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From last week: Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence
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Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence - emptywheel
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, one of Trump's most gleeful supporters, has set up a one-stop shop: Joining false claims about the election with networks of fascists who'll take to the street...
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November 5, 2024 at 10:24 PM
From last week: Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence
www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/01/e...
www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/01/e...
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As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.
November 6, 2024 at 4:18 AM
As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.
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The big story tonight is Russia’s overt attack on America’s election - they didn’t even try to hide it - yet it’s being hugely underreported.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
November 6, 2024 at 2:37 AM
The big story tonight is Russia’s overt attack on America’s election - they didn’t even try to hide it - yet it’s being hugely underreported.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
This is a huge deal - a superpower intervention to help Trump win.
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P.S. One more thing:
The Harris campaign has been warning about this for days now, but it bears saying again.
Trump will probably try to declare victory tonight. Do not fall for it, and denounce it loudly.
Team Harris is also expecting it, and they are prepared to act.
The Harris campaign has been warning about this for days now, but it bears saying again.
Trump will probably try to declare victory tonight. Do not fall for it, and denounce it loudly.
Team Harris is also expecting it, and they are prepared to act.
Also. Please, please remember:
The west coast is still voting AND disinformation is out in full force right now.
Please do not spread wrong information that might unintentionally depress the vote on the west coast. Check your facts before sharing ANYTHING.
The west coast is still voting AND disinformation is out in full force right now.
Please do not spread wrong information that might unintentionally depress the vote on the west coast. Check your facts before sharing ANYTHING.
November 6, 2024 at 3:21 AM
P.S. One more thing:
The Harris campaign has been warning about this for days now, but it bears saying again.
Trump will probably try to declare victory tonight. Do not fall for it, and denounce it loudly.
Team Harris is also expecting it, and they are prepared to act.
The Harris campaign has been warning about this for days now, but it bears saying again.
Trump will probably try to declare victory tonight. Do not fall for it, and denounce it loudly.
Team Harris is also expecting it, and they are prepared to act.
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The Republican Party trying to ensure the success of a Russian attack on American elections
The Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party have filed a motion to halt a judge’s order allowing extended hours at six DeKalb County, Georgia, polling sites after they were evacuated earlier tonight because of bomb threats.
www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...
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Election 2024 live updates: Presidential election results, analysis in the Trump-Harris race
Get live updates on Election Day 2024, including results, polls and the latest news on the presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
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November 6, 2024 at 3:31 AM
The Republican Party trying to ensure the success of a Russian attack on American elections
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Rick Perlstein has usefully called this the "right wing ratchet," as in, the US right over the past decades has only ever kept moving further right and never moderating. Think about the place of Alex Jones and Breitbart in our politics in 2014. Fringe laughingstocks. Now they're normal GOP stuff.
At some point, we all have to grapple earnestly with the fact that the radicalization of the American Right has recently outpaced what even critical observers thought was likely.
“They are not going to go *that* far” has been proven wrong over and over again.
“They are not going to go *that* far” has been proven wrong over and over again.
Weekend reading:
The combination of a deep-seated mythology of American exceptionalism, progress gospel, (willful) historical ignorance, and a lack of political imagination has created a situation in which a lot of people simply refuse to take the Trumpist threat seriously.
This week’s piece:
The combination of a deep-seated mythology of American exceptionalism, progress gospel, (willful) historical ignorance, and a lack of political imagination has created a situation in which a lot of people simply refuse to take the Trumpist threat seriously.
This week’s piece:
November 2, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Rick Perlstein has usefully called this the "right wing ratchet," as in, the US right over the past decades has only ever kept moving further right and never moderating. Think about the place of Alex Jones and Breitbart in our politics in 2014. Fringe laughingstocks. Now they're normal GOP stuff.
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Since 2021, MAGA Republicans have been building an operation to overturn the coming election. With election day approaching, I want to share a timeline of key checkpoints in the electoral process and the types of subversion we're likely to see in connection with them (warning: long thread follows).
November 2, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Since 2021, MAGA Republicans have been building an operation to overturn the coming election. With election day approaching, I want to share a timeline of key checkpoints in the electoral process and the types of subversion we're likely to see in connection with them (warning: long thread follows).
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Women’s right to handling our own money is only as old as Gen X.
Today is the 50th anniversary of women gaining the right to have mortgages, business loans and credit cards in their own names. Only 50 years.
Nov 5th will be the first election in US history held after half the population has had a constitutional right stripped away.
VOTE.
Nov 5th will be the first election in US history held after half the population has had a constitutional right stripped away.
VOTE.
November 1, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Women’s right to handling our own money is only as old as Gen X.
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ultimate moment of gender just dropped
November 1, 2024 at 2:15 PM
ultimate moment of gender just dropped
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I think Harris is likely to win, but I also think Ganz puts his finger on a really important and frightening feature of contemporary politics that we ignore at our peril. We now have one major political party that has rejected liberal democracy & modernity.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/trump-can-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/trump-can-...
Trump Can Still Win
Don't Kid Yourself
www.unpopularfront.news
October 1, 2024 at 3:42 PM
I think Harris is likely to win, but I also think Ganz puts his finger on a really important and frightening feature of contemporary politics that we ignore at our peril. We now have one major political party that has rejected liberal democracy & modernity.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/trump-can-...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/trump-can-...
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At some point, "We have to keep Trump on the ballot or there will be violence" becomes, "We have to let Trump be president, or there will be violence," and that is, in fact, the point of the violence.
Politico’s Erica Orden, at the courthouse for the conclusion or Trump’s civil fraud trial, says proceedings were delayed this morning due to a bomb threat at Judge Engoron’s home.
January 11, 2024 at 2:32 PM
At some point, "We have to keep Trump on the ballot or there will be violence" becomes, "We have to let Trump be president, or there will be violence," and that is, in fact, the point of the violence.