Trump’s New Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth a Total Nightmare
https://newrepublic.com/post/188349/donald-trump-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-nightmare

* no women in combat, just white men in military
* Islamophobia
* ramblings about “woke” military leadership
* complained about Muslim birth rates in states such as MI
* supporter, “proud Islamophobe” Laura Loomer
* criticized elite universities

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#LauraLoomer #Islamophobia #xenophobia #Christofascism
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

Trump's defence choice Pete Hegseth stuns Pentagon, raises questions about Fox News host's experience
https://apnews.com/article/trump-hegseth-defense-secretary-pentagon-2d8030921ecef933778cf92afd40ec72

* Trump stuns Pentagon/broader defence world in Hegseth as Sec. Defense
* Hegseth inexperienced/untested on global stage to run world's largest/most powerful military
* opposed to "woke" programs that promote equity &
* questioned role of women included in combat

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #USmilitary #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #misogyny #paternalism #sexism

Trump to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be defense secretary
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33970/trump-pete-hegseth-fox-news-defense-department-military

* past CEO, Concerned Veterans for America, veteran advocacy organization
* Fox News contributor 2014+
* 1 House Republican Committee chair shocked at nomination
* Hegseth was not on known list of names under consideration
* no sense of his background/vision

#PeteHegseth #FoxNews #DefenseSec #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP #militarism
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation

[thread] Pete Hegseth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

* Fox News political commentator, author, U.S. Army National Guard officer
* Nov 2024 Trump intends to nominated as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Trump2 cabinet
* conservative Republican
* briefly worked at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

#PeteHegseth #DefenseSec #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP #militarism
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#Christofasciam #antiLGBT #homophobia #antiDEI

fuck fascism, but elegantly.
#art #illustration #typography #suprematism #fascism #antifascism

#Republicans Are Already Trying to Grant #Trump Dangerous Powers

Opinion by #HafizRashid
November 15, 2024

"House Republicans are trying to push through a bill that would give President-Elect #DonaldTrump powers as president to designate #nonprofit organizations as '#TerroristSupporting' even after it was seemingly defeated earlier this week.

"The Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act #HR9495 would allow the secretary of the treasury the ability to revoke any nonprofit organization’s tax-exempt status by branding it with a terrorism label. Earlier this week, the bill failed to receive the necessary two-thirds majority in the House to advance to the Senate.

"But on Monday, the House Rules Committee plans to hold a hearing that could set up a new vote on the bill, which initially had the support of all but one Republican and 52 Democrats. With the GOP only holding a seven seat majority in the chamber, they would need the support of more Democrats to advance the bill, which was introduced to combat #protests against #Israel’s war on #Gaza.

"Under any circumstances, the bill would threaten #FirstAmendment rights to #FreeSpeech, but after Trump’s election last week, there are now fears that the president-elect could use these new powers to crack down on his enemies with little recourse. Many #universities and #NewsOutlets are nonprofit organizations in addition to #activist groups.

"After the bill’s initial failure on Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union [#ACLU] celebrated the rejection of 'new broad and easily abused powers.'

"'The freedom to #dissent without fear of government retribution is a vital part of any well-functioning democracy, and now is not the time to grant the executive branch new powers to investigate and functionally shut down and silence its critics,' said Kia Hamadanchy, senior policy counsel for the ACLU, in a statement.

"Now, the bill could be given a retooling and sent up for a vote again, giving a president who has already threatened to use the #military against his critics even more sweeping powers. The question is if #Democrats will recognize the bill as granting dangerous powers to the presidency, or see it as a chance to clamp down on protesters they have tried to ignore at their peril for the past year.'"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-are-already-trying-to-grant-trump-dangerous-powers/ar-AA1uaihv

#ClampDown #WorkingForTheClampDown #Fascism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DonTheFascistCon #StopHR9495
#CriminalizingDissent #KristiNoem
#Blackwater #ErikPrince #Autocracy
#SilencingDissent #ClimateActivists
#AntiWarActivists #WaterProtectors
#PeaceActivists #ClimateJustice #Protests #StandWithStandingRock
#GazaGenocide #LebanonGenocide

[thread] Steven Cheung
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Cheung_(political_advisor)

* Trump 2024 campaign spokesman
* prev. worked Trump 2016, 2020 campaigns
* communications dir. MAGA Inc. superPAC
* Nov 2024 appointed White House Communications Director, Trump2 administration
* Dana White connection: former director communications, public affairs at UFC

#StevenCheung #WHcommunications #WhiteHouse #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism
#DanaWhite #Trumpism #UFC
#PublicRelations #media #communications #disinformation

Not Everyone Can #Leave: #Survival #Advice From #Trans #Teens in #Texas

#Media often focus on trans teens #fleeing the #antitrans #states they’re #living in. But what about those who can’t leave?

