Even better than Canada's ad, put out by Ontario's center-right leader, Doug Ford: Reagan's full speech on trade and tariffs. The savior of conservative politics was 100% against the tariff wars that are the centerpiece of Trump's second term and that threaten to take down our entire economy.

Timothy Mellon, a doofus of long standing, is the quintessential argument for sensible estate taxes. He's never worked an honest day in his life and shouldn't have this kind of money to throw around.

BREAKING. . . Iran forced to cancel plans to blow up East Wing

Jesus

"Who was president" part 7361872 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The right to protest is covered under the 1st and 14th amendments. Republicans are spreading lies about the No Kings protests because they want to scare you into silence and get you to support their attacks on your rights, our Constitution, and our communities. Don’t be silent.

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You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

“a media conglomerate as a surveillance agency… which will likely persist, after the near-term political turmoil, whether as a parallel media infrastructure serving the jilted broligarchy or as the paragovernmental arm of a post-democratic dynasty.”

Vought is at war with large swaths of the population, with the very idea of a society defined by democratic pluralism. If you have correctly identified that this guy is now in a really powerful position, that people like him are in control of the government, how is that not the main story?

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🇪🇪 #Estonia has temporarily closed the Saatse border crossing due to heightened Russian military activity in the area, the Estonian public broadcaster ERR reported on Oct. 10. kyivindependent.com/estonia-clos... #Russia

How this isn't a bigger story or at least a part of the story of this curiously violent "peace" deal is a really shameful display by the msm. This is a media colleague..... doing the work they refuse or are scared to do. Not exactly a crew of @washingtonpost.com reporters on the flotilla.

There are problems with your Constitution, but I don't think this is one of them. This is more a "the Constitution is a piece of paper and needs people, who believe that it has meaning, to enforce it" issue. It doesn't matter how well the enforcement mechanisms are spelled out, if they're ignored.

Is it bad if the president inhabits a realm of pure fiction

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for every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.

Seriously

“What I’ve observed are traces of deep fear. Fear of death, fear of terrorism.” It all comes down to a lack of trust and a craving for security… There are so many cases where he expresses fears and concerns and a need for protection. And if your main thing is seeking protection, you play with fire.”

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

“The “imperial boomerang” is the concept that all of the methods of oppression that a mighty nation visits upon its far-flung imperial subjects will one day be turned back upon its own population. And here we are.”

Good propaganda and good economic stewardship are both important, but neither is going to rescue liberal democracy on its own. We need to figure out how to rebuild mass politics and IRL civic life.

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Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos. Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.” Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.

The Roberts court has failed. The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings. Many of its most important decisions—

Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream: The dose makes the poison. That’s true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde. A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine. 1/

Seems like this should be a bigger story. www.huffpost.com/entry/trumps...

“It is a crystalline expression of this political movement: cadres of desperately wack suck-ups, cynical and credulous in roughly equal measure, expressing their belief that the solution to every social and political problem is more assertive bossing, and volunteering to stay late to help.”

Once praised for his moral clarity, Disney's Bob Iger now faces questions of integrity after bowing to political pressure and suspending Jimmy Kimmel. www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

At least one mouse roared

Bonus: the one-handed match strike in MR. SILENT HASKINS (1915)

I cover the longer intellectual history in this essay from a few years ago that provides some context for how structural questions about media ownership and control--and why they matter for democracy--were pushed to the margins of communication research: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/unse...

L.A. Taco journalist sues LAPD in latest allegation of police mistreatment of media

AOC: All in the name of Charlie Kirk, Trump and the FCC are now cynically threatening to shut down ABC and any outlets who give air time to the administration's political critics. This is a disgusting attack on the American people and the very first amendment rights that define us as a country.

watching this trump news conference and it is just a nonstop stream of absolute nonsense and actual lies although, it is not clear whatsoever whether or not trump can distinguish between the truth and his own fantasies

Block Club Chicago: #fuckice #fdt #nazipos #chicago #warcrime

They’re going to fire a US attorney because they couldn’t find evidence for a crime that was manufactured by the administration? Banana republic shit

It is v wild to publish this Kimmel tick tock and give no context to the longstanding politics of Sinclair or note that Sinclair is trying to extort Kimmel by demanding he donate a substantial amount of money to Turning Point USA in order to return to their airwaves. These are not neutral actors!!

“The data are in: We have far too much data.” Banger

“The slave catchers appointed as per the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 are the obvious analogue of ICE agents in the present. Why not, then, do what 8 northern states did by 1854? Pass "personal liberty" laws that protect state residents—not just citizens."

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice. People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment. Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America. Speak up now. Press conference today.

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Independent media!

"Ecology is about relationships, dynamic relationships, evolving relationships, complex doubtful relationships. Appreciate that.”

not what dan gilroy won for but i'm pretending that win was for this www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4...

“Our differences hold us together, as a people and perhaps a nation. And what we hold to be so true as to be self-evident is not—it requires reiteration and justification.”