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"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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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 stormRebecca 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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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)
'Pure fiction' — Kremlin denies Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine by phone after election victory
Which liar to believe?
The Kremlin has denied reports that President-elect Donald Trump spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Nov. 7, branding the claim " pure fiction."
Washington Post (WP) citing sources familiar with the matter, reported on Nov. 10 that the call took place, claiming Trump advised Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine, and highlighted Washington’s significant military presence in Europe.
Speaking on Nov. 11, #Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed the reports.
"This is the most vivid example of the quality of the information that is now published, sometimes even in fairly respected publications," he told Interfax.
"This is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, this is just false information."
kyivindependent.com/pure-ficti…
#Trump #Putin #disinformation #propaganda #Liars #HybridWar #InformationWarfare #fiction
'Pure fiction' — Kremlin denies Putin and Trump discussed Ukraine by phone after election victory
A report had claimed Trump advised Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine.The Kyiv Independent news desk (The Kyiv Independent)
#Musk’s #influence on #Trump could lead to tougher #AI standards, says scientist
Source: theguardian.com/technology/202…
#politics #news #economy #technology #government #usa #future
Musk’s influence on Trump could lead to tougher AI standards, says scientist
Tycoon might help president-elect realise that race for artificial general intelligence is a ‘suicide race’, says Max TegmarkDan Milmo (The Guardian)
Und der Wahnsinn geht weiter:
#Eilmeldung
#USpol #Heimatschutzministerium
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"*👉#Trump beauftragt Hundemörderin #KristiNoem mit der Brutalisierung des #MinisteriumsFürImnereSicherheit #HomelandSecurity👈*
von #EmilySinger
#DailyKos-Mitarbeiter
"...#DonaldTrump nominiert 👉die gewalttätige und verstörende Gouverneurin von South Dakota, Kristi Noem, als Leiterin des Ministeriums...
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Trump taps dog killer Kristi Noem to brutalize Homeland Security
Hide your dogs , hide your goats —Donald Trump is nominating violent and unhinged South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland ...Daily Kos
Still on break, but…
#Breaking #News in #Trump #criminal #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #FalsifiedBusinessRecords #HushMoney conviction:
Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 #felony counts
#law #TrumpTrial #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter
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Trump hush-money judge delays ruling on whether to throw out conviction
Postponement follows numerous successful attempts to delay case in which he was convicted on 34 felony countsVictoria Bekiempis (The Guardian)
#Trump was originally to be sentenced in July. Then came the 1 July #SCOTUS ruling granting presidents broad #immunity for ofcl acts.
Merchan agreed & pushed back the proceeding until 18 Sept…
Trump’s attys in Aug asked for still more time…
Merchan on 6 Sept delayed Trump’s sentencing yet again until 26 Nov – after the election
Trump’s lawyers argued over the weekend that there are “strong reasons for the requested stay, & eventually dismissal of the case in the interests of justice.”
#law
#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...
#Bitcoin jumps to record as #Trump's #election turbocharges #cryptocurrencies
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#news #technology #finance #money #economy #crypto #cryptocurrency #politics #future #usa
@Otto Pureblood Yes, 110% meltdown of these #woke "liberals". I just translated the French text by #DeepL:
Thousands of American liberal women, shave their heads to protest #Trump's election.
Des milliers de femmes libérales américaines, se rasent la tête pour protester contre l’élection de #Trump.
Comme ça, elles seront débiles ET moches
Pour une fois que les #woke s ont une bonne idée.
Ça permettra de les repérer de loin et on évitera de perdre du temps avec ces connes.
Merci à elles.
S’il vous plaît les abruties françaises, faites pareil.
https://t.me/aubontouite_francais
#EILMELDUNG #Wahlen2024 #USpol
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*Panik im #US-#Justizministerium aufgrund des MAGA-Amtsübernahmeplans #SectionF aus #Project2025 der #HeritageFoundation*
Von #RhianLubin #TheIndependent
*Panik im Justizministerium: Anwälte sind bereit, das Weite zu suchen, da #Trump-Loyalisten die Behörde übernehmen wollen
#DonaldTrump|s Verachtung für das Justizministerium ist in den letzten vier Jahren nur noch größer geworden,...
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Panic at the DOJ: Lawyers ready to flee as Trump loyalists are set to commandeer the agency
Donald Trump’s scorn for the DOJ has only grown over the last four years as he became the subject of two criminal prosecutionsRhian Lubin (The Independent)
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."
JOUUU! 🤣🤣🤣
#Trump #DieWelthatwasBesseresverdient #TheWorldDeservesBetter #LeMondeMériteMieux
(auf FB entdeckt, Ersteller unbekannt)
Analysis: The House is set to vote Tuesday on a bill that would let the administration destroy nonprofits it claims "support terrorism."
The bill, "Stop Terror-Financing & Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act" would grant Treasury unilateral authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.”
theintercept.com/2024/11/10/tr…
#USPol #Trump #HouseVoteNGOs #H.R.9495 .
Congress Is About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush His Political Enemies
A bill that would let Donald Trump unilaterally revoke tax-exempt status from nonprofits is being fast-tracked through Congress.Noah Hurowitz (The Intercept)
it's important to highlight "perfect legality."
We should call out #Democrats for not only botching this election, but also not reforming those laws while they had the chance.
