Neoliberalism isn’t liberal. it’s the end of Democracy. It oppresses people for resources. it’s the elite running over the people. It’s the right. Still Bernie
BlueLeaks documents provide a picture of a system capable of transforming a threat to a corporation’s bottom line into a security threat to be addressed by police. https://t.co/ebOdW1Fdwc
By distributing private intelligence reports to federal “fusion centers,” industries can influence how law enforcement views threats. https://t.co/dPPzD36f7I
Despite the assumption that the federal death penalty is the “gold standard” for capital cases, defendants often encounter the same poor lawyering and misconduct found in state trials — yet with the benefit of even less judicial scrutiny after the fact. https://t.co/bQMcVpBHLW
Polluters and their agents in government are racing to finalize as many environmental rollbacks as possible before the presidential election. https://t.co/L7iiVRPjcC
The left should understand that many Trump supporters inherently believe that they would fare better under an autocratic system of white supremacy than under a multiracial democracy, writes @IAmRichBenjamin. https://t.co/8xhGjKvoys
Paddock’s anti-government hostilities, his right-wing ideologies, and his violent rampage that night might qualify him as one of the first in a new wave of accelerationists — those harboring a desire to create violent chaos in society, even a civil war. https://t.co/0Jyo2Na4xZ
QAnon’s influence has spread through viral videos on TikTok. The app is awash with conspiracy theories about missing children and the “pedophile elites,” the type of content that can grab the attention of even avowed liberals. https://t.co/iT4HhmLbjQ
The Boojahideen case did something rare: Over the years, the FBI usually uses foreign terror plots to coax would-be adherents of these foreign groups, whereas in the Boojahideen case, the FBI linked up domestic extremists with a foreign terror group. https://t.co/VeW6iM9Eck
Most authoritarianism that exploits corruption is hatched in ethnic favoritism — and this one especially so. Whiteness motivates this autocracy, even as it blinds Americans to its behavior, writes @IAmRichBenjamin. https://t.co/FlqZKs9Yl2
Under Trump, the EPA is finalizing its “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule, which would limit the use of independent science in the agency’s decision-making by employing a strategy first devised by tobacco companies. https://t.co/SRA18KpD3s
The Proud Boys claimed that they would bring legions of dedicated patriots to the city of Portland in a powerful show of strength, but the right-wing gang failed to deliver. https://t.co/KnHb9pRSFV
The lawsuits could set a precedent, making it easier to hold multinational corporations accountable in their home countries for wrongdoing abroad. https://t.co/hWMlfPnXvs
Autocracy isn’t just a question of censorship and violence – it depends on an exclusionary definition of homeland that suppresses ethnic dissent, writes @IAmRichBenjamin. https://t.co/ho6nczEonr
What the Proud Boys Portland rally lacked in numbers, it made up for in paranoia and talk of persecution.
"This is a war, folks," said Carol Leek, the founder of Oregon Women for Trump. "We have got to fight back." https://t.co/wB5dbjjEgN
Trump is especially bad at business, as his taxes demonstrate. What’s remarkable about his fortune is not how big it is but how small, writes @schwarz. https://t.co/DXoaMYpEHB
The president’s leaked taxes are an explosion of many different scandals, like a huge fireworks display on the Fourth of July, writes @Schwarz. https://t.co/WCVW51Jw52