2022 Archives

We can’t pretend we don’t know what’s happening and where it will lead if it’s not stopped - the question is what we will do about it. It’s time to talk about what an American fascist government would look like. The word “fascism” gets thrown around a lot, but most Americans have no idea what it would look like or how it would actually play out. It’s critical to lay out what a fascist America would look like now because this is what is being envisioned right now by many in the Republican Party, and it might come to pass.

How Corporations Became 'People' - and How You Can Fight Back. During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run it on TV stations in strategic states. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) ruled that advertisements for the “documentary” were actually “campaign ads” and thus fell under the restrictions on campaign spending of the McCain-Feingold Act and thus stopped them from airing. (Corporate contributions to campaigns have been banned repeatedly and in various ways since 1907 when Republican President Teddy Roosevelt pushed through the Tillman Act.) Citizens United, the right-wing group, sued to the Supreme Court.

The Best of the Rest of the News. - Trump trade advisor and January 6th co-conspirator Peter Navarro was busted yesterday for refusing to release documents to, and meet with, the House committee investigating that act of sedition. - Was Chuck Grassley in on the coup? - ‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections. - Is Tucker Carlson playing the dictator's game? - What could possibly go wrong with DeSantis assembling his own private militia paid for with state funds? - The Supreme Court has put on hold an attempt by Texas to use the force of law to require Facebook and other social media groups to carry openly Nazi and racist hate speech without moderation. - Geeky Science! The climate is changing faster than we’d anticipated, and scientists are scrambling to understand what’s happening. - Geeky Science #2! Should we be concerned that an artificial intelligence (AI) program has invented its own language and is talking to itself with it? - Crazy Alert! Fox’s Ingraham says our epidemic of gun deaths aren’t so much caused by guns as by legal marijuana.

In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the US & the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts. The CEO of America’s largest bank is worried, and for good reason. Yesterday the Fed started something it hasn’t done for quite a while. It started dumping bonds.