Steve Coon

As a reminder: Trump’s first act was to pardon HUNDREDS of J6 rioters who assaulted and beat DC police officers. Trump’s been responsible for a large percentage of the total assaults (and many of the worst/most brutal) on DC police in the last decade.

11.08.2025 15:27 — 👍 1272    🔁 488    💬 29    📌 13

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt

09.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 246    🔁 89    💬 6    📌 11

There are many assessments that suggest PragerU "is a central node in the production of misinformation and radicalization in the United States today."

One is available here:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

08.08.2025 15:19 — 👍 171    🔁 93    💬 5    📌 5

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

06.08.2025 00:07 — 👍 2285    🔁 703    💬 31    📌 26

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

05.08.2025 22:54 — 👍 18087    🔁 6787    💬 558    📌 289

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

Matthew McConaughey travel coordination email for the Cotton Bowl

Ever wonder about the VIP treatment Matthew McConaughey gets at the University of Texas?

FOIAball, a new site covering college football through public records reporting, is coming next week.

So subscribe now: foiaball.com

25.07.2025 15:35 — 👍 550    🔁 94    💬 32    📌 34

Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.

22.07.2025 19:53 — 👍 2700    🔁 674    💬 97    📌 76

Absolutely brilliant.

19.07.2025 01:57 — 👍 2639    🔁 482    💬 41    📌 48

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

18.07.2025 15:39 — 👍 60544    🔁 14743    💬 1255    📌 632

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...

14.07.2025 14:17 — 👍 2028    🔁 582    💬 31    📌 62

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19.06.2025 11:21 — 👍 29332    🔁 8579    💬 576    📌 700

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

18.05.2025 09:20 — 👍 4631    🔁 1343    💬 70    📌 117

How *you* can protect democracy 29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect our system of government

Looking for a starting point to protect and nurture democracy? Quinn Raymond shares concrete actions you can take this year. Read and share: www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-you-ca...

15.01.2025 18:39 — 👍 87    🔁 32    💬 4    📌 1

Area residents have lots of ideas to promote community information and democracy from the ground up.

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