It’s unfair that the media is treating #Mattgaetz differently than they treat Donald #Trump
#uspol #journalism

For all his talk about free speech, a second #Trump administration will be about book bannings, active censorship campaigns against anyone refusing to subscribe to #Israel right or wrong ideology (white supremacy), mob violence, and witch hunts against political enemies. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/first-amendment-trump-journalists/

My grandfather risked his life fighting fascists from Italy to Dachau…
#media #fascism #trump

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/media/morning-joe-trump-mar-a-lago-meeting-fears/index.html

This guy wrote these words…

“A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. #Trump isn’t an ordinary man.”

…and multiple editors signed off on it.

#media #fascism

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/opinion/trump-criminal-cases.html

Let's call it what it is. Manufacturing consent for the Israeli genocide in #Gaza is white supremacy and should be called out as such. And then the Democrats wonder why key swing voters can't tell the difference between them and #Trump. https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/11/19/western-media-whitewashing-israeli-genocide-and-manufacturing-consent/

Tuesday November 19 2024.
Day 173 of former #president #trump as a #convicted #felon.
#guilty
#election2024
#2024election

538 #ClimateSolutions #Trump #CleanEnergy

[The point is: you can't count on federal support [but could you ever] Hard work of activists and communities made sure #ClimateSolutions and #CleanEnergy will continue, in defiance of #Trump. Don't despair: get active or support #Local JdeB]

"He’ll try, but Trump can’t stop the clean energy revolution"
by Matt Simon for Grist [Nov 11, 2024] [Audio Available]

https://grist.org/economics/hell-try-but-trump-cant-stop-the-clean-energy-revolution/

Quotes:
"The cost of renewables is plummeting, heat pumps are selling like crazy, and red states are raking in cash from the IRA."

"In his second term, the president-elect is expected to be downright hostile toward clean energy and climate action, having promised to rescind the remaining funding in Joe Biden’s landmark climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA."

"Looking beyond the IRA, Trump has vowed to increase fossil fuel production and once again withdraw from the Paris Agreement."

"A core irony of climate change is that markets incentivized the wide-scale burning of fossil fuels beginning in the Industrial Revolution, creating the mess humanity is mired in, and now those markets are driving a renewables revolution that will help fix it. Coal, oil, and gas are commodities whose prices fluctuate."

"[By contrast,] solar panels, wind turbines, and appliances like induction stoves only get better — more efficient and cheaper — with time. Energy experts believe solar power, the price of which fell 90 percent between 2010 and 2020, will continue to proliferate across the landscape."

"Last year, Maine announced it had reached its goal of installing 100,000 heat pumps two years ahead of schedule, in part thanks to state rebates. So if the Trump administration cut off the funding for heat pumps that the IRA provides, states could pick up the slack."

"Local utilities are also finding novel ways to use heat pumps. Over in Massachusetts, for example, the utility Eversource Energy is experimenting with “networked geothermal,” in which the homes within a given neighborhood tap into water pumped from underground. Heat pumps use that water to heat or cool a space, which is vastly more efficient than burning natural gas."

"State regulators are also pressuring utilities to slash emissions, further driving the adoption of wind and solar power. As part of California’s goal of decarbonizing its power by 2045, the state increased battery storage by 757 percent between 2019 and 2023. Even electric cars and electric school buses can provide backup power for the grid."

"Trump could slap tariffs on imported solar panels and thereby increase their price, but that would likely boost domestic manufacturing of those panels..."

"The irony of Biden’s signature climate bill is states that overwhelmingly support Trump are some of the largest recipients of its funding. That means tampering with the IRA could land a Trump administration in political peril even with Republican control of the Senate, if not Congress.
“Something like 66 percent of all of the spending in the IRA has gone to red states,” Hausfather said. “There certainly is a contingency in the Republican party now that’s going to support keeping some of those subsidies around.”

“State governments are going to be the clearest counterbalance to the direction that Donald Trump will take the country on environmental policy,”

"Last week, 62 percent of Washington state voters soundly rejected a ballot initiative seeking to repeal a landmark law that raised funds to fight climate change. “Donald Trump’s going to learn something that our opponents in our initiative battle learned: Once people have a benefit, you can’t take it away,”

"Even without federal funding, states regularly embark on their own large-scale projects to adapt to climate change. California voters, for instance, just overwhelmingly approved a $10 billion bond to fund water, climate, and wildfire prevention projects."

