Nick Field: "Warner Bros. asked Trump's people how to improve their relationship. Trump's people pointed to the $40 million Bezos paid for Melania's documentary and suggested giving Don Jr. a Discovery hunting show and putting more pro-Trump voices on CNN."
Matthew Yglesias described this as: "Gangster government."
#criminality #extremism #Trump #bribery #politics
James Carville: "How to Turn Trump’s Economic Chaos Against Him":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/opinion/trump-tariffs-economy-carville.html
"In one of the most ignorant acts of political leadership in American history, Pres. Trump has now willfully damaged the global economy with his tariff chaos."
#tariffs #extremism #politics #economy.
Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
Brian Beutler about the arson attack against Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Normally if someone tries to kill a governor, the president is briefed, calls the governor, and issues a statement committing resources to bringing perps to justice. It’s not just that we don’t expect Trump to be kind—we have to wonder if he’ll allow a real investigation at all." #politics #criminality #extremism
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "There is no tariff policy, it's all just chaos and corruption" from Trump. We (Congress) have to stop this craziness." #politics #criminality #extremism
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature
- George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/13/trump-populists-human-nature-economic-growth
Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
Well darn! I guess even with #Elon and crew, #Trump isn't #Nazi enough for the Nazis!
Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says
Nikita Casap, 17, is accused of killing his mother and stepfather.
By Nadine El-Bawab and Victoria Arancio
April 12, 2025, 4:03 PM
"A Wisconsin teen allegedly killed his parents to 'obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary' to kill President Donald Trump and overthrow the U.S. government, federal authorities said in court documents.
"Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested in March and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of hiding a corpse, according to Waukesha County authorities. Other charges include theft of property over $10,000 and misappropriating ID to obtain money.
"Court documents show investigators are pursing federal charges including conspiracy, presidential assassination and use of weapons of mass destruction.
"The teen's stepfather, Donald Mayer, 51, and mother, Tatiana Casap, 35, were both found dead inside their home by the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department on March 1, according to a press release from the department.
"The sheriff's department issued a search warrant and say they found material on the teen's phone related to 'The #OrderOfNineAngles,' which is 'a network of individuals holding new-Nazi racially motivated extremist views," according to investigators.
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation reviewed documents allegedly written by the teen, which calls for the assassination of Trump and the start of a revolution to 'save the white race,' according to federal court documents."
A Rare Peek Inside the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
https://newrepublic.com/article/167002/council-national-policy-documents-right-wing-conspiracy
The Council for National Policy, a secretive network of powerful conservatives, goes to great lengths to conceal its activities and even its members. But recently uncovered documents reveal the extent of the group’s influence on American politics.
Ambasadorii României în #SUA și
#Israel: Liderii pentru partidul extremist #AUR (#AlianțaPentruUnireaRomânilor) continuă să glorifice fasciștii și să nege #Holocaustul.
Mulți ani, #SUA au supravegheat îndeaproape #antisemitismul românesc. Este timpul să o facă din nou.
JD Vance, "the first Catholic convert elected to the vice presidency, has provoked an extraordinary string of conflicts within the church he joined six years ago ... Some Catholics say their faith is being co-opted in the service of nationalist policies contradicted by the church’s social teaching":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/11/jd-vance-catholic-pope-clash/ #religion #extremism #politics
This will create more misery for the sick. Taxpayers will shell out more money for emergency room care. Preventative care saves money as well as prevents undue suffering.
https://time.com/7275849/idaho-ends-publicly-funded-vaccinations-for-undocumented-immigrants/ #HealthCare #Suffering #Immigration #Idaho #Bigotry #Extremism #GOPHate
"Inside the #RFKjr revamp tanking HHS morale and worrying industry": https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/rfk-revamp-health-hhs-00280101
RFK Jr. "forced out top scientists in charge of developing new vaccines and evaluating the safety of medicines, stripping away centuries of collective expertise and institutional knowledge. Government offices that manage key functions like ensuring safe drinking water and alerting Americans to contaminated drugs have been decimated."
#WeAreLessSafe #healthcare #reckless #extremism #politics
Trump: "We're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals."
Jonathan Reiner: "About 2/3 of brand name drugs, and 80% of generic drugs, are manufactured outside the US. So when tariffs are placed on pharmaceuticals, the US government, and America’s patients (who already pay much more than Europeans for the same meds) will pay even more. Genius."
#medicine #healthcare #extremism #politics
Matthew Miller: "As this fiasco continues to collapse the economy, there is going to be a strong desire by Trump’s defenders, and even the press, to identify a fall guy - Lutnick, Navarro, maybe even Bessent. But this is all on Trump. He owns 100% of it, from conception to execution." #extremism #tariffs #politics
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/ #ClearviewAI #FacialRecognition #Immigration #Tech #Extremism #FarRight
Fair criticism of Trump: “The present climate of fear is incompatible with our Constitutional system":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/shadow-hearing-rule-of-law-20263790.php
"Democrats held an unusual hearing Monday with witnesses not often heard in Congress: attorneys who were fired or resigned over the sanctions Pres. Donald Trump has imposed against law firms that have sued him."
#GroundsForImpeachment #extremism #politics
“It’s become clear that Donald Trump is willing to drive his nation’s #economy into chaos; to rip up the biggest and best #trading partnership in the world, and to drive the U.S. #travel industry to the ground":
https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/04/california-tourism-canada/
#GroundsForImpeachment #extremism #politics
"Canadians pull back on travel to California because of Trump."
Peter Navarro is pretty close to being insane on the subject of tariffs. He wrote a book that quoted an "expert" who agreed with him on tariffs. He pretended that his expert was a person, but he made up that expert's name, and his own opinions were what he pretended that other person said. Now Navarro is writing articles for USA Today and the Financial Times, stating his nutty opinions as if they were worthy of respect. They aren't. #extremism #politics