Project 2025: Neo Fascism

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former

The “mournful, plaintive wail of Irishness” is the soundtrack for both the Kennedy and the Biden stories, in which triumph is always shadowed by calamity. There is in this structure of feeling no easy opposition of hubris and nemesis. There is just, as Obama said to Biden when his son Beau was dying, the awareness that “life is so difficult to discern”—difficult because it does not offer itself in the easy forms of the wonderful and the terrible but confuses the two by conjoining them as twins. The political manifestation of this awareness is not the upbeat rhetoric of the American Dream; it is a politics of empathy in which the leader shares the pain of the citizen.

In black-is-white fashion, MAGA rushes to blame Biden and Democrats for political violence.

A leading expert on far-right, oppressive governments around the world is warning that former President Donald Trump would usher in fascism in the United States if he wins a second term this fall.In a detailed interview with Guardian reporter Alice Herman, scholar and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a profe...

for the future of our democracy, this shit has got to end

Kevin Roberts, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, declared a "second American Revolution."

The leader of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation argued the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity will reinforce a “second American Revolution,” which he sa…

"Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune."

When the Clock Broke offers a tour of the ’90s, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up Bush Sr running for office. Ganz also argues that the far right of the ’90s was a precursor to Trump, a claim reliant on distortions of past and present.

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The Supreme Court reverses course on Chevron deference.

Undocumented immigration, on average, has no effect on violent crime across U.S. metropolitan areas.

Project 2025’s blueprint for Donald Trump’s return to the White House opens the door to fascism, lawmakers warn

"We need a coordinated strategy to save America and stop this coup before it's too late," said Rep. Jared Huffman, who is spearheading the new task force.

Jared Huffman sounds alarm over extremist manifesto for second Trump term produced by Heritage Foundation

Exaggerating the harms of inflation doesn’t help working people.

AI could even out the playing field in recruitment – except that it’s trained by humans.

And also takes the opportunity to bad-mouth Tesla’s self-driving AI.

Transparency, or the appearance of it, is the technology’s new norm.

Not every thing the company says is completely candid.

Some people think machine intelligence will transform humanity for the better. Others fear it may destroy us. Who will decide our fate?

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.

FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner

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We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.