akelacooper.bsky.social

@akelacooper.bsky.social

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Writer: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1, Luke Cage. Malignant. M3GAN. The Nun 2. It's a pleasure scaring the shit outta you.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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When every single national media outlet is speaking in lockstep with Republican talking points about a candidate for president, that is a fundamental, societal level problem with bad implications for the future of democracy in the US. That people discount that is deeply disappointing.

I focus 90% of my criticism on media ethics and leadership because that is the foundation of how we establish a shared reality. Writing off media effects as immaterial or irrelevant, as if people form opinions about events outside their personal experience without mediation, is deeply ignorant.

If you thought their hatred of Hillary was bad, just wait.

“The network has ramped up its attacks on Harris — including with commentary focused on her race and gender — since President Joe Biden's debate performance on June 27.” www.mediamatters.org/kamala-harri...

Fox News ramps up attacks on Vice President Kamala Harriswww.mediamatters.org Fox News figures have recently compared Vice President Kamala Harris to teenage children, said that her words do not sound like those of a commander-in-chief, and dismissed Harris as a “a DEI hire.” T...

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Libro.fm is rad. 100 percent recommend. I have not looked back.

I want more folks to know about libro.fm as an alternative to Audible or Spotify or other shady corps. It’s 100% employee-owned and works like Audible, except your credits support an indie bookstore of your choosing instead of Amazon. Go listen to a disabled author for Disability Pride Month! 💙📚

Same audiobooks. Different story.libro.fm Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

Jesus Christ… But know that this is what they’re truly afraid of: Biden wins, but somewhere in his second term he has to step down and we get the first female president who also happens to be a black and Indian woman.

Subtle. Very subtle.

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Yes. Trump is lying and his fans are laughing at any of the members of the media gullible to repeat his lies for him.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s Claim to ‘Know Nothing’ About Project 2025 Is Ridiculouswww.rollingstone.com Trump says "I know nothing about Project 2025,” despite the conservative agenda project’s ties to the Republican Party platform committee

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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

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Max Berger

He should have done events. Oh okay, he did events, but he should do them without a prompter. Oh okay, he did some of them without a prompter, but he needs to take questions in the form I specify. There is not going to be any end to this series because you’re not inclined to be persuaded.

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IT'S NOT THE NEW YORK TIMES JOB TO MAKE SURE THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE IS ELECTABLE. NO, SIR! IT'S THE NEW YORK TIMES JOB TO MAKE SURE THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE IS ELECTABLE!

I don't take the age thing seriously. THEY PICK A LIE ABOUT EVERY DEM, and the press knows it's some BS but plays along. They know that the other guy is worse in every way, especially his brain. They turned being a war hero into a liability against a fortunate son draft dodger.

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Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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Don't let his lies scare you out of sharing the details of Project 2025 with everyone you know — especially those who are on the fence about their vote this year. There's good reason to believe knowing about Project 2025 focuses people's minds on the stakes. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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The Heritage Foundation “don’t make us kill you, Democrats” statement may mark one of those moments people will read about in 100 years (hopefully!) and think to themselves “why didn’t they freak out when they heard the extremists say that?” (Sadly, it’s just not how humans work most of the time)

That Heritage Foundation statement threatening a violent revolution against the left = that moment in a movie in which the forces of evil loudly announce their evil plans. except in real life, unlike in a movie, most normal people don’t even realize this has *happened* (which is our job).

Not even gonna bother with the tiny violin. Fuck CNN

Anti-woke, going broke

CNN Hits Lowest Primetime Ratings Since 1991www.thedailybeast.com The cable channel’s 8-11 p.m. slate drew an average of 83,000 viewers in a key metric—the lowest in three decades.

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Kevin Roberts, head of the Heritage Foundation. Seeing him I always think of what was once said about William Burroughs: ''I don't want that boy in the house again, he looks like a sheep-killing dog.'' Roberts is mean on two legs. Don’t let him get more power.

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All US citizens should interrogate the way we are propaganzied to support militarism abroad.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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…I really think this is the more important presidential-election-related story to have in the news cycle.

I saw this was trending and had to google it "The post alleges that Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for this year's presidential election, "forced" young girls to "perform lesbian sex acts."

Donald Trump, Katie Johnson allegations: Everything we knowwww.newsweek.com Allegations from a lawsuit that was dismissed in 2016 are circulating on social media.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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I am glad this piece about the Heritage Foundation threatening civil war if the left doesn’t accept a monarchy came out in the WaPo. More like this, please.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

Our media needs to stop equivocating and fucking CALL IT LIKE IT IS. There’s not “appeared” here he openly called for people to be killed.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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Joe Biden has to hurry up and commit fraud, rape, espionage, and insurrection quickly so The New York Times will think he's fit to stay in the race.

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“If our democracy falls, one key enabler will have been the most consequential failure to date of a vital institution doing its job: journalism.”

At Its Moment of Peril, Democracy Needs Journalists to be Activists - Ms. Magazinemsmagazine.com If U.S. democracy falls, one key enabler will have been the most consequential failure to date of a vital institution doing its job: journalism. It makes my journalism friends profoundly and understan...

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I mean, FFS: Biden has lost a few steps? No fucking kidding! But Trump has been ranting incoherently, about his dream of becoming Caligula, for 9 years now. Biden gets tired and loses his train of thought sometimes. Trump gets tired and promises to execute immigrants to feel better.

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There is no such thing as “liberal” media

I listened to NPR for like five minutes today. They had on Sarah Isgur to talk about what a tough spot Roberts was in because Biden was prosecuting his opponent for a crime for which he wasn’t impeached.

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As a queer archivist, this conversation explores some of the same reasons I do the work I do, especially in preserving ephemera.

ICMYI I wrote about the importance of being a citizen archivist. We've seen so much incredible art and writing from marginalized people, and we need to preserve it in the face of a huge, well-funded backlash. This is something concrete you personally can do! buttondown.email/charliejane/...

We Should All Be Archivistsbuttondown.email Lately, I keep obsessing about two seemingly opposing but interrelated trends: 1) The past decade has seen an incredible bounty of art and self-expression...

I am BEGGING liberals and leftist to let go of the NYT. They have rarely been on the right side of history and they are—ONCE AGAIN—actively trying to bring Trump to power. Cancel your subscription and let this trash paper DIE

I think it’s telling that if you search “Trump AND rape” on the New York Times website you don’t get a single article mentioning the E. Jean Carroll case but if you search “Biden AND old” you get 18,026 hits.