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Wie war das nochmals mit dem Bildschirm in #1984? #bigbrother #enshittification #propaganda
Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Enshittification Meet https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/vizio-shows-what-happens-when-u-s-fascism-and-tv-enshittification-meet/
"The Trump administration is quietly drafting a bold new strategy for combating terrorism that targets a wide range of perceived foes, from Tesla vandals to everyday protesters, intelligence sources say.
White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is leading the effort, which covers both foreign and domestic strategies. Gorka recently boasted that the president has “done a 180 on our counterterrorism policy.” He’s also been quite candid in comparing his political opponents to terrorists, as I’ve written about.
Farewell episode of “The Gorka Reality Check” show in January
The domestic focus derives from the view that foreign control, antisemitism and a conspiracy against Donald Trump are behind everything from Gaza protests to Planned Parenthood. White House insiders firmly believe that protestors are being “paid” to disrupt the Trump agenda, the same sources say. "
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-team-prepping-new-strategy
Ken Klippenstein · Trump Team Prepping New Strategy for Domestic Terrorism
The most influential promoter of #antisemitism in the United States isn’t Elon Musk, with a Sieg Heil salute; nor is it Kanye West, who tweeted that he loved Hitler, or Candace Owens, who promoted the blood-libel conspiracy theory. The pro-Israel lobbying organization #StopAntisemitism wants you to believe the real danger is actually a lady in overalls and a pink headband who sings about how bubble gum is sticky.
The organization, which has spent the past year and a half publicly identifying pro-Palestine protesters, is now coming after Ms. Rachel, a beloved YouTuber known for her videos for babies and toddlers. In a letter posted to social media on Monday, StopAntisemitism asked attorney general Pam Bondi to investigate whether Ms. Rachel is “being funded by a foreign party to push anti-Israel propaganda to skew public opinion” and referred to her as an “amplifier” of pro-Hamas content.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/stop-antisemitism-ms-rachel-doj-investigation
The Guardian · Pro-Israel group asks DoJ to investigate Ms Rachel over posts on Gaza children
Center for Countering Disinformation: How Russia Spreads Propaganda Worldwide Through Journalism Training Courses. “The russian state-owned media company RT continues to spread kremlin propaganda around the world under the guise of training programs. The company has announced the launch of a new large-scale course for foreign journalists.”
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Aaron Gunn’s Residential School Views Have Become an Election Flashpoint
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/11/Aaron-Gunn-Residential-School-Views
Conservative candidate draws protests/criticism
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114287987490964565
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pierre-poilievre-aaron-gunn-1.7503105
#TransLivesMatter #IndigenousRights #TRC #TRCC
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#Poilievre #Trumpism #ChipWison #FarRight #AaronGunn #copaganda #propaganda
Transgenocide
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
Uphold Canadian Values in the 2025 Federal Election
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114305429532018275
AI Slop Farms Are Churning Out Fake Heartwarming Videos About Trump Figures
Machine-made YouTube videos are racking up views while fooling the MAGA faithful.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/ai-slop-donald-trump-youtube/ #AI #Disinformation #Propaganda #Tech #AISlop #MAGA
Mother JonesAI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures Machine-made YouTube videos are racking up views while fooling the MAGA faithful.
One of the stranger things about analyzing Downmarket Mussolini's fascist executive orders is the way folks around me are always prepared to write off some of the most dangerous things Der Leader tries to do as mere "petty vindictiveness." Take for example Trump's recent executive orders targeting a law firm that sued Fox News for spreading lies about an electronic voting machine company, and two former members of his previous administration - a DHS official who refuted Trump's blatantly false claims that the 2020 election was rigged for Joe Biden, and a whistleblower he's accusing of Espionage Act violations and has accused of treason in the past. Is this about revenge for our (not so) beloved tangerine tyrant? Of course, but particularly in the first two cases, this is also about establishing Der Führer's "Big Lie" about the 2020 election being rigged against him, as the only officially sanctioned truth the government, and by extension its judiciary branch, should recognize.
First up we have the president signing an executive order designed to punish Susman Godfrey for forcing the Trump regime's quasi-official state news outlet, Fox, to settle with Dominion Voting Systems after they spent literally months openly broadcasting fascist conspiracy theories about the 2020 election (that Trump lost) being rigged:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-executive-order-fox-news-law-firm
Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit
"Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday punishing the law firm that helped Dominion Voting Systems obtain a $787.5m settlement from Fox for lies about the 2020 election.
The order against the firm, Susman Godfrey, marks the latest effort by the president to punish attorneys and firms who have opposed his interests.
The order seeks to harm the firm by limiting its attorneys from accessing government buildings, revoking security clearances and essentially making it impossible for it to represent anyone who has business before the federal government."
