We are featuring here some of the voices of individuals and organizations—coming from a diverse range of political perspectives and viewpoints—who are courageously speaking against the brutal inhumanity of the Trump/MAGA fascist regime. Now is a time to unite all who can be united to demand: The Trump Fascist Regime Must Go NOW! In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!
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Rosie O’Donnell responds to Trump’s vicious threat to take away her U.S. citizenship: "i stand in direct opposition all he represents"
After Donald Trump used his social media to threaten to take away comedienne and activist Rosie O’Donnell’s U.S. citizenship, saying “Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” she responded with several posts (right and below).
In her first response post she said:
“the president of the usa has always hated the fact that i see him for who he is - a criminal con man sexual abusing liar out to harm our nation to serve himself - this is why i moved to ireland - he is a dangerous old soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and basic humanity- i stand in direct opposition all he represents- so do millions of others - u gonna deport all who stand against ur evil tendencies - ur a bad joke who cant form a coherent sentence”
She is continuing to post defiantly, sharing the voices of others standing with her and against Trump's threats.
Rosie O'Donnell
hey donald –
you’re rattled again?
18 years later and I still live rent-free in that collapsing brain of yours.
you call me a threat to humanity –
but I’m everything you fear:
a loud woman
a queer woman
a mother who tells the truth
an american who got out of the country b4 u set it ablaze
you build walls –
I build a life for my autistic kid in a country where decency still exists
you crave loyalty –
I teach my children to question power
you sell fear on golf courses –
I make art about surviving trauma
you lie, you steal, you degrade –
I nurture, I create, I persist
you are everything that is wrong with america –
and I’m everything you hate about what’s still right with it
you want to revoke my citizenship?
go ahead and try, king joffrey with a tangerine spray tan
i’m not yours to silence
i never was
🇮🇪 rosie
The annual Representative Assembly of the National Education Association (a nationwide teacher’s union) was held July 3-6, 2025. Among resolutions adopted were the following:
Defend BIrthright Citizenship: ITEM 59
NEA defends birthright citizenship and opposes the attempt to revert to pre-civil rights movement—Jim Crow—legal concepts of “states rights” in order to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants.
We will use existing media platforms to organize and join actions with other unions, communities, immigrant rights, and civil rights organizations in opposition to the Trump administration’s attack on it.
Use the word "fascism" to characterize Trump's program: ITEM 60
NEA pledges to defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term fascism in NEA materials to correctly characterize Donald Trump’s program and actions.
The members and material resources of NEA must be committed to the defense of the democratic and educational conditions required by our hopes for a just society and the survival of civilization itself by stating the truth.
Oppose ICE kidnapping of student leaders and support organizing against ICE: ITEM 63
NEA opposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) kidnapping of student leaders and supports students’ right to organize against ICE raids and deportations.
We will protect our students’ right to free speech and defend their right to dissent and organize against Trump’s policies, including attacks against LGBTQ+ students, and against racism.
NEA will use existing media platforms to organize and join actions with other unions, communities, immigrant rights, and civil rights organizations in support of defending students’ right to protest.
Tom Morello Releases Anti-ICE Protest Song ‘Pretend You Remember Me’ with Leonard Peltier and Immigrants from Los Angeles
Tom Morello, Leonard Peltier, and victims of the LA ICE Raids have produced a protest song titled, “Pretend You Remember Me.” Former guitarist for the band Rage Against the Machine came together with the Coalition For Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).
The song’s video features Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist and former political prisoner. At the beginning, Peltier speaks out saying, “No human being is illegal.” Peltier ends by saying “The only thing we should be deporting is injustice. Stand up for them. Tell the world you’re not going to get away with this. Injustice will be abolished alongside of you.” The video also features the faces of those impacted by ICE raids in Los Angeles.
Morello released a statement that said, “This song is written for all the families torn apart by the recent immigrant purges and kidnappings. Children torn from their wailing mothers’ arms by masked government thugs, people coming home to find their loved ones abducted by the state. Folks who worked, suffered, and struggled for decades just to make a decent life for themselves and their family were violently separated with an uncertain future. ‘Pretend You Remember Me’ is for them and for all those who are finding the courage to stand up against racism, tyranny, and injustice.”
