Japan's far-right Sanseito party has set up an international arm to court U.S. President Donald Trump's allies, betting that global conservative recognition will help it shake up staid Japanese politics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/japan/politics/sanseito-seeks-global-recognition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanseito #2025upperhouseelection #soheikamiya #stevebannon #charliekirk

Japan's far-right Sanseito party has set up an international arm to court U.S. President Donald Trump's allies, betting that global conservative recognition will help it shake up staid Japanese politics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/japan/politics/sanseito-seeks-global-recognition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #sanseito #2025upperhouseelection #soheikamiya #stevebannon #charliekirk

>>>Under pressure from #Musk #Trump + prominent #rightwing #activists in wake of assassination of #CharlieKirk Anti-Defamation League removing website Glossary of #Extremism #Hate 1 of organization’s signature anti-hate resources. Database identifies over 1,000 terms relating 2 extremist ideologies, groups & it has faced scrutiny in recent days after viral #socialmedia posts revealed that Glossary of Extremism included an entry about the slain Turning Point USA founder and his organization.

>>>Under pressure from #Musk #Trump + prominent #rightwing #activists in wake of assassination of #CharlieKirk Anti-Defamation League removing website Glossary of #Extremism #Hate 1 of organization’s signature anti-hate resources. Database identifies over 1,000 terms relating 2 extremist ideologies, groups & it has faced scrutiny in recent days after viral #socialmedia posts revealed that Glossary of Extremism included an entry about the slain Turning Point USA founder and his organization.

Just heard Nigel #Farage’s response to Kier #Starmer’s #Labour Conference speech…

References to #CharlieKirk, dangerous Radical Left and endangerment of #Reform activists.

Does the man actually bother living in the UK any more? He’s just parroting #Trump and #Project2025 talking points.

Yes, Reform policies are racist and they deliberately appeal to racists. These are facts, not an incitement to violence.

The political violence witnessed in the UK is overwhelmingly from the Right.

Just heard Nigel #Farage’s response to Kier #Starmer’s #Labour Conference speech…

References to #CharlieKirk, dangerous Radical Left and endangerment of #Reform activists.

Does the man actually bother living in the UK any more? He’s just parroting #Trump and #Project2025 talking points.

Yes, Reform policies are racist and they deliberately appeal to racists. These are facts, not an incitement to violence.

The political violence witnessed in the UK is overwhelmingly from the Right.

Two days after Kirk’s murder, the #Texas House speaker and lieutenant governor announced a select committee on Civil Discourse & Freedom of Speech in Higher Education, an Orwellian title for a body to ostensibly oversee the implementation of two recently enacted laws policing speech.
https://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbott-free-speech-charlie-kirk-universities/

#politics #USpol #Texas #news #TXlege #FreeSpeech #education #GregAbbott #CharlieKirk

Two days after Kirk’s murder, the #Texas House speaker and lieutenant governor announced a select committee on Civil Discourse & Freedom of Speech in Higher Education, an Orwellian title for a body to ostensibly oversee the implementation of two recently enacted laws policing speech.
https://www.texasobserver.org/greg-abbott-free-speech-charlie-kirk-universities/

#politics #USpol #Texas #news #TXlege #FreeSpeech #education #GregAbbott #CharlieKirk

they got their way, they seized control of all branches of government, they fired thousands of people who weren't on their side, and yet for supposed 'winners' they seem to be a in a continuous state of panic and failure, they can't sleep at night for fear of everyone 'getting' them.....

....it's not the Left coming for you lads, it's your own, toxic, side!

#PeteHesgeth #Fascists #WhiskeyPete #PeteKegseth #WhiskyLeaks #USMilitary #USPOL #FarRight #CharlieKirk

#GiftArticle

What the Public Memory of #CharlieKirk Revealed

For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the #mainstreaming of formerly #extremist views.

By Nikole Hannah-Jones

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU8.xYGk.f_VTKCpgv7OH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"The gun becomes holy; violence is celebrated as sacrament; scripture appears only to bless white entitlement and empire. And somehow, the divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others."

#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism #CharlieKirk #guns
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"Whether it calls itself Christian nationalism or Zionism, the fruit is the same: oppression disguised as divine order.

Christian nationalism, in particular, is theater. Fear of the stranger is the script. The Gospels are props—quoted when convenient, discarded when not."

#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism #CharlieKirk #guns
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And while #Trump has surrounded himself with people who have said #racist things & maintained ties to #white & #Christian #nationalists, the number of #Democrats & esteemed American institutions that have engaged in the mainstreaming of #CharlieKirk demonstrates that espousing open & explicit #bigotry no longer relegates one to the fringe of political discourse, a phenomenon we have not witnessed since the #CivilRights era.

These outlets did not mention that Posobiec is a #ConspiracyTheorist who has been labeled an #extremist by the #SouthernPovertyLawCenter because of his ties to #WhiteSupremacists & #neoNazis.

Even #Democratic politicians felt compelled to pay tribute. Gov #JoshShapiro of #Pennsylvania ordered flags to be flown at half-staff “as a mark of respect for the memory of #CharlieKirk,” though he later criticized Kirk’s rhetoric.

The day #CharlieKirk was killed, Dominic Durant’s 11yo daughter came home from her middle school in Tulsa, OK, & told her father that her friends had been very upset about his death, & that they felt she should be upset, too. “I’m sad,” she said, tears in her eyes.

#GiftArticle

What the Public Memory of #CharlieKirk Revealed

For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the #mainstreaming of formerly #extremist views.

By Nikole Hannah-Jones

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU8.xYGk.f_VTKCpgv7OH&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"In some parts of polite society, it now holds that if many of Kirk’s views were repugnant, his willingness to calmly argue about them and his insistence that people hash out their disagreements through discourse at a time of such division made him a free-speech advocate, and an exemplar of how we should engage politically across difference."

~ Nikole Hannah-Jones

#CharlieKirk #Black #LGBTQ #immigrants #BothSidesism
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/magazine/charlie-kirk-rhetoric.html

"As the Trump administration wages the broadest attack on civil rights in a century, and the shared societal values of multiculturalism and tolerance recede, using Kirk’s knack for vigorous argument to excuse the re-emergence of unabashed bigotry in mainstream politics feels both frightening and perilous."

#CharlieKirk #Black #LGBTQ #immigrants #BothSidesism
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"As the Trump administration wages the broadest attack on civil rights in a century, and the shared societal values of multiculturalism and tolerance recede, using Kirk’s knack for vigorous argument to excuse the re-emergence of unabashed bigotry in mainstream politics feels both frightening and perilous."

#CharlieKirk #Black #LGBTQ #immigrants #BothSidesism
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"But for those who were directly targeted by Kirk’s rhetoric, this thinking seems to place the civility of Kirk’s style of argument over the incivility of what he argued. Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people and his racist throwback views about Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated — like a position on tax rates or health care policy."

#CharlieKirk #BothSidesism
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