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Cory Doctorow 11mo ago

While we truly live in an age of ascendant monsters who have hijacked our country, our economy, and our imaginations, there is one consolation: the small cohort of brilliant, driven writers who have these monsters' number, and will share it with us. Writers like Maureen Tkacik:

https://prospect.org/topics/maureen-tkacik/

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https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/07/broccoli-hair-brownshirts/#shameless

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Cory Doctorow 11mo ago

Journalists like *Wired*'s Vittoria Elliott, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman are crushing it when it comes to Musk's DOGE coup:

https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/

Nathan Tankus is doing incredible work all on his own, just blasting out scoops:

https://www.crisesnotes.com/

But for me, it was Tkacik - as usual - in the pages of *The American Prospect* who pulled it all together in a way that finally made it make sense, transforming the blitzkreig Muskian chaos into a recognizable playbook.

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teat 10mo ago

Right to repair and no copyright can be a national and individual counter strategy to aggression.