Yeah, “But Ray Epps!” is a right-wing conspiracy theory talking point to claim that Jan 6 Was An Inside Job . It could easily get this guy killed, the way those people operate.
This hits close to home. My dad grew up in a house about a half-mile from the creek mentioned in the article; my grandparents lived in that house for almost thirty years. That said, I think they were “uphill” in the watershed from the creek, and the only unusual cancer in my family is from my own generation, which was never exposed. Grandma and Grandpa both had cancer in their senior years (brain and colon, respectively) but neither died as a result of it – Grandma’s was so slow moving that they just left it be for fifteen years until she passed from other causes! – and the health problems my dad and his siblings have are mostly hereditary in nature.
Transit is basically free in my city. Just look down on your luck and the drivers will wave you through. If they are running behind they will yell at you to “just get on” instead of paying because they care more about being on time than collecting $2.50 (minus credit card fees, minus admin fees, minus grift, minus whatever else).
It seems to work okay. They crazy folks and (extremely) smelly folks would get refused service even if they had $2.50 so I don’t think that is a valid concern.
I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is president elect of ALA. I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity. And my mom is so proud. I love you mom.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. Though since most of the picks are from governor Gianforte, I can’t say I’m surprised.
That guy isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. I’m just sad the Montana I knew and loved was usurped by some out of towner who is totally altering the fabric and culture of that state from a “live and let live” to more of a Idaho-like place. He’s desecrating our state.
Of course it’s just more performative MAGA nonsense, cutting off the nose to spite the face and calling it “owning the libs.”
These people wouldn’t know Marxist ideology if it slapped them across the face, it’s just another buzzword in the same vein as “socialist” and “leftist” and “communist” (read: “anything I don’t like”).
The constant aggressive anti-intellectualism is exhausting.
I think “owning the libs” is a desirable side-effect and not their main goal.
Their main goal is to keep the lower class voters ignorant and uneducated so that history can be denied and they can be more easily manipulated into voting for right wingers using appeals to emotion (e.g. hatred, racism, patriotism, way of life). This is of course to keep power where it is.
As a former Texan; this really doesn’t surprise me. It’s why I got out of Texas.
It does also confirm something I have long feared has settled into conservative viewpoints…a hysteria so vast that it would engender and encourage the unchecked growth of facism.
I implore anyone reading this who is of voting age in the USA right now and is able to vote legally…to vote Democrat.
I’m not saying the Dems are without problems; but they at least don’t seem to be focused on becoming facist.
Seriously, what the hell went wrong? I’m from the states and my wife is from a third would country. We are both just living here. Living in America seems like a nightmare now.
I’ve been here for like 5-6 years now. My sister decided to homeschool her children due to shootings. Luckily, she used to be an elementary teacher and her oldest son is easily completing the material he would be learning at his current age.
But still, why would people go there at this point?
I cannot be bothered to care about this when her colleagues are violating these principles at exponentially higher levels and the last Presidential administration practically uses the office for nothing but self enrichment. Strengthen ethics rules across the board so none of it happens again. If not this goes to the bottom of the list of ethics problems.
I’ve grown somewhat numb to these sorts of stories, as it feels like we’ve run out of permutations on the deck chairs.
In Ye Olde Tymes — say, 2008 — the corporate model of journalism sitting on top of ads on newsprint was rickety but still functioning. And then consolidation brought a gun to this Jenga game.
Newspapers evolved to all have substantially similar structures over the course of the 20th century because all the pieces worked together for daily just-in-time production. You start pulling out pieces, and bad things happen.
But now the industry has these Frankensteined workflows demanded by Alden, New Media Investment Group and other killers of democracy. Newsroom staff are completely divorced from any production facility in use, so the structures in place are already anachronisms with buzzword-laden window dressing.
As far as I can tell, and certainly from recent job postings, a lot of newsrooms think their audience is Twitter and Facebook, not, say … readers. (Yes, yes, we all know the paper as a whole’s audience is advertisers, but journalists are excellent at self-delusion.)
This sets up an absurd game of telephone from writer to, god willing and the crick don’t rise, an editor at a publication to Massive Online Platform™ to reader. The Value® the publisher brings to the table is name recognition and usually long-expired credibility, while the platform makes it convenient to read alongside “both-sides” thinkpieces about Nazi marches.
But in terms of product? I’d like to see two rounds of editing by people familiar with the subject matter and a proofer on everything; who wouldn’t? One editor is better than none, but that’s the extent of beneficial refinement provided before hitting the reader’s eyes.
The org is paying the reporter less than they could make with an established Patreon and an editor friend, getting ad revenue, and passing it along to Facebook, which also gets ad revenue. They are vampire middlemen in the communication process that exist for people who don’t have an established Patreon (I sure as hell don’t).
But gone are the days when a reporter left a paper and became irrelevant. The journalist is the star online, not the paper, and their followers go with them.
Fixing local journalism will take a lot of things, but we have to burn the village to save it. Let all of the value be extracted from newsrooms to hedge funds so we can stop this farce of framing the future of journalism through the lens of today’s corporate structure and concomitant high overhead costs.
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