far too kind, but spot on > www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
How the corporate media has failed us all
Writing in 1799, Vice President Thomas Jefferson defended his nation’s strong press freedoms with evangelical fervor. “To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every ...
www.dailykos.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
far too kind, but spot on > www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo... ... and for all of we the people >
The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The Worst Nightmare For DOJ Is Already Coming True talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo... ... and for all of we the people >
absolutely!
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 5:35 AM
absolutely!
Students of all races feel safer in ethnicall | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
>> an oldie but a goody> a real conclusion based upon a peer-reviewed paper re 'diversity' by UCLA researchers>>>
>> an oldie but a goody> a real conclusion based upon a peer-reviewed paper re 'diversity' by UCLA researchers>>>
Students of all races feel safer in ethnically diverse middle schools, UCLA study says
Middle school students -- African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and Caucasians -- felt safer and less bullied, reported more tolerance and less prejudice toward students of other ethnicities an...
www.eurekalert.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Students of all races feel safer in ethnicall | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
>> an oldie but a goody> a real conclusion based upon a peer-reviewed paper re 'diversity' by UCLA researchers>>>
>> an oldie but a goody> a real conclusion based upon a peer-reviewed paper re 'diversity' by UCLA researchers>>>
Jeeze, Neil Postman's 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death got right to it. Message is the medium! ok, today that means all the online stuff, and the younger scholars are looking at 'message is the algorithm' etc... okay, all in the history books, easy-peasy... also as 'media theory'
lotta great opinions out and about speaking to the NEED for the good & decent people to get the facts out as they are in the real world, not Bizarro world. the message is the medium!
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol
We need to go beyond calling on Dems to reject RFK and others (though I think Whitehouse may be on board--not sure abt Fetterman).
We need to get better at assigning responsibility to Republicans when they confirm and the inevitable happens.
*You will be responsible for the dead children.*
We need to get better at assigning responsibility to Republicans when they confirm and the inevitable happens.
*You will be responsible for the dead children.*
January 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Jeeze, Neil Postman's 1985 Amusing Ourselves to Death got right to it. Message is the medium! ok, today that means all the online stuff, and the younger scholars are looking at 'message is the algorithm' etc... okay, all in the history books, easy-peasy... also as 'media theory'
lotta great opinions out and about speaking to the NEED for the good & decent people to get the facts out as they are in the real world, not Bizarro world. the message is the medium!
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol
We need to go beyond calling on Dems to reject RFK and others (though I think Whitehouse may be on board--not sure abt Fetterman).
We need to get better at assigning responsibility to Republicans when they confirm and the inevitable happens.
*You will be responsible for the dead children.*
We need to get better at assigning responsibility to Republicans when they confirm and the inevitable happens.
*You will be responsible for the dead children.*
January 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
lotta great opinions out and about speaking to the NEED for the good & decent people to get the facts out as they are in the real world, not Bizarro world. the message is the medium!
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol
tl;dr check into Walter Benjamin 1920-30s, & McLuhan 1940-70s communication theory
gotta learn to be brief lol
clown posse circle jerk nimrods all
Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are running the country while Trump plays golf, signs stuff, shitposts on Truth Social, and sells merch.
January 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
clown posse circle jerk nimrods all
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Would be cool if an ass load of Wisconsinites were to collectively write letters to the editor every week until April bringing up this unearthed audio of the GOP backed candidate pretty much foreshadowing that he'll rule to limit women's autonomy. (see tips next post)
truthout.org/articles/con...
truthout.org/articles/con...
January 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Would be cool if an ass load of Wisconsinites were to collectively write letters to the editor every week until April bringing up this unearthed audio of the GOP backed candidate pretty much foreshadowing that he'll rule to limit women's autonomy. (see tips next post)
truthout.org/articles/con...
truthout.org/articles/con...
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Ali Velshi on the White House rescinding the Trump funding freeze memo: “Do not miss what happened here: a widespread backlash from politicians, but also from activists, from nonprofits, from lawyers, from everyday people forced this reversal.”
‘Self-made disaster’: Trump White House takes heat over funding freeze
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Ali Velshi on the White House rescinding the Trump funding freeze memo: “Do not miss what happened here: a widespread backlash from politicians, but also from activists, from nonprofits, from lawyers, from everyday people forced this reversal.”
