"‘We fight on’: fears for France’s Sunday paper over editor with far-right ties - Bitter strike at Journal du Dimanche ends with staff exodus – and arrival of Geoffroy Lejeune, a supporter of leading xenophobe Eric Zemmour"
"More than half the journalists at France’s only standalone Sunday newspaper have resigned after failing to prevent the arrival of an editor with far-right ties in a bitter dispute that has fanned fears of a further US-style polarisation of the country’s media.
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"In particular the company refused to contemplate committing not to publish “racist, sexist and homophobic statements and, more generally, any discriminatory or hateful content”, a guarantee the association had demanded given Lejeune’s past record."
“We didn’t win,” said Antoine Malo, a roving foreign correspondent at the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) and member of its editorial association. “We didn’t stop him, and now there’s a mass exodus. But the bigger fight will go on – from outside.”
The mainstream paper’s 100-odd journalists ended a 40-day strike – the longest media strike in France since the 1970s – on Tuesday after Geoffroy Lejeune, previously editor of the far-right weekly Valeurs Actuelles, took up his post as editor-in-chief.
The 34-year-old is a leading supporter of the xenophobic polemicist Eric Zemmour, who ran for the French presidency in 2022, promotes the racist “great replacement” theory, and has been investigated 16 times – and convicted on three occasions – for hate speech."
I'm listening to a podcast set in the Warhammer 40K universe and read up on Warhammer 40K. It's quite a universe.
One key point is that all the major players/races/civilizations are evil or hateful and of course some far right wackos have attempted to claim the fascist 40K Imperium of Man for their real world agendas. The creator of 40K officially denounced this in 2021.
Italy’s scorching summer singes Giorgia Meloni as climate change splits the right.
Italy has suffered more than any other European country except Greece this year from extreme weather events.
But climate scepticism—prevalent among Ms Meloni’s voters—presents the prime minister with an electoral quandary: a survey found the view that climate change is man-made is widely accepted in Italy, by 82% of people.
Far-right proudly stands with Trump as he faces court
The people who tried to overthrow democracy are concerned about democracy
The US has stunned the world by putting its most articulate human costume wearer, Donald Trump, in the dock, breaking a long-standing tradition that reptilians are considered above the law.
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline
One minute you’re doing the downward dog, the next you’re listening to conspiracy theories about Covid or the new world order. How did the desire to look after yourself become so toxic?
Sweden Democrat MP under fire after claiming Pride is linked to pedophilia
Multiple Swedish government ministers have spoken out against claims by Björn Söder, a senior Sweden Democrat MP, on Wednesday that the Pride movement has "close and legitimate" links to pedophilia.
According to #Yle poll the 4 governing parties have 46,9 % support (We have a majority government tradition).
#NCP falls 2,2 %, #TheFinns 1 %, and the liberal #SPP 0,2 %, which already can be a crucial loss for them in the #EUelections next year - they can loose their only seat.
The pro-abortion groups behind the effort (Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights; ...) behind the effort to put abortion rights to a vote in Ohio this fall announced that they officially turned in “over 700,000” signatures to get the proposal on the ballot
GOP’s Stealth Plan to End Direct Democracy in Ohio
Republicans are trying to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives to block abortion rights and protect gerrymandering
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
Minister of transport and communications Lulu Ranne (BF) has named her first special adviser, Juha Wihersaari.
Below some likes from said gentleman who’ll be concentrating on cyber and information security… while sharing um.. well misinformation at best and Putinist and Trumpist propaganda at worst. 👇
"MP #JoannaCherry's Fringe show to go ahead after trans row...
"...The comedy club which cancelled a Fringe show by SNP MP Joanna Cherry has reinstated the event...
"...Ms Cherry added she hoped the U-turn would discouraging other people from "discriminating against people like me" - who she said fully support equal rights for trans people but ;don't believe that any man should be able to self identify as a woman'..."
If #JoannaCherry doesn't want to be treated like she's a #Transphobe on the #FarRight, perhaps she shouldn't so much effort into sounding and looking like one.
But people are both paralysed and blinded by a fear of being seen as 'unfair', and so she is not only tolerated, but guaranteed a platform.
Like my old chum, #Farage, she always stays just within the boundaries of the law, safe in the knowledge that people fear embarrassment more than they fear #Fascists.