@guitarhack

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The real horror, to me, lies in the fact that there is absolutely no vehicle in American journalism for the kind of “sensitive” and “intellectual” and essentially moral/merciless reporting that we all understand is necessary–not only for the survival of good journalism in this country, but for the dying idea that you can walk up to a newsstand and find something that will tell you what is really happening.

~Hunter S. Thompson
From: Fear and Loathing in America https://amzn.to/4hjdQbH [ad]

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“He’s just exuberantly greeting the people!” Yes. He is exuberantly greeting the people by doing the Nazi salute.

“Are you suggesting he’s a Nazi?!” He is a powerful tech-right extremist with a long track record of buying into/spreading racist, white supremacist conspiracies doing the Nazi salute.

Wrote this shortly before the election, as Donald Trump’s closing pitch was to aggressively promise rage, intimidation, and vengeful violence.

Seems appropriate to post it again today.

Donald Trump, American Fascist:

https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/donald-trump-american-fascist

Donald Trump, American Fascist

Trumpism is what a specifically American, twenty-first century version of fascism looks like. And in November, fascism is on the ballot.

Democracy Americana
Of course this isn’t going to magically change everything. Everyone knows that. The bishop knows that. But she asked herself: What is it I can do in this moment? And then took a stand - demonstrating to the nation that this is indeed a choice we can make, whatever form that may take individually.

Madame Vice President ✨️🫡

#usa #vp #potus48 #potus #Harris

Schedule F order "is a blatant attempt to corrupt the federal government by eliminating employees’ due process rights so they can be fired for political reasons" and it'll "create an army of sycophants beholden only to Donald Trump..." - AFGE https://www.afge.org/publication/trump-order-politicizing-federal-workers-threatens-integrity-of-government-work-union-leader-says/
"We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity. Leaders who can subject their particular egos to the pressing urgencies of the great cause of freedom. God give us leaders. A time like this demands great leaders. Leaders whom the fog of life cannot chill, men whom the lust of office cannot buy. Leaders who have honor, leaders who will not lie. Leaders who will stand before a pagan god and damn his treacherous flattery.” -- speech at Purdue University, 1958, Martin Luther King https://newyorktheater.me/2025/01/20/we-need-leaders-not-in-love-with-money-but-in-love-with-justice-not-in-love-with-publicity-but-in-love-with-humanity-mlk-jr/
“We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity” – MLK Jr

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we are officially celebrating today as a federal holiday, spoke about what we need in our leaders during a speech entitled “The Birth of a New Age,&…

New York Theater
The NY Times refuses to cover the murder of Yeremi Colino, which took place in Manhattan the same day as the murder of the UHC CEO, because Colino was an immigrant child killed by a white supremacist who asked whether he could speak English. Just like NYPD refuses to carry out the same kind of manhunt with hourly updates on the killer. They only care about corporate tycoons, not teenagers being killed. This is how they cover for the hate crime.

We’ve gone from people idolising CEOs as heroes, to the public laughing when a VC/startup-oriented bank fails, to CEO assassins becoming spontaneous folk heroes in fairly short order

I think it’s a fair guess that the US is in for a wild ride over the next decade

Cory Doctorow on why he's on Mastodon and only Mastodon.

"Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase."

--thx @JoshuaACNewman for putting this in my timeline!

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again/

Fool Me Twice We Don’t Get Fooled Again – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow