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The modern fascist movement relies on Big Tech to reproduce and it knows it.
Before Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and even Pinterest banned Donald Trump, the then-president was taking aim at a wonkish target: Section 230, a 1996 provision of the Communications Decency Act that shields tech companies from being sued for the content they host. As he told his base in the lead-up to the fumbled coup attempt on January 6, “We have to get rid of Section 230, or you’re not going to have a country.” Around the same time, Trump vetoed the annual defense spending bill because it didn’t repeal 230, and pressured Republican then–Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to make it a bar
Marjorie Taylor Greene
DALTON â U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Rome, tried to dismiss media reports that she supported violence against Democratic politicians in social media posts, but the posts have resurfaced and Democrats are not buying her claims.Â
CNN reported Tuesday the controversial freshman congresswoman repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress. The report was the result of a CNN KFile review of hundreds of posts and comments from Greene s Facebook page. In one post, from January 2019, Greene liked a comment that said a bullet to the head would be quicker to remove House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, CNN s KFile reported. In other posts, Greene liked comments about executing FBI agents who, in her eyes, were part of the deep state working against Trump.
McConnell and Schumer Lock Over Senate Power-Sharing Deal Due to Filibuster Spat
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are at loggerheads over a power-sharing arrangement in the 50-50 split upper chamber, with a rift over the filibuster rule keeping the two from reaching a deal on how to manage proceedings.
Schumer and McConnell started talking earlier this week about a possible power-sharing deal governing daily operations, because even though Democrats have the majority in the Senate since Vice President Kamala Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote, she cannot be expected to take part in Senate proceedings every day to decide every dispute.