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Obviously, fascism arrives as your friend. How else would it arrive? What I did not anticipate…was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on.
Obviously, fascism arrives as your friend. How else would it arrive? What I did not anticipate…was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on.
The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams
The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams
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February 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Obviously, fascism arrives as your friend. How else would it arrive? What I did not anticipate…was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on.
Obviously, fascism arrives as your friend. How else would it arrive? What I did not anticipate…was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on.
It’s easy to just be depressed by what is going on. One of my favorite journalists offers some practical advice. www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...
What you can do to fight the Trump agenda
A list of lists of how to resist
www.headsupnews.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It’s easy to just be depressed by what is going on. One of my favorite journalists offers some practical advice. www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...
You can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can’t take South Africa out of the boy.
February 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
You can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can’t take South Africa out of the boy.
China should do this. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/01/31/c...
Chrystia Freeland says Canada should target Tesla in a tariff fight
Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says Canada should target Teslas and U.S. alcohol as part of its tariff retaliation package.
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February 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
China should do this. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/01/31/c...
Rogue nation threatens world peace. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Nearly half of Danes see US as threat and 78% oppose Greenland sale, poll shows
Exclusive: More Danish people regard US as a threat than see North Korea or Iran as danger
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February 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Rogue nation threatens world peace. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Oglaf understands what Heritage, Cato, etc., are up to.
January 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oglaf understands what Heritage, Cato, etc., are up to.
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"A Genocidal Project": Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel's Destruction of Gaza Health System
“Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health System
Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the true number is closer to 300,000. “This...
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December 30, 2024 at 3:30 PM
"A Genocidal Project": Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel's Destruction of Gaza Health System
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Netanyahu: “You can’t be president of the US last time I checked, but assume you are.”
Elon Musk, interjected: “Not officially.”
Netanyahu responded: “Not officially. OK, so you’re the unofficial president.”
Elon Musk, interjected: “Not officially.”
Netanyahu responded: “Not officially. OK, so you’re the unofficial president.”
December 23, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Netanyahu: “You can’t be president of the US last time I checked, but assume you are.”
Elon Musk, interjected: “Not officially.”
Netanyahu responded: “Not officially. OK, so you’re the unofficial president.”
Elon Musk, interjected: “Not officially.”
Netanyahu responded: “Not officially. OK, so you’re the unofficial president.”
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This is (unironically) a terrific idea. The debt limit serves no purpose except to be taken hostage and force crises. For once I hope GOP lawmakers listen to Trump.
“.. In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the ‘smartest thing [Congress] could do. I would support that entirely.’”
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Trump calls for abolishing the debt ceiling
In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said getting rid of the debt ceiling entirely would be the “smartest thing [Congress] could do. I would support that entirely.”
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December 19, 2024 at 3:14 PM
This is (unironically) a terrific idea. The debt limit serves no purpose except to be taken hostage and force crises. For once I hope GOP lawmakers listen to Trump.
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Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine
Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine
By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto (The Conversation) – Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films. Netflix cited the expiration of three-year licences as…
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December 16, 2024 at 5:22 AM
Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine
Also, bears defecate in the forest. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Bernie Sanders Warns U.S. Is Becoming an Oligarchy
Sen. Bernie Sanders said that America is "moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society" where billionaires use government to enrich themselves.
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December 16, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Also, bears defecate in the forest. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Up untill now I have been able to dismiss all the hysterical rhetoric portraying immigrants as vile people who pollute our culture.
Jordan Peterson says he’s left Canada and moved to the U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca
Peterson cited his ongoing feud with the College of Psychologists of Ontario as a reason to leave his home country.
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December 14, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Up untill now I have been able to dismiss all the hysterical rhetoric portraying immigrants as vile people who pollute our culture.
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In this post, I showed several ways that actually fabricated evidence abt Joe Biden's was shared w/Chris Wray's FBI (in some cases, affecting his due process).
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Zero Accountability: The Five-Plus Times DOJ Got Fabricated Evidence against Hunter Biden - emptywheel
There were five cases in which fabricated evidence about Hunter Biden was ingested by FBI. Most was not used by investigators, which the House GOP then used to politicize the case against him. But at ...
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December 12, 2024 at 2:22 PM
In this post, I showed several ways that actually fabricated evidence abt Joe Biden's was shared w/Chris Wray's FBI (in some cases, affecting his due process).
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/10/z...
www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/10/z...
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You don't have to like Hunter.
You don't have to like the pardon.
But the fact that fabricated evidence was used to harm Joe Biden's kid is a lesson in how it will be used against others.
You don't have to like the pardon.
But the fact that fabricated evidence was used to harm Joe Biden's kid is a lesson in how it will be used against others.
December 12, 2024 at 2:24 PM
You don't have to like Hunter.
You don't have to like the pardon.
But the fact that fabricated evidence was used to harm Joe Biden's kid is a lesson in how it will be used against others.
You don't have to like the pardon.
But the fact that fabricated evidence was used to harm Joe Biden's kid is a lesson in how it will be used against others.
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🚨NEWS: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long pressured the agency to shut down the Humane Society after it supported an initiative to protect dogs.
If confirmed Long will have the power to shut down any nonprofit whose mission or ideology he opposes.
If confirmed Long will have the power to shut down any nonprofit whose mission or ideology he opposes.
Trump Nominee Pressured IRS To Crush The Humane Society
Billy Long pushed the agency to target the group after it supported an initiative to protect dogs. Long could get new power to target more nonprofits.
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December 7, 2024 at 4:26 PM
🚨NEWS: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long pressured the agency to shut down the Humane Society after it supported an initiative to protect dogs.
If confirmed Long will have the power to shut down any nonprofit whose mission or ideology he opposes.
If confirmed Long will have the power to shut down any nonprofit whose mission or ideology he opposes.
I have been expecting terrorism against the fossil fuel companies, but I hadn’t thought about health insurance.
December 6, 2024 at 2:56 AM
I have been expecting terrorism against the fossil fuel companies, but I hadn’t thought about health insurance.
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It’s hard to argue convincingly that Trump and his cronies are a dangerous fascist menace who will wreck the US when the Democratic Party is acting like this is just a normal transfer of power, and President Biden is shaking Trump’s hand in the White House with a big smile.
November 30, 2024 at 8:13 PM
It’s hard to argue convincingly that Trump and his cronies are a dangerous fascist menace who will wreck the US when the Democratic Party is acting like this is just a normal transfer of power, and President Biden is shaking Trump’s hand in the White House with a big smile.
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We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate
December 1, 2024 at 12:11 AM
We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate
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I am convinced that the best way to understand how the Trump admin is going to work is to look at the invasion of Iraq.
November 28, 2024 at 1:12 PM
I am convinced that the best way to understand how the Trump admin is going to work is to look at the invasion of Iraq.
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Ideological messianism, prizing loyalty over competence, a dedication to outsourcing government functions to enrich political allies, a conviction that propaganda can overcome the bleakest realities, blithe dismissal of empiricism of any kind
November 28, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Ideological messianism, prizing loyalty over competence, a dedication to outsourcing government functions to enrich political allies, a conviction that propaganda can overcome the bleakest realities, blithe dismissal of empiricism of any kind
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Trump's promise of mass deportation has caused private prison stock to soar. Time to re-read Shane Bauer's incredible investigation where he went undercover for months as a private prison guard. It's long, it's harrowing, it won all the awards: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy
This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.
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November 22, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Trump's promise of mass deportation has caused private prison stock to soar. Time to re-read Shane Bauer's incredible investigation where he went undercover for months as a private prison guard. It's long, it's harrowing, it won all the awards: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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