#BigTech #content algorithms are undeniably pushing #RightWing, #Conservative agendas.

Using #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge to access some work applications, more than half the " #News sources" on their start page are #misinformation shills. 11 of the top 17 article suggestions. Not #FoxNews, but sites I've never heard of.

Same with #YouTube. Despite watching only known good sources for history content and news sources like #DW, Jordan Peterson and other bullshit content fill my suggestions.

By Mon morning, as the 80-year-old president was flying home on Air Force One, #conservative #media outlets had seized on his end-of-trip news conference as the latest evidence that he is too old to perform on the world stage.

It is a pattern that infuriates the #WhiteHouse, where #Biden’s top aides believe that stories about the president’s age & health are stoked by his enemies in an effort to undermine his accomplishments.…

#Poilievre is not to be trusted
#CreepyPP ia a trumplicker who fleeces #Taxpayers to line his own pockets.

NEVER vote #Conservative #Cdnpoli #Canada

But eventually most of these issues are likely to be resolved by #SCOTUS, & the court’s 6-member #Republican-appointed majority has generally ruled in ways that favor the #conservative #social-policy priorities reflected in the #redstate actions. That inclination was most dramatically demonstrated in last year’s #Dobbs decision, when the Court overturned the #constitutional #right to #abortion.

ICYMI: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-conservative-activist-bozell-son-convicted-a0f49ed7eb4ff62fef41aae02c210d5b
#Conservative #Christians #ChristianSchool

#Dinosaur denier #AllieBethStuckey interviewed dinosaur liar #KenHam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTpi2bhP6s
#creationist #conservative #crazy

Black people don't despise #Thomas because he's a #conservative. They reject him because they say he's a "#hypocrite" and a "#traitor" who hurts his own people to help himself.

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #SupremeCorruption #UncleClarence

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/11/politics/clarence-thomas-black-people-blake-cec/index.html

The case followed a highly unusual path —one blazed by a five-justice #conservative majority who seemed determined to strike a blow against #CampaignFinance restrictions.

Initially, the dispute centered on whether a conservative #nonprofit’s unflattering documentary on fmr Democratic presidential candidate #HillaryClinton violated campaign finance #laws.

Many people trace the start of the #conservative #legal movement to 1982, the year of the founding of the #FederalistSociety, which provided a forum for #law students & profs w/conservative ideas to incubate their theories.

But the movement that has had such a profound impact on the courts today — one that involves #money & #politics, more than legal theories or principles — gained steam in the wake of the #CitizensUnited decision.

#DarkMoney #Influence #Corruption #Minoritarianism

It's really depressing reading the litany of failures care of 13 years of #conservative mis-management of the country, would not like to inherit this mess.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/10/how-austerity-and-ideology-broke-britain?utm_source=press.coop
#ToryUK #austerity

#Glasgow City Council formally support #decriminalisation of #drug use. #Green and #Conservative councillors supported the change proposed by the #SNP administration, with #Labour resisting
#Scotland #politics #ScotPol
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-city-council-formally-support-decriminalisation-of-drug-use

The decision is likely to have a wide-ranging impact on how the #FederalGovernment communicates w/the #public & the #SocialMedia companies about key #PublicHealth issues & the #2024elections.

The case is the most successful salvo to date in a growing #conservative #legal & #political effort to limit coordination between the federal govt & #tech platforms.

With more than a year 2 go b4 the #2024Election, a constellation of #conservative organizations is preparing 4 possible second #WhiteHouse term for #DonaldTrump [ currently out on #Bail, inmate #P01135809 ], recruiting thousands of #Americans to come to #Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own..in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.

#Coup #TheCoupIsOngoing
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision

When governments:

permit police thuggery against non-violent #climate activists.

call non-violent activists "terrorists" (e.g., #UK #conservative party)

try to push through laws that criminalize non-violent forms of environmental activism.

consist of politicians that have personal financial interests in #FossilFuel companies

That's #Capitalism turning into an Authoritarian State

Episode webpage: https://globalcapitalism.libsyn.com/capitalism-turns-to-the-authoritarian-state-july-2023

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/globalcapitalism/GC.July2023.mp3?dest-id=640710

#economy #politics

So #Conservative leader #Poilievre announces their top priority is to reverse #Canada's carbon reduction policy. No clearer way to show they are in they are in the pockets of the legacy fossil fuel industry. The reality is that the carbon rebate gives most people money back; only big polluters pay more than they get back. Canada has the biggest problem with greenhouse gases because of geography, but also the best policy to reduce GGs. #cdnpoli

The theory that the #14thAmendment disqualifies #Trump has gained traction… since 2 prominent #conservative #law profs argued in an (Atlantic) article last month that his actions before & during the #Jan6, 2021, attack on the Capitol constituted engagement in an #insurrection. But it remains a #legal long shot. Trump would surely #appeal any #ruling that he was #ineligible, and a final decision could rest w/ #SCOTUS, which has a conservative #supermajority that includes 3 justices he appointed.…

I've come to the realization that the reason the #antivax #conspiracy #convoy #conservative nutbars are making such inroads in the media, on social media and in politics, is because all of the *sane* people (who trust in experts and scientists and who don't get our "news" from reaction videos from Facebook) are too busy, you know, *making society work*. I *want* to protest, but I'm *tired*. This is how they won, made it hard for us who follow the rules; the rules for the majority not the elite.

It represents a turning point in the system of lawless impunity for American plutocracy.

In the words of #FrankWilhoit, it is is a repudiation of the #conservative dogma: "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect":

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

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#Conservative #Lawmakers Have A New Stunt In Their Push To #BanBooks
https://www.theroot.com/conservative-lawmakers-have-a-new-stunt-in-their-push-t-1850803987

#Conservative commentator #AnnCoulter is facing backlash for #racist comments she made about the two #Indian #Americans running for the #GOP presidential nomination.

During Wednesday night's #Republican presidential debate, Coulter characterized an exchange between former #SouthCarolina Gov. #NikkiHaley and biotech entrepreneur #VivekRamaswamy as " #Hindu business "

#RepublicansAreTheProblem
#VoteBlue

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/vivek-ramaswamy-ann-coulter-nikki-haley-rcna101624