On the 3ed of April, John Brown Gun Club DMV released detailed evidence on Twitter of the violent threats by Adam Michael Murray to shoot up the Transgender Day of Vengeance, threats that forced the events’s cancellation.

Many details at: https://twitter.com/JBGC_DMV/status/1643055988130340864

Especially ugly and the core of the threat is his Instagram video as reposted here: https://twitter.com/JBGC_DMV/status/1643056006870491137

In that video Adam first shows the flier for the Trans Day of Vengeance, then a video game scene of first person shooter characters shooting up a crowded shopping mall. Adam Michael Murray was arrested in Baltimore, 17 hours from his home. He said “be there in about 20 hours. Protect your kids.” This combined with gun range photos with “troubling” hashtags and a blizzard of hate from the rest of the far-right led to the conclusion that to hold the event as planned risked exposing participants to the risk of being murdered by a mass shooter. Thus the event was cancelled, as saving trans lives was the objective

Adam Michael Murray was arrested in Baltimore, 17 hours from his home after saying “”

The main post is backed up to this author’s Mastodon at https://kolektiva.social/@LukefromDC/110138104634919920 and the offending video at https://kolektiva.social/@LukefromDC/110138120100391867 in case Twitter deletes them or locks them behind an “age verification” login wall.

On April 3ed, the first day of their occupation, Occupy Tallahasse protesters were mass arrested. They were holding ground againsts FL’s SB 300 6 week (near total) abortion ban bill.

This obscene bill passed the FL Senate minutes after the galleries were cleared of witnesses. One of the arrestees was Florida President of the Democratic Party Nikki Fried.

This while elsewhere in the South, in Tennesee, GOP state reps attempted to EXPEL Democrats who sided with protesters there from their state legislature.

Democracy in the US is just about dead. Care to guess what comes next?

There’s only one way to play football with Nazis-TACKLE!

Nazis with “1488” Banner miss memo that Trans Day of Vengeance was cancelled, get tackled at Supreme Court. One drew a knife but wasn’t fighter enough to use it before getting his weapon hand pinned amd finally arrested by cops.

For some reason TPUSA let this video out of their shop even though the anti-LGBTQ scumbags they are defending are hard Nazis and responded to losing a fight with a knife.

On the 31st of March, LGBTQ protesters occupied Florida’s State House in Tallahassee to protest FL HB 1069, which can be considerd “Don’t Say Gay II” as it further attacks sex education and use of preferred pronouns in school

On the 31st of March, the DC March for Queer and Trans Youth Autonomy went from Union Station to the Capitol. Defying violent death threats, hundreds of marchers showed up.

They took the message to the Capitol that anti-trans legislation cannot be and will not be tolerated. Florida was explicitly called out by one of the speakers for violent anti-trans legislation and talk.

One young person covered themselves in fake blood, dramatizing the suicide rate that plagues trans youth in the face of unspeakable hate and discrimination. The march was tense because of the threats that forced cancellation of the next day’s Trans Day of Vengeance. Relations between the LGBTQ community and theocratic Christian Nationalists are dangerously close to a shooting war. For this reason the march was on the sidewalk-an attacker in a car would have to jump the curb and could not do so at speed without blowing their tires.

Our Rights DC has released the statement below about an ugly storm of violent threats that forced cancellation of Saturday’s DC Trans Day of Vengeance events:

This action will not be taking place Saturday due to a credible threat to life and safety. The safety of our trans community is first priority. This threat is the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community after the Tennessee shooting. Individuals who had nothing to with that heinous act have been subjected to highly serious threats and blamed only because of their gender identity. This is one of the steps in genocide, and we will continue our efforts to protect trans lives. While we wholeheartedly believe in the mission and message we put forth for trans day of vengeance, we must prioritize the safety of our community and the people that make it up.

In an ideal world we would have continued on in defiance of the attempt to silence our right to free expression. However, we lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it. In our continued efforts to preserve trans and non binary life we have notified the appropriate agencies.

On the 28th of March, Shut Down DC protested at the Dept of Justice, demanding a Federal investigation into Georgia’s human rights abuses over the Cop City project in Weelaunee Forest. At this time eight attendees at the march 5 music festival there are still being held without bond over muddy shoes or legal support numbers written on their arms.

US Senate bill S-686 (AKA the RESTRICT act) targetting Tiktok allows the US government to ban ANY website, then make it a FELONY for any person to use a VPN, tor, etc to access such sites when they move to servers out of reach of the US government.

While I myself do not use anyone’s closed source apps (Same policy Tiktok, Google, and Facebook) this bill is not about anyone’s safety online. Rather the government is freaking out because one of the platforms they do not control (true equally of Tiktok, Mastodon, noblogs, blackblogs, etc) has suddently become commonly used for organizing against them.

Millions including the author of this post will publicly defy this law. If this passes I will make a Tiktok account on dedicated hardware used for nothing else, and dare the DOJ to do anything about it. I burned a grand jury subpeona and will treat an arrest warrant for visiting a banned website the same way. Bring it on, make my day!

On the 25th of March, Tampa FL’s Pride parade took to the streets. The Nazis who harassed a Pride event the previous night were nowhere to be seen, but trouble came from another kind of Fascists. After the Mayor, a drum section, and a warship/pirate ship themed float for a health group had passed came the police contingent. They circled and circled on motorcycles, stopping all behind them while the parade route emptied.

After nearly 15 minutes of this came other police contingents and a prosecuting attorney-as in someone who no doubt prosecutes sex work sting cases. Stonewall was a RIOT, these contingents would have instantly come under attack there, back on June 28, 1969 in NYC. Pride celebrates stonewall, the sucessful physical force defense of a Gay club against NYPD vice cops, riot cops, and ATF.

Finally all these Fascists got done tying up the parade route, and the real spirit of Stonewall returned to the streets. The trans contingents that should have been allowed to lead the march in the face of a growing pogrom and fears of genocide finally appeared. After them came the Krewes, far back from the lead after their incredible work decorating their parade floats.

Thankfully, this post-police part of the parade featured the raunchy, gorgeous sexual posing of attractive members of the community in the manner that has been the hallmark of Pride events since the 1970’s. Objections from evangelical Christians to this should be brushed off since they want to murder us all anyway-and are putting into place the legal structures to bring this about.

Perhaps the lead element should have been surviving Stonewall battle veterans, followed by the trans community literally fighting on the front lines against genocide, and the John Brown Gun Club marching behind literally backing them up. As it was, the size of the crowd was suficient to put the anti-LGBTQ and anti-Semitic Nazi dirtbags who harassed a show at the Castle the previous night to flight. A search of the area turned up no sign of them, all the visible Fascists wore police uniforms or were office holders.

Sorry to be so militaristic but our people are staring down the barrel of open, brazen genocide. We must fight back if we are to survive as a people.

Video to date as of March 25, 2023 of activism mostly in the SE US. From fighting Fascists outside drag shows to the flames of Cop City to defending against the growing pogrom against trans folks. A very rough year already, and with the raging torrent of far-right hate the worst the author has ever seen