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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
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Yup. Right on target.
March 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Yup. Right on target.
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March 2, 2025
March 2, 2025
On February 28, the same day that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
March 2, 2025
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Elon Musk doesn’t care about government efficiency – and here’s the proof.
March 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Elon Musk doesn’t care about government efficiency – and here’s the proof.
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Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
February 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
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The work of @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social is key to understanding the voucher issue:
“The widespread adoption of vouchers, Cowen explains, was a policy coup staged by billionaires who were libertarians or religious zealots or both.”
Yet vouchers don’t work.
So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Yet vouchers don’t work.
So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Selling Out Our Public Schools | Diane Ravitch
Donald Trump promised that he will make public funds available to private as well as religious schools in every state, and this is what his party wants,
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February 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The work of @joshcowenmsu.bsky.social is key to understanding the voucher issue:
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February 10, 2025
February 10, 2025
As soon as President Donald Trump took office, his administration froze great swaths of government funding, apparently to test the theory popular with Project 2025 authors that the 1974 law forbidding...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
February 10, 2025
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FFS!
Your private financial & Social Security records have been breached
Records & information that hostile nations & spies would give their left arms to have were breached
One of those hacking into the systems for Musk has a record of allegedly selling corporate secrets
Get mad! Make calls!
Your private financial & Social Security records have been breached
Records & information that hostile nations & spies would give their left arms to have were breached
One of those hacking into the systems for Musk has a record of allegedly selling corporate secrets
Get mad! Make calls!
February 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
FFS!
Your private financial & Social Security records have been breached
Records & information that hostile nations & spies would give their left arms to have were breached
One of those hacking into the systems for Musk has a record of allegedly selling corporate secrets
Get mad! Make calls!
Your private financial & Social Security records have been breached
Records & information that hostile nations & spies would give their left arms to have were breached
One of those hacking into the systems for Musk has a record of allegedly selling corporate secrets
Get mad! Make calls!
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And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And there it is — next shoe dropping. Steal the bank, control the military and then silence the media
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Trump should obviously be impeached. Either he has lost control, or he is using his power to do obviously illegal things.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trump should obviously be impeached. Either he has lost control, or he is using his power to do obviously illegal things.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
February 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.
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Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
CDC purges STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump gender order
Health experts say the website purge could result in deaths.
www.cbsnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Donald Trump is scrubbing critical health information from government websites.
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
This is staggeringly stupid, anti-science, and will have real consequences.
www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...
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It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
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When millions of struggling workers want to join unions, Trump's decision to neuter the NLRB is blatantly illegal. It is also a huge gift to Musk, Bezos & other billionaires who want to abolish the only federal agency that can stop their union busting.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Trump firings at labor board threaten union win at Whole Foods – and beyond
Whole Foods workers in Philadelphia voted to unionize early this week but may be stuck in limbo due to President Donald Trump firing leaders at a federal labor regulator.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When millions of struggling workers want to join unions, Trump's decision to neuter the NLRB is blatantly illegal. It is also a huge gift to Musk, Bezos & other billionaires who want to abolish the only federal agency that can stop their union busting.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Tariffs are an important strategic economic tool, but Trump’s desire for a trade war with Canada and Mexico won’t protect jobs, keep Americans safe, or bring down costs for families.
Trump signs order imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
American importers will pay a new 25-percent tax on goods from Canada and Mexico and a 10-percent levy on products from China.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Tariffs are an important strategic economic tool, but Trump’s desire for a trade war with Canada and Mexico won’t protect jobs, keep Americans safe, or bring down costs for families.
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February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025
Throughout now-president Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, it was clear that his support was coming from three very different factions whose only shared ideology was a determination to destroy the federal...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
February 1, 2025
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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
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January 30, 2025
January 30, 2025
Last night, just before 9:00 Eastern time, an American Airlines jet originating in Wichita, Kansas, carrying 64 people and a U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
January 30, 2025