Journalists planning to honor Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner have a choice:
A. Party with the dictator, wear fancy clothes and network to boost their careers.
B. Stand up for democracy by staying home.
They’re going to choose A. It looks terrible now. It will look worse to history.
Don’t worry there’s gonna be an article 2 weeks from now saying how JD Vance was privately “uncomfortable with the president’s escalating rhetoric”
I dunno, kind of sounds like *more* than a grave threat but tohmaytoh tumahto?
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
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"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
Politicians have spent so long being terrified of being labeled anti-cop that this administration is now getting away with shielding the identities of guys in quasi-legal rendition squads by pretending that *they* are the people at risk.
President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop.
Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government.
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And yes, I am on the newsroom's side. The newsroom creates a news org's most important product, full stop.
We work together to ensure that product is easy for journalists to make, is reaching its intended audience and is financially sustainable.
While it's true that product people like to hire product people, luckily I can report that the @inquirer.com is not like this and sees my ability to speak newsroom as an asset.
When I told an engineer at a news org I wanted to become a product manager, they said I would have a hard time because those on the biz side would think I'd always be on the side of the newsroom.
You just knew the beginning of the end of the world order was always going to about some dude being butt hurt
Don't forget eating snacks and leaning against walls in Union Station!
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
I hate to break it to you, but heavily-armed government militias are roaming unchecked through US cities and shooting human rights observers dead in the streets. That's happening in our country.
This continues to be real fucking life, somehow, that has made its way into workforce management software
If we've learned anything, it's that systems that rely on people acting in good faith will always be exploited under capitalism. That's why most countries strictly don't allow this.
This is very clearly nothing short of human body part trafficking. It should be illegal, and even though it's not, the hospitals making money from it should be shamed. AND the people who do it are just like, "Yeah, we traffic organs and we make a ton of money" and shrug.
"Our success will be used to discredit us, like a quantum theory of suicide: If democracy survives, then that is proof that it was never under threat in the first place."
This applies even when teachers are on strike, or school is closed due to a pandemic. Kids can still go to school and get a bagged meal, no questions asked ever.
In Chicago, rich kids take advantage of free school lunches AND breakfasts because Chicago decided that it was an efficient AND moral idea to give all kids access to nutrition without fussing about tax forms.
Donald Trump and his billionaire allies are opposed to democracy everywhere.
They know popular control of government threatens their ability to rob from the people.
What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.
Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal.
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