@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow right-wing influencers are bending reality in Minneapolis (Christian Paz/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/politics/475361/minneapolis-right-wing-influencers-journalist-ice-reality-immigration-social-media-internet
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p112#a260115p112
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRight-wing media is at war with itself as Tim Pool and others accuse Candace Owens of sabotaging MAGA with her conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk's killing (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/16/candace-…
@cdarwin@c.imNew York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"Although the leftist alliance led by Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party, who served as Boric’s labor minister, is ahead in the opinion polls, she will not get an outright majority in the first round as Boric did. And a collection of right-wing parties is likely to combine their vote and get Kast into the presidential office in the second round in December."
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialPredictions: how is Trump going to react? Pooh-pooh all the criticism, pretend it's a storm in a teacup, or completely melt-down?
He doesn't normally get blowback from his own side.
https://www.rawstory.com/rob-reiner-2674400641/
@kurtsh@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comRight-wing media are describing pro-immigrant Minnesota activists using the language of war (Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-are-describing-pro-immigrant-minnesota-activists-using-language-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p114#a260116p114
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzACT and their Atlas Network operative leader, David Seymour, are the tail wagging the National ACT NZF coalition. Luxon conceded pretty much everything ACT required from National. Perhaps he is more right wing than National is, but also wanted the reins of power, so he was happy for ACT to lead it... but I wonder how National supporters feel about our domestic policy being set by an overseas oligarch-funded 'tail' wagging the National dog?
@servelan@newsie.socialGovernor Walz Tells it Like It Is - UPDATED with detail about the right-wing rally this weekend
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/15/2363564/-Governor-Walz-Tells-it-Like-It-Is
@fgraver@hcommons.socialGlobe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne, who I always thought of as one of the more dogmatically right-wing columnists in Canadian media back when I lived there 20 years ago, delivers one of the most lucid and comprehensive analyses of Trump and his so-called administration I have seen.
The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJTN Networks, parent company of Just the News, acquires The Post Millennial and Human Events, which has been featuring columns and podcasts from Jack Posobiec (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/right-wing-media-brands-merge-j…
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com @cdarwin@c.imChristian nationalist pastor says that wives must submit to their husbands
with "a sense of fear, and trembling, and awe ...
not only in things she agrees with, but in everything":
"She belongs to him. He owns her."
https://bsky.app/profile/rightwingwatc…
@servelan@newsie.socialAlso: "Vanity Fair quotes Wiles as referring to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought as a “a right-wing absolute zealot.”"
Wiles Torches Top White House Officials In Interview, Says Glorious Leader "Has An Alcoholic's Personality" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/wiles-torches-top-white-house-officials-in-interview-says-glorious-leader-has-an-alcoholics-personality/
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgInteresting. The right wing bots today are pushing “do something about mental illness” instead of “don’t take away my guns”.
Lines up with the rumors of MAHA “rehabilitation farms”
@cdarwin@c.imThe Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.
The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow ideology-driven AI chatbots like Grok and Gab's Arya position themselves as alternatives to mainstream chatbots accused of liberal bias (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/busines
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUS right-wing media first ignored the new Epstein emails, then was unified in focusing on a redacted name, showing how aligned it is with elected Republicans (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/business/media/epstei…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRight-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/right-wing-influencers-have-flooded-minneapolis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p100#a260113p100
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioFor those who aren’t local / don’t have an encyclopedic memory of 2020:
Keith Ellison and the MN AG office are the folks who successfully prosecuted Derek Chauvin. They are a crack legal team who know how to win. I’m making no bets about the short or long term outcomes of this lawsuit — especially not with a radical right-wing SCOTUS completely off the rails — but I’m confident these are some of the very best people to be leading it.
@cdarwin@c.imItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remains confident, despite legal setbacks,
that the deportation facilities in Albania, promoted by her right-wing government, will function as planned.
Meloni pointed to an agreement within the EU on a tougher stance on migration.
