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You can read more here : immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/what-w…
While seeking refugee status you cannot be employed in Australia, but if you come in on a valid visa and apply for refugee status you can live in the community. This means Australian LGBTQI+ people need to get that spare bedroom ready!
If anyone has experience organising this sort of thing or would like to help, please reach out to me so we can keep our queer siblings safe.
#USPOL #LGTQI #Refugee #Auspol
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Refugee status requires you to prove the following things:
1. A well founded fear of persecution. Considering that people are already being disappeared it might be sooner than later. Any documentation that you’ve been targeted for a disappearance or people in your community are being picked off will probably be enough, but keep documentation! A collection of threats sent to you will help make your case.
2. Membership of a particular social group. LGBTQI+ meets the threshold.
3. Persecution involves serious harm. Threat to your liberty, physical harm or forced detransition would meet the standard.
4. Real chance of persecution. This includes the likelihood of something happening in the immediate future.
5. You can’t have citizenship to another country where you could seek refuge.
#USPOL #LGTQI #Refugee #Auspol
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Hey USA LGBTQI+ people,
In the event that you need to leave the country to seek asylum you might want to start planning now.
If you want to apply for refugee status in Australia you will need a few things.
1. A passport (and as much ID as you can bring)
2. A visa to get into the country - you can come as a tourist and apply for refugee status on arrival. A tourist visa costs AUD$20. The visa is automatic for USA and lasts 12 months.
3. A ticket to get to Australia.
Explore visa options here: immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/…
#USPOL #LGTQI #Refugee #Auspol
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Right now Sen Cory Booker filibuster attempt to disrupt US Senate: #USPol
msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/sen-cory…
Sen. Cory Booker filibusters on Senate floor to ‘disrupt’ the Senate because ‘our nation is in crisis’
Sen. Cory Booker is now on the Senate floor, speaking at length to obstruct proceedings, yet within the governing body’s rules, to “disrupt” the Senate, because “our nation is in crisis,” in breaking news.MSNBC
Motherfuckers!!!!
DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
wired.com/story/doge-takes-con…
#DOGE #BankruptTesla #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #TeslaTakedown #ArrestElonMusk #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #SissySpaceX #NaziMusk #PresidentMusk #FuckElonMusk #USPol
An informative piece by a trans Texan 
for the Texas Observer, borrowing their choice of quote:
”Trans people are not a threat. We just want to exist and be left alone. Our dignity cannot be taken. But the #Texas Legislature is in danger of trading away its own.”
From April Maria Ortiz in 2023: Coming out in small town Texas ... texasobserver.org/i-am-a-trans…
#trans #LGBTQIA+ #transphobia #Uvalde #TXlege #politics #USpol #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility #news #culture
Link to post:
hachyderm.io/@TexasObserver@te…
I Am a Trans Texan - The Texas Observer
A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.April Maria Ortiz (The Texas Observer)
#USpol #ConstitutionalCrisis: #dRumpfTime
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No, imprisoning the #OrangePeril. Him would never have worked with #Trump.
I think it might be after Apr 20, 2025, that a lot more Americans will see the light behind these words: #TarpeianRock punishment:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1117…
IMO, it would have saved #America (and much of the world) from the current mega-calamity.
Now, it is too late for that simple solution.
What might still be a solution for...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (@HistoPol@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @noondlyt (3/3) ...the #TarpeianRock punishment. Since #TFG would still be allowed to campaign from behind bars and given the fact rally his huge following and the state secrets he kept, the risks for stability and national s…Mastodon
#Trump Family Pushes Further Into #Crypto, Starting Another Venture
Eric Trump & Donald Trump Jr. are investing in a #Bitcoin-mining company called American Bitcoin, created by the merger of two firms.
#law #USpol #scam #fraud #EmolumentsClause
nytimes.com/2025/03/31/busines…
Trump Family Starts Bitcoin Mining Venture in Further Push Into Crypto
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investing in a Bitcoin-mining company called American Bitcoin, created by the merger of two firms.David Yaffe-Bellany (The New York Times)
I would love for every lawyer I know to read this:
verfassungsblog.de/stopping-au…
“Ultimately, democracies die when people lose hope that change is possible. But we must not succumb to this pessimism.”
#EightYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet
March 31, 2017 – One month before signing a bill that would allow drug companies to incentivize doctors, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price purchased $90,000 of pharmaceutical stocks affected by the decision.
#AgentKrasnov #PresidentBystander #ArrestTrump #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol
”Trans people are not a threat. We just want to exist and be left alone. Our dignity cannot be taken. But the #Texas Legislature is in danger of trading away its own.”
From April Maria Ortiz in 2023: Coming out in small town Texas ... texasobserver.org/i-am-a-trans…
#trans #LGBTQIA+ #transphobia #Uvalde #TXlege #politics #USpol #TDOV #TransDayOfVisibility #news #culture
I Am a Trans Texan - The Texas Observer
A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.April Maria Ortiz (The Texas Observer)
Canadian General sours on F-35 Jets #CanadaSky #USpol #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Canadian general who recommend...
Canadian general who recommended F-35 deal now calls for purchase of other jets
Retired Lt.-Gen. Yvan Blondin says building Canada’s future fighter force solely on the F-35 would be “irresponsible.”David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa Citizen)
You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.Witze, Alexandra
You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.Witze, Alexandra
HEY EVERYONE DOING PROTESTS LISTEN UP
One addendum to the last post:
We need to do our own reporting. We need to talk about these protests. To everyone. You need to post about them, at least to say you did them, that you were there.
The media’s not reporting it, so WE HAVE TO REPORT IT INSTEAD.
