Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Budapest Memorandum - Wikipedia

A bit of context.

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Judge blocks Musk agency access to millions of Americans’ personal data Education department and OPM prevented from sharing sensitive information in widest-ranging judicial check yet

Grounds for hope!!!

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I think we can now conclude that Marx erred in thinking that Capitalism would evolve into Socialism. We know now that Capitalism evolves back into Feudalism!

Civil servants are leading the American resistance – with GameStop as a guide | Virginia Heffernan As Elon Musk tries to drive them out, federal workers are initiating a short squeeze on the broligarchy

How can we help the civil servants who are resisting? They're the only thing standing between us and a form of totalitarianism that Hitler and Stalin could only dream of.
Civil servants, judges and scientists who are resisting are the true heroes of the moment!
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It's what the Germans came to call "Gleichschaltung".

Trump handed massive tax cuts to the rich in 2017. Now he's planning even more cuts.

How are Trump and MAGA Republicans planning to pay for them?

By making it harder for millions of Americans to access Medicaid, food stamps, and other federal programs.

Trickle up economics.

We are on the road for democracy and justice | Bernie Sanders What we are fighting for is not ‘utopian’ or unachievable. Trumpism can and must be defeated

Yes!!!

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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

Good news! They're faking the deportation reports to appeal to their racist base.

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Why are the Democrats so spineless? | Moira Donegan No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are

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Bocuse d’Or : la France, menée par Paul Marcon, décroche le Graal de la gastronomie Le chef auvergnat de 28 ans a été distingué lundi près de Lyon, trente ans après son père. Il s’agit de la neuvième consécration de la France lors du prestigieux concours culinaire, créé en 1987 par l...

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Trump’s First Orders Parrot Project 2025 Manifesto He Disavowed After distancing himself from the corporate policy agenda during his campaign, President Donald Trump is issuing executive orders torn straight from its pages.

16 of the 26 Day One executive orders signed by Trump were ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, testifies before the Senate today as Trump's OMB nominee.

Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.

We need a system completely banning private financial contributions in favor of a public system. Here, too, as with the obsolete Electoral College and Second Amendment as well as the unratified ERA, we should start considering the elements of the new Constitution when the dictatorship collapses.

Did Elon Musk give a Nazi or Roman salute, and what’s the difference? Historians say Musk clearly made Nazi salute – but supporter claims he was inspired by Roman greeting adopted by Benito Mussolini

For anyone who's been snoozing recently: Hitler's back.

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Lawsuits are going to be off the charts these next few years.

Orgies, vampires and jewel-laden tortoises: it’s time we buried the myths of decadence in art Is western civilisation being destroyed by its own decadence? Was the Roman empire? And does a preference for Lord of the Rings over The Matrix indicate that we are all doomed? Our critic tries to sif...

Interesting critique of a common historical assumption.

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The curtain rises. So far much chauvinistic showmanship with unclear efficacy.

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78 Film-maker who specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Wild at Heart and Eraserhead

RIP one of the great artists of his generation.

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Opinion | How to Fix America’s Two-Party Problem (Gift Article) Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

Desperately needed electoral reform: proportional representation.
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Last year was the hottest in Earth's recorded history NASA found that 2024 was hotter than any other year since at least 1880. Previously, 2023 had been considered the warmest on record.

2024 was the world's warmest year on record, but we still have Republicans claiming the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil and other polluters.

What planet are they living on?

Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024 Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows

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The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics | Joseph Stiglitz The party must return to its progressive roots. A new economy is needed with new rules and new roles

The way forward is The Green New Deal.
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Post by Hannah Riley: women died because they received no life saving care as they were having miscarriages in Georgia and the state responded by simply eradicating the committee that investigated deaths of pregnant women.

Do you see what they’re doing? Tell me you do.

This is exactly what we need.

Blue Dogs Propose New Task Force to Look at ‘Winner-Take-All’ Election System The bipartisan task force would investigate structural reforms like multimember districts and adding more House members in an effort to address growing polarization and distrust of Congress.

Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez proposed a new task for to look at electoral reforms which could break up the two party system in Congress, expand the number of House districts, and move the House to a form of proportional representation.

It's a very, very good idea.

This can only happen if we fully, unequivocally embrace the Green New Deal rather than courting the center with the same tired old formulas that have led to this debacle.

Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis | Nesrine Malik As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal system, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Most insightful analysis I've seen on the Democrats' debacle. Progressives do have answers in the form of the Green New Deal. The party bureaucracy, however, has sidelined the proponents of the Green New Deal until now the majority in the US prefer dictatorship. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...