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2024-11-19 14:44:20

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"Mr. Homan told The New York Times in 2023 that he had met with Mr. Trump shortly after the now president-elect announced that he would seek office again. During that meeting, Mr. Homan said, he 'agreed to come back' in a second term and would 'help to organize and run the largest deportation operation this country’s ever seen.'”
#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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2024-11-19 14:43:46

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"And Mr. Trump said he would make Thomas Homan, who ran ICE for the first year and a half of the Trump administration and was an early proponent of separating families to deter migrants, his administration’s 'border czar.'”
~ Charlie Savage and Michael Gold
#Trump #fascism #immigrants #deportation #MassDeportation #cruelty #violence
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/us/politics/trump-military-mass-deportation.html

2024-11-17 00:33:18

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Naomi Beinart, who's 16, describes what it was like to go to school the day after the election, as her female classmates were covered in a "blanket of despair" and the boys in her class sat playing Minecraft on their computers.
She writes,
#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #Catholic #JDVance #manosphere
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/opinion/donald-trump-women-girls.html

2024-11-16 18:32:26

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@nprofile…0r8z Yes, I very much agree.

2024-11-16 18:31:43

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@nprofile…zezf Thank you. I agree: really sad. And I appreciate the link to @mekkaokereke's commentary, which I'll read with great interest.

2024-11-16 16:24:33

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For men, Trump represents 'hegemonic masculinity,' the exalted position of men at the top. In this view, aggression, control and dominance are all admirable traits and highly socially valued."
~ Ashley Morgan
#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #Catholic #JDVance #manosphere
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https://theconversation.com/trump-represents-a-specific-type-of-masculinity-and-its-dangerous-for-women-243285

2024-11-16 14:13:57

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"And then there's also this radical traditionalist Catholic wing that is much more connected to people like J.D. Vance. That is also very masculine dominated. It participates in this kind of manosphere world."
#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros #Catholic #JDVance #manosphere
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2024-11-16 14:12:30

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"There's a lot of masculine chauvinism, masculine triumphalism that has very much kind of banded together around Trump's victory. And that's kind of dominates two out of three of these major brands of Christian nationalism. So there's the Reformed Reconstructionist kind of manosphere there."
~ Matthew D. Taylor
#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #TheoBros
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-violent-christian-nationalism

2024-11-16 14:11:50

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"For all of the punditry analyzing the reason for Democrats’ loss on November 5, almost none of them mention the Trump campaign’s explicit appeal to sexism among young men. Any pundit who purports to analyze the reasons for Kamala Harris’s loss and does not list misogyny among the top three reasons is running cover for Trump—whether they intend to or not."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/put-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other

2024-11-16 14:10:58

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"Musk’s efforts are both part of and indicative of the fact that more and more men are cocooned in a YouTube/podcast/Twitch information ecosystem that connects sports, gaming, and other male-dominated hobbies to politics. And in that space, algorithmic forces and concerted efforts by far-right influencers and adjacent grifters are normalizing disdain or hate for women, part of a conveyor belt of extremism."
#Trump #men #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy #YoungMen #ElonMusk
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2024-11-14 12:22:56

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"Donald Trump’s election is a triumph for the politics of the doomsday bunker, which is bad news for the world’s environment.
This is the idea that in an age of climate disruption, nature extinction and ever wider social inequality, the best chance of survival for those who can afford it is to construct a personal shelter, where they can keep the desperate masses at bay. It is survival of the richest."
~ Jonathan Watts
#Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/14/survival-of-the-richest-trump-climate-and-the-logic-of-the-doomsday-bunker

2024-11-14 12:12:50

"The task for the Democrats is what it should have been all along: remaking the party into the party of the bottom 90 percent — the party of people who don’t live off stocks and bonds, of people who are not CEOs or billionaires like Mark Cuban, the party that rejects Elon Musk and the entire American oligarchy."
~ Robert Reich
#Democrats #EconomicElites #SuperRich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/there-was-no-red-shift-there-was

2024-11-12 23:29:23

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@npub1xmt…y378 One might equally ask what's the sense in ridiculing people who believe in God and treating them as if they are our intellectual and moral superiors and we are elevated human beings in comparison with them.

