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Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok.

They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post.

They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets.

“Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States. n.pr/4187cQe
What's behind the Trump administration's immigration memes?
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.
n.pr
August 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Researching and so re-reading “Back to Slavery” by Du Bois about the fall of Reconstruction, and, just whew.
February 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government

Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.'

The week's column

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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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‘We must talk about how thoroughly Christian nationalism has infected mainstream white Christianity,’ writes Robert P. Jones
What White Christians Have Wrought
‘We must talk about how thoroughly Christian nationalism has infected mainstream white Christianity,’ writes Robert P. Jones.
time.com
November 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM