"US to screen for ‘anti-Americanism’ in immigration applications"

Feels like "Americanism" here is a fig leaf for something.

https://us.cnn.com/2025/08/19/us/us-immigrants-screening-anti-american-hnk

#USA #uspol #Americanism #nationalism #figLeaf #excuses

US to screen for ‘anti-Americanism’ in immigration applications, a move critics liken to McCarthyism

People applying to live or work in the United States will now be screened for “anti-Americanism,” including having their social media checked, authorities announced on Tuesday, in a tightening of restrictions that has alarmed immigration advocates and lawyers.

CNN
Canada, beware: Alberta is the canary in the coal mine

Canada is not America. Not yet. But if we do not defend our values, compassion, fairness, equality, and truth, we will lose them

calgaryherald
He also made the most annoying fucking #americanism that I HATE mainstream. Calling other men "brother". I am not your brother. I can be sir, Mr. Asbjornsen or just Knut. Even Praetor....but...not...brother or bro. It's rude! The only person to have that right is my best-friend whom I've known for 14 years. #hulkhogan #wrestling https://jacobin.com/2025/07/hulk-hogan-wrestling-trump-mcmahon
Hulk Hogan Was a Very Bad Man

Hulk Hogan, who died this week at age 71, was the most important professional wrestler who ever lived. He was also a terrible human being.

With relations between the #US and #Greenland deteriorating over the delegation of senior Trump administration officials planning to visit, #thisweekthosebooks’ choice quote from a sociologist’s book on anti-#Americanism is worth noting:

#Atheism, your mum does the washing
You make a twelve-part YouTube video demanding peer-reviewed evidence that she did, in fact, do the washing

#Zionism, you shoved your mum into the washing machine
And the spinning made her dizzy and that dizziness made her vomit
And you point to that vomit and call it #antisemitism

#Americanism, your mum does the washing, it's in the constitution
End of discussion

I just discovered an #Americanism that might just break me...
Apparently 'plat' is the equivalent of 'plot' and it's not just pronunciation, it's actually spelled 'plat'.
When you survey land it gets 'platted'... #FML

These Sony November movies are available to buy or rent now on Digital and I got sent a box of movie night treats for when I watch them!

#sonynovembermovies #TheBaker #TheWrathofBecky #DownLow #Americanism #films #movienight
@sonypicsathome

... the founder of the modern field of communications.. #HaroldLaswell.. explained.. in the early 1930’s that [the privileged] should not succumb to.. democratic dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests, because they’re not.. propaganda is to a #democracy what the bludgeon is to a #TotalitarianState and that’s wise and good because again the common interests elude the bewildered herd, they cant figure them out. The #PublicRelations industry not only took this ideology on very explicitly but also acted on it, that’s a huge industry, spending hundreds of..by now probably on the order of a billion dollars a year on it or something and its committment all along was to controlling the public mind...In the 1930’s big problems arose again as they had during the first world war. there was huge depression, there was substantial labor organizing, in fact in 1935 labor won its first major legislative victory, namely the right to organize with the wagner act, and that raised two serious problems for one thing democracy was misfunctioning the bewildered herd was actually winning legislative victories and it’s not supposed to work that way, the other problem was it was becoming possible for people to organize and people have to be atomized and separated and alone.... the business community which spends lots and lots of money and attention and thought into how to deal with these problems through the public relations industry and other organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable these days and so on. They set to work immediately to try to find a way to counter these democratic deviations, the first major effort, the first trial was a year later. In 1936 there was a major strike, the #BethlehemSteelStrike out in Western Pennsylvania, Johnstown, the mohawk valley and business tried out a new technique of destruction of labor which worked, worked very well, it was through propaganda.Not through goon squads,breaking knees and all that kind of business which wasn’t working very well anymore but through the more subtle and effective means of #propaganda. The idea was to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers, to present the strikers as disruptive, harmful to the public, against the common interests and the common interests are those of US, the businessman, the worker, the housewife and so on, that’s all US, and we want to be just together, we want to have things like #harmony, and Americanism and working together and so on and then theres those bad strikers out there who are kind of disruptive and causing trouble and breaking harmony and violating #Americanism..... the #BusinessCommunity.. control the media and have massive resources.. And it worked very effectively.. it was later called the #MohawkValleyFormula applied over and over again to break.. strike[s] and.. called scientific methods of strike breaking#NoamChomsky #TradeUnions #StrikeBreaking #PR