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Texas #Education #TransKids #PoliticalAsylum #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://truthout.org/articles/not-everyone-can-leave-survival-advice-from-trans-teens-in-texas/

“For now, I am moving with a clarity of purpose that has allowed me to remain calm. I know that calm is not permanent. There will be days when I will find myself shaking. There will be mornings when I try to sing and find myself weeping. When those days come, I hope that I will make room for that complexity.” https://www.patreon.com/posts/must-reads-and-116082464?post_id=116082464&utm_id=b1bf2558-afb0-4adf-84a8-09f20edecaf8 via @MsKellyMHayes

#activism #politics #USpol #journalism #Trump #fascism #news

I was rattled out of my liberal bubble at the doctor's office this morning: the TV was playing hard-fascist propaganda about how teacher's unions are the enemy within for opposing America's champion, President Donald Trump

The TV was set to a local news station owned by Sinclair, showing the unbranded National News Desk
#fascism #trump #sinclair #media #uspol #unions

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

Inhaltswarnung: Mentionn of Tango One Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

The U.S.A. could really use a robust media presence from allied nations right now. trump will twist Air America into Russian propaganda while Fox News does the same at home. Where is the propaganda from the good side??? Canada, Europe and the rest: we need your help deprogramming millions of Americans.

#Europe #Canada #AirAmerica #Fascism #FoxNews #WesternAlliance #Media

"There will be a reversal of human rights, an erosion of safety for millions of people (and, sadly, including the nations we influence around the world), the rejection of basic principles of the law, and an increasing enslavement of democracy to oligarchs and billionaires.

That’s what Christian nationalists want. That’s Project 2025."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #WhiteChristianNationalists
/7

Doom 2024 [Leica M3 | 50mm Summicron | Kodak Portra 400]

#trump and #ElonMusk are #fascism #womensrights are lessened
#genocide in #gaza is glorified #climatechange and #xenophobia rage #profitsarepreferable to #people , convenience and security to #freedom opinion bests reality
compassion cedes to indifference

Do not let the anguished cries fall on deaf ears. Engage in radical #directaction and #mutualaid

@analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #analog #FilmMastodon #filmisnotdead

"Trump’s chaos calibrates itself … inside a unified and powerful ecosystem of rightwing news, online content and viral disinformation that has grown more powerful throughout this era, spewing the same falsehoods in unison day after day, on repeat, for years. It is the 'political technology' by which swathes of the population have voted in effect to anoint a king in the belief it will amount to more freedom."

~ Oliver Laughland

#Trump #fascism #disinformation
/9

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/14/ive-been-to-more-than-100-trump-rallies-since-2016-this-is-why-i-think-he-won

"The decline in voter participation is what allows the Republicans to cosplay a mandate. If the elite political media plays along, that play-pretend becomes reality. Any story you read that uses the word mandate in any way except ironically is playing you for a fool…."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #disinformation #VoterApathy #media
/7

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62896778/presidential-election-2024-turnout/

"This election was about identity after all—an American identity which has become more tolerant of authoritarianism and less committed to democracy over the past decade. As Trump’s opponents try to figure out why they were defeated and how they can resist him over the next four years, they need to confront the dark reality about who we have become as a nation."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education #IdentityPolitics
/6

"Americans didn’t elect Trump because they were offended by the Democrats—they elected Trump because they like him. They know everything they need to know about Trump. He has been broadcasting his cruelty, hatred, and self-obsession into every American home for nearly a decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/5

"The old narratives about the Democrats’ contempt for the working class and their racially divisive politics don’t apply to this election. The argument that Americans are in so much economic pain that they had to vote for Trump doesn’t hold up: Unemployment is just over 4 percent, the stock market was hitting all-time highs before Trump won, and inflation has plummeted from a peak of over 9 percent to 2.4 percent."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/4

"A cultural and political chasm has opened up between Americans who still care about the integrity of their democracy and those who do not. We have entered an age of political nihilism in which our traditional conceptions of ideological and identitarian conflict must be abandoned. This election was about the identity of the United States as a whole, and it didn’t tell an inspiring story."

~ Matt Johnson

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #authoritarianism #disinformation #education
/3

"The median age of a Fox News viewer is 68, and liberals have joked about the network 'brainwashing' their conservative parents. But rightwing social media content has effectively targeted and radicalized younger people, who — unlike the typical Hannity-obsessed grandpa — can vote for the next several decades.

#Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia #YoungMen #gender #MaleEntitlement
/2

"The pair discussed Roberts’s book, in which he describes how 'many of America’s institutions […] need to be burned'. Included among those to be incinerated, Roberts writes, are the FBI and the New York Times, along with 'every Ivy League college', '80% of ‘Catholic’ higher education', and the Boy Scouts of America."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/13/kevin-roberts-project-2025-book-events
#Project2025 #Fascism #KevinRoberts #Journalism

" 'We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X,' the Guardian said.
The Guardian has more than 80 accounts on X with approximately 27 million followers."
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk
#TheGuardian #Xitter #Fascism #Journalism

Something we’re taught as physicians is that when talking w/ a distressed patient, you can’t meet #emotion with information

You have to meet emotion w/ acknowledgement & validation. Only then can the emotion fade & the brain receive information

Just thinking about this in context of the U.S. election

Maybe campaigns need to start employing experts on human emotion & behavior, not only information

Especially when #fascism harnesses that worst of human emotions (hate)

#DontLetHateWin

THIS is how the media incrementally normalizes genocide: NBC News website this morning describing Nazis harassing people attending a play about Anne Frank at an American Legion hall in MI.

