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It's a long read, but worth it. Also, to any Americans reading this, we love you, but we are going to fight back against this. :canada:
#jamilJivani #Daniellesmith #StephenHarper #HeritageFoundation #AtlasNetwork #TrumpRegime
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https://www.europesays.com/people/218817/ How Vance, Rubio and Orbán Shaped Trump’s New Childcare Plan #ChildCareAndDevelopmentFund #civilizational #DemographicDecline #FamilyPolicy #HeritageFoundation #Hungary #incentive #JDVance #MarcoRubio #model #ParentBasedChildCare #PeterMagyar #pronatalism #TraditionalFamily #UnitedStates #ViktorOrbán
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How Vance, Rubio and Orbán Shaped Trump’s New Childcare Plan
The Trump administration is drafting a major change to federal childcare policy that would allow some married couples…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #ChildCareandDevelopmentFund #civilizational #demographicdecline #familypolicy #heritagefoundation #hungary #incentive #jdvance #marcorubio #Model #parent-basedchildcare #PeterMagyar #Pronatalism #secretaryofstate #traditionalfamily #ViktorOrbán
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Some have also raised concerns about whether it could increase the risk of fraud, since the money would be going to individuals rather than businesses. The admin has sought to crack down on #fraud in #SocialServices programs, particularly #childcare.
The idea of paying #parents to stay home was outlined in #Project2025, the #conservative blueprint published by the #HeritageFoundation ahead of #Trump’s return to office, much of which overlaps with the admin’s #policy agenda.
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Aus globaler Sicht bricht die #Nachkriegsordnung aufgrund der " #AutokatischenInternationale " immer schneller zusammen. So scheint es zumindet:
#Autokraten wie #Putin, #Trump, #Xi, #Netanyahu, #Orban, #Chamenei, #Kim, #Milei, #BinSalman (#MBS), u. a. liebäugeln nicht nur mit dem #Totalitarismus, nein, sie leben ihn und entwickeln ihn weiter (#Xi, #SteveBannon, #HeritageFoundation, u. v. a.).
Das beste Beispiel in Schriftform ist wohl der #Machtübernahmeplan der #MAGA-Bewegung, -
My theory on the nature of the #Evangelist death cult that has captured the #US #government via the #HeritageFoundation: #Evangelists have adopted Marcionism, a belief that sees the creator god in the OT as the devil, & the world he created as the false world. In short, #Evangelism meets #RedPill.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8swSkk9yeV8&pp=ygUPam9tbXkgdGhlIGdpYW50
#TheTerrifyingRiseOfChristianNationalism
US Theocratic #Fascist Bullshit Spread Worldwide
#GlobalFascism #Modi #Orban #Project2025 #Europe #UK #Christofascists #Australia
#farright #extrêmedroite #WhiteSupremacy #FIGHTBACK
#TurningPointUSA #TurningPointUK
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #FuckTrump #SteveBannon #AllianceDefendingFreedom #ReformUK #TommehTheCunt ##ChristianNationalism #BillionairesSUCK #WTF #EUpol #UKpol
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#KenHarbaugh breaks down how the #Republican ’s pursuit of power has hollowed out its principles culminating in #HeritageFoundation president #KevinRoberts defending #TuckerCarlson over standing up to hate. He’s joined by Army veteran and #Nazihunter #KrisGoldsmith to unpack youtu.be/YGperQdYzs0?...
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A good take from Hannah Gais on Nick Fuentes' recent appearance on Tucker Carlson's podcast, the back-and-forth about it on the right, and what it all might say about where they're collectively heading.
She writes:
There’s plenty of hypocrisy to point out here. For one, Heritage is the author of Project Esther, a guidebook for cracking down left-wing anti-Zionist student protesters on college and university campuses. One of its top priorities is to “expose the critical resources fueling antisemitism” through what it dubs the “Hamas Support Network.”
But that’s not what I want to focus on here. Instead, I want to explore the question that has been nagging me since I first learned of Fuentes’ appearance on Tucker Carlson: How did we get here? And, in the long term, what does it mean?
#NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson #AlexJones #UniteTheRight #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #LeadershipInstitute #AltRight #ProjectEsther #antisemitism
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#TimothyMellon’s contributions rose dramatically around 2018: He gave millions to support congressional races. He poured about $20 million into #Trump’s failed 2020 re-election bid without ever having met him. And he has donated millions to the political committee of the #HeritageFoundation, the #conservative think tank that has become an engine of #Trumpism.
#WhiteSupremacy #ConspiracyTheories #billionaires #law #DarkMoney #CitizensUnited
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From 2014... How #USEvangelicals Fueled the Rise of #Russia’s ‘#ProFamily’ Right
An alliance is born between #AntiGay, #AntiAbortion American groups and the #RussianOrthodoxChurch
by Adam Federman, January 7, 2014
Long excerpt [pay attention to the names named!] :
"This rising #Russian social #conservative movement frequently invokes the argument that #ProGay and #WomensRights groups are puppets of the West, which is seeking to undermine Russian autonomy and interfere in the country’s internal affairs. At an annual meeting of journalists and academics presided over by Vladimir #Putin in Valdai in September, the Russian president said that European countries had strayed from their roots by legalizing #GayMarriage. He urged Russians to embrace the conservative values of the #OrthodoxChurch and other traditional religions and issued a warning to those who might want to challenge those values. 'Russia’s sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity are unconditional—these are red lines no one is allowed to cross,' he declared.
"Several #LGBT rights groups have been targeted under another new law, which requires any nongovernmental organization that receives funding from other countries for political activities to register as a '#ForeignAgent.' Failure to do so can lead to investigations, legal action or crippling fines. The implication is that these groups are not only agents of the West but also out of touch with everyday Russians.
"The irony is that it is the new conservative vanguard—anti-gay, anti-abortion and pro–'#TraditionalFamily'—that has most successfully cultivated the West’s financial and institutional support. Scott Lively, an extreme anti-gay campaigner, all but took credit for the new law, calling it 'one of the proudest achievements of my career,' while #BrianBrown, president of the #NationalOrganizationForMarriage, visited Moscow with much fanfare just before the new law was passed. But the language of Russia’s anti-gay and anti-abortion movement seems to borrow most heavily from mainstream evangelicals and conservative politicians in the United States and Europe. Referring to the anti-abortion bill passed in 2011, Lyubov Erofeeva, executive director of the Russian Association for Population and Development, a women’s advocacy group, said: 'It was 100 percent clear that everything was copied from the experience of American #fundamentalists and conservative circles of several European countries where #abortion is forbidden or restricted severely.'
"The church’s close ties with American evangelicals reflect a shift in policy. For much of the post-Soviet period, the Russian Orthodox Church held evangelical denominations at arm’s length, fearing that they would compete for influence within Russia. But as the church has consolidated its power, it has come to view the evangelical community as a partner. 'The #ROC realizes that the evangelical denominations are not their opponents but rather their allies in the relations between the church and the secular population,' says Olga Kazmina, a professor of ethnology at Moscow State University.
" 'It’s a re-envisioned paradigm,' says Father #LeonidKishkovsky, head of the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of External Affairs. In many ways, it makes sense, he adds: both religious groups share an ideological commitment and have grown disillusioned with the way mainline churches have dealt with issues like gay marriage and abortion. 'But what I’m quite nervous about is the ideological core which actually motivates both sides,' Kishkovsky says. 'Where is the motivating force? Is it in faith? Or is it in political ideology?'
"The Russian Orthodox Church’s chief emissary to the US evangelical community is #HilarionAlfeyev, a high-ranking bishop and chairman of the powerful Department of External Church Relations (the position previously held by #PatriarchKirill). In February 2011, the 47-year-old Alfeyev traveled to Washington, where he met with prominent evangelical and 'pro-family' leaders; and then to Dallas, where he addressed thousands of members of the Highland Park Presbyterian Church and emphasized the importance of 'creat[ing] new alliances,' especially around issues of marriage, abortion and the family. Alfeyev also visited the #DallasTheologicalSeminary and had an hour-long meeting with #GeorgeWBush.
