#KamalaHarris’ Camp Sounds the Alarm After #Trump Says #Military Should ‘Handle’ #Democrats

#Harris’ campaign has sent a warning to Americans after Trump suggested the US military should be used on #citizens who disagreed w/him in an interview on Sunday, calling #liberals “the enemy from within” & claiming they posed more of a threat than migrants [& even #China, #NorthKorea & #Russia].

#law #autocracy #tyranny #authoritarianism #democracy #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks-the-military-should-handle-citizens-who-disagree-with-him

@Npars01
Once upon a time, #socialmedia was mostly stupid (it still is), and mostly harmless

Then the #ArabSpring happened

#Autocracy around the world leaped to attention

13 years later, they have figured out how to coopt it with #troll farms and #plutocracy, #corruption

And now they wield it against #democracy instead

"As journalists who focus on social media-enabled disinformation grow overwhelmed by the extent to which broad swathes of Americans have become detached from reality…

NYT decided to do a puff piece on Elon Musk’s support for Trump."

~ Marcy Wheeler

As Marcy Wheeler explains, NYT "misrepresents Elon Musk’s dangerous disinformation" and ignores how he's helping Trump promote fascism.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #ElonMusk #democracy #media #NewYorkTimes
/10

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/11/nyt-censors-elon-musks-jokes-about-assassinating-the-vice-president-and-his-censorship-of-jd-vance-dossier/

NYT "Censors" Elon Musk's Jokes about Assassinating the Vice President and His "Censorship" of JD Vance Dossier - emptywheel

In a piece purporting to explain Elon Musk's role in helping Trump get elected, NYT leaves out Musk's jokes about assassination attempts against Kamala Harris and Trump's hypocritical involvement in getting the JD Vance dossier suppressed.

^emptywheel

Richardson concludes,

"In the past in the U.S., when the media has appeared to become captive to established interests, new media have begun to give a voice to the opposition."

Note how the phrase "captive to established interests" is a huge indictment of the corporate media in this critically important election cycle, and an explanation of why those media have abandoned any pretense of defending democracy.

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/9

“'Indeed, every paper ran more front-page stories that mentioned Clinton’s server [than] they did total stories that referenced Trump’s indictment.' 'The former president continues to benefit from news outlets grading him on a massive curve,' Gertz wrote, 'resulting in relatively muted coverage for his nakedly authoritarian, unfathomably racist, and allegedly criminal behavior.'”

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/8

(continued from /6) "in the week after then-FBI director James Comey announced new developments in the story than they did about the unsealing of a new filing in Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection earlier this month.

“'None of the papers ran even half as many Trump indictment stories as they did on Clinton’s server,' Gertz wrote."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/7

"In a piece today, Matt Gertz of the media watchdog Media Matters reports that five major newspapers—the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post—produced nearly four times as many articles about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s email server in 2016" (continued in /7)

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/6

Richardson finds this endorsement an echo of the Atlantic's 1860 warning that the presidential election “is a turning-point in our history.” As she also notes, both endorsements in 1860 and now show a new press challenging an older system.

She writes,

"In Public Notice today, Noah Berlatsky listed the many articles claiming that Harris is avoiding the press…."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract #Atlantic
/5

Heather Cox Richardson looks at the Atlantic's endorsement of Kamala Harris, only the fifth time it has made such an endorsement since its founding in 1857 and third time it has endorsed Trump's opponent. The journal says that Trump is “one of the most personally malignant and politically dangerous candidates in American history.”

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract #Atlantic
/4

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2024

October 10, 2024

Hurricane Milton made landfall yesterday evening as a Category 3 storm just south of Sarasota, Florida.

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

"Most of political journalism fails to meet the moment because it has chosen to maintain – or is unable to break free of – the illusion that the 2024 campaign is another in the long line of great quadrennial public debates engaged in mostly good faith by two sides seeking to coalesce the will of the people around their preferred vision for the country."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/3

"It is a mark of the poor health of our democracy that democracy itself is on the ballot at all. A choice between democracy or not democracy isn’t a choice but an existential threat that doesn’t sustain or nourish civic life."

