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This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

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FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

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ABC running a new version of Swan Lake in the late night slot based on a treatment from Mephen N. Stiller.

True but the framing of the quoted post is deeply problematic if you even brush lightly against the surface

The killings of the democratic politicians in Minnesota, the glee over treatment of innocent people (following rules) swept up by ICE, the erasure of women and minorities from federal buildings would seem to indicate you put this cart on the wrong end of the horse. But I get what you are saying.

[prediction] Adams negotiations to leave NY mayoral race wrap up in the next 72 hours

Theory (ignoring the fact that the GOO never want another election). The GOP gerrymander helps Democrats in the midterms by forcing more Democratic primaries eliminating a lot of schumerjefferiesstaletoast and making unpopular republicans run in districts that they do not entirely know.

The Washington Post is dying. I can tell you “how.” But not “why.” Is Jeff Bezos killing the newspaper on purpose or by accident?

I do not typically point people to the Bulwark but this article raises the interesting point that The NY Times is garbage at the moment partially because it can be, thanks to Jeff Bezos and Shill Lewis

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washin...

I used to follow @uncapthehouse.bsky.social over on the grease trap

Voting Rights Amendment to the Constitution including a Federal holiday on Election Day and establishing that corporations are not people.

Congressional reapportionment and a House of Representatives of no less than 1200 people.

Seriously considering changing my party registration based on Swalwell, Gillibrand, and Jeffries. As a jew I do not feel that Democratic Party leadership represents me. If I was a NYer I would have voted for Mamdani in the primary.

I have varied opinions on AI but I need someone to explain to me how, when OpenAI is convicted for copying dark web libraries of copyrighted material to their servers — how is any of what they produced using those materials not covered? Wouldn’t a conviction impact any use of those materials.

I think this falls for the "voters care about policy" fallacy in a wholistic way that assumes voter policy preferences do not interact with the "voters support politicians with spines" factor, and this is a theory, that the lack of spines might be negatively impacting the Democrats.

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spent my afternoon making a short little web game for New Yorkers called "Don't Rank Cuomo"... it has 10 levels. it's very realistic and challenging. can YOU don't rank Cuomo? play in browser (free): radiatoryang.itch.io/cuomo

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence?

Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue.

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@cnn.com devoting a ridiculous amount of time to coverage of damage in Israel and a little bit of time to damage in Iran. And if this was in Gaza (or almost anywhere else outside of the west) CNN would not cover it at all.

Had a good walk in Philly today.
Saw this

Great crowd. City did a good job. Not a lot of cops. Good protection of the route.

Next time bigger screens with more height and better sound system

The New York Times front page.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Hey gang, take it from a comms professional:

THE TIME TO PUBLISH THAT BAD NEWS IS NOW NOW NOW

It is Thursday evening and I am watching two addicts fight over the lid to a can of soup. How is everyone else doing?

The newsletter thing is just the dumbest most unworkable thing in that it obviously implodes because only so many people can afford to subscribe and it closes off information from a lot of people who might consume it if it was part of a newspaper. If ever aggregation had a victim it is substack.

The fact that there's zero daylight between "pope they picked" and "only pope they would've picked if JD Vance really did kill the previous pope" is kind of interesting.

Something I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.

The people in Blank Street coffee with laptops. Are they extras? Are they temps who are brought in by the people who do the store interiors?

They are anti-everything.

- anti-industrial policy
- anti-worker
- anti-science

I this what you get to be as a completely hollow reactionary?

If the Green Party was serious they would be running as Democrats and primarying incumbents. They aren’t. And they don’t.

And as bad as “the greens” are the leadership of the Democratic Party is somehow worse. Somebody needs to primary Schumer.

At some level it is worth noting that Jill Stein makes Jeremy Corbyn look like a political genius. And I love Corbyn as a poliitical philosopher. He is more consistent than Bernie. But Jill Stein and the American Green Party are the Washington Generals. A political party whole game plan is loosing.

We all know this will go negative, right?

On the surface the department of government efficiency is going to look like that bad battery company deal, a moderate waste of funds, however while the battery funding cost a little bit this one destroyed large portions of our government.