"The trip to Dallas grew out of an increasingly close friendship between church leaders and a small circle of American and European Christian businessmen in Moscow. Alfeyev’s visit was organized by #JerryFullinwider, an #OilExecutive and elder of the #HighlandParkChurch who, until recently, had business interests in Russia. Fullinwider, a member of the #KochBrothers’ circle of major donors—those who have given more than $1 million to #Koch-related causes—met Alfeyev through his friend Bob Foresman, head of #Barclays Capital in Russia. This select group of businessmen has unusual access to Alfeyev. In an interview for this article, Fullinwider described having dinner at Alfeyev’s private residence on a recent trip to Moscow. 'He’s a real busy guy,' says Fullinwider. 'He’s very, very hard to get in touch with unless you have a special number and you know the main guy who handles him, who’s a good friend of mine.'
"Alfeyev’s first trip to the United States paved the way for others, and in October 2012 he delivered a lecture at Villanova University, where he received an honorary degree and paid a visit to the Milwaukee-based #LyndeAndHarryBradleyFoundation. One of the largest donor organizations of its kind in the United States, the #BradleyFoundation, with more than $600 million in assets, is known for its contributions to US conservative groups like the #HeritageFoundation and the #HeartlandInstitute. But its charity isn’t limited to home: over the last four years, the foundation has given $750,000 to the St. Gregory the Theologian Charity Foundation in Moscow, a new educational and cultural initiative founded in 2009 by Alfeyev, Russian #billionaire and pharmaceutical magnate #VadimYakunin, and #LeonidSevastianov, a 35-year-old international business consultant and head of Stratinvest.ru, a consulting and public relations firm. In 2009, through Alfeyev’s charity, the Bradley Foundation donated $150,000 to support the 'Day of the Family,' a recently created Russian holiday honoring faith and fidelity. The annual event has been championed by #SvetlanaMedvedeva, wife of Prime Minister #DmitriMedvedev, a staunch #AntiAbortion advocate.
“We want to promote the idea of the unity between the West and Russia on the basis of common Christian roots,” Sevastianov told Inside the Vatican magazine in 2009. “We believe in this alliance among traditional Christian countries…and we believe that, with a united voice, we can be a strong force against the radical secular world which has become dominant in our societies.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-us-evangelicals-fueled-rise-russias-pro-family-right/
#TradFamily #TradWives #TrumpIsARussianAsset #AntiWoke #ChristoFacists #ChristoFascism #evangelicals #RabidRight #MAGADeathCult #BigOil #CorporateColonialism #Billionaires
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Ob ausgewählte Linke, die anderen Linken Antisemitismus vorwerfen #ProjectEsther der #HeritageFoundation kennen, wo es darum geht Linke mundtot zu machen in denen man ihnen einfach Antisemitismus vorwirft?
Aber das wissen diese ständig andere verurteilenden Linken sicherlich.
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Trump Taps Project 2025 Contributor to Lead Key Labor Statistics Agency
Trump’s pick has already said that he wants to suspend the BLS’s monthly jobs reports.
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#ProjectEsther started with antisemitism but has been used by the #HeritageFoundation to undermine American democracy and build the fascist authoritarian government for the benefit of the few powerful. https://mastodon.social/@PattyHanson/114892903125598480
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"#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "
#OligarchCamp
#BohemianGrove
#SCOTUS
#ImpeachClarenceThomas
#ChevronDoctrine
#NDRC
#KochIndustries
#Oligarchy
#CorruptSCOTUS
#SCOTUSIsCompromised
#Corporatocracy
#Oiligarchy
#EnvironmentalProtections
#BigOilAndGas
#CorporatePolluters
#HeritageFoundation
#ClimateDeniers
#WaterIsLife
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#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events
by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDTExcerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.
" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.
"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.
"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.
"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.
"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.
"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.
"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."
#OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife
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What is Project Esther, the playbook against pro-Palestine movement in US? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/31/what-is-project-esther-the-playbook-against-pro-palestine-movement-in-us"Advocates say Trump administration appears to be following Project Esther’s recommendations to crackdown on activism."
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA
#ProjectEsther #HeritageFoundation
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'The #Trump administration’s crackdowns on pro-Palestinian #activism look eerily similar to a conservative proposal to target universities and international students it claims are part of a “terrorist support network”.
