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Ramesh #NotGoingBack<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chicago</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HandsOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HandsOff</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Protests</a> Sign says "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> Believes in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MassShooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MassShooter</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a>" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeslaTakeDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeslaTakeDown</a> Also, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EatTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EatTheRich</a> And "Hands Off <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a>!"

Pekka KallioniemiThis trend was started in Apr 2024 by everyone’s favorite <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/vatnik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vatnik</a> <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/propagandist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#propagandist</a> and “<a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> expert”, Tucker Carlson. He gave <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dugin</a> an uncritical platform. By doing so, he mainstreamed his <a href="https://defenseofliberty.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> to millions already primed to distrust their own democratic institutions.11/17

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Today, it’s increasingly clear that it’s the tech oligarchs — not their algorithmically-steered platforms—who present the greater danger. Their arsenal combines three deadly implements: plutocratic gravity (fortunes so vast they distort reality’s basic physics), oracular authority (their technological visions treated as inevitable prophecy), and platform sovereignty (ownership of the digital intersections where society’s conversation unfolds). Musk’s takeover of Twitter (now X), Andreessen’s strategic investments into Substack, Peter Thiel’s courting of Rumble, the conservative YouTube: they’ve colonized both the medium and the message, the system and the lifeworld. We must update our taxonomies to account for this new species of oligarch-intellectuals. If yesterday’s public intellectual resembled a careful archaeologist methodically excavating cultural artifacts for display in rarefied literary journals, today’s model is the demolition expert, wiring entire societal structures with ideological explosives and detonating them from the safe distance of offshore accounts. They don’t write about the future; they install it, beta-testing theories on unwitting populations in history’s largest unreviewed experiment. What distinguishes them from previous wealth-encrusted elites isn’t avarice but verbosity—a torrential output that would exhaust even Balzac. Where industrial barons funded think tanks to launder interests into policy papers, our oligarch-intellectuals cut out the middleman. Forget steering the algorithms: oligarch-intellectuals steer the conversation itself – and they do it with philosophical meme-grenades. Dropped at 3 AM on X, they invariably become international headlines by breakfast."<a href="https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/silicon-valleys-new-legislators/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/silicon-valleys-new-legislators/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OIigarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OIigarchy</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"President Donald Trump’s latest executive order titled “RESTORING TRUTH AND SANITY TO AMERICAN HISTORY” replicates a tactic used by all authoritarian regimes. In the name of countering bias, they distort the nation’s history into self-serving mythology.History will be used to justify the power of the ruling elites in the present by deifying the ruling elites of the past. It will disappear the suffering of the victims of genocide, enslavement, discrimination and institutional racism. The repression and violence during our labor wars — hundreds of workers were killed by gun thugs, company goons, police and soldiers from National Guard units in the struggle to unionize — will be untold. Historical figures, such as Woodrow Wilson, will be social archetypes whose darker actions, including the decision to re-segregate the federal government and oversee one of the most aggressive campaigns of political repression in U.S. history, will be ignored.In the America of our Trump-approved history books — I have read the textbooks used in “Christian” schools so this is not conjecture — equal opportunity for all exists and has always existed. America exemplifies human progress. It has constantly improved and perfected itself under the tutelage of its enlightened and almost exclusively white male rulers. It is the vanguard of “Western civilization.”<a href="https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1907499697373327403" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/ChrisLynnHedges/status/1907499697373327403</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Schools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schools</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/WhiteSupremacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhiteSupremacism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a>

CBC Nova ScotiaMaxime Bernier decries 'woke ideology' at campaign stop in Dartmouth People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier made a campaign stop Monday in Dartmouth, N.S., where he condemned “woke ideology” and said Canada is on the precipice of going “down the drain.” <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/campaign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#campaign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Dartmouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dartmouth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/NS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maxime-bernier-people-s-party-dartmouth-nova-scotia-1.7498371?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/maxime-bernier-people-s-party-dartmouth-nova-scotia-1.7498371?cmp=rss</a>

earthlingThe Ideological Brain: The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking by Leor Zmigrod, 2025Why do some people become radicalized? How do ideologies shape the human brain? And how can we unchain our minds from toxic dogmas?<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brain</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thinking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>