"PROTESTERS wave Nazi flags at 'The Diary of Anne Frank' production in Michigan"

#Fascism #media #normalization

The active link is here though for God's sake I hope they fix it:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/protesters-wave-nazi-flags-diary-anne-frank-production-michigan-rcna179774

Good for The Guardian...

"We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere."

#media #fascism #elonmusk #disinformation #twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

"And yet, we’re supposed to want to be their friends, want to hang around them, invite them to parties? We’re mean if we don’t want to date them and bring them around our friends so that they can insult and denigrate them, because who doesn’t love that?"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/5

"to — again, because this deserves repeating — shout
'YOUR BODY, OUR CHOICE!' at women and girls'; to call Puerto Rico a pile of garbage; to denigrate women who don’t have children; to repeatedly claim that 'liberalism is a mental disorder'; to talk about how they voted for Trump to punish us; to regularly claim that Black people are lying about the existence of racism and police brutality, to force their religion on us, and so forth!"

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/4

"Just so we’re clear — the rule is that these people are allowed to despise us; to insult large groups of people on the regular; to demand that transgender people be pushed out of public society for their own comfort; to talk gleefully about how they can’t want to watch ICE agents pull grandmothers from their beds and deport them;"

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/3

https://www.wonkette.com/p/these-people-voted-for-trump-because

"But what I am saying is that, if you have MAGA relatives or friends, you need to evaluate your relationship not just on the basis of the ugly choice they made in the past, but on the basis of what that ugly choice says about what they might do to you in the future."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/2

I just posted this valuable statement by Noah Berlatsky on Facebook, and Facebook immediately took down the posting:

"It may not be safe to remain friends with MAGA. Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them. …

I’m not saying everyone in every case has to cut their MAGA family out of their life. Different people are in different circumstances; you can’t make blanket rules."

#Trump #MAGA #family #fascism #cruelty
/1

https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/it-may-not-be-safe-to-remain-friends

Republicans win House, delivering Trump a trifecta

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4974235-house-republicans-control-majority/

Well, great. Full-fat fascism it is, then. Trump will basically get to do whatever the fuck he wants for the next four years (and maybe for as long as he lives).

#USPol #Trump #RepublicanParty #fascism

“I have to say that as a Jewish Israeli who is a left-wing activist, I feel unsafe and unwelcome in Berlin.”

– Yuval Abraham

#Germany #fascism #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #WesternComplicity #warCrimes #antisemitism

Melissa Ryan offers readers today a helpful reading list for those seeking resources as we, in this period prior to the man's inauguration ask, "How do we prepare for the road ahead? How and where can we fight back? What do we need to know?"

The list has twelve book titles.

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/22

https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/your-end-of-year-reading-list

"Russia appears to be doing what every other entity that helped Trump get elected is doing, as they try to collect on their support: exerting what levers of pressure they have to get their objectives.

It turns out they likely have more levers of pressure — some of which are more powerful now, before Trump’s win is certified — and larger demands than most of the people who helped Trump get elected."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/21

"Russia has been engaged in a good deal of dick-wagging with Trump since the election. …

Trump is going to be a tool of Russia."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/20

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/12/russia-attempts-to-collect-its-winnings/

"I will not spend a lot of time here blaming whoever caused this tremendous loss. People everywhere are already doing that.

Assigning blame is useless unless viable solutions are offered and implemented.

That said, here are my top three reasons why we lost the election:"

1. Racism
2. Sexism
3. Misinformation and disinformation

~ Pamela Hilliard Owens

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/19

https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/that-was-then-this-is-now

I couldn't agree more with Stephanie G. Wilson:

"I’m not going to give any hot takes about the campaign, what it did wrong, or any particular tactics. … I don’t think small fixes would have made a difference. In this campaign, as in all of our country’s issues, we can’t fix systemic problems with individual solutions. A lot of that monday morning quarterbacking is self serving, and a lot of it can be a circular firing squad. No thank you."

#Trump #fascism
/16

https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/how-to-keep-functioning-and-getting

"In this ecosystem, what matters is what resonates, regardless of how outrageous, and getting riled up is rewarded by the algorithm. Again, there is the interaction of such visceral instincts with the more factual grievance of the system not working in their interests."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/15

"For many outside of progressive, liberal, and left-leaning circles, social media platforms rife with conspiracy, disinformation, and hate are what people are seeing daily – and where they develop their sense of the world they live in. Social media is now the media."

#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/14