Like a lot of Trump's efforts to punish or intimidate law firms, this blatantly unconstitutional executive order is mostly about trying to put Susman Godfrey out of business by denying them access to the federal government, and the courtrooms it controls. What's telling here is that Trump isn't even trying to make the argument that the firm broke any laws, or violated any rules; no reason for the executive order was given, and the president has only said
"there were some very bad things that happened with these law firms,” because Trump hasn't found a valid excuse for this ideological policing and he's not ready to just up and admit he's trying to take out his perceived political enemies for A) disputing conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and B) forcing his friends at Fox to pay for its libelous claims about Dominion.
Which then brings us to Trump's blatantly authoritarian use of the DoJ to target two of his political "enemies" that served in his administration, but spoke out against the regime and in Krebs's case, actively debunked "The Big Lie" Trump has been telling about the 2020 election being rigged against him since it happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-justice-department-critics
Trump orders DoJ to investigate duo who debunked claims of election fraud
"Donald Trump’s persecution of critics intensified on Wednesday when he ordered the justice department to investigate a whistleblower and a cybersecurity director who refuted unfounded claims of election fraud.
The US president signed memorandums targeting Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs, former homeland security officials who served in the first Trump administration."
Look my friends, I'm not expecting you to find much sympathy for a Big Law firm rolling in filthy lucre, or two former fascist collaborators that are now finding out the leopards will indeed eat their faces, but in this situation the "who" of this story, is far less important than the "what." What Trump is doing here is weaponizing the US government to punish folks for contradicting his "enforced unreality" surrounding the 2020 election, and let me assure you that there are a lot of people in the judiciary, legal profession, and media who have gone on record saying that Trump's claims where baseless (fascist) conspiracy theories, so that isn't just a question of the president arguing with the experts about some bullshit he picked up on Fox News. Furthermore, Trumps actions ultimately seek to make his enemies, the enemies of the United States government; this is a classic sign of a state sliding into an authoritarian dictatorship and thus cannot be dismissed as Trump simply being a petulant vengeful manchild.
Smoke em if you got em, because if Trump gets away with this, we're through the looking glass and his every utterance becomes our new reality.
The Guardian · Trump signs order targeting law firm behind $787.5m Fox defamation suit
“How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressions”
by David Miller, Paul Salvatori and Marion Fernando in Tracking Power Update on Substack
“Marketing female sexuality & establishing a ‘hip’ social media presence are just some strategies Israel employs to distract from the violent crimes it’s committing vs Palestinians”
Tracking Power update · How Israel uses seductive imagery to hide its military transgressions
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@Nachtflug Die Positionen der #NSAfD sind mit den #Programmgrundsätzen und der #FDGO sowie #Grundgesetz unvereinbar.
- #WDR / @wdr, @tagesschau & @ZDF wissen das auch!
Wer #Rassismus und #Faschismus normalisiert hat soch faktisch vom "System" abgemeldet und sollte woe #Lübcke einst sage doch bitte gehen!
- #NieWiederIstJetzt! Wenn ich #Neonazi-#Propaganda sehen wollte, würd' ich nach #Jamel fahren statt #Rundfunkbeitrag zu zahlen!
Wenn überhaupt haben all jene #Beitragszahler*innen die keine deutsche #Staatsbürgerschaft haben #Anrecht auf #Sendezeit!
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Says Trump Supporter Ben Shapiro Is Among Canada’s ‘Allies’ 
https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/10/danielle-smith-says-trump-supporter-ben-shapiro-is-among-canadas-allies
#TransLivesMatter #Christofascism #transgenocide #Poilievre #DanielleSmith #Trumpism #propaganda
Transgenocide
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870
2025 Election: Uphold Values
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw
QuIRK-E Call to Action
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114305429532018275
CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate
#unionize #solidarity #socialism #ecosocialism
Social democracy
https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf
DeSmog · Danielle Smith Says Trump Supporter Ben Shapiro Is Among Canada’s ‘Allies’The Alberta premier defended The Daily Wire podcaster at the Canada Strong and Free Network conference in Ottawa.
Deutschlandfunk's program "Corso - Kunst und Pop" interviewed me two weeks ago, in German, on the current trend of AI-generated memes in Studio Ghibli's visual style
In a nutshell, I said that neither AI-generated fake Studio Ghibli images are new (they could be created, for example, with third-party Stable Diffusion LoRAs for about two years), nor the use of algorithms and generative AI in animation (for example, for drawing backgrounds and in-between frames) - but that we're simply seeing the convergence of trolling, meme culture and manipulated political propaganda images [that already existed in early 20th century fascism and Stalinism] where the main function of AI image generators is to simplify, deskill and industrially accelerate meme generation.
