I’ve left Meta and Twitter for bluer skies…

Folks, we're living in a Second Gilded Age.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the First Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back. Watch.

Elon Musk embodies the power of the unelected oligarch, leveraging wealth to influence policy and governance. His appointment in the Trump administration highlights the dangerous fusion of corporate interests and political power, bypassing democratic accountability.

You’re the US Marines band at the White House and Mavis Staples 👑 walks into the room so you start playing "I’ll Take You There" and this happens👇

Luigi Mangione’s manifesto does something truly groundbreaking in the genre: it is edited for brevity

Independent media must cling tightly to the concept of reporting with verifiable FACTS, & CLEARLY distinguishing that from opinion.
News writers should also draft their own headlines.

I'm putting together a Trusted Sources starter pack.

Who are your must haves?

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Norms are good. Pressure works. We need to protect norms. This feels like a small victory but every victory is in fact a victory.

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Hey Media,
You have lost viewers, nobody wants to watch you anymore because there is no trust. Instead of bashing a loving father for protecting his son how about covering the insanity of this country is facing and stop normalizing it.

I can't bring myself to be even a little mad about Biden pardoning Hunter. The values and norms he'd been trying to uphold were obliterated by American voters last month. Why sacrifice your son to a dead god?

Increasingly I think that Trump is focused on his own…comfort. He’s aware of his inadequacies. It’s why he’s uncomfortable around military generals and war heroes. These picks are so profoundly unfit, so deeply lacking in sound character, I think it makes Trump feel comfortable with himself.

Can someone explain to me why fighting for policies championed 80 years ago by one of the most popular Presidents in our nation’s history make me a “progressive?” Also, pretty sure these are supported by a super majority of voters. Does that mean everyone else should be called regressives?

As one of his first acts as co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Vivek Ramaswamy has announced that he is cutting his name by 75 percent.

It is now Vive.

I gave the picture to Google Lens which returned to me plenty of articles that had similar looking photos in them. After numerous times of carefully changing the focus of Google Lens to different sections of the photo, I finally landed on an article that seemed to have a photo of the same field.

Well, I guess it was time.

Puppy killer to oversee mass deportations. That fits.