Mastodawn

Starry Starry Knight Feb 25, 2024

@ruud @Amelia @[email protected] @[email protected] Good morning @ruud and others... was this issue ever submitted to the git thingy or should I do it? Or maybe I'm the only one in the entire #Fediverse experiencing the problem so not worth the effort to troubleshoot? Many times I've wanted to interact but can't because the reply box isn't visible... very frustrating and I'm at the end of my rope... thank you!

Starry Starry Knight Feb 25, 2024

Dan Gillmor Feb 24, 2024

A reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world. Read this from Josh Marshall to see a current example.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumps-show-me-the-money-campaign-full-yolo-in-2024/sharetoken/TFjPN7FQpn93

Also a reminder that not one Big Journalism org has ever even attempted to aggregate all the Trump world corruption.

We get periodic (and valuable in their own way) pieces like this one.

But journalism only tells us about the brush fires. It never, ever shows us that the entire forest is ablaze.

Trump’s ‘Show Me the Money’ Campaign—Full YOLO in 2024

For weeks political observers have been having fun with Donald Trump's decision to launch if not a hostile then what we might call an abusive takeover of the RNC. Of course, one might ask what was…

TPM – Talking Points Memo

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Jeff Jarvis Feb 25, 2024

Ginni Thomas gets her self-hating husband to hire her racist as clerk. (Gift link)
BTW, this is the kind of reporting opinion that columns should be:
The case of Clarence Thomas’s new clerk taints the entire judiciary https://wapo.st/3OUf8OG

The case of Clarence Thomas’s new clerk taints the entire judiciary

The Crystal Clanton episode is a stain on the entire federal judiciary, which has proven itself incapable of and unwilling to enforce basic ethics rules.

The Washington Post

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Dgar Feb 25, 2024

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AP News Feb 25, 2024

Consumers are increasingly pushing back against price increases

Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation.

https://apnews.com/article/inflation-consumers-price-gouging-spending-economy-999e81e2f869a0151e2ee6bbb63370af

US consumers fight back by shifting from name brands to store-brand items

Inflation has changed the way many Americans shop. Now, those changes in consumer habits are helping bring down inflation. Fed up with prices that remain about 19%, on average, above where they were before the pandemic, consumers are fighting back. In grocery stores, they’re shifting away from name brands to store-brand items, switching to discount stores or simply buying fewer items like snacks or gourmet foods. More Americans are buying used cars, too, rather than new, forcing some dealers to provide discounts on new cars again. But the growing consumer pushback to what critics condemn as price-gouging has been most pronounced with food as well as with consumer goods like paper towels and napkins.

AP News

Starry Starry Knight Feb 25, 2024