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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Musk's incels have your most personal data Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s...
on Sat, 11AM
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Escalating attacks on the rule of law Trump’s Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their LawyersWhen a president uses executive power to not just blacklist but effectively destroy a major law firm, solely for...
on Wed, 4PM
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... French truth-telling crosses the Atlantic Never in history has a US President capitulated to the enemy. Never has any one of them supported an aggressor against an ally … trampled on the US Constitution, issued so many...
on Mar 10
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... The billionaires' coup is proceeding Military Analyst: Network State Takeover of U.S. GovernmentThe United States is currently evolving into a Network State, says a military analyst who writes regularly on the...
on Mar 8
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Overcoming executive and judicial corruption Toward a Theory of Civic Sede VacantismFor almost a year I’ve been thinking through an idea that now…TPM – Talking Points MemoJosh Marshall We’re embarked on a vast battle...
on Mar 5
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Oval Office ambush was a gift to Putin ‘Who’s that good for?’: Maddow connects the dots on Donald Trump’s behavior toward RussiaRachel Maddow looks at a string of peculiar behavior by Donald Trump and Trump...
on Mar 3
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Trump's brownshirts? Corruption? Both? A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a...
on Feb 28
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Thwarting fascism in our century Specific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st CenturyReplace spaces in multi-word terms with other white space characters in documents (Suggestion #09280)Specific Suggestions: Simple...
on Feb 25
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... News media: Defend freedom of the press (and democracy) with collaboration AP sues 3 Trump administration officials, citing freedom of speechThe Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access...
on Feb 23
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Leadership The governor of Illinois recognizes the simple truth about what is happening – a metastasizing American fascism – and vows to resist it with every fiber of his being. Contrast this with the indecision most...
on Feb 21
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Is an an economic meltdown the goal? The gap between the oligarchs’ wealth and everyone else’s will grow. Knowing what they themselves will do and when, they will have bet against the stock market in advance of Trump’
on Feb 3
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... If U.S. journalists were covering another country... "I’ve long believed that the American media would be more clear-eyed about the rise and return of Donald Trump if it was happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’
on Feb 2
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Killing public health, and people The attack on the NIH has begunDonald Trump has been sworn in, and his new administration has immediately turned its sights on the NIH. The danger to US biomedical research has never been more
on Jan 31
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Voting rights: the shoes keep dropping Restricting the Freedom to VoteThe SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.Brennan Center for Justice264 This would be the worst voting bill to be passed by
on Jan 30
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News and commentary for understanding and coping with the years ahead... Cut $2 trillion from federal budget? Start here. We Found the $2 TrillionElon Musk wants to cut government spending. But the waste in the system goes to elites like him. Here’s a better way to bring down deficits.
on Jan 28
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I strongly prefer email, and the messages from the form below go straight to my inbox. (Note to public relations people: Please do not send me pitches about products or services unless they are dir…
on Dec 21
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Dave Winer’s 30 years of blogging, and much more
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A few days ago, Dave Winer, one of the true pioneers of the Internet age, marked the beginning of his fourth decade of blogging. Just saying that is amazing. I became a blogger because of Dave. Blo…
on Oct 17
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NY Times downplays Trump/Vance incitement to violence
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There goes the NY Times again, downplaying the reality of what Trump/Vance stand for. “Combative conservatism” is bended-knee journalistic weakness, and this “Political Memo”…
on Sep 20
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NY Times publisher’s warns, but won’t act
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This first appeared in my “Cornerstone of Democracy” newsletter. Reporters Without Borders press freedom index The publisher of the New York Times posted an essay, warning of a war on t…
on Sep 7
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Topics in the current edition of my “Cornerstone of democracy” newsletter — a compendium of the best of political reporting/commentary (and more) — include: — the spee…
on Aug 23
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The liar-in-chief loves live TV
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Lawrence O’Donnell’s commentary last night is a reminder that our “mainstream” political journalists have learned exactly nothing from their ongoing failures over the years.…
on Aug 13