2024-11-12 22:03:04

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"The one thing the church must never do is to claim God to be on the side of any particular country or any particular political party or any particular individual. That is is the road to idolatry. That is a bargain with the Devil."
Kristin Du Mez's article has a link to a YouTube video of her pastor's sermon this past Sunday.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MainlineProtestants #WhiteCatholics
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2024-11-12 22:01:50

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Kristin Du Mez then notes that she went to church the Sunday after the election and heard her pastor Len VanderZee preach the following:
"We’ve heard it all before. The divine right of kings. God and country in the Fuhrer’s 1000 year Reich. And today, there’s the message that God is leading America back to its former glory as a 'Christian nation.'
That was exactly the idolatry that many early Christians died in resisting."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MainlineProtestants #WhiteCatholics
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2024-11-12 21:58:14

"Exit polls reveal a familiar story: around 8 in 10 white evangelicals voted for Trump (as did around 6 in 10 white Catholics and mainliners)."
~ Kristin Du Mez
But keep in mind that the Democrats and Biden and Harris are the real problem, as the corporate media, who have bent over backwards to normalize Trump and fascism, keep telling us.
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MainlineProtestants #WhiteCatholics
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/rejecting-the-bargain

2024-11-12 15:11:23

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@npub14le…420p Even then, I wonder. See Monica Potts' excellent book The Forgotten Girls on how women in the solid-red Southern evangelical-dominated states choose to vote against their interests and the interests of their daughters as they reinforce male control that harms them and their daughters.

2024-11-12 14:58:23

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“There was perhaps no clearer measure of white solidarity than the actions of white women in 2016. The majority of them — 53 percent — disregarded the common needs of women and went against a fellow white woman to vote with their power trait, the white side of their identities to which Trump appealed, rather than help an experienced woman, and themselves, make history.”
~ Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, p. 328
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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2024-11-12 14:54:46

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"Sexist and abusive attacks on women, like 'your body, my choice' and 'get back to the kitchen,' have surged across social media since Donald Trump’s reelection, according to an analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue."
~ Clare Duffy
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/business/your-body-my-choice-movement-election/index.html

2024-11-12 14:37:09

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"the angry white men who propped up Trump’s return to the White House ignored everything they say they valued – the military, law enforcement and God – to give into the rage of white grievance, the 'pastiche of sweaty anger' that the Trump-Vance campaign peddled, and to the fear and violence embedded in the 'great replacement' theory.
Once again, unfortunately, the anger about a multi-racial democracy has put the viability of the United States in jeopardy."
#Trump #women #misogyny
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2024-11-12 14:36:18

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"This is nothing new. White male anger, especially at the nation’s inclusion of African Americans, has repeatedly privileged white supremacy over the viability of the United States. ...
Similarly, today, despite the warnings from generals who served with Trump, police officers who endured the attacks on January 6, and a God-fearing then vice-president Mike Pence who was targeted for a hanging with gallows constructed during the insurrection,"
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny
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2024-11-12 14:34:27

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"The fact that Donald Trump’s candidacy was even viable, given that horrific track record, was because of the support of white men. …
And let’s be clear. Trump has laid out an agenda that will provide the “wages of whiteness” to his male supporters but very little else. The racist hate that undergirds Maga can only provide threadbare comfort."
~ Carol Anderson
Societies have their idols, it's clear.
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/trump-white-men-anger-american-history

2024-11-12 14:09:23

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“He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler. But I voted for the man.”
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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~ Scranton, Pennsylvania, voter Matt Wolfson
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/donald-trump-voters-pennsylvania-economy-fascism-20241111.html

2024-11-12 14:07:43

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"For American democracy, this election has been like going to the doctor for a routine annual physical, only to be shown an X-ray revealing a sinister dark mass over the heart. ...
This election has taught me that our country has made a fundamental shift in its core values."
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/11
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-08/kareem-abdul-jabbar-diagnoses-trump-s-election-2024-win?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMTA5OTQ4MiwiZXhwIjoxNzMxNzA0MjgyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTU43SlhEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBRjJFNDMxQTgzRjk0OTU3QUIxNzg5NTgwOEU2Q0YxMiJ9.1wQ5ZazWs0U5MDzFBHG6fNv42NYi6pNgr4x9WwQOnw