The EU states recently agreed in Brussels to increase pressure on rejected asylum seekers and deport them more efficiently.
Return centres in countries outside the EU should also be possible in the future…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCBS News' credibility, built over decades, is being used now to launder political narratives that wouldn't survive scrutiny if they came from right-wing media (Parker Molloy/The Present Age)
https://www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-trump-administration-is
@gwire@mastodon.socialIn case history wonders, many people did see the irony in the right-wing UK press being broadly anti-immigrant, while also running puff stories about how people's lives have been improved by moving to low-tax locations like Dubai.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#silentSunday
Condor. August 2018
@yaxu@post.lurk.orgWhen you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech. Where does this come from? It's it a right wing libertarian ideology? (genuine question, I'd like to know!)
Really, the GPL (and AGPL) is all about undermining copyright law, by creat…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe politicians and encourages nationalist sentiment (Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-r…
@UP8@mastodon.social🤦🏽 The Dutch Left Had Its Worst Performance Ever
#politics
@annsev@troet.cafe
@vrandecic@mas.toEssay trying to explain the rise of populism.
It's about an "appeal to common sense" instead of allowing for elitist analytical thinking and theorizing.
https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgWatched a talk from #39c3 (the one about right wing dating sites). Was a good talk but it felt weird how casually 'and then I had an AI whip up some shit' was accepted there. I think that wouldn't have been the same a few years ago. Window has shifted.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social@… This photo of a UK politician came up on my screen and his clothing nearly triggered a migraine for me! (view with caution...) (he's right-wing, of course)
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI think it is very important for all of you to know that there’s a trollish little group of right-wing evangelical fash who are staging a sad little “crusade” rally here in Minneapolis
and their last poster contained the word “immegration”
and the latest one bemoans “the erogion of our heritage”
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol
@cdarwin@c.imWe are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.
CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers against taking some of what they read in the paper’s columns at face value.
And all across the country, local news is on a ventilator;
the right-wing Sinclair network is taking…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialHighly likely this is just right wing lawfare.
Bolivia arrests ex-President Luis Arce in corruption investigation | Corruption News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/11/bolivia-arrests-ex-p…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comRight-wing media villainize and blame Renee Good for her own death in Minneapolis ICE shooting (Gideon Taaffe/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/right-wing-media-villainize-and-blame-renee-good-her-own-death-minneapolis-ice-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p107#a260109p107
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialIn the Netherlands, two new government coalitions appear possible. One that focuses on (European) climate policy, or a right-wing coalition with a party that does not want to pursue climate policy, but instead focuses on “higher dykes, rather than sky-high costs and symbolic politics”. (sic)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEverybody Hates Candace (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-conspiracy-theories-charlie-kirk-right-wing-media
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p70#a251211p70
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialOh, look, the result of anti-immigration fascists' policies are labor shortages.
Who would've known?
(unless it's paired with starting a global trade war, I suppose; in that case you'd get an economic slump, bankrupcies and unemployment... if you don't TACO)
https://…
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialBBC Now Calling Trans Women 'Biological Males Who Identify As Women'
These stories come in the aftermath of allegations that a small but mighty cabal of “LGBT reporters” had somehow seized control of the BBC and “censored” right-wing views.
by S. BAUM
https://open.subs…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialEven #Channel4News has fallen for the frothing right wing myth that Reeves "lied". She said taxes would need to be raised. And then did it. The only leader who hasn't fallen for it is Ed Davey. #CiaranJenkins you are usually better than this. Just stop it. It's pathetically po…
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deYou may want to #fediblock this pro-russian propaganda outlet which also happens to deny that the German Fascist Party #AfD is right-wing extremist: @ voiceofeast.net@voiceofeast.net
🚫 web.archive.org/web/20260102113448/https://voiceofeast.net/2025/12/27/us-intelligence-exposed-the-myth-of-rus…
@johl@mastodon.xyzThe annual fundraiser support for Wikimedia from the richest man in the world is a dystopian right-wing infused parody site of #Wikipedia.
