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Fascism’s Global Spread Is as Real as the Pandemic’s
When Mussolini and Hitler were still upstarts fighting to barge into the political mainstream in Italy and Germany, politicians of the left, center, and traditional right dismissed them as oddities who would either disappear or be absorbed into the parlia ...[Read more]
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Facebook Board Announces Trump Remains Banned. Trump Starts His Own “Platform”
“The Board has upheld Facebook’s decision on January 7, 2021, to restrict then-President Donald Trump’s access to posting content on his Facebook page and Instagram account,” the board said in a much-anticipated statement this morning. The decisio ...[Read more]
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The tide is turning against conservatism as the failures of the greed-based ideology are exposed
Blame the covid. Nothing in the last 40 years has better exposed conservatism's unique weaknesses. Nothing has better exposed liberalism's unique strengths. To be sure, competition and economic self-interest are important qualities, but they cannot be all ...[Read more]
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‘Extreme right wing’ terrorism on the rise as the Home Office focuses on Muslims | The Canary
Counter-terrorism statistics from 2020 show a number of 'extreme right wing' terrorism cases - why doesn't Home Office policy reflect that? ...[Read more]
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Some Right-Wing Troops Find Themselves Targeted by Their Own War Machine
To Hawkeye, the implications were apparent: Calling someone an insurgent or terrorist implied permission to marginalize him, strip him of his rights, detain him, hunt him, and kill him. He’d done this himself to people tagged with those labels overseas. ...[Read more]
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Little-known court case helps to put the pieces together in cop dragging during Capitol insurrection
According to CNN, the federal agency's investigative illustration offers a startling depiction of the Capitol riots that is completely different from the rhetoric that former President Donald Trump and his right-wing conservative followers have attempted ...[Read more]
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Minnesota to ban cops from affiliating with white supremacist groups: report
"Minnesota's police licensing board on Thursday agreed to pursue new rules for law enforcement responses to protests and a ban on officers affiliating with white supremacist groups," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Thursday. "The 16-member Minnesota ...[Read more]
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Noted Norwegian COVID Conspiracy Theorist Dies of COVID.
Gaarder — although not an Amerian — certainly believed like a certain kind of one. He was an aficionado of 2020 US electoral conspiracy theories. He had a beef with the Illuminati. But his real passion was COVID denial. As late as March 18, he was on ...[Read more]
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Presidential historian lays out the reasons why George Floyd’s death sealed Trump’s fate as a one-term president
A week after Floyd's death, on June 1, 2020, nonviolent protesters in Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square were demanding justice for him when they were violently removed by police so that Trump and his allies could walk from the White House to St. John's ...[Read more]
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‘Racist, Unconstitutional, and Anti-Democratic’: Florida Senate Passes GOP Anti-Protest Bill
After Florida's Senate Republicans on Thursday passed an undemocratic anti-protest bill—expected to be signed into law by its chief proponent, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, as early as next week—the state's ACLU chapter condemned GOP lawmakers for "ai ...[Read more]
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‘Inmates run the asylum’: Political observers stunned by QAnon congresswoman’s massive fundraising haul
On Wednesday, POLITICO reported that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), the famously QAnon-sympathetic conspiracy theorist congresswoman who lost her House committee assignments after social media activity endorsing the execution of prominent Democrats i ...[Read more]
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