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Newspeak – Corporate Style
Feb 14, 2025
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A shorter post than usual, but an important and timely topic. Something I’m writing down for my later self.

In my day job, I routinely read thought pieces on financial markets and the implications of political policies on said markets.

This week, I read the following summary of President Trump’s Executive Orders related to immigration: https://jjwebster.com/2025/02/14/newspeak-corporate-style/

#authoritarianism #language #framing #rhetoric #communication #DefianceNotCompliance #orwell #uspol #immigration #constitution #AntiFascist

Newspeak – Corporate Style

A shorter post than usual, but an important and timely topic. Something I’m writing down for my later self. In my day job, I routinely read thought pieces on financial markets and the implica…

Jonathan J Webster
Danni StormFeb 12, 2025

#trump #FuckTrump #FuckElonMusk #nonprofit #capitulation #news #complicity #complicitywarning #complicit #tv #publicbroadcasting #lgbtq #lgbtqia #racism #PeopleofColor #BlackLivesMatter #ableism #gay #lesbian #TransRightsAreHumanRights #transgender #diversity #equity #inclusion #DiversityEquityInclusion #DefianceNotCompliance #GOPLies #gopcowards

Something that seems like it's gone under the radar is #PBS shutting down their #deia program and firing the program management. This is an infuriating and disappointing move by PBS to choose #compliance in advance rather than #defiance. Every inch we give to the #fascists is an inch we may never get back. Hold strong and #resist. The #resistance is having an effect, #muskrat and co are not invincible and your efforts matter.

Please call your local station and send a message to PBS headquarters. Tell them you are unhappy with their decision to support an illegal #coup of #hate, #violence, and #sciencedenial #sciencedenialism. Media needs to remain independent and unafraid of #fascism, something the big media #corporations have seemingly forgotten.

https://apnews.com/article/pbs-diversity-close-office-bb7dafa39af3345a134475f28848cbbf

https://www.pbs.org/publiceditor/feedback/

With public broadcasters pressured by the Trump administration, PBS shuts down its diversity office

During a time of pressure on public broadcasters, PBS says that it is shutting down its office of diversity, equity and inclusion and firing the two executives who staffed it. With the system getting federal grant money for its children's programming, PBS lawyers judged the move necessary to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order on DEI efforts. But Paul Kerger, PBS CEO, said some of the system's 330 individual stations may have their own DEI officials and may make a different determination. PBS and NPR officials are expected to appear at a congressional hearing next month amid some calls that the federal government stop funding public broadcasting.

AP News
Obbie KingFeb 3, 2025

"What Democrats need, now, is to discover their spine, and to articulate a set of values that they do not flinch from... the point is to take a stand with principle and integrity, and to let that guide draw the voters to them.

"...If Democrats fight.. they might find that it is the fighting itself that proves persuasive. They have already tried compromise; they have already tried capitulation. It is time to try defiance." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/03/democrats-opposition-trump #DefianceNotCompliance

Why are the Democrats so spineless?

No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats as out of touch, opportunistic and cowardly. That is because they are

The Guardian