All I can say is keep fucking resisting. Because although they may have all this control, actually changing the culture of a population and individual minds is something else. And I truly believe that all human beings, all of us, want to err on the side of goodness, fairness, intelligence, love and understanding. It's built-in to our DNA as much, if not more, than all the opposite impulses of our minds. It's why authoritarian regimes eventually fall. Because who tf wants that besides the dictator and his groveling set of henchmen.
First, no outlet should be allowed to officially call itself "News" unless they are reporting the TRUTH, period. (Whatever happened to a basic "who, what, where, when, why?") Second, it's a big ask, especially because so many entities are involved in this "Ellison" settlement, but WE CAN BOYCOTT. When I'm driving, I like to listen to the local CBS radio station. It is not particularly political and covers a broad range of local activities. But yesterday several broadcasters were discussing a group of political candidates, both gop and democrat. Among other things, they were discussing whether a person of either party was moderate, conservative, or progressive, which was fine. However, one democrat was described as "left of Fidel Castro". All 3-4 of them thought that was funny. and sounded pretty proud of themselves for having come up with that slur. That did it for me. Will no longer listen. Dumped Hulu months ago, and at the time had been considering subscribing to HBO but purposely did NOT. We have PLENTLY of other options, people!!!! I'd rather give up some "pleasures" if I can have my democracy and sanity back. (BTW, BTC's book just came in the mail; really looking forward to reading it.... and, having dumped Amazon YEARS ago, I ordered it through bookshop.org. --- do we all really need overnight delivery of absolutely everything we order, etc???)
No matter how much credit you give the human race for decency, there is an underbelly of people like the 30% of Americans who believe they really are better than all other races and want fascism and oligarchy, for whatever reason fits their particular mindset.
Just doing exactly what all dictators do from Hitler to Putin: control the media to control the truth to control the people. They got Twitter and TikTok too. Everyone should've left Twitter when Elon literally upside-downed that shit from a normal, sensible public internet forum where there were rules and moderation, to a hellscape where neo-fascist rapists keep their accounts while victims and protesters get banned. They've been very determined and they've succeeded. So far.
Glad to support independent media platforms like yours. I think it’s the future for most of us. The younger generations aren’t watching legacy media like CNN anyway, not that this merger isn’t dangerous; it is. But it’s not the future. And there is no, and has never been a “liberal media”. More Republican lies.
Me too! I only get my news from Brian, Aaron Parnas, ABC (owned by Disney) and no MAGA owned outlets. With Ellison buying Warner Brothers, including CBS and CNN, Repugs own 80% of the media. Be cautious of what news you see or read, as Repug owned media is MAGA biased!!!
P.S. to Brian, read your book and it is great!!! Thanks for your insights!
I do not condone violence. What I am about to say is meant to be objective. All these oligarchs and orange men are mortal. Keep fighting, Brian. We're behind you. Pendulums swing. I have faith in the people, and in ideals of the 1960s/70s. Those ideals will return with ferocity. We have lessons to learn. Let's be good students. I am 88 and will not be alive to see our future, for I am mortal, too. I have faith in the goodness that is America. God bless us all.
Sharon, I wholeheartedly agree. The PedoFelon and its oligarchs ignore the fact they aren’t immortal and that illnesses, accidents & misfortunes happen to everyone. We each can create change by NOT patronizing any of their companies. The way to get attention and results is to affect their bottom lines. Honesty, truth & kindness will prevail. We WILL Prevail.
What was Nikita Kreuchieves words, something like, we will bring you down without ever firing a shot. We all laughed. Then he started working on Donald Trump. Now he has brought us down.
Actually, it only seems that way to our "conservative" friends because they have been raised to build their entire lives on a foundation of lies and misinformation - on all the things they have been taught "must certainly be true," none of which are ACTUALLY true. It probably started when the founders of "Christian Fundamentalism" decided that the King James Bible had to be taken literally (as they interpreted it) was inerrant and "truer than science." It's a relatively short hop from "The Bible says whatever I tell you it says," to "Truth is whatever I tell you it is."
Very well said! The white Christian National fundamentalism is based on the Okd Testament along with the extra hate and bigotry they “just made up” themselves. The old testament is history and stories of the Jewish and Muslim religion back to Abraham. Both religions originated from the offspring of Abraham.
