zirk.us is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities! For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation.

Administered by:

Server stats:

764
active users

#extremism

20 posts10 participants0 posts today

"The Senate is on the verge of confirming Harmeet Dhillon to lead the #CivilRights Division at the Department of Justice, putting someone who has spent years attacking #VotingRights, #AbortionRights, and #LGBTQrights in charge of protecting those rights for millions of Americans":
huffpost.com/entry/harmeet-dhi
#politics #Trump #extremism

HuffPost · GOP Poised To Confirm Anti-Voting Rights Extremist To Lead DOJ's Civil Rights DivisionBy Jennifer Bendery

"Republicans have not won a statewide election in California in nearly two decades":
huffpost.com/entry/xavier-bece
California is an anti-Trump state, but Republicans consistently and stupidly ran pro-Trump candidates for statewide offices in elections which they then, of course, lost.
#politics #Republican #extremism

HuffPost · Xavier Becerra Enters The Race To Succeed California Gov. Gavin NewsomBy AP

As part of RFK Jr.'s war on health, in an attempt to Make Americans Sicker Again:
"Widespread layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agencies":
washingtonpost.com/health/2025
"Some employees who were laid off were told to contact Anita Pinder, former director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, with discrimination complaints. Pinder died last year."
#healthcare #extremism #destruction #politics

The Washington Post · Massive layoffs, purge of leadership underway at U.S. health agenciesBy Carolyn Y. Johnson

Details of deadly attack on Qld police to be aired in trial of US conspiracy theorist
By Eden Gillespie

Details of a deadly attack on Queensland police will be aired during the trial of a conspiracy theorist in the United States charged in connection with the murders.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/que

ABC News · Queensland police could give evidence at US trial of Donald Day Jr, conspiracy theorist linked to Wieambilla attackBy Eden Gillespie

" 'Health Secretary RFK Jr. is vindicating his critics in just his first six weeks in office as he dismisses the severity of Texas’s deadly measles outbreak and empowers vaccine skeptics at the national stage' the Wall Street Journal said in an op-ed published Sunday. 'Our worst fears about Mr. Kennedy are coming true' the paper’s editorial board wrote":
huffpost.com/entry/trump-presi
#healthcare #extremism #IfRFKjrWasADoctorHeWouldBeKnownAsDoctorDeath #SecretaryMeasles

HuffPost · Trump Rolls Out Sweeping Tariffs, More Federal Jobs Are Cut: Live UpdatesBy HuffPost Staff

alojapan.com/1233320/japanese- Japanese American Survivors of U.S. Internment Camps Say Trump’s Invocation of Wartime Law ‘Reopens Deep Wounds and Inflicts New Ones’ #1798WartimeAct #AAPI #DonaldTrump #Extremism #highlights #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MassDeportations #news Japanese American communities are warning that “history is repeating itself” following Donald Trump’s invocation of 1798 wartime law to help carry out his mass detention and deportation a…