guard caged migrants is a way to drastically expand Trump's gulag system without the traditionally required legislative approval as well. Don't sleep on the fact that the DHS proposal talks about "overwhelmed detention facilities" and "riot control." Why is the Trump regime expecting detention facilities to be "overwhelmed," who do they expect to "riot," and given what we've seen these assclown nazis call rioting and insurrection, what does "riot" even mean in this context? It sounds to me like Noem wants permanent troops to man private prisons, put down migrant carceral riots, and attack protestors demonstrating outside of immigration detention facilities. Just how many people are the Gestapo planning on locking up here?

Finally of course, we can't forget that a fascist police state for targeting migrants, is a fascist police state for targeting anyone else too. We've already seen what the Trumpenreich can accomplish with a ready bake army of 4,000+ in terms of taking over a Democrat-run city against the wishes of state and municipal representatives, so what could Trump accomplish with 20,000+ National Guardsmen under his command and at the ready? Barring widespread kinetic resistance, I'd wager that 20K National Guardsman is more or less enough troops to occupy all the parts of the country that didn't vote for Trump and wouldn't obey his (often illegal or unconstitutional) edicts otherwise.

Folks, I'm not trying to be an alarmist here but as I've mentioned numerous times before, there comes a point where you *have* to stop entertaining the possibility that the Trumpenreich is "accidentally" building a police state dictatorship. If you purposely build it, you mean to use it, and these nazi assclowns are certainly building it.

#Fascism #Trump #DHS #KristiNoem #WhiteNationalism #PeteHegseth #NationalGuard #Gestapo #PoliceState

Today in deeply not at all fun Trump facts; did you know the Swine Emperor has currently deployed more troops to LA than the US military officially maintains in Syria and Iraq, combined? No, seriously:

truthout.org/articles/trump-ha…

Trump Has Deployed More Troops in LA Than Syria and Iraq, Per US Counts

"President Donald Trump’s latest deployment of thousands of National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles means that there are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria, regions where the U.S. has executed some of its most intense and inhumane military campaigns in recent decades, according to official counts.

Trump has dispatched roughly 4,000 National Guard members and 700 Marines to respond to L.A.’s protests of his immigration raids, for a total of roughly 4,700 troops. Meanwhile, according to publicly reported Pentagon figures, the U.S. has roughly 2,000 troops deployed in Syria and 2,500 troops in Iraq, for a total of 4,500."

As the article goes on to note, a Pentagon still operating under War on Terror logic while occupying Iraq and purportedly fighting terrorism in Syria, may well be undercounting the troop levels in those two countries; they've certainly done so in the past.

Regardless, if we consider the *official* deployment of military personnel to be a de facto statement of the regime's policing priorities, that still means the Trumpenreich is arguing that unarmed domestic protesters inside very small pockets of the Los Angeles area are a greater threat than militarized terrorist militias in two countries US intervention has helped transform into semi-perpetual warzones. Please keep in mind that the LA protests are happening on livestream, and there are hundreds of eye witness accounts in the public discourse from Angelinos saying there is no widespread disorder for the troops to quell. There is not a man, woman, nor child in America who can't verify for themselves that Trump is lying about a “rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States” going on in Los Angeles, if they want to.

All of which of course leads us directly back to our ongoing discussion about what the Trumpenreich is trying to use its militarized invasion of LA to sanctify in practice, if not in US Law. Trump wants the power to permanently occupy US cities, while engaging the military in both domestic policing and assisting the Gestapo in the regime's ethnonationalist mass deportation project; including apparently providing detention facilities for caged migrants. Furthermore, as Zhang ominously notes, there are clear signs the regime is exploring how to scale up what they're doing in LA, to a much more national project.

"According to a report by ABC News, the Pentagon is considering a plan crafted by the Department of Homeland Security to deploy more than 20,000 additional National Guard troops to aid with Trump’s immigration raids.

This would cost $3.6 billion over the course of a year, and would represent roughly half of the number of troops deployed across the entirety of the Middle East. It would also be an escalation of the Trump administration’s use of the U.S.’s colossal military capacity to attack and subdue the American public."

