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  1. Wonkette's newest columnist, Brooke Binkowski, opens up the current fascist playbook and discovers that it was written by the same people who gave us Project 2025: The Heritage Foundation.
    A well-funded assortment of fossil fuel oligarchs and anti-democratic tech bros are paying to stir up easily-influenced "alpha males" who take to the streets where they foment clashes that lay the groundwork for right-wing crackdowns.
    Blocking British immigration ports of entry is this week's episode, but January 6, 2021 was an earlier one.
    PS: The Heritage Foundation's "Project2025" is the public blueprint for fascist rule in the USA.
    wonkette.com/p/merrie-olde-mob
    #Fascism #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #Dover #UKPolitics #USPolitics #BrookeBinkowski #Wonkette

  2. #RawAmerica host #CorinneStraight breaks down #ElonMusk, in the midst of Trump and the #GOP 's absolute RUINATION of airports across the country, attempting to BUY OFF and PRIVATIZE all of TSA for his AND #Project2025 authors the #HeritageFoundation 's gain... youtu.be/jbNsZkNXxho?...

    Elon Musk FAILS To BUY OFF All...

  3. #RawAmerica host #CorinneStraight breaks down #ElonMusk, in the midst of Trump and the #GOP 's absolute RUINATION of airports across the country, attempting to BUY OFF and PRIVATIZE all of TSA for his AND #Project2025 authors the #HeritageFoundation 's gain... youtu.be/1rIJA720sc4?...

    Nova Scotia's new space launch...

  4. A good take from Hannah Gais on Nick Fuentes' recent appearance on Tucker Carlson's podcast, the back-and-forth about it on the right, and what it all might say about where they're collectively heading.

    She writes:

    There’s plenty of hypocrisy to point out here. For one, Heritage is the author of Project Esther, a guidebook for cracking down left-wing anti-Zionist student protesters on college and university campuses. One of its top priorities is to “expose the critical resources fueling antisemitism” through what it dubs the “Hamas Support Network.”

    But that’s not what I want to focus on here. Instead, I want to explore the question that has been nagging me since I first learned of Fuentes’ appearance on Tucker Carlson: How did we get here? And, in the long term, what does it mean?

    postsfromunderground.ghost.io/

    #NickFuentes #TuckerCarlson #AlexJones #UniteTheRight #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #LeadershipInstitute #AltRight #ProjectEsther #antisemitism

  5. Ich finde Trumps und JD Vances Verhalten so Ekel erregend und erschreckend.
    Eigentlich müsste man sich über dieses alberne Verhalten kaputtlachen - aber es ist der Präsident der USA. Einst eine doch respektable und wichtige Person. Heute sind Trump und vor allem seine Hintermänner (!) die gefährlichsten Menschen mit den übelsten Absichten. #Medien
    @tagesschau @ZDF @zeitonline @dlf

    #faschismus #absolutismus #Project2025 #HeritageFoundation
    youtube.com/shorts/uO_o16oPyq4

  6. 'Severe pushback': #HouseRepublicans fear constituent revolt over divisive new proposal

    by Carl Gibson, 8/13/2025

    "House Republicans are now pondering whether to pursue another major legislative push involving #Medicaid later this year, just months after narrowly passing President Donald #Trump's massive tax and spending policy. But some are hesitant out of fear for how their constituents would react.

    "Politico reported Wednesday that the Republican Study Committee (RSC) – which is made up of 189 Republican members of Congress — has invited a controversial figure to its Thursday meeting that suggests the GOP may make even steeper cuts to Medicaid this year or in early 2026. According to the outlet, #ParagonHealth Institute president #BrianBlase, who is credited as the architect of Republicans' Medicaid cuts in the #OneBigBeautifulBillAct, to this week's meeting.

    "Blase's address to the RSC comes as Republicans plot whether to embark on another legislative crusade before the end of the year, even though the tax and spending bill almost failed to pass despite Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress. While no official details have emerged, Politico reported that Blase's invitation likely means that future Medicaid cuts could be on the table.

    "Changes to Medicare may also be included in the conversation, as Blase will be accompanied by #DemetriousKouzoukas, who leads Paragon's Medicare Reform Initiative. According to its website, Paragon is focused on changes to #Medicare and #Medicaid policy, and its leadership and board have numerous ties to #FarRight policy groups like the #HeritageFoundation (which created #Project2025) and the #FederalistSociety.

