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In 1987 Reagan killed the Fairness Doctrine. A year later Rush Limbaugh went national. Roger Ailes had been planning Fox News since 1970. None of this was an accident. They wrote it down.
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Texas Republicans chose a walking rap sheet over a 24-year incumbent -- by nearly 2 to 1. The Never Trump brain trust's response? Maybe Democrats should flirt with chemtrail theories. Stunning. Brilliant. Completely fucking wrong.
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Everyone reaches for Weimar eventually. It's not wrong. It's just not the whole story, and the part it leaves out is the part that actually keeps me up at night.
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Milton Friedman didn't invent greed. He did something more useful: he gave it a theory, a Nobel Prize, and fifty years of intellectual cover. The rest took care of itself.
cube-farm
The white collars met management with a twist of No California wackiness, and the die were cast.
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Every candidate on this list is auditioning to inherit a coalition built entirely around one man's specific id. That's the tribute band problem. Tribute bands don't sell out stadiums.
Cinema
As we plumb the depths of trash cinema, there is a whole raft of "made for Drive-in" films that defined a generation, and so many back seat necking sessions. This is near and dear to my Gen-X heart
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Sarah Longwell is among the sharpest political operators working today. She is also, on this particular question, wrong. Dead wrong. Part 1 of a three episode arc
Enjoy this ripping cover by Ally the Piper
The $1.7 billion slush fund isn't just corruption. It's proof that the founders' whole architecture rested on something they assumed would always be there and isn't anymore.
The pundit class' insistence that 2026 will be a wave year, and that Trump's flagging approval is a lock is not that comforting.
Why doesn't Tech unionize? It isn't difficult to suss out, but you have to look at it in context. This is the start of a weekly series about the "why"
Favorite of the newsletter, Lari Basilio is back with a new guitar, and moar strings. See how she puts them to use.
Noir is a deep genre, and while it is by definition gritty, there is a sub-class that truly embodies the grittiness, and the ethos. Poverty Row is an apt description.
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Closing out, the accident that created what we call the middle class is about over. Sure, politicians will pontificate, but neither party is willing to do the work to keep it going.
If you think that the Democrats are the party of the middle class, you're fooling yourself. But since the 1980's they've gotten on the gravy train, feeding at the trough with the Republicans
Listening to the latest TNL this AM got my hackles up. The question of why aren't more people mobilizing really spiked my cortisol.
At the start, it wasn't a Republican or a Democrat issue, it was a plutocrat capitalist issue, and they think in multi-decade time spans. It pays to have patience