2024-11-12 14:07:08

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"Could we easily make up for the loss of these workers by replacing them with native-born workers? No. Employment among native-born adults in their prime working years is higher than it was at any point during Trump’s first term. There just isn’t a large pool of idle but employable native-born Americans to put to work."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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2024-11-12 14:06:52

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"Undocumented immigrants are more than a fifth of the construction work force, so deportations would severely hamper efforts to increase the housing supply. (And no, contrary to what JD Vance said, immigration hasn’t driven the recent spike in housing costs.)"
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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2024-11-12 14:06:05

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"For example, they account for an estimated 30 to 50 percent of workers in meatpacking.
If these workers are deported, the food industry will probably have great difficulty replacing them. Even in the best case, the industry will have to offer much higher wages — and, of course, these higher wages will be passed on in higher prices.
(Oh, and while we produce most of what we eat, we also import a lot of food — whose prices would be raised by tariffs.)"
#Trump #fascism #disinformation
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2024-11-12 14:04:40

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"If you’re upset about grocery prices now, see what happens if Trump goes after a huge part of the agricultural work force; immigrants are around three-quarters of agricultural workers — & roughly half of them are undocumented. (& do you really doubt that many workers legally here will be caught up in Trump’s threatened dragnets?) Undocumented immigrants also play a large role in food processing."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/opinion/trump-deportation-inflation-grocery-bills.html

2024-11-12 14:03:36

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"Surveys show that Trump’s supporters don’t just tolerate his autocratic tendencies. They positively like them. ...
Most Americans don’t want explicit autocracy. But many Trump supporters are open to it, and most of his voters will support or tolerate authoritarian policies and acts."
~ Will Saletan'
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-authoritarian-are-americans-trump-surveys-autocracy

2024-11-12 14:02:56

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"The question they should be asking is, 'Why?'
Instead, they waste time on their typical and tired blame-the-Democrats assessments while ignoring the underlying causes that led to this fraught and dangerous era, a fascist is putting together the most extreme cabinet in modern American history. Good job, everybody."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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2024-11-12 14:02:17

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"It was Joe Biden’s fault. It was Kamala Harris’ fault. But apparently the bleak permanence of American racism and misogyny, the almost unimpeded rise of fascism, and a system so broken the Republican Party actually nominated, and America elected, an insurrectionist in direct violation of Article 3 of the 14th Amendment had nothing at all to do with the dark turn we’ve taken."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-media-want-to-blame-kamala-harris

2024-11-12 14:01:37

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"Most American voters who had correct facts about the major issues voted for Harris. Those who didn’t voted for Trump. However, when they were blindly presented with Harris’s policies, they greatly favored them.
What explains this dichotomy and breakdown?
Dan Froomkin 'blames the press' in part for failing to inform many Trump voters when it came to the reality of the economy, inflation, immigration and crime."
~ Wahajat Ali
#Trump #Republicans #disinformation
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-corporate-media-helped-re-elect

2024-11-12 14:00:30

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"and that while the worst of it is the foreign and far-right intentional distortion of reality, too much of the mainstream media has been deferential and will be more deferential to authoritarianism and will not stop letting the right set the agenda about what to be concerned about and what matters. In fact, I don’t have to believe that disinformation is impactful; I know it because it’s been documented."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
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2024-11-12 14:00:08

"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"
~ Rebecca Solnit
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/authoritarians-like-trump-love-fear-defeatism-surrender-do-not-give-them-what-they-want

2024-11-12 13:58:41

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"As much as pundits and voters may point to the economy or immigration or crime as the reason voters backed Trump, the truth is that Trump offered virtually nothing in the way of actual policy on any of those issues. He offered instead the promise of masculine strength and male dominance, of men returned to their rightful positions of authority in the White House and in houses across America."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #MaleEntitlement
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/donald-trump-elected-men-vote-against-kamala-harris.html