    "Not all Republicans are on board with another divisive vote on additional Medicaid cuts. Rep. #MikeFlood (R-Neb.) reportedly warned that there would be
    '#SeverePushback' against any attempt to impose new cuts to the popular program that provides health insurance to #LowIncome and #disabled Americans.

    "Politico's Benjamin Guggenheim and Meredith Lee Hill also reported that there is little appetite for another bitter legislative battle given the work House Republicans are facing when they return to Washington after Labor Day. They wrote: 'A major fight over government funding looms, as well as the expiration of the #ACATaxCredits — which could lead to drastic hikes in some Americans’ #HealthInsurance premiums.' "

    msn.com/en-us/news/politics/se

    #Resist #Revolt #TaxBreaksForTheRich #MedicaidCuts #SNAPCuts #MedicareCuts #BigUglyBill #ACACuts #TrumpSucks #TrumpHatesThePoor #GOPWillEatItself #EvenMAGAsAreWakingUp?

  7. "#Ethics experts said #ClarenceThomas’ undisclosed ties to the #Koch network could call his impartiality in the case into doubt. This sort of potential conflict is why the judiciary has rules against both political activity and fundraising, they said. 'Parties litigating in the court before #JusticeThomas don’t know the extent of Thomas’ relationship with the parties on the other side,' said James Sample, a Hofstra University law professor who studies judicial ethics. 'You have to be pretty cynical to not think that’s a problem.' "

    #OligarchCamp
    #BohemianGrove
    #SCOTUS
    #ImpeachClarenceThomas
    #ChevronDoctrine
    #NDRC
    #KochIndustries
    #Oligarchy
    #CorruptSCOTUS
    #SCOTUSIsCompromised
    #Corporatocracy
    #Oiligarchy
    #EnvironmentalProtections
    #BigOilAndGas
    #CorporatePolluters
    #HeritageFoundation
    #ClimateDeniers
    #WaterIsLife
    #AirIsLife

  8. #ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events

    by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
    Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDT

    Excerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

    " 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.

    "While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.

    "The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.

    "The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.

    "In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.

    "By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.

    "Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."

    Read more:
    propublica.org/article/clarenc

    #OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife

  9. A #MustRead of signs of things to come:

    Gas und Öl statt Klimaschutz: Wer Trumps Pläne nach Deutschland bringt –
    eine @correctiv_org Recherche von @AnnikaJoeres @elenakolb @katahuth

    "#CORRECTIV hat Geldflüsse verfolgt, ist politischen und wirtschaftlichen Verbindungen nachgegangen, die von den USA über Ungarn bis hinein in die Spitzenpositionen der deutschen Politik reichen. Das Ergebnis: In Deutschland gehört zu diesem Netzwerk nicht nur das #PrometheusInstitut von Frank #Schäffler. Auch CDU-nahe Verbände, wirtschaftsliberale Institutionen wie das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (#IW) und Politiker der #FDP und #CDU sind eng mit umstrittenen Organisationen in den USA verbandelt – einige profitieren offenbar auch finanziell.

    Zwar haben viele der Ökonomen und neoliberalen Thinktanks nichts oder wenig mit den irrationalen und rassistischen Ideen von Donald #Trump gemein, aber sie teilen in der #Klimapolitik einige Überzeugungen – etwa die, noch weiter Öl und Gas zu nutzen. Viele stehen der FDP und, wie unsere Recherche zeigt, zunehmend auch der CDU nahe. Neben Trump kommt noch ein zweiter autoritärer Staatschef ins Spiel: der ungarische Ministerpräsident Viktor #Orbán. Er verbündet sich mit konservativen Organisationen in Deutschland, bis hin zu einem CDU-Thinktank. […]

    Die Ziele der häufig reinen Männerzirkel: Sie fordern einen ungebremsten Markt. Und wenden sich gegen schnell wirksame, klimapolitische  Maßnahmen wie ein #Verbrenner-Verkaufsverbot, ein #Tempolimit oder einen Ausstieg aus #Gas und #Kohle. Sie wollen ihre Überzeugungen global verbreiten und damit Regierungen beeinflussen."

