just wait until the red states get affected by the useless trade war and all the end of federal aid they need the most like food stamps, healthcare, housing even Disability checks
I live in a red state. There is a reason so many depend on federal programs. Many live in a constant struggle to survive. Having the time energy understanding and interest to pay attention to news does not fit with the constant need to survive, literally.
i totally understand you, i grow up in a place like that, all I'm saying is "even your dog will attack you if you don't feed him and try to take the little food he find" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbohp3VSo84
And they will STILL not know why it happened, because the outlets they rely on are not covering the full scale of what is happening. The MAGAts, under Putin's tutelage, have been brilliant at teaching them in advance to just discount anything that doesn't fit the narrative they sell.
don't get me wrong yes some will drink the Kool aid willingly and happy, but sadistically more than half of them will realize the ones drinking it are not doing good, remember, this is just starting! shit is about to hit the fan FOR ANYONE LIVING IN AMERICA, RED AND BLUE.
There are basically three groups in poor rural states when it comes to news. One group doesn’t care bc nothing affects their privilege. One group doesn’t pay attention bc they are constantly trying to survive, literally. The third group that does care and can pay attention feel lost and hopeless.
Mainstream media and big corporate social media is bought. Not the case with independent investigative media. Watch the politicians trying to pass a law to define "journalist" as an employee of big corporate media. They are really trying to get rid of independent journalists' investigating.
No surprise here. What is driving me batshit crazy is that people continue to turn to legacy media. They are the propaganda machine for their administration. Don't even get me started with the companies that have abandoned DEI. They have abandoned you. Stop.
The msm believes kissing the Felons ass will save theirs! Just like those in the GOP! They are on a fools errand because once Musk & the Felon feel secure of total power, they won’t need either! Those two care nothing about anyone or anything besides themselves!
My point was nobody is going to be safe long term! The Felon & Musk reside on a one way street called Loyalty! When one repeatedly screws over a wife with the next one, why wouldn’t they screw over anyone else when it’s to their advantage!
And this is why Elon bought twitter and the US threatened to ban TikTok until it was sufficiently controlled. All open media channels will suffer political attack. Blusky needs to allow self hosting because distributed networks of self hosted servers are much more resilient to those kinds of attacks
Nothing fun about that. In Montana and many other states, Lee GOP News has supposedly been hacked, but, really they are preventing subscribers from canceling. I know because I have tried.
The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you
By Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle
Which is why Democrats are depending on, encouraging and supporting more independent journalism now.
IJs, now's your chance if you are accurate, neutral and truly fact-based.
DON'T BLOW SUNSHINE UP OUR SKIRTS, go full Hunter/Brinkley and report FACTS from the true sources, not podcasts.
Otherwise...
Nothing sounds more commanding than “I’m Chet Huntley and I’m David Brinkley.” Also, “this is Walter Cronkite”. Those newsmen had knowledge, skills and teeth! They never let a story die.
Our media, once free, now a puppet show,
Where oligarchs pull strings, make the truth not grow.
You've bought the Washington Post, the LA Times too,
All to curry favor with Trump, in this media coup.
I wasn't even sure how much had happened until I started seeing it on here. Wish I could take part but I haven't used a car for a few years now and my bicycle isn't going to take me across the state (especially not now in winter) and I live in the middle of nowhere so I'm kind of stuck.
Because all Media & Newspapers are owned by Conservatives. Thats why. Billionaire bought the election for Dumpy Trump. They can buy everything. So making themselves rich. And 98% of the population poorer.
All that wealth could & should make the world a better place to live in.
Okay elected Dems, here's the game plan. You get in front of a judge to issue warrants for the arrest of people doing illegal things. You get an officer of the court to go arrest them. You bring those people back to a court house to stand trial for doing those illegal things. Now was that so hard?
All main stream media is owned by people afraid of Trump period. At the end of a long drawn out lawsuit the case will go to the Trump owned Supreme Court. Judge Cannon destroyed my faith in our legal system.
Unbiased reporting is close to extinct. Keep a mental list of these corrupted / biased / scared "news" sources, and let the memories stay top of mind when this evil house of cards collapses.
Yep, almost all the major news organizations are now owed by one #broligarch or another who are directing their Editor's in charge what to report on and what to stay away from. Truly they're State Propaganda organizations now.
I always knew the US Oligarch's would tell Russia & China to, "Hold my beer", on propaganda & news manipulation if they ever got a good foothold in America. Now that they have launched their overthrow of our Nation & Constitution, it seems I was right on that one. *sigh*
It'll come down to another French Revolution before it's over with. That's the only way they'll ever leave power, certainly they won't willingly give up their fascist broligarchy over us.
corporate media is there to keep the system stable, not to change it. That's why there are barely to no reports.
If you expect Fox News and similar networks to report on this, you're naive
Because the media particularly CNN is embracing the Trump government as they are afraid of Trump retaliations. Why not call CNN as the "enemy within USA"?
