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A meeting of the House Oversight Committee erupted into chaos when Republican Nancy Mace challenged a Democratic lawmaker to a fight.
The Republican congresswoman, known for having sexual threesomes with men and women, was offended that Jasmine Crockett had called her “child” while criticizing her fixation on anti-trans messaging.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #LGBT
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Why Mike Johnson’s fake “Jefferson prayer” matters: Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin of the Christian nationalist movement.
Why Mike Johnson's fake 'Jefferson prayer' matters: Replacing facts with phony history is a linchpin of the Christian nationalist movement.https://www.salon.com/2025/01/07/why-mike-johnsons-fake-jefferson-prayer-matters/BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Scratch a MAGA a pedo bleeds. - EUROPE SAYS
Scratch a MAGA a pedo bleeds.Posted by LoseTheRaceFatBoyEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
This is not really new[s]... is it ?
"Bernie Exposes How AIPAC Is Blackmailing Congress"
by bravenewfilms
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Quote by bnf:
"Jan 13, 2025
Congress is getting blackmailed into supporting genocide."
#CeaseFireNow #StopTheGenocide
#JailForNetanyahu #JailForGallant
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A Border Wall For What?
A tunnel for funneling drugs and people uncovered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
The tunnel leads to El Paso, Texas
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
"If #Trump escaping punishment [for felony convictions] feels inconsistent, unfair or even unjust, that’s because it is. Nobody else who faces what Trump has would emerge virtually unscathed. ...privilege, power and resources can help a defendant navigate America’s legal system. For example, with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, he had the privilege, power (and fortune) to appear before a federal judge whom he had appointed."
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Donald Trump's meaningless sentence is unfair to other convicted felons
Millions of Americans saddled with the label of “convicted felon” are forever reminded of the stigma it brings, but President-elect Donald Trump won't be.Charles F. Coleman Jr. (MSNBC)
Is there anyone in the fediverse who hasn’t read this extraordinary story? Just in case, we’re posting it here. It’s about John Williams, a man who infiltrated right-wing militia, and then shared what he found exclusively with @ProPublica. “Williams turned on a recording device and dialed. [Retired detective Bobby] Kinch picked up after one ring: ‘What’s going on?’ he bellowed. ‘How you doing, man?’ ‘I don’t know if you remember me,’ Kinch continued, but they’d met years before … ‘Well I’m the sitting, current national director of the Oath Keepers now.’”
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#USPolitics #OathKeepers #Militias #News #News #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias
Disgusted by Jan. 6, John Williams set out on a two-year undercover operation. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.ProPublica
Trump’s Threat About Hostages Frustrates Gazans: ‘It Is Already Hell’
President-elect Donald J. #Trump said “all hell will break out in the Middle East” if hostages captured in the #Hamas-led attacks were not freed before he takes office.
from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
By Hiba YazbekAbu Bakr Bashir and Lara Jakes
Jan. 8, 2025Updated 1:19 p.m. ET
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#NotAnotherBomb
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Biden
#media #news #press @palestine @israel
#sarcasm #uspolitics
"OK, who gave the two year old keys to the toy store!?!"
- Aure
President-elect Donald Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency to provide legal justification for a large swath of universal tariffs on allies and adversaries, four sources familiar with the matter stated.
Tariffs go on; prices go up; our allies abandon us for other markets!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
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If Donald Trump were our addled grandfather, the 78 year old would be in a nursing home; we'd visit on the weekends!
President-elect Trump just posted a map showing Canada as part of the U.S.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
"The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards, once again, prioritising free speech," said Mark Zuckerberg.
Doublespeak.
As I wrote the other day:
Justice's Dying Gasp
Donald Trump’s lawyers made a last-ditch attempt to block special counsel Jack Smith from releasing his final report into the two federal criminal cases he brought against the president-elect, asking the attorney general to prevent its completion.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump
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Trump lawyers ask attorney general to block outgoing special counsel’s report
Report into classified documents and election interference cases is due to be released by Jack SmithHugo Lowell (The Guardian)
BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Convicted Felon to Free 1,000 Fellow Convicts!
Per multiple sources, convicted Felon Donald Trump expected to grant clemency to more than 1,000 people convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.
He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.
