[Thread] So, I was at the #SouthPortlandME #HandsOff rally. Not as big as the #PortlandME or #AugustaME ones (I hear Augusta one was HUGE), but we still made an impact! I brought extra signs and found folks willing to hold them up! That's where I needed to be!
#SouthPortlandME #MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #ResistFascism #FreeMahmoudKhalil #WaterIsLife #FundLibrariesNotSpaceX #MainePride

Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"

The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_students_immigrants_mahmoud_khalil

#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .

Interview: "Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil"

The students demanded the school release information related to the targeting and ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a former SIPA student.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/4/3/ice_students_immigrants_mahmoud_khalil

#columbia #studentprotests #autocracy #trump #uspol #ice #resistfascism #islamophobia #racism .

Analysis: "Musk Tried to Buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. He Lost."

"Wisconsin Democrats launched the People v. Musk campaign in early March, with Wikler calling the race 'the first referendum on Musk-ism'.

"Crawford’s victory provides a blueprint for how Democrats and progressives can run against Musk’s plan for oligarchy all across the country—and win.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/elon-musk-susan-crawford-wisconsin-supreme-court/

#uspol #autocracy #oligarchy #musk #wisconsin #resistfascism #organise .

#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 26, 2020 – Although health experts around the world have been warning about a pandemic for years, Trump claimed that the coronavirus crisis caught the U.S. by surprise.

“This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country,” he said. “Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”

#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 22, 2017 – The Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding to cover Donald Trump’s travel and the Trump family’s protection. Half of this budget would be allocated to protecting Trump’s private residence at Trump Tower.

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#SixYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 22, 2019 – Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his 448-page report into Russian interference in the 2016 election to Attorney General William Barr. Barr gave the first formal remarks on the report and issued a 4-page summary before its release, downplaying and mischaracterizing Trump’s culpability.

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#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 18, 2020 – Trump announced that the U.S.-Mexico border would be sealed off to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But as NPR reported, there were roughly 100 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Mexico—far less than the 8,000 cases in the United States.

The measure, though, allowed the administration to deport migrants without due process. Deja vu!

#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 18, 2020 – Even though the World Health Organization advised him not to, as his words could give rise to racial profiling, Trump defended his use of the term “Chinese virus” to refer to COVID-19.

#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

March 16, 2017 – Donald Trump’s budget proposal presented a 20 percent budget cut to the National Institutes of Health, the agency responsible for funding around one quarter of medical research in the United States.

The dean of Baylor’s biomedical research school said the proposed budget, “would bring American biomedical science to a halt.”

#PortlandME - Another #ProtestOfOne (the 11am one had a few more folks I hear). I mostly received support, some fist bumps and horns -- also "Traitor!" and some not nice things that I won't repeat. But I'm glad I was out there!
#FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreeMahmoud #resistance #ResistFascism #ResistTrump #MaineResists

#OperationDreadnought #xitter #twitter #twitterisdown #fucknazis #resistfascism #resisttrump #resistmusk

Defiantly do not-not visit:
https://opdreadnought.com

"We are here to fight against the fasciscm that has taken root in America."....

Interview: "How the Media Walked us into Autocracy"

"The American corporate coup d'état is almost complete as the first weeks of the Trump administration exemplify.

“The sign of a decaying democracy is that when the forces of plutocracy, oligarchy, multinational corporations increase their power in all sectors of our society, the resistance gets weaker.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-media-walked-us-into-autocracy

#Trump #Autocracy #USPol #ResistFascism #Oligarchy .

#PortlandMaine: Weekly protests, Saturdays at 11am! #MonumentSquare (alternate site, City Hall)

#Protesters rallied at 16 #demonstrations across #Maine

by Carol Bousquet, Maine Public March 2, 2025

"Protesters rallied at 16 statewide demonstrations this weekend called #MarchEndTheMadness.

"Hundreds filled #MonumentSquare in #PortlandME Saturday to speak out about the #Trump Administration’s actions that have harmed #Mainers, including #farmers and #FederalWorkers.

"The protesters said they are calling for the restoration of checks and balances, the rule of law, and equity for all under the law.

"Steve Titcomb of Falmouth said he worries about the security of our country and that of our allies with Trump in charge.

"'The president has taken the side of #Russia and #Putin and is turning his back on decades of security for Europe and NATO,' Titcomb said.

"Susan Hanley of Orr’s Island said she’s disgusted with how President Trump treated #Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy Friday at the White House and said his administration is not working for Americans.

"'It’s not about ‘We the People’ for them. It’s about #greed and #money and #power,' Hanley said.

"The #16CountiesForCourage marches were organized by #IndivisiblePortland, #IndivisibleBangor and other advocacy groups.

"Earlier in the day about a hundred protesters gathered at Portland City Hall to speak out against the Trump Administration’s sweeping measures to downsize the federal government workforce.

"Angus Ferguson organizes a protest called 'Every Saturday at 11 am in Monument Square' that has been gathering for several weeks but met at City Hall because of multiple protests across the city. He said the Trump Administration is ignoring the U.S. Constitution and turning it upside down.

"'We’re protesting Donald Trump, #Musk and the #MAGA movement’s destruction of the U.S. Constitution, firing federal workers, decimating federal agencies,' Ferguson said.

"Ferguson, who is an attorney, said the President is literally 'executing' or destroying the law with his actions."

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/03/02/politics/state-politics/protesters-rallied-at-16-demonstrations-across-maine/
#MaineProtest #BadDOGE #USPol #MainePol #MaineProtests #Resist #ResistFascism #ResistDOGE

I imagine that #WomensStudies, #GenderStudies, #NativeAmericanStudies, and other history / anthropology studies will be next on the chopping block. #BlackHistory already is!

New York's governor orders college to remove #PalestinianStudies job listing

February 28, 2025

"The job posting at Hunter College had called for a historian 'who takes a critical lens to issues pertaining to Palestine including but not limited to #SettlerColonialism, #genocide, #HumanRights, #apartheid, #migration, #climate and #infrastructure devastation, health, race, #gender, and sexuality,' according to screenshots published by the New York Post, which first reported the job announcement."

https://apnews.com/article/hochul-palestinian-studies-genocide-cuny-hunter-04f5e9bf1b718bf0441f9b6cde260141
#Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #SignsOfFascism #Resist #ResistFascism #Censorship #Universities #HigherEducation #DumbingUsDown #DenyingHistory #DenyingReality