FiddleDeeDum

@FiddleAroundAndFindOut
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I'm here to figure it all out.
@gulovsen
As I keep saying:

“The sight of Elon Musk charging towards Wikipedia with his trademark guile and delicacy was so predictable that it was almost relaxing. He saw a collective resource that people prized and he wanted to hurt it.”

Zoe Williams in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/23/why-is-elon-musk-attacking-wikipedia-because-its-very-existence-offends-him

Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian

Chevron deference requires courts to defer to govt agencies' reasonable interpretations of laws.

Koch backed groups are now calling on SCOTUS to overturn it — which would spell chaos for our environment.

Remember who secretly attended Koch donor retreats?

Clarence Thomas...

I guess you can say republicans have accomplished a lot, though, not in a good way.

"The United States was downgraded from 'full' to 'flawed' democracy..."

https://digbysblog.net/2023/10/24/a-flawed-democracy/

A Flawed Democracy - Digby's Hullabaloo

Political Scientist Rachel Bitecover: The first time I posted about the harsh reality of America’s collapsing democracy, it seemed like many folks were genuinely surprised to see that America is not actually the Greatest Democracy on Earth. According to the democracy index compiled by the EIU and published annually by The Economist, America is actually a “flawed” democracy. The United States was downgraded from

Digby's Hullabaloo
@drskyskull please do...i got booted just for saying i thought joe lieberman was already dead...

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“The collected evidence further shows that Russian authorities have committed the war crimes of wilful killing, torture, rape and other sexual violence, and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation.” - UN commission of inquiry on #Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/21/un-finds-further-evidence-of-russian-war-crimes-in-ukraine
UN finds further evidence of Russian war crimes in Ukraine

Report points to ‘wilful killing, torture, rape and other sexual violence, and the deportation of children to the Russian Federation’

The Guardian

On the excellent Search Engine podcast from @PJVOGT, Ezra Klein has good advice for journalists who are still on Xitter:

Leave.

https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/how-do-i-use-the-internet-now

Special guest appearance by Marshall McLuhan.

How do I use the internet now?

Really.

Search Engine with PJ Vogt
happy birthday!!