Notices by Liam O'Mara IV, PhD (liamomaraiv@mastodon.social)

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, #Mussolini was cornered in a small village whilst fleeing the country, and summarily executed by a communist partisan. His body was beaten and hanged in the streets of Milan. It is hard to escape #fascism peacefully.
#SicSemperTyrannis #AntiFascist

The Pentagon has buried names of all prominent military and public figures at Arlington National Cemetary who are black, Hispanic, or female, so as not to be seen as doing '#DEI' work by listing them. It's just white men now. That's #MAGA in a nutshell.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5328802/arlington-national-cemetery-stops-highlighting-some-historical-figures-on-its-website

On #ThisDayInHistory in 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist #RachelCorrie was protesting the demolition of homes in #Rafah, #GazaStrip, when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. Senseless home destruction has long been a #genocide tactic in Palestine.

Policing genitals has never been about protecting women in the restroom. It is about power, about #misogyny, about building a #PoliceState culture of fear and submission. #BathroomLaws are bigotry for political power, aka #neonazi social engineering.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

This is your shit #ceasefire, Dems. Anyone still defending the #Zionist state in its genocidal struggle to hold all of #Palestine and drive out its people is no better than the 1930s #AmericaFirst movement that defended Nazi racism. You have the information; now find your morals.

Make no mistake, this scummy #WhiteNationalist is talking about #terrorism and socially-sanctioned #hate -- she is suggesting that American #migrants of non-European origin be made to feel afraid and unwelcome so that they leave. This was the #KKK's whole thing in the 1920s.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1904, a #Herero uprising in #Namibia against German colonialism began. They killed 123 settlers and Germany responded with the first #genocide of the 20th c. -- #ConcentrationCamps, medical experiments, slave labour, and the death of 80% of the population.

We'll get the beginning of a #moneyless #StarTrek future on the day the last #billionaire is shot into the sun or composted. So long as our social structure depends upon acquisition & exchange of a hoardable resource, #poverty and misery await the majority. Rise up & demand more.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1971, #Ovambo workers in #SouthAfrican-occupied #Namibia showed the power of #DirectAction against #apartheid with a strike that spread nationwide, lasted until 21 Jan., and ended forced-work contracts and gained free medical care.

https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/ovambo-migrant-workers-general-strike-rights-namibia-1971-72

#Trump's war on the #WorkingClass has been officially announced. 25% #tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and a possible 60% #tariff on China, means that 47% of US imports will get more expensive. This will NOT bring jobs back, since capital still flows freely.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-promises-25-tariff-products-mexico-canada-2024-11-25/

#Trump's #BrownShirts *cough*, I mean #MAGA #terrorists, continue to commit assaults across the country. This young Florida prick punched an elderly woman. These people want a #neonazi #dictatorship in America, and without enough #antifascist activism, they could well get it.

Opposition to #trans rights has always fit the pattern of #bigotry & fear on which #FarRight politics are founded. Difference is not a threat. People living their best lives are not a threat. Stop worrying about how others dress and grow tf up, #TERF.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

State terrorists in #OklahomaCity, AKA #police, threw a 70-year-old man to the ground during a traffic stop after someone else had run into his car. Cops kept interrupting him as he spoke, and he made the mistake of saying "shut up" to a bully with a gun, so ended up in hospital.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCUuFLuS63_/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==

#Solidarity between #indigenous peoples against #colonialism and genocide has happened for centuries, but #history books still spend most of their time on actions in the centres of power. Bias toward states and capital does not serve human interests and is meant to disempower us.

Schadenfreude doesn't even begin to cover how good this feels. The treasurer of the German neonazi group The Third Way tripped on an exposed root and fell 60 metres to his richly deserved death. How can we convince the rest of his compatriots to go hiking and rig traps for them?

In a way, tax debates are stupid, since we shouldn't have let private wealth accrue... but we did, so ultimately a tax policy question is about what kind of society you want. Should the workers pay more so the rich can buy yachts? Republicans say yes...

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/10/07/the-us-tax-code-will-change-next-year-the-presidential-election-will-determine-how

Despite decades of warnings, the use of #FossilFuels continues to rise, and we stand on the brink of catastrophe & collapse. Is there anything that can wake up the right-wingers to the danger? Or will the conservative neurotype damn us all to extinction?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/earths-vital-signs-show-humanitys-future-in-balance-say-climate-experts

Before the federal indictments were released, Adams had already said the charges were lies & he wouldn't resign. The people attracted to powerful positions seem morally repugnant by nature. The corruption is obvious here; campaign donations are tracked.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/nyregion/eric-adams-indicted.html

When folks raise questions of basic social justice, like criticism of cops or of racism or of pro-poverty policies, it doesn't mean someone's going to come swap your Ford for a Lada, or move you from your house into a grey cement tenement. Calm the fuck down & let's talk, please.

Eric Adams is an authoritarian piece of shit and NYPD is a fucking gestapo. Cops in the subway opened fire because someone skipped a three dollar fare, hitting the suspect, two bystanders, and one of the pigs. One of those bystanders is reportedly braindead. This is unacceptable.