#News #Militia #Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump #USPolitics #Journalism
How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias
Disgusted by Jan. 6, John Williams set out on a two-year undercover operation. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.ProPublica
Recent tweets by Elon Musk, Libs of Tiktok, Mario Nawfal, and others have claimed that Wikipedia is spending “$50 million for DEI”, misrepresenting Wikipedia’s actual budget and financial statements to claim Wikipedia is now “Wokepedia”.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
![First was Chaya Raichik, also known as “Libs of TikTok,” who on December 23 screenshotted a pie chart of budget categories from the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023–2024 annual plan.1 Apparently not bothering to read past the labels, Raichik dashed off a tweet condemning the Foundation for spending $50 million on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”,a the right’s latest bogeyman, and urging her own substantial follower base to “Stop donating to Wokepedia”.2b Musk agreed, amplifying her post with the comment: “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority.”3
[Image: Pie chart from Wikimedia’s annual plan, breaking down the budget by goal categories: Infrastructure, Equity, Safety & Inclusion, Effectiveness.]
That the “safety & inclusion” link is not purple in this screenshot taken from Raichik’s tweet suggests she didn’t even bother to visit the page to determine what that category encompasses.
a.
“DEI” has been a recent addition to “CRT”, “wokeness”, and other dogwhistles used by conservatives and those further to the right to gesture at, and broadly oppose, racial and gender equality.5455
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Rightwingers trying to come up with a slur against Wikipedia should really have considered something that doesn’t so closely overlap with Wookieepedia, a near-homograph that predates the “Wokepedia” coinage by twenty years, which makes me do a double take every time. For those who aren’t familiar,](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3667936 "First was Chaya Raichik, also known as “Libs of TikTok,” who on December 23 screenshotted a pie chart of budget categories from the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023–2024 annual plan.1 Apparently not bothering to read past the labels, Raichik dashed off a tweet condemning the Foundation for spending $50 million on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”,a the right’s latest bogeyman, and urging her own substantial follower base to “Stop donating to Wokepedia”.2b Musk agreed, amplifying her post with the comment: “Stop donating to Wokepedia until they restore balance to their editing authority.”3
[Image: Pie chart from Wikimedia’s annual plan, breaking down the budget by goal categories: Infrastructure, Equity, Safety & Inclusion, Effectiveness.]
That the “safety & inclusion” link is not purple in this screenshot taken from Raichik’s tweet suggests she didn’t even bother to visit the page to determine what that category encompasses.
a.
“DEI” has been a recent addition to “CRT”, “wokeness”, and other dogwhistles used by conservatives and those further to the right to gesture at, and broadly oppose, racial and gender equality.5455
b.
Rightwingers trying to come up with a slur against Wikipedia should really have considered something that doesn’t so closely overlap with Wookieepedia, a near-homograph that predates the “Wokepedia” coinage by twenty years, which makes me do a double take every time. For those who aren’t familiar,")
Then, Musk amplified an erroneous and months-outdated claim that Bill Clinton had been deleting information about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
![Then, in the early hours of December 31, Musk reposted a video from a self-described “Conspiracy Realist/Coincidence analyser” account, “@BGatesIsaPsycho”, which had in turn taken the video from antisemitic conspiracy theoristc and self-described “OSINT journalis[t] exposing globalism” Ian Carroll. “No more donations to Wikipedia until they start being truthful”, Musk added, atop a video where Carroll claimed that “someone deleted all of Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia”, suggesting that Clinton himself was behind the edits. This, again, was a complete misrepresentation: the text was moved, not deleted, and not likely by Bill Clinton.d If Carroll had cared to look at the public article editing history, he would have seen that the extremely long biographical article on Clinton was in fact split678 — as overlong articles often are9 — into separate subtopic articles, “Bill Clinton sexual assault and misconduct allegations” and “Post-presidency of Bill Clinton”, both of which are linked from the primary page. The Epstein-related section was restored to the primary Clinton article by a different editor three weeks later,10 shortly after Carroll published his video but months before Musk reshared it.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3667933 "Then, in the early hours of December 31, Musk reposted a video from a self-described “Conspiracy Realist/Coincidence analyser” account, “@BGatesIsaPsycho”, which had in turn taken the video from antisemitic conspiracy theoristc and self-described “OSINT journalis[t] exposing globalism” Ian Carroll. “No more donations to Wikipedia until they start being truthful”, Musk added, atop a video where Carroll claimed that “someone deleted all of Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein from Wikipedia”, suggesting that Clinton himself was behind the edits. This, again, was a complete misrepresentation: the text was moved, not deleted, and not likely by Bill Clinton.d If Carroll had cared to look at the public article editing history, he would have seen that the extremely long biographical article on Clinton was in fact split678 — as overlong articles often are9 — into separate subtopic articles, “Bill Clinton sexual assault and misconduct allegations” and “Post-presidency of Bill Clinton”, both of which are linked from the primary page. The Epstein-related section was restored to the primary Clinton article by a different editor three weeks later,10 shortly after Carroll published his video but months before Musk reshared it.")
