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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. '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?

  3. Online news analysts Francesca Fiorentini and Wajahat Ali “...break down the authoritarian power grab and the indispensable programs – from Medicaid to school lunches – that [Don Trump's #project2025 initiative to scrap all programs which use public funding to serve public needs, ie, to vaporize #publicGoods to the ultimate benefit of private equity] targets under the guise of eliminating programs that 'advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies.'

    “YouTube star Brian Tyler Cohen also joins the show to discuss how Democrats are massively failing to respond while Trump and his MAGA base wreak havoc on the country...”

    #powerGrab #dissolutionOfSeparation #separationOfPowers #wealthTransfer #savingsTransfer #investmentsTransfer #dismantlement #heritageFoundation #corporateSocialism #MAGAplunder #constitution #headlines #news #powerOfThePurse
    poketube.fun/watch?v=jSFq7sLeH

  4. 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

  5. “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”
    — an 887-page document proposing to remake the executive branch, department by department, agency by agency, office by office
    — is an off-the-shelf governing plan for a leader who took office last time with no clear plan and no real ability to govern.

    The book which was edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves of the #Heritage #Foundation, is not about anything as simplistic as being dictator for a day but about #consolidating #authority and #eroding #accountability for the long haul.

    It calls for a relentless #politicizing of the federal government, with presidential appointees overpowering career officials at every turn and agencies and offices abolished on overtly ideological grounds.

    Though it assures readers that the president and his or her subordinates “must be committed to the Constitution and the rule of law,” it portrays the president as the personal embodiment of popular will and treats the #law as an #impediment to conservative governance.

    It elevates the role of #religious #beliefs in government affairs and regards the powers of Congress and the judiciary with dismissiveness.

    There may be plenty worth jettisoning from the executive branch, but
    👉 “Mandate for Leadership” is about #capturing the administrative state, not unmaking it.

    🔸The main conservative promise here is to wield the state as a tool for concentrating power and entrenching ideology.🔸
    #project2025 #authoritarianism
    #heritagefoundation
    #TrumpIsJustATool

    nytimes.com/2024/02/29/opinion