Coder develops an app that warns of ICE raids — inspired by the memory of the Holocaust
ICEBlock is an app that allows people to identify actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in real time. Users who spot ICE activity can, in two clicks, identify the time and location where it’s unfolding so other users will get an alert, and undocumented people can know to stay away. The app, developed by Joshua Aaron, a technology developer and musician, has been downloaded more than 750,000 times as of July 11.
“Being raised in a Jewish household and growing up in that community, I had the opportunity to meet holocaust survivors and learn all about the history of Nazi Germany and Hitler’s rise to power. And when we see five-year-olds in courtrooms without representation, when we see college students being disappeared for their political beliefs, and even worse, when we see babies being ripped from their mother’s arms while they are screaming for their children in the name of patriotism and this country, I really think we are watching history repeat itself. ICEBlock was the best way I could think of to fight back.
Why Joshua Aaron created an app to alert ICE sightings
In answer to a question “Are not you concerned that the administration might come after you personally for the development of this app?” Josh answered “I think whenever you push back again a regime that is purporting authoritarianism, pushing fascism and subverting the rule of law and our constitution—if you push back against them you have to know that they are going to come after you in some way. And I say ‘go ahead’. You can come after me. You can demonize me all you want…. But the reality is it is protected speech under the first amendment….”
Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?
Asher Elbein is a journalist and fiction writer based in Austin, Texas. He began as a science writer, publishing a book about dinosaurs in Texas, and has extended his range into fiction writing.
“American fascism writ large yearns for ethnic cleansing and the concentration camp; in the south, American white supremacy yearns for the Alligator….
“The concentration camp that has been erected in Ochopee, Florida, promises to be one of many. The first detainees arrived on Thursday, July 3, the same day that the Republican-held legislature delivered Trump $171 billion for his anti-immigration agenda, including $45 billion to fund more such detention centers, a set of snapping mouths likely to chew through visitors, residents, and citizens alike. The man-catchers of the antebellum era are back in tactical gear, plucking people off the street; the naked infliction of terror on undesirables is public policy. Gone are the halcyon days of 2020, when organizers pushed the University of Florida into dropping the “gator bait” cheer, pointing to the racist imagery associated with the phrase. To hear Trump and his goons tell it, the Alligator is back. “They have a lot of bodyguards and a lot of cops that are in the form of alligators,” the president remarked during his visit, demonstrating his gift for stating the subtext. “You don't have to pay them so much.” Hangers-on like Laura Loomer, meanwhile, were fantasizing bigger. “Alligator lives matter,” she gloated. “The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.” (There are, interestingly, at least 65 million Hispanic people in the United States.)
I would not assume that any of these people know about the history of “gator bait” or are trying to intentionally invoke it, not because it would disgust them, but because they do not read. But the streams of authoritarian and racist thought are, if nothing else, predictable. The Alligator is on the side of the slave catcher and the overseer against the black underclass; why not the ICE agent and the concentration camp guard against the immigrant, the dissident, the stripped-of-citizenship? The threat is the same: You will be eaten up and disappear.
Japanese Americans and Local Community Leaders Condemn ICE Staging on Terminal Island in Los Angeles
On June 27, Japanese Americans and residents of the Los Angeles Harbor area came together at the Japanese Fishing Village Memorial on Terminal Island to denounce the use of the island by federal immigration authorities in carrying out raids of immigrants. The memorial commemorates Terminal Island’s Japanese-American community, which was destroyed when residents were rounded up in 1942 and incarcerated at Manzanar and other concentration camps.
A number of people spoke about their family history of detention and removal, and losing everything they owned.
Maya Suzuki Daniels
Speaking as “a proud descendant of Japanese American ancestry,” Maya Suzuki Daniels, a San Pedro teacher and a member of the UTLA Harbor Area Steering Committee, said, “It is this lineage that compels me to stand in front of you today and say ‘No ICE on Terminal Island.’ My grandfather was born in Los Angeles in 1920. In 1942, he joined the U.S. military. During the time of his service, his relatives were moved into internment camps in Arizona. My family understands what forced displacement and mass incarceration looks like.