It's something I, for one, have been screaming about for years: If you don't like what a #Trump like president might do with his legal authorities, then fix the laws to make sure he wouldn't have those authorities!
Well, if we start yelling about that now and establish it as something we really want done, maybe down the road we can actually have those needed reforms from a party that's not so utterly aloof.
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."
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#election2024 #scotus #maga #harris #project2025
The Situation: No Recriminations, Just Democratic Survival
The big danger is what Trump can do lawfully.Default
Following Trump's first term in office, the number of academic papers published by American authors on Earth science topics hit a 20-year low.
Research doesn't happen for free, and when governments curtail funding for certain research areas, it has consequences.
#Trump #NSF #EarthScience #ClimateChange #research
This article is headshakingly wrong. As a 30yr sales pro, please take a lesson from the 2024 election:
"Listen to the motivations of others & talk to that, instead of shaming people based on your own motivations."
REASONS WHY PEOPLE USE TWITTER
✅ Advertising & awareness
✅ Revenue & information
✅ Customer engagement
THINGS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH WHY PEOPLE USE TWITTER
❌ Ethics, principles, honor
Dump Twitter | The New Republic
newrepublic.com/article/188156…
Good summary of Musk's X and the political agenda.
#ElonMusk #X #OccupyMusk #USPol #Misinformation #TechBros #Trump #DonaldTrump #ElectionDay2024 #Elections
"To give some idea of what banning #fluoride might look like, Calgary, Canada, banned fluoride in 2011. In the eight years afterward, the need for intravenous antibiotic therapy for children to avoid death from #infection skyrocketed 700 percent at the Alberta Children’s Hospital."
Aside: This is because bacteria in untreated, infected #cavities can sometimes spread to other body parts, including the bloodstream, and lead to #sepsis.
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#rfkjr #trump #dental #publichealth
RFK Jr. Has Terrifying Plan for First Day in Trump’s Administration
Donald Trump has promised to put Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in charge of public health.The New Republic
Argentina's Milei to meet with Trump, Musk next week in the US
#populism #neoliberalism #musk #trump #milei
#USpol #Elections2024
#TrumpsTransitionPlan: #Project2025
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Important:
Now that #Trump's second term is approaching inexorably like the hands of an analog clock, it is time to study Trump's #TransitionPlan spelled out by the #FederalistSociety et all in detail.
To do so in a fun way, you can revisit the June 20th, 2024 episode of #LastWeekTonight:
"#JohnOliver discusses #DonaldTrump’s plans for a second term, why it could be much worse...
"Ah yes, Twitter—or X. Whatever you call it, the social media site was Musk’s primary tool to elect Trump. In Bloomberg’s Tech Daily newsletter for November 7, Kurt Wagner writes that Musk “turned his feed into a Trump-inspired billboard for his more than 200 million followers,” that it “became a major source of anti-immigrant conspiracy theories,” that Musk “re-shared posts from the former president’s supporters, not all of them accurate,” and that Musk turned X into “a much more powerful version of Truth Social.”"
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#X #Twitter #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #Trump #SocialMedia
"Look what the vote wrought!"
- Aure
Online abuse, harassment and hate toward women has soared in the days since the US election, with phrases like “your body, my choice” and “get back to the kitchen” exploding on platforms like X and and TikTok, according to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump
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"I'm deeply concerned about their ranks," the ofcl said, adding that several colleagues had expressed concern about the future of their jobs.
Career #CivilServants are among the nearly 950k non-uniformed employees who work within the US #military & in many cases have years of specialized experience.
#Trump vowed during the campaign to give himself the power to gut the federal workforce across the government.
Career #CivilServants at the #Pentagon could be subjected to #loyalty tests, current & fmr ofcls say. #Trump allies have publicly embraced using executive orders & rule changes to replace thousands of civil servants with *#conservative* allies.
A senior US #defense ofcl, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters there was increasing concern within the Pentagon that Trump would purge career civilian employees from the department.
But some experts caution that #Trump has wide latitude to interpret the #law & US troops cannot disobey legal orders they consider to be morally wrong.
"There is a widespread public misperception that the military can choose not to obey #immoral orders. And that's actually not true," said Kori Schake of the *#conservative* American Enterprise Institute.
Schake warned that a 2nd Trump term could see high-level firings as he pushes ahead with controversial policies.
Such proposals alarm #military experts, who say deploying the #military on American streets could not only violate #laws but turn much of the American population against the still widely respected #US armed forces.
In a message to the forces after #Trump's election win, outgoing #Defense Secretary #LloydAustin acknowledged the results of the election & stressed the military would obey "all lawful orders" from its civilian leaders.
During the campaign #Trump took aim at #transgender troops. Trump has previously banned transgender #ServiceMembers & posted a campaign ad on X portraying them as weak, w/the vow that "WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!"
Trump has suggested the #US #military could play an important role in many of his policy priorities, from tapping #NationalGuard & possibly active-duty troops to help carry out a #MassDeportation of undocumented #immigrants to even deploying them to address #domestic unrest.
"If the people in your own government aren't obeying you, you have got to get rid of them & replace them with people who are responsive to what the president's trying to do," #JDVance said in an interview w/ Tucker Carlson before the election.
During the campaign, #Trump pledged to restore the name of a #Confederate general to a major #US #military base, reversing a change made after #GeorgeFloyd's killing.
