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  • ‘Sometimes I Just Watch’

    Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell talks about how Americans are welcoming surveillance devices like Ring and Nest into their homes, and — as they can now watch their front doors, babysitters, children and pets all day long — how surveillance has become normalized.

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  • Radio: Occupy, Then and Now

    NYU sociologist Michael Gould-Wartofsky traces the on-the-ground history of the Occupy Wall Street movement, through the eviction of Zuccotti Park to what the movement has morphed into.

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Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.

One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.

There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”

Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.

They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.

A rug pull occurs when a ‘meme’ or ‘shit’ coin is created, investors pour in, and the price spikes — at which point the early stakeholders sell and tank the coin’s value, as happened with the $TRUMP token.

Ending fascists’ grip on power not only requires voting them out, but replacing them with the right people.

One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.

Yarvin saw the “red pill” as the realization that the Enlightenment ideals he came to associate with “the cathedral” and democracy are actually a poison leading to societal decadence and decline.

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As the American public continues to publicly stand up to the administration, Trump’s grip on power will eventually slip.

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It is clear that authoritarian fascists, in the United States and elsewhere, do not want education that promotes critical thinking.

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Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.

Posted 3 weeks 3 days ago

There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”

Posted 3 weeks 3 days ago

Musk's unelected role at the forefront of U.S. government, and his company's near monopolisation of satellite internet communications, increases his global political and economic power grab, and attacks on democracy.

One pressing question is how the worldwide outrage might, and could, spread to his other business interests, not least his largest interest: SpaceX.

There is a real human cost behind cold, calculated “efficiency.”