"And not in isolation, because mayors talk: Cities share information about how to write legislation, such as laws that reduce carbon emissions in buildings and ensure that new developments are connected to public transportation. They transform their food systems to grow more crops locally../\..“If anything,” Miller said, “having to push against an administration, like that we imagine is coming, will redouble the efforts to push at the local level.”

"All told, climate progress has been unfolding on so many fronts for so many years — often without enough support from the federal government — that it will persist regardless of who occupies the White House. “This too shall pass, and hopefully we will be in a more favorable policy environment in four years,” Hausfather said. “In the meantime, we’ll have to keep trying to make clean energy cheap and hope that it wins on its merits.”

#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown

Legacy #Media Begins #SelfCensorship in Preparation for #Trump Take Over
Long complicit in the creation of Donald Trump, American media has now initiated a shutdown of #freespeech to protect themselves in a fascist Trump presidency

https://meidasnews.com/news/legacy-media-begins-self-censorship-in-preparation-for-trump-take-over

"Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations"

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-confirms-plan-declare-national-emergency-military-mass/story?id=115963448

So, declaring martial law it is, then.

Mental health crisis line for Americans: 988.

#US #Politics #Trump

"Journalists are first, but everyone else is next. Trump has announced multibillion-dollar lawsuits against “the enemy camp”: newspapers and publishers. His proposed FBI director is on record as wanting to prosecute certain journalists. Journalists, publishers, writers, academics are always in the first wave. Doctors, teachers, accountants will be next. Authoritarianism is as predictable as a Swiss train. It’s already later than you think."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump?

#Broligarchy
#Trump

If the military pick up one US citizen and detain them, 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 will be brought into play with a vengeance. The lawsuits will prove interesting.

As for Federalising the various state National Guard units. Really? Without a declared war and threat of invasion by an opposing force? Then, using those units to enforce his policies in unaligned states... fighting between opposing Guard units becomes a very real possibility. Trump stands to create civil war in the USA in 2025.

#USPolitics #Trump #NationalGuard #CivilWar

“To be as clear as I can be, the second #Trump administration with Elon #Musk embedded within it represents the most direct and sustained threat to the #FirstAmendment and the freedom of the #press any of us will ever experience.”

—@verge EIC

https://www.status.news/p/nilay-patel-donald-trump-big-tech-interview

the 'let's roll up our sleeves and get organizing' in response to the election results and potential crises on the horizon is encouraging (albeit frustrating since it's what so many have been pleading for us to start doing since the *last* election), but as things stand right now, i don't see a path toward meaningful organizing gains

until we can reach a critical mass of masking again, working together is a non-starter. we can have our differences but when they put others at risk, we're simply not on the same side. soc-dem, dem-soc, little c communist, liberal, anarchist, leftist, feminist, abolitionist, antifascist, environmentalist... it doesn't matter how you identify unless we find consensus on taking care of each other

developing a culture (counterculture?) of care is step zero and your organizing efforts won't have any support from people like me until we do

____

#organizing #communityOrganizing #movementOrganizing #activism #ClimateCrisis #election2024 #trump #antifascist #leftistnews #migration #immigration #housingjustice #disabilityJustice #COVID #COVID19 #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #Gaza #genocide #endtheoccupation #reproductivejustice #feminism #abolition #protest

"It was widely expected... that the #Biden government would ramp up its efforts through the end of the year to make it as difficult/costly as possible for a new administration to pursue a different course on #Ukraine... “Trump-proofing”... and the White House decision to reportedly greenlight... #ATACMS strikes within #Russia-n territory shows just how far the Biden administration is willing to go to handcuff... Donald #Trump to its Ukraine policy."

Biden's ‘Last bang’
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-approves-long-range-missiles/

Almost two weeks ago, Americans took to the polls, racking up 76,429,164 votes for #Trump while #Harris received 73,736,923 (according to Wikipedia today).

Since there are about 245,000,000 eligible voters, that makes it about 94,833,913 voters did not vote - the majority of the voting population.

Running those numbers:
Trump - 31.2%
Harris - 30.1%

That makes it 38.7% of the voting population did not vote. That's more than either candidate was able to attain.

