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My dispatch: "Two weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the USA hangs suspended in a liminal state between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years & an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s fallen democracy, Hungary." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

I’m very plugged into the news cycle. There was not a single item in here I hadn’t already seen somewhere in the past week. But to see it reported all together — in the actual, straightforward way our current media standard-bearers seem entirely incapable of doing — is still striking

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

newrepublic.com/article/1904...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Will the Mississippi media start holding the state’s congressional delegation accountable, or will Wicker et all continue to get kid-glove treatment? Asking them if they support the Jan. 6 pardons, and why/why not, would be a start. (If someone has already done this story, please post the link.)

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

A key mark of totalitarianism is government and party ownership and control of the means of speech and information. The party, through its main apparatchik, owns Twitter. The government wants to own TikTok. The only free speech is the fascists' speech.

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

Trump previously signed an Executive Order banning TikTok, worried it would ruin his reelection chances. If he "saves" it, he will have simply undone what he originally did—keeping his pattern of creating a non-existent threat, creating an unnecessary emergency, and then taking credit for fixing it.

submitted 35 days ago • 49 comments

www.wicker.senate.gov/2022/6/wicke... Will he stick to this position now that Trump’s changed HIS position?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Bezos has really upped the ante for billionaires debasing themselves to gain favor with Trump.👇 Cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit the Washington Post because it refused to print a cartoon mocking tech and media billionaires for sucking up to Trump. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 51 days ago • 235 comments

I don’t make many smart moves, but getting Air Tags for my keys, wallet and car has spared me a lot of anxiety.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Ha!!! 😂😂 I see what they did there.

submitted 94 days ago • 91 comments