Yes, It's Fascism - America now meets the 18 criteria https://samharris.org/episode/SE8CA91C746 Sam Harris speaks with Jonathan Rauch about the emergence of fascism in American politics. They discuss Rauch’s article, “Yes, It’s Fascism,” the 18 criteria of fascism, the glorification and unapologetic use of state violence, “might is right” foreign policy, the politicization of law enforcement, the complicity of the rich and powerful, blood and soil nationalism, the influence of Carl Schmitt, the resilience of American institutions, and other topics. Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, is the author of eight books and many articles on public policy, culture, and government. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic and recipient of the 2005 National Magazine Award, the magazine industry’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, published in 2021 by the Brookings Press, is [_The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth_](https://amzn.to/4qdoa9d), a spirited and deep-diving account of how to push back against disinformation, canceling, and other new threats to our fact-based epistemic order. Jonathan’s Atlantic article, “[Yes, It’s Fascism](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-trump-maga-ice/685751/)” https://stacker.news/items/1426613

“Russia Russia Russia”

Not true. The 1:10 ratio was discarded long ago, it’s more like 1:100 now.

“Wants to” does not necessarily mean “will”, following an analysis of the data…

You mean the Gravy Seals?

Yep. White supremacist and far-right extremist violence is considered the top domestic terrorism threat to the United States, according to law enforcement officials, intelligence assessments, and independent researchers. Since 2018, white supremacists have conducted the majority of lethal attacks and plots among domestic violent extremists in the U.S.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_United_States

Florida Tourism Collapse: Trade War with Canada Impact Ouch! 280,000 jobs and $52 billion in lost revenue in just one state, due to soured relations with Canada. Decades of relationships erased in a year. FTA: > For Florida workers, the consequences were immediate and personal. Service sector wages stagnated as labor demand collapsed. Healthcare access declined as private clinics closed. Working-age residents began leaving the state altogether, accelerating population churn and weakening consumer demand even further. What began as a tourism shock evolved into a labor market crisis. > … > Tourist tax revenues collapsed by as much as 50% in some jurisdictions. Infrastructure projects were frozen. School districts cut programs. Emergency reserves were drained at record speed. This was the moment the illusion ended: Florida was not experiencing a downturn—it was confronting the consequences of a trade war that transformed consumer trust into a strategic fault line. > > The fiscal consequences are compounding. Property tax shortfalls are forcing counties to raise rates on remaining residents, accelerating affordability crises. School districts face chronic underfunding as tourism-linked revenues fail to recover. Infrastructure maintenance is deferred, not delayed. Deferred maintenance becomes decay. Decay drives further out-migration. The feedback loop tightens. > > Internal planning models used by regional development agencies indicate that even under the most optimistic assumptions, no more than 30% of former Canadian winter spending is projected to return over the next decade. That implies a structural loss of roughly $35 to $40 billion in annual economic activity. This is not a recessionary dip—it is a reset. The scale is comparable to the long-term decline of a major industrial sector, except this collapse did not originate from global competition or automation. It originated from political miscalculation. > … > That mismatch explains why the United States failed to anticipate the scale of damage now unfolding across Florida and other tourism-dependent regions. Policymakers focused on factories, ports, and export balances while ignoring a far larger vulnerability: services, consumer trust, and allied behavior. Tourism was classified as discretionary, apolitical, and resilient. That assumption proved catastrophically wrong. > > In reality, Canadian travel to the United States functioned as a fo https://www.whatjobs.com/news/florida-tourism-collapse-how-trade-war-with-canada-erased-280000-jobs-and-52-billion/

Amazing that trading/charting software can accommodate that many digits!

Germany urged to repatriate £122bn in gold from Trump’s ‘risky’ America https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/25/germany-urged-to-repatriate-122bn-in-gold-from-america/

Yeah, in LatAM, bribing judges is much easier!