Musk’s recent Twitter rampage reveals a man with a grudge against Wikipedia, looking for anything to support his position, regardless of whether it’s true. But why have Musk and others on the right chosen Wikipedia as a favorite punching bag?
Attacks on press freedom and free expression have become commonplace, even among the right’s self-described free speech champions. But neither Trump, Musk, nor anyone on the right can control Wikipedia as they wish.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
![Control
The rise of the MAGA right in the United States has sparked some startling changes in attitudes towards press freedom and freedom of expression. Although many on the right, including Musk,1819 have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, while hostile towards and desperate to clamp down on criticism or opposing views. Musk, for example, has directed that “cisgender” be blocklisted on Twitter as a “slur”, and posts by most accounts that contain the word are automatically hidden from view (unlike posts containing the long list of slurs he has apparently deemed acceptable).20 He has brought SLAPP lawsuits against critics, including one dismissed by a federal judge as clearly intended to “punish [the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate] for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp. [Twitter] — and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism.”21 He spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter, ostensibly over concerns that conservative voices were being unfairly silenced, but really so that he could be the one to dictate which speech was and was not allowed on the platform.
Similar attacks on speech are becoming only more common throughout the American right, with president-elect Trump’s longstanding hostility to the media escalating at a rapid clip. In recent months, Trump has suggested he wouldn’t mind if reporters were shot,](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3667929 "Control
The rise of the MAGA right in the United States has sparked some startling changes in attitudes towards press freedom and freedom of expression. Although many on the right, including Musk,1819 have styled themselves as valiant defenders of free speech, their actions expose them as opposite: only willing to defend speech they find agreeable, while hostile towards and desperate to clamp down on criticism or opposing views. Musk, for example, has directed that “cisgender” be blocklisted on Twitter as a “slur”, and posts by most accounts that contain the word are automatically hidden from view (unlike posts containing the long list of slurs he has apparently deemed acceptable).20 He has brought SLAPP lawsuits against critics, including one dismissed by a federal judge as clearly intended to “punish [the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate] for CCDH publications that criticized X Corp. [Twitter] — and perhaps in order to dissuade others who might wish to engage in such criticism.”21 He spent $44 billion to acquire Twitter, ostensibly over concerns that conservative voices were being unfairly silenced, but really so that he could be the one to dictate which speech was and was not allowed on the platform.
Similar attacks on speech are becoming only more common throughout the American right, with president-elect Trump’s longstanding hostility to the media escalating at a rapid clip. In recent months, Trump has suggested he wouldn’t mind if reporters were shot,")
The right’s frequent claims that right-leaning sources and viewpoints are “banned” on Wikipedia are also either misguided or intentionally deceptive.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Most of Musk’s ire towards Wikipedia stems from his anger that articles about him do not repeat his own attempts to write his personal and professional history.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
![Personal grievances
While these days Musk frames his crusade against Wikipedia as a principled stand against bias, the timeline of his complaints reveals a more personal motivation. His earliest grievances targeted his own Wikipedia biography, which accurately but much to his chagrin describes him as an “early investor” in Tesla rather than a founder.31h He’s also complained about the Tesla article, which he gripes “glorif[ies]” one of Tesla’s actual founders.32 He has repeatedly claimed his Wikipedia article was written by his “enemies”,3334 and has joined his fans’ complaints about the portion of his Wikipedia page outlining his role in spreading misinformation, bigotry, and conspiracy theories, agreeing with one who suggested “someone paid to have this written”.35 He has boasted so often363738 that has has not tried to “curate” his Wikipedia biography (by which he seems to mean edit it himself, or pay someone to do so on his behalf) that I wonder if he doth protest too much. (As a very highly-watched Wikipedia page, attempts by Musk or his lackeys to insert false or unverifiable portions of the autohagiography he repeats elsewhere would likely meet considerable resistance, as demonstrated by the battles between Musk fanboys — hired or otherwise — and Wikipedia editors that rage in the edit history and talk page.) This grandstanding rings hollow given his track record: when faced with unfavorable coverage elsewhere, Musk has shown no hesitation to exert direct control thro](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3667923 "Personal grievances
While these days Musk frames his crusade against Wikipedia as a principled stand against bias, the timeline of his complaints reveals a more personal motivation. His earliest grievances targeted his own Wikipedia biography, which accurately but much to his chagrin describes him as an “early investor” in Tesla rather than a founder.31h He’s also complained about the Tesla article, which he gripes “glorif[ies]” one of Tesla’s actual founders.32 He has repeatedly claimed his Wikipedia article was written by his “enemies”,3334 and has joined his fans’ complaints about the portion of his Wikipedia page outlining his role in spreading misinformation, bigotry, and conspiracy theories, agreeing with one who suggested “someone paid to have this written”.35 He has boasted so often363738 that has has not tried to “curate” his Wikipedia biography (by which he seems to mean edit it himself, or pay someone to do so on his behalf) that I wonder if he doth protest too much. (As a very highly-watched Wikipedia page, attempts by Musk or his lackeys to insert false or unverifiable portions of the autohagiography he repeats elsewhere would likely meet considerable resistance, as demonstrated by the battles between Musk fanboys — hired or otherwise — and Wikipedia editors that rage in the edit history and talk page.) This grandstanding rings hollow given his track record: when faced with unfavorable coverage elsewhere, Musk has shown no hesitation to exert direct control thro")
Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
![Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias. This crusade gained momentum through several high-profile incidents that became right-wing flashpoints, each fueling his campaign when the site’s coverage didn't match his desired framing. In July 2022, in one of his first tweets complaining about the site beyond where it mentioned him, Musk and others fell for the false statement by Mike Cernovich that “Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page.”39 An article screenshot provided by Cernovich featured text that had remained unchanged since the Trump administration, but that didn’t stop a right-wing firestorm, joined by Musk, where people claimed that Wikipedia had removed the common definition of “recession” as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. (It hadn’t).
