B KahnShould you need an example of bad luck, here is one: to be born in North Korea and die fighting for Russia.
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Retired with tendency to volunteer. Saving the world one food rescue and delivery at a time. Harris For President 2024
troy_friz_zellThis article by Karl Bode hits SO many important points, in addition to his main point of the fascist takeover of corporate media. It includes a list of responses we can all help with as well.
READ THE ARTICLE
[sorry for yelling and hat tip to @xerophile ]
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/02/americas-right-wing-propaganda-problem-might-be-terminal/
America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal - Dame Magazine
America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error. It’s a global assault on reason and informed consensus, and corporations and authoritarian bullies like Donald Trump are both architects and benefactors. For decades, academics warned anybody who’d listen
ProPublicaThe Mount Vernon News was family owned from 1939 until it was sold in 2020 to a “pink slime” media company with ties to conservative billionaires. Then it began publishing one-sided articles that make dubious claims about solar power.
(Published Oct. 2024)
https://propub.li/3CY5WFR
#News #Oil #Gas #FossilFuels #Solar #Energy #Billionaires #Journalism
Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working to Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping.
A retired gas industry executive, a shadowy “grassroots” group and a controversial media company are spreading misinformation while turning residents against a proposed solar farm — and each other.
LaffyIMHO:
People keep saying that Republicans don't know how to govern.
They don't WANT to. Their goal is to destroy democracy, our govt as we know (knew) it, create distrust.
Of course, now, they have infighting, but they also managed to "win" an election, so they're not totally inept.
The chaos is intentional. Well, a lot of it.
Steve Troughton-SmithApple leadership would rather bend the knee, kiss the ring, and ‘donate’ a million dollar bribe to a convicted criminal than follow the EU's competition law in good faith, which should tell you everything you need to know about values over there
Gabe Ortíz“I’ve worked for the @washingtonpost since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. I have had editorial feedback and productive conversations—and some differences—about cartoons I have submitted for publication, but in all that time I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?r=18kzf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
(((Cindy Weinstein)))"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
You might want to cancel your #WashingtonPost subscription after reading this most recent attack on free speech.
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
AnnTelnaes is a hero.
Aral Balkan
NickAny sufficiently shit automobile manufacturing is indistinguishable from terrorism.
Congratulations to Elon Musk for making cars so bad that no-one can tell if a carbomb has just happened or if the car just did that.