Two first-rate photojournalists, Erin Schaff and Doug Mills, on covering the Harris and Trump campaigns.

#elections #democracy #journalism #photojournalism #photography

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000009792551/our-photographers-favorite-campaign-trail-photos.html?smid=url-share

Irving, Texas

via Reddit u/ProfessionalAct7322

#Politics #Democracy #Justice #2024election #Trump #TrumpLost #TrumpIsAFelon #TrumpForPrison #Republican #PutinsPuppet #NoTrump #NeverTrump #LockHimUp #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #Republicans #TrumpVance2024 #JDVance #MAGA #MAGAts #HalfHeartedFanatic

If the medium is the message, and constant outrage fuels the media in order to sell advertising, then how can we make the situation better? The medium is not just the message, it is our environment and we collectively need new media literacy. But this is not the kind of literacy most educators and politicians are talking about.

https://jarche.com/2019/03/constant-outrage/

#democracy #media #literacy

"...I believe that the deference and evasiveness of legacy American #media comes from many causes, including fear and the habit of pursuing the appearance of being even-handed even at a time when the national political situation is wildly lopsided. Lopsided, that is, because one side is pursuing attacks on #democracy and the constitution and seeks to institute an authoritarian regime while stripping rights away from most of us ..."

Rebecca Solnit via #TheGuardian #USA // #vote, #elections

Fun Fact: Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant.

#ElonMusk #election2024 #voteblue #irony #kamalaharris #democracy

#Truth #Democracy, #justice & #respect
vs. #TrumpVirus / #GQP #media & #Musk/Vlad #Disinformation

📺 NEW MEIDAS SHORT
Trump hates Puerto Rico. He always has and always will.

https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1851679232189173917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5MThSniiY

#Gaza #ArabAmericans #Election #Harris #Democracy

#Fascism must fail.

It's become increasingly common, in these closing days of the campaign, to hear fmr Trump officials & high-ranking MIL leaders describe his rhetoric & behavior as fascist. #Harris has said -she agrees with the characterization, while describing TFG as a dictator in waiting.

Will truth-telling come back? Rs & #TFG, who've undermined #democracy, must suffer the consequences of their misdeeds: ousted from public office, for felonies: imprisoned.

#USPol https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-vance-johnson-gop-fascism/

→ #Amazon, #Tesla and #Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/23/amazon-tesla-meta-climate-change-democracy

“Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining #democracy across the world by financially backing #farright political movements, funding and exacerbating the #climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and #humanrights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).”

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

Video about voting systems

#Democracy #Politics #Election #Voting

First, Zelensky did not go to the elections, preferring to "sit on the throne" until the very end, essentially putting democracy in the country "under the knife", and now Ukraine has submitted a statement to the Council of Europe on partial derogation from compliance with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms

The text states that during martial law, human rights provided for in a number of articles of the Constitution may be temporarily restricted. These include the right to free elections, the right to inviolability of the home, secrecy of correspondence, non-interference in private and family life, freedom of movement and choice of residence, freedom of thought and speech, freedom of assembly, education and entrepreneurship.

Among the measures that may be taken by the authorities: forced alienation of private or communal property for the needs of the state, imposition of curfews, special entry and exit regimes, restriction of movement of citizens and foreigners, inspection of belongings, transportation and housing, prohibition of assembly and restriction of choice of residence, imposition of military levies on individuals and legal entities.


#ukraine #ukrainian #democracy is #dictatorship

#democracy #fail

#history #nato #us #britain #uk #france #warmongers #warcrimes #war #bombings in #Iraq #Libya #Syria #Yugoslavia #Yemen #democracy for #capitalism #imperialism #deepstate

Michael Huckleberry Hudson:
And you can look at Ukraine as an example of how the United States would like Russia, China, and the Arab countries to exist. You would suspend elections once you have your guys, your president in there. You would become the most corrupt country in your region, as Ukraine has been. You will ban local languages and religions that are not Judeo-Christian.

You will essentially prevent strikes.

And you know the joke, the aristocrats. A stage group of actors talks about a family coming on and doing all sorts of horrendously devious sexual acts and incest, and it goes on and on. The producer who’s being offered this act and said, what do you call this act? And the answer is, the aristocrats.

Well, what do you call the Ukrainian act of suspending elections, banning foreign languages, assassinating critics? We call it democracy. Well, that’s hilarious. That’s indeed what #America calls it. America has two models of #democracy, #Ukraine and #Israel. Again and again in the press, it says Ukraine is the model of democracy that we want for what used to be the whole Soviet Union. And you have Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania clapping, and we want the democracy in Israel. Israel is the only democratic country in the Near East.

We want Israel to be the model for the Near East.

Well, what are they saying? That there won’t be any more Arabs in the Near East? That they’ll all be Americans with dual citizenship? This is what it’s all come to. We’re living in an Orwellian world is trying to deter people’s consciousness from realizing the reality of work and the dynamics that are at work.

#USA #us #orwell #1984 #american #mindmanipulation #lie in #media

The U.S. is establishing a single formalized system for coordinating PSYOP efforts among the security, intelligence, and civilian agencies

A new U.S. approach to waging information warfare operations states that military and civilian defense organizations will rely on Pentagon public affairs officials with support from academics and non-government organizations to counter Chinese and Russian disinformation.

#USA #us #infowar #psyops #pentagon #military #dictatorship #censorship against #democracy

"Amazon’s ongoing pattern of illegal conduct blocks competition, allowing it to wield monopoly power to inflate prices, degrade quality, and stifle innovation for consumers and businesses." Whatever happens here, it will be meaningful. It's also nice to see the FTC actually wielding its antitrust powers. #Democracy https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

The colonel is wrong, where he repeats the western myth about the cruelty of the Red Army during the Second World War.

#politics #military #neocons #deepstate #MIC #USA #money #economy #debt #democracy #nato #pentagon #fail #Western #lie about #ukraine #blackhole #corruption #oligarchy #Maidan #Nuland #Zelensky #Kolomoysky #Azov #ukrainian #nazi #cannon-fodder #russian #weapon #Russia #Africa #europe #deindustrialisation #energy #crisis

The UK has been downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose restrictive and punitive laws on public protests.

The UK’s willingness to clamp down on civic freedoms such as the right to peaceful assembly means it is now classified as “obstructed” – putting it alongside countries such as Poland, South Africa and Hungary.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/hostile-authoritarian-uk-downgraded-in-civic-freedoms-index

#UK #democracy #protest

Inhaltswarnung: Musk Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

There is one truth *all* Americans can agree on:
Any country that elects its own id to high office does not need the democracy that allowed it.

Die Demokratie braucht keinen Führer.
Der Führer braucht keine Demokratie.

#democracy #fascism #elections #trump