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Internet Censorship: The Real Monopoly Threat

Catron (and Trump and Sanders) want the US government to seize control of social media platforms and dictate which users those platforms must accept and what kind of content those platforms must permit publication of. They don’t put it qui…

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California is about to feel Delta’s full force

For weeks, California has experienced low numbers of virus-related cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Cases are now on the rise, in part because of the state’s much publicized reopening on June 15. And with Delta making up nearly half of…

Will the wheels stay on a moratorium protecting 10,000 street vendors?

   SAY WHAT?-If you were eating tacos at MacArthur Park’s Guatemalan Night Market on the afternoon of June 11, you might never guess that…

A new study has found being angry increases your vulnerability to misinformation

SAY WHAT?-Human memory is prone to error — and new research provides evidence that anger can increase these errors. The new findings hav…

God Bless America, Land That I Love: Crackpots Rejoice When Jesus Christ (Briefly) Shuts Down Right Wing Watch and Can We Get An Amen?

SAY WHAT?-This week, YouTube announced that Right Wing Watch, which monitors far-right disinformation, conspiracy theories and violent rh…

Britney Spears Conservatorship Case: Read Her Full Statement

  SAY WHAT?-Britney Spears spoke before a Los Angeles court on Wednesday, giving a fervent speech on the details of her 13-year conservato…

A gay waiter was humiliated & stiffed by “Christian” customers. Then TikTok stepped in.

TikToker Meredith Steele appealed to her followers to Venmo her money to give the waiter the tip he deserved - and they came through with…

Blame oil for the world populating to 8 billion

SAY WHAT?- Sir David Attenborough, the 95-year-old legendary wildlife filmmaker told Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes: “A crime has been com…

Wake the Children Sleeping: James Baldwin's White Fragility Meets Critical Race Theory and Freaks Right Out

SAY WHAT? - Fast running out of boogeymen and deranged conspiracies - Dr. Seuss, Mr./Ms. Potato Head, trans girls playing sports, Karl Ma…

Cognitive Dissonance Is Us: Spoons On Your Face and Other Dangers of the Vaccine

   SAY WHAT-While COVID cases are down and vaccinations are up, huge swaths of this ostensibly great country remain vulnerable to deadly n…

New Campaign to Fight Amazon's Push for World 'Dominated by Total Corporate Surveillance' 

SAY WHAT- "Amazon's surveillance-driven police state is fundamentally incompatible with racial justice, civil rights, and democracy," sai…

Blood at the Root: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?

MEDIA WATCH--A year after the painstakingly prolonged public execution of George Floyd, America is caught between hope and despair at wha…

Kill Them One by One: Today, We Are Nazis

MEDIA WATCH--A ceasefire from the slaughter in Gaza is good news. It's also woefully inadequate, given it comes with "an inevitable expir…

Nothing To See Here: Treasonous Cowpoke and DOJ Went In Search of Devin Nunes' Cow and Mom

MEDIA WATCH-In an "extraordinarily hackish" move (among many), newly unsealed court documents show that, near the ragged end of his reign…

Some Aren’t Ready to Give Up Masks Despite New CDC Guidance

MEDIA WATCH--Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wear…

My Vaccine Experience

MEDIA WATCH-Have you gotten your vaccine yet? If it helps, let me tell you about mine. I just got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The…

We Cannot Afford to Forget the Death and Damage Trump Has Caused

MEDIA WATCH-America prefers to look forward rather than back. We're a land of second acts. We move on.  This can be a strength. We don't…

The Inadequacy of the Term “Asian American”

MEDIA WATCH-Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him. “I was told that I am Asian American wh…

The Lines So Wrong

MEDIA WATCH--We have seen a lot of people waiting in lines lately, most abundantly to acquire a vaccine to quash a global pandemic. Despi…

About Damn Time

MEDIA WATCH-We're just gonna leave this photo here of two smart, tough, accomplished women - one of color, and the first and second in li…

When A Black Woman Speaks

MEDIA WATCH-Derek Chauvin's been convicted - guilty, guilty, guilty, deeply - but the carnage persists. Since his trial began, police hav…

 

 

 

 

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