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In the interest of agit prop and the heat of the moment of "All you had to do was pay us enough to live" I needed to make this.

Free use: make copies of this. Make stickers. Go wild <3

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Court Blocks Republican Push To (Further) Dominate And Destroy Local Broadcast News

Last month FCC boss Brendan Carr illegally ignored remaining U.S. media consolidation laws to rubber stamp Nexstar’s $6.2 billion purchase of Tegna. It’s part of the generational Republ…

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America First? Paramount Finalizes $24 Billion In Middle East Backing For Warner Bros Deal

MAGA Republicans spent year swaddling themselves in phony “America first!” rhetoric (including suffering an embolism over Chinese influence over TikTok), but have suddenly gone mys…

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This is important reporting, worth reading --
[TPM]: Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers

How MAGA influencers became part of the mass deportation campaign. by Josh Kovensky, April 1, 2026

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-the-bizarre-feedback-loop-between-dhs-and-maga-influencers

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Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers

As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed...

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A quotation from Garry Wills

This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets.

Garry Wills (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian
The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)

More about this quote: wist.info/wills-garry/4211/

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Wills, Garry - The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981) | WIST Quotations

This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets. Referring to US government efforts in the early 60s to paint Castro's regime in Cuba as weak, eventually leading to the US government itself thinking the regime could be…

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CBS News Under Bari Weiss Sees Worst Ratings In Quarter Century

When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison (and his nepobaby kid David) hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” …

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I don't know if using "disassemble", in place of "disect" or "kill", was a subtle reference to the dehumanising euphemisms that were emerging at the time ("friendly fire", "special rendition", etc). As noted by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy in Television: Drug of a Nation;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9pJzZ1XGI

But it sure does serve that purpose in hindsight.

BTW: I'd love to see a 2026 remix of Television about Social Media.

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Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, the - Television, The Drug Of The Nation [full official video]

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Pete Hegseth: We Can’t Wait For Larry Ellison To Turn CNN Into Another Right Wing Propaganda Mill

We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because they’re trying to mimic what Viktor Orban created in Hungary. Namely,…

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