Tootfinder

The office of the presidency in particular has never seen anything like the petty jobbery and open malfeasance of Trump and the people around him.
All misdeeds are not the same, and there is a real difference between the unseemly revolving door
between business and government — the plum position on a corporate board or an easy lobbying gig
— and a new status quo in which business leaders and heads of state give the president actual tribute in order to put themselves in the…

Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
They came bearing gifts. They left with what they wanted.

Clive Lewis MP clearly gets it. The PM should pay close attention to what he says here about the integration of corporate power into the state.
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/the-integrity-gap-how-we-built-the-authoritarian-f…

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

Data privacy whistleblowers would get expanded protections under California proposal https://therecord.media/california-data-privacy-agency-whistleblower-protections-proposal

The former executive producer of 60 Minutes Bill Owens
said he faced intense internal pressure from his corporate bosses
to avoid certain stories that had the potential to generate backlash for parent company Paramount,
in his first public remarks since his sudden resignation in late April.
In January, 60 Minutes ran a segmentfeaturing former state department employees who had quit over how Joe Biden’s administration handled the war in Gaza.
The segment drew bac…

Not clear on the definition of Fascism?
Benito Mussolini 1932
#TeaParty #MAGA
"Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine previously drafted at a desk; it was born of the need of action, and was action; it was not a party but, in the first two years, an anti-party and a movement.”
#Democracy #Freedom #Autocracy
“[Fascism] is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State”
#PersonalIdentity
"Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State..”
#WorkersRights #Corporate #Billionnaires
"Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State.
#SelfExpression #Trans #LGBTQ
"if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism…”
#totalitarianism
"Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people”
#austerity
"life, as conceived of by the Fascist, is serious, austere, and religious; The Fascist disdains an “easy " life.”
#environment #climatechange #peace #war
"[Fascism] does not believe in the possibility of "happiness" on earth … it therefore rejects the theological notion that at some future time the human family will secure a final settlement of all its difficulties.”