So if you‘d rather support free access to the sum of all human knowledge instead of billionaire tech bros, you get a chance to donate out of spite.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRight-wing influencers such as Benny Johnson, Laura Loomer, and Jack Posobiec campaign against Netflix's bid for WBD, casting Netflix as a Democratic stronghold (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/09/netflix-obama-…
@trochee@dair-community.socialPushing "AI" upon employees in the name of efficiency, even when the tools don't really work, is
- transparently wrong
- brutal
- tacky, and
- necessary to take seriously
anyway, here's the state of the East Wing right now, for no particular reason
https://journa.host/@w7voa/115…
@cdarwin@c.imWe distinguish "personal unfairness",
-- the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair,
from "social unfairness",
-- the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair.
Uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness
Feelings of personal unfairness increase support for the "populist right"
and feelings about social unfairn…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialKeir Starmer appoints 25 [right wing, I assume] Labour peers to strengthen support in House of Lords | House of Lords | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-appoints-25-…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThey are doing everything they can to make it happen: the endless escalations, the recklessness, the shoddy training, the quotas, the sense of impunity, the masks, the bounty hunters, the right-wing camera crews following them like ducklings, the redoubling of provocations after ICE murdered Good: what does it point to except baiting, a total non-concern for the lives of ICE officers, a wish to get at least one of them shot on camera?
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialNot to speak ill of the newly-deceased, but holy cow 😮
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIt took big Democratic wins for right-wing media to admit that the affordability crisis is getting worse (Zachary Pleat/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/it-took-big-democratic-wins-right-wing-media-admit-affordability-crisis-getting-worse
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p66#a251106p66
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInvestigation: X amplifies right-wing and extreme political content in the UK, as Elon Musk endorses fringe politicians and encourages nationalist sentiment (Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-r…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialMINORITIES NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS REJECTION OF GREED ADVOCACY OF THE SOCIETAL WHOLE TRUE DEMOCRACY OMG WHAT ARE WE TO DO
#ReleasetheEpsteinfiles
✅ MAGA Melts Down Over Mamdani’s Mayoral Victory: “New York City Has Fallen” | Vanity Fair
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioWarning for folks in Minneapolis / St. Paul out there active in the community today:
Neighbors have flagged this person as a right-wing agitator, spouting racist and violent BS, out harassing people and cruising for conflict. Eyes out, be aware.
I don't have any further info on their identity, sorry.
#minneapolis #msp
@hex@kolektiva.socialDespite the destruction of evidence and the clear history of mental health challenges, Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh, the entrapped men, remain in prison.
And where's the FBI now? Oh, that's right, it's now headed by known right wing liar and Trump sycophant Kash Patel who's largely purged it of anyone who isn't loyal to the president.
I'm sure this is all apropos of nothing.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDan Bongino, who stepped down as the deputy director of the FBI this month, says he will restart his podcast on February 2, streaming daily on Rumble (Reggie Ugwu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/arts/dan-bongino-fbi-podcast.html
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgNever cared much for Omarchy: It's being made by a right-wing dipshit with no experience with Linux and distributions who's whole "Opinion" seems to be that "90ies Hacker movie look" is what makes a good operating system.
But when I read this actual review https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of demonstrators gathered in the western German city of Giessen on Saturday
as the far-right Alternative for Germany’s new youth organization was set to kick off its founding convention.
Groups of protesters blocked or tried to block roads in and around the city of some 93,000 people in the early morning.
Police said they used pepper spray after stones were thrown at officers at one location.
The new youth organization of the anti-immigration Alternative for G…
@servelan@newsie.social'We can do as we want': Trump boasts he can deploy troops to US cities however he likes - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/the-right-wing/trump-us-troops-2674239614/
@fgraver@hcommons.socialSome of us have been saything this for a long time, but there can no longer be any doubt: under the Trump administration, the US is an enemy of democracy. Since taking power, Trump and his minions have:
⁃ Threatened to annex Greenland. Several times.