William Lindsey :toad:"Donald Trump opened yet another squirmish yesterday in his fascist Culture Wars on American institutions, issuing an executive order that purports to '[Restore] Truth and Sanity to American History' by ordering the Smithsonian Institution to teach only the good stuff about America…."~ Doktor Zoom<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> /2<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-orders-smithsonian-to" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wonkette.com/p/donald-trump-orders-smithsonian-to</a>

William Lindsey :toad:As Adam Gabbatt and Marina Dunbar, Trump has a new institution in his sights: sounding for all the world like a recrudescent Stalin, he's produced an executive order claiming that the Smithsonian suffers from "improper ideology." <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Smithsonian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Smithsonian</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> /1A big goal of this and other similar executive orders is probably, of course, to distract us from the damage being done to the federal government to pave the way for lowering taxes on the super-rich.<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-smithsonian-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/trump-smithsonian-executive-order</a>

Petra van Cronenburg<a href="https://mastodon.social/@crazyeddie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@crazyeddie</a> German nazis once named it "Untermenschen" which was a term for their <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racist</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/eugenic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eugenic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>. BTW, a term coming from Ku Klux Clan member Stoddard! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch</a>The fact that he chooses a different name is no way different from the inhuman ideology of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TESCREAL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a><a href="https://sfba.social/@StevenSavage" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@StevenSavage</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@georgetakei</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Nonpolitical", a new synonym for reactionary and fascist bullshit propaganda, disinformation, and blatant lies mixed with bad jokes:"- We found 320 online shows — 191 right-leaning and 129 left-leaning — that were active in 2024 and covered news and politics and/or had related guests. These shows had at least 584.6 million total followers and subscribers.- We found substantial asymmetry in total following across platforms: Right-leaning online shows had at least 480.6 million total followers and subscribers — nearly five times as many as left-leaning.- Across platforms — YouTube, Rumble, Twitch, Kick, Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok — right-leaning online shows accounted for roughly 82% of the total following of the online shows we assessed.- Comparatively, left-leaning online shows had nearly 104 million followers and subscribers across the eight platforms — nearly five times less.- Nine out of the 10 online shows with the largest followings across platforms were right-leaning, with a total following of more than 197 million. The only left-leaning show among the top 10 was What Now? with Trevor Noah, which had 21.1 million total followers and subscribers across platforms.- Our analysis — which looked entirely at shows with an ideological bent — found over a third self-identify as nonpolitical, even though 72% of those shows were determined to be right-leaning. Instead, these shows describe themselves as comedy, entertainment, sports, or put themselves in other supposedly nonpolitical categories.- Out of 320 online shows, right-leaning programs categorized as comedy — 15 shows in all — had 117.5 million followers and subscribers, or 20% of the total following of all programs we assessed. This category included The Joe Rogan Experience, This Past Weekend with Theo Von, and Full Send Podcast."<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mediamatters.org/google/right-dominates-online-media-ecosystem-seeping-sports-comedy-and-other-supposedly</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/OnlineMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnlineMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Podcasts</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Videocasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Videocasts</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a>

LupposofiTyystin uusi SEP-entry ideologiasta, <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ideology/</a>An all-new SEP-entry on Ideology by William C. Roberts. <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/sep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sep</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ideologia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideologia</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/new" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#new</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/filosofia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#filosofia</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/politicalPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicalPhilosophy</a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a>

