Tom Watson

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Who is a better contemporary rock star than @brandicarlile - I say nobody. Man, I'm just so impressed with her work. Lotta you have been on board for a decade, but I hope you welcome this new rider.

The debillioning continues.

X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism - https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23970274/x-elon-musk-media-matters-lawsuit-nazi-ads-filed

X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticismwww.theverge.com The lawsuit claims Media Matters manipulated X’s algorithm.

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Also, Sunstein's piece neglects the strain of egalitarian liberalism, meaning it largely ignores some of the most important political theorizing in the liberal tradition done in the last half century. Both liberalism's boosters and detractors neglect this, alas www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

What I find missing from Cass Sunstein's understanding of liberalism is a sense of what Gary Gerstle called "the malleability of the liberal tradition," in his 1994 article in the American History Review, called "The Protean Character of American Liberalism."/1 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/o...

Opinion | Why I Am a Liberalwww.nytimes.com Perhaps more than ever, there is an urgent need for a clear understanding of liberalism.

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“We have arrived at Again. And Never is far less certain.” @guitarwatson.bsky.social has written the most meaningful piece I’ve read since the unimaginably horrific terrorist attack. open.substack.com/pub/theliber...

A Time for Choosingopen.substack.com Pure ice-cold antisemitism is guiding a lot of what you're reading and seeing in the last week. It's a crude hatred of Jews for being Jews, and it is as old as the hills.

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Rudy's loss yesterday isn't just a good time for us and a great relief for his victims. It's the latest in a series of legal battles, from Fox News to the Proud Boys to Alex Jones, that show the courtroom is kryptonite to MAGA's main weapon: Lies. www.salon.com/2023/08/31/c...

Beware, Trump conspirators! Rudy's latest loss is a reminder that the courtroom is your kryptonitewww.salon.com As with the Fox defamation loss, Trumpists may want to rethink the "never surrender" strategy, as losses pile up

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My Guardian column on the media’s normalization of their new crush https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/24/vivek-ramaswamy-demagogue-in-waiting

Vivek Ramaswamy is America’s demagogue-in-waiting | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com The Republican debate became the entrepreneur’s coming-out party, with the news media boosting him along his way

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I don’t think enough is made about Rudy Giuiliani getting caught on camera in Borat 2 soliciting a 15 year old

The truth: Trump never thought he'd ever be called on anything. A malign narcissist who thought he was bigger than this country. And now he's finding out. And will be convicted. A criminal forever.

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L. Lin Wood, who said that Mike Pence should be shot for treason and that Chief Justice Roberts had perpetrated “serious crimes” including child sex trafficking and was involved in Scalia’s death, is asking nicely to be allowed to quit the practice of law voluntarily before he is disbarred.

It's evolved from a kind of semi-engaged light libertarianism to openly radical far right dogma over the last decade. Horrible to behold.

I said this a year ago elsewhere, but I’ll say it again here: It's impossible to overstate how much the big tech CEOs & VCs are being radicalized within their bubble. The level of paranoia & contrived victimization is off the charts, and they increasingly only consume media that they have funded.

I enjoy 1776 because it centers the best Founding Father. But let's face it, basically a fable.

Question: do you block the same people on Blooski, or have they changed? 🤔 Related: the perfect beer company sponsorship slogan for this platform is: Get yourself a cold Blooski Brewski! 😀

Is there any easy way to import follows? (Guessing not - start from scratch).

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