Oh man it's real. If you're a Trump donor you're getting emails telling you that Dems are trying to "STOP your $5000 DOGE DIVIDEND CHECKS."
There are no DOGE dividend checks.
One angle I'm always thinking about is how much free stuff Trump promised. There are people currently expecting 1) no income tax under $200k, 2) free IVF, 3) a baby bonus, 4) a $5000 "DOGE dividend." And there is no plan to do that stuff! Just campaign rhetoric.
There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
NEW from me: Elon Musk's Starlink has billions at stake from an expected Trump rewrite of a $42 billion Biden broadband program that has yet to connect customers more than 3 years after Congress approved it.
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It was always going to be an election about Jan 6th
@24sight.news honcho Tom LoBianco & I may not have solved the world’s problems, but we did accidentally touch upon them. Here’s a weekend amuse-bouche for you before the inevitable warmed-over servings from the Media Buffet of Doom are served. Column here: open.substack.com/pub/24sight/...
Red hot new “The Booboisie” from @Ian B. Walters coming shortly
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At this very moment there’s a puffed-up newsroom consultant pitching WaPo brass: “well, how badly do you want to boost circulation?”.
Fell down a delightful wikihole this morning, and I've come back with a finding: the 1880s--1900s were peak "-ola" and "granola" led the trend.
(Warning: amateur etymology ahead. No doubt someone has already written a dissertation on this topic.)
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not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff
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I've got fresh items this week from @modernpoliticalcampaigns.com @ianbwalters.bsky.social and we've got former @propublica.org President @dicktofel.bsky.social coming up on The Ground Game Pod
Yesterday I dogpiled on the awful experience of trying to get information about a disaster unfolding around me. But today I pay some compliments to what’s working.
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The answer, my friend, is…
The good and wise @ianbwalters.bsky.social from our 24sight News QnA yesterday, he is the author of "The Booboisie" on 24sight
“You’ve heard it before, maybe even said it yourself, ‘I’m sick and tired of these unelected bureaucrats ruining my life!’
Fortunately for you, elections have consequences. Help is on the way, in the form of new, fresh, innovative, unelected bureaucrats.”
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Launch day!
The great and wise Ian Walters is up at 24sight News with his new column, The Booboisie
When the DOGE comes a-knockin'
In his debut column, 24sight's resident wise man Ian Walters assesses the dangers of government and governmenters
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Porting the classics over here
I thought I wouldn’t laugh at this on the 4058th listen
But damn if I did
