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@echo_pbreyer Oh please, stop insulting our intelligence - your pathetic "Erklärung" re: the Gilles Bordelais scandal was bad enough. Your party supports unconditionally the biggest supplier of #spyware in the world and it also supports brutal #censorship and #crackdown against any criticism or dissent against this supplier. So, cut the crap, Dr. Breyer. We're old enough and we can see through you and your disgraced and amoral party.

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“Meet Palantir's Bloodthirsty, Zionist, Neo-Con Head Of Defense Business”

by The Dissident on Substack

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@israel
@UKLabour

“Mike Gallagher Will Use Palantir To Crack Down On Anti-War Activists While Taking America To War”

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p

The Dissident · Meet Palantir's Bloodthirsty, Zionist, Neo-Con Head Of Defense Business.By The Dissident
#Press#US#Palantir

“How Palantir Will Build A Zionist Surveillance State”

by The Dissident on Substack

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@israel
@UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes

“The Newest Expansion Of The Surveillance State Will Help With The Crackdown On Pro-Palestine Speech”

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p

The Dissident · How Palantir Will Build A Zionist Surveillance State.By The Dissident
#Press#Gaza#Palestine

An $8.4 Billion #Chinese Hub for #Crypto #Crime Is Incorporated in #Colorado

Before a #crackdown by #Telegram , #XinbiGuarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto #scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.
#xinbi #security #china #scam

wired.com/story/xinbi-guarante

WIRED · An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in ColoradoBy Andy Greenberg

“New Evidence Suggests The UK Government Collaborated With Israel To Crack Down On Speech”

by The Dissident on Substack

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@israel
@UKLabour

“An email suggests that the UK government collaborated with Israel to arrest journalists and activists”

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p

The Dissident · New Evidence Suggests The UK Government Collaborated With Israel To Crack Down On Speech.By The Dissident
#Press#UK#Israel

Federal authorities arrest two #judges, escalating #Trump #immigration #crackdown

"This is a drastic escalation and dangerous new front in Trump’s #authoritarian campaign of trying to bully, intimidate, and impeach judges who won’t follow his dictates. We must do whatever we can to defend the independent judiciary in America." - #JamieRaskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee.

by Kevin Breuninger, Dan Mangan, Fri, Apr 25 2025

"Federal authorities have arrested a former #NewMexico judge and a #Wisconsin judge in two separate cases, accusing them of interfering with Trump administration immigration enforcement efforts."

Read more:
cnbc.com/2025/04/25/fbi-arrest

CNBC · Federal authorities arrest two judges, in escalation of Trump immigration crackdownBy Kevin Breuninger

It looks like #HandsOff was successful in that now the #TrumpRegime is going to try and silence the organizers!

Core Democratic groups are preparing to be targeted by the #Trump administration

By STEVE PEOPLES
Updated 12:14 PM EDT, April 15, 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — "As President Donald Trump pushes the historical boundaries of executive power, some of the Democratic Party’s core political institutions are preparing for the possibility that the federal government may soon launch criminal investigations against them.

"The Democrats’ dominant national fundraising platform, #ActBlue, and the party’s largest #protest group, #Indivisible, are working with their attorneys for just such a scenario, according to officials within both organizations. Trump’s top political allies have suggested both groups should face prosecution.

"Other Democratic allies are planning for Trump-backed legal crackdowns as well. Wary of antagonizing the Republican president, most prefer to stay anonymous for now.

" 'Every one of our clients is concerned about being arbitrarily targeted by the Trump administration. We are going to great lengths to help clients prepare for or defend themselves,' said Ezra Reese, political law chair at Elias Law Group, which represents Democratic groups and candidates and is chaired by Marc Elias, the lawyer who has himself been a Trump target.

"An FBI spokesperson declined to comment when asked about potential investigations into ActBlue and Indivisible. But White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not downplay the threat of a potential criminal probe when asked specifically whether Trump wants the FBI, the Treasury Department or any other federal agency to investigate Democratic groups."

Source:
apnews.com/article/democrats-t

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Emboldened no doubt by the fascist repression and rhetoric deployed by the Trump regime, and a large number of right wing extremists in the US judiciary, state governments all over America are proposing or passing laws that criminalize even peaceful protest - with multi-decade prison terms laid out for dissidents and resisters:

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

US intensifies crackdown on peaceful protest under Trump

"Anti-protest bills that seek to expand criminal punishments for constitutionally protected peaceful protests – especially targeting those speaking out on the US-backed war in Gaza and the climate crisis – have spiked since Trump’s inauguration.

