How the corporate media has failed us all Writing in 1799, Vice President Thomas Jefferson defended his nation’s strong press freedoms with evangelical fervor. “To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every ...

far too kind, but spot on > www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo... ... and for all of we the people >

oooh, and this one > bsky.app/profile/kegi...

those are two pissant cockwombles. actual peer-reviewed papers by real researchers would argue the opposite; so would the very history of the good ol' USA -- diversity is our strength.

absolutely!

Students of all races feel safer in ethnicall | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
>> an oldie but a goody> a real conclusion based upon a peer-reviewed paper re 'diversity' by UCLA researchers>>>

Jeeze, Neil Postman's 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death got right to it. Message is the medium! ok, today that means all the online stuff, and the younger scholars are looking at 'message is the algorithm' etc... okay, all in the history books, easy-peasy... also as 'media theory'

lotta great opinions out and about speaking to the NEED for the good & decent people to get the facts out as they are in the real world, not Bizarro world. the message is the medium!
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol

clown posse circle jerk nimrods all

Would be cool if an ass load of Wisconsinites were to collectively write letters to the editor every week until April bringing up this unearthed audio of the GOP backed candidate pretty much foreshadowing that he'll rule to limit women's autonomy. (see tips next post)

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YouTube video by MSNBC ‘Self-made disaster’: Trump White House takes heat over funding freeze

Ali Velshi on the White House rescinding the Trump funding freeze memo: “Do not miss what happened here: a widespread backlash from politicians, but also from activists, from nonprofits, from lawyers, from everyday people forced this reversal.”

This is necessarily right. They got their court challenge. Now the posture of it will just get murkier--and possibly, there will be better argued ones.

They do want SCOTUS to weigh in. But they fucked up the starting line. As they did other ones.

Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.

Executive orders show Trump is already running Project 2025 playbook despite denials Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during campaign but implemented many of its proposals in first week.

Trump said in a debate that he was “not going to read” the Heritage Foundation-crafted document and routinely distanced himself from the policy directives during the campaign. But his first-day staffing and policy moves read like a near-direct implementation of the policy.

MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call

“As he did in 2017, Trump has been bequeathed a relatively stable economy, for now. Once he begins to destabilize it, which will adversely affect the working class, the middle class and small business owners, the falsehoods will only ramp up.”

Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” Experts say it's a "farce."

Climate change is the great crisis facing our species.

Earth’s temperature is already 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. @salonnewsroom.bsky.social

www.salon.com/2025/01/22/d...

North Dakota Sued Interior at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency. The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.

Lawsuits filed by North Dakota under Gov. Burgum reveal an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.

“Doug Burgum’s blatant conflicts with the oil industry cast doubt on his ability to fairly manage our public lands,” one government ethics watchdog said.

With @northdakotamonitor.com

Rep AOC: "republicans, who have voted consistently against the violence against women's act, who have taken the rights of all women to have control over their own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots, now want to pretend today that they care about women."

'Terrible political morality': Ex-Republican uses Nazi political theorist to explain Trump New York Times columnist and former Republican, David French, in an op-ed published Sunday points to one German political expert to make sense of President Donald Trump supporters' unwavering loyalty....

'Terrible political morality': Ex-Republican uses Nazi political theorist to explain Trump

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USDOT has now deleted this webpage

it helps the money-bags & 'shareholder equity' bc socialized hand-outs should only go to those who have most of the stuff but want all of the stuff................ >

Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.

As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.

It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/

If Trump were to seize Greenland, a NATO member, under the NATO charter, NATO would be compelled to defend. This would either pit America vs NATO or force NATO to back down and dissolve.

This is a Trump-Putin joint effort to destroy NATO together.

Where the hell was this before the election

The COVID-19 pandemic wouldn’t have ended so quickly if it weren’t for #NIH funding👇🏽

The Border Got Quieter, So Trump Had to Act The president would rather exploit a free-for-all than manage migrant flows effectively.

The shutdown of CBP One, the app that allows asylum seekers to make appointments at legal ports of entry, could produce more chaos, writes Juliette Kayyem. “Then again, Trump’s political interest lies in exploiting the border, not effectively managing it.”

Reminder: In commuting Rhodes' sentence, Trump effectively said, "Yeah, Rhodes is guilty of sedition AND terrorism, but I think 3 years is enough punishment." Which means he invited a terrorist on stage with him.

Trump's Slop and Ouch First Week - emptywheel Underneath Trump's Shock and Awe that is doing grave damage to the Constitution and Trump's marginalized targets, there's a Slop and Ouch that targets everyone this side of his billionaire friends.

Trump's Slop and Ouch First Week

www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/26/t...

This is the Ben & Jerry’s video that has folks talking and MAGA losing their shit!

We need to support @benandjerrys y’all, because we don’t ever want them to “stick to just the ice cream”. 👀

ah. i was about to make my most brilliant debut post, but a very old, very good boy is finally ready to get out for his 'morning promenade' so, important things first!