Tens of millions of voters across the United States issued an unequivocal rebuke to the administration of Donald J. Trump this November by voting for Democratic candidates, including dozens of democratic socialists. The so-called blue tsunami was so thorough that Republican strongholds like Texas and Georgia and Mississippi flipped key offices, while swing states and districts from Pennsylvania to…
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In the 21st century, the world is being taken over by a “noxious alliance” of three powerful groups—religious end-timers, techno-fascist end-timers, and ethno-nationalist end-timers—who have one thing in common: they want to see the end of the world as we know it, and they will destroy the world if no one stops them. TRNN speaks with internationally renowned activists and writers Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their new book, “End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World.”
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The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. It will be updated.
Astra Taylor:
I’m Astra Taylor.
Naomi Klein:
I’m Naomi Klein.
Astra Taylor:
And we are the authors of…
Naomi Klein:
End Times Fascism.
Astra Taylor:
And the Fight for the Living World. The End Times Fascists are a very unappealing, dangerous, noxious alliance of three groups, the religious end-timers, the tech accelerationist end-timers, and the ethno-nationalist end-timers. They have their differences, they have their fractures, but they’re united in their conviction that the common world, the world we all share is coming to an end, and that they have a duty to not stop a collapse of reality, but accelerate
Naomi Klein:
It. Fascism isn’t new. It recurs throughout history. In the book, we talk about fascism is really capitalism’s worst mood. It’s capitalism under threat, capitalism in a time of crisis, but also in a time facing a threat from below, a threat that the systemic crises may be responded to with systemic change. So those are really the two factors that seem to define the eras when this worst mood, most violent supremacist through line really surges. We don’t
The recent deep low-pressure system that struck the Gaza Strip earlier this month resulted in a widespread humanitarian disaster. According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, flooding inundated 70,000 tents, leaving 350,000 people without shelter. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also stated that more than 26,000 Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip…
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When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was working his way through his confirmation process early last year, he repeatedly told lawmakers that his 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had “nothing to do with vaccines.” Months later, evidence to the contrary emerged, and now two Democratic senators are exploring whether Kennedy lied to Congress.
But as it turns out, those same two Democratic senators — Ron Wyden of Oregon and Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland — are also interested in a different Kennedy controversy.
In addition to the Samoa matter, Wyden, who’s expected to soon lead the Senate Finance Committee, and Alsobrooks launched a parallel inquiry into the rather luxurious gifts and trips he received from a campaign donor. From a letter the senators sent to the Cabinet secretary on Wednesday:
We write to seek clarification regarding your compliance with federal ethics rules. Your spokesperson claims that you “compl[y]with all applicable federal ethics laws, regulations and financial disclosure requirements,” but such a blanket assertion seems impossible to square with the facts. […]
We already know that you have a history of playing fast and loose with ethics rules. Perhaps it should come as no surprise that you’ve been improperly accepting lavish gifts, ducking and dodging federal ethics rules throughout your tenure as Secretary.
The Democrats’ letter was sent the same day as The Wall Street Journal reported that Kennedy, last summer, spent about a week sailing the Greek islands on a 151-foot yacht owned by one of his former campaign donors, billionaire Gavin de Becker — a trip that didn’t appear on the secretary’s ethics disclosure.
An HHS spokesperson told
More than 200,000 student borrowers and their allies, as well as a coalition of advocacy groups, demanded Thursday that Democratic congressional leaders seize the moment of their soon-to-be majorities in both houses of Congress to win a student loan repayment pause. A petition circulated by the Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) demanding President Donald Trump act to pause all federal student…
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