2024-11-12 13:58:05

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"As the election results trickled in on the night of 5 November and into the next morning, and as Donald Trump gained a larger and larger advantage, a decades-old Germaine Greer quote kept dancing through my head: 'Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.'”
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
/4
https://www.newstatesman.com/us-election-2024/2024/11/donald-trump-america-women-are-disposable

2024-11-12 13:57:19

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"In the increasingly non-hypothetical world ruled by far-right Trumpists, the blissful servitude of women must be insured by removing their control over their bodies, and ideally, actually, by removing them from the public sphere altogether."
~ Jia Tolentino
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
/3
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/dispatches/how-america-embraced-gender-war

2024-11-12 13:55:53

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"Every woman is the wrong woman."
Olga Khazan is describing the view of many Americans when given the choice between voting for a woman or a man for the presidency.
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/bias-against-female-president/680589/

2024-11-12 13:54:09

"The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Afghanistan’s Taliban offered its congratulations to the American people for 'not handing leadership of their great country to a woman.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Republicans #women #misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #MaleEntitlement #patriarchy
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-11-2024

2024-10-29 19:29:27

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"Billionaire Trump backer Elon Musk – who has top-secret security clearance and 'extraordinary' influence over the federal government through his companies (New York Times) – has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022 (Wall Street Journal), in addition to having started his own career working in this country illegally (Washington Post) despite his own enthusiasm for Trump’s promises of violent mass deportations. "
#Trump #fascism #ElonMusk #Putin
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2024-10-29 19:28:29

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"How is it possible that an indicted insurrectionist, adjudicated sex offender, and convicted felon could very possibly be elected president for the second time?
The news of this past week gives us a clue. Billionaire newspaper owners Jeff Bezos (Washington Post) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (LA Times) each killed an already-approved editorial board endorsement of Kamala Harris."
~ Michael Podhorzer
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost #Bezos #LosAngelesTimes #SoonShiong
/3
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/the-john-roberts-election

2024-10-25 23:00:53

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"This is cowardice, a moment of darkness that will leave democracy as a casualty."
~ Marty Baron, former executive editor of Washingon Post quoted by D. Earl Stephens
Stephens adds,
"When a newspaper with the logo 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' fails to endorse the candidate that stands up for that Democracy, they are not being accurate or credible.
They in fact are completely worthless.
Dead."
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost
/2
https://dearlstephens.substack.com/p/breaking-the-washington-post-has

2024-10-25 22:57:25

Betsy Reed, editor of The Guardian US, speaks out about the craven refusal of both Los Angeles Times and Washington Post to endorse Kamala Harris in the election — that is, to reject fascism:
"It has never been clearer that media ownership matters to democracy."
That's it in a nutshell. As long as fascism is good for business elites and rich men, bring it on…. That's what these beyond shameful media outlets are saying.
#Trump #fascism #WashingtonPost
/1
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219607072

2024-10-22 20:54:47

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"To be specific: New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and editor Joe Kahn have made it abundantly clear time and again that they prize their so-called 'journalistic independence' over any obligation to sound the alarm that electing Trump would be a disaster for the country."
#Trump #NewYorkTimes #AGSulzberger #JoeKahn
/2

2024-10-22 20:53:57

Dan Froomkin knows — and tells the rest of us — where to put the blame squarely if Trump wins: New York Times.
"The fault lies with the Times’ selfish, smug, and self-destructive leadership."
#Trump #NewYorkTimes #AGSulzberger #JoeKahn
/1
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/if-trump-wins-blame-the-new-york

2024-10-13 11:56:28

This is what he said. This is what the man said, verbatim, in Detroit last week:
"It’s so simple, you know. It isn’t like Elon with his rocket ships that land on the moon within 12 inches of where they want to land or he gets the engines back. That was the first, I really...I said 'who the hell did that.' I saw engines about three, four years ago."
~ Donald Trump
#Trump #MentalDecline #age
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62579071/trump-rambling-circles-grocery/

