thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.

The authoritarian inversion of language and reality is accelerating. freedom of speech being redefined as a right to spout fascist lies and stochastic propaganda while defining pro democratic speech as “authoritarian and dangerous speech” is part of the ongoing process and the machinery of fascism.

Federal subsidies help, but they only go so far.

This assumes folks have the capacity/resources to “pay what it actually costs to produce and deliver,” no? Isn’t that Tressie’s point?