Tom Schmit

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024.

If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

Oleg 🇺🇦 Слава Україні ❗️ on Instagram: "Is it the hardest 🇺🇦 winter since February ’22? 🤔 It might as well be. It’s cold and air-raids are frequent. It’s mostly dark when it’s dark, and you grow accus... 80K likes, 3,485 comments - olegcarbo on January 18, 2026: "Is it the hardest 🇺🇦 winter since February ’22? 🤔 It might as well be. It’s cold and air-raids are frequent. It’s mostly dark when it’s dark...

"How worse will the world allow it to get? When will it possibly be finally fed up with russia destroying our power grid and bragging about it on state media while simultaneously screaming “LOOK, UKRAINIANS ARE FASCISTS, THEY DON’T WANT PEACE!”.
www.instagram.com/reel/DTqjDxn...

Sorry.
Incomplete? Yes.
Inaccurate in what way?

This:
"Deliberate choices to eliminate competition, lock in users and optimise for engagement — regardless of the cost — have produced the toxic social media ecosystem that we find ourselves in today."
is bs.
These are deliberate choices THAT ARE THE RESULT OF the need to compete.

I agree and that should be made explicit in the demands for coverage.
Seeing it as leaders from faith traditions counters the 'paid agitator' narrative.

Thanks. Well put.

It's like you see right through me....

I am, in good faith, trying to understand the argument. I saw a good answer (echoes yours) on another thread. Shifting the narrative from 'paid agitators' to 'people of conscience' matters.
I parry - thinking matters.

This.
Changing the narrative to 'people of conscience' rather than the all familial right-wing trope of 'paid agitators' can make more people sympathize.

And a section on the landing page devoted to it:

That's what you take from this? Unfortunate.

Wow. I am not MAGA/Fox, yet you scream at me for asking questions?
I asked a reasonable question about an assumption. If you don't want to have a conversation, feel free to block me.

Same question as above. Why does this require mainstream coverage?
I talk daily with a friend in Minneapolis and he talks about the masses of people, never about faith leaders.

Thanks.
Why that? Why don't articles about the whole event suffice or bring the point home? Faith, to me, isn't a significant part of the story. Why do you see it as key?

Thanks. I am that old too.
I, admittedly, sit in another country, but I see this pretty front and center in all USA media and much non-USA media.

Ok. I want to be with you, but, I see pieces in the NYT, ABC and more. What would satisfy you?

Incredible.

During his press conference on Jan. 20th President Trump spoke about the ICE killing of Renee Good for a little over one minute. During his remarks he mentioned himself five times but never said Good's name. I've included a countdown on the screen for emphasis.

YouTube video by Diario AS 'IMPERIALISM WILL NOT STAND': Mark Carney BLASTS Trump over Greenland TAKEOVER | FULL SPEECH

A new era has begun. PM Carney says it eloquently and succinctly.

youtu.be/dnftdcyIY5o?...

Same person, two pardons. Fraud.
Yeah. He gives a shit about fraud.

HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "100% of rental demand in California and New York is because of illegal immigration"

Here's the really weird thing to me...I admit that I have only a rudimentary grasp of physics and geometry, but, if it were me, and I WANTED to hit the Ross, I would have turned to the LEFT (toward him) rather than RIGHT (away from him.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

Victim in ICE Shooting Is Remembered for Her Kindness

Renee Good was a kind, gentle, and engaged person. She was killed by ICE. We have to trust the system to justly determine culpability, but nothing excuses her death. Nothing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/u...

YouTube video by The Atlantic Bonus Episode: How Is Trump Planning to ‘Run’ Venezuela? (With Anne Applebaum) | The David Frum Show

Are we on the way to just being the neighborhood bully?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oSR...

Trump says Venezuelan opposition leader doesn't have the 'respect' to govern after Maduro ousted Venezuelans are reacting to the U.S. operation early Saturday that led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

And there you have it....
Yes, she got a Nobel prize,
but, no, trump says she can't govern.
Translation, "she can't be trusted to line trump's pockets."
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Cheney: Iraqi People Will Welcome U.S. Associated Press Writer

"The Iraqi people would welcome a U.S. invasion force as liberators from President Saddam Hussein, not conquerors, although it is unclear how long American soldiers would have to stay in Iraq after removing its leader, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday."
How'd that work out?

Cheney: Iraqi People Will Welcome U.S. Associated Press Writer

"The Iraqi people would welcome a U.S. invasion force as liberators from President Saddam Hussein, not conquerors, although it is unclear how long American soldiers would have to stay in Iraq after removing its leader, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday."
Circles?
www.mrt.com/news/article...