"mainstream" media has a very strong long-term persistent right-wing bias.

"mainstream" media is right-wing media, just a slightly less obnoxious version of it than Fox or Breitbart.

#shitmedia #bias #doublestandard #ProTrumpBias #RightWingBias #FascistEnablers #FascistTakover #Journalism #uspol #USPolitics

With ShitMedia Corps, any time profits conflict with quality journalism the truth gets trashed, the fascists get coddled and the public gets screwed.

CBS has a Massive Pro-Fascist Bias.

The American people need to know that.

#CBS #USPolitics #USPol #TheCons #Journalism #Media #ShitMedia #Bias #Clowns #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover #ProRegimePropaganda #ProRegimeBias

“Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro -#Palestinian Protestors in #NewYorkCity

Steered by a "right-wing #Zionist" organization, the campaign is using facial-recognition technology to intimidate and out activists demonstrating against #Israel

from #DropSiteNews
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Jack Poulson
Jan 30, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-palestine-dox-new-york-facial-recognition-ai/

#DefendStudentProtesters
#ActivismIsNotACrime
#WestBankUnderAttack
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

The planes were safe 'till the orange clown took over

#uspol #uspolitics #clown #fascist #aviation #safety #planecrash

It would have been enlightening with #Trump Cabinet nominees all along for national media to do side by side comparisons between each and the 3 prior occupants of their post: background, qualifications, criticisms. Let voters compare and judge. #journalism #USPolitics

“Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard. The committee will technically continue to exist, but won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines & airports.”
Then he blames Biden, Obama & DEI for tragic plane crash, (ignoring the bereaved) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-aviation-safety-tsa-coast-guard_n_67912023e4b039fc12780c73 #donaldtrump #uspolitics #planecrash

Photo of the Day. FAFO alone doesn't capture it. So many people were duped by a madman and the machinery behind him. #uspol #uspolitics Edit: Looks like Snopes says it's not real. Yet.

It's really depressing to watch the Americans in my feed trying to cope with the fascist takeover of their country, and I do not wish that on anyone.

Some try to figure out the ramifications, some try to chronicle the individual steps the fascists are taking, some are discussing direct action, and some just try not to succumb to despair.

My thoughts are with you, and I can only hope and fight that the same does not happen in Germany as well.

Again.

#USPolitics

L.A. activists mobilize to deliver medical supplies to Cuba amid the U.S. Blockade

from #CaloNews
Abraham Marquez
January 30, 2025

https://www.calonews.com/news/politics/l-a-activists-mobilize-to-deliver-medical-supplies-to-cuba-amid-the-u-s-blockade/article_5b2b8fd0-dde0-11ef-b46b-2b2af0d4b6c4.html

#LosAngeles
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#news #press #politics #USPolitics
@CubaInfo@a.gup.pe

If you worry, like me, about a #Trump tax on #university #endowments, read this new article by Gregory Conti.
https://www.compactmag.com/article/hate-endowment-taxes-reform-the-university/

(I link to a free version at Compact Magazine. But the same article appears behind a paywall in the Chronicle of Higher Education.)
https://www.chronicle.com/article/hate-endowment-taxes-reform-the-university

First, there's far more interesting history here than I thought.

Second, he takes us through a useful exercise. Consider the strongest historical rationales for tax-exempt university endowments and ask how well they apply today. You don't have respond as he does to conclude that we should be preparing our defense.

#Academia #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Just left an organizing meeting to defend Colorado from Trump's #MassDeportations which was not just packed, standing room only but where we had to move speakers into the street for the many folks who couldn't fit.

So damn inspiring. I hope you all find and join the groups organizing around you to resist and fight back.

#USPolitics

If anyone is in the #Denver area tonight, is deeply pissed about #MassDeportation, and is looking to fight; I look forward to seeing you here.

#FightFascism #Organize #USPolitics

1/ #Trump's Dept of Education announced that it:
https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-ends-bidens-book-ban-hoax

* ended the "Biden Book Ban Hoax"
* dismissed 11 complaints about book bans
* cut the staff position that monitored book bans
* "confirmed that books are not being 'banned,' but that school districts, in consultation with parents and community stakeholders, have established commonsense processes by which to evaluate and remove age-inappropriate materials"
* "rescinded all department guidance" on the removal of such materials, and
* began "restoring the fundamental rights of parents to direct their children’s education."

🧵

#BookBans #Books #Censorship #Libraries #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Source - Erin Reed. Support Erin's work by subscribing to the "Erin In The Morning" enewsletter

From the article: "A week after a flurry of executive orders, Trump is still signing orders to target the trans community. The latest, released Tuesday, tries to ban trans youth care nationwide."

