- newrepublic.com Trump’s Eruption of Rage at NYT Offers Unnerving Hint of What’s Coming
As Trump rants at the Times after coverage of his creepy young aide, former Times public editor Margaret Sullivan reflects on what his press crackdown may look like—and how the media can respond.
- grist.org Who’s responsible for waste? A Q&A about the ‘conspiracy’ of overconsumption.
The director of Netflix’s “Buy Now!” says companies should be accountable for the trash they generate.
> Without explicitly using the term, Buy Now! makes the case for an alternative paradigm called the “polluter pays principle,” which holds that companies — not the public — should be held financially responsible for dealing with the waste they generate. In wonkier terms, the idea manifests as “extended producer responsibility,” or EPR, policies that typically require large companies to pay into a central fund for waste management and prevention. In the U.S., five states have passed EPR laws for packaging.
> Through interviews with former executives at Adidas, Amazon, and Apple, Buy Now! argues that consumer goods companies have knowingly abdicated their responsibility to the public good. Grist sat down with Bagenal to discuss the film and how she and her team of executive producers went about conveying the polluter pays principle to a general audience.
- newrepublic.com Time for Democrats to Get Out of the Bipartisanship Business
The party should borrow a highly effective move from the outgoing Mitch McConnell—by steadfastly refusing to lend its support to the Trump agenda.
- www.telegraph.co.uk Pam Bondi: Pick to replace Matt Gaetz wants to deport pro-Palestine protestors
Attorney general nominee has long history with president-elect and was once left in tight spot over legal case against Trump University
- www.piratewireservices.com As U.S. braces for Trump, it could learn a lot from the Global South about what "resistance" really means
Going beyond hashtags and doing the real work of building community is our strongest defense against authoritarianism
- www.telegraph.co.uk Young Democrats move to oust ‘ossifying’ party elders
With figures such as Joe Biden, 82 and Nancy Pelosi, 84, still dominating headlines, younger members fear Gen Z are being put off
- newrepublic.com Trump’s War With the Press Takes a Terrifying Turn
Donald Trump has nominated a Project 2025 author to lead the Federal Communications Commission.
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Duty to Warn Letter
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Hello everyone, I felt like this was a safe place to post this and garner discussion. I haven't seen a lot of talk about the two groups that are pushing for hand recounts in swing states.
The tl;dr of the letter is that there were an abnormal amount of "bullet ballots." These are ballots where an individual only casts a vote for one person without any down ballot votes. In this case, only for Donald Trump. The marked increase is only present in seven swing states.
Thoughts?
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Free speech under a “strongman” government: A Nobel laureate’s warning
thegroundtruthproject.org Journalist Maria Ressa warns how America can brace for an era of strongman under Donald Trump. | The GroundTruth ProjectWASHINGTON – As America braces for what increasingly looks like the era of a strongman under the next term of Donald Trump, a Nobel laureate and defender of the free press made a call to arms against the efforts by authoritarians to curtail free speech. Maria Ressa, speaking at the 40th anniversary ...
- jacobin.com Liberals Are Giving Up on America
In their despair at Donald Trump’s victory, liberal pundits are concluding that the masses, especially the working class, are irredeemably terrible. That’s apolitical nonsense.
- www.theatlantic.com American Kakistocracy
Italy knows a thing or two about what the United States faces—but there are key differences between the two countries’ experiences.
- newrepublic.com The Democrats’ Refusal to Break With a Broken System Cost Them Dearly
The party has followed its affection for Beltway institutions and their stodgy norms to its logical endpoint—getting locked out of power. It’s time for a rethink.
- www.thedailybeast.com Trump Border Czar to Undocumented Immigrants: ‘We’re Coming for You’
Tom Homan encouraged “non-criminal” undocumented immigrants to self-deport.
- www.counterpunch.org Washington Post’s David Ignatius Mysteriously Sees “Significant Progress” in Stabilizing Three Dangerous Wars
For the past year, the Washington Post’s senior diplomatic columnist, David Ignatius, has been loyal to the U.S. and Israeli national security teams, playing the role of stenographer in sharing and repeating their optimism about peace in the Middle East. He has reported one hopeful scenario after a...
> For the past year, the Washington Post’s senior diplomatic columnist, David Ignatius, has been loyal to the U.S. and Israeli national security teams, playing the role of stenographer in sharing and repeating their optimism about peace in the Middle East. He has reported one hopeful scenario after another, and avoids criticizing the self-serving comments from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the past year regarding the outlook for peace.