HS
@peaceispossible.bsky.social
I‘m a pro Peace citizen of the world. The division sowed by crazy so-called-leaders serves their interests, and theirs alone. Give sanity a chance.
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Biden warns 'dangerous' oligarchy taking shape in farewell address
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Biden warns 'dangerous' oligarchy taking shape in final address
The outgoing president used his final televised speech from the Oval Office to issue a series of warnings.
www.bbc.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Biden warns 'dangerous' oligarchy taking shape in farewell address
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that really threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedom”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Woah. Haven’t seen this before. Joe Biden now naming this as ‘oligarchy’…feels like another line in the sand
Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"
January 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Woah. Haven’t seen this before. Joe Biden now naming this as ‘oligarchy’…feels like another line in the sand
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“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden
January 16, 2025 at 6:05 AM
“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and profit”
President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden
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Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled.
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
All The President's Men
Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos & why press ownership matters.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled.
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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This is terrifying. Donald Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be the new head of the FBI. Patel, like Trump, wants to purge the service & prosecute journalists who helped Joe Biden ‘rig’ the 2020 election.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
Trump Says He Will Nominate Kash Patel to Run F.B.I.
President-elect Donald J. Trump turned to a firebrand loyalist to become director of the bureau, which he sees as part of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy against him.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:56 AM
This is terrifying. Donald Trump has nominated Kash Patel to be the new head of the FBI. Patel, like Trump, wants to purge the service & prosecute journalists who helped Joe Biden ‘rig’ the 2020 election.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/u...
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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An excellent thread by my friend & ally in the tech accountability trenches @moonalice.bsky.social. Technology underpins it all.
We should acknowledge that MAGA and Trump’s victory were enabled by internet platforms whose business models reward fear and outrage. Dems had 8 yrs after FB enabled Trump and never had a floor vote in either chamber on a single bill that could possibly have addressed the harms. 🧵1/x
November 17, 2024 at 12:25 AM
An excellent thread by my friend & ally in the tech accountability trenches @moonalice.bsky.social. Technology underpins it all.
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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
November 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
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I can’t think of a single dystopian novel or movie that imagined our government filled not with aliens but ignorant conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, sex criminals and grifters.
November 14, 2024 at 9:24 PM
I can’t think of a single dystopian novel or movie that imagined our government filled not with aliens but ignorant conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, sex criminals and grifters.
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Take comfort that someone somewhere will be keeping a quiet pockebook of all the criming that’s going to get crimed over the next four years. And one day, in the distant future, it’s going to catch up with them.
November 14, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Take comfort that someone somewhere will be keeping a quiet pockebook of all the criming that’s going to get crimed over the next four years. And one day, in the distant future, it’s going to catch up with them.
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Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
We need to get back to reading and critical thinking
Because 2024 feels different from 2016.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
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Oh come on, who here can honestly say that they've never...
Trump has picked Robert Kennedy jnr to be his health secretary saying:
"He's going to help make America healthy again."
Here's a far from exhaustive list of what RFK believes.
"He's going to help make America healthy again."
Here's a far from exhaustive list of what RFK believes.
November 15, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Oh come on, who here can honestly say that they've never...
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Grateful for other journalism, US politics, technology & other start-up packs, if you happen to see them on your travels….🙏
November 15, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Grateful for other journalism, US politics, technology & other start-up packs, if you happen to see them on your travels….🙏
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Brave new world that has such people in it…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
November 13, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Brave new world that has such people in it…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
Hello BlueSky.
The world is scaring me & I’d like to get off…
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Right - here we go…
Did I follow you on Twitter/X?
If so, please reply with “follow back pls”…
…and I’ll work my way through the list following back.
Big love to you all! 🙌 M
Did I follow you on Twitter/X?
If so, please reply with “follow back pls”…
…and I’ll work my way through the list following back.
Big love to you all! 🙌 M
November 13, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Right - here we go…
Did I follow you on Twitter/X?
If so, please reply with “follow back pls”…
…and I’ll work my way through the list following back.
Big love to you all! 🙌 M
Did I follow you on Twitter/X?
If so, please reply with “follow back pls”…
…and I’ll work my way through the list following back.
Big love to you all! 🙌 M
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Waking up to the news that the muskrat has a key role in Drumpf’s government, we should take heart that two peacocks rarely make a good working relationship. Twitter might be fun again when the inevitable lovers’ tiffs happen.
a close up of a peacock with its feathers spread
Alt: a close up of a wiggling peacock with its feathers spread
media.tenor.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Waking up to the news that the muskrat has a key role in Drumpf’s government, we should take heart that two peacocks rarely make a good working relationship. Twitter might be fun again when the inevitable lovers’ tiffs happen.
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Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#EuropeanUnion #Brexit
#EuropeanUnion #Brexit
Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...
petition.parliament.uk
November 12, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#EuropeanUnion #Brexit
#EuropeanUnion #Brexit