huntingdon

@huntingdon@mstdn.social
183 Followers
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I have the best followers on Bsky too.

Here's one:

Via Mark Hamill:

This year it feels more like the Farce of July.

@GottaLaff Someone who insults you in DM and then complains when you make it public is both an asshole and a coward.

@SnowshadowII @GottaLaff @HistoPol

Nope. Unsolicited correspondence is NOT private and the recipient has every right to publish it.

In some circumstances doing so would be an asshole move. But if it's an insult then the sender should have NO expectation of privacy.

"That such a regressive, dangerous, gargantuan, and unpopular piece of legislation could get through Congress shows how far Trump has dragged America into modern fascism."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #immigrants #prisons #deportations #Medicaid #SNAP #fascism
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-is-fascism

This is Fascism

Trump’s Big Ugly Bill is fascist — not only in what it does and authorizes, but in how it got enacted

Robert Reich

"Because the greatest obstacle to dictatorship is an educated populace. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

That’s why slave owners prohibited enslaved people from learning to read, fascists burn books, and tyrants close universities.

In their quest to destroy democracy, Trump, Vance, and their cronies are intent on shutting the American mind."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #Republicans #education #books #authoritarianism #tyranny

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-they-hate-higher-education

Why They Hate Education

What Trump, Vance, Stefanik, and Viktor Orban have in common

Robert Reich

"When asked how it was possible the German people ultimately allowed the Nazi Party to rise to power, to take the nation to war, and ultimately to commit the Holocaust, we need not look further that what is happening in our name, using our tax dollars, this very moment in the U.S."

#Trump #Republicans #KilmarAbregoGarcia #immigrants #prisons #torture
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@DrALJONES

Remember the numbers tattooed onto the arms of older Jews? Guess which company was responsible for that.

https://besacenter.org/ibm-holocaust/

IBM and the Holocaust

Twenty years ago this week, my book, IBM and the Holocaust, exposed—backed up by a tower of documentation— that IBM knowingly organized all six phases of the Holocaust: identification, exclusion,

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.