The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info
Our "mainstream" media are consistently botching their jobs, directly -- and IMO willfully -- assisting the fascists who are destroying our nation.
Occasional pieces of real journalism do not begin to fix Big Journalism's malpractice. Mike Masnick has more:
Republican hypocrisy is a given, but here's a particularly egregious example. Naturally, the guilty parties don't want to talk directly (or at all) about what they've been doing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cfpb-budget-cuts-gop-darrell-issa-john-cornyn
How corrupt is the Roberts court? It is inconceivable that the spate of more-power-for-Trump decisions from the Roberts court would have gone the same way if Harris was president.
We all know what's going on. The extreme right owns the government. It is dismantling democracy and the rule of law.
Seen on Bluesky:
Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.
If you want to know why I hold the New York Times in almost pure contempt at this point, look at this headline praising the entertainment value in Trump's performance -- a speech that contained almost nothing but lies, vile provocations, and worse.
If you have a Kindle and "bought" ebooks over the years, you have a week to download and back up your files before Amazon blocks you from doing that.
There are scripts (see the thread below) that will bulk-download.
It's a reminder that Amazon is a rapacious monopolist.
Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall gets what most Big Journalism organizations refuse to consider, much less acknowledge:
"Musk Is In Charge of the US Government"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-hyperbole-anymore-musk-is-in-charge-of-the-us-government
Our "news" orgs have barely begun to spot brush fires, much less the reality: Everything is burning.
Many people in our community's Facebook group are extremely disenchanted with Zuckerberg's decision to remove all constraints on misinformation mongers.
I'd like to see WordPress.org -- or someone who wants to make some money -- create a plugin that replicated the functionality of a private Facebook group.
Include the FB UX as one option, but make it more flexible if desired.
"Wikipedia still can't be sold," says the headline on the donation page. Which also means it can't be bought and wrecked by fascist oligarchs.
It's an Internet treasure, and it's under attack from some of the world's worst people. Elon Musk's vicious denunciation of this Internet treasure would be shameful for someone who had an ounce of shame.
This is one of most important donations I make each year. I hope you'll join me in supporting Wikipedia.
World's richest -- and second-most dangerous person -- wants to "burn it all down" and he's making progress.
A clear and present danger to America and he's accelerating.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worlds-richest-man-wants-to-burn
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqv2sycpx32th4h4aude3jq4g0kgj0p2t5062059l0fx0vcn8njs8sae2ryr But his move to Substack -- funded by Trumpists and happy to monetize extremists -- was exactly the wrong one.
It bothers me as a longtime journalist that Harris-Walz are not doing press conferences, which -- when all the parties are acting with integrity -- serve a genuinely useful purpose.
But political journalists have so thoroughly discredited themselves when these spectacles do occur that I can't argue with the candidates' decision to say no thanks.
Re the "Biden should drop out" stuff --
As usual Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has thought things through better than the rest of the commentariat.
A must-read if this is weighing on your mind.
The endlessly spinning wheel in Ubuntu software update has returned me to the command line, which no average user of a modern operating system should ever, ever have to use...
You really need to read this thread, in which a witness tells of a dinner in which Trump couldn't stop talking about his appreciation of Hitler and the Nazi regime.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mar-lago-judge-stark-ruling-022208652.html
Combine this with our wannabe dictator's regular denigration of certain people as sub-humans, and his relentless overall bigotry and hatred.
Journalists still can't believe what's right in their faces. They'd better start, soon.
We'd all better wake up, or we're done.
nostr:npub14ux2hjvvp3e8xekxajz4vy7js8dg3tzp48md0tr4m7wmwmy0ye5srsjx88 I already filter out those in the regular posts, but will experiment to see if that reaches further to the embeds.
Any way to filter out posts that have embedded links to pages that contain twitter.com links?
nostr:npub1h64cl7js996achwxjmzxxg0329k4vn4hgle8tmduyvxlhat2zzeshu3vku Of course!
nostr:npub1h64cl7js996achwxjmzxxg0329k4vn4hgle8tmduyvxlhat2zzeshu3vku Just have to work harder -- and not lose hope.