Zhi Zhu 🕸️'Bursts of authoritarianism'The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> is currently evolving into a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NetworkState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkState</a>, says a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> analyst who writes regularly on the subject. <a href="https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-government-ai-tech-takeover-united-states/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thenerdreich.com/network-state-government-ai-tech-takeover-united-states/</a>"Musk's actions... [are] the realization of a radical <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ideology</a>...goal is to concentrate <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> in the hands of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> billionaires...a foreign-born billionaire imposing a new form of governance without the consent of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#American</a> people"<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Press</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoIsn't it awkward that the arguments of the custodians of capitalism are generally so self-serving and LAZY, full of clichés and meaningless concepts? It just so seems that these billionaires have become dumb by leaving all critical thinking skills at the foot of the altar of holy money"Pairing “personal liberties” and “free markets” is a staple of libertarian rhetoric. It is, in fact, the slogan of the libertarian magazine Reason: “Free Minds and Free Markets.” But these abstractions obscure far more than they clarify. What happens when freedom of thought and speech come into conflict with “the free market,” i.e., with letting business owners do whatever they like?In 2017, socialist writer Freddie deBoer wrote an essay for the Post titled “Corporations are cracking down on free speech inside the office — and out.” In it, he cited a variety of cases in which employees had been fired at various companies for expressing opinions during their free time that their bosses disliked and concluded that as “businesses gain new ways of observing the private lives of employees, they will become more adept at policing those off-the-clock moments,” and “all of us will become less free.”Could the deBoer piece be published in WaPo now? It depends on whether Bezos cares more about the “personal liberties” half or the freedom of capitalists to police their workforces however they see fit. Given his own history of firing workers for criticizing his company at union rallies, it’s pretty clear that he’d choose the latter."<a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bezos-washington-post-free-market" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jacobin.com/2025/03/bezos-washington-post-free-market</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libertarianism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoNeoStalinism, Maoism, or just plain Idiocracism?"The Trump administration is still prohibiting National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff from issuing virtually all grant funding, an NIH official tells Popular Information. The ongoing funding freeze is also reflected in internal correspondence reviewed by Popular Information and was reiterated to staff in a meeting on Monday. The funding freeze at NIH violates two federal court injunctions, two legal experts said.The funding freeze at NIH puts all of the research the agency funds at risk. As the primary funder of biomedical research in the United States, NIH-funded research includes everything from cancer treatments to heart disease prevention to stroke interventions.On January 27, the Trump administration, through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), issued a memo requiring federal agencies to "temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance," including "grants and loans" beginning at 5 PM on January 28. The purpose of the spending freeze was to ensure compliance with President Trump's Executive Orders prohibiting funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion, or "DEI," and "woke gender ideology.""<a href="https://popular.info/p/trump-maintains-funding-freeze-at" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://popular.info/p/trump-maintains-funding-freeze-at</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NHS</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoI wonder what would happen if real aliens landed a spaceship in downtown Washington D.C... :o) Flash News: We are all in this spaceship called Mother Earth. Besides, historically, the ones controlling the federal government have most often been the invaders. While responding to the most damaging wildfires in the history of California, FEMA employees received an order “for immediate compliance” this week that states they must immediately change their vocabulary to comply with the Trump Administration’s preferred terminology on gender and immigration. For example, FEMA employees are no longer allowed to call undocumented immigrants “migrants” or “undocumented individuals,” they must instead call them “undocumented aliens or illegal aliens.” FEMA can no longer refer to the idea of “integration,” it must begin to say “assimilation.” The subject line of the email was "For Immediate Compliance."<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FEMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FEMA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/PoliticalCorrectness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliticalCorrectness</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Immigration</a> <a href="https://www.404media.co/for-immediate-compliance-fema-workers-responding-to-wildfires-ordered-to-say-alien-instead-of-immigrant/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/for-immediate-compliance-fema-workers-responding-to-wildfires-ordered-to-say-alien-instead-of-immigrant/</a>