⁃ Meddled in the affairs of NATO allies by calling for right-wing extremist parties to come to power.
⁃ Attacked nations on other continents (including Iran and Nigeria)
⁃ Launched a military raid on Venezuela, illegally kid…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Washington Post Has Become Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought (Michael Tomasky/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202581/washington-post-right-wing-bezos
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p118#a251103p118
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe new Pentagon press corps, comprising many right-wing influencers, had no scoops about the Venezuela raid, choosing to praise the event instead of probing it (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/07/pentagon-press-hegseth-ve…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump: Execute drug dealers, free kingpins
Longtime Trump associate and right-wing operative Roger Stone personally lobbied for Hernandez’s release of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States
— free of charge, Stone claims.
Meanwhile, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has been working for the campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate f…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn ex-BBC editor says Panorama's editing error is a minor issue exaggerated by right-wing newspapers and social media, but the BBC needs major internal reforms (Lewis Goodall/Goodall and Good Luck)
https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-im…
@cdarwin@c.imPosing as an ideological compatriot, John Williams had penetrated the top ranks of two of the most prominent right-wing militias in the country.
He’d slept in the home of the man who claims to be the new head of the Oath Keepers,
rifling through his files in the middle of the night.
He’d devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of militias’ ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials.
He’d uncovered secret operations like the surveillance of a young journalist…
@servelan@newsie.socialNew right-wing 'Wikipedia clone' calls Holocaust 'a happy accident' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/wikipedia-clone-musk/
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI do think that this framing isn't fully correct. "Open Source" often has a libertarian (and therefore explicitly non-left) bend. It can be put into left thinking and politics but it works just as well in more right-wing logics. (See Golumbia, Cyberlibertarianism)
https://mastodon.mallegolhanse…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioNo, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow right-wing creators bend reality to their will (Caitlin Dewey/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/474579/minnesota-nick-shirley-somali-daycare-scandal
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p33#a260109p33
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn analysis details how right-wing influencers and Trump officials have formed a powerful alliance to target critics, spread false claims, and reshape media (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-20-maga-aligned…
@cdarwin@c.imPentagon announces a new
right-wing press corps
after last week's mass walkout
A new crop of conservative media and influencers
— including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse
— signed an agreement with the Defense Department.
https://w…
@servelan@newsie.socialGroyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-war-consumes-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-ben-shapiro-kevin-roberts
@markhburton@mstdn.socialBad news from America.
In Honduras the left's candidate has been defeated, bringing an end to a progressive term.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/trump-cries-foul-over-technical-tie-in-honduras-pr…
@cdarwin@c.imEurope’s populist worries will intensify today
when right-wing billionaire Andrej Babiš becomes Czech prime minister.
Combined with Hungary’s Viktor Orbšn and Slovakia’s Robert Fico,
Babiš has the potential to jam up the legislative machinery in Brussels as it works on key files.
Czech President Petr Pavel is set to appoint Babiš to the position
after resolvinglongstanding conflict-of-interest issues related to the PM-elect’s conglomerate, Agrofert.
Babiš…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioOne guess is that they got some region-based data on where the brown and Black people are, and are just going off that.
Another guess is that are targeting specific city council members. This I doubt — unless they’re getting that from local police depts, which I could totally believe.
My own theory is that they really, really, really don’t want white people to see what they’re doing, except through the eyes of the right-wing camera crews that follow them around.
Whatever it is, it’s pretty striking.
2/2
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imThe internet is currently awash in right-wing propaganda about alleged fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs.
Unsurprisingly, you can thank a mendacious right-wing influencer for kicking off this hysteria.
Also unsurprisingly, the Trump administration is making the most of this opportunity to kick a blue state in the teeth.
#Nick
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGerman far-right party sets up its new youth wing as thousands protest (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-afd-youth-organization-protests-53265d4217f54ad0b8669be549b9731a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p2#a251130p2
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThis — exactly this! — and also note first and note repeatedly that the racist right-wing video about Somali daycare is a bunch of bullshit. They don’t appear to have even found any fraud at all. (They visited day cares before they open and cried “scandal!!” because there’s no kids there, stuff like that.)
