"These are people who make more than $35,000 but less than $58,000 per year, but don’t currently qualify for #overtime; to oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these #workers as managers, exempting them from federal overtime protections. The #Biden rule would make them eligible...

Guess who managed to block this rule that would have provided those people with relief? #MAGA #Republicans allied with #business interests, that’s who."

newrepublic.com/article/188663…

#GOP #Politics #USA #News

Break it.

Crack its bones.

Tear the skin off, leave the innards.

Maim and disfigure and destroy the thing until onlookers, sickened by the sight of it, beg to see it banished, removed forever.

This is how fascists destroy democracy.

huffpost.com/entry/timothy-sny…

#uspol #democracy #fascism #trump #MAGA

Authoritarianism Expert Delivers Chilling Assessment On Trump Cabinet Picks

It's not “just that these people are not qualified enough" or even "totally unqualified," warned Timothy Snyder, who said their selection aims to do one thing.

^{Lee Moran (HuffPost)}

Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win. Not quite. John Viaud, a retiree in South Carolina, knew he was taking a big risk when he poured his pension money into the stock of his political icon’s social media company. But Viaud was hopeful a #Trump win would rocket the stock into the stratosphere, posting, “Come November all of us are going to be very rich!” In the days since the election the stock has fallen.

#Politics

Jokes on you #Maga 😜🤣

archive.ph/1Kr4L

☝️THIS 🧵☝️ is exactly why I do not trust #BlueSky . This recent push of so many accounts joining at once and the INorganic feel of the movement, combined with the #MAGA money funding the platform and the #Crypto scammer who owns it...

It all just adds up to trouble down the road-- for all of us, on or off of BS

BlueSky's MAGA owners are making it seem like a "safe space" for Liberals now, but I am dead certain the plan is to use it to spread political disunity and disinformation down the road.

I am especially worried abt disunity beginning there & working its way across #SocialMedia . Republicans and MAGA only win when we do not unify and vote together. It's how they won in 2016, how they won this year, & how they plan to win in the future.

Trump did not make huge gains between 2020 & 2024. The problem was a lack of unity behind Harris.

If they can sow enough discontent on the Liberal side, then MAGA can walk in the door unchallenged.

#TwitterExodus #TwitterMigration

@admin

#USpol #DOJ #Jurisprudence

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...sogar die 3. Säule (#Repräsentantenhaus) noch dazukommen könnte, ist grundsätzlich alles möglich.

Ich hatte seit mehreren Jahren ab und an mal darauf hingewiesen, dass #Polen unter #PiS ein "Testmarkt" für die international stark vernetzte Rechte ist. (#Orban ist bei #MAGA Conventions ja ein "Superstar".)

#Project2025 hat diese generalstabmässige, jedoch weitgehend #demokratische, #Machtergreifung der #MAGAT|s in den #USA von...

@admin

#USpol #DOJ #Jurisprudence
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*Politisierung und Intrumentalisierung des #US-Justizministerizums durch #Trump und die #MAGA-Bewegung*

Ich bin kein Verfassungsrechtler, aber der Artikel deckt sich mit der seit der ersten Veröffentlichung des #MAGA-Amtsübernahmeplans #Project2025 durch politisch informierte Kreise gehende Nervosität. Sie geht bei Karrierebeamten zwischenzeitlich Richtung Panik. Wenn man 2 von 3 Säulen der Regierung fest im Griff hat und...

I just posted this valuable statement by Noah Berlatsky on Facebook, and Facebook immediately took down the posting:

"It may not be safe to remain friends with MAGA. Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them. …

I’m not saying everyone in every case has to cut their MAGA family out of their life. Different people are in different circumstances; you can’t make blanket rules."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
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everythingishorrible.net/p/it-…

It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGA

^{Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)}

Ben Wittes:

"In contemplating the dangers of the second #Trump term, the damage he can do with perfect legality actually looms more ominously than his ultimately-inevitable criminality... the simple truth is that if we are going to protect #democracy, the actions of the state matter more than the criminal actions of the man."

lawfaremedia.org/article/no-re…

#election2024 #scotus #maga #harris #project2025

The Situation: No Recriminations, Just Democratic Survival

The big danger is what Trump can do lawfully.

^Default

Considering The rise of #MAGA and the idiocy of "men" since November 5, I heartily endorse #4B and hope that all #women stand firm.

What’s 4B? A South Korean feminist movement reaches the U.S. npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-51828…

Hey look, #wikileaks is pro-#MAGA.

Happy #Assange is free now?

