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Matt Jordan
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Writes about media, sound, technology & democracy Book:`Danger Sound Klaxon: The Horn that Changed History' https://tinyurl.com/47k7hft5 Director: newsliteracy.psu.edu Exec Producer doc series: huminfocus.psu.edu
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h
On four separate occasions, Donald Trump lied about the outcome of the 2020 election. Not once did O’Donnell correct him. None of these lies made it into the final broadcast. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/60-m...
60 Minutes Obeys in Advance
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 8h
The biggest choice on today's ballots in PA is whether to retain 3 Democratic supreme court justices. The push to remake the court has been driven by billionaire Jeff Yass.

In 2022, @propublica.org detailed how Yass had avoided paying $1B in taxes and funneled that money to right-wing causes:
Meet the Billionaire and Rising GOP Mega-Donor Who’s Gaming the Tax System
Susquehanna founder and TikTok investor Jeff Yass has avoided $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He’s now pouring his money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election de...
www.propublica.org
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9h
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 10h
Much as Dick Cheney was responsible for much of the geopolitical mess of the Iraq War & the metastatic spread of neoliberalism into the body politic, he was wide awake about the dangers of Trump's authoritarian populism to American democracy.
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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 10h
Speeding up the corruption. Very DOGE-like
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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 10h
If you forbid them from reducing complex things & people to their patented left, right & center narratives, these robotic political churnalists would simply crash and go mute.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d
In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.
Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.

www.vogue.com/article/teen...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d
Cool optics bro
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 4d
Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

www.vox.com/politics/466...
The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi
Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.
www.vox.com
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
khrisnin.bsky.social KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 4d
I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.
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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 5d
It's a throne room.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d
"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d
So many own goals.
Once again: higher ed is one of our most successful exports. We export more higher ed to China than soybeans. And yet Trump and the mini-Trumps are deliberately destroying the quality of our product
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d
U.S. journalism and punditry completely ignores the fact that the U.S. electorate belief system --including their belief of what Democrats stand for -- is shaped predominately by a massive right wing propaganda network across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable news, and the internet.
Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns
The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.
www.semafor.com
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 7d
Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d
I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net
Fortune headline: "Bill Gates says a 2-day work week is coming in just 10 years, thanks to AI replacing humans ‘for most things" "Amazon is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs" says Verge headline subheadline: "Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs"
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Matt Jordan @mattjord.bsky.social · 8d
Today, we kick off US Media Literacy Week. Tune in if you've got the time to spare.
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 11d
Preliminary findings:

🚫TikTok & Meta failed to grant researchers adequate access to public data.

🚫Meta failed to provide simple ways to notify illegal content and to allow users to challenge moderation decisions.

This is a duty, not a choice.

link.europa.eu/JYQrBX
An image illustrating the European Union's Digital Services Act (DSA). The background is a dark purple with a binary code pattern of '0's and '1's. In the center, nine yellow icons representing DSA themes are arranged in a circular formation, similar to the stars on the EU flag. These icons include a bell, a locked padlock, a crossed-out 'AD' symbol indicating a restriction on advertising, a magnifying glass over a document for transparency, a shielded checkmark for safety, and a crossed-out symbol likely relating to content moderation or tracking. Below this visual representation, the text in large white letters states DIGITAL SERVICES ACT, followed by a smaller line of text that reads "TikTok and Meta preliminarily found in breach of their transparency obligations." A small European Commission logo is located in the bottom right corner.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d
A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.

It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10d
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NPR @npr.org · 10d
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d
And one more thing: The Washpost editorial fails to mention that Amazon is a ballroom donor.

Guess who founded Amazon? Guess who owns the Washpost?
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d
Here’s a free link to a house editorial that illustrates the collapse of the new Washpost Opinion page.

It’s important to read it, because it is so poorly written and reasoned, and it shows how quickly an editorial institution can fall completely apart under spineless leadership.

wapo.st/3J2IdIh
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d
The Plot to Enslave America
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10d
The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
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