    @klimagerechtigkeit
    @verkehrswende

    correctiv.org/aktuelles/klimaw

    #FrankSchäffler #LarsFeld #HansWernerSinn #TomGPalmer #JustusHaucap #Alsleben #ChristineCarboni #PetschnerMultari #CDU #CSU #FDP
    #PrometheusInstitut #DieFamilienunternehmer #Nous #IW #INSM #TheRepublic
    #TempletonFoundation #AtlasNetzwerk #AtlasNetwork #HeartlandInstitute #CatoInstitute #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #AmericansforTaxReforms #DanubeInstitute #MCCInstitut
    #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen #Klimaschmutzlobby #Klimaschutzblockierer #FossileLobby #DelayIsTheNewDenial
    #Verkehrswende #Mobilitätswende #Energiewende #VerbrennerAus #Tempolimit #PushUndPull #Klimaschutz #Klimaschutzgesetz #GutesKlimaGesetz
    #signofthingstocome

  10. #FourYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    November 19, 2020 – Trump officials refused to brief President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team about its plans to distribute a coronavirus vaccine — despite projections showing that the virus death toll could reach 400,000 by February.

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  11. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    This indicated a conflict of interest that could have violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids government officials from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

    3/3

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  12. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    One diplomat told the Washington Post, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’”

    2/

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  13. #EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff

    November 18, 2016 – Even though he said he would not settle the case, Donald Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle his Trump University fraud lawsuits. The real estate seminar program was not an accredited university and used misleading marketing tactics to recruit students.

    #CriminalTrump #TrumpKakistocracy #ResistFascism #TrumpIsSatan #PresidentWiles #NoRepublicansEverAgain #VoteBlue #GOP #Project2025 #Agenda47 #HeritageFoundation #WeirdGOP #USPol

  14. Pildes, the NYU professor, said that while he was concerned about efforts to block certification at the local level,
    he was confident that state courts could resolve any disputes by the time the electors meet.

    A new law, the 🔸Electoral Count Reform Act🔸, should provide a significant new layer of protection against election subversion.

    The bipartisan bill passed Congress at the end of 2022.

    The law makes it so that Trump and his allies cannot repeat what they did in 2020 and submit false slates of electors from key swing states.

    Significantly, it says that the slate of electors submitted by a state’s executive is the legitimate slate and raises the threshold in both houses of Congress to object to the electoral result.

    While the law controls what Congress must do once it receives certificates from electors,
    it doesn’t have much to say about what must happen in the lead-up to the electoral college vote.

    🔥That could leave a lot of wriggle room for Trump and allies to try to slow down certification and go to court to try to force states to miss their certification deadline.

    After Donald Trump nearly succeeded in overturning the 2020 election, ❓is the US better prepared to stop a similar effort in 2024?❓

    Lawyers and other activists say they are ready, having spent the last four years studying and understanding the vulnerabilities that Trump and allies targeted in 2020.

    Any effort to block certification is likely to be swiftly challenged in courts,
    where Trump has already been unsuccessful dozens of times.

    The new Electoral Count Reform Act should offer additional safeguards should there be an effort such as there was in 2020 to get Congress to stop its certification of the vote

    Yet it would be a mistake to dismiss the threat altogether.

    The same pressure points that existed in 2020 exist in 2024,
    and in some places election deniers have been elevated to positions of power.

    “This has started earlier in the cycle and is louder and is more consistent,” said Morales-Doyle of the Brennan Center.

    “That is all just at a different level than it was before 2020.”

    (5/5)

    #Aguilar #timeline #misleading #evidence #affidavits #county #boards #refused #reversed #Brennan #Center #Protect #Democracy #Howell #HeritageFoundation #network #Bobb #poll #observers #Elias #Giuliani #Ellis #Powell

    theguardian.com/us-news/articl

  15. Since 2020, there have been at least 20 instances in eight states of election officials refusing to certify election results.

    The first red flag came in 2022, when county commissioners in 🔹Otero county, New Mexico, refused to certify the results of a primary election,
    citing vague concerns about voting equipment.

    The secretary of state eventually went to court to force the commissioners to certify the election.

    In July of this year, two Republicans on the county commission in 🔹Washoe county, Nevada
    – a key county in a battleground state
    – refused to certify its primary vote, setting off alarms.

    The commissioners who refused to certify eventually reversed themselves.

    Nevada’s secretary of state, Cisco #Aguilar, has since asked the state supreme court to clarify that county commissioners have an obligation to certify votes.

