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"The whole idea of an implicit Reasonable Viewer was based on an underlying consensus about basic values, which no longer exists. Instead, we have lots of groups of loyal partisans, and their pet figures getting rich off their clicks..." Worth a read... unherd.com/2025/12/does...

This is seriously twisted thinking…

"Do you think you're standing next to a 'jihadist' right now in the oval office?" a reporter asked, quoting Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik [...] "No I don't," Trump quickly said."You say things sometimes in a campaign." Stick to the issues-not name calling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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When a US president posts an AI-video of him in a crown poo'ing on protesters in his country, you can dismiss intelligence at work here. This is classic schoolyard bullying. Humor can disarm bullies; it can also embolden them and the sycophants who laugh along. Sad days.

Major applause to the IDSNews editors and designers for this brilliant digital edition #nocensorship #studentpower issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Worth a scary listen...

“However, a number of studies into politically-motivated killings and violence in the US - over several decades - suggest that more cases were carried out by people with "right-wing" ideologies than with "left-wing" ones, though more data is likely necessary to draw a firm conclusion.” Worth a read.

Anna Gomez, the only Democratic member of the FCC, criticised Carr's remarks. She posted on X that "an inexcusable act of political violence by one disturbed individual must never be exploited as justification for broader censorship or control".

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

First, on economic security. We need to treat economic security as a national security priority—because it is. I believe in my bones that the existential threat to the United States is the shrinking middle class here at home.

"Those [...] who celebrate political violence are unwitting gravediggers who don’t realize [...] all they’re doing is digging up more earth for all of us to be at greater risk of having that empty space filled with our bodies." Worth reading/unmissable writing from @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

“She had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly.” ― Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

What would we know about life if we couldn’t appreciate differences?

The really important thing is to try and make opinion increasingly responsible to the facts. There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies — Walter Lippmann

RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS: If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail. But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.

Why don't people in democracies just vote to tax the rich, so they have no where else to threaten to go?

Spread far and wide. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is a hero of democracy as is @hcrichardson.bsky.social. No one is fooled by Trump’s tactics. Anyone who supports the White House’s overreach wants a dictatorship and has no interest in anyone’s free speech or civi rights except their own.

🙏🙏🙏

"Shout out to white women in California who put Mexican flag bumper stickers on their cars to bait ICE into profiling them. It worked. They keep getting pulled over and wasting ICE's time. Be the sand in the fascist machinery." – @1NadineSmith

The point…

This guy is sick…a total abuse of power.

Worth a read…

A friendly reminder as we watch the talks in Washington, D.C. today:

In what way can this be condoned by Israel?

What could possibly go wrong?

Bowser: "I think I speak for all Americans -- we don't believe it's legal to use the American military against American citizens on American soil."

If a global company is paying its workers so little that they need federal benefits, that company should lose eligibility for tax incentives.

This is what Trump is good at - recognising where Democratic gains have already been made and then pretending he’s the one making the change.

“Since the time colonists first began to contemplate creating their own country, individuals have worked […] to create an inclusive democracy. The Declaration of Independence gave them the language to claim those rights […]to turn the principles of the Declaration of Independence into reality.”

Odd, how Oversight Chair James Comer left the two best witnesses about Jeffrey Epstein off his subpoena list: Jeffrey Epstein's best friend and his partner in crime. Must be that Comer's distraction is only looking for a certain *type* of evidence, the type that doesn't make Trump look bad.

This tells you how deeply ill America is at its very heart now and I don't say that lightly. There is deep distress in the divide created by Trump and his followers. Diplomacy is no longer attempted. Threats and bullying now normalized by a man who was bullied and continues to bully his acolytes.

I wish him luck. These AI companies have absolutely infringed copyright.

“It’s the leaders of Texas who are attempting not to follow the law. They’re the ones that need to be held accountable.”

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

If you read White House social media and its supporters, you begin to see the magnitude of the rift in America. The chasm is as wide and deep as the Grand Canyon itself.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President should not be allowed to trade stocks. Ban insider trading now.

He’s going to try to brainwash his way out of this, deflecting from Epstein to Obama. Not this time. Nobody but the drunkest on the kool-aid are buying this one.

"Universities and colleges are a conveyor belt for socialist wokeism". So tired of this trope. Education enriches you, helps you think for yourself. Hope one day he'll realise that he's just been parroting the people in his echo chamber, and he'll go back to school to learn to think for himself.