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/2

"The country is poised at a great fork in the road, with a historically significant decision to be made between democracy or authoritarianism, pluralism or cultism, the rule of law or Trumpian retribution. Yet the national political conversation, the news coverage of it, the pace of daily events doesn’t seem to be rising to the momentousness of the occasion."

~ David Kurtz

#KamalaHarris #Trump #democracy #media #CommonGood #SocialContract
/1

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/what-it-looks-like-when-one-side

What It Looks Like When One Side Rejects Democracy

INSIDE: Donald Trump ... Barack Obama ... Ethel Kennedy

^{David Kurtz (Morning Memo)}

Do you use Tor Browser by @torproject?
Please check for critical security updates.

Details: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1357/

#security #cybersecurity #infosec #privacy #government #censorship #surveillance #freedom #democracy #tor #torbrowser #opensource

New Release: Tor Browser 13.5.7 | Tor Project

Tor Browser 13.5.7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

^{blog.torproject.org}

Axios:
Logan Act: Why it could be illegal for Trump to call Putin

A spokesperson for the Harris campaign told Axios Tuesday that Trump's engagement in diplomacy outside of the government could be illegal under the Logan Act — a view echoed by former Biden White House advisor Susan Rice on X Wednesday.

"Private citizens are forbidden under the federal Logan Act from engaging in foreign policy undercutting America..."
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/09/logan-act-trump-putin-calls-explained

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Trump

#PACE hearing on Julian #Assange's #detention and conviction and their chilling effects on human rights

watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/Mq85IZMeigc?t=746s

It is a shame for Western democracy that neither #Sweden nor the #UK have a review and a committee of inquiry into the failure of justice and US interference in the supposedly independent judiciary in the Assange case. Unfortunately, many politicians in Western Europe believe that human rights are only violated in Russia, China or Afghanistan, but not on their own doorstep. Distracted by the many crises and the rise of far-right parties, Europe is heading straight into diabolical chaos 😱

#humanrights #europe #politics #justice #wikileaks #journalism #press #freedom #democracy #news #ethics #fail #problem #future #USA #torture #scandal

2/2
Steve Schmidt explains why Donald Trump will become the next Hitler if he wins

“When the next Hitler comes... maybe... it will present itself like this; on a stage in Butler Pennsylvania. Two fascists, one jumping for joy; joy for what? power, and money, and the thrill of taking from you everything and anything that should matter; starting with your freedom and your liberties as an American.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHQHerczlnA

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Harris #KamalaHarris #Trump

Our city — that is, YOUR city — is awesome! The haters want San Franciscans to believe our city and its government is broken. They want you yelling at each other instead of raising your voices together. We have a better idea.

Spoilers: It's all about you. 🧵

#SanFrancisco #SFBA #SFBay #SFElections #Vote #Democracy #SFpol #GOTV #Election #Election2024 #VotingRights #BeAVoter

Elon #Musk makes his first appearance at a #Trump #rally and casts the #election in dire terms

Source: https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-donald-trump-rally-butler-election-f718967ec29431a2b9858b1121e70da1

Before a large crowd Saturday, Musk sought to portray Trump as a champion of free speech, arguing that Democrats want “to take away your #freedom of speech, they want to take away your right to bear arms, they want to take away your right to vote, effectively.” Musk went on to criticize a California effort to ban voter ID requirements.

#usa #news #fake #conspiracy #vote #president #politics #freespeech #maga #democracy #economy #capitalism

Election 2024: Elon Musk makes first appearance at Trump rally in Pennsylvania

Elon Musk has praised Donald Trump as the only candidate “to preserve democracy in America." The SpaceX and Tesla CEO stood alongside the GOP nominee at a rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump had survived an assassination attempt in Ju…

^{MEG KINNARD (AP News)}

Raw Story:
'Anything they don't like they call fake!' Biden cracks up at GOP attacks on jobs report

President Joe Biden on Friday had a laugh at the expense of Sen. Marco Rubio...

