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The "campus free speech" and "cancel culture" panics were obvious efforts to seed the ground for a huge expansion of left-wing censorship and right-wing propaganda. That effort appears to have worked.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Veterans Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins took to social media to tout sweeping cuts to contracts that he said would save the department nearly $2 billion. But the 875 contracts on the chopping block help cover medical services, fund cancer programs and provide burial services to veterans.

submitted 5 days ago • 102 comments

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

submitted 7 days ago • 5200 comments

Exclusive: Millions of rents across the United States may now be set using one company’s algorithmic software, according to a federal lawsuit and a Post analysis.

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

I've yet to find a mainstream story on the net neutrality ruling that mentions U.S. broadband is a failed market dominated by entrenched regional monopolies pampered by corrupt state and local governments it's like that essential part of the story isn't of interest to them

submitted 56 days ago • 17 comments

Happy holidays:

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Gannett, owner of the Des Moines Register, won’t publicly commit to paying legal costs for Ann Seltzer, the pollster being sued by Trump. This is ominous, especially in light of the capitulation last week by Disney/ABC, which is vastly better resourced than Gannett. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/u...

submitted 73 days ago • 133 comments

The Texas committee that reviews all pregnancy-related deaths in the state voted NOT to investigate cases from 2022 and 2023, meaning potential abortion-related deaths beginning right after the state passed a near-total ban on the procedure won’t be reviewed. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 97 days ago • 13 comments

Writing from Iowa, a state that turned red and has had a sustained R trifecta, things have become very bad, for all but especially for those who have the least. Our food banks have never seen higher demand. Hospitals are discontinuing OB care or closing entirely. Mental healthcare is inaccessible.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

Yikes

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Hi all! I'm going to be doing something a little different next month and teaching a six-week course on disinfo and propaganda, its goals and tactics, and all the ways people can properly fight it. This will be fairly structured and geared toward nonprofits and newsrooms:

submitted 212 days ago • 31 comments