    Sometimes election officials who refuse to certify have pointed to mistakes that happened during the election, even though they did not affect the outcome.

    In other cases, like Adams’s in Georgia, officials have refused to certify to protest about what they view as unfair laws.

    While courts would probably force recalcitrant officials to certify the vote, significant damage could still be caused.

    “You can force certification through legal mechanisms, [but] those events tend to be like rocket fuel for conspiracy theories and misinformation and undermining confidence in the election.

    So there’s damage done even where certification is eventually forced,” said Berwick, the "Protect Democracy" lawyer.

    The #timeline for certifying the vote is important because,
    under federal law,
    👉states must have an official election result by 11 December,
    six days before the electoral college meets.

    💥Delaying certification efforts at the local level could put states at risk of missing that deadline.

    “If we get past that deadline, it opens up a lot of questions, like tricky legal questions and room for shenanigans,” Berwick said.

    (4/N)
    #misleading #evidence #affidavits #county #boards #refused #reversed #Brennan #Center #Protect #Democracy #Howell #HeritageFoundation #network #Bobb #poll #observers #Elias #Giuliani #Ellis #Powell

  16. Any effort to challenge the election results will probably start at the local level.

    Just as there was in 2020, there’s likely to be a period of uncertainty after election day when votes are still being counted in key swing states.

    Two of those, 🔹Wisconsin and 🔹Pennsylvania, still do not allow election officials to begin to process mail-in ballots until election day.

    “I’m definitely concerned that you’re gonna have a lot of efforts to disturb the process of counting those votes, if we go into the late evening, early hours of the next day and all of that,”
    said Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University who specializes in election law.

    The observers amassed by Cleta Mitchell and the RNC could have a significant role.

    In 2020, chaotic confrontations at polling sites offered #misleading #evidence
    that Trump and allies used in their effort to try to overturn the election.

    Trump’s effort to challenge the election results in 🔹Arizona, for example, was undergirded by #affidavits from observers and poll watchers who falsely claimed they saw ballots being
    ❌ rejected because of the type of pen voters were using.

    In 🔹Georgia, Trump pointed to reports from observers in Atlanta falsely claiming they were
    ❌removed from the facility where mail-in ballots were counted.

    In 🔹Michigan, Trump’s team used as evidence an “incident report” from an election observer who falsely said she heard workers giving instructions to
    ❌ count a rejected ballot.

    Accusations of fraud may find a receptive audience at #county #boards responsible for certifying elections.

    Until 2020, no one gave much thought to these positions, sometimes filled by elected officials and other times by little-known party loyalists.

    In 2020, Trump’s campaign made a strong effort to try to ⚠️delay certification at the local and state level as part of his effort to overturn the election.

    In Wayne county, home of 🔹Detroit, Trump personally called two Republican canvassers on the board responsible for certifying the vote there. The two officials ⚠️briefly #refused to certify, then #reversed themselves and did.

    At the state level, Aaron Van Langevelde, a Republican on the state board of canvassers, faced ⚠️pressure not to certify the vote, but decided to anyway.

    In 🔹Wisconsin, Republicans nearly got the state supreme court to ⚠️block certification of the state’s election.

    In 🔹Arizona, Trump called the then governor, Doug Ducey, as he was certifying the vote amid a pressure campaign to ⚠️stop the certification of votes there.

    (3/N)

    #Brennan #Center #Protect #Democracy #Howell #HeritageFoundation #network #Bobb #poll #observers #Elias #Giuliani #Ellis #Powell

  17. @w7voa

    Of course #NOAA is one of the government services that #project2025 wants to scrap.

    Why #Trump and the #heritagefoundation wants to keep us ignorant of the world we live in is mysterious to me. Could be that the #Petrogarchs don’t like #climatechange talk

    One of many reasons to vote for #kamalaharris

    #Election2024 #uspol #uspolitics #politics

  18. theintercept.com/2024/07/09/ga

    A spokesperson for the Heritage Foundation said Wednesday that the files were not obtained by hacking its systems, but that SiegedSec discovered them on a third party’s site.

    I like a cope messaging strategy in which you state on public record that your opponent has broken no laws while nonetheless threatening to jail and torture them

    #project2025 #heritagefoundation #fascism #maga #SiegedSec #corruption