Sarah’s THEY KNEW is literally about how the pervasive lack of transparency and accountability in governance makes conspiracy theories thrive and destroys civic trust. Feels a little on the nose.

Looking forward to that promised Thatcherism discussion, Vlad.

To speak of Reagan and Thatcher and those who laid groundwork for or came in with them as pro-institutional rather than institution-constrained seems to me wrong, though I appreciate the case can be made. Historians will want a say!

corporations and finance own them; from the corporations-and-finance perspective, Trump is a bit of rough sailing but net positive

We need you to actually fight, senator.

That’s a hell of a way to run a news organisation.

I worked 43 years in journalism, for a lot of news organisations, but I never encountered such political pressure being exerted by the top on news stories.

Stories with predetermined narratives that fit the leader’s personal views.

thanks, this is news to me

a post-WW2 backlash against organized-labor gains of the ’20s & ’30s, drenched in ideology of individual attainment and competition/exclusion, which has yet to subside (though that is gradually happening)

also just tremendous economics illiteracy, helped by the distortion effect of the U.S. economy

who says donald doesn’t make a great christian?

Don’t, okay. Don’t take The Tylenol. And don’t vote Commie Mamdani! I’m saying — don’t. Don’t do it.