'Who is behind the plan, and what will its impact be?'
guest: Tariq Kenney-Shawa, AJ+ producer and US policy fellow, Al-Shabaka
https://omny.fm/shows/the-take/usa-projectesther
#ProjectEsther #USpol #HeritageFoundation #stateRepression #studentProtests #civilRights #PalestineSolidarity @palestine
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"Republican and Democratic administrations alike have long supported and funded Israel as a crucial ally. And there have been bipartisan efforts to counter criticism of Israel by labeling a range of speech and organizing in support of Palestinian rights as support for terrorism. But Project Esther aims to go further, equating actions such as participating in pro-Palestinian campus protests with providing “material support” for terrorism, a broad legal construct that can lead to prison time, deportations, civil penalties and other serious consequences.
“Project Esther changed the paradigm by associating anyone who opposes Israeli policies with the ‘Hamas Support Network,’” said Jonathan Jacoby, the national director of the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that works to combat antisemitism and protect open debate. “It’s no longer about ideology or politics; it’s about terrorism and threats to American national security.”
Heritage describes Project Esther as a “groundbreaking” national strategy to fight antisemitism that aims not to censor opinions but to hold people it deems to be supporters of Hamas, a designated terrorist group, responsible for their actions. But critics such as Mr. Jacoby say the think tank is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to advance its broader agenda of radically reshaping higher education and crushing progressive movements more generally.
Project Esther exclusively focuses on antisemitism on the left, ignoring antisemitic harassment and violence from the right. It has drawn criticism from many Jewish organizations amid increasing calls for them to push back against the Trump administration."
#USA #HeritageFoundation #ProjectEsther #Israel #Zionism #Palestine #Gaza #Antisemitism #Propaganda #Fanaticism #Ideology
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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
Even before President #Trump was re-elected, the #HeritageFoundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-#Palestinian activism in the #UnitedStates.
From #TheNewYorkTimes #NYT
[Gift article - expires in 30 days]
By Katie J.M. BakerMay 18, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET
Heritage officials said they did not know whether the White House, which has its own #antisemitism task force, had used Project Esther as a guide. Administration officials declined to discuss it. But Robert Greenway, a Heritage national security director who coauthored #ProjectEsther, said it was “no coincidence that we called for a series of actions to take place privately and publicly, and they are now happening.”
#StopGazaGenocide
#ReleaseMahmoudKhalil
#DefendFreeSpeech
#DefendStudentProtesters
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#Israel #Palestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics
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Marco Rubio's hunt for "#AntiChristian bias" is creeping #theocracy
In a new war on federal workers, State Department employees are told to snitch on people with #Pride flags
By Amanda Marcotte
Published April 15, 2025 6:00AM (EDT)Excerpt: "Unsurprisingly, a deeper read of the cable shows that 'anti-Christian bias' is the cover story propped up to justify Rubio's actual assault on freedom of religion at State. He's giving Christian nationalists at the agency a tool to harass and even Rpurge people who don't share their #FarRight beliefs. The definitions of 'anti-Christian bias' throughout add up to outrage that conservative Christians are expected to treat people who believe differently with fairness and decency.
"For instance, the memo asks for reports of 'mistreatment for opposing displays of flags, banners or other paraphernalia,' specifically during Joe Biden's administration. It doesn't take a doctorate in bureaucratese to interpret this. Rubio is seeking stories where conservative Christians were told to mind their own business after objecting to a colleague putting up a #PrideFlag, a #BlackLivesMatter sign or perhaps a religious knickknack from a #NonChristian faith. This might be more comprehensible if, say, any Christians had being told they couldn't wear a cross or have a picture of Jesus on their desk. Instead, what Rubio is suggesting is that Christians have [the right to] prevent other people from having the freedom to express views and positions they dislike — and that it amounts to 'bias' if they can't control what others do or say. "
Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/15/marco-rubios-hunt-for-anti-christmas-bias-is-creeping-theocracy/#ChristianNationalism #USPol #ChristoFascism #ChurchAndState #AntiGBLTQ #CharacteristicsOfFascism #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #ChristianCoalition #MoralityPolice #HumanRightsViolations #GBLTQErasure #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #TrumpRegime
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#Wagt es nicht #CDU #CSU ❗😡😡 Hier gibt's kein #Projekt2025 für Deutschland ❗️❗️
Zu Gast bei Freunden? Die #HeritageFoundation hat mit „ #Poject 2025“ einen #Masterplan für den #Umbau #Amerikas #vorgelegt. Kürzlich traf sich eine #Delegation unter Führung der Stiftung mit #CDU- #Politikern im #Bundestag.
