Notices by Joshua Holland (joshuaholland@mastodon.social), page 8

I don’t think the Russians have kompromat on Tucker Carlson, which makes his supine groveling even more pathetic. He just enjoys creating propaganda for authoritarians.

Remember that he basically produced the same program in Hungary a couple of years back. #fascism #russia #media

“The fact that nothing has come of it has kind of astonished her, who along with all the others had been the focal point of such an intense investigation,” the woman’s lawyer said. “For them to go through all that and then for the target of the investigation to just get a wink and a nod has created for some of them a loss of faith in the system.”
#maga #gaetz
https://www.thedailybeast.com/witness-told-feds-she-was-paid-for-sex-parties-with-matt-gaetz

These outlets all have editors who are old enough to remember Biden being famously “gaff-prone” in his 30s and 40s. There’s no excuse for this. It’s her emails all over again.

They’re making it a profound issue by choice. They’re choosing to make it rise to the center of the campaign.

They could choose to make Trump’s consistent incoherence a profound and rising issue in the campaign but they choose to ignore or even edit his blather into linear form.

“A 44-year-old man accused of violently attacking and killing his father Sunday night was deemed by a longtime family friend as a "delusional conspiracy theorist”…[who] recently learned his father had received the vaccine.”

Someone should tally up the #QAnon/#antivaxx death toll during the Trump era. It’s high, with a number of cases involving people murdering family members.

https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/region-c-palm-beach-county/stop-you-are-killing-me-dad-pleas-during-sons-fatal-attack-deputies-say

Nothing is more ludicrous than the idea that our heavily militarized borders are “open,” yet millions of Americans believe it because #propaganda, when consistently repeated, is highly effective. #immigration

Naked #fascism...

#gop

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg54mg/republicans-push-to-legalize-property-owners-killing-homeless-people-in-kentucky

American cops set a new record for killing people in 2023, with 1,329.

The number of people they've killed has increased in every year since the racial justice movement of 2020.

There were only 14 days without a police killing last year.

#police#acab

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

An under appreciated aspect of American cultural hegemony is that the fascist derp generated by Fox and the rest of our right-wing alt-media goes global just like Disney flicks.
#transphobia #lgbtq #russia
https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/14/st-petersburg-governor-says-russian-soldiers-who-have-seen-gender-neutral-bathrooms-in-ukraine-understand-what-they-are-fighting-for

Squirrel made another appearance in the backyard this am so this is what Emma will be doing for the next week. #dogsofmastodon

Pretty shocking that the guy who incited a violent insurrection when he lost last time isn’t ruling out violence if he loses this time. Glad I was sitting down for that one.
#trump #fascism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/09/trump-comments-violence-bedlam/

@freemo He has repeatedly claimed that he believes in the principle of free speech and these people didn't say a single thing to get banned.

Xitter suspended, without explanation, Steven Monacelli, Ken Klippenstein, Rob Rousseau, the TrueAnon podcast and almost certainly others. And I’d still bet my last dollar that I’ll soon read an article that describes Musk as devoted to free speech. #elonmusk #fascism

An important fuck you to the Crazy Caucus. Looking forward to their heads exploding. #gop #uspol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/07/congress-budget-deal/

Once past the headline on this, you have to dig through 10 graphs about how GOPers have come to embrace RW propaganda about Jan 6 before learning that 55% say it was “an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten,” 56% think #Trump committed crimes and 46% think he should be disqualified. #magacoup #media #14thamendment

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/02/jan-6-poll-post-trump/

People are more likely to believe false information that they hear repeatedly than accurate info they are only exposed to occasionally. It's called The Illusory Truth Effect and it often feels like right-wingers and social psychologists are the only people in America who get it.

From: @JoshuaHolland
https://mastodon.social/@JoshuaHolland/111671308424776394

I think the real story here is that #NikkiHaley understood that she's vying for the nomination of a neo-confederate party whose base wants to hear that it was a War of Northern Aggression. #gop #whitesupremacy #civilwar

Preventing a guy who attempted a coup from fulfilling his promise to become a dictator on day one is fraught for democracy, gaslighters say

#media #magacoup #14thamendment

True that SCOTUS will figure out some reason to overturn but lack of conviction is a red herring. Being ineligible doesn't deprive you of life, liberty or property and the authors of 14A didn't require conviction bc they were barring 1000s of confederates and trying them all would've been impossible.

#trump #14thamendment #magacoup #media #scotus

Any major party candidate can win but the idea that Trump has a good chance is based on people not understanding that polls 6 months before the general election starts are referenda on the incumbent rather than reflective of a choice and confusing GOP primary voters’ lack of concern over Trump’s crimes with the general electorate’s.
#Election2024

WaPo workers are walking out on Thursday. They're asking that we show solidarity and respect their digital picket line by not engaging with any Washington Post content on Dec 7. #labor #media