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"The electric current that ran through my body on April 11, 2017, for articles I’d written for Radio Liberty, forces my muscles to contract. Victims’ psyches 'contract' in the same way, enabling them to endure torture: the organism musters everything it has.

Sitting in that chair at the 'Ministry of State Security' in Russian occupied Donetsk, I knew why I was there."

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snyder.substack.com/p/225

Thinking about... · 2+2=5Timothy Snyder poolt
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"One of the biggest debates that seems to be raging in the media right now is whether or not we are actually allowed to tell the truth about the Trump administration—to state clearly that unconstitutional corruption is afoot in the nation’s capital with the same clarity and urgency we once used to talk about, say, a secretary of state’s private email server."

~ Jason Linkins

#Musk #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #media
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newsletter.tnr.comThe media is responding to Trump with a huge face-plantA weekly accounting of the...

"Legacy media shot itself in the foot for the last time during the 2024 election cycle. The bowing to corporate bosses and the sane washing of Donald Trump helped elect him. While they have far fewer viewers and readers than they did a mere five years ago, it was enough to tip the balance."

~ Mark Mansour

#Musk #Trump #fascism #authoritarianism #media
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mmansour.substack.com/p/indepe

America’s Fractured Politics · Independent Media’s Time Is Here and NowMark Mansour poolt
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@the1dlcguy When the Postmedia - Sun merger deal was proposed a decade ago, I mistakenly assumed that the Canada Competition Bureau would be looking at and adjudicating the competition of editorial diversity and independence between the two news chains, but that was not their concern. The Competition Bureau's focus was instead on commercial aspects like whether the advertisers would still get a fair shake under the merger.
Astounding I know.
#cdnpoli #media #postmedia

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“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in one recording...

“We want to put them in trauma.”

Vought spoke openly about the ongoing planning to defund independent federal agencies and demonize government scientists...

So why didn’t this story drive more of a national conversation when it appeared?"
- @ProPublica

I've seen a couple of times now that people & organisations use gen-AI pictures for stories from disaster & war zones, e.g. Gaza & let me just say: That's super-fucking-inappropriate & if you ever find yourself typing that prompt into an AI input field, stop & ask yourself what the fuck is wrong with you.

No, I will not share examples, nor will I suffer justifications, so comment at your own peril.

Fun fact: Around 50% of the world's email is spam. The reason why your inbox isn't is that we do know how to stop a tidal wave of bullshit.

It's called filtering.

The reason fascist bullshit is succeeding at flooding the zone is because not only doesn't the press or public discourse gatekeepers have filters against it; even now, with the harm on full display, the lies & hate are still being privileged & amplified.

newsie.social/@TheConversation #resist #press #media #fascism

NewsieThe Conversation U.S. (@TheConversationUS@newsie.social)“How do you push back against a tidal wave?” wrote political communication expert Dannagal Young. Overloading people with news is a propaganda tactic used by authoritarians like Putin to distort reality. A communication professor explains: https://buff.ly/hWRh9Te
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As part of my work, I've been watching a fair bit of mainstream cable news recently; your condolences are appreciated in advance. While not all the coverage of the Trump regime's willful violation of judge's orders and the law in general has been horrible, there is a strong tendency to cast what is happening here as a hypothetical future result in a far too credulous way given the available evidence. This isn't even really about whether or not Downmarket Mussolini will get away with ignoring the laws and courts yet either; we're talking about grown adults in our media openly asking if the Trump regime seriously intends to do so, or this is all some grand strategy bluff.

This position is of course preposterous to the point that pretending it's plausible Trump isn't trying to create a "constitutional crisis" and allow his administration to act regardless of courts or the law, borders on open collaboration with a fascist regime. If that position sounds extreme to you, check out this article collecting some of the things official representatives of the Trump administration have said about the regime's already-enacted scheme to ship hundreds of alleged gang members to a slave labor prison in El Salvador despite having presented no evidence the Venezuelan men are gang members, and using a war powers act that's well over 200 years old, despite the fact that we're not at war with Venezuela:

truthout.org/articles/bondi-sa

"Bondi Says Trump Will Defy Judge, Continue Deportations"

"In a court filing, the ACLU and Democracy Forward accused the administration of a “blatant violation” of the restraining order, as senior Trump administration officials openly dismissed the order. Vice President J.D. Vance bragged about the forced transfers on X, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio retweeted a post by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele that mocked the judge’s decision, saying, “Oopsie… Too late,” alongside a laughing emoji."

Okay so that's Vice President JD Vance, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio; let's take a look at what other high-level, official representatives of the Trump administration have to say about the situation and the government's intentions:

US Attorney General Pam Bondi:

“These are foreign terrorists, that the president has identified them, and designated them as such, and we will continue to follow the Alien Enemies Act [AEA].”

“You know, this one federal judge again thinks he can control foreign policy for the entire country, and he cannot.”

WH Deputy Chief of Staff (and noted white supremacist) Steven Miller:

“It is without doubt the most unlawful order a judge has issued in our lifetimes.”

“A district court judge has no authority to direct the national security operations of the executive branch. The president has operated the absolute apex of his constitutional authority,” he continued."

WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt:

"“[F]ederal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion.”

U.S. “border czar” Tom Homan:

“We’re not stopping.”

“I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming.”

Folks, these' aren't fascist YouTubers or Fox News media hosts, these are officially designated representatives and officials in the actual Trump administration. They aren't saying these things as a matter of personal opinion, they are speaking on behalf of the Trump regime in an official capacity, even when they're appearing on Fox. It is blatantly irresponsible for corporate media muppets to pretend this fascist nonsense is all something Trump *might* try to do, just because nobody knows if these nazis are actually going to get away with it. He *is* trying it, the US government under Trump's official position is that the president has the power to ignore laws and courts that interfere with his self-identified mandate to "save America." We can debate whether or not he'll get away with it, but the regime has made its intentions clear and the American people deserve to know that. It's not good enough to report Trump's actions and discuss the potential motivations behind them, while treating what regime officials openly say as a separate story. These things are intimately related and they should be presented as such.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at the Justice Department March 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
Truthout · Bondi Says Trump Will Defy Judge, Continue Deportations“I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming,” said “border czar” Tom Homan.

By now, anyone paying any attention to the situation in the US knows there is a robust nationwide protest movement against fascism. Our shameless Nazi collaborator corporate media refuse to cover the protests, to the point that people who remember the 2000s are making Baghdad Bob jokes.

Let's send postcards to the outlets telling them they can't piss on our legs and tell us it's raining any more.

We're not going away.