Does anyone have the turnout numbers for the 50 protests? I’m sure the numbers would be much higher if these happened in every major city, not just state capitals.
Bring the protests to them instead. That’s what I say. If we can get 1,000 or more people together to protest outside of their news headquarters, well- That might make them listen.
The media was complicit in getting Trump elected. They ignored good news re Biden and bad news re Trump. I have no faith in corporate media. We should protest for the sake of protesting
Not new: Occupy Wall Street had been a movement for two months before I ever saw a story about them. Anyone else miss the days of daily local newspapers? The Social Media excuse for detailed news stories isn't cutting it.
Six companies owned by the right wing oligarchy own 90% of mainstream media news. The right wing has been working on this monopoly for decades. It was the most effective tool for turning our country over to Nazis.
I saw it covered on 3 different news stations. The media is being inundated with the trump wall of lies and actions. There is no way to cover everything at once and that is precisely the reason that he does it.
America is good at protests. Some that occurred simultaneously in all 50:
-504 Protest
-Vietnam War protests
-Black Lives Matter protests
-Tea Party Tax Day Protests
-The civil rights movement
-The women's liberation movement
-The student movement
-The counterculture
-The White House Peace Vigil
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Yeah, nobody watches news. I haven’t watched mainstream news in five years. All they do is lie and exaggerate and talk about somebody’s dog that is useful as…I almost said something bad.🤣
There is no #freepress any more. There is just #postjournalism #Reichist -enabling, #whitewashing, #sanewashing and #justicewashing from #MSM rags owned by #billionaires.
Possibly because over 1 million people marched shortly after the idiot’s inauguration in 2017 and it moved the needle alright, backwards as we list RvW anyway. Sadly, with dictators, protests are moot.
This is the the biggest red flag for me! The news organizations I used to trust aren’t talking about the things that we all know are happening. Grass roots now, that is how we keep going.
Then you should watch MSNBC from 4-8:00 PM, Pacific Time. Unless they take The ReidOut, All in With Chris Hayes, The Rachel Maddow Show (don't miss), and The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell off the air. If they do kiss this country goodbye, it's over.
We all need to be the hero here. We have to be doing something to save democracy. Some Actions:join @indivisible.org @genderjustice.us donate to @acli.org or support @pbsnews.bsky.social or @npr.org volunteer at the food shelfs .
I recognize the sign being held in one of those photos as one that I saw at the protest. I also recognize the capitol building of the state I grew up in. These photos are genuine.
We need to all disconnect from mainstream media companies. They are in Trump's pocket. Follow independent media, and for TV shows you like to watch, there's lots of great opportunities to pirate and torrent! We've made them too powerful. Now make them feel the pain!
It takes time. Remember the news is a product, it takes time to build a brand. Trump is an established product that draws eyes. They've got to keep it up to get the medias attention.
I was with a group who participated in the March for Our Lives in D.C., in May 2004. Well over a million marchers were there. The only live coverage was CSPAN. Almost NO news coverage.
I was recently at the People's March in DC in January. Massive crowd. I saw no media outlets. I did see plenty of news photographers but never saw their photos published anywhere.
This is why we need to break up media conglomerates. No one person or company should be able to own more than one movie studio, radio station, TV station, newspaper, web news page, or cable channel, etc. No combinations either. Break them all up in the USA. Let's get back to independent media.
Start with a massive protest at CNN headquarters. One so large, they have difficulty entering the office. CBC, BBC, and others will cover it, and it will send a strong message that the people will not take it. If the MSM continues on this path, we are doomed!
Thanks to ABC caving and ignoring freedom of the press, they are all scared little babies.
Bunch of 🐓💩s. He can try to sue them or write another executive order but the courts will stop that constitutional violation too.
Not completely true. MSNBC's Joy Reed, Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes all covered the multi cities marches.
Dunno about CNN b/c I quit watching months ago.
Our local (Sacramento, CA) national news MSMs covered a little of it.
I subscribe online, so I do not know what the actual newspaper looks like. All I can tell you it was pretty prominent, and easy to find. For all of WAPOs editorial lapses, it seems they have been trying to cover this fire hose of crisis - level actions.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve seen tons of links to mainstream publications talking about protests this week. I saw an NPR and a New York Times link within the last hour and the comments were just full of people calling them collaborators.
It's Repress media on all the protest against the corrupt orange and politicians. Big news corpo holding the truth and the big picture on what's really happening
All the people of the world need to unite and never allow fascist leaders. We all need to support each other’s countries who are fighting against them. We have no space for them. We need to protect the environment and the people.❤️
We are beyond the point of no return on the disinformation front, unfortunately. Maga has too much control over the media now and Social Media is only headed in the exact wrong direction (by design)
It isn't half, just remember that, it does give me solace. Out of the people that are eligible to vote only 65% voted, and only 32% actually voted for him. On some level it is way more frustrating, but it also means we just need more people to "show" up with resistance.