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A #MustRead of signs of things to come:
Gas und Öl statt Klimaschutz: Wer Trumps Pläne nach Deutschland bringt –
eine @correctiv_org Recherche von @AnnikaJoeres @elenakolb @katahuth"#CORRECTIV hat Geldflüsse verfolgt, ist politischen und wirtschaftlichen Verbindungen nachgegangen, die von den USA über Ungarn bis hinein in die Spitzenpositionen der deutschen Politik reichen. Das Ergebnis: In Deutschland gehört zu diesem Netzwerk nicht nur das #PrometheusInstitut von Frank #Schäffler. Auch CDU-nahe Verbände, wirtschaftsliberale Institutionen wie das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (#IW) und Politiker der #FDP und #CDU sind eng mit umstrittenen Organisationen in den USA verbandelt – einige profitieren offenbar auch finanziell.
Zwar haben viele der Ökonomen und neoliberalen Thinktanks nichts oder wenig mit den irrationalen und rassistischen Ideen von Donald #Trump gemein, aber sie teilen in der #Klimapolitik einige Überzeugungen – etwa die, noch weiter Öl und Gas zu nutzen. Viele stehen der FDP und, wie unsere Recherche zeigt, zunehmend auch der CDU nahe. Neben Trump kommt noch ein zweiter autoritärer Staatschef ins Spiel: der ungarische Ministerpräsident Viktor #Orbán. Er verbündet sich mit konservativen Organisationen in Deutschland, bis hin zu einem CDU-Thinktank. […]
Die Ziele der häufig reinen Männerzirkel: Sie fordern einen ungebremsten Markt. Und wenden sich gegen schnell wirksame, klimapolitische Maßnahmen wie ein #Verbrenner-Verkaufsverbot, ein #Tempolimit oder einen Ausstieg aus #Gas und #Kohle. Sie wollen ihre Überzeugungen global verbreiten und damit Regierungen beeinflussen."
@klimagerechtigkeit
@verkehrswende#FrankSchäffler #LarsFeld #HansWernerSinn #TomGPalmer #JustusHaucap #Alsleben #ChristineCarboni #PetschnerMultari #CDU #CSU #FDP
#PrometheusInstitut #DieFamilienunternehmer #Nous #IW #INSM #TheRepublic
#TempletonFoundation #AtlasNetzwerk #AtlasNetwork #HeartlandInstitute #CatoInstitute #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #AmericansforTaxReforms #DanubeInstitute #MCCInstitut
#MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen #Klimaschmutzlobby #Klimaschutzblockierer #FossileLobby #DelayIsTheNewDenial
#Verkehrswende #Mobilitätswende #Energiewende #VerbrennerAus #Tempolimit #PushUndPull #Klimaschutz #Klimaschutzgesetz #GutesKlimaGesetz
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Alrighty then. I just sent #SenatorAngusKing a follow-up email where I pointed out that the one who will be determining who is a "terrorist" is the Secretary of the Treasury, and that Trump's pick for that (#ScottBessett) is beholden to the #HeritageFoundation and would be pursuing a #Project2025 / #ProjectEsther agenda. We'll see what he says. (Susan Collins just ignored me. What else is new.)
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So, when even "moderates" like Angus King and [useless] Susan Collins are going to give #HeritageFoundation darling #ScottBessett the right to determine who is a "terrorist" organization, you know we're fucked. Bessett is going to follow the #Project2025 agenda, including #ProjectEsther. I am really, really worried about this slippery slide into full-on #Fascism. And don't forget -- some Democrats voted for #HR9495. We don't need this fascist groove thang! TAKE TO THE STREETS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49BjlSOCGE
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Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of vague wording and potential for abuse in #S4136. It all depends on who the Secretary of the Treasury is. In this case, #HeritageFoundation darling #ScottBessett. That can't be good...
"(B) TERRORIST SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION.—For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘terrorist supporting organization’ means any organization which is designated by the Secretary as having provided, during the 3-year period ending on the date of such designation, material support or resources (within the meaning of section 2339B of title 18, United States Code) to an organization described in paragraph (2) (determined after the application of this paragraph to such organization) in excess of a de minimis amount."
