A new explicitly anti-vax youth group, "Youth for Freedom", is actively recruiting young people across the UK.
It has a professional website littered with anti-vax cliches, a presence on Telegram & now on Twitter, & is being pushed by the anti-vax network, including Gareth Icke.
We hear that members have "truth-seeking discussions", & the group exists to "educate the youth that the Government must uphold our basic individual freedom and rights, without medical mandates or restrictions."
Some of the testimonials are revealing & concerning.
"I mentioned how I wanted to get off grid ASAP as I just don’t feel safe in society anymore. So someone added me to another Telegram group for off grid networking, a miracle happened, and really quickly, I found the perfect fit. I now live at an awake commune." - Eva.
"I think Youth for Freedom is awesome because it’s growing the youth presence in the anti-lockdown movement. Young people who are critical of the agenda for TOTAL, TECHNOCRATIC CONTROL OF OUR BODIES AND MINDS do exist."
This "agenda" sounds like conspiracy-speak on steroids.
It makes explicit reference to "dangerous, experimental injections", & aims to "raise awareness amongst young people of the growing totalitarianism within Govt policies by arranging talks or workshops on common law & self-sufficiency themes".
As ever, draw your own conclusions.
The "Youth for Freedom" rallying call (like that of all right-libertarians) is: "Take Back Our Freedoms!"
The youth are implored to "Act now to secure our futures from totalitarianism. Let's stop history repeating itself, before it's too late!"
Of course there's a crowdfunder.
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Americans who care about democracy, justice & the planet have to come together to prevent another Trump administration, which would attempt to introduce the regressive, antidemocratic & dangerously irresponsible policies laid out in the Heritage Foundation's #Project2025
Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him as the nominee.
Before outlining some essential information about Harris, I'll quickly summarise the process be for choosing the Democratic nominee as described by Newsweek.
In a statement emailed to Newsweek, Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Jaime Harrison said that the party would "undertake a transparent and orderly process to move forward as a united Democratic Party with a candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in November."
Professor of History & Public Policy at Duke University & author of the terrifying award-winning bestseller 'Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America', Nancy MacLean, recently discussed #Project2025.
Law professor & social critic Kimberlé Crenshaw interviewed MacLean about what the prescriptions in the Heritage Foundation’s #Project2025 mean for parents, public schools, & for multiracial democracy.
CRENSHAW: These wars on curricula are not new, of course; they go far back in our history. What folks might not know is that the Heritage Foundation, the main convenor of #Project2025, cut its teeth on curricular wars in the 1970s.
'The Republican blueprint for power contains the seeds of its own demise. It is not too late to stop the descent of the American political order into tyranny, oligarchy or anarchy', writes Timothy Snyder.
Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and former naval officer who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of transportation. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".
Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Oxford, attending the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship. From 2009 to 2017, he was an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant.
Hitler survived assassination attempts. We know what that led to. Reagan & Thatcher survived assassination attempts. They gave us neoliberalism. Trump survived. He's chosen JD Vance as his running mate. If elected, America will become a dystopian free-market kleptocracy.
The 0.01% is gearing up to all but destroy US democracy.
Leading the charge & donating tens of millions of dollars to Trump's campaign are Silicon Valley's libertarian Tech billionaire extremists, led by Peter Thiel & Elon Musk - two of the most dangerous men on earth.
What's unfolding right now is like something from a dystopian sci-fi novel.
Except it's not fiction - it's real.
And it's a fucking nightmare assault on truth, fairness, equality, minorities, women's right, the environment & humanity, which democracy will struggle to survive.
"What first made Reform UK's white, privately educated multimillionaires Farage, Tice & Rupert Lowe oppose DEI?"
'Diversity Equity Inclusion' is a framework which promotes the fair treatment & full participation of ALL people, but particularly underrepresented groups...
Many people know that the term ‘DEI’ is being weaponized as a racist dog whistle (a coded, deniable bit of language that allows people to communicate ideas that would be too offensive if done explicitly).
There’s nothing new about using racist dog whistles. But the way DEI is used to play into racist sentiments is uniquely powerful, & may well be much more potent than other culture war terms.