Forty-one new anti-protest bills across 22 states have been introduced since the start of the year – compared with a full-year total of 52 in 2024 and 26 in 2023, according to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) tracker.

This year’s tally includes 32 bills across 16 states since Trump returned to the White House, with five federal bills targeting college students, anti-war protesters and climate activists with harsh prison sentences and hefty fines – a crackdown that experts warn threaten to erode first amendment rights to freedom of speech, assembly and petition."

I don't know about you, but I've been having arguments with liberals about what constitutes an effective protest since at least the Occupy Wall Street movement, and invariably their excuse for not actually disrupting anything or shutting shit down, is that effective resistance will give the authorities an excuse to crack down on otherwise peaceful protests. So what now folks? If you're gonna be called a domestic terrorist and do twenty years in prison for peacefully disrupting the oil and gas industry or opposing a US-backed genocide conducted by its client state Israel regardless, why remain peaceful? Given that Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is openly talking about twenty year prison terms for vandalizing a Tesla dealership, it seems pretty clear that the penalties are the same whether you march peacefully waving your little signs, or actually shut the fuck barrel down and hurt these folks where it counts - their wallets.

Furthermore, while it's obvious these anti-protest bills are designed to target anti-genocide protestors as part of the Trump regime's crackdown on anyone who doesn't support settler colonialist massacres by Israel in Gaza, don't sleep on the fact that these guys are also targeting climate crisis protestors who disrupt the fossil fuel and energy industries. As I've been telling you for years now, understanding climate crisis and what our leaders already know about it, is crucial to understanding the rise of fascism because these folks absolutely intend to lead us all off the ecological cliff and they know, sooner or later, the public at large isn't going to accept "we think you should all die so a handful of nazi billionaires can keep stacking filthy lucre." All over the Pig Empire, whether your government is overtly fascist, or covertly fascist under the guise of neoliberalism, our states are preparing to meet everyday people rising up against the capitalism that's killing us, with fascist repression - and we've already caught the companies that know they've got bodies on their hands, actively funding the lobbies behind these anti-democratic suppression laws, to protect their business interests.

As I've told you a number of times already, it only takes one side to declare war, and the rise of fascism in the so-called West must be understood as part of a much larger class war; a war nazi billionaire cultists and corporate power intend to win, once and for all. It doesn't matter how peaceful you are, the fact that you know the machine is killing your kids for five pennies a share and don't like it, is enough to make you the enemy of a capitalist order increasingly turning to overt fascism to lock in their way of life and future profits, no matter how many of their victims (all of us) don't like it. Whether you fight back, or not, the boot is coming.

The Guardian · US intensifies crackdown on peaceful protest under TrumpBy Nina Lakhani

“Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram”

by Waqas Ahmed, Nicolas Ridelo, Ryan Grim and Murtaza Hussein in Drop Site News on Substack

“A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel”

open.substack.com/pub/dropsite

Drop Site News · Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and InstagramBy Waqas Ahmed

US arrests:

„U.S. immigration agents arrested a Palestinian graduate student who has played a prominent role in pro-Palestinian protests at New York’s Columbia University as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s promised crackdown on some anti-Israel activists.“

via US immigration agents arrest Palestinian student protester at Columbia University in Trump crackdown | reuters.com gefunden bei @franklinlopez

Ich muss nicht der gleichen Meinung wie Mahmoud Khalil sein, um seine Deportation bedenklich zu finden.

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“Britain's Secret Palestinian Authority Control”

by Kit Klarenberg in Global Delinquents on Substack

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@israel
@UKLabour

“Numerous leaked documents on the clandestine operations of Adam Smith International, a British intelligence cutout, lay bare the depth of London’s infiltration & control of the Palestinian Authority”

open.substack.com/pub/kitklare

#Press #Palestine #Authority #PA #Britain #Control #Gaza ##WestBank #Crackdown #AdamSmith #International #ASI #Israel #Genocide #UK #Labour

Global Delinquents · Britain's Secret Palestinian Authority ControlBy Kit Klarenberg