*former RT anchor. Former. Wouldn’t want to impugn her journalistic independence in any way.

‘We are in the heart of the imperial empire’ he says to Raina Khalek the RT anchor just a few days ago hahaha bsky.app/profile/came...

I saw lol

I used Coughlin as the anchor character in the last chapter of mine. :)

I spent a lot of time reading old Coughlin docs and press clippings for book research hoping there would be some more satisfying solution but it really was a combo of govt revoking his newsletter's second-class mailing privileges for print propaganda, and then overwhelmingly in-group Church action.

Coughlin grew progressively more extreme: Kristallnacht was really the Jews' fault, etc. He supported the Christian Front. Aligned with fascist leaders.

It was eventually primarily in-group action that dealt with the mass media demagogue: Church hierarchy told him no more political broadcasting.

Are you planning to publish the current list?

17M impressions. Probably half crypto and porn bots but still.

Yes but detracking is associated with progressive education policy more broadly. “8th grade algebra” is the meme he’s referencing and it became the story of national mockery but the association is broader.

It got framed as “anti-racist education” at the time (hence “8th grade algebra is racist”). Covered in NYT as some kind of positive experiment before the backlash — which only happened when moderates got fed up.

Locally, though, people did care about this by the end. Incl techies.

Well, couple things are true. One, education policy is decided locally so there’s no reason for a national-race pol to weigh in on this. But also it was an example of moderates in SF letting left flank do something egregiously stupid & initially being afraid to push back. It got ridiculed online.