"Look: If you've noticed, anything the MAGA Republicans don't like, they call fake — anything!" he said. "The job numbers are the job numbers. They are. They're real..."
https://www.rawstory.com/biden-press-conference-2669328089/

#News #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #Harris #KamalaHarris #TimWalz

'Anything they don't like they call fake!' Biden cracks up at GOP attacks on jobs report

President Joe Biden on Friday had a laugh at the expense of Sen. Marco Rubio after the Florida Republican claimed that numbers in the latest jobs report were "fake.

^{Brad Reed (Raw Story - Celebrating 20 Years of Independent Journalism)}

#Russia has imported dozens of ballistic missiles & >18k containers of munitions & munitions-related materiel from #NorthKorea since its invasion of #Ukraine, Robert Wood, deputy #US ambassador to the #UN, said at a #UNSC meeting in Sept.

Some experts suggest Washington consider launching an #InformationCampaign against Pyongyang….

#geopolitics #democracy #war #intelligence #NationalSecurity
https://www.voanews.com/a/nuclear-stalemate-sparks-debate-over-information-campaign-aimed-at-north-korea/7810170.html

Nuclear stalemate sparks debate over information campaign aimed at North Korea

Some experts are cautious about potentially using information tactics against North Korea

^{Young Gyo Kim (Voice of America (VOA News))}

#US Sec of State #Blinken told the #UNSC last month that addressing North Korean (& Iranian) arms deliveries to #Russia should be the first priority for the #UN body. And US #DefSec #LloydAustin told lawmakers this spring that weapons from countries such as #NorthKorea & #Iran helped to keep Russia’s war going.

#geopolitics #democracy #Ukraine #war #intelligence
#StandWithUkraine

I hope this doesn’t draw #NorthKorea into the #Russia #Ukraine #war

>20 soldiers were killed as a result of an Oct 3 missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near #Donetsk, including 6 officers from North Korea, who came to confer w/their Russian counterparts, Kyiv Post’s #intelligence sources said. 3 more North Korean servicemen were wounded.

#StandWithUkraine #geopolitics #democracy
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/40037

Missile Strike Near Donetsk Eliminates 6 North Korean Officers – Intel

Six officers from North Korea were among the 20 soldiers killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on Russian-occupied territory near Donetsk, intelligence sources say.

^{Kateryna Zakharchenko (Kyiv Post)}

The #US should respond to every North Korean provocation by actively informing North Korean people of their dire #HumanRights situations, David Maxwell, VP of the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy, argued.

"If #NorthKorea conducts a missile test, the response should not just stop at condemning the act. #Kim's deliberate decision to prioritize #nuclear weapons & missiles is what is causing the suffering of the Korean people in the North."

#geopolitics #democracy #information #NationalSecurity

For the 1st time ever, a plurality of swing state voters now think that a #Democrat will win the presidential #election. This month, 46% of voters think #Harris will win, compared to 39% who think it will be #Trump. That is an 11-point swing in Harris’ favor since Aug, & suggests that Harris has been successful in presenting herself as a serious candidate.

#USpol #Authoritarianism #Republicans #Autocracy #Tyranny
#democracy #ProsecutorVFelon #WeAreNotGoingBack #Freedom #HarrisWalz2024

"Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the American establishment with an authoritarian regime."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #JDVance #Republicans #lies #disinformation #BigLie #Jan6 #authoritarianism #democracy
/6

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/03/jd-vance-anti-democracy-movement-leader

JD Vance is the handpicked leader of the anti-democracy movement in the US

Rightwing tech lords are betting that Vance will be the Republican presidential pick in 2028. They’re probably right

^{Robert Reich (The Guardian)}

#JackSmith’s Big New #Jan6 Brief Is a Major #Indictment of #SCOTUS

It’s rare to simultaneously feel red-hot anger & wistfulness, especially when merely reading a document. But those are exactly the emotions that washed over me when I read the redacted version of #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s brief reciting in detail the #evidence against #Trump for attempting to subvert the #2020election.

