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Some scenes from the #AugustaME #HandsOff rally (not my images -- from the Kennebec Journal)

by Hannah Kaufman, Kennebec Journal

AUGUSTA — "By about 2:20 p.m., the protest in Augusta had effectively ended, but for a smaller group, the march continued, with some making their third and fourth laps around the block.
Organizers had intended the march to take place on the sidewalk, but the width of Capitol Street was filled with a throng of protesters shortly before 2 p.m.

"Vivian Myers-Jones, a protester from New Brunswick, Canada, said an organizer estimated 3,000 people were at the protest during its peak.

"Several students from Bates College in Lewiston said they came to Augusta to protest in support of #Palestine. One student, Dylan, said action on the Israel-Hamas war is overdue.

"'We’ve been seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes for years now, and it’s overdue that people are doing something,' he said. 'We’ve been trying to make change, and I think some people are being shocked into action now, which is good to see.'

"Another student, Robert, said it’s important to exercise the right to protest.
'We’re fighting to continue fighting — about Palestine, about everything that’s going on in this country,' he said.
It’s important that we come together now.'"

Original article:
pressherald.com/2025/04/05/liv

Archived version:
archive.md/k03Q5#selection-201
#MaineResists #HandsOff2025 #April5th #BadDOGE #EatElon #FreePalestine #HandsOffOurRights #NoDOGE #FASCISTS #NoTaxBreaksForTheRich #RobberBarons #DeportOligarchs #ImpeachImperialImbeciles

Yoon is gone, and good riddance, but the right wing hordes behind him expanded and further radicalized. A strong majority of Koreans supported his ouster, but the minority behind him is by no means small nor is it going away. This is a good article explaining who's in that crowd and what they're up to.

bbc.com/news/articles/cgkje35g

Close-up of a large poster of Yoon Suk Yeol raising his fist against a pink background. Behind the poster is a crowd of Yoon supporters standing on the street, holding South Korean and US flags.
www.bbc.comHow the fall of Yoon fuelled the rise of S Korea's conservativesA pro-Yoon fringe movement, stoked by right-wing YouTubers, has become more energised and extreme.

You may be aware of the phrase "turn the other cheek" in Christian doctrine. I was raised with not responding to insults with a retort and also not to respond with force to force.

As I have grown older I want to add to that phrase: Turn the other cheek if you can and the force is not lethal or life threatening. And by all means: If you have already turned the other cheek and it happens a third time, fight back. Otherwise the #fascists win.

This is related to the #tolerance #paradoxon

#fascists #UK

"In 2019, a HOPE not hate investigation exposed two members of Generation Identity UK (GI UK), a now-defunct far-right youth group, as employees of the Royal Navy. Despite their involvement in the group, which pushed for a form of racial segregation, Mike Lynton and Kenneth McCourt were both permitted to remain in the Navy without being disciplined.

(. . .)

HOPE not hate can now reveal another individual who appears to have moved through GI UK, PA and Homeland while remaining in the military. Holden Stenner spent almost 10 years in the armed forces, including serving as a Royal Navy submarine engineer between 2021 and 2025. He was stationed at Faslane, home of Britain’s Trident nuclear submarines, alongside McCourt.

This raises further questions about the prevalence of far-right extremism within the armed forces."

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/04/04/

Yaxley-Lennon AKA Robinson - I hope he loses, bigly, gets an extended sentence, has his assets/monies seized and must pay all the court costs. No doubt the begging bowls are out already on his various supporter platforms. #FarRight #Fascists
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk

BelfastTelegraph.co.uk · Tommy Robinson to appeal against sentence for contempt of courtBy By Callum Parke, PA Law Reporter

Hey Meloni, do you like even though you're massively fash, all the fash men just see you as hole to fill with their dick?
No matter how racist and homophobic you are, they'll never see you as anything more than somewhere to get their dick wet.

Let's see you blame this on the Gays....

theguardian.com/world/2025/apr

The Guardian · Murders of two female students prompt calls for a ‘cultural rebellion’ in ItalyBy Angela Giuffrida
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@ianbremmer speaking as a man who sold his soul, #republican party, #democracy, over the course of decades of dis-service to constituents and all #Americans who have suffered because he was bought & owned decades before #trump. #neverforget this is the man who served the will of extremists and #fascists to seat #supremecourt justices so #unethical, incompetent and venal, that our #democracy and the #judiciary will never recover. Time is long past to pander to the rich & powerful. #FreeAmerica