The whole concept was about dominance of neighboring countries, dominance of men over women, killing your neighbors and taking their property and then most prominent, their herds of animals kept for milk and food.
The exact story today of Hegseth and Netanyahu….
Christ came along 2000 years ago and said NO, that is not what God wants, he wants you to love and help your neighbors. They crucified the messenger.
Today’s True Christians are telling the WCN, project 2025 cabal, Netanyahu supporters, no you do not steal their land, their oil, obliterate their cities and kill little children !!! You love and help.
Then from trumps own mouth the cities and rights of the people are threatened with death and devastation…starting with California cities.
God, through the Old Testament Prophets, appointed Israel to be "a light to the nations." From that time until our own day, Israel has absolutely refused to do so, instead seeking to keep God as their own tribal deity and believing that God's love and blessings are reserved only for themselves.
The nation of Israel has not been deserted by God, but its leaders, under Netanyahu and his cabal or Orthodox rabbis have deserted God by ignoring their own history and Prophets. The Kingdom of Solomon which they're trying to reclaim only lasted 40 years. A united nation of Israel did not exist after that time until 1947, nearly 3,000 years later. Clearly God had a reason for this. A modern kingdom of Solomon would fare no better.
The nation of Israel has a great deal to offer the world, but instead, is totally focused on violently taking as much as they can get from their neighbors who are also God's beloved children and "Children of Abraham."
Thank you. I had never mentally connected the time from King Solomon to the establishment of Israel in 1947. Guess, in essence, the nation of Israel wondered in the desert for 3,000 years.
After 2028, we have some Trust Busting to do. We are going to have to make the Oligarchy simply unconstitutional. We will need wealth taxes. We are going to have to amend The Constitution in multiple places to shore up our democracy so that this cannot happen again.
Whatever happened to our anti-trust laws? This is way bigger than the AT&T of the 1980s. They were forced to split up big time. This just shows another example of more laws the trump regime ignores at will. If we can take over the house and Senate we are going to expect a lot more from them than what we have been getting!
What happened to anti-trust? Republicans got in offices from Senate, house, Supreme Court and the useless “department of Justice”.
TH AT is why we have major rapid INFLATION. Competition completely eliminated with very few in any industry totally establishing prices to us the consumer based on the profits they want for their owners.
Deranged Don wants to keep our country ignorant with government-operated news stations, sick by cutting healthcare, poor by raising taxes, and stupid by cutting education. The United States will become another Russia or North Korea if we don’t stop the GOP Guardians Of Pedophiles. We can defeat them. 💙💙💙
The worst is it works. Drown people in fake news after condemning all news that is not. People get hypnotized by wartalk and muscle flexing. They believe the chilling remarks about sacrifying cities is "just a thing he says" etc. People who can joke about an execution that goes horribly wrong have changed into nazi characters from a book or movie. Racism is more vicious than it has been for a while at least. I won't react often but I follow you (almost) every step of the way. Even George Orwell did not see everything coming, a dictator who claims to know everything about everybody and everything thanks to AI, o sorry SI (Musk was grinning from ear to ear when he blurted that out) is one step further than O. The connection Israel-America has become one of the most unsettling things ever and you, Brian, and your serious colleague news gatherers will probably be illegal in the New World...
So all the more Keep Up The Good Fight! Love from Holland where Rutte believes he is now the King of the World, he keeps up his "faith in Trump" tho we believe being secretary general of NATO has gone to his head.
Frankly, even when things straighten out, I will still primarily use Independent Journalism. Substack is a Godsend. And I always know for fact that I am getting the truth.
They are rising, temporarily, just as climate instability is on its way to smack us hard - they will be useless when they finally realize they can’t do anything.. no control just totally helpless… let’s just hope as the oceans warm undercutting the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers and ice shelves and that they don’t break away… most coastal cities won’t be able to survive the surge of rising sea levels.
And I’m not even getting into the extreme heat, droughts, state sized wildfires, monster storms like we’ve never seen before… just a few minor things to worry about. You know how these morons love science.
