@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc» @… reported that in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s Justice Department deleted a study from its website stating that right-wing violence ›continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism‹ in the United States. This comes as the Trump administration and Republicans generally blame political violence solely o…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialOh dear, they really need to sort themselves out and pronto.
Corbyn and Sultana clash over new party membership
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkn3v1e7g3o
@hex@kolektiva.socialPeople keep trying to point to an event where the "right/left" political violence thing got out of hand. You cannot point to anywhere in US history where the right hasn't been murdering leftists. It has never happened.
They've been talking about civil war since they lost the last one, and most of US politics before that was just trying to prevent the first one.
There isn't a wave of right/left violence. Right wing violence has just gone unchecked for so long, and been so accepted, that now they're killing each other regularly. The Trump assassination attempts were all from the right. #CharlieKirk was killed by another fascist for not being fascist enough.
Fascists have so completely taken over that they see each other as legitimate targets because they've run out of "leftists" worth murdering. That's the story. That's what people can't wrap their heads around.
Everyone is worried about the right wing response, worries about right wing escalation, but they called for civil war over the cracker barrel logo. They're already maxing out their base. All the proud boys and other Nazis are already hired by ICE. They're also already going as hard as they can. They don't need any excuses. They have total control of everything. This bumbling mess is *the best they can do.* They call for civil war every few days.
We're not seeing a war between the left and the right. We're seeing a war between the right and the far right, where both side opportunistically punch left when they can and liberals help them justify their actions.
#USPol
@scott@carfree.cityI liked the premise of this The Dig podcast, that it was going to tell me why Chicago's left-wing mayor is seemingly so unpopular, but it's very in the weeds and didn't provide much of an overview of the issues. Feels like it's only for people who are already Chicago politics junkies
https://
@trochee@dair-community.socialJD's joke's on us, there *are* no left wing billionaires
Ain't that many left wing politicians left in the USA, either, and I bet the ones we have left *weren't* on Pedophilia Island chartered flights
@UP8@mastodon.social📉 Why the Left Should Care About Population Decline
#population
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesI had totally missed that,
The famous right wing extremist that was COO at Shopify, Kaz Nejatian, left Shopify on Friday
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/shopify-coo-kaz-nejatian-departing-212351207.html
@cdarwin@c.imRight-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn interview with Ben Meiselas, who runs the left-leaning US media company MeidasTouch with his brothers Jordan and Brett, on Trump, right-wing media, and more (Steve Rose/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
@servelan@newsie.socialHow To Lie About Left-Wing Terrorism Like A Common Axios And/Or Trump Fascist!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/how-to-lie-about-left-wing-terrorism
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEXCLUSIVE: DOJ Official Who Approved $2 Million Payout To Disgraced Russia Hoaxers Identified As Left-Wing Activist Brian Netter (Mollie Hemingway/The Federalist)
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/exclusive-doj-official-who-approved-2-million-payout-to-disgraced-russia-hoaxers-identified-as-left-wing-activist-brian-netter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p130#a250801p130
@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc„How right-wing, Maxine wonders, does a person have to be to think of the New York Times as a left-wing newspaper?“
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge
@Defiance@sfba.socialOne of our kids at college in LA had their classes canceled today because of death threats against black kids at the school, in response to the Charlie Kirk killing.
Just amazing how this is playing out. We don't even know who the shooter is or why they did this, and yet the right wing and Kirk fans are using this as a pretext for more violence against anyone perceived to be on the left.
Stay safe out there!
@UP8@mastodon.social📰 Newspaper boycott made people in UK city more left wing, study shows
#politics
@arXiv_csSI_bot@mastoxiv.pageExploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml
Utkucan Balci, Michael Sirivianos, Jeremy Blackburn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23699 https://…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Dems Trash America At Radical Summit In Mexico (Melissa O'Rourke/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/04/house-dems-trash-america-radical-left-wing-summit-mexico-city/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p14#a250805p14
@cdarwin@c.imMAGA media
is flexing its ability to
shape the debate over antifa and violent crime in American cities,
-- empowered by allies in the White House
hungry for evidence of left-wing terrorism.
The Trump administration is using clips of violent street clashes
— paired with testimony from MAGA-aligned reporters on the ground
— to falsely depict Democratic-led cities as engulfed in chaos.
@hex@kolektiva.socialOk, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
@fgraver@hcommons.socialTrump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime https://jacobin.com/2025/10/trump-classifies-anti-capitalism-as-a-political-pre-crime/
@servelan@newsie.socialBusted: FBI fails to find link between Kirk suspect and left-wing groups - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/charlie-kirk-killer-left-wing/
@ErikUden@mastodon.deDid you know that in two states in the USA there is no “Democratic Party” but a merged coalition that acts in some ways like the Democratic Party but has different values and a different platform?
In Minnesota, for example, there's the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which was a merge in 1944 between the Farmer-Labor Party and the Democratic Party), which has values like Democratic Socialism and left-wing populism!
The other one is in North Dakota, the Democrati…
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageIdeology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://
@brian_gettler@mas.toToday's (Canadian) history-inspired band name (found in an article in a left-wing Toronto paper in the 1930s):
The Hepburn-Duplessis Conspiracy
@servelan@newsie.socialBookmark this:
Feds have found no links between Kirk assassination suspect and left-wing groups, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlie-kirk-investigation-no-left-wing-groups-b2830578.html
@cdarwin@c.imTop Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller was accused of spreading dangerous “propaganda” Saturday night
regarding the federal judge who ruled that the White House could not deploy 200 National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon.
The White House deputy chief of staff accused U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut,
who was appointed by Trump during his first term, of “legal insurrection”
after she found that the president’s claims about violent protests at a U.S. Immig…
@UP8@mastodon.socialHow elites destroyed the Democratic Party in the US and fuelled populism
... great and concise analysis of the confluence of right wing and left wing populism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoD6ccdmlfI
@markhburton@mstdn.socialSo here we go, the new right wing Bolivian government (installed due to pointless left divisions) annuls convictions of those guilty of massacre and the 2019 coup.
https://w…
@UP8@mastodon.social🌹 New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
#politics
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has signed a little-noticed national security directive
identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.
Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.
“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said, refer…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"In my opinion... for the left-wing militant in general, and the worker in particular, even more particularly the communist worker: start weaving, so to speak, have a loom at home; one cannot continue speaking out against pollution while polluting intensely."
Manuel Sacristšn, influential Spanish eco-Marxist, speaking in 1979. He doesn't mean literally start weaving, although one could, but to live lightly on the earth while struggling against the system.
@servelan@newsie.socialShocking: Working Class Actually Quite Fond Of Left-Wing Economic Policies
https://www.wonkette.com/p/shocking-working-class-actually-quite
@servelan@newsie.socialShocking: Working Class Actually Quite Fond Of Left-Wing Economic Policies
https://www.wonkette.com/p/shocking-working-class-actually-quite