Folks, I'm just going to be real with you; you don't martial up 20,000+ troops from all across the country in advance because ICE is going to raid a bunch of cities one by one to hunt down brown people Stephen Miller's shriveled conscience cannot abide existing in his county. We're definitely going to talk more about the ABC report the author mentions at a later point in time, but what you're looking at here is the opening steps the regime would need to take if they intended to militarily occupy the parts of the United States that didn't vote for Trump without meeting organized, violent resistance.

Like a lot of the fascist bullshit the Klepto Kaiser is doing right now, it's hard to tell if he's going to go "all the way." At some point however, the idea that Donald Trump is just accidentally stumbling in to all the steps he would need to enshrine a militarized fascist dictatorship under a perpetual state of quasi-martial law, strains credulity. If Trump gets away with transforming protests into an insurrection and soldiers into policemen in LA, you should bet on the idea that the nazis will soon be coming for a town near you in that very same way.

#Fascism #Trump #InvasionOfLA #Imperialism #WarOnTerror #USPol #LosAngeles #Protests #MENA #Syria #Iraq #PoliceState

In previous analysis, I wrote about my belief that the Trumpenreich's invasion of LA had established a repeatable legal, logistical, and political framework for transforming the National Guard and indeed the US military into the enforcement arm of a permanent fascist police state under at least the constant threat of martial law. Well, it turns out that I could have just waited a couple of days for the regime to say the quiet part out loud, because Pete Hegseth all but admitted that's precisely how this is going down in real time, during a Congressional oversight hearing on Capitol Hill.

commondreams.org/news/hegseth-…

Hegseth Lays Out a Case for Troop Deployments in 'Any Jurisdiction in the Country'

"U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told members of Congress on Tuesday that he believes Immigration and Customs Enforcement "has the right to safely conduct operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country."

Given that Hegseth and President Donald Trump have cast the National Guard and U.S. Marine deployments to Los Angeles as an effort to protect ICE personnel as they carry out the administration's mass deportation campaign, the Pentagon chief's testimony to lawmakers represented a justification for troop mobilizations to any part of the nation where protests against ICE are deemed a potential threat."

To completely understand what Trump's crusader Secretary of Defense is getting at here, you have to place it in the larger context of the regime's fascist mass deportation project, and the conditions which administration officials, including President Trump himself have outlined to "justify" escalation and additional military involvement. The rough process by which the regime is now actively conducting a fascist takeover of the broader American state at every level of government, looks a bit like this:

A) Send ICE Gestapo squads along with other federal agents to any city Trump regards as ideologically opposed to his fascist agenda, and begin kidnapping people and very publicly and aggressively violating civil rights.

B) Declare any protests or opposition to those nazi ICE raids and tactics, no matter how peaceful or lawful they may be, to be an insurrection and an attack on federal law enforcement. Use that attack, even if you have to make it up whole cloth, to justify commandeering a state's own National Guard to enforce Trump's rule militarily, while actively tasking them with protecting ICE Gestapo agents conducting raids; which conveniently gets around the legal restrictions that have previously prevented Trump from using the army to conduct ethno-nationalist immigration enforcement policies and mass deportations.

C) As Trump himself has proposed, respond to any "attack" (which again, we know they can just make up) on National Guard forces, by sending in the US Military and presumably invoking the Insurrection Act to place the targeted city under martial law and Trump's de facto command.

Please note that the only part of this outline that's still hypothetical is C; and while Trump hasn't actually done it yet, numerous powerful nazis in his administration have hinted that is the direction they're heading, including Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Hegseth himself, Tom Homan, Pam Bondi, and Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who at least in theory speaks for the president. How many times do I have to share the Maya Angelou quote "when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" in regards to Trump's fascist movement before the reality sinks in that these guys might not be capable of grasping as much power as they desire, but they abso-fucking-lutely mean to try regardless?

What we are looking at here is an arbitrarily deployable framework for a fascist police state enforced by a US military that answers only to Trump, which can be conjured up out of thin air and portably deployed around the country at will. The Swine Emperor is effectively announcing his immanent takeover of the entire country, by demonstrating on the streets of LA that he can instantly take over any given part of that country and unless local officials are prepared to fight the fucking National Guard and or US Army, there's sweet fuck all they can do about it; or at least, so the regime openly says.

