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The Reward for All of This Cannot Be a Trillion Dollars
As you’re reading this, families in Belfast are fleeing burning homes. Elon Musk used his unparalleled perch to amplify calls for nationwide anti-immigrant rallies, reposting convicted agitator Tommy Robinson, who wrote, “Only by protesting...
Donald Trump is telling us he wants to be dictator. When will Congress listen?
Finally, a reporter tried to get Trump to explain his execrable lies, lies so bad they’re insulting, lies so bad he’d appoint them to his cabinet, lies that stink so much that they attract more gnats than the Octagon outside the White House...
How Fascism Forces Us to Confront Our Inner Centrist
If you want to know what you’d have done in Germany in the 1930s, look at what you’re doing right now. I used to say that, too much. I said it with the easy confidence of someone who has never actually had to choose between their conscie...
My unpublished thoughts on James Talarico from 2025
It may be hard to believe, but there are words I’ve written that I haven’t immediately published. But not many.
Last year, I wrote a short-lived series at FrameLab on Democrats’ messaging in unique and powerful ways. My Talarico take f...
How to overcome election rigging beyond anything you’ve imagined
What brought Trump to power twice were the things you would never bother to imagine.
Trump asking for and receiving Putin’s help in 2016. James Comey reopening the Clinton email investigation eleven days before the election. Elon Musk buyi...
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Jason Sattler is LOLGOP on Twitter and the other 30 platforms we had to join because a rich snitch bought everything. Jason's writing has appeared in USA TODAY, Wired.com, the New York Daily News, and Alternet.
Noah Berlatsky is a freelance writer in Chicago. He writes for Public Notice, Prism Reports, Business Insider, the Chicago Reader, and various other places. Also he’s kind of a poet now.
Journalist. Historian. I also do dishes.
Democracy is like exercise. You can’t just do it once every four years and claim it doesn’t work when you don’t see results.
I help people, policymakers, and institutions combat disinformation, online toxicity, and far-right extremism.
Fighting broligarchy. Baking pie. Feeding local vermin. AI isn't intelligent. Chatbots aren't your friend. Billionaires are bad for all of us.
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