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Proud, first-gen Kenyan-American. Born into Carter Admin + raised in Regan Admin(Bush 1 x Clinton x Bush 2 x Obama)/Biden = 🚫 more lobbyist 💵 & 🚫 more Electoral College. Videographer,editor,student of history/poli sci,and artist. R.I.P. Alex P. Keaton🙏🏿
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One exceptional bit of a very informative(and long) thread regarding what caused the delays in J6 and Trump world prosecutions. On the other side of this BS, we will need to hold people accountable

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🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

It’s helpful to take a step back and acknowledge the absurd # of crises- immediate and existential- that Trump’s regime has let loose on the electorate in just a few months. The play is to overwhelm and sow confusion so that the fewest participate & even fewer are sure of the facts 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Ex Cambridge Analytica exec Brittany Kaiser - a self-titled whistleblower who wrote a memoir on how big data, Trump & Facebook broke democracy - is Director and 1.4% owner of Gryphon Digital Mining which is merging with American Bitcoin part owned by Don Jr and Eric Trump www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Just a reminder--it was 13 days ago that Donald Trump said he needed two weeks to decide whether to push for harder sanctions on Russia. When he, inevitably, fails to do so--can we have a retraction published for every story/commentary that took his BS on this seriously?

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

I realize that this is almost worn out at this point (which is itself pretty wild) but “the executive took over 2000 troops in violation of the only statute he cited and the local police are shooting reporters” is the sort of thing for which “imagine if this happened in another country” was coined

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 4 days ago • 166 comments

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

submitted 5 days ago • 248 comments

New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Appreciate the reference (below) to @propublica.org’s coverage of Russ Vought in @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s newsletter today. I have more Vought reporting in the works. I’d love to hear from anyone with information about Vought, OMB, and DOGE. Contact info in my bio.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart “Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.” piers: “Wow.”

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

Please watch and share: m.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I sent this in a tiny break between calls without explanation, so let me be clearer: Publications are not reaching people they need to reach or converting those people to regular readers and subscribers by making especially the mobile experience a farcical clownscape that confounds understanding.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Minneapolis

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.

submitted 9 days ago • 45 comments

New piece: Most Trump voters did not "vote to deport moms." They voted bc inflation was high under Biden, to deport criminals, or something else. Many do not support Trump's policies. Welcoming those voters back into the tent is key to future Dem victory. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump...

submitted 9 days ago • 928 comments

A beautiful & very personal essay in the fantastic @mississippifreepress.org about the exploitation of racial division as a tool of internal control & oppression — of all races — which will continue to weaken our democracy until we see it for what it is www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-wh...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Vital point here. The frames of political discourse — which are shaped by the structure of the info environment and by both strategic & organic communication — shape how people interpret their own experiences. We're not dealing with a problem of bad "facts" ... but one of corrupted sensemaking.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

Reform UK exemplifies a new model of politics shaped by the logic of the attention economy, where virality and outrage matter more than governance, delivery, or outcomes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

The Philly GOP is running a write-in campaign for @dalarrykrasner.bsky.social's primary opponent, and now Scott Presler's Early Vote Action is trying to drum up support for him as well. Help us on Team Krasner keep Philly safer and freer. And VOTE ON TUESDAY! secure.actblue.com/donate/krasn...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments