Conservatives say we're becoming a socialist hellscape, but it's conservatives who've moved radically rightward, often for tons of million$ from their billionaire paymasters. Here's the Pew study showing how far they've moved. pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

The reverse milkshake duck

Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets. Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.

Someone has to lead CNN to a better place than "the middle," or its miserable equivalents. The central conflict in its reporting of politics has to shift: from Democrats vs. Republicans to the MAGA movement vs. American democracy. This will be Mark Thompson's greatest challenge.

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It’s the anti-defamation league that’s driving away the advertisers from placing their ads near gasthejews6969’s posts.

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This website is just crushing it with the targeted advertising

One of Feinstein’s prime legacies will be her unflinching investigation into the torture of terrorism suspects and her dogged insistence on making the findings public to force a reckoning over what she considered a dark chapter in the nation’s history. nytimes.com/live/2023/09/2…

“Gobsmackingly bananas”

Another killer target ad that is almost spooky with its precision 🙄

My co-authors and I published this graph two and a half decades ago. A picture, as they say, is worth a thousand words:

I thought this was the most foreboding paragraph from the excellent article by Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

It’s easy to dunk on Haley for this. It’s much harder to grapple with the fact that a leading republican candidate for POTUS made a calculated decision to not say “slavery” bc of how she thinks the party’s base would react.

fearing Lincoln’s election would lead to the national abolition of slavery (a hyperbolic, reactionary response), a series of southern states seceded from the union and formed an avowedly white supremacist confederacy of slave states. that was the cause of the civil war

Israel journalist רועי ינובסקי just published an amazing piece in Hebrew about what Gaza is REALLY like, based on his personal observations there. Here is an English translation that you NEED to read🧵 100 reserve days officially ended yesterday. Some initial insights:

Re:Hearing in Georgia Admitted , and today proved, that Willis and Wade had an affair. Nothing impacted Willis and her office going forward. The motion and the hearing was simply to embarrass a black female prosecutor who has Trump in her sights. Willis isn't going away.

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"Donald Trump tried to overthrow an election by violence." That's old news, we already reported that. "As president, Donald Trump directed tens of millions of tax dollars to his own pockets." Old news. (cont'd)