There's a takeover of the American news industry going on, pushed by Elon Musk, the Ellisons, the Saudis and others. Democracy is impossible if the truth is buried under right-wing propaganda, so we've got to push back against this "media capture." My Stop the Presses newsletter.

America enshittified itself in one decade. That's all it took.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Not only is what Mamdani doing *completely bog-standard politics*, it’s also *exactly the same thing leftists have long yelled at Democrats for doing.* Either you guys have never paid three minutes of attention to politics before this or you’ve genuinely got a cult of personality going.

In 2028 someone is going to tell you (it is going to be Ryan Grim) that Vance is running to AOC’s left on foreign policy. When they do I want you to punch them in the mouth

Vaccine conspiracism is overwhelmingly clustered among the religious, white and affluent. It’s a function of conservative ideology and bad faith media. Being nicer to MAHA types will not ‘bring them into the fold,’ it will only increase their sense of entitlement.

The public attitude towards AI seems really incoherent. Like, the average voter's attitude appears to be "Data centers ate my baby! Now time to share 500,000 AI generated memes on my Facebook page."

And then there’s the group that’s often in the overlap of the Venn diagram: Jews

The replies to this are sociopathic. A young woman was stabbed to death in public! So many people on the internet have paper-thin politics that are just an excuse to create an out-group against whom violence is permitted; it’s a coin-flip whether the group is “professionals” or “immigrants”.

Why are some Dems playing footsie with the MAHA nutcases?

Weird how when someone dies of measles it must be something else but if a death or illness can be tied to COVID vaccines in even the weakest way that must be the cause