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'This is modern McCarthyism': Furious Dem nails Republicans on hidden purge hypocrisy

Call it the Catch-2025. "If this is really about making sure that we have qualified individuals inside the federal government," she asked, "Why is the president-elect choosing absolutely unqualified Cabinet secretaries to be at the head of every single agency?" She called the requirement "blacklisting" and likened the bill to policies pushed by the notorious Sen. Joe McCarthy, the notorious …

Federal Stansbury Mccarthyism Nails Republicans

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: The return of McCarthyism? That’s what Trump backers’ Project 2025 sounds like

LA Times

To the editor: Project 2025 has been recruiting and vetting prospective government employees for an anticipated Republican presidency. But the idea that current federal employees can be scrutinized and assessed, the results published in a list based on their personal ideas and beliefsm and then the employees subsequently reclassified or fired, is a page directly out of Joseph McCarthy’s playbook. …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

We’re living in a new age of McCarthyism, says author Patrick Nathan

LA Times

“People ask me when I think the apocalypse is going to happen, and I tell them that we’re in it,” says Patrick Nathan, the author of “The Future Was Color.” On the Shelf The Future Was Color By Patrick Nathan Counterpoint: 224 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Commentary: McCarthyism makes us agents in our own destruction. ‘Fellow Travelers’ shows how

LA Times

The second episode of “Fellow Travelers,” Ron Nyswaner’s steamy melodrama of queer life in midcentury America, concludes with Langston Hughes’ “Kids Who Die,” a poem to sting the back of your throat. For “Fellow Travelers” protagonists, Hawkins “Hawk” Fuller, a suave State Department functionary, and Tim Laughlin, a bright-eyed Irish Catholic idealist, the lousy peace of the Cold War becomes …

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1 year, 4 months ago

NewsClick Chinese funding: How Vijay Prashad, nephew of Brinda Karat, is central to Neville Roy Singham's network

Op India

The Newsclick Chinese funding controversy has exposed how media tools are being used by China to manipulate public opinion about the communist regime. https://t.co/ZockzM4rV0 — Vijay Prashad August 7, 2023 According to the New York Times exposé, Tricontinental was one of the nonprofit companies that received funding from Neville Roy Singham and promoted Chinese propaganda. Vijay Prashad, a key name …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Canada’s McCarthyism and the spies stirring a yellow peril scare

Al Jazeera

Anonymously but very effectively, they’re peddling racist tropes about the loyalty of Canadians of Chinese descent. Back then, the looming threat was called “the yellow peril” and the creeping boogeyman was China’s Chairman Mao, who school children, like me, were taught had sinister designs to overrun our not-so-far-away island. Beyond leaking “top secret” stuff about Canada’s compromised-but-not-compromised elections, the unnamed …

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2 years, 9 months ago

‘Hold them for treason’: Christian nationalist MAGA pastor promises to revive McCarthyism if elected to Congress

Raw Story

South Carolina's Mark Burns, a televangelist, Christian nationalist, and pro-Trump Republican candidate for Congress, is promising to revive McCarthyism if elected. Burns says he will "revive" the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which for decades was used to blacklist private citizens suspected of disloyalty to the United States or of holding communist or fascist beliefs, or ties to foreign enemy …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom

Salon

Last week, the nonprofit College Board, which oversees things like SAT exams and Advanced Placement courses, tentatively waded into the school wars. A lot of the original "white discomfort" bills in 2021 drew from ALEC's December 2020 workshop and focused on things like "divisive concepts," "discomfort" or race and sex stereotyping. When you read the UT resolution, it's very modest, …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Biden’s Bank Regulation Nominee Is Facing A 'Red Scare McCarthyism' Campaign

Huff Post

Saule Omarova speaks during a September 2018 Senate banking committee hearing titled "Fintech: Examining Digitization, Data, and Technology." The Senate Must Defeat Communist Saule Omarova For Comptroller of the Currency - The Capitol Switchboard is call today & tell your Senators to vote NO on Communist Saule Omarova, President Biden’s nominee for Comptroller of the Currency https://t.co/vrgewQVvTU — Richard Viguerie …

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3 years, 7 months ago

The new McCarthyism: Inside the China conspiracy theory that helped fuel Trump's Capitol riot

Raw Story

Early on the morning of Jan. 6, Samuel Fisher, a self-described dating coach, sent a friend a photo of a rifle and pistol through Facebook Messenger. Alongside the MAGA, Gadsden, "America First" and Kekistan flags, the Trump supporters who swarmed around the Capitol on Jan. 6 also carried homemade signs portraying Biden as a stooge of China. "To top it …

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'This is modern McCarthyism': Furious Dem nails Republicans on hidden purge hypocrisy

Letters to the Editor: The return of McCarthyism? That’s what Trump backers’ Project 2025 sounds like

We’re living in a new age of McCarthyism, says author Patrick Nathan

Commentary: McCarthyism makes us agents in our own destruction. ‘Fellow Travelers’ shows how

NewsClick Chinese funding: How Vijay Prashad, nephew of Brinda Karat, is central to Neville Roy Singham's network

Canada’s McCarthyism and the spies stirring a yellow peril scare

‘Hold them for treason’: Christian nationalist MAGA pastor promises to revive McCarthyism if elected to Congress

Fighting back against CRT panic: Educators organize around the threat to academic freedom

Biden’s Bank Regulation Nominee Is Facing A 'Red Scare McCarthyism' Campaign

The new McCarthyism: Inside the China conspiracy theory that helped fuel Trump's Capitol riot