2024-09-30 14:19:46

"CBS announced over the weekend that moderators Margaret Brennan and Norah O’Donnell will not correct any lies when vice presidential candidates Tim Walz and JD Vance meet in New York to debate on Tuesday night."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #JDVance #lies #disinformation #PoliticsofHate #media #MediaFail #CBS
/1
https://www.offmessage.net/p/media-incentivizes-trump-authoritarianism

2024-09-28 16:56:35

Mark Mansour writes as a Lebanese American:
"When Netanyahu is finally gone, a multinational effort to rebuild Gaza and a political effort to revive the two-state solution is the only path forward."
#Israel #Lebanon #Palestine #Netanyahu #TwoStateSolution
/1
https://mmansour.substack.com/p/what-happens-next-in-the-middle-east

2024-09-20 15:22:48

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@npub1c8r…pzcc Yes, he's a gem — and an illustration of how people can remain vital, brilliant, full of wisdom that benefits all of us, well into old age. I applaud him for continuing to care and to share.

2024-09-20 15:02:07

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"Donald Trump doesn’t want you to focus on the economy, because the news is very good."
~ Dan Rather
#Biden #KamalaHarris #Trump #economy #EconomicRecovery
/15
https://steady.substack.com/p/news-trump-doesnt-want-you-to-hear

2024-09-19 19:49:43

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@npub1ped…tnvc I've seen quite a bit of evidence that death penalties don't, in fact, deter violent crime. Rather the opposite, since they enshrine violence right in the state system….

2024-09-19 19:32:23

"Five executions are scheduled in America over the course of the next week. There are multiple strong innocence claims, and one man whose execution was already botched previously. A harsh reminder of how awful the death penalty is."
~ Chris Geidner
#DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #Republicans #ProLife
https://www.lawdork.com/p/five-executions-are-scheduled-in

2024-09-19 13:17:53

Heather Cox Richardson notes that Trump and his allies did not want the federal government to cut interest rates, as it just did — regardless of the hurt that not cutting interest rates would inflict on Americans. Lowering interest rates now is a political move, Trump's folks maintain, one designed to help Kamala Harris.
Richardson cites Philip Gourevitch:
#Trump #JDVance
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-18-2024

2024-09-18 13:14:20

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@npub1vdz…jqjz The putziest of putzes, for sure.

2024-09-18 13:13:46

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@npub1j99…tre5 Count me among everyone.

2024-09-18 13:13:26

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@npub13lx…na6u This definitely does seem to be part of their strategy, along with driving news cycles and making themselves the center to starve Kamala Harris and Tim Walz of media and voter attention.

2024-09-18 13:12:31

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@npub1elf…pd6n Yes, that's the bottom line here.

2024-09-18 13:12:07

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@npub10d2…fy4f Touché.

2024-09-18 13:10:53

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@npub1k34…t2r3 A good list.

2024-09-18 13:10:29

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@npub1nks…t0p8 Yes, that happened, astonishingly.

2024-09-18 13:09:26

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@npub17a5…cjkx You're right, they don't.

2024-09-18 13:05:39

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@npub1c7u…u85m Yes.

2024-09-18 13:05:28

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@npub1cmz…3nam Besieged by extremists pouring in from the outside, for sure, with a strong neo-Nazi presence among them.

2024-09-17 12:41:31

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"as opposed to a million other things that are hugely important about this presidential race and the dangers Trump and Vance pose to the entire Republic."
#Trump #JDVance #Springfield #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #PoliticsofDistraction
/7

2024-09-15 14:09:20

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"Bomb threats have come to Springfield, Ohio. So why don’t Trump and J.D. Vance back off the demagoguery? Because supercharging all these toxic social tensions is precisely what they want."
~ Greg Sargent
#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #Ohio #Haitians #immigrants #PoliticsofHate #violence #threats
/5

2024-09-14 22:01:00

This letter came for me in today's mail. Weeks back, someone at a site I follow daily had suggested sending President Biden handwritten thank-you notes for his outstanding, sacrifical leadership. I shared that suggestion here in my Mastodon feed.
#PresidentBiden #Biden
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2024-09-13 22:07:36

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@npub1fdw…g0dv Thank you. I'm glad you found this useful. I agree — really valuable commentary. Thanks for watching what's happening in the US with interest from overseas, too.