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4136/text
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Democrats Must Do Everything They Can to Block the Dangerous #NonProfit Bill -- #HR9495
The House passed a bill aimed at giving the government sweeping powers to crush non-profits and attack supporters of #Palestine. Democrats need to stand firmly in its way.
Opinion by Darryl Li
November 23, 2024"While President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t return to office until January 20, Congress is already advancing the most sweeping and dangerous terrorism legislation in a generation, which would give him the power to shut down legitimate civil society groups doing important charitable, community organizing, human rights, and humanitarian work.
"Earlier this week, the House passed HR 9495, an amendment to the tax code that would empower the Treasury Department to unilaterally brand non-profit groups as 'terrorist supporting organizations' and suspend their charitable tax exemption, without giving the groups any due process or access to the evidence against them. The resulting stigma of such a designation would almost certainly be enough to scare off banks, likely depriving these groups of the ability to function altogether.
"The drive to kill non-profits is dangerous no matter who is president, and, in the past few weeks, most House Democrats appear to have woken up to the risks of the legislation. 52 Democrats voted to support the bill as recently as last week, but by the time a subsequent vote came around on Thursday, only 15 voted in favor. But that was still enough to give Republicans the votes they needed to pass the bill. Going forward, the demand from everyone watching this process should be clear: even one Democratic vote is one too many, and Senate Democrats should promise that they will not support the legislation.
"It’s not hard to see the reason behind this sudden attack on non-profits. The bill’s sponsors have made no secret of their desire to smear certain non-profits as instigators of campus protests against Israel as working at the behest of Hamas – a claim for which there is no evidence. Israel’s supporters in Congress and elsewhere have been equally clear about their agenda to crush Palestine human rights advocacy in the United States. Just last month, the Heritage Foundation unveiled 'Project Esther,' a policy blueprint to attack supporters of Palestinian rights in the higher education and profit sectors – essentially an anti-Palestinian Project 2025.
"But the dangers extend far beyond any one issue. Two Republican House committee chairs earlier this year sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demanding information on 20 groups, from Students for Justice in Palestine (which isn’t even a registered non-profit) to liberal behemoths like the Open Society Foundations and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."
#StopHR9495 #SilencingDissent #ProjectEsther #Project2025 #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #HeritageFoundation #Trump #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine #CivilSociety #HumanRights
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@PariaSansPortefeuille YIKES! "This strategy is spelled out in the #HeritageFoundation’s #ProjectEsther, a corollary to its Project 2025. This document seeks to 'dismantle' nonprofit organizations advocating for #Palestinian rights by stripping them of their tax-exempt status. This is exactly what H.R.9495 seeks to accomplish.
"The movement for Palestinian rights is the canary in the coal mine. When states began adopting unconstitutional laws designed to punish and suppress #FirstAmendment protected speech and action to advance boycotts for Palestinian freedom, these laws were then used as templates to shut down activism for #BlackRights and #ClimateJustice.
"Enacting this dangerous law as the Trump administration prepares to take office will embolden it to repress a broad swath of organizations working to advance causes such as #immigrant and #LGBTQ+ rights, to name just a few other movements which are currently in the crosshairs of the MAGA Republicans’ agenda."
https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/memos/bill-trump-dismantle-progressive-groups
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The #HeritageFoundation / #Project2025 have already named targets if Trump wins :
#JewishVoiceForPeace, @jewishvoiceforpeace
#NationalStudentsForJusticeInPalestine
#FreePalestineNOW 🇵🇸 #StopProjectEsther
(SOURCE: #DROPSITENEWS)
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Ummm...
Video Shows #Trump Endorsing Plan for #Project2025 in April 2022In 2022, Trump applauded Heritage for planning to produce a set of policies that would eventually become Project 2025.