@hopeconf & @2600 must feel awkward rn

#mastodon #fediverse

@Beachbum @si_irini
#USpol #Elections2024

*The Clear Shape of Things To Come during #Trump's 2nd term in office*

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...Once the #Senate is under #MAGA control, I can see the age-old #Filibuster practice fall out of favor pretty quickly.

👉In short, this is a mostly legal coup. In my personal view, the outcome can roughly be compared to the 1st #Reichstag election of 1933 in the #WeimarRepublic, but (rather skillfully, I must, alas,admit)...

@Beachbum

#USpol #Elections2024

*The Clear Shape of Things To Come during #Trump's 2nd term in office*

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I don't think there are any significant guardrails left
but the Constitution.
Let me explain why:

#SCOTUS will, however, be interpreted by an all-but #MAGA-controlled #SupremeCourt.
Regarding the #JusticeDepartment and the rest of the #Judiciary, I strongly recommend reading this summary I wrote about the #DeutschesReich regarding this...

Tagging @si_irini

@VeroniqueB99

@KamalaHarrisWin
@indivisibleteam

#USpol #Elections2024 #VotingRights #WomenSuffrage

👉#MAGA husbands pressuring their wives to vote for #Trump:👈

beige.party/@RickiTarr/1134311…

Cc @RickiTarr

Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr

2024-11-05 15:47:03

We are not talking about this enough.

FYI, I will “unwittingly” share your nonsense for a pepperoni pizza.

“I don’t have any idea where it came from or anything - I’m just the guy who shared it,” he said.
#maga #russia #disinformation #Election2024

cnn.com/2024/11/04/politics/fa…

"The Secret White Nationalist Working for the Trump Campaign in Pennsylvania"

politico.com/news/magazine/202…

"Luke Meyer was Trump’s regional field director for western Pennsylvania. Online, he was the white nationalist Alberto Barbarossa."

#GOP #Trump #MAGA #LukeMeyer #PA #press

Good Morning, all

Inspired...

youtube.com/watch?v=e6Funs6yyE…

And for balance, here's the background to the gag about Trump wanking Mike Stand (a joke familiar to those who remember BBC's Radio Active 😆 ).

youtube.com/watch?v=B0Pn-_3sB-…

As to Don The Con's new slogan, 'TRUMP WILL FIX IT', I guess he never flew on Jimmy Savile's private jet?

#PE2024 #GOP #MAGA #VoteBlue

Also, in 'clarifying' his dog-whistling about his #GOP critic Liz Cheney facing a firing-squad, Donald Trump doubled-down, calling her 'a war-hawk who, if she were ever put in the line of battle would be the first to chicken-out.'

Fine words coming from Don The Con, who five times avoided being sent to fight in Vietnam by persuading a doctor that he had disqualifying 'bone spurs.'

Trump does so much projection, he could always find work as a prison cinema projectionist.

#MAGA #VoteBlue

"Harris goes to church while Trump muses about reporters being shot"

apnews.com/article/donald-trum…

"Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a 'failed nation.' Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a 'divine plan strong enough to heal division.'”

Comment: MAGA has failed, not the USA. He's projecting the downfall of his empire onto the whole nation.

#GOP #Trump #MAGA #Harris #God #Michigan #church #Christianity #Jesus #press

Trump says he shouldn’t have left White House after 2020 loss

Donald Trump is asking voters in Pennsylvania again to make him leader of a “failed nation." Kamala Harris countered from a Michigan church pulpit that God offers America a “divine plan strong enough to heal division."

^{JILL COLVIN (AP News)}

The historically most accurate pollster in the United States is Ann Selzer. She only does polls in one state - Iowa, typically a very Republican state. For the last two elections her polls were outliers that turned out to be correct, showing that Trump's support was far stronger than expected in 2016 and Biden wasn't going to run away with it in 2020.

She just put out her final poll of the election showing Kamala Harris up by 3 points... in Iowa.

youtube.com/watch?v=yTU0ZWFNmz…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Iowa #AnnSelzer #Polls #Poll #Selzer

file under: things that will not be reported on fox news

thedailybeast.com/listen-to-th…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein

We need one more Biden misstep calling Republicans Drag Queens. He's so close he doesn't even realize his power.

#MAGA #MAGAGarbage #USPol #Trump #KamalaHarris #Biden #Harris

Did the leopards not see that my face is white?!?

#maga #trump

texastribune.org/2024/10/29/te…

This Trump supporter was labeled a noncitizen and kicked off Texas’ voter rolls

Mary Howard-Elley is the 10th U.S. citizen identified by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat whose registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned. Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated.

