Fascism Watch: Pot-pourri Edition

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Here we go. This is clearing everything else off the deck. At least it’s sorted.

Climate first:

• MAGA Republicans Have a 920-Page Plan to Make Climate Change Worse. Here’s What It Says. You know how one of Trump’s “Day One Dictator” plan is “Drill, drill, drill?” The US is producing more oil than it has at any point in history. It’s bullshit, and about feeding their main backers, the oil industry.
• ‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
• A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube

Elon Musk’s disinformation and fascist propaganda fountain next:

• Musk’s X asks judge to penalize nonprofit researchers tracking rise of hate speech on platform, because it doesn’t work as well if people are aware of it
• Elon Musk Keeps Spreading a Very Specific Kind of Racism
• After inviting Don Lemon to host his show on X, Don Lemon does a critical interview with Elon Musk. If you see any clips of this, Elon’s absolute shock at receiving the most lightly non-softballed question is strikingly evident. He made the decision to fire Lemon right then and there.

Racism:

• How Charlie Kirk Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act – Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is preparing to launch a campaign against MLK and the landmark civil rights law he helped enact. Will the media go along and both-sides this too? I kid, I kid, of course they fucking will, having learned nothing from this:
• Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal
• Texas judge rules that school can punish Black student for having long natural hair
• Jim Crow Still Lingers in Bonham, Civil Rights Lawyers Say
• Abbott Appointee Slams Brakes on American Indian/ Native Studies Course
• GOP Senator Reveals the Sick Truth About the Trump-MAGA Border Scam – It’s not just that a deal might help Biden. It’s that a compromise bill now could prevent Trump and Stephen Miller from doing a much harsher bill later.

Clarence Thomas:

• Clarence Thomas to decide if Trump has immunity for the coup attempt his own wife planned
• The case of Clarence Thomas’s new clerk taints the entire judiciary

Cartoon supervillain evil:

• The Kansas Attorney General Doesn’t Want To Replace Lead Pipes
• Still the Party of Plague: DeSantis makes baseless claim at NH town hall: “Every booster you take, you’re more likely to get COVID as a result.”
• Still the Party of Plague, Part 2: Rand Paul says Fauci should ‘go to prison’ over COVID-19 ‘dishonesty’

Disinformation:

• Fake U.S. local news network exposed as Russia-linked propaganda front: report
• The Russian Disinformation Attack and the Disappearing Rabbit Trick
• Catching Empathy, and How Bots Made You Hate Amber Heard
• AI Audio Deepfakes Are Quickly Outpacing Detection
• Trump demonstrates why ‘Artificial Intelligence’ will be so useful to him

Misc, even within misc:

• Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare — And Fast
• Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law

This is what you get when Republicans have any level of power, anywhere. “Both sides” my shiny metal ass.

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