The Trump effect!

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia

“Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which the AustrianAmerican logician, mathematician, & analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit America's republican structure to be legally turned into a dictatorship”

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

'The death of privacy online' — Proton launches interactive map to show age verification laws are spreading fast

The Death of Privscy, Online - visualized

This political cartoon by American artist Ron Cobb in 1975 is still relevant today 51 years later.

The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching

Solid historical write up of the last 2 decades of making websites davidpoblador.com/deep-dives/w...

By Ellis Rosen. www.newyorker.com/cartoons/iss...

The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms

As the only U.S. president to seek to overturn an election result, Trump has spent years undermining confidence in American elections. Now, he is using the powers of the presidency to advance an agenda rooted in the same debunked election conspiracy theories. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

H.R. 7757: KIDS Act -- House Vote #228 -- June 29, 2026

The internet was fun while it lasted www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

Oligarchy is worse than you think

America wasn't founded to accommodate oligarchs — it was founded to escape them. 4S25...

The corporations using America’s 250th birthday to buy influence

Corporate sponsors lining up to "celebrate" America's 250th while buying access and goodwill in the same breath; this is what regulatory capture utterly looks like when it's dressed up in red, white, and blue. Pay to play isn't the exception anymore: it's the operating system.

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you know what must be done

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The Justice Department Hasn’t Taken Its Usual Steps to Protect the 2026 Election

The “steal” is coming www.notus.org/2026-electio...

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"...the government should never be hosting sporting events because uh there's more room for corruption and we already have a corrupted government and so that's my thoughts on it is that the government is supposed to protect us not entertain us... "

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Fairness doctrine - Wikipedia

Reagan's 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine didn't just change TV news — it broke it. Removing the legal requirement for balanced coverage opened the floodgates for partisan cable networks, opinion-as-news, and talk radio rage machines. We're still living in that wreckage today.

AG Todd Blanche: Trump 'Absolutely' Would've Went to Prison

You don’t say… www.mediaite.com/politics/ag-...

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