Who still watches CBS 'News' (or CNN/ABC/NBC), or reads NYT/WaPo? How many people have kept tuning in through the past decade of oligarch-funded/Russiasn-influenced HRC-bashing, tRUmp-fluffing, Biden-fake-scandal-ing? And if so, why? Mind-boggling.

I love how the names of new cannabis strains all sound like post-punk basement bands.

Nothing but a clown show from here on out, apparently.

If everything for these goons is 'content creation,' then instead of simply recycling it, and helping spread it, maybe use your platform to organize a boycott of the media that broadcasts their content, along with that media's advertisers?

FWIW, doesn’t seem like anything short of mass boycotts and strikes are going to get business to stand up to Trump.

Your suggestions for 'resistance' or counter-repression are touchingly daft. No change will come by being part of the clown-show's media-puppet theatre; they know how to absorb & transmute that. What works? Boycotts and general strikes (eg Jimmy Kimmel/Disney+). #BoycottEverythingButEssentials

Way beside the point, I realize, but isn't some MSM quisling going to have a come-to-Jesus moment & reveal how Putin was able to achieve total MSM compliance (topping even the 90% he's had since 2015) for the final fascist push of tRUmp 2?

Stop with the NYT already, ffs.

What you describe is "bureaucracy," not "community."

This whole 'left' v 'right' distinction is absurd. Europeans who are more experienced with this brutality have convinced me: no major evil happens in the world without Putin's ham-fisted fingerprints all over it. Especially wet-works. It's asymmetric warfare; all about grooming in the chatrooms.

I don't need to read the relentless tRUmp-shilling of the NYT. I'm shocked otherwise intelligent people like yourself apparently need to, and continue to fund its fascist erosion of our country with your $$, and even worse, keep recycling its swill. Starve it; shrink it.

Amen, brother. Can't think of many besides Gov Walz, Gov Pritzker, & AOC who've met this moment with the urgency it deserves.

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"Not ready," or oligarchs just getting what they paid for?

As a recovering academic, I'm not surprised -- university administration in my long tenure has always been a profile in cowardice.

Excuse me, but how is this "remarkable"? "Tyranny of the Minority" has been the GOP brand ever since they launched the Culture Wars.

Thanks very much for writing this -- sincerely -- but what the hell are you doing still working there?

#GriftersOnlyParty

If you're still watching CNN, you need major help.

Respectfully disagree. What people, esp the media, need to do is what they did to Biden, totally ignore him. Give him zero attention. Media won't, of course, because they're oligarch-controlled, but we can -- no retweets/quotes/nothing. Report policy, not the person. Shrink him to nonentity.

I want to read stories about people on social media with huge followers who are banding together to organize a massive boycott of NYT/ABC/CNN/CBS/PBS/WaPo/Netflix/Amazon.

I keep asking people on this site why they re-tweet NYT/CNN/WaPo/Fox/and all the rest of the oligarch-owned corporate media (who have ALL enabled this shit-show), rather than using their platforms to organize a massive boycott of corporate media, but I always get silence.

I don't watch anymore, so tell me -- are you still appearing on MSNothingButClowns? If so, maybe stop? And instead use your platform to launch a massive boycott of ALL corporate media, for enabling this shit-show? That's a start at least. Better than continuing your part in the sock-puppet show.

What's to understand? Oligarch-owned corporate media now just full-on state disinformation. Boycott them all.

Morning Bluesky.

US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg told Trump Russia is not winning the war against Ukraine. Russia is losing.

“If Putin was winning, he'd be in Kyiv.
“If he was winning, he'd be west of the Dnieper River.
“If he was winning, he'd be in Odesa.”

(Vanguard Intel)

That NYT, WaPo, CNN, haven't been boycotted out of existence long ago is merely one of the failings of a phone-distracted, mediia-besotted American populace that has lost all political will.

Rather sanctimonious, will unfollow. You must have missed the whole Bi-Partisan Senate Intelligence Report on Russian Interference in the 2016 election. The FB memes, the Cambridge Analytica weaponized voter-roll data. Etc. No conspiracy, and ignorance always needs correcting.

And by "running into," you mean "installing," of course.

I'm pleased to inform you that people most engaged with important things in American don't even know who you're talking about.

If a journalist is still working for an oligarch-owned, disinformation-spewing corporate media propaganda-tool, they're no longer 'journalists'.