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The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

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Obviously, fascism arrives as your friend. How else would it arrive? What I did not anticipate…was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on.

What you can do to fight the Trump agenda A list of lists of how to resist

It’s easy to just be depressed by what is going on. One of my favorite journalists offers some practical advice. www.headsupnews.org/p/what-you-c...

You can take the boy out of South Africa, but you can’t take South Africa out of the boy.

Chrystia Freeland says Canada should target Tesla in a tariff fight Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland says Canada should target Teslas and U.S. alcohol as part of its tariff retaliation package.

China should do this. toronto.citynews.ca/2025/01/31/c...

Nearly half of Danes see US as threat and 78% oppose Greenland sale, poll shows Exclusive: More Danish people regard US as a threat than see North Korea or Iran as danger

Rogue nation threatens world peace. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

With leaked footage from the inside, Sundance doc shows horrifying conditions in Alabama prisons Incarcerated men in the Alabama prison system risked their safety to feed shocking footage of their horrifying living conditions to a pair of documentary filmmakers.

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Oglaf understands what Heritage, Cato, etc., are up to.

Protect your neighbors from ICE. Here's how to start. Teen Vogue is once again showing that it views the current crisis far more realistically than our Democratic representatives do. It has posted Nikki Marín's story about organizing community-level ...

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Pardoned.

“Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health System Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the true number is closer to 300,000. “This...

"A Genocidal Project": Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel's Destruction of Gaza Health System

Netanyahu: “You can’t be president of the US last time I checked, but assume you are.”

Elon Musk, interjected: “Not officially.”

Netanyahu responded: “Not officially. OK, so you’re the unofficial president.”

This is (unironically) a terrific idea. The debt limit serves no purpose except to be taken hostage and force crises. For once I hope GOP lawmakers listen to Trump.

Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto (The Conversation) – Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films. Netflix cited the expiration of three-year licences as…

Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine

All criticism of Israel must be labeled as antisemitism. Otherwise, Americans will come to think that they have the right to criticize Israel.

Bernie Sanders Warns U.S. Is Becoming an Oligarchy Sen. Bernie Sanders said that America is "moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society" where billionaires use government to enrich themselves.

Also, bears defecate in the forest. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Jordan Peterson says he’s left Canada and moved to the U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca Peterson cited his ongoing feud with the College of Psychologists of Ontario as a reason to leave his home country.

Up untill now I have been able to dismiss all the hysterical rhetoric portraying immigrants as vile people who pollute our culture.

Zero Accountability: The Five-Plus Times DOJ Got Fabricated Evidence against Hunter Biden - emptywheel There were five cases in which fabricated evidence about Hunter Biden was ingested by FBI. Most was not used by investigators, which the House GOP then used to politicize the case against him. But at ...

In this post, I showed several ways that actually fabricated evidence abt Joe Biden's was shared w/Chris Wray's FBI (in some cases, affecting his due process).

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You don't have to like Hunter.

You don't have to like the pardon.

But the fact that fabricated evidence was used to harm Joe Biden's kid is a lesson in how it will be used against others.

Trump Nominee Pressured IRS To Crush The Humane Society Billy Long pushed the agency to target the group after it supported an initiative to protect dogs. Long could get new power to target more nonprofits.

🚨NEWS: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long pressured the agency to shut down the Humane Society after it supported an initiative to protect dogs.

If confirmed Long will have the power to shut down any nonprofit whose mission or ideology he opposes.

I have been expecting terrorism against the fossil fuel companies, but I hadn’t thought about health insurance.

It’s hard to argue convincingly that Trump and his cronies are a dangerous fascist menace who will wreck the US when the Democratic Party is acting like this is just a normal transfer of power, and President Biden is shaking Trump’s hand in the White House with a big smile.

We are headed toward a US constitutional crisis vastly bigger than Watergate

Maybe they can blame radio broadcasts. Worked last time.

Do you see any realistic prospect of reducing AIPAC’s influence on Congress?

I am convinced that the best way to understand how the Trump admin is going to work is to look at the invasion of Iraq.

Ideological messianism, prizing loyalty over competence, a dedication to outsourcing government functions to enrich political allies, a conviction that propaganda can overcome the bleakest realities, blithe dismissal of empiricism of any kind

Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy This is the biggest investigation we’ve ever published.

Trump's promise of mass deportation has caused private prison stock to soar. Time to re-read Shane Bauer's incredible investigation where he went undercover for months as a private prison guard. It's long, it's harrowing, it won all the awards: www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

You might consider adding @jeetheer.bsky.social .

Boost the invasion of Iraq by lying about 9/11 and you get to be editor of the Atlantic.

Lately I have been thinking about Caligula.