The Attention Economy was Always on Borrowed Time. or, What Does Digital Do When Communities Collapse

The Attention Economy was Always on Borrowed Time.
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Buttigieg: The purpose of transportation is to connect. But there are so many cases where transportation was used to divide

We have the phrase "Wrong side of the tracks."

That tells you everything you need to know about how a piece of infrastructure can be used as a dividing line

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

The Generals are gone.
The AG is gone.
We started a war.
Gas is up.
Healthcare is up.
Prescriptions are up.
The rich are richer.
The poor are poorer.
Protesters have been killed.
Service members have been killed.
The law is a suggestion.
The constitution is a memory.

We. Are. Not. Okay.

And of course local am news in Tampa framed it as Dems refusing to cooperate in the house causing continuation of the shutdown. And that was a local NBC station grrrrr

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States with the dumbest, most corrupt president ever in power is a bit like celebrating a wedding anniversary after your spouse murdered all your children and drained your bank accounts.

He doesn't take AIPAC money. In fact, he doesn't take ANY corporate PAC money, and the average donation is around $18. So join us for a virtual event this Sunday for HARRY DUNN!

Imagine that everything he promised his base turning out to be a lie. Shocking. Just shocking.

Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.

Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.

But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.

BIG political win for former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorses Dunn in competitive Democratic primary for U.S. House seat in Maryland .. Pelosi’s home state.

Per campaign

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

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There is an area in the ICE detention center in Minneapolis designated specifically for American citizens. Contemplate that for a minute.

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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

I will like and repost every post asking for the release of the Epstein files. Remember trending doesn't count on words within a banner.

"Iron laws of the world"? Some of America's most important national accomplishments are about leading humanity away from this kind of bullshit.

If we let ideologues like Stephen Miller drag us back into a world where brute force is all that matters, all of us will be less safe.

Inbox: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s board has voted to dissolve the organization following Congress pulling its federal funding

I really wondered if he meant to say he'd be on the side of Iran as they shoot protestors

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

I admit I had to look him up, but I sure am glad I did. As always Noel Casler elevating the conversation.

When I was born in the '50s there were purple alive who had lived and were slaves during the Civil War. It really wasn't that long ago. I'd say anyone whose ancestor was a slave can feel any kind of way they want about people now trying to glorify Dixie. And the rest of us should feel that way too

218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.

If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.

As to the snake ramble, his algorithm is nuts or his staff shares stuff with him knowing this will happen and boom, media isn't talking about the pedo files. Probably both.

Rob Reiner started his career as the moral center of a hateful world. His life and work carried that spirit for generations. Losing him now, in such a violent way—as authoritarianism tightens its grip, oligarchs consolidate their greed, and Hollywood gets stripped for parts—feels profoundly unjust.

Eggggsactly! And in between these unrelated events they all took a little tourist vacation to DC.

It seems they feel like it is safe to put him back on the campaign trail even though 90% of what he says is gibberish. He gets a few things good enough to create sound bites that local stations that are now owned by right-wing billionaires can air at news time. The uninformed will stay that way

I have more respect for the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush than any of the cowards in the current White House press pool.