“My grandfather is the one who taught me to stand up for values of peace, justice, equality, and compassion. Living in San Pedro, I have seen how neighbors stand up for each other when someone is ill, when someone is struggling, or when people are scared. San Pedro is a community born out of immigration — Croatian, Italian and Mexican migrants moving to make their lives and blend their cultures in our hamlet by the sea. We protect each other and we defend this slice of Los Angeles.
Danish Star Tessa ( @tessa_okay ) Slams Danish Govt for Supporting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza at EU Presidency Event.
Danish star Tessa spoke out in support of Palestine as she performed on stage, waving the Palestinian flag. She slammed the Danish Government for Supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza at European Union Presidency Event and said: “Today is a crucial day and we got every right to use our voices. As Danish, we are ashamed of our government is sending money to Israel. We are ashamed that they are siding with a genocide. So we will keep fighting and holding the flag until the end of the concert.” She held and waved the Palestinian flag for her whole performance.
JOINT STATEMENT: GAZA: Starvation or gunfire — not a humanitarian response
On June 30, a group of more than 240 NGOs released a statement in protest of the situation in Gaza, saying: “Today, Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families…. Under the Israeli government’s new scheme, starved and weakened civilians are being forced to trek for hours through dangerous terrain and active conflict zones, only to face a violent, chaotic race to reach fenced, militarized distribution sites with a single entry point. There, thousands are released into chaotic enclosures to fight for limited food supplies. These areas have become sites of repeated massacres in blatant disregard for international humanitarian law….
“We reiterate our urgent calls for an immediate and sustained ceasefire, the release of all hostages and arbitrarily detained prisoners, full humanitarian access at scale, and an end to the pervasive impunity that enables these atrocities and denies Palestinians their basic dignity. “
Mandy Patinkin, a prominent actor who has appeared on Broadway and multiple films, speaks out against the current Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, challenging other Jewish people to speak out. He is joined here by actor and writer Kathryn Grody and their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin:
“I ask Jews to consider what this man Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing government is doing to the Jewish people all over the world….”
“I ask you Jews, everywhere, all over the world, to spend some time alone and think, ‘Is this acceptable and sustainable? How could it be done to you and your ancestors and you turn around and you do it to someone else?’”
Bob Vylan, an English punk rap duo: "Free Palestine."
The U.S. visas for the duo were revoked and their American tour cancelled after one member led a chant at Glastonbury, "Death death to the IDF." The duo continues to call for political support for Palestine and an end to the inhumane, illegal genocide in Gaza.
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RESISTING TRUMP/MAGA FASCISM
Willy Chavarria, a prominent fashion designer, who has often spoken out for people’s rights, used his Paris Fashion Week’s show as a dramatic protest against deportations of immigrants to El Salvador and other countries.
The invitations to his show resembled official Social Security letters — a document that U.S. green card holders would receive with their SS card attached.
The envelope read "Official Paris Huron Summons, Department of Human Verification"
"This letter serves as formal acknowledgement that the individual bearing the name listed below has an incontestible and inalienable Right to Exist."
The beginning of the show was a dramatic display of Chavarria's anger toward the Trump administration's ICE raids that have taken over the state of California and beyond over the last few months. The models mimicked the prisoners in El Salvador as they are forced to kneel with their heads down.
“This moment was about reflection," Chavarria's team wrote. "The dehumanization of how immigrants are being treated in the United States.”
Survivors of atomic bombings condemn Trump's attack on Iran's nuclear facilities
At the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump compared recent U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki – asserting that both actions ended wars.
Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations and other survivors of the 1945 bombings known as Hibakusha, responded with outrage and condemnation. Nihon Hidankyo stated on X: “As survivors of the atomic bombings, we cannot approve any statement that justifies the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We protest with great fury.” 2024 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the prize for its advocacy against nuclear weapons, also condemned the U.S. attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, labeling them a “scandalous act” and a violation of international law.
Prominent attorney Thomas Durkin sent a statement to the Refuse Fascism press conference in Chicago held hours after the SCOTUS ruling was released. Durkin has a long history of defending progressive causes, including going to Guantanamo to defend prisoners.
