#MAGA#Republicans are more than happy to excuse the #FarRight #influencers at the center of a #RussianPropaganda scheme.

#RightWing influencers like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, & Benny Johnson all worked w/ #TenetMedia, a #Tennessee-based firm that the #DOJ revealed Wed was secretly funded by #Russia#StateMedia employees in “a scheme to create & distribute content to #US audiences w/ hidden Russian govt messaging.”

#law #complicity #democracy
https://newrepublic.com/post/185647/maga-russian-propagandists-victims-pool-johnson-rubin-tenet-media

The #indictment charges 2 #RussiaToday [#RT] employees w/providing nearly $10M to the #media company that often spouted #Kremlin talking points.

In response to the charges, the pundits & their allies are saying they just didn’t know any better. In fact, they’re the real victims.

🎻

[open your freaking eyes, listen to the widely available intelligence, educate your-damn-self, fools!]

#complicity#RightWing#MAGA#Republicans#TenetMedia#RussianPropaganda#Russia#StateMedia #law #democracy

#FBI ofcl reiterated those findings on Wed in a call w/reporters. They suggested that the gunman, who also considered attacking a #Biden event, was seeking infamy & selected the #Trump rally as a “target of opportunity.”…

The provocative rhetoric from Trump & his allies isn’t just #unfounded but also carries a #disturbing risk: #Threat assessment & #law enforcement leaders have told me that the messaging is fueling the danger of #PoliticalViolence headed into the #election. …

#Incitement

#Hypocrisy

Exec at #Trump Media Jumped the Line for #US#Visa After Company Lobbied #GOP Lawmaker

A fmr aide to Rep #DonBacon, a #Nebraska#Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was #inappropriate. “It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”

#immigration #law#ForTheeButNotForMe
#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-media-foreign-executive-us-visa-don-bacon

A #congress member intervened to help #Trump’s social media company jump the line for a difficult-to-obtain foreign-worker #visa to bring a company exec to the US, acc/to interviews & records reviewed by @ProPublica.

A fmr staffer for Rep #DonBacon, a #Nebraska#Republican, said the congressman personally instructed her to help Trump Media, even though she thought it was inappropriate to mix #politics w/the office’s constituent services duties.

#immigration #law
#HarrisWalz2024

“I specifically did not want to do this,” Bacon’s fmr director of special projects, Makenzie Cartwright, told ProPublica when asked about emails showing the lawmaker’s intervention. “It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”
“Thank you so much for your help on making sure we push this forward,” the company’s chief operating officer wrote to another Bacon staffer in a Jan 2022 email….“I will make sure to thank the congressman as well!”

#immigration #law#Trump

#TrumpMedia, which now accounts for roughly HALF of #Trump’s #NetWorth, presents conflicts of interests for TFG, acc/to #ethics experts. While there have been concerns about donors & special interests seeking to curry favor w/the #Republican candidate…, this is the first known instance of a politician helping Trump in a private matter involving his social media #business.

And it shows that as Trump has presented himself as an #immigration hawk, his company has sought #SpecialTreatment….

#law

#Trump continues to insist, on a daily [hourly] basis, that MVP #KamalaHarris is a radical communist hellbent on destroying the American way of life.

& that’s against the backdrop of hundreds of #Republicans, who’ve held public office &/or served in #GOP admins, who keep coming forward to effectively remind the electorate just how wrong the former president’s attacks are.

#CommonSense #sanity#RealityBasedPolitics #democracy #law#HarrisWalz2024

The admin sought to restore a key provision of clarifying that #discrimination "on the basis of sex" encompasses #SexualOrientation & #gender identity, as well as the rule's numerous other provisions….

Biden’s admin had asked #SCOTUS to intervene on an emergency basis in a lawsuit by #Louisiana, #Mississippi, #Montana, #Idaho, & numerous Louisiana #school boards, & another suit by #Tennessee, #Kentucky, #Ohio, #Indiana, #Virginia, #WestVirginia & an assn of *#Christian* educators.

#law#LGBTQ

The justices denied the admin's request to partially lift lower court injunctions that had blocked the entirety of the rule expanding protections under #TitleIX, a law that bars #sex #discrimination in #FederallyFunded #education programs, while litigation continues. The lower court decisions had prevented the US Education Dept from enforcing the new rule, announced in April & set to take effect on Aug 1, in #Tennessee, #Louisiana & 8 other states.

#law#SCOTUS#ActivistCourt#LGBTQ#FarRight

#SCOTUS won't allow #LGBT #student #protection in certain states

The U.S. #SupremeCourt declined on Friday to let President Joe #Biden's admin enforce a key part of a new rule protecting LGBT students from #discrimination in #schools & #colleges based on #gender identity in 10 #Republican-led states that had challenged it.

#law#TitleIX #education#Hate#FarRight #extremism#ActivistCourt#SCOTUSreform
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-wont-allow-lgbt-student-protection-certain-states-2024-08-16/

Initiative to enshrine #AbortionRights in #Missouri constitution qualifies for Nov ballot

MO voters will decide in Nov whether to guarantee a right to #abortion w/a constitutional amendment that would reverse the state’s near-total #ban on the procedure.

#law#ReproductiveRights#AbortionAccess#SCOTUS#RoeVWade#Dobbs#Vote#VoteBlue#Election2024
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/missouri-voters-face-choice-continued-abortion-ban-new-112802263

The #X chatbot shared the #disinformation for >1 week until it was corrected in late July.

In a press release announcing the move, #JerryNadler’s office cited #GymJordan’s “extensive focus on allegations of #censorship on #SocialMedia this #Congress.”

#ElonMusk #bias#ElectionInterference #law #moderation #disinformation #tech #policy #regulation
#VoteBlue

#JerryNadler (D) voiced similar concerns in a letter last month after some users reported temporarily being unable to follow an #X account for the #Harris campaign. Nadler wrote that if X was “intentionally throttling or blocking” the account, it would “amount to egregious #censorship.”

#ElonMusk #bias#ElectionInterference #law#SocialMedia #moderation #disinformation #tech #policy #regulation
#VoteBlue
https://nadler.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=396208

The missives reflect growing fear among #Democrats that #ElonMusk — who has vocally endorsed #Trump & *interviewed* him on the site late Monday — could use his platform to give Trump & other #Republicans a leg up in this year’s elections.
A handful of recent #content #moderation decisions by #X have heightened those concerns.

#Musk #bias#ElectionInterference #law#SocialMedia #moderation #disinformation #tech #policy #regulation
#VoteBlue

In addition to the apparent restriction on the #Harris campaign account & erroneous #Grok replies, some pro-Harris accounts have been labeled as #spam, incl #WhiteDudesForHarris & #ProgressivesForHarris, as Trisha Thadani reported.

#ElonMusk #bias#ElectionInterference #law#SocialMedia #moderation #disinformation #tech #policy #regulation
#VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/07/musk-x-harris-bias/

In the video, Kozma calls the idea of #gender fluidity “evil.” Another speaker, Katie Sullivan, who was an acting asst AG at the #DOJ under #Trump, takes aim at executive actions by the admin of President #Biden that created gender adviser positions throughout the #federal govt. The goal, Biden wrote in one order, was to “advance #EqualRights & opportunities, regardless of gender or gender #identity.”

#Trump#Vance#HeritageFoundation #extremism #radicalization#FarRight
#law#HarrisWalz2024