#USPolitics #ThePoliticsOfHate #Project2025
#Press #BreakingNews
#Transgender #Transrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransLivesMatter #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIAPlus

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/a-line-by-line-analysis-of-trumps-760

Trump order targets pro-Palestinian activists to ‘combat antisemitism’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-executive-order-pro-palestinian-activists #Palestinianterritories #Trumpadministration #Israel-Gazawar #Antisemitism #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews

Fact or fiction? Trump repeats claim US sends condoms to Gaza https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/29/trump-condoms-gaza #Contraceptionandfamilyplanning #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Palestinianterritories #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Worldnews #USnews #Gaza

The New York Times is pure orange fascist propaganda.

#NYT #USPolitics #NYTimes #NewYorkTimes #MSM #TheCons #Journalism #Media #ShitMedia #Bias #Clowns #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover #ProRegimePropaganda #ProRegimeBias

Elon Musk IS an illegal immigrant, a fascist, a billionaire, a sociopath, and a few other unsavory things.

Elon Musk is NOT an elected, nominated, or confirmed anything.

#USPolitics #Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #TheCons #Journalism #Media #ShitMedia #Bias #Clowns #FascistEnablers #GOP #resistance #FascistTakover #ProRegimePropaganda #ProRegimeBias

Fight the Rich

Kshama Sawant

"I served as the only socialist on the Seattle City Council for ten years. In that decade, my council office led movements of working people to win historic victories, including the highest minimum wage in the country. I also saw firsthand how every part of the political establishment, led by big business and the Democratic Party, viciously opposed virtually every pro-worker piece of legislation we fought for. I saw how all the cogs of the capitalist machine — the establishment politicians, the courts, the police, the NGO leaders, and sadly many labor leaders — all work in concert together against the interests of workers.

I can tell you from my experience — and it is increasingly evident to working people — that this system is completely irredeemable, as are both U.S. political parties."

[Kshama Sawant is a revolutionary socialist, a founding member of Workers Strike Back, and a former Seattle City Councilmember who helped win the first $15/hour minimum wage in a major city and the Amazon Tax on wealthy corporations to fund affordable housing.]

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/27/fight-the-rich/

#ecosocialism #labormovement #seattle #USpolitics #capitalism #immigration #immigrantrights #medicareforall #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #peoplenotprofits

Trump wants to impose martial law

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMkXojThq/

#uspoli #uspolitics #trump #congress #project2025 #martiallaw

Oh, marvellous. Every content creator and podcaster in America can now apply for White House press credentials. The "failing New York Times" to be replaced by Joe Rogan any day now then.

#USPolitics

#uspolitics #california #lafires

So, Officials of the Trump government turned off pumps, complained about water, turned them back on, then took credit for solving a crisis?

#DoIHaveThatRight?

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-responds-president-trump-water-claim/63581272

Department of Justice is being purged as we speak, fam.
I'm sure it'll be fine.

#USPolitics

Jordan and Egypt snub Trump's ethnic cleansing plan
Caitlin Johnson, short read, English language https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/jordan-and-egypt-snub-trumps-ethnic?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mt3xk
#Trump #USPolitics #Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine

FWIW, folks I follow used these hashtags today: #law (27) #tech (24) #autosum (24) #legaltech (24) #scotus (8) #uspolitics (5) #uspol (5) #lawfedi (3) #trump (3) #dailystats (3) #holocaust (2) #holocaustremembranceday (2) #lafires (2) #ClimateChange (2) #project2025 (2) #migratierecht (2) #privacy (2) #raadvanstate (2) #tariffs (2) #technology (2) #heritagefoundation (2) #Climate (2) #Cybersecurity (2) #auslaw (2) [#DailyStats]

James Sherk authored the joint Office of Management and Budget and OPM memo (archive) on return to office implementation plans. The guidance in the memo echoes a November 20, 2024 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlining their “Doge Plan”, where they wrote: “Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome”.4 The memo has earned criticism from the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, which expressed that the directive would “undermine” the government’s effectiveness by limiting their ability to attract talented employeees and maintain continuity of operations in emergencies. Sherk also authored the joint OMB and OPM memo (archive) providing guidance on the federal civilian hiring freeze — another effort towards the goal of slashing the size of the federal workforce.

James Sherk was announced as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy on January 18. A White House official during Trump’s first term, Sherk was a key figure in Trump’s endeavors to purge civil servants and replace them with loyalists through an effort known as “Schedule F”. After Biden was elected, he repealed Schedule F, and Sherk slunk off to the America First Policy Institute to continue efforts to advance Trump’s policies. Prior to these positions, he was a staff member at the Heritage Foundation.