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Trump anti-vaccine vow is depraved indifference to human life
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Big Journalism has all but ignored a staggeringly terrible Trump campaign “promise” — treating it as another “there he goes again” story that disappears quickly. What&…
on Jul 31
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Again, folks, stenography for liars isn’t journalism
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Most journalists have an admirable instinct to be fair to the people they cover. But it often emerges as the traditional “both-sides” approach, which has become discredited in an era wh…
on Jul 28
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NY Times “analysis” of Biden’s Oval Office address was arrogant and contemptuous — of its audience
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The NY Times expanded on its institutional arrogance with Peter Baker’s “analysis” — a word used by journalists to avoid admitting that the work is opinion — of the Bi…
on Jul 26
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Who’s doing the best election journalism? Send links
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I’m working on a project to highlight solid journalism about the 2024 election — in particular, work that: 1) clearly explains what is at stake, overall and more specifically by topic (…
on Jul 12
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Joe Kahn really, really doesn’t get it
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If you were waiting for proof that Joe Kahn, the top editor at the New York Times, doesn’t even begin to appreciate the danger of a Trump 2 presidency, this is it, from an interview in the Ne…
on Jul 11
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The NY Times’ neurologist story was a disgrace
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In its no-holds-barred campaign to get Biden off the Democratic ticket in this year’s presidential election, the New York Times has reached a level of journalistic activism I haven’t se…
on Jul 10
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NY Times, how about obsessing on the dictatorship on our horizon?
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The screenshot above is today’s installment in the New York Times’ all-hands-on-deck campaign to get Biden to withdraw. I want to emphasize — again — that I do not object to…
on Jul 6
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At its moment of peril, democracy needs journalists to be activists
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This is the first in a series of posts (cross-posted at Medium). Dear journalists: This is your moment. It’s your opportunity, maybe your final one, to stand proudly for reality and democracy, for …
on Jul 3
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Journalists ordering Biden to quit the race — really?
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Let’s assume for a minute that the New York Times’ months-long and now frantic campaign to remove Biden from the Democratic ticket is based on a sincere desire to keep Trump from gettin…
on Jul 1
From dangillmor.com
Come on, Ubuntu, please add a mono output audio setting
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If you have a Mac or Windows computer, and for one reason or another want to set your audio for mono playback, it couldn’t be simpler. Both of those operating systems have simple toggles, as …
on May 22
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NY Times editor: Democracy is good, but we won’t actively defend it
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When Joe Kahn succeeded Dean Baquet as the top editor of the New York Times, many of us who’d been critical of the organization’s truly wretched political coverage hoped against hope th…
on May 7
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Again, NY Times amplifies right-wing trolling, omits vital context
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The journalistic malpractice shown above is routine for right-wing media, which amplifies tendentious talking points designed to discredit anyone who opposes the Trump cult and its retrograde campa…
on Apr 18
From dangillmor.com
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In a month from now, I’ll be leaving Arizona State University to embark on a new (for me, anyway) phase of life — retirement from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Commu…
on Apr 15
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Big Journalism is still Trump’s stenographer
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It should be astonishing by now that Big Journalism keeps falling for Trump’s political scams. But when it comes to political journalists, we’re talking about people who have the attent…
on Apr 9
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Washington political “journalism” keeps hitting new lows
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Over at Press Watch, Dan Froomkin has posted a scathing piece about the willfully clueless New York Times Washington Bureau (and its bosses in New York). He calls it “The Washington press cor…
on Apr 8
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Not the Onion: Fox hiring “disinformation specialist”
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The Intercept: Fox Corporation is hiring a counter-disinformation specialist as Fox News continues to denounce efforts to fight disinformation. I’ll just leave it there.
on Apr 2
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April 1 online parodies are (almost always) bad jokes
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I made the mistake, many years ago, of publishing an April Fools Day joke column in the San Jose Mercury News. The piece, co-written with Michael Schrage, a friend, reported that Stanford Universit…
on Apr 1