^{Lexi Churchill (The Texas Tribune)}

Americans' #Trust in #Media Remains at Trend Low

Trust in political and civic institutions highest for local and state #governments, lowest for media and #Congress

Source: news.gallup.com/poll/651977/am…

In an age of #fake news, #propaganda, #maga, #Twitter #bots and Russian #troll factories, we actually need trustworthy journalism. I must once again explicitly point out that the principle of "trust nobody" does not mean no longer believing official sources and only consuming unfiltered news from Russian-controlled #Telegram channels and basing your world view on them.

"Trust nobody but don't stop thinking - if you belive the earth is flat you are far beyond a border no one should pass!"

#news #Problem #society #government #journalism #Press #fail #usa #conspiracy #deepstate #future #politics #internet #fakenews #russia #trump #bot #trolls

Americans' Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

Americans' confidence in the media is at its lowest point, as Democrats' confidence is near the record low and Republicans' is almost nonexistent.

^{by Megan Brenan (Gallup)}

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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump’s #NYC #Haterally was a #morally #disgusting #glimpse of the #future of #MAGA.

Trump’s #rally at #MadisonSquareGarden showed the ugliest sides of his #nationalist #movement

forward.com/opinion/668410/tru…

Was Trump's hate-fest at MSG a dark vision of the future? – The Forward

Any Jewish person still thinking of voting for Donald Trump should take a long, hard look at Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden.

^{The Forward}

The mask has come off: ‘#Racist’ #Trump #Rally #Comedian Tells #Black, #Latino #Voters How #MAGA Really Feels About Them

#TonyHinchcliffe said the #quietpart out loud.

— Remember he was #reading his #Speech off of a #teleprompter.

newsone.com/5658620/maga-trump…

Mask Off: ‘Racist’ Trump Rally Comedian Tells Black, Latino Voters How MAGA Really Feels About Them

Tony Hinchcliffe told racist jokes about Blacks and Latinos at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

^{Bruce C.T. Wright (NewsOne)}

“Put Them in #Trauma”: Inside a #Key #MAGA #Leader’s #Plans to use #violence to #enforce Trump's #Agenda

Other policies mentioned by Vought dovetail with Trump’s plans, such as embracing a #wartime #footing on the southern #border and rolling back #TransRights. Vought uses even more extreme language, decrying the “#transgender #sewage that’s being pumped into our #schools and #institutions” and referring to #genderaffirmingcare as “#chemical #castration.”

propublica.org/article/video-d…

Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

^ProPublica

Almost all of the small number of cases of actual voter fraud are perpetrated by right-wingers who've drunk the kool aid and believe that they're just fighting fire with fire and also that they'll get away with it easily like Dems supposedly do.

It's truly one of the dumbest ways to get charged with a felony.

#Election2024 #Electionfraud #Maga

fox9.com/news/minnesota-voter-…

MN voter fraud: Woman cast ballot for Trump under dead mom's name, charges say

A Minnesota woman is accused of voter fraud after she admitted she filled out her mom's absentee ballot for Donald Trump after her mom died, according to criminal charges. 

^{FOX 9 (FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul)}

if you ever find yourself wondering "how did crypto bros get all this money to try to take over the government?" a big part of the answer is "the government gave it to them in the form of covid stimulus and PPP loans".

the crypto industry alone is now responsible for roughly half of all corporate money attempting to influence the election. you'd never know it though because their campaigns never mention crypto.

paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #VoteHarris #crypto #bitcoin #BTC #Tether #PPP #covid

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key #MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New #Trump Agenda
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Private #videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the #military on protesters, defunding the #EPA and villainizing civil servants.

#News #Politics #Election #Election2024 #Government #Video #DonaldTrump

propublica.org/article/video-d…

Videos Reveal Trump Adviser’s “Shadow” Plan for Second Administration

Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

^ProPublica

nothing to see here, just #JDVance actively encouraging the breaking of laws and the harassment of poll workers in a swing state.

x.com/DanteAtkins/status/18503…

#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #HarrisForPresident #HarrisWalz #polls #swingState #Pennsylvania #Michigan #Wisconsin #Virginia #VoteHarris

Van Jones should know 'why'. Spoiler:she's female and dark skinned.

"‘He gets to be lawless. She has to be flawless.’: Van Jones on Trump and Harris "

#Harris #RVAT #Politics #News #USA #2024Election #Vote #Polls #Kamala #Walz @KamalaHarrisWin #Fascism #Authoritarianism #MAGA #GOP #Democrats #Dictator #Racism #Sexism

cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/vi…