#criminal #law #insurrection #democracy #HarrisWalz2024
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/trump-election-interference-trial-jack-smith-brief-supreme-court-failure.html

Jack Smith’s Big New Jan. 6 Brief Is a Major Indictment of the Supreme Court

The newly unsealed document contains the most detailed evidence of Trump’s attempts to subvert the election yet.

^{Richard L. Hasen (Slate)}

There was a reason, he added, that #MikePence was not on the stage as #Trump’s running mate anymore.

And it was worth asking, he said, what that tells the viewers about #JDVance.

“America, I think you’ve got a really clear choice,” #TimWalz said, his eyes getting bigger, “of who’s going to honor that #democracy & who’s going to honor Donald Trump.”

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #propaganda #trumpaganda

#honesty #integrity #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

“#Jan6 was not Facebook ads,” #TimWalz shot back, as #JDVance smiled slightly.

#Walz had a question for his counterpart.

“He is still saying he didn’t lose the election,” Walz said of #Trump, turning grandly to #Vance. “Did he lose the 2020 election?”

“Tim,” Vance replied, “I’m focused on the future.” He swerved to a point about Covid & censorship.

“That,” Walz said, “is a damning non-answer.”

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #trumpaganda
#law #democracy #HarrisWalz2024

#JDVance had heard enough.

“It’s really rich,” he said, chopping the air w/his hands, “for Democratic leaders to say that Donald #Trump is a unique threat to #democracy when he peacefully gave over power on January the 20th.”

He moved to equate past Democratic complaints about #election outcomes, including invocations of Russian interference in 2016 through FB ads & other means, w/the response in 2020.

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #trumpaganda
#democracy #HarrisWalz2024

For all their occasional paeans to #civility on Tues, this was the moment that crystallized an unshakable truth about this #election: One side still refuses to acknowledge the #truth about the last one — the persistent falsehood that has come to define so much of the era’s fragile & rampaging #politics.

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #propaganda #trumpaganda
#honesty #integrity #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

#JDVance pivoted jarringly to the subject of censorship. #TimWalz glanced up at the camera, silent, like a television character breaking the fourth wall.

“Well, I’ve enjoyed tonight’s debate,” #Walz began when it was his turn again, assessing an evening that was sometimes wobbly for him. He was about to enjoy it more.

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #propaganda #trumpaganda
#honesty #integrity #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

“Remember,” #Vance said of #Trump, “he said that on January the 6th, the protesters ought to protest peacefully. And on January the 20th, what happened? Joe Biden became the president. Donald Trump left the White House.”

This accounting was short a few details—the #violence, the #deaths & #injuries, the alleged #criminal #conspiracy, the “Hang Mike Pence” of it all.

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #propaganda #trumpaganda
#honesty #integrity #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

“What President #Trump has said is that there were problems,” #JDVance said when asked about his own past assertion that he would not have certified the 2020 election. “We should fight about those issues, debate those issues, peacefully in the public square. And that’s all I’ve said. And that’s all that Donald Trump has said.”

His debate opponent, #TimWalz, stared at him, unblinking….

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #trumpaganda
#honesty #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

But when the #debate turned, near its final frames, to the subject of the 2020 election, #Vance faced a choice: He could validate, once more, #Trump’s relentless #lies about his defeat 4 yrs ago. Or he could try something else in the spirit of moving forward.

It did not seem like a difficult decision for him.

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #propaganda #trumpaganda
#honesty #integrity #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

Among the #lies #Trump running mate #JDVance told over the course of the #VPdebate w/ Governor #TimWalz, denying his support for a national #AbortionBan may haunt him the longest because it is so easily disproven. Rachel #Maddow shares #Vance's own words contradicting his claims at the #debate, & discusses w/MSNBC colleagues.

#FactCheck #VanceLies #VPdebate #disinformation #propaganda #trumpaganda

#honesty #integrity #democracy
#ReproductiveRights
#HarrisWalz2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMEkEo1ak68