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This is necessarily right. They got their court challenge. Now the posture of it will just get murkier--and possibly, there will be better argued ones.
They do want SCOTUS to weigh in. But they fucked up the starting line. As they did other ones.
They do want SCOTUS to weigh in. But they fucked up the starting line. As they did other ones.
I dunno, they had their court cases once they wouldn’t spend NIH & foreign aid grants. They gained nothing by adding all the other stuff they shut down Monday. This seems like someone trying to cover their ass for freezing Meals On Wheels.
A leaked document obtained by HuffPost reveals the fierce backlash against Trump's now-rescinded funding freeze was part of the plan all along
January 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is necessarily right. They got their court challenge. Now the posture of it will just get murkier--and possibly, there will be better argued ones.
They do want SCOTUS to weigh in. But they fucked up the starting line. As they did other ones.
They do want SCOTUS to weigh in. But they fucked up the starting line. As they did other ones.
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Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.
January 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Want to know what a federal funding freeze does? It takes money from families that just lost their home in a wildfire. It takes resources away from vets. It leaves 72M Americans without access to healthcare. Trump, Elon, & their billionaire buddies laugh their way to the bank while Americans suffer.
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Trump said in a debate that he was “not going to read” the Heritage Foundation-crafted document and routinely distanced himself from the policy directives during the campaign. But his first-day staffing and policy moves read like a near-direct implementation of the policy.
Executive orders show Trump is already running Project 2025 playbook despite denials
Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 during campaign but implemented many of its proposals in first week.
www.salon.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Trump said in a debate that he was “not going to read” the Heritage Foundation-crafted document and routinely distanced himself from the policy directives during the campaign. But his first-day staffing and policy moves read like a near-direct implementation of the policy.
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“As he did in 2017, Trump has been bequeathed a relatively stable economy, for now. Once he begins to destabilize it, which will adversely affect the working class, the middle class and small business owners, the falsehoods will only ramp up.”
MAGA's true believers don't understand capitalism — Trump will teach them a hard lesson
Today's Republicans have swallowed so many economic myths that reality has disappeared. They face a wakeup call
www.salon.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“As he did in 2017, Trump has been bequeathed a relatively stable economy, for now. Once he begins to destabilize it, which will adversely affect the working class, the middle class and small business owners, the falsehoods will only ramp up.”
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Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” Experts say it's a "farce."
Climate change is the great crisis facing our species.
Earth’s temperature is already 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. @salonnewsroom.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/01/22/d...
Climate change is the great crisis facing our species.
Earth’s temperature is already 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. @salonnewsroom.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/01/22/d...
January 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” Experts say it's a "farce."
Climate change is the great crisis facing our species.
Earth’s temperature is already 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. @salonnewsroom.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/01/22/d...
Climate change is the great crisis facing our species.
Earth’s temperature is already 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. @salonnewsroom.bsky.social
www.salon.com/2025/01/22/d...
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Lawsuits filed by North Dakota under Gov. Burgum reveal an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.
“Doug Burgum’s blatant conflicts with the oil industry cast doubt on his ability to fairly manage our public lands,” one government ethics watchdog said.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
“Doug Burgum’s blatant conflicts with the oil industry cast doubt on his ability to fairly manage our public lands,” one government ethics watchdog said.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
North Dakota Sued Interior at Least Five Times Under Gov. Doug Burgum. Now He’s Set to Run the Agency.
The state was hostile to Interior Department policies during the Biden administration. A review of its lawsuits under Burgum reveals an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.
propub.li
January 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Lawsuits filed by North Dakota under Gov. Burgum reveal an aggressively pro-fossil fuel agenda.
“Doug Burgum’s blatant conflicts with the oil industry cast doubt on his ability to fairly manage our public lands,” one government ethics watchdog said.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
“Doug Burgum’s blatant conflicts with the oil industry cast doubt on his ability to fairly manage our public lands,” one government ethics watchdog said.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
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Rep AOC: "republicans, who have voted consistently against the violence against women's act, who have taken the rights of all women to have control over their own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots, now want to pretend today that they care about women."
