Is it fascism yet?

"At the War Department first and foremost we must restore a ruthless, dispassionate and common sense application of standards," Pete Hegseth said last week

Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Quote from The Diary of Anne Frank January 13th, 1943

Someone tell Bari

Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 on X: "Holy sh*t Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems. Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE And follow the ad’s creator @_joejacobson_ so Elon can’t silence them! https://t.co/bFR3EsVrhz" / X Holy sh*t Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems. Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago. SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE And follow the ad’s creator @_joejacobson_ so Elon can’t silence them! https://t.co/bFR3EsVrhz

worth remembering this one
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I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Mayor of Broadview, suburban Chicago site of an ICE processing center that local folks are daily protesting, said this: "You are making war on my community. And it has to stop" & that DHS "is running a disinformation campaign that would make even the Russians blush" www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

"Did the FBI find any photos of President Trump with half naked children, as a witness has insisted?"

First response: Listen, fuck *you*
Second response: (icy silence)

That's a lot of tapdancing when a simple "no, of course not" would have settled things.

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Pardon my ignorance and density:
The "immigration raid" was cover to empty the building of people and their stuff so Wells Fargo could more-easily sell it (or otherwise 'move forward')?

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security. Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

"Trump continues to break the law, with his latest attempt being a fascist takeover of liberal cities"

The devolution of CBS News A network once revered for fact-based reporting is embracing right-wing pseudo-journalism

1. CBS, once one of America's most trusted sources for news, has hired anti-woke crusader Bari Weiss as its Editor-in-Chief

With Weiss, CBS is embracing someone who talks a lot about honesty but has a history of distorting the truth to conform to her right-wing ideological agenda.

Let's review.

-Police said they surveilled the car of a woman who had an abortion because of health concerns from "family"
-They made that up for the media after the fact. They were trying to charge her with a crime
-The only "family" they talked to was the man she was fleeing from bc HE THREATENED HER WITH A GUN

OMG RIGHT?

Sigh.

Crooks.

The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

An authoritarian’s dream, the Insurrection Act is ripe for abuse — and Trump’s Cabinet is already setting up his justification to use it.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

My entire childhood, he was a punchline. I can’t get over it. All this for a guy who was a throwaway joke on Golden Girls.

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

It’s simple. A fascist billionaire family recently bought CBS, and she tells fascist billionaires what they want to hear in the way that they want to hear it.

Meta Dork actually advertises that you can use it to cheat at pool!
Like Google Glass, it's target audience is for people with no understanding of social skills.

finally saw that wonderful Jane Goodall clip and I can’t tell you how delighted I am to learn that in addition to being a genius and a pure soul and a phenomenal advocate and a cultural revolutionary, she was also a hater

The president won't rule out a pardon for the convicted pedophile and sex trafficker who worked for his best friend, another convicted pedophile and sex trafficker who died in prison on his watch.

Probably nothing to see here. Just a diligent civil servant not wanting to speak too hastily.

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

Bari is going to run CBS News not because of her journalism, or even because of The Free Press, but because much of the mainstream media serves as a vessel for elites to distribute power to their allies

Time is short for an ACA premium fix in the shutdown fight, says GOP insurance leader

While lawmakers debate the calendar, a top GOP insurance regulator is pulling the fire alarm on ACA subsidies. If Congress doesn't act before the Nov. 1 enrollment deadline, 24 million Americans will face sticker shock so severe it will crash the entire marketplace.

This. Immigrants are awesome, and I wish we weren’t so afraid to say it.

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)