“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” And yet First Amendment absolutists would make it so, disdaining Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ recognition that there are limitations to the freedom of speech: “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.” Social … Read more
Progressive PAC MeidasTouch is calling on people to reject the “radicalized” GOP ― and spotlights the harmful influence that personalities on right-wing media such as Fox News can have on MAGA/QAnon cult Republicans ― with its latest viral ad. ‘Radicalized’ GOP And ‘Twisted People’ On Fox News Called Out In Damning New Ad: The narrator in … Read more
The Washington Post reports, For Republicans, fealty to Trump’s election falsehood becomes defining loyalty test. The Big Lie is now the central organizing principle of the GQP. The MAGA/QAnon personality cult of Donald Trump has checked out from reality, and is living in an alternate reality “bubble” that the right-wing propaganda media has created for … Read more
Jeremy Duda at Arizona Mirror updates today’s court action on the GQP Insurrection Caucus of the Arizona Senate’s sham “fraudit.” Cyber Ninjas releases its election audit policies after court order: Following a judge’s ruling that the Arizona Senate’s election audit team can’t keep its policies and procedures secret, lead audit contractor Cyber Ninjas submitted nearly … Read more
Earlier this year, “Malcolm Turnbull accused Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp of eroding democracy in the US and Australia by dividing people and undermining institutions with lies and populist rightwing ideology. Murdoch’s News Corp accused of undermining democracy: The former Australian prime minister told a parliamentary inquiry that Donald Trump’s presidency was to some extent a … Read more