Vida Latina :mastodonworld:📺 "Quinn Slobodian: What is Neoliberalism" ⤵️ 🔗 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBJeLrIoes&list=PLIDH0-Vy0wJ7K78EMjVPLNrpKzUk2s0mr" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiBJeLrIoes&list=PLIDH0-Vy0wJ7K78EMjVPLNrpKzUk2s0mr</a>🏷️ <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Origins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Origins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#International</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GenevaSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenevaSchool</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"One thing Musk does not control is Wikipedia. Although the site is far from perfect, it remains a place where, unlike much of the internet, facts still matter. That the people who are constantly writing and rewriting Wikipedia entries are disaggregated volunteers—rather than bendable to one man’s ideological views—seems to be in the public interest. The site’s structure is a nuisance for anyone invested in controlling how information is disseminated. With that in mind, the campaign against Wikipedia may best be understood as the apotheosis of a view fashionable among the anti-“woke” tech milieu: Free speech, which the group claims to passionately defend, counts only so long as they like what you have to say. Attempts to increase the diversity of perspectives represented on the site—that is, attempts to bring about more speech—have been construed as “censorship.” This group is less interested in representing multiple truths, as Wikipedia attempts to do, than it is in a singular truth: its own. (Musk, Maguire, and Palihapitiya did not respond to requests for comment.)Ironically, Wikipedia resembles the version of the internet that Musk and his peers speak most reverently of. Musk often touts X’s Community Notes feature, which encourages users to correct and contextualize misleading posts. That sounds a lot like the philosophy behind … Wikipedia. Indeed, in a recent interview, X’s vice president of product explained that Community Notes took direct inspiration from Wikipedia. (...) Just as Twitter’s user base splintered into X and Bluesky and Mastodon and Threads, one can imagine a sad swarm of rival Wikipedias, each proclaiming its own ideological supremacy. (Musk and others in his orbit have similarly accused Reddit of being “hard-captured by the far left.”) Musk can’t just buy Wikipedia like he did Twitter."<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-wikipedia/681577/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikipedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Jeff Bezos’s $10bn philanthropic fund has stopped backing the world’s leading voluntary climate standard setter, following rising scrutiny over its influence on the body, in a move seen as the billionaire’s latest effort to curry favour with US President Donald Trump.According to three people familiar with the decision, the Bezos Earth Fund has ended its support for the Science Based Targets initiative, a globally renowned body that holds sway over how companies such as Apple and H&M can achieve a credible “net zero” label.The move comes after SBTi staff members raised concerns about the influence of the Bezos fund last year, and following reports by the Financial Times that both the fund and advisers to former US climate envoy John Kerry had backed a push for the organisation to allow widespread use of controversial carbon credits by companies.The Bezos fund previously told the FT it did not “make decisions” with the SBTi or have any involvement in its stance on offsets.Two people familiar with the funding relationship said they believed the move to pause funding of SBTi after December 2024 was partly down to Bezos not wanting to annoy Trump, who has previously described climate change as a hoax."<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c3bf3f5f-afa2-44ce-8314-18ad321cd983" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/c3bf3f5f-afa2-44ce-8314-18ad321cd983</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateChange</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalWarming</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ClimateDenier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateDenier</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in the virtues of markets and competition, seemed to have triumphed. Communism had been defeated – and Friedrich Hayek, the spiritual father of neoliberal economics, had just about lived to see it. But in the decades that followed, Hayek’s disciples knew that they had a problem. The rise of social movements, from civil rights and feminism to environmentalism, were now proving roadblocks in the road to freedom, nurturing a culture of government dependency, public spending, political correctness and special pleading. Neoliberals needed an antidote.In this illuminating new book, historian Quinn Slobodian reveals how, from the 1990s onwards, neoliberal thinkers turned to nature, in an attempt to roll back social changes and to return to a hierarchy of gender, race and cultural difference. He explores how these thinkers drew on the language of science, from cognitive psychology to genetics, in order to embed the idea of ‘competition’ ever deeper into social life, and to advocate cultural homogeneity as essential for markets to truly work. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists that would become known as the alt-right."<a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-the-neoliberal-roots-of-the-populist-right-quinn-slobodian/7807424?ean=9780241774984" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-the-neoliberal-roots-of-the-populist-right-quinn-slobodian/7807424?ean=9780241774984</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FarRight</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Austerity</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Libertarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Libertarianism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Populism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Populism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoConservative pro-corporate and anti-labor ideology devouring the Federal Government "While Project 2025 and similar initiatives have been public about their plans to reshape the federal workforce, Trump and other figures in his administration have denied or downplayed links with the initiative. These documents provide further evidence that the implementation is already well underway, with designated personnel quietly drafting policies that were intended only to be publicly attributed to those in charge of the federal agencies."<a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-project-2025-ghostwriters/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AntiLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiLabor</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ghostwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ghostwriting</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a>

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