Which is one reason why I’m writing all this up. WE have to spread the news, because THEY will NOT.
Seriously, the fash podcasting littleman I talked about last post? He was literally the ONLY media to show up. No other media was there.
So once again, we have to be that media. For real.
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #wapol
Analysis: How Israeli-US actions kept Hamas in power
They allowed Hamas to run in the 2006 election, which it won.
A 2007 failed Israeli-CIA coup attempted to oust Hamas & install the PLO.
From 2007, Israel imposed an economic blockade on Gazans, making them dependent on Hamas for jobs.
Netanyahu had Qatar & Egypt fund Hamas to ensure political division in order to forestall a Palestinian state.
juancole.com/2025/03/protests-…
#hamas #israelfundedhamas #cia #plo #uspol #usimperialism .
Amid Gaza Protests: - Top 5 Ways Israeli PM Netanyahu kept Hamas in Power
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The London-based, Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily, Al-Sharq al-Awsat [The Middle East], reports that demonstrations against Hamas …Informed Comment
Crypto coming with the innovation: there's a new app where you can earn crowd sourced crypto by reporting people to #ICE so they can be #deported.
They put the stasi on the blockchain, basically.
x.com/LauraLoomer/status/19060…
#fascism #uspol #Immigration #deportation #DHS #crypto #LauraLoomer #immigrants
Interview: "Fire the unelected social media dictators: Cory Doctorow on tech and US politics"
"Elon Musk’s rise to power in the United States is emblematic of the expanding power of Big Tech".
aljazeera.com/program/upfront/…
#musk #trump #oligarchy #ai #fascism #CoryDoctorow #uspol .
Fire the unelected social media dictators: Doctorow on tech and US politics
Is Big Tech out of control and AI beyond limits? Redi Tlhabi speaks with author and activist Cory Doctorow.Al Jazeera
Why is DEI used by MAGA as an excuse to purge the accomplishments and resilience of POC from history books and museums?
Why are histories of white supremacy so objectionable to MAGA?
Because these aspects of history are more than objectionable; they are unfathomable. Literally unthinkable.
If MAGA were to accept what scholars know about America's past, it would cost them the whole basis of their self-image. It would require them to relinquish their superiority.
So tired of Dem pundits repeating "we have to make a case for the system" in order to get people to vote for Dems.
No, you have to acknowledge that the system is broken, and no longer supports lower and middle income households. Then you need to introduce meaningful reform that addresses the borderline criminal practices of congress, and actually hold elected officials accountable.
If you want people to support you, don't make them choose between two flavours of getting-screwed-over.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
Secret #Pentagon memo on #China, #HomelandSecurity has #HeritageFoundation fingerprints
An internal guidance memo from #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland defense. In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report from the conservative think tank behind #Project2025.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
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Because peace is for suckers?
US Peace Institute Lays Off Staff After Dramatic DOGE Standoff
thedailybeast.com/us-peace-ins…
#PresidentBystander #Signalgate #WhiskeyLeaks #EndTrump #EndMusk #AgentKrasnov #RepublicansOwnThis #DOGE #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
US Peace Institute Lays Off Staff After Dramatic DOGE Standoff
USIP employees have been fired from their positions.Kenneal Patterson (The Daily Beast)
Not good
The United States Court of Appeals for DC has cleared the way for #Trump to fire members of the National #Labor Relations Board #NLRB & the Merit Systems Protection Board #MSPB, essentially granting Trump authority over formerly "independent" parts of the executive branch.
Judge Millet dissented saying the decision overturned #SCOTUS precedent & disabled the boards from functioning while the case proceeds.
#law #watchdog #whistleblower #USpol
storage.courtlistener.com/reca…
“It’s cold as shit here! Nobody told me.”
That's how unprepared and uneducated the *Vice President of the USA* is.
For a supposedly important mission. To a region in *checks notes* the Arctic circle. Doesn't anyone brief them?
Don't call it a clown show. Clown school is actually thorough and tough. Clowning needs talent and effort.
That the Dems are streaming only on Facebook and Twitter is another illustration that they're not up to the moment we're in.
#politics #USPol
I sent them this:
Hey my anti-fascist friends, let's help the Americans. Post your entirely legal, yet extremely annoying solutions for creative non-compliance using the hashtag #creativeNonCompliance
#USpol #Resist
#PrivateSchoolVoucherScam in #Texas
#Texan #Democrat #JamesTalerico shows the way how to fight back against the billionaire #TechnoFeudalists like #PeterThiel and #ElonMusk:
"The only minority destroying #America is the Billionaires!"
Via @Keithedwards
youtube.com/shorts/4SfcHBc8Phk
@indivisibleteam
@DemocracyMattersALot
@democratsabroad
@democracydocket
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Imagine being a U.S. Senator and using your enormous power to tweet scary shit at the public.
#Fascist #FascistTakeover #MAGA #impeach #impeachment #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #journalism #media #socialmedia #MakeThemFight #Hardball #DoSomething #NoKings #RaiseTheBar #PrimaryThemAll #DemandMore #VichyDems #Warner #MarkWarner
So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.
"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."
#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
nature.com/articles/d41586-025…
You are welcome in the #EU 😎
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.Witze, Alexandra
If you're wondering where US political prisoners like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk have been disappeared to and what their status is, the US Political Prisoner Tracker has the latest and is updated every day.
#Trump #ICE #USpol #US #HumanRights
Says the guy about to visit an outpost in Greenland because not a soul on the island would agree to meet with him. Talk is cheap, JD. You creeps don't control anything (except, temporarily, the US government) because your party's ideas are retrograde and everyone hates a bully.
