DeSantis, Abbott & other Republican neofascists are playing a dangerous game, that will rip America apart, using Disney as a proxy for the racial and gender minorities they want as whipping boys.

Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has declared war on Disney, while his colleague in Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott, is on a jihad against the parents of trans children.

This is how fascism progresses through its later stages toward tyranny.

Democracies typically don't turn into fascist oligarchies by being invaded or losing wars. It usually happens from within, and is driven by an alliance between demagogic politicians, corrupt religious leaders, bigoted street brawlers, and some of the wealthiest people in society.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "DeSantis' Attack on Disney Shows how Fascism Progresses Toward the Later Stages of Tyranny" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Book: I Paid Hitler by Fritz Thyssen.

Article: "Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name" by Jonathan Chait.

Article: "Wallace Defines 'American Fascism'" by Henry A. Wallace.

Article: "Holocaust and Human Behavior: Controlling the Universities".

Article: "'We're being marginalized!' Fox News hosts explode at Black people 'trying to take down the white culture'" by David Edwards.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy caught on tape: Trump won't forgive him this time" by Heather Digby Parton.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy lets GOP's Benghazi mask slip: It's all about derailing Hillary Clinton" by Sophia Tesfaye.

Article: "Donald Trump-Russia dossier" (Steele dossier) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lawmakers criticize Trump's slashed budget for key federal cyber agency" by Maggie Miller.

Article: "Under Trump, the Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned" by Ishan Mehta.

Article: "White House Eliminates Cybersecurity Coordinator Role" by Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger.

Article: "Earth Day" by Wikipedia.

Article: "26 Governors announce creation of American Governors' Border Strike Force" by Brad Little.

Article: "Hungary begins building second portion of its border wall" by Chris Perez.

Article: "Inglewood shuts down school, parents say admin isn't thinking it all the way through" by Megan Jamerson.

Article: "Lockdown Anger in Shanghai Won't Fade Anytime Soon" by Adam Minter.

Drama: "World on Fire" by PBS.

Video: Morning Joe: Ron DeSantis, Walt Disney and Republican culture wars.

FB: "Karl Frisch, Democratic strategist and Fairfax County School Board member, joins us next to talk about the Biden administration's reaction to that activist Florida judge's mask ruling. @KarlFrisch #SexyLiberal #SexyLibArmy #MaskUp http://KarlFrisch.com" by Stephanie Miller.

Article: "Who is Andrew Wheeler? Youngkin's Choice for Secretary of Natural Resources and his Environmental Record" by Nicole Duimstra.

Article: "10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year" by Photo: Elliott Negin.

Article: "Andrew R. Wheeler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "I'm dying" (laughing) by Frank Pedraza.

Article: "14th Amendment section 3, July 9, 1868 "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Terrified of the Media Watching Her Testify Under Oath" by Ryan Bort.

Video: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) testifies in a court hearing in Atlanta on a legal challenge to her candidacy for re-election..

Article: "Give 'em hell Harry" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "On jobs, 70% of voters either didn't know Biden's record or got it wrong" by Kerry Eleveld.

Article: "Fifty-state strategy" by Wikipedia.

Speech: "Farewell Address", by Dwight David Eisenhower, January 17, 1961 (transcript). "Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions."

Article: "Fireside Chat. May 26, 1940" by Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Our present emergency and a common sense of decency make it imperative that no new group of war millionaires shall come into being in this nation as a result of the struggles abroad."

Article: "'DeSantis sent the Gestapo': Fired Florida Covid data scientist films home being raided by police" by Graeme Massie.

Article: "Rebekah Jones" by Wikipedia.

Video: Former President Obama Speaks at Stanford (disinformation).

Article: "Memorial Day" by Wikipedia.

Video: Grover Norquist Talks Tax Reform.

Article: "Sinema rakes in Pharma and finance cash amid reconciliation negotiations" by Hailey Fuchs.

Article: "Sinema Opposes Drug Bills After Receiving $750K in Donations From Big Pharma" by Tom Williams.

Article: "Pharma Front Group To Sinema: "We Have Your Back"" by Andrew Perez.

Case: "Brown v. Davenport".

Article: "Habeas corpus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Lebensraum" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Genocide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ethnic cleansing" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russia Rounding Up Thousands of Ukrainians in 'Filtration Camps,' Mariupol Authorities Warn" by Shannon Vavra.

Article: "Ukrainian Children Forcibly Transferred And Subjected To Illegal Adoptions" by Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab.

Article: "Putin sends nearly 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to Siberia, the Far East and even the ARCTIC CIRCLE after his troops interrogate them and ship them out of their homeland on buses" by Elmira Tanatarova.

Article: "From Grozny to Aleppo to Ukraine, Russia meets resistance with more firepower" by Jeremy Bowen.

Article: "Grozny" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Disney Moving Theme Park Division HQ to Florida" by Robert Niles.

Hour Three: Day of Action for the Earth tomorrow!!!
- Betamia Coronel, Senior National Organizer - Climate Justice, Center for Popular Democracy

Article: "One Last Push: Climate Activists to Rally at White House and Across U.S." by Lisa Friedman.

Article: "Russian General Lets Slip a Secret Plan to Invade Another Country and Seize Ukraine's Entire Coastline" by Barbie Latza Nadeau.

Article: "Russian commander suggests plan is for permanent occupation of south Ukraine" by Andrew Roth.

Article: "Putin's May 9 problem: Can there be a Victory Day in Russia with nothing to celebrate?" by Tom Nagorski.

Article: "Putin denies planning to revive the Russian empire after declaring that Ukraine is not a real country and sending troops there" by Sinéad Baker.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.

Movie: "Meet John Doe".

Article: "Farm Aid" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Large Hadron Collider" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Unpacking the noise around Dr. Anthony Fauci and beagle experiments" by Bill McCarthy.

Tweet: "Eu melhorei meu discurso. Não falo só do pessoal voltar a comer churrasco, mas também o pessoal vegetariano, que não come carne, poder comer uma boa salada orgânica, estimularmos uma agricultura mais saudável no nosso país." by Lula (I improved my speech. I'm not just talking about people going back to eating barbecue, but also vegetarian people, who don't eat meat, being able to eat a good organic salad, encouraging healthier agriculture in our country.).

Article: "November 2022: The Anti-Democracy Coalition" by Steven Harper.

Site: The Plot Against America.

Article: "Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader likely to face another challenge from the left" by Sam Stites.

Site: "Jamie McLeod-Skinner".

Article: "Kurt Schrader" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" .

Article: "Kay Ivey" by Wikipedia.

Site: WSFA 12 News i.

Article: "6 GOP House members opposed a bill meant to document and preserve evidence of war crimes during Russia's invasion of Ukraine" by Taiyler Simone Mitchell.

Article: "GOP senators visited Moscow on July 4, warned Russia against meddling in 2018 election: report" by Emily Birnbaum.

Article: "PNAC" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Unitary executive theory" by Wikipedia.

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