Unfortunately, America is the most indoctrinated nation on the planet, and unless they start teaching their kids the truth, it will remain that way. The most recent round of book banning and erasure of history does not bode well for them.
Large swaths of Americans are spoon-fed alternate realities and lap up wholesale disinformation in addition to their disinterest in civics, geopolitics, and history.
This nation wide protest, the people united to challenge the authority of the POTUS' shocking & awful unlawful executive orders; this is just the beginning of an important countercultural movement that I want to be part of! Where there is resistance to racist fascism, I'm in, solidarity 4 evah.
People aren't pissed off enough yet..unfortunately it will take a major fkn heartbreaking tragedy or blow to the pocketbook before the real mass protest start
No Women Wednesday! A way to show our economic power. Don't buy anything on Wednesdays! Every Wednesday until we see change! If you are able, call out from work!
We need to make it easy for all women, so this can be done anywhere and still have an impact! We need to come together to show our power
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Ever hear of Hands Across America?
Trump needs that to give an excuse for a state of emergency, to call the protesters terrorists, and say the Dems are supporting terrorists.
Then the mass arrests begin.
I won’t even bother with @foxnewsradio.bsky.social or as we call Voice Of The Nazi State of America.
This is a MAGAt troll with nothing of value to say and no evidence for their claims. Please ignore them and continue to dismantle Nazis!
I'm sure in your own mind you're hilarious though.
I've saved FU's for Trump and Musk and the whole GOP to use at a later date.
Because, when you control the message, guns matter a whole lot less!!
The revolution will not be brought to you
By Xerox in four parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle
IJs, now's your chance if you are accurate, neutral and truly fact-based.
DON'T BLOW SUNSHINE UP OUR SKIRTS, go full Hunter/Brinkley and report FACTS from the true sources, not podcasts.
Otherwise...
Miss that type of
journalism - the REAL kind!
Where oligarchs pull strings, make the truth not grow.
You've bought the Washington Post, the LA Times too,
All to curry favor with Trump, in this media coup.
https://suno.com/song/5efc425e-6288-4f43-9d9b-40da491f7c27
https://youtu.be/G1fuCEL_5-U?si=IVebxdjcvLuIObpR
All that wealth could & should make the world a better place to live in.
That said, I don't blame them that much. Those marches were performative and pointless.
#BoycottCorporateMedia
https://youtu.be/gHoGdoiCOcw?si=ZtMrmXK0pkitzm_1
https://globalnews.ca/news/11009210/us-protests-photos-donald-trump-elon-musk-50501/amp/
It’s not going to be pretty.
50501
It’s Been Covered—Now We Need More in the Streets!
Even FOX News gave it some coverage. That should tell you just how big this is.
But coverage isn’t enough—action is what matters. The streets aren’t full enough yet.
Keep showing up. Keep the pressure on.
Billionaires paying Millionaires to lie to working people and keep them fighting each other (instead of the wealthy).
@abcnewslive.bsky.social
@cbssundaymorning.bsky.social
MAGA MSM OLIGARCHs Have Corrupted the Press
MSM in No Longer Reliable We Literally have to Fact Check them
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If you expect Fox News and similar networks to report on this, you're naive
@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com
@usatoday.com
@abcnewsbot.bsky.social @cbseaman.bsky.social @msnbc.com
@nbcnews.com
@latimes.com
@chicagotribune.com
@dallasnews.com
@miamiherald.com
#MSMcaved
#mediaobeyedinadvance
#democracydiesindarkness
-504 Protest
-Vietnam War protests
-Black Lives Matter protests
-Tea Party Tax Day Protests
-The civil rights movement
-The women's liberation movement
-The student movement
-The counterculture
-The White House Peace Vigil
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Corporate media were never our friends.
"Have you guys met Rupert Murdoch...." pointing to the guest awaiting a chat.
@reuters.com @npr.org @apnews.com
#TotalShutdown
#NationalStrike
Bunch of 🐓💩s. He can try to sue them or write another executive order but the courts will stop that constitutional violation too.
Keep fighting!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFZHYw3shkf/?igsh=MXZ6czZuc200enNyZQ==
Dunno about CNN b/c I quit watching months ago.
Our local (Sacramento, CA) national news MSMs covered a little of it.
Most corrupt President - felon34
And you are being covered by MSM.
People will notice
That’s the key !
Even more shocking that this is his second time.
He was and still is using misinformation which did and still is working.
Half of Americans need to get informed and start demanding receipts before eating anymore of their crap.
Evident at his inauguration by presenting us with the media giants of the world.
He will use the media to push his disinformation.
Be vigil, there is an onslaught of disinformation coming to a neighborhood near you.
Just sayin'
We need to make it easy for all women, so this can be done anywhere and still have an impact! We need to come together to show our power