DeutschlandfunkMedienwissenschaftler Florian Cramer über Memes im Stil vom Studio Ghibli
An online influencer whom Elon Musk frequently boosts on X has been conducting in-person interviews with Russian figures and key allies of #Putin
Musk has consistently reposted and engaged with Mario Nawfal, a Dubai-based Australian influencer who with Musk has given a platform to far-right figures and movements around the world.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/mario-nawfal-putin-interview-elon-musk
The Guardian · Elon Musk boosting influencer who platforms far-right Putin allies
Honestly it's so pathetic it's just fun to read:
"It will make you a man" is not quite enough to sell even MAGA men on the idea that it's a good thing to make everyone collectively poorer.
The real key to selling this nonsense is not just to make it about being men, but also hating women."
Salon.com · Fox News, desperate to defend Trump's tariffs, exploits MAGA's masculinity delusions
[YouTube]: WTF is This Take?, Hasand Piker
Greg Gutfeld went on his show to talk about how the Trump Tariffs are actually a test on ones masculinity
https://youtu.be/OLVeWf2DoSc?si=RJEqdlovdRCgCFbQ
I don't watch this .. 'the five' ever. But, this looks just like those Russian propagandists roundtable talk shows we see clips from. Just the same. wtf.
Chief Propagandist "Trump Press Secretary Says Everyone Is Lying About Hating the Tariffs"
https://newrepublic.com/post/193760/donald-trump-press-secretary-everyone-lying-hating-tariffs
According to Karoline Leavitt, all the backlash to Donald Trump’s tariffs is made up.
The New Republic · Trump Press Secretary Says Everyone Is Lying About Hating the TariffsAccording to Karoline Leavitt, all the backlash to Donald Trump’s tariffs is made up.
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Well, there it is…
#Trump has signed #ExecutiveOrders aimed at reviving the #coal industry.
The moves include loosening #environmental #law & #regulations.
Trump signed 4 EOs Tues aimed at expanding the mining & use of coal in the #US.
Flanked by dozens of miners in white hard hats [#propaganda photo op], Trump said he was instructing the #DOJ to identify & fight state policies & regulations that were “putting our coal miners out of business.”
#climate #PublicHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/climate/trump-order-coal-mining.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=5781E5BA-F178-4261-92CB-848513C43ED2
The New York Times · Trump Signs Executive Orders Aimed at Reviving U.S. Coal Industry
NEW in #AssociatedPressVBudowich – the federal case regarding #Trump's ban on #AssociatedPress reporters
Federal judge lifts White House ban on #AP
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden found that when rooms in the White House, like the Oval Office or the East Room, are opened to certain #journalists, the admin cannot block others.
#FourthEstate #FreePress #democracy #censorship #StateMedia #Propaganda #Trumpaganda
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277682/gov.uscourts.dcd.277682.47.0.pdf
![The Associated Press ("AP") moved for a preliminary injunction against the White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Press Secretary (collectively, "the Government"). Am. Mot. Preliminary Inj., ECF No. 27. It sought to enjoin the Government from denying the AP access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other limited spaces because of the AP's viewpoint. The Court granted the AP's preliminary injunction request. Mem. Order, ECF No. [46]. The Court now, on its own motion, stays its Memorandum Order imposing a preliminary injunction through April 13, 2025, to provide the Government time to seek an emergency stay from a higher court and to prepare to implement the Court's injunction. This stay automatically dissolves after April 13, absent further relief from a higher court. For this reason, it is hereby ORDERED that the Court's [46] Memorandum Order Granting Plaintiff's [27] Amended Motion for Preliminary Injunction is STAYED through April 13, 2025. SO ORDERED. Dated: April 8, 2025 TREVOR N. McFADDEN](https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/114/304/429/932/130/076/original/b0a32e7c4d81044c.jpeg "The Associated Press (\"AP\") moved for a preliminary injunction against the White House Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Press Secretary (collectively, \"the Government\"). Am. Mot. Preliminary Inj., ECF No. 27. It sought to enjoin the Government from denying the AP access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other limited spaces because of the AP's viewpoint. The Court granted the AP's preliminary injunction request. Mem. Order, ECF No. [46]. The Court now, on its own motion, stays its Memorandum Order imposing a preliminary injunction through April 13, 2025, to provide the Government time to seek an emergency stay from a higher court and to prepare to implement the Court's injunction. This stay automatically dissolves after April 13, absent further relief from a higher court. For this reason, it is hereby ORDERED that the Court's [46] Memorandum Order Granting Plaintiff's [27] Amended Motion for Preliminary Injunction is STAYED through April 13, 2025. SO ORDERED. Dated: April 8, 2025 TREVOR N. McFADDEN")