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KKK-ish is sending me. I'm willing to bet the freedom caucus is 3k-adjacent.

The Dangers of a President Accusing the Media of Corruption: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis While we might not love legacy media we can't let Trump silence them

Disliking legacy media is one thing. Letting a political leader use that distrust to silence outlets like CNN, MSNBC, or any major press is another. A free press—flawed as it may be—is a cornerstone of democracy. Once we let a leader decide who gets to speak, we all lose.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

Musk knows what he’s destroying because he doesn’t need American hegemony anymore. As the richest person in the world, with business interests everywhere, he will do much better if he can collapse the U.S economy and suppress wages. But the vast majority of Musk’s goons have no idea.

The failure of the mainstream media to report on the mind-bogglingly huge Nazi movement being built on Twitter with the full cooperation of the site's leadership is a massive scandal

legiscan.com/SC/bill/S024... Senator Clementa C. Pinckney Hate Crimes Act

Trying again! Will SC Senators make it happen instead of being one of two states without a hate crimes law? #scpol

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

Robert Reich explains what people can do to beat Trump, stop our move towards oligarchy and kickstart a new era of people-powered democracy.Watch More: Why B... How Citizens United Got Us Trump | Robert Reich

Trump is the consequence rather than the cause of the anti-democratic surge.

Here's how the Supreme Court's infamous Citizens United decision — issued 15 years ago today — overwhelmed our political system with money and brought us to our current moment.

(reading my list of things i can control) well that is not very much

Idk I kinda want us to want better than TikTok though.

the oligarchs cannot survive if we keep connecting with and learning from each other. that’s the fucking point.

man the foreign dopamine app sending 170 million people "don't worry, maybe daddy trump will save you" as its exit message hoooooooboy

Trump's "shock and awe" Plan on Day one is right from the fascist playbook-he wants you scared. Don't be.

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

NYT Opinion Guest Essay We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones

You may not believe in the climate change, but your insurance company does.

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook to rate/shame girls who weren’t into him. #NeverForget

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

Trump’s cabinet isn’t meant to look nice or work. It’s meant to catch on fire and burn the whole kitchen down.

Four photos of Alice Cooper

My brain whenever someone talks about "Alex Cooper"