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One 21st-century Mom trying to make sense of it all.

"No one have any doubts at this pt about🚨what #Musk really represents."
-G Sargent

"The⚡one silver lining to the Trump presidency is that it exposed these billionaire #TechBros with God complexes for what they are. Not sure if anyone made a poll on it yet, but I'm willing to bet Musk is one of the most hated ppl in Europe, if not the world by now."
-Daractenus

"Musk only complains about democratic countries, not about #China & #Russia. Such an anti-democrat should be ignored!"
-A Aslund
#USPol

US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats

The Guardian

🚨Trump has done severe damage to the #economy. #Democrats usually: comfortable on policy issues: HC, COL...

The public knows the economy has deteriorated. Voters: unhappy, Dems must drive home the pt: the economy is already swirling down the bowl, est in ppl's minds that Trump's singularly responsible for the econ deterioration all around us.

They can't do that w/o⚡embracing attention-driving tactics, ASAP. We've the template -🚨the one Rs used: effective memes...
#USPol
https://www.offmessage.net/p/meme-ify-trumps-failures

Meme-ify Trump's Failures

Make it harder for him to deceive, evade, and rewrite history

Off Message

When the country has no shared narrative it becomes atomized individual silos of information, thinking rhetoric and the great void where a propaganda narrative can easily be put into place in the "public mind" a manufactured hyper reality. As
#ElephantGraveyard calls it, a hyper real simulacrum.

The internet created a demand for content, anything will do - just keep it coming. Facts be damned.
Opinion soaks the thirsty sponge minds with no reflection or reality testing. Proof of concept.
The #Enshitification of the discourse if you will.
As #CSNY sung so long ago and before them Bufalo Springfield
#TheresSomethingHappeningHere

Trump ally Larry Ellison, one of the richest men on earth, just took over Paramount and CBS. Now he plans to buy Warner Bros, including CNN.
 
At a time when 6 major conglomerates control what 90% of Americans see, hear and read, oligarch control over media is getting even worse.

"Trump and MAGA did not get Kimmel suspended for a joke. They got Kimmell suspended for a show of power. They are sending the message to stick to their approved MAGA script or they will come for you."

~ Dean Obeidallah

#Trump #CharlieKirk #JimmyKimmel #FreeSpeech #fascism
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https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/kimmel-wasnt-suspended-for-a-joke

Kimmel wasn’t suspended for a joke about Kirk-he was suspended for mocking Trump.

Time for a boycott!!

The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah

Step one: Kill Twitter dead.

Step two: Silence & censor dissenting voices, driving LGBTQA, PoC, content creators and lovers of science and nature away, while inviting MAGA to take over.

Step three: Spend Christmas alone and unloved, censoring and using a sock puppet account to pick fights with MAGA, calling them subtards and telling them on your main account to fsck themselves in the face.

Step four: ?!?
#x #twitter #elonmusk #NonComposMentis

Far too late, & the investigation will take time, but at least NASA is addressing Elon Musk’s contacts with Putin: “NASA chief calls for investigation into report that Musk and Putin have spoken regularly.” #USPol #NationalSecurity #Musk #Russia #SpaceX https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/politics/elon-musk-vladimir-putin/index.html https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/putin-musk-split-102524.jpg?c=16x9&q=h_720,w_1280,c_fill
NASA chief calls for investigation into report that Musk and Putin have spoken regularly

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Friday called for an investigation into a Wall Street Journal report that SpaceX founder and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been in “regular contact” since late 2022.

CNN
Bargain!
At least people who want to influence elections will still be able to afford this.
#twitter #api
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-data-api-prices-out-nearly-everyone/
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone

Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.

WIRED

Dan Froomkin writes,

"New York Times political reporting has become a farce, as highly-credentialed reporters tie themselves into nonsensical verbal knots trying to maintain the fiction that what the Republican Party is doing is normal – because acknowledging that it is not would be tantamount to 'taking sides.' (Read all about that here, in the Nation.)"

#NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #Republicans

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https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/

The Washington Post is doomed without a major reset - Press Watch

New ownership, with a powerful sense of public service, could take advantage of the huge opportunity to become the world leader in U.S. political and government news presented by the abysmal failure of the industry-leading New York Times to adjust to the asymmetry of the current political environment.

Press Watch - An intervention for American political journalism