‘If Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads’ — Listen to 'Borat' star Sacha Baron Cohen slam the social media industry for facilitating the spread of hate, lies, and conspiracies

To my colleagues in the press. Words matter. Do not use euphemisms to explain away what we all saw yesterday. This was an attempt to undermine American democracy incited by a defeated president of the United States. This was an insurrection, domestic terrorism, an attempted coup.

So Musk says he won’t suppress ideas, but what ideas will he promote?

CPUC, in response to traffic problems and first responder concerns: “to date, none of these reported incidents have resulted in bodily harm.” #settingalowbar sfstandard.com/transportation…

“the fate of our societies and of the natural world around us are distinguishable only through self-deception” open.substack.com/pub/alexsteffe…

The fact that water is less dense in its solid state than in its liquid state, is but one poetic dimension of this life giving element. Here are many more… open.substack.com/pub/lifeboat/p…

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CA DWR announces their approval of the Delta Tunnel as if it’s a done deal, but they’ve conveniently left out the hurdles still ahead: more permits, lawsuits, NEPA. May they recognize that CA does not need or want this abomination before clearing them mailchi.mp/dbab4bf4b8fb/d…

Taxing ground water extraction has great potential benefits, including “farmers would shift away from growing crops like corn,” which would drive up the cost of feeding livestock, which would drive farmers and consumers to more sustainable agriculture nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Enshittification: How we got here and how to reverse it pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-…

I love cartoons.

Just so intellectually dishonest. Sacks knows that Ann Selzer's final poll in 2020 was uncannily accurate - it had Trump +7, at a time when other pollsters had the race close to even. (He won by 8.) But because he wants to discredit Selzer, he brings up a Sept. poll from 2020.

Oh...the New York Times editorial board doesn't like Trump. Still won't call him a convicted fraudster, felon and adjuicated rapist. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

House Republicans have become the party of Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Project 2025 and election denial. Vote them all out.

Many billionaires could be more productive elsewhere.

Just spitballing here: corporate media exists to serve its shareholders substack.com/@briantylercoh…?

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: "The vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors...may I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away."

A sitting member of Congress calls for the deportation of a bishop who asked Trump to show mercy to those in the country who are afraid. We are in a dark moment in this country and have abandoned our founding principles. God have mercy on us.

To be clear, you're calling for a New Jersey-born bishop to be deported because you don't like that she exercised her First Amendment right by delivering a sermon in accordance with her faith imploring Trump to show empathy to people?

This is how you know Trump has only attended churches where they try to co-opt Christianity! He got slapped with some basic teachings of Christianity & didn’t know how to take it. I don’t know this servant of God… but I know that she has a relationship with the True Word…