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@onthemedia.bsky.social this week takes on disinformation in #FCC attacks on journalism and news orgs and the attempt to rewrite and whitewash Nixon's criminality as some left wing, "deep state" conspiracy, and the erasing people of color from US museums and official history.

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#CoryBooker is simply great in explaining both his historic filibuster and the utter moral collapse and capitulation of the US Congress on the @thenewyorker radio hour. He should be the leader of the Senate Democrats.

“Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, you find you’ve barely scratched the surface.” — Steve Post Again. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

@onthemedia.bsky.social takes on the #MAGA media sphere both weaponizes and monetizes the "deep state that strangely still exists even while Trump is in total control and create a phantasmagorical alternate reality that MAGA eats up. https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/brooke-and-mica

Peter Stern was born in Nuremberg in 1936, a German Jew. His father died in the Holocaust; he and his brother somehow survived Bergen-Belsen. Today he's protesting what's happening in America. "I came to say that something as nasty as that can happen again, and it can, without me saying something."

Musk is just the vanguard of something much darker that lots of folks in Silicon Valley have been trying to warn everyone about for years. But everyone was just so in love with the next shiny thing… https://bylinetimes.com/2025/04/04/how-nazi-race-science-conquered-the-white-house-and-is-coming-fo

This week’s #newyorkerradiohour has a deconstruction of #Musk by Jill Lepore that is amazing. And really important if you actually want to understand why he’s so horrible. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I, for one, am tired of so much winning. Seriously. He never, ever gets anything right. Even when he backs down from trying to crater the economy, he then backs down from backing down. And doubles down on the cratering. The futures will implode for the open… finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

This is the problem with these faux Christians. (I mean, besides all the blasphemous appropriation …) Always confusing characters in our (Jew's) stories: he's not Moses… he's the golden calf. https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-trump-moses/

@onthemedia.bsky.social this week dissects the #tariffs and the right wing bipolar insanity of simultaneously cheerleading & freaking out over #trump's chaos.

"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV." So, so 2020. Guessing the new words he couldn't remember were "Cognitive. Decline. Unfit. For. Office." https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-cant-recall-the-details-of-his-favorite-cognitive-test/

ncnewsline.com/2025/04/12/f... Trump to North Carolina: DROP DEAD. NC now lives at the intersection of “fucked around and found out.” Know who would never have decided to fuck over our fellow citizens like this? Kamala Harris, that’s who.

See also the bond market and interest rates. Know what they were in 1981? 20% with double digit inflation. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/consumer-sentiment-craters-further-as-inflation-expectations-soar-to-highest-since-1981-143422026.html

If the #democrats had any brains (TL;DR: they don't), they'd track down every single one of the people who were buying up CALL options while the market was in fact cratering hours before Trump pulled this stunt and caused this bounce and out them for the felonious insider traders they are.

For those keeping score, as of yesterday Trump has wiped out over $11 Trillion in US market value from people's investments and retirement savings. That's just about ONE HALF OF THE VALUE OF US ANNUAL GDP of $23.5 Trillion. Go read that last sentence again.

The technical term is "dead cat bounce"….

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the aaaaaaaaactual fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck?!?!? https://www.rawstory.com/trump-israel-presser/

Seems dumb. He's been having "private meetings" with all his fave MAGA grrls, like Laura Loomer — Who is going to treat his STIs now? https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/

The first segment of this week's New Yorker Radio Hour is eye opening… #NVDA #JensenHuang

Secretary of #Gaslighting, er, #Treasury #Bessent says the #TrumpCrash that's destroyed $6.4T in investments in 2days is just a "Magnificent 7" (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, META, NVDA, TSLA) problem. ORLY? Then explain the bloodbath in the other 493 #SP500 stocks. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tr

Limped dicked lil'coward ascared of the big NYC subway? Your average 9yr old rides the MTA subways every single day to / from school without incident. If you assholes hadn't killed the FDA/NIH maybe they coulda gotten you a spine transplant or grown you some 'nads.

Jill Lepore perfectly deconstruct Musk and his motivations and those of his gang of anti-Democrstic technocrats. This is a must read.

The official terms are “suckers” and “losers.”

But of course — Trump hates the very sight of anyone with disabilities. Remember his refusal to have a disabled veterans at white house functions? "Who wants to see that?" he said. Ramps and accessibility afforances "make buildings ugly" He's coming for the ADA.

s/Dont be evil/Don't be even remotely tolerant/g #IYKYK

I'm no good with patterns. Can someone help me out here?

https://economist.com/leaders/2025/04/03/president-trumps-mindless-tariffs-will-cause-economic-havoc?giftId=12c8ced6-598f-4588-af77-2bdc255c82ff&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Happy Liberation Day to all who celebrate the release of money from your retirement accounts into thin air.

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

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You'd think this would actually be the biggest story of the day. But… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is the grossest violations of his oath of office — knowingly and with malice of forthought conspiring to inflict economic harm to the country. #economicsabotage #RemoveTrumpNow

If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs. They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.

Democrats need to put this on blast 24x7 in every media they can find ….

Was this via signal or via seance?

In a meaningless protest vote, a few republicans meekly protest Trump tariffs on Canada:

Nailed it… "It feels like AI fans are scavenging for every iconic image, in an effort to "make everything Ghibli". Once you've seen the Kennedy assassination in the warm glow of traditional cel-animation, you realize nothing is sacred." — "Jim the AI Whisperer"

File under: "Elections have consequences"

You lazy clowns need to get off the senate floor and start doing what AOC and Sanders are doing: get out into red states and start talking to people in stand-in town halls and tell them how Dems are fighting for their rights/jobs while their GOP reps hide in their moms basements.

You know who’s NOT seeing this? People in red states. Where are ads & stand-in town halls WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE/HEAR THEM? Monologing on the Senate floor is a waste of time. Less Mr. Smith goes to Washington, more Mr. Booker goes to fuckin’ Main Street. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Madness. IMLS staff put on administrative leave

File under for elective breeding for incels:

This podcast link isn't available yet since it hasn't finished playing in various markets, but this weeks This American Life is an absolute "must listen." The Museum of Now

Trump on the tariff-based inflation he's causing, which is raising prices for every single American car buyer: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731

If they're confused, they're clearly not "experts."

This is not only an attack on foreign students, the revenue of American highes education, but on the ability of America to attract and keep talent. Many foreign students stay, become citizens, and contribute trillions to US GDP with their innovations.