Horsey!
Money isn't the reason Trump wants to defund PBS and Public Radio.
#Ignorance #Fascism #Trump #President Musk #PBS PublicRadio

Erdoğan’s fascist regime in Turkey has arrested more members of the secular and progressive Istanbul municipality – including Murat Ongun and his wife. (This comes after he arrested the mayor – Ekrem İmamoğlu – Turkish presidential candidate and his main rival.)

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/turkey-detains-47-members-istanbul-municipality-widening-crackdown-2025-04-26/

The last time I’d spoken with Murat was when he’d invited me to speak in Istanbul about my work on Small Technology. I sadly had to refuse as they couldn’t guarantee my safety because I’d spoken out against Erdoğan in Berlin and labelled a “terrorist” by the mayor of Ankara for it:

https://ar.al/notes/my-speech-at-general-assembly-in-berlin-november-2017/

(Needless to say, the place I can be most useful is not in a Turkish prison.)

Erdoğan is a dictator who has installed fascism in Turkey with the full blessing and billions of euros of support from the EU (because we use him as a dam to keep the Brown people away from our shores).

Shame on you, @EUCommission, for your silence and complicity.

#Turkey #Erdogan #fascism #EU #EuropeanUnion #complicity #Türkiye #Erdoğan #faşizm #AB #AvrupaBirliği #SuçOrtaklığı

Why Protest?

Because it is easier than hiding a family in your attic.

If the person in charge of health and human services stands up and calls diabetes an “exotic disease” and says he has never heard of lupus or crohn’s… he should immediately be fired for gross incompetence.

This is eugenics. RFK Jr is going after disabled people so the country doesn’t have to pay for them.

His insistence on repeatedly bringing up how many kids can serve in the military gives the game away.

health supremacy and fascism are a risk to everyone. They may start with the disabled, but they won’t stop with us.

Authorities Detain and Execute Non-Citizen

Local carpenter put to death.

RFK Jr saying the quiet part out loud…

In an article about autism, he talks about how autistic people will never pay taxes, hold a job, go on a date etc. “worthless”. Useless eaters.

This is straight up eugenics.

It’s also wrong. Many people with autism or disabilities can do ALL these things, but our worth should not be predicated on that.

Everyone has intrinsic value regardless of economic ability or contribution.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/robert-kennedy-jr-autism-rates-press-conference-cdc-hhs-vaccines/

#DefendTheConstitution #TrumpRegime #PunchNazis #1A #2A #Trump #MAGA #ThisIsWhatYouVotedFor #ElectionsHaveConsequences

Fox News has removed the stock market data from the chyron.

The Greater Cleveland Food Bank lost 20 truckloads—$2 million worth—of emergency food this week due to agent orange admin cuts. That’s a MILLION POUNDS of food GONE. This is either incompetence or deliberate cruelty.

🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”

Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.

If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?

(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)

CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

Wenn Let’s Encrypt plötzlich nicht mehr klappt, wird das halbe Internet aus Zertifikatsfehlern bestehen. https://www.heise.de/news/Nach-Trump-Dekret-Kampf-um-US-Foerdermittel-fuer-Tor-F-Droid-und-Let-s-Encrypt-10328226.html

Donald Trump wants to send American citizens to concentration camps for boycotting a billionaire corporation, causing the loss of half their stock value.

This is not a drill.

While it’s difficult to avoid the asshats* (and “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” notwithstanding), given Amazon Ireland has launched this week, just remember that every euro you pay them goes toward fucking billionaire Jeff Bezos who is helping Trump dismantle democracy in the US and elsewhere. So please do your best to shop locally – or with smaller EU shops – and avoid Amazon as much as you can.

* I really need to get the media for my Mastodon server off of AWS. Another bloody hassle I don’t need right now. *smdh*

@GottaLaff

Yes, indeed, it is in an article by Thom Hartmann, dated dec. 03 2024.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-does-agenda-47-spell-for-americas-e01

Look, seriously, do not visit the US. They’re going full fascist.

The EU should be releasing travel warnings at this point.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/british-comic-creator-r-e-burke-detained-by-ice-after-crossing-border/

Update: they’ve reportedly reinstated the #antifa hashtag. As well as #noAFD, which was, apparently, also blocked.

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Hey FLOSS.social, do you understand that “antifa” stands for “anti fascist?” Do you know what folks who are anti-anti fascist are? That’s right, they’re fascists.

While you’re at it, you might also want to look up what the “F” and the “L” in your name stand for.

If they don’t fix this ASAP, I’d recommend a swift #fediblock by any instance that isn’t fascist.

Important edit:
Meanwhile, the admin responded and clarified the situation. It was a configuration mistake. #antifa was auto blocked because of spam (if I got this correctly?) and #NoAfD basically for the same reason. The latter, however, wasn't resolved that fast because it has never been reported. Which is believable because it's super German specific.
https://floss.social/@admin/114041817627451631

Original:
@admin I'm sorry, what?!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FLOSS #antifascism

Wouldn't it be a shame if a bunch of us posted this ad that the cowardly fascists, led by #Bezos, at #WaPo first agreed to run and then backed out of doing so? #Musk would be so upset.

So, first things first, all US bases in the EU should be shut down as a matter of urgency. The last thing you want is soldiers of a hostile state within your own walls. Would we have Russian bases in the EU? No? (Well guess what? Now we do.)

Heck, at least the Greeks had the common courtesy to hide in a wooden horse.

So, fascists hand in hand.

#Feixisme #Racisme #Classisme #Capitalisme #ClasseTreballadora #GuerraDeClasses #DivideixIVenceràs

Google, a brief history

2004: Don’t be evil
2018: OK, be evil but at least don’t kill people
2025: Fuck it, kill people

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/google-drops-pledge-not-to-use-ai-for-weapons-b2692533.html

Palantir CEO and sociopath Alex Karp, addressing investors during a board meeting, defending DOGE:

“Palantir is here to disrupt and make the institutions we partner with the very best in the world. And, when it’s necessary, to scare enemies and on occasion kill them. And we hope you’re in favor of that.”

Yeah. “Kill them.”

(Hat tip: @sergiodomeyko)

A message to my fellow Europeans.
Don't be paralysed by overseas fascism.
It is time for Europe and its citizens to focus less on the USA.
Stop obsessively following the news in a country where you cannot change anything.
Focus your attention on where you can make an impact.
All attention is needed here to fight growing fascism.

In case you're confused about why #elonmusk calls USAID a "criminal organization": The agency played a role in ending his beloved #Apartheid.
#trump #fascism

Dear folks in tech,

You don’t have to literally pull a trigger to erase vulnerable people from existence. You can do it with just a few keystrokes. And pave the way for those who will pull the triggers.

Withhold your keystrokes.

Use your keystrokes to resist.

Your keystrokes can kill or they can protect.

Your keystrokes will determine the person you have to live with for the rest of your life.

When the most successful person in your system is a fascist, your system might just be fascism.