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All you fascists bound to lose

/ Tracy Abell / 3 Comments

Popping in briefly to say yesterday brought so much good stuff. Dick Cheney finally died! (Twenty-five years too late to prevent death and destruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention his role in laying the groundwork for the current fascist regime with his expansion of the executive branch, but it’s still good knowing he’s no longer here.) Woot! Woot!

Also? Zohran Mamdani put the beatdown on Andrew Cuomo! Despite the millions and millions of dollars spent against him and the nonstop racist, fear-mongering media coverage, Mamdani prevailed. Woot! Woot!

All around the country, former GOP seats were flipped to Democrats in a national mandate against fascism, cruelty, violence, Epstein, and the all-around ICK of the current regime and Republican party. The voters said NO! Woot! Woot!

Woody Guthrie, March 1943

In honor of all that, last night right before going to bed I danced around to Woody Guthrie’s “All you fascists” as performed by Billy Bragg & Wilco on the Mermaid Avenue Vol II album. You can hear that recording here. Or, just read the lyrics:

Gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised
People all over this world are getting organized
You’re bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose

People of every color marching side by side
Marching ‘cross the fields where the million fascists died
You’re bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose

All you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose

All you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All you fascists bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose

I’m goin’ into this battle, take my union gun
We’ll end this world of slavery before this war won
You’re bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose

Race, hatred, cannot stop us, this one thing we know
Your poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go
You’re bound to lose, you fascists are bound to lose

It feels good knowing people all around the country are refusing to bow down to the fascists. Solidarity!

Trump Wants All Palestinians Out of Gaza

/ Tracy Abell / 5 Comments

As much as I’d like to pretend none of this horrifying stuff is happening, I feel obligated to share the latest from Jewish Voice for Peace’s THE WIRE. The article starts with this:

Yesterday, Trump hosted his first foreign leader: war criminal and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu. 

As Netanyahu beamed, Trump made the shocking announcement that he expected the 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza would leave permanently (or be removed) — “ending the death and destruction and, frankly, bad luck.” His reference to 15 months of genocide as “bad luck” revealed his posture of humanitarian concern as an obvious farce. 

Please take 5 minutes to read the entire article that outlines the far-Right’s faux concern about antisemitism, including this:

In reality, the far-Right is weaponizing false accusations of antisemitism as a cudgel to both defend Israel’s genocide and lay the groundwork for trampling on all of our fundamental rights and freedoms.

Just look at Trump’s sham executive order to “combat antisemitism,” which would lay the groundwork for deportations of non citizen student activists.

This executive order is pulled directly from the pages of “Project Esther”: the far-Right’s plan to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement. It is a scare tactic: a transparent attempt to shut down criticism of the Israeli government, and does nothing to keep Jews safe.

Criminalizing criticism of Israel — an aim the far-Right shares with Israel’s extremist government and its backers — is the entryway for the Right to completely dismantle fundamental rights and freedoms.

Again, you can read the article in its entirety here. When you’re finished, please go here to personalize a message to your electeds, demanding they oppose Trump’s billion dollar weapons shipment to Israel during a supposed ceasefire. ARMS EMBARGO NOW!

I know they haven’t listened to us thus far, but we cannot stop demanding an end to the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Solidarity! ✊🏾

Terrible feeling of déjà vu

/ Tracy Abell

I wore this shirt while camping this week. Its message is just as timely today as it was when I bought it during war criminal George W. Bush’s presidency.

The back reads:
What is the Downing Street Memo?
On May 1, 2005, The Times of London published a July 2002 memo from the head of British intelligence, who had just returned from Washington, to Prime Minister Tony Blair. Written seven months before the war in Iraq began, the memo says that President Bush, contrary to what he told the American people, had already decided to go to war and, even worse, that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” Meaning, the Bush administration was intentionally fabricatinng evidence linking Saddam to WMD and terrorism in order to trick the American people and Congress into going to war. 

The more things change the more they stay the same. The greedheads/warmongers of the military industrial complex can’t ever get enough.