By way of Smirking Chimp I come across this fascinating (and utterly depressing) account of how Karl Rove “reached out” to (Saint) Jack Welch, A.K.A “the buzz saw”, Chairman of General Electric, the parent company of NBC, and how together they put in place the right wing noise machine that masquerades as our nation’s electronic news media.
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John’s Tweets
Load More“White voters remain broadly behind Walker.”
Once again, white voters leave it to everyone else to save democracy.
We are ridiculous. https://twitter.com/kathrynresister/status/1598657878339899392https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/cnn-poll-georgia-senate-runoff-election/index.html
I have been saying for years now that one of the biggest shortcomings of the community researching "extremism" has been and is its reluctance to name misogyny as an incredible central value of US fascists.
bell hooks told us: it's white supremacist patriarchy. https://twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1598536649457258497I don’t think a man’s continuous public harassment of his ex/mother of his children is any less serious than his racist rantings, actually. These are connected violences
Today I was with @johnbiggs at his house in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, talking about moving from Mailchimp to Substack as part of overhauling my famous author platform. "You're doing it now," he said, & proceeded to set up my substack account & move my mailchimp subscribers over. 1/2
I love a person who knows their priorities.
So good at quotes lol ☠️
BREAKING: Trump LOSES bigly: 11th Circuit rules Judge Cannon was incorrect, eliminates her ruling, orders case be dismissed.
Special master: gone. All restrictions on DOJ use of recovered Mar-a-Lago documents: gone.
Massive DOJ win. Great day for democracy and the rule of law.
Testing testing testing, check check check.
Testing again