Jordan Davis

Email dismissing the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, that begins "Carla..."

1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC.

The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.

BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...

⚠️ Petit exemple de la nouvelle disruption en cours :

Something something history rhymes something

Ann Telnaes, dessinatrice du Washington Post, a annoncé qu'elle démissionnait après que la section des opinions du journal a rejeté une caricature représentant le propriétaire du Post, Jeff Bezos, faisant la génuflexion devant une statue de Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

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.

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?

Russia uses civilians as ‘target practice’ for killer drones Southern Ukrainian city of Kherson hit more than 9,500 times as Moscow attempts to drive out residents

”They are hunting us“

Kherson’s civilians have been the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking and killing its residents with attack drones in human safaris. /1

www.ft.com/content/31b6...

Column | Kash Patel has an enemies list centered on grievance The loyalist Trump hopes will run the FBI published a list of members of the “Deep State” that’s mostly a list of people who have wronged him or Trump.

The thing about Kash Patel's enemies/"deep state" list is that "deep state" means nothing more than "anti-Trump" or even "anti-Patel." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Pete Hegseth's mother begged him to "get some help" — instead, he joined a grossly misogynist church The denomination's leader argues men "dream of being rapists" because women aren't submissive enough

In @amandamarcotte.bsky.social's coverage: Pete Hegseth & his religious influences include Douglas Wilson, founder of the denomination Hegseth joined, the classical Christian school option Hegseth frames as a way to train up an underground army for political power. www.salon.com/2024/12/03/p...

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to abolish multiracial, pluralistic democracy is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, Republicans are openly embracing staunchly authoritarian measures intended to erect one-party rule.

Unanimous vote sounds nice, didn't go that way here

Democratic Party aides are shown spraying fire extinguishers at the infiltrating army to keep them back.

I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct

Voici un article du Afghan Times sur la précarité menstruelle des femmes durant les crues XXL qui ont frappé l'Afghanistan en mai dernier
theafghantimes.com/afghanistan-...

Et voilà comme Maryam - la journaliste qui signe ce sujet - travaille
cjr.org/world/afghan...

Gen. Keith Kellogg on Fox News

Trump has named a Special Envoy to Ukraine/Russia, and you’ll never guess what network he’s a paid contributor for

🤣🤣

Column | The Harris campaign’s ground game was not the problem A recent assessment of the 2024 presidential contest suggested that Democrats needed to emulate right-wing outreach. But that’s different from turning out voters.

I saw a number of people sharing a Guardian piece that suggested Trump had a better grasp of the ground game than Harris. He … didn't. The piece conflated some very different things in a weird way!
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yipes

Ce qu’il se passe en #Roumanie est à regarder de près. C’est sans précédent et un avertissement pour l’Europe

Comment est-ce possible qu'un candidat quasi absent des sondages, 0 parti, 0 campagne, 0 dépense selon lui, a-t-il pu être 1er et obtenir 2,1 millions de votes ?

Elements de réponse ⤵️

In Hungary, a key Orbán tactic in dismantling their democracy was that his allies bought media outlets that were critical of the regime and turned them into loyal cheerleaders for the regime.

Nancy Mace didn't do this until there was a specific Representative she could direct her shitty bigotry at, a colleague elected by the voters to whom she hopes to deny basic human dignity.

🙌🙌

Two things:

1) Unclear what that is actually supposed to mean - there is no legal/constitutional path from “declare emergency” to “military rounding up people for deportation.”

2) That doesn’t mean this isn’t extremely dangerous. It’s not just a distraction or rhetoric. It’s the defining project.

Oh, forgot to include the "policy didn't cause inflation" chart 5/

Analyse | Retour en force de la désinformation à la Maison-Blanche? La deuxième administration Trump continuera probablement sur sa lancée de mensonges et de désinformation vécud lors de son premier mandat.

Analyse | Retour en force des mensonges et de la désinformation à la Maison-Blanche ?
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/212...?

Trump’s Unhinged Eruptions in Ohio Should Light a Fire Under the Media Veteran journalist Susan Glasser on why Trump’s authoritarian language is so alarming—and how the press is struggling to meet the challenges of this uniquely dangerous moment.

Top media figures are rarely this candid about the industry's failings.

When I asked Susan Glasser if we are falling short, her answer was admirably nuanced, including this:

"They're afraid of alienating a large swath of the American audience."

Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/1798...

Al Jazeera journalist beaten, arrested by Israeli forces from Gaza hospital Media watchdogs decry Ismail al-Ghoul’s arrest, demand his immediate release after he is taken from al-Shifa Hospital.

"Witnesses said the Al Jazeera reporter was dragged away by Israeli forces, who also destroyed the broadcasting vehicles of news crews at the medical facility."

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/...

This is the sausage-making of what Naomi Klein calls "diagonalism," or the path from left of center to far-right

1. Draw attention to neoliberalism's contradictions
2. Characterize those contradictions as the best the "the left" can offer
3. Repeat until subject is radicalized and/or disillusioned

Four days after the German-American Bund held their 1939 pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden, a similarly fascist event was held at a Portland, OR high school. Portland's mayor was the MC, and a former Governor chaired the meeting. The "enemies within" they warned about were New Deal Democrats.