Statement of Attorney Thomas Anthony Durkin regarding today’s US Supreme Court decision in the “Birthright” case, Trump v. President of the United States, et al., v. CASA, INC, et al. (June 27, 2025)
Today’s Supreme Court 6-3 decision along ideological lines is another very dangerous step in the Court’s continued and wrongheaded deference to the Executive Branch. This continued deference to the Executive has a litany of historical roots going back at least as far as the infamous National Security Act of 1947, and the accompanying “Red Scare” of the ‘50s. It has grown exponentially upon the domestic terrorism fears of 9/11, to the present day dog-whistling migrant invasion fears, and fits famously with the prescient insight of the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt on the “state of exception.” That is, it is only the sovereign who gets to state the exception in an existential emergency. Surely, these are not “existential” emergencies that sovereign Trump deftly and improperly exploits with his continued barrage of supposed emergency Executive Orders.
While it can be argued that this ruling today is only a technical procedural ruling, I join with the many other commentators, as well as Senator Chuck Schumer, who said today that to limit the courts’ authority to block illegal executive actions marked a “terrifying step towards authoritarianism.” I, too, fear that this is but another serious crack in what little remains of our “Rule of Law.”
World Boxing Champion Canelo Alvarez Refuses $10 million Tesla Sponsorship
Mexican boxer Canelo refused a $10 million deal to promote Tesla at his next fight. Canelo said to Musk: "With all your money, I will NEVER promote your Teslas. It’s because of rich men like you my Mexican people are targeted like animals. I won’t back a brand that profits on anti-Mexican racism."
At the press conference before the fight in Las Vegas, Canelo said, "I will always support my people."
Musicians Call Out ICE and Fascism
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has been calling on his audiences everywhere to join the fight against Trump/MAGA fascism.
Rage Against the Machine, known for their anti-capitalist and revolutionary lyrics, posted this on Instagram: "No government on stolen land should have the power to decide who is 'legal' and who is 'illegal,' or who lives and who dies."
Resisting the Genocide in Gaza
Seun Kuti, son of legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, at a concert in Croatia, called on young people to "Free Europe from fascism" and "imperiality" in order to "free Palestine, free the Congo, free Sudan, free Iran..."
Editors’ Note: The Gaza Tribunal Sarajevo Public Assembly brought together legal experts, academics, medical professionals, journalists, and Palestinian witnesses, in the historic city of Sarajevo – a location chosen for its profound understanding of genocide and international failure to prevent mass atrocities – over four days to hear testimony documenting Israel’s actions in Gaza. For more information see https://gazatribunal.com/
The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal
We, the members of the Gaza Tribunal, having gathered in Sarajevo from 26 to 29 May 2025, declare our collective moral outrage at the continuing genocide in Palestine, our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and our commitment to working with partners across global civil society to end the genocide and to ensure accountability for perpetrators and enablers, redress for victims and survivors, the building of a more just international order, and a free Palestine….
We believe that the world is approaching a dangerous precipice, the front edge of which is in Palestine. Dangerous forces in both the public and private spheres are pushing us toward the abyss. The events of the past nineteen months, and our own deliberations, have convinced us that both key international organizations and most countries of the world, whether acting individually or collectively, have failed in defending the human rights of the Palestinian people and in responding to the Israeli regime’s genocide in Palestine. We are convinced that the challenge of justice now falls to people of conscience everywhere, to civil society and to social movements, to all of us. As such, our work in the coming months will be dedicated to meeting this challenge. Palestinian lives are at stake. The international moral and legal order is at stake. We must not fail. We will not relent.
At the Glastonbury Festival in English June 25-29, numerous bands condemned the genocide in Gaza and called out "Free Palestine." Here are three of them:
Eli Hewson, son of Bono, dedicates a song "to innocent people starved, bombed, or genocided" in Palestine.
English musician Jade Thirlwall leads the crowd in "Fuck You" to the UK government.
The young musician Jordan Stephens was joined on stage by his mom who wore a Palestinian scarf and waved the Palestinian flag.