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Trump’s Special Envoy threatening a journalist with treason laws for not being loyal to the regime
American democracy is dead
American democracy is dead
March 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Trump’s Special Envoy threatening a journalist with treason laws for not being loyal to the regime
American democracy is dead
American democracy is dead
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Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Garry Kasparov is right, I’m afraid: they are breaking everything so quickly even though it’s unpopular, because they never expect to face real elections again.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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MAGA is a cult.
January 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
MAGA is a cult.
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As journalists we like to say that we tell truth without fear or favour
That’s always been a v partial narrative but as we fully enter the era of Big Tech - and its Bros - the grim reality that media is ever more a tool of the powerful (and their interests) will become a recurring story
That’s always been a v partial narrative but as we fully enter the era of Big Tech - and its Bros - the grim reality that media is ever more a tool of the powerful (and their interests) will become a recurring story
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
As journalists we like to say that we tell truth without fear or favour
That’s always been a v partial narrative but as we fully enter the era of Big Tech - and its Bros - the grim reality that media is ever more a tool of the powerful (and their interests) will become a recurring story
That’s always been a v partial narrative but as we fully enter the era of Big Tech - and its Bros - the grim reality that media is ever more a tool of the powerful (and their interests) will become a recurring story
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Sobering discussion on Today of the tech billionaires jostling to buy influence with Trump, so they can gut the regulation of their industries.
It's plutocratic feudalism, with tech-barons fighting to control the court.
The long project to bring economic power under democratic control is in ruins.
It's plutocratic feudalism, with tech-barons fighting to control the court.
The long project to bring economic power under democratic control is in ruins.
January 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Sobering discussion on Today of the tech billionaires jostling to buy influence with Trump, so they can gut the regulation of their industries.
It's plutocratic feudalism, with tech-barons fighting to control the court.
The long project to bring economic power under democratic control is in ruins.
It's plutocratic feudalism, with tech-barons fighting to control the court.
The long project to bring economic power under democratic control is in ruins.