One 12 months after Navalny’s demise, authorities in Russia proceed to go after individuals related along with his motion. One article reported, “Within the 12 months since Navalny died abruptly aged 47, dozens of Russians are nonetheless being arrested, tried and imprisoned for participating in actions associated to him and his reminiscence.”
Since his demise final 12 months, 695 detentions of his supporters have been reported. “To show the phrase ‘Navalny” dangers a jail sentence.” Even his attorneys had been jailed for 3.5 to five.5 years.*
One lesson realized is that braveness nonetheless exists. True masculinity—genuine virility—is said to advantage. Virtues are qualities that identify the most effective in women and men, an inside energy of wholesome habits. Individuals standing up for Navalny’s values are proof that advantage continues to be potential.
In the meantime, again dwelling, within the land the place individuals like to sing at main sports activities occasions about our “land of the free and the house of the courageous,” that is taking place: Close to Rochester, New York: 5 males from ages 19 to 38 have been charged with torturing a trans individual for a number of months after which murdering him.
Main Sucher of the NY State Police known as the case “past wicked” and “by far the worst” investigation the murder division had ever undertaken. “No human being ought to need to endure what Sam endured” stated the Main. Three Rochester metropolis council members report that hostility towards transgender individuals is rising.
In an article on how “Trump’s passport guidelines are trapping transgender Individuals in limbo,” VOX has reported that on his first day in workplace, Trump handed an government order stating that the federal government would solely acknowledge an individual’s intercourse and never their gender and that intercourse was unalterable.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio fell in line and instantly directed a pause in processing of passports. “The coverage makes a pointy departure from a long time of evolving passport guidelines courting again to 1977. That is a part of a broader marketing campaign by the brand new administration to intimidate transgender Individuals.”
The purpose is “to make life untenable for transgender and nonbinary people,” ACLU lawyer Aditi Fruitwala stated. “They wish to sow concern and chaos and to make everybody extraordinarily afraid to be out and who they’re.”**
This doesn’t sound like a “land of the free” to me. Or the courageous. What are anti-transpeople afraid of? Singling out trans individuals—a minority of a minority—hardly looks as if a courageous factor to do. It’s what bullies do—choose on these they suppose nobody else will assist.
The present regime additionally erased all references of transgender individuals from the Stonewall Nationwide Monument web site this month. But it was the trans group that rose up within the Stonewall bar and fought again towards police harassment. Of their doing so, Stonewall launched the larger homosexual liberation motion.
In the meantime, some politicians and a few media retailers are sounding alarms and a few (sluggish shifting) courts are stirring. Twenty-five courtroom instances have been filed towards the present authorities’s race to fascism. In fact, now we have realized from the stoppage of trials across the January 6 occasion and stealing of top-secret paperwork to Mar-a-Lago and the Georgia second begging for 11,000 new votes, what courtroom delays can accomplish in case you are wealthy and have buddies in excessive locations (together with SCOTUS).
Resistance is on the rise amongst residents as even Trump/Vance voters start to see that what is going on has nothing to do with decreasing the worth of eggs. It bears all of the marks of fascism, power-over, institutional violence, evil or indicators of antichrist.
To be continued.
** Rachel Cohen and Kelsey Piper, “Trump’s new passport guidelines are trapping transgender Individuals in bureaucratic limbo, ” Vox, Feb 13, 2025.
See Matthew Fox, The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine.
And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
And Fox, Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth.
Banner Picture: “No Kings on Presidents Day, D.C., February 17, 2025.” Tons of of individuals gathered alongside the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. to protest the takeover and gutting of federal businesses by the unelected oligarch Elon Musk. Photograph by Ted Eytan on Flickr.
Queries for Contemplation
Although you will not be transgender your self, do you see within the assaults on a minority of a minority a severe mini story of fascism—”institutional violence” (Susan Sontag)—taking place amongst us? And that silence is complicity? And inside energy and religious warriorhood known as for to face up on the behalf of the rights of all residents?
Advisable Studying
The Hidden Spirituality of Males: Ten Metaphors to Awaken the Sacred Masculine
To awaken what Fox calls “the sacred masculine,” he finds ten metaphors, or archetypes, starting from the Inexperienced Man, an historical pagan image of our elementary relationship with nature, to the Non secular Warrior….These timeless archetypes can encourage males to pursue their larger calling to connect with their deepest selves and to reinvent the world.
“Each man on this planet ought to learn this e book — to not point out each lady who desires to know the struggles, usually unconscious, that form the boys they know.” — Rabbi Michael Lerner, creator of The Left Hand of God
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had all the time shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so usually used to unfold management and concern. Nonetheless, given as we speak’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for inspecting the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox gives a brand new theology of evil that basically modifications the standard notion of fine and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Japanese custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to suppose creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anybody single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Non secular Implications of the New Physics
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the which means and follow of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the longer term that guarantees private, social, and world therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Nicely value our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
Creation Spirituality: Liberating Items for the Peoples of the Earth
Fox’s spirituality weds the therapeutic and liberation present in North American Creation Spirituality and in South American Liberation Theology. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of each non secular and political persuasion to unite in a brand new imaginative and prescient by way of which we study to honor the earth and the individuals who inhabit it because the present of a very good and simply Creator.
“A watershed theological work that provides a standard floor for non secular seekers and activists of all stripes.” — Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Apply.
“I’m studying Liberating Items for the Individuals of the Earth by Matt Fox. He’s one which fills my coronary heart and thoughts for brand spanking new life despite a lot that’s violent in our world.” ~ Sister Dorothy Stang.
