5 February 2025 link politics media
I have pivoted to posting almost exclusively about the coup happening in the United States right now. My focus will be on this crisis for the foreseeable future. I donโt yet know to what extent other things will make it back into the mix. I still very much believe that we need art and beauty and laughter and distraction and all of that, but I also believe very strongly that this situation is too important and potentially dangerous to ignore. And it is largely being ignored by a mainstream press that has been softened up by years of conservative pushback, financial pressures, and hollowing out by Facebook & Google.
I love this. Iโve been behind on posting links, but I have a stockpile of links from The New Republic, The Verge, and Wired too. It feels so weird seeing all this shit Trump and Musk are doing and the world just moving forward like nothing is happening.