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• Post #2575735

  As she calls for a media reckoning, Parker Molloy speaks truth that will resonate with a lot of us, I suspect: "For years, major news outlets have twisted themselves into knots trying to appease critics on the right. In the process, they've alienated not just the left but anyone who cares about honest, fearless journalism." #media #MediaFail #Democrats #Republicans #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump /1 https://www.readtpa.com/p/its-time-for-a-media-reckoningno

• Post #2513292

  I came to Mastodon's Toad Social on 1 December 2002 after deleting my Twitter account the day Elon Musk took over there. Since that time unti today, I remember receiving notices of perhaps two posts being removed — for reasons never clear to me. Today, I get a notice of multiple posts being removed all at once. What's this about, I wonder? Why all at once? What's behind actions like this? I'd like to know. Are others experiencing this? #Mastodon #censors...

• Post #2497008

  Marcy Wheeler notes that Jack Smith's subpoena of security footage from the State Farm arena vote count location in Georgia, seen in conjunction with Trump’s efforts in places like Michigan, "is a reminder that Trump and his mobs, many associated with overt white supremacists like Nick Fuentes, aggressively tried to thwart the counting of Black and Latino people’s votes." And this is a crime. #Trump #crime #criminal #Black #Latino #VoterSupression #racism https://www...

• Post #2497007

  "Trolling is how the right works in the present day and it is foolish and straight out political malpractice to operate as if it doesn’t matter. We may not like it, we may understand that it is stupid and hateful, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is very influential and has a direct effect on the lives of millions of people." ~ Oliver Willis #troll #SocialMedia #media #disinformation https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/why-cant-we-just-ignore-right-wing

• Post #2497006

  Dean Obeidallah on how the GOP is responding to the climate change crisis: "On Wednesday, the GOP controlled House Appropriations committee voted for sweeping funding cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency and other programs designed to address climate change--while at same time boosting development of the very fossil fuels driving the environmental disasters that have ravaged the Northern Hemisphere this year." #ClimateChange #heatwave #Republicans https://deanobeida...

• Post #2328766

  "Almost all the job growth we have seen lately has come in one area: health care. I made this graph to illustrate: It shows that while we keep adding more jobs in health care, as a whole the rest of the economy has been adding little or nothing in new jobs. In fact, in nine of Trump’s first twelve months, the rest of the economy lost jobs." ~ Paul Waldman #Trump #economy #jobs #JobGrowth #healthcare /1 https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/trump-will-never-stop-dragging-the

• Post #2323164

  "When we define 'never again' as being strictly about the Holocaust, it becomes too easy to let ourselves off the hook. Nothing is as bad as that, so we can't compare ourselves to it. Things couldn't get that bad. We haven't gone that far. Which means almost any atrocity short of murdering 6 million people isn't 'far enough' to sound the alarm about and move heaven and earth to stop." ~ Michael Podhorzer #fascism...

• Post #2303142

  "These are monumental decisions that are happening, that are rolling back where we are as a country." ~ Olivia Troye #SupremeCourt #VotingRights #discrimination #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #Callais #WhiteSupremacy /1 https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/more-lawfare-from-trump-the-frank

• Post #2298313

  Noting that 88% of weekly-attending white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2024 and 60% tell pollsters that God got Trump elected, and 58% of Catholics voted for Trump, Patrick Brennan talks about brood parasitism. The cuckoo does not build its own nest, but lays eggs in the nests of other birds. When its chicks hatch, they push the eggs of the other birds from the nest. #PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism /1 https://complexsimplicity.substack.com/p/ten-years-of...

• Post #2264240

  "The most important story in Congress right now is that Republicans cannot govern even with a majority and are not focused on legislating anything voters care about. If you’re a journalist unwilling or uninterested in covering that with urgency, you’re useless." ~ Jamesetta Williams #Trump #Republicans #media #BeltwayBubble #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD /1 https://xcancel.com/jamesetta_w/status/2049327486505304175#m

• Post #2250061

  "The American people spent the whole day wondering if their mad king would destroy the world, only to find out he was terrorizing them in order to protect his ego after starting a disastrous war." ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Trump #Iran #war #insanity #MadKing #megalomania /1 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-7-2026

• Post #2221406

  Toby Buckle offers (to my way of thinking) stellar analysis of what's going on politically as large numbers of Americans, our media, and corporate leaders jump with alacrity on the Trump bandwagon: it's not the old "economic anxiety" canard. Rather, "Our country has been captured by a force that has its own ideas about our future. One that is ancient, compelling, and evil." #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /1...

• Post #2191327

  "Asked by a reporter about Epstein today, Trump said: 'I don’t know anything about the Epstein files. I’ve been fully exonerated.' Trump’s name is, in fact, all through the Epstein files, and the DOJ’s clumsy attempt to hide files that discuss him has only called attention to them." ~ Heather Cox Richardson #Epstein #Trump #PamBondi #EpsteinClass #coverup /1 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-27-2026

• Post #2019223

  "Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations." ~ Anne Applebaum #Orbán #Hungary #corruption #EconomicElites #authoritarianism /1 https://bsky.app/profile/anneapplebaum.bsky.social/post/3mkk3f4flk22c

• Post #1953974

  "My POV as a South Carolinian originally from Louisiana is that no matter how bad their lives get, a majority of working whites will always vote Republican because race is the only social asset they've got left. To vote the same way as Black people, even when it's clearly in their own interests, is to accept that they are not superior and that is something they simply cannot and will not do." ~ Stinson Carter #Republicans #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #Supreme...

