A group owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve.
You’re thinking of The Atlantic. Salon is currently owned by something called Find.co.
There are so many things wrong with it, it’s hard to know where to start listing them. One is that she seems to think “COVID misinformation” means the craziest ideas online, but not all the ways the experts and MSM turned out to be wrong, to the point of intentional lies and coverups. It’s as if her side has never been wrong, so only insanity and ignorance can explain the opinions of anyone who disagrees with her.
Yeah, bad autocorrect. Fixed.
True, but I do think it’s an excellent look at some of the behind the scenes action in DNC politics and its relationship to censorship.
Yes, it was more David Axelrod, as the piece says.
Even more unusual, and alarming, was what followed Trump’s defeat in 2020. With the Democrats back in power, the new messaging apparatus could now formally include not just social and institutional pressure but the enforcement arms of the federal bureaucracy, from the Justice Department to the FBI to the SEC. As the machine ramped up, censoring dissenting opinions on everything from COVID, to DEI programs, to police conduct, to the prevalence and the effects of hormone therapies and surgeries on youth, large numbers of people began feeling pressured by an external force that they couldn’t always name; even greater numbers of people fell silent. In effect, large-scale changes in American mores and behavior were being legislated outside the familiar institutions and processes of representative democracy, through top-down social pressure machinery backed in many cases by the threat of law enforcement or federal action, in what soon became known as a “whole of society” effort.
As a test of the use of social media as a permission structure machine, the Iran deal was therefore a necessary prelude to Russiagate, which marked the moment in which the “mainstream media” was folded into the social media machinery that the party controlled, as formerly respected names like “NBC News” or “Harvard professor Lawrence Tribe” were regularly advertised spouting absurdities backed by “top national security sources” and other validators—all of which could be activated or invented on the spot by clever aides with laptops, playing the world’s greatest video game.
Yes indeed. Looks like it, doesn’t it? Shanahan vs. Harris? Top kek.
I don’t remember Italy arrests.
This one and Marc Andreessen were both incredible episodes. The average NY Times/NPR type has no fucking idea how bad this has gotten, and how many scandals are going to blow up in Trump's second term.
The appointment gets Rubio off the SSCI and makes room for a MAGA hatchet man.
Better than even chance it’s a woman or a they/them.
And used car prices.
Absolutely. A Great Awakening. The Fourth Turning.
I am still trying to take in how complete this victory is. Trump has totally done a Sun Tzu on the Democrats, the Deep State, the Blob, the entire left. He holds nearly all the cards. They are defeated, fractured, mocked by the majority, soon to be unemployed and/or defunded, and (in many cases) prosecuted. Best timeline!
If someone buys it and turns it MAGA, it could do well. Outflank Fox News.
Is this two years old? Joe Rogan just posted it today.
We got RFK Jr. and Harris got Liz Cheney.
The date is in the screenshot. https://x.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1849925311586238737
I think it's pretty convincing that he flew the plane in conditions beyond his abilities and made some fatal mistakes.
I agree with you on that.
WTF is going on? Was this coordinated with New Orleans?