The Guardian: Grind the country to a halt’: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms
In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’
The Guardian: Grind the country to a halt’: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms
In wake of Donald Trump’s call for Republicans to ‘take over’ voting, senator Ruben Gallego urges citizens to take a stand and give the ‘ultimate response’
"Dear Washington Post journalists,
Solidarity on a terrible day. A craven tech bro has sold you out."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/13
Why Isn’t News of #Trump Building Vast #ConcentrationCamps Being Treated as a #NationalEmergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a #MassDetention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
by #ThomHartmann, Feb 05, 2026
Excerpt: "The British originated the term ' #ConcentrationCamp' to describe facilities where ' #rebel' or 'undesirable' civilians were held in #SouthAfrica during the #SecondAngloBoerWar (1899–1902) to control and punish a #rebellious population.
"They were facilities where the 'bad elements of society' were 'concentrated' into one location so they could be easily controlled and would lose access to society and thus could not spread their messages of #resistance against the #BritishEmpire.
"Future generations of Americans—our children and grandchildren—won’t ask us whether #ICE followed civil detention statutes: they’ll want to know why we allowed concentration camps to exist in America at all.
"The Germans adopted the term in 1933 when #Hitler took power and created his first camp for #communists, #socialists, #UnioLleaders, and, by the end of the year, Hitler’s #PoliticalOpponents. They Germanized the phrase into ' #Konzentrationslager' and referred to the process of their incarceration as 'protective custody.'
"The first camp was built at #Dachau just weeks after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and by the end of the year there were around 70 of them operating across the country."
#USPol #WakeUpPeople #HistoryRepeats #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DetentionCenters
#PrivatePrisons #CriminalizingDissent
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
Why Isn’t News of #Trump Building Vast #ConcentrationCamps Being Treated as a #NationalEmergency?
History shows us that once a nation builds a #MassDetention apparatus, it never remains limited to its original targets. Wake up, people.
by #ThomHartmann, Feb 05, 2026
Excerpt: "The British originated the term ' #ConcentrationCamp' to describe facilities where ' #rebel' or 'undesirable' civilians were held in #SouthAfrica during the #SecondAngloBoerWar (1899–1902) to control and punish a #rebellious population.
"They were facilities where the 'bad elements of society' were 'concentrated' into one location so they could be easily controlled and would lose access to society and thus could not spread their messages of #resistance against the #BritishEmpire.
"Future generations of Americans—our children and grandchildren—won’t ask us whether #ICE followed civil detention statutes: they’ll want to know why we allowed concentration camps to exist in America at all.
"The Germans adopted the term in 1933 when #Hitler took power and created his first camp for #communists, #socialists, #UnioLleaders, and, by the end of the year, Hitler’s #PoliticalOpponents. They Germanized the phrase into ' #Konzentrationslager' and referred to the process of their incarceration as 'protective custody.'
"The first camp was built at #Dachau just weeks after Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, and by the end of the year there were around 70 of them operating across the country."
#USPol #WakeUpPeople #HistoryRepeats #Fascism #Authoritarianism #DetentionCenters
#PrivatePrisons #CriminalizingDissent
#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
"The north star of corporate media isn’t defending free speech, holding powerful people accountable, or sharing the truth. It’s all about profits, ratings, and access to power, even if they’re enabling a fascist regime that will inevitably come for you and your colleagues."
~ Wajahat Ali
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/12
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/megalomaniacs-and-the-media-a-live
"A call for help triggered a chain of events that ended with the deportation of a mother and her U.S. citizen child. This is not public safety. This is a system that punishes families for seeking help and turns local #police into extensions of federal immigration enforcement." https://www.texasobserver.org/local-police-collaborate-ice-families/
"It was not saved because saving it would have required standing up to Donald Trump. Jeff Bezos decided that protecting his broader business interests mattered more than preserving one of the most important news organizations in the country."
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/2
"Jeff Bezos’ assassination of the The Washington Post was the ultimate catch-and-kill operation on behalf of Trump."
~ D. Earl Stephens
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/15
"Democracy, the Post says, dies in darkness. Newspapers are murdered in broad daylight."
~ Charles Pierce
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/10
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70249537/washington-post-layoffs/
"This isn’t just about layoffs; it’s about a calculated erasure of the narrative. By controlling the papers of record and social media platforms, the ultra-wealthy can decide which stories are “important” and which should be buried under the guise of 'moving on.'”
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/7
"The recent bloodletting at legacy institutions like the Washington Post is not a mere byproduct of a 'shifting media landscape.' It is what happens when the billionaire class acquires the very mechanisms meant to hold them accountable."
~ Danielle Moodie
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/6
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/burn-the-billionaires-democracy-ish
"This isn’t just the broligarchy’s attack on journalism, but it’s their continued assault on American workers and unions. The endgame is to create an authoritarian regime that dominates an overworked, poor, tired, and sick population that is confused, disoriented, and no longer believes the evidence of its own eyes and ears."
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/5
"Elon Musk took over and ruined Twitter. Larry Ellison just bought and throttled TikTok. His son, David Ellison, is the head of Paramount/Skydance and brought in Bari Weiss, who tanked CBS News in less than two months. (BTW, Musk is featured heavily in the Epstein files, and the notorious pedophile had a chummy relationship with Weiss’ wife, Nellie Bowles, because of course.)"
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/4
"Jeff Bezos destroyed the Washington Post. ...
Jeff Bezos has essentially unlimited resources. He is now worth roughly a quarter of a trillion dollars—far wealthier than when he bought the paper twelve years ago.
The Washington Post could have been saved."
~ Dan Pfeiffer
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/1
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/how-a-billionaire-dismantled-one
"These layoffs come on the heels of the release of a bribe masquerading as a propaganda piece, the so-called 'documentary' about Melania Trump, which Bezos’ Amazon reportedly funded to the tune of 75 million dollars."
~ Elliot Kirschner
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/8
https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/darkness-at-the-washington-post
"I suspect the Post in the future will be political news, pro-Trump editorials, and little else."
~ Perry Bacon
#JeffBezos #Trump #WashingtonPost #TechBros #EconomicElites #fascism #journalism
/11
https://newrepublic.com/article/206136/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos-blame
