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Bookwomble
Socialist Standard | The Socialist Party of Great Britain
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#TransRightsReadathon
“Digital Book Burnings in Trump's America:
Attacks on marginalised groups are likely an early indication of rising authoritarianism. A century ago, the Nazi party of Germany targeted transgender people & the scientists who were pioneers of sexual research, raiding Magnus Hirschfeld‘s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, one of the world‘s first centres dedicated to the study and care of queer and trans people. The Nazi Party ⬇️

Bookwomble raided the clinic, terrorised the workers, and burned thousands of books, papers and research materials in a public spectacle of hate that foreshadowed the grim horrors to come. Now, today, a modern version of this erasure is also underway. This time, the flames are in the form of a trash folder, as it is a digital erasure, and this horror is unfolding in the United States under the directorship of Donald Trump.“ (edited) 1d
Bookwomble Going on to describe Trump as “the Marmalade Mussolini“ gave me a laugh in a relatively grim #SocialistStandard article about Republican transphobia, and a call for socialist allyship for trans and other lgbtqia+ people ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚩 (edited) 1d
Jari-chan Marmalade Mussolini 🤣🏳️‍⚧️💖💪 1d
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Bookwomble @Jari-chan I know, right! 😄 1d
Bookwomble Interest piqued the "Marmalade Mussolini" tag, I found a serious comparison between Trump and El Duce in this 2017 article by professor of history, Mark Bickard: https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/the-scary-parallels-between-trump-and... 1d
TheBookHippie Cheeto Satan to me 🤣 and yes I‘ve screamed about this history since 2014. 😵‍💫 1d
Bookwomble From Prof. Bickard's article:
“The attacks on central institutions of American democracy as “enemies of the people” has a horrible and horribly dangerous historical background. Trump may (or may not) be too ignorant to know of that background, but his inner circle most certainly knows of it, and intends it in full.“
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TieDyeDude Larry Wilmore likes to refer to him as the “Tangerine Idi Amin“ 1d
dabbe #marmalademussolini #cheetosatan #ldf (lame duck felon) #tangerineidiamin
He's so “great“ with the ad hominem attacks, it's time to redirect some back to him. #resist 👊🏻♥️👊🏻
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GingerAntics This is truly terrifying. What is more terrifying is the people okay with this, that just don‘t see the parallels. 1d
GingerAntics @CarolynM as a historian, I feel like I‘m shouting into the void sometimes, just trying to get people to wake up! I‘m just so tired. 8h
GingerAntics @Bookwomble that‘s the thing. It‘s 100% intentional. People saying stupid things like it‘s just coincidental or it just looks that way are just so entirely out of touch. 8h
Bookwomble @TheBookHippie I feel the name Cheeto Satan is too harsh - on Cheetos! 😄 2h
Bookwomble @GingerAntics It's hard to understand people's lack of recognition of what he is. It is tiring living through such times. I hope you get times where you can switch off and tune out for a while to test and recover ❤️‍🩹🫂 2h
TheBookHippie @Bookwomble 😂😂😂😂 2h
TheBookHippie @TieDyeDude 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2h
TheBookHippie @GingerAntics or they do see the parallels and embrace it. 2h
Bookwomble @TieDyeDude I love these alliterative nicknames for him 😄 2h
GingerAntics @TheBookHippie that is so true… and beyond terrifying. 2h
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ncsufoxes
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Thank you Senator Cory Booker for your fortitude, strength & compassion. In the words of John Lewis, “Get in Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble.” #resist

Deblovestoread 💙🩵💙 2d
dabbe ♥️👊🏻💙 2d
kspenmoll 💙💙💙💪🏻 1d
marleed 💙💙 1d
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JenniferEgnor
Displacement | Kiku Hughes
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Pickpick

I wasn‘t sure exactly what this book was about when I first saw it but I‘m so glad I read it. The main character time travels into the past of her descendants, straight into the hell of internment camps forced on Japanese Americans. The story jumps back and forth from the past and into the present, when white supremacist Trump is in the Oval Office. It has very Kindred and The Devil‘s Arithmetic vibes. Excellent and voter story telling. We⬇️

JenniferEgnor need books like this now, more than ever—as history is literally being erased and becoming illegal to talk and think about, by the day. No executive order or law will ever erase it, not while we have our memories. 2d
dabbe Have you ever read FAREWELL TO MANZANAR? It's on my district's literature list, and I used to teach it. The author was a child when she and her family were forced to live at the Manzanar Internment Camp, and the memoir describes her experiences before, during, and after this horrific period. We do need books like these more than ever. #readingispolitical #resist ♥️👊🏻💙 2d
JenniferEgnor @dabbe I have not. Just added it! 1d
dabbe @JenniferEgnor I can't wait to read what you think about it! 🩵💙🩵 1d
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Amiable
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dabbe 👊🏻❣️👊🏻 #resist 2w
CoverToCoverGirl Elbows up! Canadians are with you! 💙 2w
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Amiable
King: A Life | Jonathan Eig
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Amen. 🙌🏼

#resist

dabbe 🎯🎯🎯 2w
TheBookHippie ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 2w
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SomedayAlmost
The Magic Library | Ben Nuttall
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📚Americans: Please contact Congress. Even if you think your reps. support libraries, they need reminders to stay strong against the bullies in our gov. Readers across America thank you! 📚#librarymagic #resist

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IMASLOWREADER
The Handmaid's Tale | MARGARET. ATWOOD
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this is such good news for me, been waiting for a good while…so excited for the next season… #resist #readerlife

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AmyG
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Oh great.

Jess One gut punch after another. 3w
Librarybelle Sadly, I suspected this was coming. 3w
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Prairiegirl_reading This just fills me with rage. 3w
AmyG AND -I just read 10,000 USPS jobs are being cut. 🤬 3w
ncsufoxes NCI was supposed to cut a certain number of positions by the end of this week too. If they didn‘t apparently they were going to cut at random (or force older scientists into retirement, one of the researchers my husband works with is older & currently on medical leave, he wonders if he‘ll be forced out). Although I love the irony of having a Pres that‘s 78 & how many senators & such that are elderly & continue to keep running or have jobs 3w
AmyG @ncsufoxes Madness. 3w
AnnCrystal I expected these things to happen, yet it still surprises me... Thank You for sharing ✊🏼📚💝. 3w
dabbe @ncsufoxes already posted this, but I'll add it here, too. Here's a link to write your senators: https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/messages/edit?promo_id=23577

P.S. I'm also going to write the most moderate Republican senators I can find through this link as well. Those are the ones we can hopefully appeal to with some degree of rationality. #resist 👊🏻❣️👊🏻
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ShelleyBooksie This is truly awful 3w
MemoirsForMe 😡💔😡 3w
marleed What is happening is horrible. 3w
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