Notices by Joshua Holland (joshuaholland@mastodon.social)

"You can support a lawyer’s right to represent unpopular clients and causes against powerful forces — essentially the oath we all took when becoming members of the bar. Or you can sit back, check your bank balance and watch your freedoms, along with the legal system and the tripartite system of government we should not take for granted, swirl down the drain."
#trump #fascism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/opinion/perkins-coie-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.704.9VUx.pgkjYo4B6N9s&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare#

This is election bribery under Wisconsin law. It's a class I felony punishable by up to 3.5 years in jail.

He deleted the twoot.
#elonmusk #fascism #corruption #electionfraud #maga

“'What I’m saying is hang on to your stock,' Musk said."

And while he was saying this to the rank-and-file, board members and other insiders have been cashing out in a big way. (https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tesla-board-members-executive-sell-off-100-million/story?id=119889047)

Exactly the same thing happened at Enron when things started to go south.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-21/elon-musk-asks-tesla-employees-to-hang-on-to-stock-despite-40-drop
#elonmusk #tesla #trump

Focusing on the 20 or so unknown people who have burned #Tesla s rather than the remarkable success of a grassroots campaign to devalue Musk’s brand is dishonest and just amplifies the right’s propaganda.

The right response is, ‘when you let a deranged billionaire buy and rampage through our gov causing massive harm to the American people you should expect outrage. In a country that venerates violent opposition to tyrants, you should expect a few to take it to extremes’ #doge #elonmusk

It would be good if the press mentioned that fentanyl deaths are declining "in large part due to concerted efforts to curb trafficking by the Joe Biden administration in cooperation with other countries, namely China and Mexico." And that Canada is responsible for almost none of the US supply.

#media #trump #tariffs #canada #mexico #china #trumprecession https://www.cfr.org/article/how-does-fentanyl-reach-united-states

It's especially galling after they spent years spinning these ludicrous conspiracy theories about a cautious, law-abiding, norm-respecting administration "weaponizing" the government against conservatives.

Every time I see a media outlet refer to Musk’s ideological purge of public servants as a “cost-cutting” exercise my blood pressure just spikes. #media #trump #fascism #elonmusk

During a previous administration, I was led to believe that this—and voters’ feelings about it—was the only story that really matters.
#trump #media #inflation

Any member of the House can file articles of impeachment under a privileged resolution against Trump for selling the federal government to the biggest donor of all time and shirking his duty to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. It would be tabled, but it would also be covered.

In BC, they're pulling booze produced in red states from liquor store shelves. I like the targeting.

#trump #maga #tariffs #inflation #canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-us-tariffs-1.7448307

No Chuck, I'm worried about the fact that a deranged, drugged-up, unelected fascist billionaire has taken control of the federal government's payment systems and sensitive data and you're here talking about tomato prices.

#democrats #trump #fascism #elonmusk

It doesn't matter how egregious or obviously racist Trump's lies are, they just write down whatever the guy who averaged 20.9 "false or misleading statements" every day during his first term says and print it.

#trump #media #fascism

Trump wasted no time violating the Constitutional requirement that he “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

Pardoning the seditious thugs who rioted as part of your failed coup attempt would certainly be an impeachable offense in South Korea.
#trump #fascism #Jan6

“The political ideas #Livelsberger details in his manifestos – the political ideas that contributed to him building a bomb, driving it across state lines, and blowing himself up with it – were not the avant-garde ravings of a new kind of extremist. They were the kinds of sentiments that would be right at home on Donald Trump’s Truth Social, Elon Musk’s X, or your uncle’s Facebook page. And that’s more troubling than the alternative.”
#fascism #maga #elonmusk #trump
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2025/01/davis-why-the-media-mostly-ignored-the-tesla-bombers-shockingly-mainstream-manifesto/66654/

I’m launching a Stop Calling #AntiVax Nutjobs “Skeptics” Challenge for 2025.

Immunologists are the real vaccine skeptics, just as climatologists are the real climate change skeptics.

It’s called the scientific method. They don’t believe anything unless repeatable studies find compelling evidence for it and are open to revising their views as new data come along. Skeptics.

#media #trump #rfkj

I don’t wanna get out of bed #dogsofmastodon

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs man who v̶o̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶purchased the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
#elonmusk #fascism #aga #immigration
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/27/elon-musk-contemptible-fools-maga-doge

I’ve never donated to #Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
#elonmusk #fascism #censorship
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-takes-aim-wikipedia-fund-raising-editing-political-woke-2005742

One slim reason for hope is that the "guardrails" that #Trump famously cast off were very right-wing people who weren't insane and knew how to govern. Whackadoodle extremists don't compromise and love to fight. And when they're the only party with power, they'll fight each other.
#maga #fascism
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-fear-speaker-battle-cant-certify-election-2005510

Look, you don’t have to think Trump’s a master of 5-d chess to acknowledge that he has a gift for playing the press. Dude’s a sleazy developer with a long history of failure whose daddy’s tax fraud scheme made him a millionaire at age 8 and his entire image is a fabrication.

This shit is a distraction. “Look over there at Greenland,” he says while he picks our pockets and stacks the federal government with fascist crackpots.
#trump #fascism #media

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/us/politics/trump-greenland-panama-canal.html