Donald Trump’s Ajit (Pai)-prop
President Trump knows how to use the mass media, and social media, to manipulate public opinion and sway voters.
From Tucker Carlson to Epik, mainstreaming hate and paranoia for profit
From the Great Replacement theory to anti-mask and anti-vaccination propaganda, the far right is finding niches that allow them to draw ever larger numbers of people to their reactionary, anti-science views.
Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 28
Bar association calls for FBI probe into Kavanaugh, GOP governors call for delay in Kavanaugh vote, women react to Christine Blasey Ford's testimony, and more.
The billionaire playbook: How sports owners use their teams to avoid millions in taxes
Owners like Steve Ballmer can take the kinds of deductions on team assets — everything from media deals to player contracts — that industrialists take on factory equipment. That helps them pay lower tax rates than players and even stadium workers.
The soaring cost of US child care, in 5 charts
This spike in costs has broad implications, including leading fewer families to have children.
Border patrol fires tear gas at asylum seekers, hitting women, children, and journalists
U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants at the Mexican border during the first hours of the new year.
Death of the ‘usual’ economic evolution and the emergence of the new
With crisis comes opportunity, the possibility for growth and realignment with purpose; for change to take place—change that inculcates harmony, allowing for that which has hitherto been inhibited to be to be expressed.
Sunday shows barely mentioned the 2018 Women’s March
The longest mention was a meager 20 seconds on NBC’s Meet The Press. Other shows were worse.
Elon Musk plans to profit from Twitter, not create a town square for global...
His acquisition of Twitter, a powerful opinion platform, as a private company also further cements his power.
How military veterans are answering the call to defend Black lives
From marching in the streets to forming human walls of protection around protesters, veterans are playing a quiet but important role in demanding racial justice.









