"The most ubiquitous form of American culture nowadays is... the social-media platforms that pump conspiracy theories, extremism, advertising, pornography, and spam into every corner of the globe." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
"Multiple Christian denominations have stated that Thiel’s views, identifying the Antichrist with proposals to regulate the AI industry, are not deemed by them to be compatible with conventional Christian belief.'”
It's time to face the reality that people who rely on anonymous sources in social media feeds for news cannot be informed voters in a democracy . . . Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/t...
A friendly reminder that if you go to a church where the pastor supports the regime that zip tied children in Chicago, you don’t have to go to that church anymore.
Remember, at a certain point, complacency becomes complicity.
Michael Sean Winters has developed into a top-tier political analyst. . . . Can the Democrats find a way out of the wilderness? www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
From his mad ravings to the generals meeting yesterday (transcribed in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's newsletter this morning). This kind of shit is what they're trying to hide:
"James Comey’s rights and liberties are not the only ones at risk today. So is your own right to participate in free and fair elections. ... Will you listen and understand as clearly as he speaks and threatens?"
"A senior Justice Department official has instructed more than a half dozen U.S. attorneys’ offices to draft plans to investigate a group funded by George Soros, the billionaire Democratic donor who President Trump has demanded be thrown in jail."
With the Sinclair Broadcast Group in the news for its role in getting Jimmy Kimmel off the air, it's helpful to go watch this 2017 piece from John Oliver about how Sinclair dictated scripted right-wing propaganda to its local news affiliates.
"The indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show signaled just such a shift in landscape. The news tells us that we are moving from one country to a different, autocratic one." . . . Explore this gift article. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
The easiest way to reject the abundant data pointing toward disproportionate right-wing political violence is to dismiss right-wing actors as one-off, apolitical lunatics and any left-wing actors as part of a nebulous, concentrated political project.