2024-09-13 21:57:17

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@npub1mkd…hqdh Yes, you're right.

2024-09-13 12:14:44

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“'If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness,' he wrote."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-13 12:14:08

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"Psychiatrist Richard A. Friedman wrote in The Atlantic today that Trump is showing signs of cognitive decline. His tangents and inability to get to a point suggest 'a fundamental problem with an underlying cognitive process.'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-12-2024

2024-09-13 12:12:51

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"On the other hand, we have reporters dutifully filling in Trump’s blanks, excusing his psychopathic edges, and inventing weird cause-and-effect chains that purport to explain how his ideas work."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-13 12:11:43

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"So naturally, after Trump‘s frantic debate meltdown that even Fox 'News' said Kamala dominated, I expected to see the same headlines calling for Donald to leave the race. Or at least have him committed somewhere.
But they must not have watched the debate."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-13 12:11:18

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"Remember all the headlines saying Joe should 'step down for the good of the country?' Or all of the different talking heads in news orgs squawking about Biden‘s abilities and demanding he 'step aside?'"
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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~ Scott Dworkin
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/press-must-give-trump-the-biden-debate

2024-09-13 12:09:26

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"Step one is to stop the sanewashing. Step two is to directly address Trump’s cognitive decline. Let’s hope our top political journalists are brave and honest enough to go there."
#Trump #age #MentalDecline #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-11 11:39:49

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#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #TaylorSwift #ChildlessCatLady
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https://files.toad.social/media_attachments/files/113/118/724/399/782/319/original/80d760fe69043947.jpg

2024-09-11 11:30:08

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"After this night—not simply a debate but a demolition derby—it would make sense for Trump to begin making serious plans for retirement."
~ Steven Beschloss
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #TaylorSwift #ChildlessCatLady
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https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-demolition-of-donald-trump

2024-09-11 11:29:30

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"Even a Fox News analyst declared Harris the winner."
~ Vivian Ho
#KamalaHarris #Trump #debate #TaylorSwift #ChildlessCatLady
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/11/first-thing-kamla-harris-comes-out-swinging-in-presidential-debate-donald-trump

2024-09-09 18:20:39

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@npub10qx…ters I agree. And I have to ask myself in honesty if I'd have been as courageous as I like to think I would have been, as Hitler rose to power.

2024-09-09 18:20:01

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@npub1tew…fepe Thank you. Definitely heart-breaking.

2024-09-09 18:17:52

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@npub1c2q…9wjj Definitely important to remember.

2024-09-09 16:30:51

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@npub10qx…ters Yes, there were Germans who saw Hitler for who he was — no one denies this. As you say, they were often silent, lacking courage, and in that way, helped pave the way for the Nazi era.

2024-09-09 16:23:07

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@npub1cfq…4mry This is excellent. I'm boosting it.

2024-09-09 13:20:37

When I was growing up, I heard lots of talk about Hitler. "How could anyone have listened to that madman rant and have believed what he said?" people would ask, shaking their heads sadly.
The implication was, good people like us — as we imagined ourselves to be — would have seen through Hitler from the outset and would not have been duped by the crazy talk about targeting minorities, ridding the nation of undesirables, letting blood flow in the streets to purify the country.
#Trump #Hitler
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2024-09-08 19:52:46

Scott Dworkin continues his weekly "5 Corporate Media Fails" series with commentary on four big fails this week in which the media either failed to cover a story adequately or got it wrong — always in Trump's favor:
1. Putin Did Not “Endorse” Harris
2. Trump Admits He Lost
2. Trump and Vance Made Truly Horrible Statements
3. Covering the Wrong Stories
4. Trump’s Brain Failures
#KamalaHarris #Trump #media
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/cover-trumps-mental-decline-now

2024-09-07 13:34:05

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"They pursue the appearance of fairness and balance by treating the true and the false, the normal and the outrageous, as equally valid and by normalizing Republicans, especially Donald Trump, whose gibberish gets translated into English and whose past crimes and present-day lies and threats get glossed over. They neglect, again and again, important stories with real consequences."
#Trump #media #sanewashing
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2024-09-05 18:18:45

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@npub1llw…vkpl You're right.