Folks, I must confess that I am just as overwhelmed as you are trying to keep track of all the horrifying stories spewing out of the fascist Trumprenreich invasion of LA. But listening to the regime talk, watching Trump activate the California National guard to stop an insurrection we could all watch not happening on livestream, and seeing the LAPD gleefully join in with the nazis to argue stopping fascist ICE raids is a justification to revoke civil rights and engage in unconscionable security state violence, this doesn't sound like we're talking about a *hypothetical* fascist dictatorship anymore.

#Fascism #Trump #InvasionOfLA #LA #NationalGuard #InsurrectionAct #Dictatorship #PoliceState #ICE #LAPD

If, as many local officials in California have suggested, Trump's goal was to create a powder keg that justifies even more authoritarian repression in LA, it's abundantly clear the regime and its Gestapo were working to create that power keg long before Trump illegally deployed what is now 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 US Marines to the extremely diverse sanctuary city. Take for example the assault, arrest, and smearing of Service Employees International Union President David Huerta during the Friday ICE raids in densely populated portions of LA and the surrounding area.

Whether the Gestapo pigs who assaulted Huerta on camera while the extremely popular labor leader was merely observing the unlawful Gestapo raids targeting workers in his city knew it or not, their fascist piggery was almost certainly the inciting moment for widespread nonviolent protests that broke out across the greater LA area; a day and a half later, Trump would be illegally deploying National Guard troops on the streets of downtown Los Angeles.

commondreams.org/news/david-hu…

'This Is What Fascism Looks Like': Beloved Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested

"The union included remarks from Huertas, who said, "We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice."

"This is about something much bigger" than his own arrest, said Huertas. "This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice."

According to a statement released by the Department of Homeland Security, approximately 44 individuals were "administratively arrested" in a series of raids at retail stores in the Los Angeles area, while one individual, identified as Huertas, was arrested "for obstruction" of federal officers.

"This is what fascism looks like," said California State Senator Scott Wiener, a Democrat. "Secret police raids. Injuring protesters. Arresting labor leaders."

As the article notes, Huertas is the president of a 750,000 member strong union in California that represents an absolutely massive number of Latinex workers in the state; if the feds were looking to avoid protests, this was the last guy they wanted to assault. Which makes the fact that they did so on camera, and then tried to lie about it later all the more revealing. This is from a Guardian update posted after Huertas was released on bond:

theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…

"In an affidavit supporting the criminal complaint against Huerta, an officer alleged that the union leader was arrested after another officer tried to push him out of the way of a law enforcement vehicle being blocked by protesters on a sidewalk. The officer who witnessed the incident claimed that he saw Huerta “push back, and in response, the officer pushed HUERTA to the ground. The officer and I then handcuffed HUERTA and arrested him.”

However, video of the arrest shared on social media by US attorney Bill Essayli seems to show that the officer shoved Huerta to the ground without being pushed by the labor leader. Huerta’s head was knocked into a concrete curb by the officers and he was hospitalized on Friday."

If you watch the video the government's own attorney shared, it is utterly impossible for the regime to credibly argue that Heurta is a violent protestor or criminal element, and even the regime's argument about "obstruction" seems to revolve around not stepping out the way for a truck full of kidnapped Angelino workers to be driven through; yet they're trying anyway. I believe that's because the facts don't matter to Trump, this arrest in particular merely provided him with the excuse he needed to declare war on LA and by extension, Governor Gavin Newsom.

If it seems like I'm laser focused on the Gestapo raids broadly targeting brown workers in LA on Friday, it's because this is unquestionably the inciting incident that lead to the Trump regime's ongoing fascist invasion of LA and contrary to Downmarket Mussolini and his minion's lies, the Trump administration was completely responsible for these inciting incidents. It was Kristi Noem who demanded vastly more migrant arrests, it was Stephen Miller who gave the order to target retail businesses and public districts, it was ICE officials who told the Gestapo to violate civil rights and start snatching people up for being brown, it was the Trump regime who targeted a sanctuary city in a sanctuary state run by the current 2028 Democrat nomination frontrunner for this spectacle, and it was Trumpenreich officials who responded to nonviolent protests by declaring a violent insurrection was occurring in LA to pave the way for Trump's deployment of US military forces to the city. They had the means, they created the opportunity, and the motives are transparently fascist; Trump snatched it up as an excuse to declare war on his perceived opposition immediately, as if it was planned that way, because it was.

