It has had notables like musician & pastor Sean Feucht, who participated in a 2019 WH prayer session for #Trump & is leading prayer rallies at state capitol bldgs across the country.…This yr’s event included DavidBarton, whose org, WallBuilders, teaches K12 #students about #America’s supposed #Christian origins; JurgenMathesius, a SanDiego pastor at #FarRight Awaken #Church, …a stop on #MikeFlynn’s ReAwaken America tour; & JentezenFranklin, a televangelist who spoke at 2022 PrayVoteStand Summit…
#Women are still being charged for #contraception even though federal #law dictates it should be free. The chair of the #Senate#health cmte wants a govt watchdog to investigate why.
Under the #ACA, health plans are required to provide #BirthControl to patients as a #preventive. Repeated probes have found that plans flout the law & #patients are asked to pay, Sen #BernieSanders said in a letter being sent Mon to the Govt #Accountability Office.
"There is, many critics insist, nothing 'far right' or 'racist' about wanting to restrict immigration or in raising concerns about radical Islamists. That is true."
"There is, though, something profoundly pernicious about demonising immigrants, describing asylum seekers as constituting an 'invasion', castigating Muslims as being incompatible with western societies, obsessing over London becoming a 'minority white' city, claiming that immigration has led Britons into 'surrendering their territory without a shot being fired', fearing that Europe is 'committing suicide'."
"These are far-right themes now advanced by mainstream intellectuals and politicians.
If the label 'far right' seems redundant to some these days, that is largely because arguments that once were the staple of the political fringe now nestle at the heart of mainstream debate."
"Israel & Europe's far right are officially allied. What is going on?"
"Benjamin Netanyahu, who really is the architect of this slide into these alliances with the rightwing across Europe, looks at these new countries that have just joined joined the EU.
"He is then foreign minister and thinks, 'well maybe they could be useful allies in blocking all this criticism that we're getting'."
@GottaLaff The previously moderate, now #farright party #Kokoomus is the #election winner and has its chairman as prime minister. Its ok for them to have nazis as ministers if they can rob the state and make the #workingclass poor and sick more poor.
The 32-foot bronze statue depicted, among other images, an #enslaved#Black woman, described on the cemetery website as a “mammy” figure, holding the #White child of a #Confederate officer, & an enslaved Black man following his Confederate enslaver into battle, according to the cemetery.
#Stanford University spox Dee Mostofi said in a statement that much of the Observatory work was continuing under new leadership….
“Stanford remains deeply concerned about efforts, including #lawsuits & #congressional investigations, that chill #freedom of #inquiry & undermine legitimate & much needed #academic#research — both at Stanford & across #academia,” Mostofi added.
Paul Hockenos focuses on how young voters voted in the recent EU elections. The picture is grim: in Portugal, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, it appears that younger voters disproportionately voted for far-right parties. In Germany, they showed far more support for far-right parties than for the Greens.
#Alito’s ‘Godliness’ Comment Echoes a Broader #Christian Movement
Justice Samuel Alito’s secretly recorded remarks come as many #conservatives have openly embraced the view that American #democracy must be grounded in a Christian worldview.
"Authoritarians want to you feel that their ascendence and victories are predetermined and useless to resist. Too much coverage of the recent European parliamentary elections plays into this by concentrating on the surge of the far-right in some countries. These include Germany, where the AfD increased from 11% to more than 15%, and France, where the National Rally party performed very well."
"Another narrative deserves our attention: the continued momentum of anti-authoritarian forces in Poland, Hungary, and the Nordic countries. There is also a new unity strategy now developing among the famously divided left in France. … An anti-authoritarian counter-wave that focuses on solidarity rather than exclusion, and hope rather than fear, is building within Europe."
"The far right is no longer a marginal movement; in many European countries, it has become the largest political faction. In some countries, right-wing populists now dominate the political scene: there, it is but a small exaggeration to say that they are to this political epoch what, in the postwar period, Social Democrats were to Sweden or Christian Democrats were to Italy."
"Remarkably, these developments are fueled, not slowed, by young voters. In Poland, a plurality of voters under the age of 30 supported the far-right Konfederacja. In France, the National Rally did a little better among voters under the age of 35 than it did in the population as a whole. In Germany, the young are now significantly more likely to vote for the far right than the old, with the AfD out-polling the Greens among those who are younger than 25."