Amanda Marcotte reports that as deaths from red-state abortion bans are being reported, "Republicans are behaving like guilty liars do everywhere, and destroying the evidence. In the process, they are also erasing data needed to save the lives of pregnant women across the board, whether they give birth or not."

#abortion #misogyny #Republicans #healthcare #Texas #Georgia #Trump #SupremeCourt
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salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care…

What the abortion death cover-up reveals

Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

^Salon.com

"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)}