By Chris Walker, Truthout
Published July 12, 2024
https://truthout.org/articles/video-shows-trump-endorsing-plan-for-project-2025-in-april-2022/
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Trump Ally’s Embarrassing Speech Is a Sign of Campaign’s Dismal State
https://newrepublic.com/post/185733/donald-trump-kimberly-guilfoyle-speech-campaign-dismal#KimberlyGuilfoyle #JebBush #DonaldArlingtonTrump #GOPWeirdos #TrumpWillLose2024 #TrumpIsUnwell #Project2025 #KevinRoberts #HeritageFoundation #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FuckFascists #VoteBlue #USPol #DonaldTrump
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#Conservatives Are Already Working to #Enact Their Extreme #Project2025 #Agenda.
The #HeritageFoundation isn’t waiting for a #Trump #presidency to try to #limit #workplace #protections for #LGBTQ #Americans
As #journalist #ChrisGeidner reports, the #Hategroup filed a #lawsuit last week attempting to #block the #Biden #administration’s #guidance #protecting #LGBTQ #employees from #discrimination in the #workplace.
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#Bizarre #Project2025 #training #video tells #conservatives to stop saying “#cisgender”.
#Fascist #videos provide #detailed #instructions on what these #appointees and #staffers should #believe and how they should #act, including having a strict #allegiance to the #HeritageFoundation’s #policy #stances—including its #opposing #abortion and opposition to #regulating #fossilfuel #companies to #fight #climatechange—with #repercussions for those who #refuse to #comply.
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#TeamKamala wirkt!
#Trump zieht die Reißleine.Dennoch:
Untenstehendes muss nicht heißen, dass das #Projekt2025 der rechtsradikalen #HeritageFoundation bei einem Wahlsieg von #Trump nicht doch umgesetzt wird. Dafür gibt es zu viele Ähnlichkeiten mit Dingen die #Trump bereits seit längerem androht.Aber zumindest für die Zeit des Wahlkampfs gilt:
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Why #YaleLaw Is So Good at Producing Reactionaries Like #JDVance. The tiny, liberal program accounts for a surprising number of #conservative #politicians and #SupremeCourt #justices. unpaywalled https://archive.is/VmzgA#selection-1357.0-1363.114 #constitution #democracy #courts #legalresearch #justice #reactionaries #GOP #MAGA #federalist society #heritagefoundation
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"Die #HeritageFoundation ist seit vielen Jahren ein Propaganda- und Lobbyinginstrument der Fossilbranchen. Sie bekam viel Geld von Koch Industries und auch von Exxon und ist Mitglied im ultralibertären #AtlasNetzwerk, das jahrzehntelang #Klimawandelleugnung global förderte, mitfinanziert wiederum von #CharlesKoch und #Exxon. Es ist, das nebenbei, ein Skandal, dass deutsche Organisationen wie das #Prometheus-Institut des #FDP-Politikers Frank #Schäffler oder die Organisation #NOUS (geleitet von Christian Lindners Wirtschaftsberater Lars Feld), weiterhin Mitglieder dieses Netzwerks sind."
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/project-2025-der-masterplan-fuer-den-fossilen-gottesstaat-der-rationalist-kolumne-a-0ea020d7-082f-4398-ac84-59a1db6c3932 #Project2025 #Trump -
Newly Surfaced Recording Reveals ALEC and GOP Election Attorneys Working with State Legislators to Question Validity of Election
The revelations were presented during a February 2020 Council for National Policy strategy session about elections.
@JamieCORY
American Legislative Exchange Council (#ALEC) CEO #LisaNelson told a room full of conservative activists that ALEC had been working with three GOP attorneys on “action items that legislators can take to question the validity of an election.”
The comments were made during a strategy session about elections at the Council for National Policy.
Nelson told the group, “obviously we all want President Trump to win and win the national vote. But it's very clear from all the comments and all the suggestions up front that really when it comes down to is the states and the state legislators.”
She added that they’ve been working with Former #FEC Member and #HeritageFoundation attorney #HansVonSpoksky, former Federal Election Commission member #BradSmith, and GOP attorney #CletaMitchell “trying to identify what are those action items that legislators can take in their states.”
“They can write a letter to the secretary of state questioning the validity of an election and saying what did happen that night,” Nelson said.
“So we are drafting a lot of those things. If you have ideas in that area, let us know and we'll get those to the state legislators and they can start to kind of exercise their political muscle in that area"
#AmericanLegislativeExchangeCouncil
#CouncilForNationalPolicy #electioninterference