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Every time I see a Republican, I can’t help thinking about them pleading for mercy at the tribunals when this is all over. Assuming it ever is over.

solutions, have the fascists already won?

As of yesterday, I have asked 14 very bright and well informed progressives the same question: “If you had the power to suggest one thing America might do to avert this MAGA coup in progress, what would it be?”

To paraphrase every answer: “I wish I had one.”

When we can’t even fantasize about …

I had an Intracept ablation procedure on my spine Thursday. I felt better for a few days but the same pain is back. I’m told it takes weeks to see results. I’m going to be really depressed if I don’t. This pain is too persistent. Life ain’t much fun when you hurt all the time.

This woman could have been president. But you know… her emails, or whatever. I will never in a million years forgive Bernie Sanders supporters for their idealism at the worst possible time. 2016 was all about the Supreme Court. Any half-informed numbskull knew that. But Symone Sanders went and made it all about super-predators. I'll never forgive her, either.

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BOMBSHELL reason for Trump’s Iran attack SURGES into news

BOMBSHELL reason for Trump’s Iran attack SURGES into news.

Marc Elias is a god.

Reuters isn’t primarily funded by individual subscriptions. It’s funded by institutional clients and most of their reporting is redistributed thru other outlets for free. But my larger point is the same as yours: there are other revenue models besides locking out readers.

rational for a complex social problem.

paid for, it does. But who pays, how, and how much is the only real issue. “They can just go to the library” is the same bullshit posing as argument that Republicans have always used against national healthcare. “Anyone can go to the emergency room anytime they need one.” It’s a cheap and lazy …

contribution rather than hard restrictions.

Of course, none of them can support the big salaries of the big papers of old. But nobody ever said a career in journalism had to be as profitable as medicine, dentistry, or owning a Payday loan outlet.

The issue is not whether journalism has to be …

like the Texas Tribune and Cal Matters aren’t exactly flush with cash, but are finding ways to do the work.

Wire services (Reuters, AP) fund reporting through institutional clients instead of individual subscriptions.

Reader-supported but open (The Guardian, MotherJones, Axios ) use voluntary …

It is absolute rubbish that quality journalism must be supported by paywalls. You don’t have to look far to find exceptions. It’s a weak argument, unsupported by facts.

Nonprofit models (ProPublica, NPR, PBS) keep journalism open by shifting revenue away from per-reader paywalls.

NP outfits …

Calling it “friendly fire” has always disturbed me. It’s like calling an accidental poisoning at a dinner party a “hospitality error.”

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George Will has never missed a good opportunity to prove he’s the most overrated and pretentious Dollar Tree intellectual we’ve ever produced.

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In the last 2 months, Donald Trump has attacked Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela, Iran and Minnesota. Until now, this felt pretty damned important. But then the news of Jim Carrey’s facelift broke. Brace for impact, everyone.

Good morning (ironically speaking).

Some fables read like prophecy.

If we keep firing-off this kind of ordinance every day, Trump’s goons are going to learn that big military adventure costs big money, and weaponry takes a lot of time and logistics to resupply. I don’t think any of them have a clue about how any of this works.

I agree with @ThomasOlszewski

@shoq He was one of those extremely rare people who if he was talking, I had to listen. If he wrote something, I had to read it. When he passed, I wondered who would step up to fill his vital role…unfortunately, it’s been 4years and I’m still wondering.

If you never saw it, watch some of Eric Boehlert’s segments in my friend @jensenko.bsky.social’s awesome (and prophetic) documentary, “Brainwashing of my Dad.”

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any of them for their occasional missteps just seems counterproductive to me.

attitudes, or both-sidesy neutrality, usually just fuels a counterproductive resentment that leads to more grievances and resentments. I have often hated the Atlantic for some of its choices, and probably always will. But we have so few self-sustaining venues for serious journalism, castigating …

fast. Society just doesn’t work like that and never has. As we are learning by watching MAGAs roll back the clock on so many things we felt were socially settled-law, so to speak, real and lasting social progress is incremental. Demonizing anyone for occasional expressions of contempt, regressive …

choices today, that dismissing any of them for an occasional bad editorial choice seems both impractical and unwise to me. I keep thinking of Rachel Maddow several years back warning the LGBT and trans community not to assume that social change happens fast, just because they feel it should be …

“Editorially relentless?” That’s pretty harsh. There’s documented criticism of some Atlantic pieces for their framing of trans issues, but no clear evidence I’ve seen that the magazine as a whole has an institutional anti-trans stance. But this really raises a larger issue.

We have so few media …

to society. But it will be an even greater contribution if we all act like we’re part of that society. Because we are.

don’t want to criticize you. I only want to elevate you.

I genuinely want to think the best of you and your work. It would just be easier to do that if you came off more like a talented human rather than just another gifted developer.

I think the Fediverse can and will make a great contribution …

for it and ourselves.

The fediverse is hardly the only place where this manifests, of course, but it’s much easier to notice because it’s a much smaller ecosystem than the world at large. If you’re seeing yourself in these remarks, please take them in the spirit to which they’re intended. I …

more of them would occasionally think about how they come across to the rest of us. The world is a very challenging and dangerous place right now and none of us can afford to ignore what’s happening to it, choosing to just focus only on our own work and whatever sense of self-importance we have …