@Gargron
Trust the #Election.
#Vote for #Harris.
And then DEMAND #Electoral #Reform.
#USA #Politics #Biden #Harris #Trump

@Gargron Indeed. Voted early for Harris-Walz. And stretching the meaning of the word #fascist to claim that both candidates are fascist doesn't change the reality. The USA has always had fascistic elements. But only #Trump will set up an overt fascist dictatorship. And if he wins, any and ALL approaches to making a better world will become 1000 times harder. I cast Green Party protest votes in 2016 and 2020, when Trump would not have been able to realize his fascist dream. Not this time.

"Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.

He's telling you who he is." @esqueer

I wondered where I've seen that font before! Then I remembered, it was on the book #Hitler wrote in prison, #MeinKampf

BTW, Steve Bannon couldn't attend the rally, he was still in prison working on his own book. My Struggle.
#Nazi #MadisonSquareGarden

Whoa.

“Freedom Caucus leader says #NorthCarolina should consider giving #Trump its electors before votes are counted

Rep. Andy Harris said the damage caused by Hurricane Helene in pro-Trump counties would justify the extraordinary maneuver.”

In the lead-up to the 2016 election, I began to find that any time I posted anything with the words "white evangelical(s)" in it, Facebook took the posting down.

Meanwhile, I see on an ongoing basis all sorts of obvious right-wing disinformation being circulated freely on Facebook, with no attempt that I can see made by Facebook to censor that disinformation.

More than "just the algorithm" is at work in Facebook censorship.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump
/7

Obviously something more is at work as Facebook censors some people than "the algorithm."

One dynamic, I suspect, is that if people watching your account for hostile reasons flag it and report it repeatedly to Facebook, often acting in concert with others, Facebook then puts censorship mechanisms in place for your account. These often have overt political intent.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump
/7

People keep saying that "the algorithm," as if it's some mystical force acting in independence of human tinkering and will, takes down postings on Facebook.

If that's the case, then I'd like some explanation for why, when I posted that graphic, it was immediately taken down with a warning to me, but when she posted it, nothing happened.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump
/6

A clear silencing of me up to the post-election period….

One of the postings was a graphic that Jess Piper had posted on Substack.

After the postings were removed, I shared information about this on my Mastodon page. A follower there told me she would post the same Jess Piper graphic on her Facebook feed and see what happened.

She did so. Facebook did not take it down.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump
/5

I've just posted the following on my Facebook page and we'lll see what happens:

Yesterday, Facebook immediately took down two of my postings right after I made them, then levying penalties against my account I've never had, which limit my ability to use my account until after November 19 — an interesting choice of dates when the two postings were related to the coming election on November 5.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump
/4

I understand that the word Nazi is an algorithm-triggering red flag, and the photo Moxon uses with MAGA folks flying Nazi flags is another one.

But it's perfectly obvious that Moxon is not promoting Nazis, but doing the opposite. So censoring any critical mention of Nazism to refer to Trump is pro-Republican censorship.

And when another posting with no such red flags is yanked immediately the same day, something more's going on here.

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump #Nazis
/3

Second posting Facebook took down immediately: this excerpt from A.R. Moxon today —

"Nazism is on the ballot this year, and people who consider themselves Nazis know it, even if so many of the rest of us seem not to want to. So it came to pass that Nazis came to the pro-Trump boat show in Jupiter Florida last week."

#Facebook #censorship #Republicans #Trump #Nazis
/2

Elon #Musk has just called himself “Dark Maga” during a rally with #Trump. How can science or European government institutions still justify being active on X, a de-facto right-wing extremist propaganda platform?

#WompWomp

Top Execs Exit #Trump Media Amid Allegations of CEO’s Mismanagement and Retaliation

Several people involved with the former president’s company, operator of Truth Social, believe the departures were retaliation following internal complaints about CEO Devin Nunes to the company board. #ETTD
— ProPublica

NYT:

Donald #Trump’s campaign aired an ad with a deceptively truncated quote from The New York Times that says Kamala #Harris "is seeking to significantly raise taxes." The full sentence said: “Harris is seeking to significantly raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.”

I.... I don't think that's how hurricanes work, Donald.

Let's hope she's right! That would be a HUGE relief.

Via Anna Bower 🧵 (Thread Reader App):

NEW: The new election rules in #Georgia will almost certainly *not* hamstring the certification of the state’s electoral votes. And even if certification is delayed, such delays do not open up a legal loophole for #Trump to steal the presidency. I explain.

“A man suspected in an apparent assassination attempt targeting #Trump was charged Monday with federal gun crimes. During an 8-minute hearing, prosecutors levied two charges against him: possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

Officials said #Routh could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the first charge, and a possible five-year sentence on the second charge.”

Pretty sure #Trump admitted twice that he would violate the Logan Act if he becomes president-elect.

“4 cities across the US are seeking more than $700,000 from #Trump's campaign team as reimbursement for rallies they helped stage between 2016 and 2019, according to a Newsweek investigation.

The cities—El Paso, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Mesa, Arizona; and Green Bay, Wisconsin—all said they had outstanding invoices with Trump's team.”

Phang:

Here’s the scathing 46-page sanctions order against #Trump & Alina Habba issued by federal judge, Donald Middlebrooks, ordering them to pay almost $1 million dollars for the “completely frivolous, both factually and legally” lawsuit “brought in bad faith for an improper purpose.”

Judge Middlebrooks called Trump a “mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process.”

For the record:

Via Andrew Feinberg:

FYI, #Trump’s “open press” conference is only “open” to the reporters to whom his campaign gave an early heads up so they could get to Palm Beach. His campaign also selects which reporters travel with him, unlike Harris who now has a rotating press pool.

Rupar:

Wow -- Newsmax reporter says that the #Trump campaign is displaying headlines on the video board ahead of his rally in Harrisburg "showing that Kamala Harris was first sworn in as one of the first Indian American senators." They're really focusing the campaign on racist smears.

ADDED:

Via Mehdi Hassan:

If you want to understand the failure of U.S. journalism, especially the complete inadequacy of political interviews in this country, in a single short clip, here it is:

RADDATZ: What the heck did #Trump mean in saying his supporters won't have to vote again in four years?

CHRIS SUNUNU: Haha. I think that was a classic Trumpism, if you will.

RADDATZ: Ok. Let's turn to President Biden and Kamala Harris.

#Trump #EarBooBoo

A prominent presidential photographer showed a photo of Trump's ear boo-boo, and showed that it is negligible. Because of this, he was banned from Twitter.

Did I mention that the ear boo-boo did not involve in any visible damage?

#Trump’s self-proclaimed “secretary of #retribution” was given a pass to the RNC despite calling for Trump’s enemies to be executed.

#IvanRaiklin, fmr soldier & intelligence ofcl, was free to roam the venue despite being described by one prominent congressman as a “clear & present danger to American #democracy” for his plans to round up hundreds of Trump enemies.

He also claimed in Feb that an #assassination attempt on Trump would benefit the #MAGA movement.