January 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Rep AOC: "republicans, who have voted consistently against the violence against women's act, who have taken the rights of all women to have control over their own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots, now want to pretend today that they care about women."
'Terrible political morality': Ex-Republican uses Nazi political theorist to explain Trump
www.rawstory.com/trump-nazi-t...
www.rawstory.com/trump-nazi-t...
'Terrible political morality': Ex-Republican uses Nazi political theorist to explain Trump
New York Times columnist and former Republican, David French, in an op-ed published Sunday points to one German political expert to make sense of President Donald Trump supporters' unwavering loyalty....
www.rawstory.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
'Terrible political morality': Ex-Republican uses Nazi political theorist to explain Trump
www.rawstory.com/trump-nazi-t...
www.rawstory.com/trump-nazi-t...
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USDOT has now deleted this webpage
USDOT just published a Climate Strategies that Work Playbook. Looks pretty good.
Topics covered include road pricing, parking reform, and transit system integration. For each one, USDOT summarizes research findings and suggests federal funding opportunities.
www.transportation.gov/climate-stra...
Topics covered include road pricing, parking reform, and transit system integration. For each one, USDOT summarizes research findings and suggests federal funding opportunities.
www.transportation.gov/climate-stra...
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
USDOT has now deleted this webpage
it helps the money-bags & 'shareholder equity' bc socialized hand-outs should only go to those who have most of the stuff but want all of the stuff................ >
Since Monday, Trump has: Halted civil rights investigations, suspended public health advisories, frozen infrastructure spending, rescinded an executive order prohibiting discrimination by federal contractors and another one aimed at lowering drug prices.
How does this help working people?
How does this help working people?
January 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
it helps the money-bags & 'shareholder equity' bc socialized hand-outs should only go to those who have most of the stuff but want all of the stuff................ >
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Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
Trump’s executive order took aim at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on projects, including those aimed at poor, rural communities.
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
Trump’s gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities | CNN
Just hours after his swearing-in this week, President Donald Trump signed action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.” Communities across the country, including in po...
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
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If Trump were to seize Greenland, a NATO member, under the NATO charter, NATO would be compelled to defend. This would either pit America vs NATO or force NATO to back down and dissolve.
This is a Trump-Putin joint effort to destroy NATO together.
This is a Trump-Putin joint effort to destroy NATO together.
January 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
If Trump were to seize Greenland, a NATO member, under the NATO charter, NATO would be compelled to defend. This would either pit America vs NATO or force NATO to back down and dissolve.
This is a Trump-Putin joint effort to destroy NATO together.
This is a Trump-Putin joint effort to destroy NATO together.
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Where the hell was this before the election
January 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Where the hell was this before the election
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The COVID-19 pandemic wouldn’t have ended so quickly if it weren’t for #NIH funding👇🏽
NIH/NIAID/NIGMS research, training, *and* equipment grants made possible the first two atomic-resolution structures of coronavirus spike proteins, all the way back in 2016. But sure, tell us NIH-funded research isn't high-impact.
January 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The COVID-19 pandemic wouldn’t have ended so quickly if it weren’t for #NIH funding👇🏽
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The shutdown of CBP One, the app that allows asylum seekers to make appointments at legal ports of entry, could produce more chaos, writes Juliette Kayyem. “Then again, Trump’s political interest lies in exploiting the border, not effectively managing it.”
The Border Got Quieter, So Trump Had to Act
The president would rather exploit a free-for-all than manage migrant flows effectively.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The shutdown of CBP One, the app that allows asylum seekers to make appointments at legal ports of entry, could produce more chaos, writes Juliette Kayyem. “Then again, Trump’s political interest lies in exploiting the border, not effectively managing it.”
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Reminder: In commuting Rhodes' sentence, Trump effectively said, "Yeah, Rhodes is guilty of sedition AND terrorism, but I think 3 years is enough punishment." Which means he invited a terrorist on stage with him.
Trump gives top stormtrooper Stewart Rhodes a seat on stage at his speech, in case you thought he was done with January 6
January 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Reminder: In commuting Rhodes' sentence, Trump effectively said, "Yeah, Rhodes is guilty of sedition AND terrorism, but I think 3 years is enough punishment." Which means he invited a terrorist on stage with him.