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From January 30th, 2025;

"Transgender women incarcerated in federal prisons have been placed in isolation, told they will be transferred to men’s prisons and advised they will lose access to gender-affirming medical treatments in response to Donald Trump’s executive order […], according to civil rights advocates and people behind bars.”

“‘Prison staff are clearly emboldened by the transphobia of the administration’, Beaty said.”

Always among the first, sigh.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trans-people-federal-prisons

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Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order

Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons

The Guardian
Feb 9 at 10:08pmWeb
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This also affects the trans men housed in that same prison, of course;

"The [trans] man also said staff told him and other trans men they would be losing access to hormone treatments. He had already missed one scheduled appointment, he said. One staffer told them they might also be placed in solitary ‘because we don’t know how you’re going to act once you’re taken off of your [hormone] shots’, he said.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/trans-people-federal-prisons

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Trans people in US federal prisons face brutal crackdown under Trump order

Advocates report harassment and loss of gender-affirming care as trans women face transfers to men’s prisons

The Guardian
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"The Italian founder of the NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, who has been a vocal critic of Italy’s alleged complicity in abuses suffered by migrants in Libya, has revealed WhatsApp informed him his mobile phone was targeted by military-grade spyware made by the Israel-based company Paragon Solutions.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/05/activists-critical-of-italian-pm-may-have-had-their-phones-targeted-by-paragon-spyware-says-whatsapp

Also includes a journalist known for exposing fascists within Meloni's party;

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/31/italian-journalist-whatsapp-israeli-spyware

"Paragon Solutions […] has terminated its client relationship with Italy, according a person familiar with the matter.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/06/owner-of-spyware-used-in-alleged-whatsapp-breach-ends-contract-with-italy

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Italian founder of migrant rescue group ‘targeted with spyware’

Luca Casarini is most prominent person to come forward since WhatsApp said that 90 people, across two dozen countries, had probably been hacked

The Guardian
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From January 28th, 2025;

“Argentine President Javier Milei took the international far-right’s ‘war on woke’ to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week in a fiery speech declaring that LGBTQ+ ‘gender ideology constitutes plain and simple child abuse. They are pedophiles’.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/argentinas-president-called-all-lgbtq-pedophiles-now-hes-getting-sued/

From January 29th, 2025;

"Femicide will be struck from Argentina’s penal code, according to a vow from the administration of Javier Milei, the president. It is his administration’s latest attack on women’s rights.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/29/argentina-femicide-womens-rights-law

It never comes alone.

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From February 5th, 2025;

“Argentina said Wednesday it will quit the World Health Organization, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump's United States and citing similar complaints over the UN body's management of the Covid-19 pandemic.”

COVID is just the excuse, of course.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250205-following-trump-argentina-quits-world-health-organization

He's just following Trump's lead, including the banning of gender-affirming care;

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250205-five-ways-in-which-argentina-s-milei-has-mirrored-trump

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Following Trump, Argentina quits World Health Organization

Argentina said Wednesday it will quit the World Health Organization, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump's United States and citing similar complaints over the UN body's management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

FRANCE 24
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From January 29th, 2025;

“Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be ‘reversed’ through diets: influential American and European podcasters are peddling harmful health misinformation while largely escaping scrutiny, researchers say.”

"Earlier this month, actor and director Mel Gibson said on the Joe Rogan Experience […] that some of his friends had overcome stage four cancer after taking the antiparasitic drugs ivermectin and fenbendazole.”

Reminder that Spotify's deal with Rogan is worth $250M.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250129-influential-podcasts-fuel-harmful-health-misinformation

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Influential podcasts fuel 'harmful' health misinformation

Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be "reversed" through diets: influential American and European podcasters are peddling harmful health misinformation while largely escaping scrutiny, researchers say.

FRANCE 24
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From January 29th, 2025;

"MPs have urged the cabinet to scrap the special charitable status currently applied to climate campaign group Extinction Rebellion, which enables it to profit from a tax break for good causes.

Justice minister David van Weel said last week that it would not be possible to cancel XR’s ANBI status ‘on the basis of the facts now before me’, but MPs went ahead with backing a motion by far-right JA21 anyway.”

I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating; peaceful protest is under attack, including here in the Netherlands.

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/01/mps-call-for-extinction-rebellion-to-lose-charity-tax-status/

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MPs call for Extinction Rebellion to lose charity tax status - DutchNews.nl

MPs have urged the cabinet to scrap the special charitable status currently applied to climate campaign group Extinction Rebellion, which enables it to profit from a tax break for good causes. Justice minister David van Weel said last week that it would not be possible to cancel XR’s ANBI status “on the basis of the facts now before me”, but MPs went ahead with backing a motion by far-right JA21 anyway. The party, which has one MP, says the campaign...

DutchNews.nl
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From February 1st, 2025;

"Far-right parties could become the largest force on the right in Europe within a decade, experts have said, as mainstream conservative parties look to copy their hardline agendas, especially on immigration, in a vain effort to win back votes.”

The Overton window;

"So first, Abou-Chadi said, norms change. Accommodation normalises and legitimises far-right parties: voting for them is no longer a transgression. Second, opinion shifts: if mainstream parties say something is really important, people tend to believe it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/01/vicious-cycle-far-right-parties-across-europe-are-inspiring-imitators

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‘Vicious cycle’: how far-right parties across Europe are cannibalising the centre right

Hardline agendas, especially on immigration, are copied by mainstream conservatives in vain effort to win back votes - but it’s not working

The Guardian
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From February 2nd, 2025;

"Radical right-wing movements like Germany's AfD party are on the rise worldwide. They are united by nationalism, populism and the fight against immigration. Their network is becoming increasingly transnational.”

"Strategies and successes in one country are soon adopted by other movements, according to political scientist Thomas Greven from Berlin's Free University. He considers the extent of the radical right's networking to be historically unprecedented.”

Organised, affiliated fuckers. Like we've been saying for almost a decade now.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-far-right-is-expanding-its-international-network/a-71530393

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How the far right is expanding its international network

Radical right-wing movements like Germany's AfD party are on the rise worldwide. They are united by nationalism, populism and the fight against immigration. Their network is becoming increasingly transnational.

Deutsche Welle
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From January 30th, 2025;

“Donald Trump has signed an executive order to ‘combat antisemitism’ that asks agencies to explore ways to deport pro-Palestinian activists, including student protesters.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-executive-order-pro-palestinian-activists

From February 2nd, 2025;

"Days after Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack that sparked Israel’s retaliatory campaign in Gaza, Marco Rubio […] urged former secretary of state Antony Blinken to revoke the visas of students who protested Israel.”

Project Esther, courtesy of the Heritage Foundation, authors of ‘Project 2025’.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/02/trump-palestine-gaza-protest-project-esther

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Trump order targets pro-Palestinian activists to ‘combat antisemitism’

Order appears to target students and activists who engaged in pro-Palestinian protests after Hamas attack on 7 October

The Guardian
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Splitting the thread.

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From January 27th, 2025; "Some of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memos sent to federal workers about firing, hiring freezes, and mandatory return to office demands were seemingly written by people who were previously employed by the Heritage Foundation and other conservative think tanks with longstanding loyalties to President Donald Trump, according to metadata on the memos posted by the government online.” Project 2025, again. https://www.404media.co/opm-memos-to-federal-employees-metadata/ Related; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/federal-grants-paused-project-2025 — Thread continues from here; https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/113976478379804368 1430/ 🧵 #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #DontPayTheGuardian #USpol

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@sindarina I don't know how much good it will do, but I was glad to see folks protesting what Milei said at Davos.

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-davos-protest-lgbtq-32104fd11a76d1cf55817bb2bafdc354

Argentina: Thousands protest President Milei’s diatribe against 'wokeism' at Davos

Thousands of demonstrators have gathered in Argentina’s capital and in cities across the country to protest President Javier Milei’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, during which he slammed ‘wokeism,’ feminism and other progressive ideals. Protestors were clad in rainbow colored flags and bore banners that read “rights are not negotiable.” Dubbed the “Federal March of Anti-Fascist and Anti-Racist Pride,” the LGBTQ+ community called the protest after the speech on Jan. 23 to combat “the economic violence, political persecution and sexual repression of Javier Milei’s government.” In Switzerland, Milei sharply criticized “sick wokeism,” social welfare, feminism, identity politics and the fight against climate change.

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