"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

⬆️ @dangillmor

>> Criminal #Trump nominates monstrous #Gaetz to oversee criminal justice in America.

We can call it Trump's #viceSignaling, which is the exact opposite of #Biden's #virtueSignaling that had led him to make #Garland "whole" by appointing him as AG because #Republicans had stolen the latter's #SCOTUS seat.

Now Trump signals to his constituents that rape — whether statutory with underage kids, or otherwise — is just fine, and the DOJ won't prosecute them.

#YourBodyMyChoice #YBMC

"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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"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
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theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

We must lay up our supplies – of love, care, trust, community and resolve – so we may resist the storm

^{Rebecca Solnit (The Guardian)}

"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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thelefthook.substack.com/p/how…

How Corporate Media Helped Re-Elect Trump

Right wing media has been a dominant source of spreading confusion, disinformation and hate. However, establishment media has been a complicit partner. How has it failed and can it do better?

^{THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)}

From Justin Miller: Colin Allred's post-Dobbs strategy fell flat here—and for #Democrats all across the country–in the face of the visceral reactionary forces around the economy and immigration summoned by #Trump. texasobserver.org/texas-red-te…

#ColinAllred #TedCruz #politics #USpol #news #Texas #election2024 #Republicans #immigration #abortion #extremism

Texas Goes All Red for Ted

Maybe Dems need to recover the lessons of Beto 2018. Or maybe the sun will die before the state turns blue.

^{Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)}

As she calls for a media reckoning, Parker Molloy speaks truth that will resonate with a lot of us, I suspect:

"For years, major news outlets have twisted themselves into knots trying to appease critics on the right. In the process, they've alienated not just the left but anyone who cares about honest, fearless journalism."

#media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump

readtpa.com/p/its-time-for-a-m…

It's Time for a Media Reckoning—No Matter Who Wins Tomorrow

For too long, legacy media outlets have only responded to right-wing criticism. That needs to change.

^{Parker Molloy (The Present Age)}

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

Even as the #election will shape the #judiciary, the judiciary may also shape the election. As in 2020, #Republicans & #Democrats have already asked federal #judges, including those on #SCOTUS, to resolve disputes about ballots before Election Day. Their rulings could determine the outcome of a close race.

Perhaps related, Americans’ faith in the #courts has eroded in the #Trump era.

#law #courts #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

#Harris also wants to enact #TermLimits & an #ethics code for #SCOTUS, given the revelation that Thomas & Alito accepted luxury gifts w/o disclosing them. That’s unlikely if #Republicans control the #Senate — & maybe even if #Democrats do, thanks to the #filibuster.

#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

#Republicans seem more likely to control the #Senate next year. If they do, they can block #a President #KamalaHarris from filling a vacancy, much as they did Barack #Obama in 2016. “If he were re-elected, he’d probably get to appoint one if not two members to the #UnitedStates #SupremeCourt,” Harris said of #Trump last week. She did not say how many appointees she may get if she wins.

#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Vote #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

New today: Arvin West speaks forcefully about being a local sheriff in a border county that’s always been home and where Latinos (including those in his own family) are not enemies but voters who’ve kept him in office—most recently in an unusually tough primary election campaign earlier this year. texasobserver.org/a-lawmans-ch…

#politics #USpol #police #border #racism #extremism #Republicans #Trump #immigration #WestTexas

A Lawman’s Change of Heart?

Iconic Texas Sheriff Arvin West was a leading voice against migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. But West says his perspective is aligned with what he sees as the reality of the border.

^{Alfredo Corchado (The Texas Observer)}

"Attempts to blame Harris or find an alternate reason for why voters didn’t consciously choose an authoritarian strongman will be an exercise in reality avoidance. It will be an attempt to avoid grappling with who, and what, our country is."

#Trump #fascism #Republicans #KamalaHarris
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"If Trump wins, it isn’t going to be because Kamala Harris gave a bad answer to a question on The View.

It will be because some large percentage of the American public looked at these two candidates and decided that they wanted Trump."

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #fascism #Republicans #KamalaHarris
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thebulwark.com/p/what-more-do-…

What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris? (Part Deux)

She's done everything voters could reasonably have asked for.

^{Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)}

#Republicans #Assumed a #Nebraska #Senate Seat Was #Safe. Then This #Candidate Came Along.

#DanOsborn is still an #underdog, but his mix of #leftish #economics and deep #antielitism has already shaken up #politics in bright-red #nebraska

nytimes.com/2024/10/25/opinion…

Why #KamalaHarris Has the #Momentum Going into #ElectionDay.

As usual, #Republicans have flooded the zone with #GOP #leaning #polls that attempt to claim that Trump is likely to win.

And as usual, some in the #corporatemedia has been quick to echo this #narrative

— Don't forget the financial incentives the media has to portray the election as a close race, in order to drive increased political advertising revenue they wouldn't receive if the election was not close

dailykos.com/story/2024/10/27/…

Why Harris Has the Momentum Going into Election Day

As usual, Republicans have flooded the zone with GOP leaning polls that attempt to demonstrate that Trump is likely to win. And as usual, some in the corporate media has been quick to echo this narrative.

^{Daily Kos}

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

"'In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.'

Third, fascists would insist that 'the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.'”

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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"First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a 'well-planned "hate campaign" against minority races, religions, and other groups.'

Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else."

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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The pamphlet warned Army members not to imagine that fascism could not come to the US. Americans had once laughed at Hitler as a funny little man with a mustache, and look at what happened.

"The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power 'under the guise of
"super-patriotism" and "super-Americanism."' And they would use three techniques:"

#fascism #Trump #Republicans
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"“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.' 'Fascism treats women as mere breeders. "Children, kitchen, and the church," was the Nazi slogan for women,' the pamphlet said."

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans #democracy #women
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Heather Cox Richardson offers a valuable précis of a series of pamphlets the US War Deprtment published in 1943 for for US Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. The series was entitled "Army Talks."

The pamphlets define fascism as “government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.”

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.…

October 26, 2024

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

^{Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)}

"It is 'vitally important' to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, 'even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.'”

To repeat: this warning was issued in 1943. After what happened in Europe in the 1930s. It was issued by the US War Department.

#fascism #Trump #JDVance #Republicans
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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

"Jeez. 'Daddy’s coming home'. How can we not say this election is also about toxic masculinity and the latent violence of threatened patriarchy?"

~ Peter Jukes as quoted by Paige Oamek

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #TuckerCarlson #masculinity #gender #MaleVoters #patriarchy #fascism #strongman
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newrepublic.com/post/187485/tu…

Tucker Carlson Gives Truly Disturbing Speech About “Daddy” Trump

These are real quotes from a real speech Tucker Carlson gave at a Trump rally.

^{The New Republic}