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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 4, 2023

“Fascists Go Home!”Philadelphians Reject Far Right “Moms for Liberty”
>50 local/national organizations join to counter the harmful messaging f. the far right group’s conference
https://truthout.org/articles/fascists-go-home-philadelphians-reject-far-right-moms-4-liberty/

banners draped over I-95 into Philadelphia read “Philly Protects Trans Kids” & “Bad Things Happen (to fascists) in Philadelphia
... four days of high-energy protests against M4L for its anti-Black & anti-queer policy agenda
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#MomsForLiberty #CultureWars #ChristianRight #transphobia #extremism

“Fascists Go Home!”: Philadelphians Reject Far Right “Moms for Liberty”

Over 50 local and national organizations joined to counter the harmful messaging from the far right group's conference.

Truthout

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 4, 2023

Addendae 1

Moms for Liberty Is the Tea Party All Over Again. The growing right-wing movement proved its influence at its recent Philadelphia summit. The political press is playing right into its hands
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/moms-for-liberty-summit

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https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110505032763339973
Moms for Liberty among conservative groups named 'extremist' by civil rights watchdog
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180486760/splc-moms-for-liberty-extremist-group

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110505188053280539
Who funds "Moms for Liberty"?
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#MomsForLiberty #extremism

Moms for Liberty Is the Tea Party All Over Again

The growing right-wing movement proved its influence at its recent Philadelphia summit. The political press is playing right into its hands.

The Nation

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 4, 2023

Addendae 2

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110586068004244427
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Spends an Hour Sucking Up to Elon Musk in Twitter Space
Instead of explaining why he’s running for president, RFK used the Twitter space to lavish compliments on Elon
https://newrepublic.com/post/173249/robert-f-kennedy-jr-spends-hour-sucking-up-elon-musk-twitter-space

#MomsForLiberty #RFKJr #M4L #transphobia #extremism #ExtremistGroup #SPLC #CultureWars #TransLivesMatter #education #neofascism #neoconservatism

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Spends an Hour Sucking Up to Elon Musk in Twitter Space

Instead of explaining why he’s running for president, RFK Jr. used the Twitter space to lavish compliments on Elon.

The New Republic

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 5, 2023

Addendae 3

Moms for Liberty Came to Philly
This city is welcoming to just about everyone except hateful fascist bigots such as Moms for Liberty
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/moms-for-liberty-philadelphia-protests/

Moms For Liberty flexes its muscles and faces pushback
https://hechingerreport.org/moms-for-liberty-flexes-its-muscles-and-faces-pushback

My Deeply Unsettling Return to Moms for Liberty Conference
Beneath the “joyful warrior” cosplay was startlingly dark agenda
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/moms-for-liberty-conference

#Philadelphia #MomsForLiberty #SPLC #ExtremistGroup #extremism #lgbt #education

Moms for Liberty Came to Philly. Philly Came for Them.

This city is welcoming to just about everyone—except hateful fascist bigots, as the Moms for Liberty found out.

The Nation

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Addendae 4

Real Agenda of Moms for Liberty
As Republicans pay the political price for overturning legal abortion, they’re banking on “parents’ rights” as a way to paint their opponents as extreme
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/moms-for-liberty-philadelphia

#Philadelphia #MomsForLiberty #M4L #ExtremistGroup #extremism #lgbt #education #neofascism #CutureWars #FarRight #GOP

The Real Agenda of Moms for Liberty

As Republicans pay the political price for overturning legal abortion, they’re banking on “parents’ rights” as a way to paint their opponents as extreme.

The Nation