While Project 2025 and similar initiatives have been public about their plans to reshape the federal workforce, Trump and other figures in his administration have denied or downplayed links with the initiative. These documents show that implementation is already well underway, with designated personnel quietly drafting policies that were intended only to be publicly attributed to those in charge of the federal agencies.

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters

2/2

#USpolitics #USpol #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation

Peter Beinart on Israel: "States Don’t Have a Right to Exist. People Do." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/opinion/israel-state-jewish.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU4.Ys0J.LyshjWr6Dq-S #Israel #Palestine #USpolitics

Monday morning. Too much news. Went to bed to someone standing up to the Bully-in-Chief, but seem to have backed down. Gutted.

#USPolitics #news #MondayMorningGrump

You be the judge.
#Nazis. It's a #JobQualification. #USPol #USPolitics is a #Duopoly controlled by a #Plutocracy. #PlutocracyIsFascist.

$TRUMP coin was just the beginning: The new administration is finding all sorts of ways to cash in

https://www.fastcompany.com/91266892/trump-meme-coin-cash-out-presidency

#tech #technology #news #technews #crypto #scam #news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #corruption

The Orange Regime wants to spend YOUR taxpayer $$$ to build houses for 1 million Palestinians in Jordan so that Israel can complete the Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza.

Call your GOP Congressperson and tell them that we demand he build housing for Americans immediately. He can start in Los Angeles.

#Gaza #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #RaiseTheBar #Housing #DemandMore #uspol #USPolitics #Inflation #LowerCosts #FascistTakeover

Trump's trying to grab Gazans by the strip.

So Trump seeks to drive the Palestinian population out of the Gaza strip, into Jordan & Egypt (the governments of which will understandably say "No!"), because everything's been destroyed there anyway.
He wants the Palestinian population to move out of the bombed way, so he & his gang can set up luxury estates for the freaking rich.

It seems the Trump-Kushner gang had quite a lot of time to hatch this mob plot out.

Bibi flattening & bulldozing the Gaza strip, so Jared & Ivanka can build some "tremendous & beautiful homes close to the tremendous & beautiful sea"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev
#Trump #Gaza #Displacement #Speculation #Pathocracy #Psychopathy #Dementia #AbuseOfPower #AbuseOfOffice #UnfitForOffice #Corruption #Bribery #MobsterClowns #OrganizedCrime #RuleOfLaw #Law #Justice #Democracy #USPol #USPolitics

Joy in #Ramallah as Palestinians welcome freed prisoners

#Palestinians celebrated amid strict security measures imposed by #Israel and the #PalestinianAuthority

from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine
Published date: 25 January 2025 17:31 GMT

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/joy-ramallah-palestinians-welcome-freed-prisoners

#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#IsraelWarCrimes
#ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics
#media #news #press @palestine @israel

Wondering how this is going down with those groups of Moslem-Americans who thought Trump would support Gazans more than a female Dem president.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause

#gaza #trump2025 #gopnazis #goplies #israel #uspolitics #trumplies #fascism

Entirely Predictable US Politics Development No. 90235328.

(especiallly when your son-in-law's been measuring up for beachfront condos for the last year)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/26/trump-resumes-sending-2000-pound-bombs-to-israel-undoing-biden-pause

#GazaHolocaust #USPolitics

"Th' abuse of greatness is when it disjoins
Remorse from power ... But 'tis a common proof
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber upward turns his face.
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend."

Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene I

#ShakespeareSunday #Bookstodon #USPolitics

If you're one (like me) who will miss #PaulKrugman's columns in the #NYTimes …
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/paul-krugman-leaving-new-york-times-heavy-hand-editing-less-frequent-columns-newsletter.php

… and who regrets that he doesn't have an active #Mastodon account …

… you can follow an #RSS feed of his Substack newsletter here on Mastodon = @paulkrugman.substack.com.

#Economics #USEconomy #USPol #USPolitics

https://www.europesays.com/1796226/ Daily Memo: EU Divided Over Russian Gas #america #EuropeanUnion #geopolitics #hungary #India #Israel #japan #NorthKorea #Politics #Russia #Syria #Turkey #Ukraine #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPolitics #US #USPolitics #USA #UsaPolitics

1. Don't focus on #TFG but on the fascists who do his dirty work for him.
2. Gather reliable information about the potential impact of their policies on your community.
3. Find creative ways to disseminate the information in your community.
4. Identity good opposition candidates to run against them.

#uspol #uspolitics #opposition #resist #resistance

https://newrepublic.com/article/190574/trump-second-resistance-playbook