Politics Turned 'Trash TV': The Global Spectacle of Governance 📺🎭

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Politics Turned 'Trash TV': The Global Spectacle of Governance 📺🎭

There was a time when parliaments and congresses were temples of deliberation. Places where, beyond differences, the future of a nation was supposedly built ...

Do Democracies Always Slide into Dictatorship Eventually?

Two foxes and a chicken walk into a vote… and call it democracy.

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The Murdochs feud like petty royals, but their empire keeps poisoning democracy. Whether it’s Fox News radicalizing the US, Sky News fearmongering in the UK, or the Australian grinding axes here, their media machine exists to distort, divide, and entrench power.
And yet, as they bicker, the damage is done:

#Murdoch #MediaMonopoly #DemocracyInDecline ##MurdochRoyalCommission
https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/the-murdochs-are-feuding-but-their-empire-is-thriving-20250603-p5m4fo.html

The Murdochs are stuck in a multibillion-dollar family feud. The empire they’re fighting over is flourishing

Why is a pair of legacy media companies controlled by a dysfunctional dynasty so popular with investors?

The Sydney Morning Herald
Donald Trump Jr. isn’t lying when he says “This is what we voted for.”
It’s the uncomfortable truth: they voted for humiliation as strength and spite as foreign policy.
And now the whole world is watching.
#Trump #DemocracyInDecline #PoliticsOfGrievance

FDA cuts inspections.

This isn’t just a bureaucratic shuffle—it’s a direct threat to public health.

Want to Make America Healthy Again? Start by demanding food that won’t make us sick.

Deregulation = danger.

Read: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-food-safety-inspections-plans

#MAHA #FoodSafety #Accountability #PublicHealthMatters #DemocracyInDecline

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

"When a country built by immigrants applauds voices that shout others down for simply asking questions, it’s not strength we’re witnessing — it’s insecurity dressed as patriotism. True leadership doesn’t bark. It listens."

#DemocracyInDecline #GlobalPerspective #LeadershipMatters #USPolitics

Ruth Ben-Ghiat Discusses Project 2025

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Heath Mayo, an attorney & founder of an anti-Trump nonprofit group called #PrinciplesFirst, said #Republicans are contradicting themselves by accusing #Biden of #WeaponizingTheJusticeDepartment while at the same time pledging to crush the agency’s #independence & give the president the #power to steer investigations.

#Trump #Criminal #Autocracy #democracy #JeffreyClark #Conspiracy #law #legal #DOJ #SeparationOfPowers #democracyInDecline

A Pall of Hate Darkens Pride Month

"Just as massive plumes of sun-dimming smoke from wildfires now raging north of the border billow over the eastern half of the United States, darkening the sky and driving people indoors, so too has an epidemic of discrimination and hate targeting traditionally marginalized LGBTQ+ communities swept the land, unleashed by demagogues, cynical politicians and bigots. State and local governments from coast to coast are passing repressive bills, banning books and criminalizing people."

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/8/a_pall_of_hate_darkens_pride

#LGBTQ+ #SocialJustice #pride23 #fascism #democracyindecline

A Pall of Hate Darkens Pride Month

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The modern struggle for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people has been waged for over a century. Despite significant gains, the work is sadly far from over as Pride Month begins.

Democracy Now!