Tweet by Molly White @molly0xfff: absolutely begging people to learn how to diff wikipedia articles before falling for clickbait
here's the "recession" article, on july 14 vs. today.
[Image: Diff of two versions of the Wikipedia article on recession, showing minimal wording changes, and that a sentence was added: "Although the definition of a recession between different countries and scholars varies, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession."]](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3667921 "Only after failing to rewrite his own history on Wikipedia did Musk’s criticism expand to broader complaints, such as Wikipedia’s supposed systemic bias. This crusade gained momentum through several high-profile incidents that became right-wing flashpoints, each fueling his campaign when the site’s coverage didn't match his desired framing. In July 2022, in one of his first tweets complaining about the site beyond where it mentioned him, Musk and others fell for the false statement by Mike Cernovich that “Wikipedia changed the definition of recession to favor the Biden regime, and then locked the page.”39 An article screenshot provided by Cernovich featured text that had remained unchanged since the Trump administration, but that didn’t stop a right-wing firestorm, joined by Musk, where people claimed that Wikipedia had removed the common definition of “recession” as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. (It hadn’t).
Tweet by Molly White @molly0xfff: absolutely begging people to learn how to diff wikipedia articles before falling for clickbait
here's the \"recession\" article, on july 14 vs. today.
[Image: Diff of two versions of the Wikipedia article on recession, showing minimal wording changes, and that a sentence was added: \"Although the definition of a recession between different countries and scholars varies, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession.\"]")
However, even many of his complaints about supposed widespread bias still boil down to disgruntlement at how he personally is covered on Wikipedia.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Musk has occasionally brought up the question of why the Wikimedia Foundation needs such a large budget. (The Foundation’s annual budget for 2024–2025 is 0.3% of Musk’s proposed pay package, by the way.)
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
There certainly can be reasonable conversations about whether the Wikimedia Foundation needs to spend as much as it does, and the community has these conversations regularly. Most of the conversations I’ve seen from Musk and allies, however, are not such conversations.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Attacks on Wikipedia from Musk and his allies aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled.
#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
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#Wikipedia #ElonMusk #USpolitics #USpol
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.Molly White (Citation Needed)
Mitch McConnell’s legacy: A ‘grim reaper’ for US bipartisanship? | Politics News - EUROPE SAYS
A new United States Congress convenes in Washington, DC, on January 3. But for the first time inEUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
That is quite the realization, there. Way to tell on yourselves.
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption
Biden signs 50 bills into law on Christmas Eve
Among the new laws signed by President Biden are Paris Hilton's bill to protect institutionalized teenagers and a bill to address hazing on college campuses.Kathryn Watson (CBS News)
Donald Trump keeps lying about the margin of his election victory because the truth is too inconvenient to leave intact. byteseu.com/592471/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics
Pretending he has an electoral mandate, Trump keeps making stuff up | Donald Trump keeps lying about the margin of his election victory because the truth is too inconvenient to leave intact.
Pretending he has an electoral mandate, Trump keeps making stuff up | Donald Trump keeps lying about the margin of his election victory because the truth is too inconvenient to leave intact.https://www.msnbc.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Enough of this stupid talk El Trumpo's - EUROPE SAYS
Enough of this stupid talk El Trumpo'sPosted by golfnut82EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
Conservatives are losing their minds as leopards are eating faces. - EUROPE SAYS
Conservatives are losing their minds as leopards are eating faces.Posted by Asleep_Management900EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
