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Project 2025 authoritarians think a dumber populace is easier to control If you thought George W. Bush sending inexperienced, 20-something, quasi-libertarian loyalists to run the Iraq occupation worked out well, imagine what a second Trump administration would do to our own country. The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent spoke with Dave Roberts, a.k.a. Dr. Volts, this week not about the environment but about fascist plans to burn the U.S. government to the ground. The occasion was the Twitter thread below that Roberts posted on Wednesday. Do yourselves a favor and spend 25 minutes with it. That, of course, is the goal of the strongman: to destroy independent sources of information. It was the goal of Orwell’s Big Brother, to operate a totalitarian state with the power to define and redefine reality at will. There is no truth but what Dear Leader says it is. People who once decried the left as holding squishy morals will under Project 2025 swear themselves to whatever Dear Leader says is true today and to the opposite tomorrow if Dear Leader wills it.
Plus, scam victims get their money back, disabled people won’t have to work nonexistent jobs, a Native American reservation breaks new ground, and California gets beaver fever.
Democrats want to govern. Republicans want to rule. Confidence, even false confidence, inspires. As Bill McKibben once wrote: The power of the Christian right rests largely in the fact that they boldly claim religious authority, and by their boldness convince the rest of us that they must know what they’re talking about. They’re like the guy who gives you directions with such loud confidence that you drive on even though the road appears to be turning into a faint, rutted track. Democrats’ loud, public second-guessing themselves about Joe Biden looks desperate. It’s a bad look. So take a long, deep breath through your nose. Hold it a beat. Then exhale slowly through your mouth. Do it again. (Relax those shoulders.) If you lean Democrat, I know. It’s hard. Joe Biden had a bad night on Thursday. “Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” Barack Obama tweeted Friday afternoon. The president responded to his bad debate an hour or so earlier on Friday with a forceful speech in Raleigh, N.C. I was there right up front. His performances were literally night and day. This was the guy we’d hoped would show up to face Donald Trump.
Ahead of this week's presidential debate, which raised serious concerns about Joe Biden, Bonnie Greer shared her thoughts on why his Vice President may not be seen as an option to succeed him
Over the last nearly 20 years, there has been so much Christian imagery in Doctor Who that the series could be seen as a parable about God.
As Nigel Farage's party is embroiled in another racism scandal at the national level, Byline Times reveals its candidate in Richmond Park has previously come under fire for sharing content from Generation Identity and regularly makes racist social media posts
Abu Zubaydah’s lawyer told a military review board that an unnamed country could admit the 22-year prisoner and surveil him for perpetuity.
The post Negotiations Are Underway for Guantánamo’s “Forever Prisoner” From Gaza to Be Released appeared first on The Intercept.
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As the horror of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has grown, the clearer has become the depth and intimacy of the Australian ruling class’s military connections with the Zionist entity.
The post Australian capital tied to Israel by a thousand threads first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Regeringen och Trafikverket saboterar landets järnväg. Men järnvägsbranschen bidrar själv kraftigt till förstörelsen. Initiativet ”Omtag svensk järnväg”, som leds av SJ och Tågföretagen, är dessutom dömt att misslyckas på grund av avgörande systemfel som gör att branschen är del av problemen. Multinationella miljardkoncerner som Flixbus och MTR flyr också tågverksamheten i Sverige eftersom vår järnväg […]
The government-funded research project’s mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial right-wing unit to receive U.S. military aid. Editor’s note: the following article was originally published by Sam Carlen and Iain Carlos for the Noir newsletter. Stanford University’s Mapping Militants Project (MMP), a U.S. government-funded initiative that conducts research on “violent militant or extremist organizations,” quietly removed their profile on the Azov Battalion early last month. The Azov Battalion (now known as […]
The post Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion profile quietly removed from Stanford extremist group list first appeared on The Grayzone.
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From lies, incompetence, porn, and golfing bravo in the US – to dull and boring, with a side of rude and shouty in the UK
State of Play explores how Gaza violence and rising conscientious objections are exacerbating the U.S. military’s recruitment and retention crisis.
The post Gaza Blowback: How a Crisis of Conscience in the Military Can Impact Foreign Policy appeared first on MintPress News.
I think we all need a soother potpourri. And a stiff drink.
Post-apocalyptic star systems could reveal the fate of our own.
The post The Stars Foretell Our Doom appeared first on Nautilus.
Let’s take a look at the two candidates on the day after the debate: Blah,blah, blah. He’s just as offensive and nuts as ever. And this says it all: Meanwhile, here’s Biden. (I posted this earlier but it needs to go viral so here it is again.) Then he went to NY to dedicate the new Stonewall LGBTQ Monument visitor’s center. If you start this speech at about 10 minutes in you’ll hear him tell a story I’ve never heard before about how he first saw two men kissing when he was 16 years old and he turned to his dad for an explanation and he told him, “they just love each other.” I’ll admit it brought a tear to my eye. Nobody does that better than him. I know we’re all traumatized by what we saw last night. Despite the hand wringing by the pundits and anonymous Democrats, today is a reset. And today Biden is better than Trump. By the way, the Biden campaign raised 14 million yesterday. Trump raised 8. Just saying.
“The Democratic Party is more invested in trying to maintain control than it is in trying to win an election in November,” said one DNC member.
The post Can Anything Stop the Democratic National Convention From Being a Biden Coronation? appeared first on The Intercept.
A winning photograph shows millions of Monarchs dripping from Mexico’s fir trees in winter.
The post The Haunted Forest of Butterflies appeared first on Nautilus.
That was Biden at a rally in North Carolina today. He was the guy we usually see. I don’t know who that guy last night was. CNN has a snap poll about the debate. Make of it what you will: Registered voters who watched CNN’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump largely think Trump outperformed Biden, according to a CNN poll of debate watchers conducted by SSRS, with most saying they have no real confidence in Biden’s ability to lead the country. At the same time, a majority who tuned in say it had little or no effect on their choice for president. okay… Debate watchers say, 67% to 33%, that Trump turned in a better performance Thursday. Prior to the debate, the same voters said, 55% to 45%, that they expected Trump to turn in a better performance than Biden. And in 2020, Biden was seen by debate watchers as outperforming Trump in both of their presidential debates. Republicans who watched the first 2024 debate expressed broad confidence in Trump’s performance, the poll finds, with Democrats less sanguine about their party’s presumptive nominee.
The Supreme Court’s conservative bloc advances a key aim of the Project 2025 manifesto: “deconstruct the Administrative State.”
The post The Supreme Court’s Latest Power Grab: Regulatory Oversight appeared first on The Intercept.
Not Kamala, David Frum: A word to everybody writing, “The Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves” takes … The fundamental reason we’re in this crisis this morning is that the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan is about to nominate for president a dictator-loving criminal against the Constitution. That disgrace and shame is theirs. If President Biden had posted an equally poor performance against presumptive GOP nominee Nikki Haley, then in that case yes, the Democrats would have nobody to blame but themselves – too bad for them, but the Constitution would not be in danger. The Republicans could have nominated somebody else. They chose Trump over many alternatives. They did it because their core voters like and enjoy Trump. Tell me again, who has nobody to blame but themselves? Last night, operating in the truest spirit of “good people on both sides,” a CNN moderator asked President Biden whether he thought that Trump’s voters were voting against democracy.