• Post #1929689

  "According to a new Guardian report, CEO pay rose dramatically in 2025, increasing about 20 times faster than worker wages, highlighting growing income inequality. While executive compensation surged, real wages for workers declined by 12% since 2019 when adjusted for inflation. The wealth of billionaires also reached record highs, further widening the gap between top earners and average workers." ~ Aaron Parnas #MayDay #EconomicElites #billionaires #workers /1 https://aaro...

• Post #1924232

  "American Catholics have long been a redoubt of conservatism (and even right-wing extremism) in a Church whose leadership in Rome has been moving markedly to the left. Trump, therefore, must have been blindsided when the church’s American bishops roundly denounced The Donald for dissing the Pope in the wake of Trump’s Messiah moment." ~ David R. Lurie #PopeLeo #Trump #Catholics #authoritarianism /1 https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-reichstag-fire-presidency

• Post #1919592

  "John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:" ~ Joy-Ann Reid #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption /1 https://www.joyannreid.com/p/a-sunday-reid-john-robe...

• Post #1916276

  As Amy Goodman reminds us, when Martin Luther King gave his famous sermon "Beyond Vietnam" at Riverside church in New York in April 1967, calling for the US to stop the war in Vietnam and undergo a "revolution" of values, he was denounced by Life magazine as a demagogue and the Washington Post as undermining his civil rights cause. But Dr. King turned out to be right about the war, and the media turned out to be wrong. #MartinLutherKing #media #journalists...

• Post #1905058

  "Everyone (myself included) who is still on Twitter has some hard questions to ask themselves. There is no pretending any more that Twitter is anything other than a far-right social network headed by a CEO who revels in chaos and is platforming extremism. So why are news organisations still on it? Why is anyone who considers themselves to have liberal values still on it?" ~ Arwa Mahdawi #Twitter #Musk #journalists #media https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/twitter-...

• Post #1903642

  "Trump rejected that proposal from Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, perhaps in part because it would not address Trump’s demand for total termination of Iran’s nuclear program. But the New York Times had an extraordinary detail about the Iranian offer: 'A U.S. official also said that accepting it could appear to deny Mr. Trump a victory.' Paul, apparently that’s the single most important factor in all of this, right?" ~ Greg Sargent #Trump #Iran #war /1...

• Post #1870006

  "Donald Trump [has just] called for mandatory mental competency evaluations for anyone running for President of the United States." ~ Aaron Parnas #Trump #MentalCompetency #MentalDecline #IQ #intelligence /1 https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-thursday-night-update-epstein

• Post #1849475

  "For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act." ~ Jay Willis #SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans /1 https://ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/the-republican-justices-want-to-help

• Post #1849416

  "Today is May 1. Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973, President Trump’s authority to continue military operations in Iran without congressional authorization expires today. As of 0600 EST this morning, the administration has filed nothing — no authorization request, no 30-day extension certification, no supplemental appropriations." ~ Rudy Martinez #Trump #Republicans #Iran #war #WarPowers #Congress /1 https://www.restoftheworldreport.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-may

• Post #1840048

  "You cannot understand the Iran War without considering the sun and the moon of Trump’s dysfunction: Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama. Marcy Wheeler identified these two men at the center of Trump’s two intractable psychological dilemmas that make an Iran deal not merely unlikely but structurally impossible." ~ Jason Sattler #Iran #Trump #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #Obama #Putin /1 https://thecause.substack.com/p/why-trump-cant-deal

• Post #1810409

  "The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve." ~ Chitown Kev #EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature /1 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/

• Post #1789580

  "Alex Karp, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others are on edge and on the warpath right now. They have invested billions of dollars and huge amounts of time and social capital in the project of capturing a superpower and using the information ecosystem to spread racism, biopolitics, and versions of Fascist and other authoritarian systems of rule." ~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat #TechBros #SiliconValley #fascism #Trump #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #Palantir /1 https://lucid.substack.com/p/t...

• Post #1781080

  "Yesterday Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired. Twenty-one days ago, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George was fired. Fifty-four days ago, the American military launched its largest war in a generation. These datapoints are linked." ~ Jonathan V. Last #Trump #Hegseth #Pentagon #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas /1 https://www.thebulwark.com/p/america-is-losing-the-iran-war

• Post #1761452

  "A close reading of the Justice Department’s charges Monday afternoon against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all. In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all. ... Here is what to me is a more likely scenario than what the government is telling us so far:" ~ Garrett M. Graff #WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #violence #shooting #DOJ #ColeAllen /1 https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-the-justice-department-ly...

• Post #1758439

  "Words really are tools of battle. And on that battlefield, our side has the overwhelming advantage. The bad guys know this; that’s why they took control of social media and legacy media and are trying to take control of Hollywood; they seek to throttle our words, because they understand how powerful our words are." ~ Greg Olear #words #language #writing #SocialMedia #fascism #resistance /1 https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages-writers-resist-revival