Which begs the question - how many more people would have made the effort and how would the election have turned out, if there was one more option:

NONE OF THE ABOVE [ ]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-many-people-didn-t-vote-in-the-2024-election/ar-AA1uaH9n

#decision2024 #politics

"Steve Bannon set for New York trial starting Feb. 25, judge rules"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bannon-new-york-trial-date-we-build-the-wall/

"Steve Bannon, one of President-elect Donald Trump's loudest supporters, is scheduled for trial in February in a case in which Trump once pardoned him — but this time a White House pardon isn't on the table.

A judge Tuesday set Feb. 25 as the start of Bannon's trial on charges related to alleged money laundering, conspiracy and a scheme to defraud."

#Bannon #Trump #pardon #wall #press

A Sad Day For America

Emboldened by Trump's election win, Neo-Nazis held a parade in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend.

"A lot of good people on both sides"
- Donald Trump in 2017
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

I detest Matt Gaetz, and he is a creep for sleeping with a 17 year old at his age, but the age of consent is 16 or 17 in most states, so we really need to concentrate on more important stuff, like the two batshit crazy billionaires in charge of the totally made up, extragovernment agency called the Department of Government Efficiency. Don't let Trump distract you from the two men behind the curtain.

#gaetz #trump #musk #ramaswami

Donald Trump has confirmed he is prepared to declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out mass deportations.

“We must use any and all resources needed to stop the invasion,” he told supporters previously at a campaign rally. #trump #immigration #press
Thoughts?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-news-cabinet-picks-live-updates-b2649022.html

All those non white #Trump voters wondering if they will be deported now.

That white Trump neighbor calling Border Patrol for fun.

We're living in the time of a president-elect who learned from Hitler that you should occasionally be nice enough to influential figures to make them happy that you don't sue them. Then, many of them say nice things about you.

trump and bibi have learned:
- genocide is okay if you don't tell people that you're nazis
- genocide is okay if the victims aren't jewish

Are there enough learned people left in the world to stand up to this?

#Genocide #Nazism #Fascism #trump #Israel #Netanyahu

How much do you think Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are getting from trump for the new, more flattering covering? $1 million? $10 million? The money is certainly in trump's corner. How else do you get people to lose any sense of ethics, morality, pride or values? You pay them off. Influential people and influential companies are caving at a disgusting rate.

#Corruption #Media #JoeScarborough #MikaBrzezinski #trump #Fascism

"Rightwing settlers and extremist nationalist Zionists in Israel have described top officials in Donald Trump’s new administration as a 'dream team' which will offer a 'unique and special opportunity' to expand Israel’s hold on occupied territory and permanently end any prospect of a Palestinian state."

~ Jason Burke

#Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/17/rightwing-settlers-in-israel-welcome-dream-team-of-trump-and-his-hardline-appointments

Es ist alles so krank in #USA
#Politik #press #trump
https://www.heise.de/news/Trump-will-entschiedenen-Gegner-der-grossen-IT-Konzerne-zu-FCC-Chef-machen-10040387.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag

#Israel in Gaza: «Trump ist ehrlicher als #Biden»

„Der gewählte Präsident #Trump dagegen spiegle der Öffentlichkeit nicht vor, die USA würden das humanitäre Völkerrecht verteidigen oder eine Zweistaatenlösung befürworten. Er stehe vielmehr ganz offen dazu, dass er Netanyahu voll unterstütze. Deshalb meinte Stacy Gilbert in einem Interview: «Trump ist ehrlicher als Biden». …“

https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/welt/israel-in-gaza-trump-ist-ehrlicher-als-biden/

This should scare everyone, all over the world. Trump Appoints UNHINGED Pro-Israel Stooges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vu1TUvzTjM
#Trump #TrumpIsAFascist #WarCriminal #Israel #Palestine #

"Krusi:
Naja #Trump ? Wir werden sehen, was er wirklich macht!"

