Tech Oligarchs Choking Democracy – The Monday AM Quickie 10/19/26
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THE BIG NEWS
Tech Oligarchs Suppressing Anti-Regime Voices Ahead of Key Dates
Social media executives provided another practical example of class war in recent days, when they suspended accounts that activists and journalists relied on for information about two popular anti-regime matters. On Saturday, at the height of the nationwide No Kings protests, Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Meta, suspended the group’s Instagram account. Later in the day, Business Insider reported that Meta executives said the suspension was just a mistake and that they “sincerely apologize.” No Kings, however, said the public deserves more of an explanation. “Restricting communications about voting in the middle of an election is unacceptable,” the group said in a statement. “Meta must answer for this suspension and take immediate steps to ensure it never happens again – to any account, but especially those working to inform voters and encourage participation in our democracy.”
The day before, Larry Ellison’s TikTok permanently suspended the social media account for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Elon Musk, shortly ahead of its wider release, the Verge reported. Ellison briefly appears in the film as one of the ultrawealthy people who offered to help Musk fund his purchase of Twitter. TikTok executives have so far failed to explain the suspension, which comes after that they refused to run paid ads for the documentary, as did executives at Google, Meta, YouTube and X. Google and YouTube eventually relented and said their initial decision was just a little mistake. But TikTok and X have not.
This pair of decisions by tech company executives illustrates yet again how Trump’s allies will use every tool at their disposal to suppress the will of the people and maintain the status quo. They are scared and they are right to be scared: Thousands of people turned out on Saturday for the fourth nationwide No Kings events to vent their disgust at the Trump regime and urge their fellow Americans to vote early, the Los Angeles Times, Salt Lake Tribune, NBC News, and the New York Times reported. There were more than 2,500 events, plus a virtual option, and demonstrators said they were keenly aware that Trump may try to overturn the election results. That was a discussion at the event in Atlanta, Georgia, where Trump attempted to overturn his loss in 2020 and where speakers railed against the abuses he has inflicted since then. Per the NYT:
For Felicia Murray Jackson, who led participants in a march from the park to a church, the moment was personal. Her older sister was killed in February when a man fleeing immigration agents smashed into her car.
“I don’t want to hear you tell me how sorry you are for my loss — I want to hear you say, I took your loss straight to the ballot box,” she declared to the crowd.
MORE STORIES TO WATCH
Israeli Settlers Attack European Diplomats, Viscously Beat Washington Post Photojournalist
Diplomats from Belgium, France and Poland were in the West Bank to join farmers picking olives on Saturday when masked Israeli settlers set upon the group, beat them up and smashed in the Belgian consul’s car windows, the Guardian, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal reported. The attack came just a day after settlers tried to beat to death longtime Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine in a nearby village, an assault that even the US ambassador to Israel, Trump ally Mike Huckabee, called “a despicable act of terror carried out by masked cowards” whom he demanded Israel prosecute and jail. Levine is an American, in her 60s and had been wearing a protective vest clearly identifying her as a journalist. The settlers hit her, knocked her to the ground, and kicked her at least 50 times as Israeli soldiers watched. They broke her rib and four vertebrae, and mangled her hand so badly that they tore open a finger to the bone and nearly ripped it off. Then they stole all her cameras and equipment. Majority Report guest and fellow American reporter Jasper Nathaniel was there and helped get Levine to safety; she has since undergone surgery.
Protests Spread Across France, Hundreds Arrested
Demonstrations across France drew hundreds of thousands of people to the streets on Saturday, furious over the affordability crisis and the nation’s crumbling school system, the AP, the NYT and the Washington Post reported. The protests were the largest in years and were peaceful until groups of masked people began to wreak havoc. They destroyed property and set public buildings on fire, including the 19th-century City Hall in the central French city of Limoges. In Marseille, another group of masked people damaged a police station, and in Lyon someone set fire to a tourist office. Police responded with violence. They attacked protesters with tear gas and water cannons, and arrested at least 1,800 people across France, 855 in Paris alone.
By Sunday, politicians were blaming leftists before all the facts were in, which readers of this newsletter know is a common tactic to control the narrative in favor of wealthy interests. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu blamed France Unbowed, the party led by leftist presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon. But the real culprit is the current government, which is responsible for the current state of the country, Mélenchon said. Lecornu is “responsible for the chaos,” Mélenchon said on social media, because of his “incompetence or a worst-case strategy to create a party of order that would make people forget his failure in public finances.”
Next door in Italy, meanwhile, protesters took to the streets to demand relief from the worldwide affordability crisis, the AP reported. The protests there followed a similar trajectory: a peaceful beginning, followed swiftly by anonymous masked people starting fires and throwing rocks and a violent response from police.
QUICKEST QUICKIES
- Texas Father of Three Found Dead in GEO Group Concentration Camp Longtime resident of Texas, 56-year-old Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, died in the Rio Grande Processing Center after staff there refused to give him his medication and failed to respond to his requests for medical help. Andrade-Covarrubias is at least the seventh person to die in an ICE camp this year. He was building a home in his native Mexico, where he planned to return. via the Texas Tribune.
- ICE Violated Judge’s Restrictions for Raid on Progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home Investigators failed to give Omar’s lawyers a copy of the warrant or contact the House Office of General Counsel before executing the search, as a judge required; during their raid agents seized not only boxes of documents but also Omar’s cellphone and passport. Tom Homan, the corrupt “border czar,” said Saturday that “of course” Trump could denaturalize and deport Omar. via the Guardian and the Washington Post.
- US Corporate Lobbyists Executed Two-Year ‘Blitz’ to Destroy EU Deforestation Regs In other class warfare, lobbyists for 24 major American companies and trade groups, including Cargill, Mondelēz and the US Soybean Export Council, undertook a campaign to postpone, undermine and ultimately dismantle the European Union Deforestation Regulation, the most progressive forest-protection law on the planet. via the Guardian.
- Italy Investigating Israeli Defense Minister Over Flotilla Activist Torture, Rape Prosecutors want answers about the fascists who abused activists trying to bring aid and solidarity to Gaza in 2025 and 2026; prosecutors are alleging “torture, kidnapping, personal injury, robbery and damage.” via Al Jazeera
SOME NUMBER
5
That’s how many days Trump’s latest press secretary, Katie Zacharia, lasted before she got fired, following her abysmal first (and last) press conference and revelations that she was not a lawyer, though she said she was. Zacharia was in her office with a Wall Street Journal reporter, talking about her plans for the job when Trump’s senior advisor, Jason Miller, interrupted and said, “JD wanted to chat with us real quick,” referring to Vice Bootlicker JD Vance. “Zacharia never returned – to the interview, or the job.”
ON THE SHOW TODAY
10/19: Sam and Emma are in the studio today. Their guest is Kim Phillips-Fein, professor of history at Columbia University and author of Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.
DON'T MISS MR CLIPS
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66 percent disapproval. That’s where my mind wandered to.
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English gentry love to mock and belittle leftists, and especially Irish leftists.
PARTING WORDS
“The President has an agenda: supplemental, reconciliation, Ballroom, etc… I think the agenda is dead. Many of us won’t fund these things knowing he is propping up a dictator’s invasion and throwing an ally under the bus.”
-- Nebraska Republican Rep. Don Bacon panning Trump’s decision to reverse sanctions on Russia, a move that will help aspiring tsar Vladimir Putin wage more war against Ukraine.
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