It’s •exactly• what Needham says (via @…), and it doesn’t even matter what really happened. Create chaos, invent fraud, lie to justify more chaos, repeat. https://journa.host/@atrupar/115826096367870411
@cdarwin@c.im#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges (Ali Winston/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/senators-want-extremism-researchers-to-surrender-documents-linked-to-right-wing-grudges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p37#a251122p37
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: the Pentagon plans to host right-wing media outlets and influencers like Gateway Pundit and Laura Loomer at an in-person meet-and-greet on Monday (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: Laura Loomer has been credentialed to cover the Pentagon, joining a new cohort of right-wing media that have agreed to the Pentagon's new press policy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/03/laura-loomer-pentagon-…
@cdarwin@c.imDangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …
@cdarwin@c.imTensions over right-wing antisemitism have burst to the forefront of Republican politics,
and show signs of becoming a fierce point of contention in the midterms and beyond.
For years, Jewish Republicans often denied that the right had a serious problem with antisemitism,
pointing instead to anti-Jewish bigotry on the left and celebrating President Trump’s support for Israel.
But now that problem is staring them directly in the face.
Tensions over antisemitism in…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHow right-wing forces struck a coordinated blow to the BBC using a single incautious Panorama edit, after years of attacks by UK conservatives on the BBC (Jem Bartholomew/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/the-plan-to-bring-down-a-giant.php…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Civil War Over Charlie Kirk's Legacy Has Gotten Even Uglier (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/civil-war-over-charlie-kirk-legacy-tucker-carlson-tpusa-right-wing-americafest
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p126#a251027p126
@cdarwin@c.imA graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGroyper War Consumes the Biggest Right-Wing Think Tank (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/groyper-war-consumes-heritage-foundation-tucker-carlson-nick-fuentes-ben-shapiro-kevin-roberts
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p131#a251103p131
@cdarwin@c.imAs explicit right-wing antisemitism continues its rise to dominate mainstream conservative institutions,
the brief period where the Trump administration even pretends to care about "fighting antisemitism" is snapping shut
in favor of stepping up the xenophobic racism even further.
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNovember 2, 2025 -- Last Monday, October 27, right-wing personality Tucker Carlson interviewed ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p44#a251103p44
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUnnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims "Demons" (Jacqueline Sweet/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/03/minnesota-fraud-video-somalis-nick-shirley-source/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p20#a260103p20
@cdarwin@c.imThe East Wing of the White House was built by Eleanor Roosevelt during the Roosevelt Administration.
Get it?
This is the decades-long dream of the American right in physical form.
-- CaliCarol
https://mastodon.online/@jawarajabbi/115427227156749978
@cdarwin@c.imRand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.
@cdarwin@c.imIt is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump is unpopular in Europe -- even among right-wing populist supporters, POLITICO Poll shows (Hanne Cokelaere/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/politico-poll-international-populism-donald-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p26#a251230p26
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump regime is part of a long project,
funded by an ever-changing group of filthy rich right-wing White people.
One of their first overt steps was taking control of SCOTUS.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/115828…
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …
@cdarwin@c.imTim Walz here.
𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣.
Just this week, both Mike Lindell and Elon Musk have called for my imprisonment.
But while they’re focusing on fueling Twitter battles and unleashing right-wing bots,
I’m focused on securing a better future for every Minnesotan.
That’s my priority, and it always will be.
Our end-of-year deadline is coming up tonight at midnight,
and folks like Elon and Mike are going to be watching …
@cdarwin@c.imRE Mike Lee’s execrable proposal for "Pirates of the Caribbean "
a few days ago
—it’s bad, but
sadly in line with the right-wing movement to expand private actors’ privilege to use violence.
Darrell Miller wrote about this in what we called
“the new outlawry”
https://www.