#Fascism #LA #ICE #Trump #KristiNoem #StephenMiller #DHS #Invasion #USPol #Gestapo #Newsom #PoliceState #Nazis

Speaking of cowardice, complicity, and paving the road for fascism, let us not forget that the Trump regime's enabling of an ongoing genocide by Israel in Gaza, their fascist kidnapping spree against student protestors, and their quest to control American universities under the guise of "fighting antisemitism" are built on the back of policies, and in particular ideological justifications, provided by a Democratic Party that picked supporting genocide, hunting down migrants, and building out a police state over winning "the most important election in American history."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown

"For instance, the reason Trump could plausibly refer to Gaza a “demolition site” is because, for more than a year prior to his re-election, his Democratic predecessor (urged on by Schumer and others) supplied unlimited weapons to Israel to carry out a campaign of destruction that has few modern equivalents – a campaign that was not just restricted to Gaza, but also extended to the West Bank, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Biden’s planned successor, Kamala Harris, and her surrogates repeatedly stressed to voters that these policies would continue largely unchanged under her watch.

Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses. Democratic lawmakers put aggressive pressure on the former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to crush the protests. She ultimately did so with the assistance of New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams (who justified his clampdown via evidence-free statements that the protests were driven primarily by “outside agitators”). Trump celebrated the pictures and videos of students getting roughed up by the NYPDand, upon Trump’s reclaiming the White House, the justice department interceded on behalf of Adams – making his criminal investigation go away in apparent exchange for the mayor adopting a more aggressive posture on immigration – a move that critics claim is a quid pro quo.

In a similar vein, it was Biden who enshrined the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal guidance, despite the definition’s author repeatedly describing it as a “travesty” to use this definition to regulate speech and behavior. Building on Biden’s introduction, Trump is poised to sign a bill that would implement this same definition into federal anti-discrimination law – and in the meantime, he’s insisting Columbia and other schools adopt this definition in their own codes of conduct. NYU and Harvard have already taken this step, overriding concerns by civil rights and civil liberties organizations – from the ACLU, to Fire and the AAUP, to Israeli civil rights groups – who stressed that IHRA’s definition is extremely vague and provides strong leeway for institutional stakeholders to censor most critical discussion of Israel, Zionism or Judaism more broadly, by Jews and non-Jews alike."

Look, you can criticize me for playing "the blame game" all you like, but every goddamn thing Trump is doing surrounding the US-backed genocide in Gaza, including the domestic installation of fascist ideological policing, was and is facilitated by a Biden administration that was warned all of this - from Trump winning, to deploying War on Terror logic repression on anti-genocide protesters - was on the table if they didn't change course. If you want to know why only fourteen Democrats signed a letter decrying the fascist abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, and only thirty-four Democrat lawmakers signed the letter demanding the release of Rumeysa Ozturk (whose only "crime" appears to be have been writing an op-ed calling for her University to divest from Israel and condemn a genocide) you don't have to look any further than a mainstream Democratic Party leadership class that's fat on AIPAC donations and happily told you student protestors were violent antisemites who endorsed terrorist organizations, demanded colleges take action to suppress the protests, and justified a brutal police crackdown on... college kids who don't want their government to facilitate a genocide. It's kind of hard to criticize all that fascism when your donors love it and you directly made the arguments Trump is using to conduct it, after all.

#Fascism #Trump #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #StudentProtests #ICE #DHS #Collaborators #PoliceState #Antisemitism #DemocraticParty #IdeologicalPolicing #WarOnTerror

How the UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management

Algorithms, facial recognition, and tightening protest laws signal a deepening surveillance state
~ Blade Runner ~

"The UK is expanding its use of predictive policing and surveillance, framing it as a response to crime, protest, and public safety. But the direction is clear: more monitoring, earlier intervention, and more control over dissent.

In early April, The Guardian revealed that the Ministry of Justice is developing a “murder prevention” system. The tool aims to identify individuals judged to be at high risk of committing lethal violence, based on data drawn from multiple agencies—social care, policing, education. The government has framed the project as a research initiative to improve risk assessments and early intervention. But its underlying logic marks a shift toward ‘precrime’—managing individuals on the basis of what they might do, rather than what they’ve done."

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/11/…

#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #FacialRecognition #AI #Technology #Repression #State #Protest #UK #Police #PoliceState