Coincidentally (as it also landed in my inbox today) @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's latest is a nice companion to your piece, as it speaks to how "The American Right has left its Gramscian period and entered its Sorelian Period" ... and there's no going back.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-power-...

So true. Greetings from Paris, where I just tried to read the website of a Monterey, Calif. newspaper and got this.

Slight correction. Friend who was on staff there says "if we’re trying to be factual, it was 35,000 frames of photos per story."

That was a staggering figure, even at the time.

Rhode Island town names are (maybe?) most exotic town names.

My perfect fictional RI town name is:

Masquamicaquidnawoonsotucket

Since Mastodon can’t seem to make an account login flow that makes sense to anyone who is not a greybeard sysadmin or blockchain zealot, it’s likely none of this matters much because the platform is destined for niche irrelevance.