Yep. Every billionaire is a policy failure.
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I just cancelled my subscription today and made sure to send them a letter telling them why.
I do believe that professional journalism is a truly critical part of a free and democratic society and that we need institutions like WaPo for the kinds of experience and resources that smaller outlets and independent journalists simply donât have, but I gotta draw a line somewhere. I dropped the NYT years ago for the same reason.
So, anybody got recommendations for where a responsible citizen should give their journalism-supporting business to these days?
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totally. see also: âunder the biden administration, fentanyl seizures are way up. why is he letting so many drugs get into the country!?â
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I wonder when theyâre going to change their official slogan again. Or maybe theyâll just shave the last two words off of it for brevity.
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Unapologetic fascists have entered the conversation.
Why bother with all this noise about fraudulent voting, when you can eliminate the problem entirely by just eliminating voting altogether?
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Mother Jones?
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In early September 2020, wildfires tore through eastern Washington state, obliterating tens of millions of dollars of property, displacing hundreds of rural residents and killing a 1-year-old boy.
But then-President Donald Trump refused to act on Gov. Jay Insleeâs request for $37 million in federal disaster aid because of a bitter personal dispute with the Democratic governor, an investigation by POLITICOâs E&E News shows.
Trump sat on Insleeâs request for the final four months of his presidency, delaying recovery and leaving communities unsure about rebuilding because nobody knew if they would get federal help.
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First that comes to mind for me:
That old venerable one, The Nation, still does good work.
And hey, how about Teen Vogue? Theyâre far more brave and honest than any billionaire-owned and -serving outlet.
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Thanks for sharing. I attended a lecture by a local political science professor today that also left me feeling cautiously optimistic. He emphasized that itâs a toss up poll-wise, that state polls are especially difficult/unreliable, wouldnât make a prediction himself, admitted that his predictions have been wrong before and weâre in a truly unprecedented election. However, he shared several encouraging facts: Harris is rolling in dough, is working closely with folks that helped Obama win in 2008, and the Trump campaign is so broke that they have only 11 paid staff(!) and are doing the risky move of outsourcing GOTV to outside groups rather than doing it themselves. He thinks the most critical states are NC and PA, and on election night is betting that if Harris wins NC sheâll win overall (PA will take longer to count). Like you said, itâs all down to turnout nowâŚ
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So double-down on pro-union and labor messaging, right? RIGHT!?!
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Youâre considered âworking classâ candidate if you cosplay as fast food chain worker while wearing a fucking suit, serving foods with your bare hand, rambling non-sense at your pretending customers instead of working the register, consider your workday only 30 mins while spending the first half fucking around as âtraining.â Also, donât forget to bring your felonies to work, pretending youâre a changed man while trying to convince 1/3 of the population to put the other 2/3 in jail because your feeling got hurt. For a guy keeps yapping about jobs this and jobs that, dude is so disconnected from reality that he has no fucking idea what a simple job duty entails. And there are people who want to put this fool into the highest office, again, after the fucking disaster last time. The insanity. I want to go back to the original timeline.
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Part two: The Fake Elector Plot.
The overarching themes of this series are that
- no matter how stupid you think these plots are, the facts are stupider
- they almost succeeded anyway, and
- they were never quiet about what they were doing, and they are doing it all again, only theyâve had practice this time.
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In case you hit a paywall!
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