"The federal agencies that survived Elon Musk’s wrecking ball are now captured by the echo chamber of his social media platform, with cabinet secretaries staring furiously into a digital funhouse mirror to divine the will of the most internet-addled members of the MAGA base. ...

The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."

#Trump #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #media #sanewashing
/7

"The nature of lies in MAGA-world has changed, too. We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."

~ Liz Dye

And the media's response?

#Trump #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #media #sanewashing
/6

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tylenol-autism-lawsuit-texas

"The man’s mental faculties are crumbling like blue cheese, and major media need to write prominent stories about this alarming problem – not just stick a sentence into the 14th paragraph of a news story."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #MentalAcuity #MentalDecline #dementia #health #media #sanewashing
/1

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/media-must-cover-not-cover-up-trumps

"He took a dementia exam. Person, woman, man, camera, TV."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #MentalAcuity #MentalDecline #dementia #health #media #sanewashing
/2

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-237-102725

"The man’s mental faculties are crumbling like blue cheese, and major media need to write prominent stories about this alarming problem – not just stick a sentence into the 14th paragraph of a news story."

~ Mark Jacob

#Trump #MentalAcuity #MentalDecline #dementia #health #media #sanewashing
/1

https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/media-must-cover-not-cover-up-trumps

"A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders — regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs."

~ Charlie Savage

#Trump #Venezuela #military #murder #media #normalization #sanewashing
/6

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/white-house-boats-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.W7Fo.gIdJYpFOSgO2&smid=url-share

"They’re a saber-rattling precursor to an increasingly likely attack against Venezuela, whose president Trump is eager to topple…."

"He gets to kill people on his say-so. He seems to enjoy the prospect."

"And a special bonus: The attacks devalue the lives of brown people…."

#Trump #Venezuela #military #murder #media #normalization #sanewashing
/6

"The attacks -- which, one needs to acknowledge right from the start, amount to extrajudicial executions, or murder -- have little or nothing to do with combatting the flow of deadly drugs from cartels into the United States. ...

So what are Trump’s real motives for attacking these boats? I think there are three obvious attractions to Trump here, that satisfy his deep needs."

#Trump #Venezuela #military #murder #media #normalization #sanewashing
/5

"Ever since Donald Trump began his campaign of blowing up boats off the coast of South America early last month, journalists covering the story have been too accepting of his obviously bogus rationale."

~ Dan Froomkin

#Trump #Venezuela #military #murder #media #normalization #sanewashing
/4

https://criticalread.substack.com/p/no-trumps-murder-spree-on-the-high?triedRedirect=true