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A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

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Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.

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I’m not blogging at all this month (revising the book manuscript), but if I wasn’t on blogging-hiatus, here’s what I’d be writing: (1) An awful lot of centrist pundit-types built their careers in the ‘10s around writing takes that perform well on algorithmic media.

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

I spent so many years covering propaganda anticipating this exact moment and so many of my peers bought the paid-for contrarian line that even covering disinformation was somehow, itself, censorship. Now we're at the event horizon. Celebration is protest is riot is justification for a police state.

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BREAKING: Miller reportedly engineered the raids that sparked the protests that have engulfed the city in recent days—likely because he wanted a pretext to send in federal troops. https://trib.al/oM1280f

submitted 12 hours ago • 341 comments

the day you can internalize "I like this and I don't care what anyone else thinks about it" is the day you truly become an adult it is the most freeing realization of your life

submitted 11 hours ago • 36 comments

The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.

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It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.

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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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oh man, this one cuts right to the bone

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Anti-trans disinfo runs on fossil fuels, and hating on Trans people is the new "climate is a hoax". An independent analysis of 45 right-wing groups advocating against trans rights found that 80% have received donations from fossil fuel companies or billionaires. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

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Imagine the Western news media coverage if China had illegally intercepted a humanitarian aid vessel in international waters and Chinese soldiers had taken the 12 unarmed crew captive. The Western media is complicit in Israel's genocide. #Madleen #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #GazaGenocide

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

These are con-artists. And I feel like I'm going crazy because so few people recognize them when it used to be a very common skill most people had!

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

I am a historian and the consensus as to the start date for Italian fascism is when Mussolini, accused of having his party disappear a leftist member of Parliament, made a speech daring anyone to do anything about it - no one did.

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I'd like to be extremely concerned about the marines being deployed to an American city and the scientific committee that determines vaccine schedules being disbanded, but I'm gonna hold off until the Distraction Knowers give the okay

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One odd thing about Twitter/ Bluesky discourse from my perspective is… I didn’t leave Twitter for Bluesky. I left twitter. Then well over a year later, there was Bluesky, and I joined it. (In between, tried Threads and Mastadon.) If Bluesky disappeared tomorrow I wouldn’t go back to Twitter.

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This is sort of what happened with DOGE. They were convinced there was a mountain of easily-detectable waste and fraud that a handful of folks equipped with "common sense" could root out & eliminate in a manner of weeks. And there wasn't. But they had promised headlines about big cuts...

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The correct way to connect the authoritarian presence in LA and the Big Beautiful Bill is that the bill gives the government the resources to do this in dozens of cities at once. So if you don't like what's happening in LA, it's coming to your town if the bill passes.

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Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter. While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH. This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line. We should acknowledge that.

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For all the talks about concerns over disinformation, the mainstream media have been a key agent in the mainstreaming of far right politics by: - covering them disproportionately - hyping moral panics - platforming their bad faith actors as legitimate bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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If you've been trying to put words to why all the "big tent" talk about "winning the middle" to defeat fascism that's coming from allegedly moderate alleged pragmatists seems like such wrong-minded nonsense, well I wrote all about that. www.the-reframe.com/winning-the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Freedom in the genocide

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Thinking of Greta Thunberg (and co) and those being attacked by ICE in LA. Lot of horrible stuff going on right now but also A LOT of people standing up for what's right.

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It’s fucking infuriating that the authoritarian regime has troops in the streets and all you hear in coverage is concern about “anarchists and extremists.” The fascists are fucking extreme. Corporate media is a curse on this society.

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"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

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The American version of democracy sausages. As a dual citizen I am very proud of both!

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Kooky that a create-your-own-feed-without-an-algorithm site is criticized as “a bubble,” but a spoon-fed, cruise-ship, gated-community algorithm-driven site is treated like a free market of ideas or Mars Hill.

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I have a lot of complaints about this place sometimes, I do. But none of my concerns are that it’s not getting big enough or staying big enough. This mindset is a freaking disease. Everything does not have to be infinitely big, keep getting bigger, grow grow grow in size.

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This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

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All of the talk about "peaceful protest" makes me think of all the times I have been part of a protest where the police cracked someone over the head and then charged that person with assault. They will call you violent. You can't control that or other people.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Ordinary Germans did not come out in numbers to try to block the troops taking their Jewish neighbors away, so this moment is giving me a lot of hope and pride. Americans aren't ready to capitulate to fascism

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It is so frustrating when people say that Trump needs a pretext to escalate or a reason to be authoritarian. There is no justification for either and he has already done both without needing an excuse. This is what abusers do. They victimize regardless of what their victims do

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There was minimal coverage or actual footage of yesterday’s events in Los Angeles on the X platform. Everything I saw was here. As a result, Trump and the right-wing information machine are in almost complete control of the narrative on the X platform.

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I re-present this piece, given Trump deploying the military to the streets of LA.

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