„Souveränität über #Judäa und #Samaria ist Israels Entscheidung“

So etwas wie das #Westjordanland gibt es nicht, und es gibt auch keine „Besatzung“, sagte der ehemalige Gouverneur von #Arkansas und kommender US-Botschafter in #Israel , Mike Huckabee.

https://www.israelheute.com/erfahren/souveraenitaet-ueber-judaea-und-samaria-ist-israels-entscheidung/

#USA

#Trump sues for billions from #media he says is biased against him

Trump sues for billions from media he says is biased against him
President-elect intensifies longstanding media hostility by filing lawsuits against #NewYorkTimes, #CBS and others

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/15/trump-sues-media-outlets-bias?CMP=share_btn_url

Monday November 18 2024.
Day 172 of former #president #trump as a #convicted #felon.
#guilty
#election2024
#2024election

#Trump 's pro-#Israel cabinet picks upset #Muslims who voted for him https://www.reuters.com/world/us/muslims-who-voted-trump-upset-by-his-pro-israel-cabinet-picks-2024-11-15/

“President elect made nominations to his cabinet--some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump.” 🔥🔥🔥

Nice intro by ⁦‪@60Minutes‬⁩ 👇 #press #trump

🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️
#Trump announced Sunday evening that Brendan Carr is his choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission. Carr wrote a section of the Heritage Foundation's #Project2025 in which he detailed how he would run the agency —ABC News

with the possibility of street action picking up again in the coming months, here's a guide i wrote to help ppl prepare for what to expect when there's a possibility of getting arrested (and maybe why they want to avoid it whenever possible)

https://howtogetarrested.puter.site

#election #election2024 #harris #trump #protest #protestSafety #movementSecurity #mobilizing #organizing #harmReduction #resistance #activism #postElectionPrep #infosec #privacy #PreparednessNotParanoia

Arab Americans, Ignore the Haters: Rejecting #KamalaHarris was the Right Thing to Do

#ArabAmericans are facing vicious pushback for refusing to abandon #Palestine, but people interested in a better world should follow our lead instead of mourning the neoliberal order.

by Steve Salaita
November 17, 2024

https://stevesalaita.com/arab-americans-ignore-the-haters-rejecting-kamala-harris-was-the-right-thing-to-do/

#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Gaza #Israel #politics #Trump #Stein
#USA #US #USPolitics #USElection #DemocraticParty #Biden
#blog #news @palestine @israel

"'These choices aren’t just controversial; they require us to stay vigilant about how each potential new Cabinet member could negatively affect our lives.'

But I think we’re missing the bigger picture. These nominations signal the totalitarian drift that’s coming to Washington and the country. Yes, that’s right. No, I’m not exaggerating. It’s time to start using that word."

Stoehr says totalitarian.

I say fascist.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty
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John Stoehr on why Trump is appointing monstrosities to his cabinet:

"Among liberals, the discussion seems to be limited to the absurdities each of these people brings to governance as well as the dangers they pose. 'Yes, shake your head at the seeming absurdity of these picks,' wrote MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. 'But don’t stop there.'"

#Trump #fascism #cruelty
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https://www.editorialboard.com/trumps-cabinet-nominees-are-a-sign-of-totalitarian-drift/

Timothy Snyder zeroes in on the Russian-generated psyops the Republican party used in this campaign to suppress Harris votes:

"'The entire goal of the campaign was to push her numbers down,' as a top Trump advisor said. This was achieved by the familiar phantom combination: oligarchical money + psychographic information about individuals + social media delivery system + demotivational message."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #ElonMusk #Putin
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-phantom-campaign

"#Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for the advancement of Israeli information interests makes a lie of everything the so-called “#MAGA movement” has ever claimed to stand for and exposes it for the #scam it has always been." -#CaitlinJohnstone

“#AmericaFirst” Means Stomping Out #FreeSpeech In The US In Order To Help #Israel

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/11/17/america-first-means-stomping-out-free-speech-in-the-us-in-order-to-help-israel/

#DianaButtu talks with Frank Barat about the #2024election, #TheEvilOfTwoLessers, and what the results bode for #Palestine, #Gaza, and the #Palestinians

https://youtu.be/ssCHXrY_S7c

#USpol #USpolitics #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #USMiddleEastPolicy #Israel #Trump #Biden #Harris #MAGA #BlueMAGA #oPt @palestine @israel

"Putin made a pass at #Schulz by suggesting that the last undamaged part of the #NordStream pipelines could be swiftly put back to use if #Germany helps #Russia in #Ukraine by rejecting #Trump’s reported plans to “escalate to de-escalate”."

Everyone Missed The Most Important Part Of The First #Putin-#Scholz Call In Two Years

https://korybko.substack.com/p/everyone-missed-the-most-important