Solidarity v Fascism and Climate Catastrophe

🔥 BEN MEISELAS ERUPTS: The Cheesecake Factory faux outrage exposes the propaganda machine. They brainwash Americans into fighting each other while oligarchs steal our healthcare, send our kids to endless wars, and buy more yachts. Divide the people. Enrich the oligarchs.

Every day they go after Dems. All of the MSM: NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, MSNOW (soft - they mainly feature former Republicans) CNN. They keep getting more obvious about it every day. It does not matter that they do not have material, they are happy to regurgiate Republican nonsense.

The minute Dems gain any power at all, watch them descend like locusts, hyping an endless series of fake scandals fed to them by the same RW slop machine that's been playing them for fools for decades. They can't wait.

From Lula’s victory speech. Hard to argue. 🇧🇷 “We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously large corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country and trying to steer our election results.”

4. I am told she “initiated the discussions.” I am told “helping children in conflict [has been] one of her signature issues.” I am also told that neither Russia nor Ukraine knows what the WH is talking about. The AP: “There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian or the Russian gov'ts.”

no amnesty

Nobody's shocked that Jason Miller is the one posting Bolsonaro's refusal to concede. Trumpworld isn't just watching Brazil, they're coordinating. Same playbook, same people, different country. The authoritarian network is global, and it's poison.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

The electorate is certainly not getting any brighter.

Meanwhile, pro-democracy, pro-Europe protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, are tonight nearing their 700th consecutive day of protest against the pro-Russian government. They haven't missed a single day in the last 23 months.

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

If Americans aren't voting early they're insane. Trump's is going to orchestra all kinds of "threats" and "fraud" and "emergencies" to shut down urban voting and his Supreme Court will let him. (I'll be reposting this on Nov. 3.)

Big accounts on the right—both Brazilian and american— have now tried to co-opt the “this is a coup” narrative by claiming it’s a coup that a judge has extended the election for two hours at Lula’s request. Expect them to use this to challenge the results if Lula still manages to win

Over the last week, Pro-Bolsonaro groups have been telling their members to vote as soon as the polls opened. No one knew quite why they were giving out such instructions, but it’s becoming clearer with every passing minute.

More shocking displays by Bolsonaro supporters in the last 24 hours: voters wearing T-shirts that say “long live fascism,” doing a Nazi salute when entering the polls, and a white man walking a Black man on a chain at a pro-Bolsonaro gathering in Rio de Janeiro.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Elon bought Twitter so nobody could stop him from embarrassing himself.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

Supporters of US democracy need to be present in Washington DC on January 3 for the Congressional inauguration.

from @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social:

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

We shouldn’t expect billionaire owned main stream corporate media to report on the death of actual journalism and billionaire takeover of mainstream corporate media.

I’ve never seen the stats compiled like this before. 👀

I’m convinced these NYT focus groups are a psychological psy ops campaign to slowly drive me personally insane.

I don't love that Jeffries had that lunch with Kushner. Have they done a deal whereby JK sells out the orange menace and gets to keep his spoils? He must be accountable with the rest

He will absolutely not shut the fuck up about knowing which animal was the snake

Every major outlet is owned by billionaires, this is a class war and media is on the side of capital.

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“The communications backbone for an entire country’s military has gone down and nobody knows who is responsible” Yeah we’re gonna need to send people to prison and start nationalizing things.

Considering google just razed an entire forest in Finland, the less people use google the better

In situations like this I like to ask: WHAT EXACTLY IS YOUR JOB, JARED?

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The question is, does he get away with it?

The problem with the media industry is there is no accountability. You can say any dumb shit and the next week you still get another article published and another paycheck and it's like your previous piece that was completely wrong never happened. We treat opinion columnists like meteorologists.

My favorite press genre: printing the 'I'm done with politics' line in 96-point font, then treating the record-breaking donation like a totally unrelated weather event.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

Just another day in the corrupt Trump regime

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#artofthekneel is a good one.