2024-09-05 18:18:23

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@npub1kk5…e0ds Thanks for sharing.

2024-09-05 18:04:54

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"Meanwhile, Donald Trump, who has spent years downplaying the scourge of gun violence—most recently telling us to "move on" after a school shooting—now delivers his election speeches behind a layer of 3.5-inch-thick bulletproof glass."
~ God
#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting #Trump
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https://www.thegodpodcast.com/p/thou-shalt-not-deny-gun-issues-from

2024-09-05 14:41:32

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"All of Putin's most important American children all in one place - leading the Republican Party."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Putin #Russia #disinformation #BigLie
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https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/why-the-data-makes-us-optimistic
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2024-09-05 13:51:57

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"It's never going to end. There is an entire political party dedicated to the proposition that it’s all okay because a poorly written clause in the Constitution says it’s okay."
#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting
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2024-09-05 13:51:31

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"the guns and the pissed-off boys and the parents who don’t secure their guns and the laws that allow 18-year-olds to walk into a gun store and put down a drivers license and $1,500 and walk out with a high-powered rifle that was designed for the military to use in wars against foreign enemies and enough ammunition to arm an infantry platoon."
#guns #Republicans #Georgia #SchoolShooting
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2024-09-04 12:59:21

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@npub1xqf…3s0g You're right. They want to wipe the slate screen when it comes to our history, and then to overwrite the clean slate with lies, fabrications, toxic fantasies.

2024-09-04 12:31:39

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“'Take it off the carts?' one doctor said to Lorena O’Neil of the Louisiana Illuminator. 'That’s death. That’s a matter of life or death.'”
#Republicans #abortion #healthcare #women #ReproductiveRights #misoprostol #Louisiana
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2024-09-01 14:11:47

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@npub1k3q…l2nx Thank you. I follow him, too, and find his commentary very valuable.

2024-09-01 14:09:23

I tend not to share a great deal of personal news here, since I spend my time here largely sharing excerpts from material I'm reading daily that I hope may be of interest to others.
I do want to share, though, that this week, I lost a good friend, and this loss is weighing on me, so that I may be off-kilter in communicating here.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/mary-russell-obituary

2024-09-01 12:53:10

I appreciate that, as a distinguished and ethical journalist, Margaret Sullivan refuses to relent in her ongoing critique of the colossal failure of US corporate media at this critical juncture in history.
I also think that her explanation of what's happening doesn't go nearly far enough:
"Nearly 10 years after Trump declared his candidacy in 2015, the media has not figured out how to cover him."
#Trump #media
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https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-ugly-case-of-false-balance-in

2024-08-31 14:14:38

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"Again shifting his stance on reproductive rights, Donald Trump said today that if elected president he would be firmly against abortion on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and just as staunchly for it on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
~ Lewis Grossberger
#Trump #abortion #ReproductiveRights #lies
/4
https://grossbergerbulletin.substack.com/p/trump-says-hell-be-pro-life-mwf-pro

2024-08-31 14:14:07

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"They got him to come out against Amendment 4, which has been polling near the 60% it needs to restore abortion rights in Florida. And they will get him to continue his extraordinary success at taking away reproductive freedoms.
#Trump #abortion #ReproductiveRights #lies
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2024-08-30 12:37:32

"A defining feature of the tantrum this country (and much of the world) is enduring from white conservative MAGA-type Christians over their loss of cultural influence and political power — i.e. the main subject of this newsletter — is that it gets louder and louder as their numbers decrease. It gets more hysterical. More unhinged. They’re willing to commit more and more evil acts, and more brazenly, as their panic grows with each passing day."
~ Evan Hurst
#MAGA
https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/texas-republicans-seem-panicked-what

2024-08-30 12:34:19

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"Nitpick Harris to death if you must, but stop treating convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and indicted coup plotter Trump like a traditional candidate rather than an existential threat to democracy."
#KamalaHarris #Trump #Democrats #Republicans #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
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