Yes, talk about politics at Thanksgiving this year
Lead with your values. Pivot to agenda. Talk about billionaires, and about media.
Eric Blair
Exit Poll (2003)
An excellent piece from 2003 on centrist Democratic consultants. Little has changed today. The centrist consultants, people like Geoff Garin, are still leading Democratic politics astray. It's time to pass the torch to younger generations, who are not stuck in the media environment of 1990.
Read Noam Scheiber&
Kamala Harris is making Trump look small and weak
The mockery and belittling is working.
Weird.
The word 'weird' has exploded this week, as the Harris campaign metaphorically bludgeons Trump with it.
"A weird night on Fox News." "It would just be weird if it wasn’t so dangerous." "A weird and
All we need to know about political messaging we learned in kindergarten
A conversation with my kindergartner. An inspiring discussion. We can say this to adults too.
Did Donald Trump steal the 2016 election? Yes.
He has been illegitimate from the start.
The World Cup, Rupert Murdoch, and monopolistic influence on US media
Media owned by billionaires, Murdoch to Musk, is fracturing American democracy. Let's look at our media concentration rules.
Post seems like it wants to be the "Uber of news." Let's be careful.
Update, 2024: Indeed, Post's business model failed as I described here. News outlets did not join Post en masse, and so Post wasn't able to build the monopoly power they needed. Post shut down in April 2024.
Twitter is becoming more of a far-right clown show