AvatarPete Conry4 days agoFake AI images of Putin, Trump being arrested spread onlinePBS NewsHour - Arijeta Lajka, Associated Press, Philip Marcelo, Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump getting gang-tackled by riot-gear-clad New York City police officers. Russian President Vladimir Putin …
AvatarPete Conry6 days agoLocal Efforts to Resist Right-Wing Attacks on Education Need National Supporttruthout.org - Clinton WilliamsonOn January 6, 2023, two years after the far right occupation of the U.S. Capitol, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that he was appointing …
AvatarPete ConryWokeness Has Replaced Socialism as the Great Conservative Bogeymanverified_publisherThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamDuring Barack Obama’s first term, the American right became fixated on the supposed threats of communism and socialism. At the time, it felt like another weird throwback trend from the Cold War, along with flared jeans, gated reverb, or Jell-O molds. The proximate causes were clear enough—huge …
AvatarPete ConryThe Federalist Society Isn’t Quite Sure About Democracy Anymoreverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Ian WardAfter recent Supreme Court wins, the society’s youth arm debates the next stage for the conservative legal movement. AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas sun was just beginning to rise over central Austin as groups of neatly-dressed law students arrived at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, a beige monolith …
AvatarPete ConryWhy Is the Republican Party Suddenly Weakening Child Labor Laws?The Nation - By Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. BerkshireRolling back restrictions on child labor and dismantling public education will make the country far more unequal. For today’s GOP, that’s a feature, …
AvatarPete ConryTrump-era banking law paved way for Silicon Valley Bank’s collapseverified_publisherVox - Nicole NareaThe collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other similarly sized banks in recent days has put a spotlight on Congress’s 2018 bipartisan banking deregulation law, which was signed by then-President Donald Trump. We’ll never know what might have happened if the law hadn’t been enacted. But given that …
