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🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.
Farage is winning because politics has been reduced to clickbait.

It’s a shallow spectacle that favours clowns and con-artists.

As @jemmaforte.bsky.social says here - politics has been “repackaged into junk food.”

But there are ways for the left to fight back 👇🏻
The political entertainment industry
📝 A guest essay...
writesbright.substack.com
Wait — what? “Covid… Maui fires… Epstein…”? Finish the sentence, dude.

Another snake oil salesman in the great American tradition.
“… and the castrati up on Capitol Hill are not going to do a gosh-darned thing about it.” Hah!
The Founders knew Congress - especially the House - was the backbone of U.S. democracy. It should be a huge story that Mike Johnson, serving Trump, has all but shut it down

From the Reichstag Fire to Putin's toothless Duma, this is what dictators do. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
It didn’t take a Reichstag Fire to burn down Congress | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, what’s troubling about Maine’s Nazi tattoo flap.
www.inquirer.com
Entartete Kunst has entered the chat.
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Wow yesssss this is the way….ICE Nazis were about to kidnap some brown folk in Wheeling, IL until a hero emerged and they ran away like the masked cowards that they all are

"I'll Venmo you some cash you broke bitch!"

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Bodacious cowboys will never be welcome here.
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What have the news media been thinking as they’ve normalized and empowered MAGA fascism over the last decade? I took an intrepid journey inside the media’s brain to find out.
Read my free Stop the Presses newsletter.
My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain
What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.
www.stopthepresses.news
+ rare sighting of the great James Jamerson:
Of course not, @washingtonpost.com. The irrationality is the point. The struggle is the point. There is no end game — it’s an endless game. That’s how fascism works. You still don’t get it.
“Franklin Roosevelt’s words of November 4, 1938, are worth recalling:

“‘I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism will grow in strength in our land.’”
Ur-Fascism
Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995
theanarchistlibrary.org
“When a president and his aides are doing that, it’s no longer America.”
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
newrepublic.com
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"We've been telling you for some time that Donald Trump is an authoritarian, and now there's a new threat, which is we might not be allowed to tell you that anymore." - @saletan.bsky.social
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Last week, Fox News Host Brian Kilmeade said we needed to kill 700,000 Americans by involuntary lethal injection.

Today Fox News Host Jesse Watters said we need to “Bomb” the UN Building in New York City.

Yes, Fox News suggested bombing a building on U.S. soil.
A building full of world leaders.
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I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. Donald Trump is a senile old codger, standing before the United Nations, reading a speech clearly written by an alt right lunatic and a bunch of oil and gas lobbyists. Well done, U.S. voters. You really fucked this one up.
“Even if the boats’ occupants were, as the administration alleges, carrying illegal drugs…that offense would at most have authorized their arrest, trial and, if convicted, incarceration for a period of years. It would not authorize the death penalty, much less their summary execution without trial.”
Getting Away with Murder | David Cole
During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose
www.nybooks.com
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The truth hurts: Kash Patel is the least qualified FBI Director in history. On his watch, white supremacists run free, qualified staff are pushed out, and he refuses to even name right-wing extremism as the top threat. I have ZERO confidence in him to keep Americans safe.
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Knockout piece.

‘Trump’s recent comments attempting to whitewash slavery are part of a broader movement to replace critical thinking with what I call “Uncritical Race Theory” …’
Trump Wants to Bury Slavery. My Family Went South to Unearth It.
Trump wants a populace unaware of the Black freedom struggle — because it is a guide for defeating his fascist plans.
truthout.org