Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
dems at record low approval because instead of walking out the moment they saw TRUMP2028 hats they sat down for a friendly chat and let themselves be photographed.
charlie kirk was a mainstream conservative voice, but mainstream conservative voices do not want you to discuss what those positions actually are because they also realize these ideals are inconsistent w the way most americans think liberal democracy is supposed to work
When I was on SNAP, there were days when only the promise of an ice cream carton waiting for me at home got me through the workday. I will fight every single one of y’all who wants to take away sweet little treats from folks.
the thing about the CA slavery prop was that it wasn’t even confusing. the language was clear. y’all just hate incarcerated people and think they’re not human.
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right.
Tlaib is absolutely justified in not endorsing anyone in a race between two candidates who are both complicit in the genocide of her people. Yet even so, despite everything, she was headlining a Get Out The Vote event to rally people to vote for Harris. Dems do not deserve her.
This should be hardly controversial. Coates is describing the conditions in which people might be pushed towards armed struggle and is wondering if he would have the moral fortitude to seek a different path. It’s a liberal sentiment.
So sick.
Remember that members of Congress are permitted to own stock in war manufacturing, so when they vote to send more bombs or send our loved ones to war, they profit personally.
He called Professor Coates, one of the most celebrated & accomplished thinkers of our time, an "extremist," because his book dares to center Palestinian humanity. A masterclass reply from Coates.
Also, wild that CBS challenges him more than they will Vance during the VP Debate.
funny how americans look back at sinéad o'connor's hate train with such guilt and outrage when y'all be replicating the same tantics with chappel roan for raising her voice too. usa's ego and self-centrism has no limits.
american tax payer funded bombs, guided by american targeting capabilities destroyed 6 buildings filled with civilians in beirut and this is how little our government cares about american citizens that happened the be collateral damage to israels bloody conquest.
Chappel Roan is an icon for calling out the weak support of trans rights on the left. over the last few years both parties have ratcheted farther and farther right on pretty much every issue and this one is no different, it's not her fault that you haven't been paying attention