Substack now appears to be back up.
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Is Substack inacessible to everyone right now, I wonder? I can't log onto it.
This has never happened to me before.
[#]Substack #internet
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"We're living in a media environment where the truth has become nearly impossible to state directly. A billionaire can make a gesture that neo-Nazis celebrate as explicitly supporting their cause, and major news organizations feel compelled to describe it as 'exuberant' rather than risk saying what it actually appeared to be."
~ Parker Molloy
[#]ElonMusk #Trump #Nazis #media #CorporateMedia
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https://www.readtpa.com/p/news-organizations-are-tiptoeing
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"The pardons and commutations reinvigorate a slew of paramilitary right-wing extremist groups and other long-marginalized figures who see Trump as the their de facto leader and inspiration. Proud Boys returned to DC on Inauguration Day and were seen marching in the streets before the pardons were issued."
~ David Kurtz
[#]Trump #Republicans #ProudBoys #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/with-trump-pardons-the-jan-6-coup
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Dean Obeidallah quotes Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who tells him the goal of authoritarians is "to get people to see that violence is not negative." And:
“The pardons are about encouraging people to do more violence, thinking that they're not going to pay any consequences. That's actually the essence of authoritarianism and fascism: You arrange government so that you can be violent and corrupt and get away with it.”
[#]Trump #Republicans #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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"Trump’s pardon of the J6 Terrorists is about encouraging future MAGA violence. … The pardoning of the Jan. 6 terrorists is all part of Trump’s plan to wield power by any means necessary."
~ Dean Obeidallah
[#]Trump #Republicans #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-pardon-of-the-j6-terrorists
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"This photograph of Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute while standing behind the seal of the President of the United States summarizes the reprehensible first day of the second Trump regime. This gesture was no accident. The richest man in the world gave Hitler’s sieg heil not once, but twice in rapid succession."
~ Steven Beschloss
[#]ElonMusk #Trump #Nazis
/7
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-fascism-day-one
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"The silence of critics is essential to the growth of authoritarian power."
~ Dan Rather
[#]Trump #ElonMusk #fascism #authoritarianism #violence
https://steady.substack.com/p/we-got-who-they-voted-for
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"The jig is up. The pretense is over. The blather about corporate social responsibility is revealed for what it really is and always has been — PR designed to make the public believe that big global corporations care about anything other than making as much money as possible, as soon as possible.
I, for one, think this is a good thing."
~ Robert Reich
[#]Trump #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #JeffBezos #TikTok #EconomicElites #SuperRich #corporations
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-jig-is-up
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"For now, however, it all seems insignificant beside the reality that the president of the United States has thrown himself fully behind political violence."
~ Paul Krugman
[#]Trump #Republicans #violence #LawandOrder #RuleofLaw
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-time-for-wonkery
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"Behind the casual hoodies and ping-pong tables lies an industry built on traditionally masculine principles, where competition, dominance, and aggressive growth was the proud backbone of success.Facebook's original motto to 'move fast and break things' wasn't just a development philosophy - it was a manifesto for tech's inherent masculine ethos."
[#]Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #misogyny #masculinity
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Gemma Allen writes that Zuckerberg's "masculine energy" is tech's power play laid bare, because "Silicon Valley has always been a masculine enclave" and the claim that it's under threat by demasculizing forces is total BS.
[#]Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #misogyny #masculinity
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/gemmaallen/2025/01/19/mark-zuckerbergs-masculine-energy-is-techs-power-play-laid-bare/
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"Our era’s toolmaking apes, scornful toward the humanities, with little use for anything or anyone that seeks to teach community or encourage morality and social skills."
[#]Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #racism #misogyny #masculinity
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"The techy white rich guys are as afflicted with a sense of victimization as the supposedly victimized white rabble was before the 2016 win. ...
These tech cowboys, desperate for 'masculine energy,' clearly believe they are among the highest possible iteration of the tool-making human, with a direct lineage to Prometheus, or whoever shaped the first club or arrowhead."
[#]Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #racism #misogyny #masculinity
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"The reason for the wholesale capitulation of Silicon Valley moguls to Trumpism is, in one way not that much different than the first wave of MAGA support – white people from rural parts and the flinty upper middle-class gated communities who wanted a strongman to say what they couldn’t say about the rise of a black president and his people."
~ Nina Burleigh
[#]Trump #SiliconValley #TechBros #broligarchy #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #EconomicElites #racism #misogyny
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https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/a-eye-a-eye-captain
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"The populist pose masks an unabashed oligarchic takeover. Mr Trump has duped ordinary voters into believing he’s their champion while framing Democrats as out-of-touch elitists. Yet his conflicts of interest are staggering. At the weekend, Mr Trump made billions through a branded crypto token, a windfall tied to regulatory decisions he controls."
~ The Guardian
[#]Trump #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption #TrumpCoin #memecoin #oligarchy
/7
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/20/the-guardian-view-on-donald-trumps-inauguration-fear-division-and-the-facade-of-national-populism
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"In the background, the whole TikTok kabuki set the table for four years of grift and untruth.
~ Charles Pierce
[#]Trump #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption #TaxCuts #RuleofLaw #TikTok
/6
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a63486107/trump-inauguration-president/
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"While newsrooms are focusing on the rule of law, MAGA opinion outlets are focusing on Trump's rule."
~ Brian Stelter
[#]Trump #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption #TaxCuts #RuleofLaw
/5
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1737468266447ab22cbbd83a9/raw
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"Everything seems to be on the table, including the mortgage interest deduction, tax-exempt status of municipal bonds, the child tax credit, and anything remotely related to climate science. All to help offset the cost of extending the Trump tax cuts for 10 years.
In the first year alone, extending the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will create a $112.6 billion windfall for earners in the top 5 percent."
~ Marlon Weems
[#]Trump #EconomicElites #SuperRich #TaxCuts
/5
https://thejourneyman.substack.com/p/the-gops-tax-everybody-but-billionaires
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"Get ready for 'just us,' not justice. Americans who believe Trump is fighting for them fail to understand that for Trump, politics is purely transactional, a matter of what he can extract from people in exchange for his ability to pull the levers of power on their behalf."
~ Joyce Vance
[#]Trump #TrumpCoin #grift #EconomicElites #SuperRich #greed #corruption
/4
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/inauguration-day-takes
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