Like I’ve said a dozen times now, America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven to be woefully inept for this moment.
Led by the NYT, it has failed to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for Trump’s racism, corruption, and authoritarianism.
Waiting to access Canvas to start marking assessment.
Waiting to hear from the university's Cyber Security Officer.
Waiting to see how my personal data will be sold again.
Waiting to be freed from our corporate tech overlords.
Waiting to hear how I have to bear the consequences.
Waiting 😢
Why do Americans gather in front of the Kennedy Center to watch the letters be pulled off the building, but not in front of Congress, Supreme Court, or Department of Justice when they destroy democracy a little bit more?
www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...
Lee Morgenbesser
Lee Morgenbesser
Just an amazing piece of investigative journalism by @heidiblake.bsky.social. I lost count of how many people need to rot in jail for the rest of their lives.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
ummmm...what?
Lee Morgenbesser
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
Watching the Australian media gobble Trump’s social media propaganda up without any sense of hesitation or learning from past mistakes is fucking infuriating.
If they simply reported nothing, they would be better off. So would we.
America’s mainstream media was never ready for democratic backsliding. It has proven itself to be woefully inept at this moment.
Historians and political scientists will write - with ease - about the failure of the fourth estate to act as a watchdog, educator, and scrutineer for what has occurred.
Ruh fucking roh
Equally insane is the complete lack of both condemnation from political elites and spontaneous mass protests from citizens. Indeed, grand corruption is already a fully normalised feature of authoritarian rule in the United States.
Lee Morgenbesser
Lee Morgenbesser
I don’t get why people simply accept his professed Catholicism? Surely we can be more cynical in the age of Trump?
Maybe, just maybe, his varying faith - look it up! - is a means to a political end…
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
