The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

I have to figure out how to do this. I tried to cancel last month and Hulu told me I had to cancel through Disney, and Disney told me the opposite.

"judge dismissed charges" is misleading. It was Attorney General Nessel's office that moved for dismissal.

The context is that defense lawyers had moved (and made a strong argument) to have the AG's office removed from the case. The judge was to have ruled on the defense motion this morning.

I think this is an example, too, of your point that the emperor doesn't need you to *believe* he's wearing clothes. He only needs you to *behave* as if you believe. "Just say yes."

This approach also enables folks without a bank account (or folks who struggle with online activity) a low-entry way to provide support. Folks who depend on assistance from others almost always want to offer assistance as well.

As frightening as the main story is, I still get anxiety recalling Christian Bale's final scene talking about the NEXT collapse.

And the answer is that we—each of us—needs to do what those in power are refusing to do. We need to act as if we are living through the moment that we are living through. We need to respond to the crisis as a crisis.

You meet people where they're at, even if their power analysis and/or their application of their time and energy isn't totally strategic, YET.

Because our biggest obstacle in resisting fascism is inertia, full stop.