When right wing talk radio took over AM radio - and subsequently their 'sister' FM stations if you know how radio frequency licensing works in the US - I genuinely became worried. It lowest common denominator, cheap but ubiquitous media they took over first, then print consolidation takeover, then cable news. Now there's no longer a Town Square anyone can rely on... nor a white house, sadly! #EndTrumpsFascistRegime Edit: Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvndiG-y2dc
All I can say is keep fucking resisting. Because although they may have all this control, actually changing the culture of a population and individual minds is something else. And I truly believe that all human beings, all of us, want to err on the side of goodness, fairness, intelligence, love and understanding. It's built-in to our DNA as much, if not more, than all the opposite impulses of our minds. It's why authoritarian regimes eventually fall. Because who tf wants that besides the dictator and his groveling set of henchmen.
Yes! Indeed!
First, no outlet should be allowed to officially call itself "News" unless they are reporting the TRUTH, period. (Whatever happened to a basic "who, what, where, when, why?") Second, it's a big ask, especially because so many entities are involved in this "Ellison" settlement, but WE CAN BOYCOTT. When I'm driving, I like to listen to the local CBS radio station. It is not particularly political and covers a broad range of local activities. But yesterday several broadcasters were discussing a group of political candidates, both gop and democrat. Among other things, they were discussing whether a person of either party was moderate, conservative, or progressive, which was fine. However, one democrat was described as "left of Fidel Castro". All 3-4 of them thought that was funny. and sounded pretty proud of themselves for having come up with that slur. That did it for me. Will no longer listen. Dumped Hulu months ago, and at the time had been considering subscribing to HBO but purposely did NOT. We have PLENTLY of other options, people!!!! I'd rather give up some "pleasures" if I can have my democracy and sanity back. (BTW, BTC's book just came in the mail; really looking forward to reading it.... and, having dumped Amazon YEARS ago, I ordered it through bookshop.org. --- do we all really need overnight delivery of absolutely everything we order, etc???)
Very very good points.
Truth! We The People Must Act Now.🇺🇸⚖️🇺🇸
No matter how much credit you give the human race for decency, there is an underbelly of people like the 30% of Americans who believe they really are better than all other races and want fascism and oligarchy, for whatever reason fits their particular mindset.
Just doing exactly what all dictators do from Hitler to Putin: control the media to control the truth to control the people. They got Twitter and TikTok too. Everyone should've left Twitter when Elon literally upside-downed that shit from a normal, sensible public internet forum where there were rules and moderation, to a hellscape where neo-fascist rapists keep their accounts while victims and protesters get banned. They've been very determined and they've succeeded. So far.
I definitely left twitter as soon as Elon, baby, came anywhere near it.
Same here.
And same for me!
There is a reason Jeff Tiedrich refers to it as: "Musk's Nazi bar and child porn emporium."
Haha! I love that. Jeff is brutally funny 😎
And accurate.
Glad to support independent media platforms like yours. I think it’s the future for most of us. The younger generations aren’t watching legacy media like CNN anyway, not that this merger isn’t dangerous; it is. But it’s not the future. And there is no, and has never been a “liberal media”. More Republican lies.
Me too! I only get my news from Brian, Aaron Parnas, ABC (owned by Disney) and no MAGA owned outlets. With Ellison buying Warner Brothers, including CBS and CNN, Repugs own 80% of the media. Be cautious of what news you see or read, as Repug owned media is MAGA biased!!!
P.S. to Brian, read your book and it is great!!! Thanks for your insights!
Me Too! Also, MS Now and PBS NEWS!
I do not condone violence. What I am about to say is meant to be objective. All these oligarchs and orange men are mortal. Keep fighting, Brian. We're behind you. Pendulums swing. I have faith in the people, and in ideals of the 1960s/70s. Those ideals will return with ferocity. We have lessons to learn. Let's be good students. I am 88 and will not be alive to see our future, for I am mortal, too. I have faith in the goodness that is America. God bless us all.
Sharon, I wholeheartedly agree. The PedoFelon and its oligarchs ignore the fact they aren’t immortal and that illnesses, accidents & misfortunes happen to everyone. We each can create change by NOT patronizing any of their companies. The way to get attention and results is to affect their bottom lines. Honesty, truth & kindness will prevail. We WILL Prevail.
Power to the people! See you on October 17th.
To give you one heart is not enough ❤️
What was Nikita Kreuchieves words, something like, we will bring you down without ever firing a shot. We all laughed. Then he started working on Donald Trump. Now he has brought us down.
As my more religious friends would say, “From your lips to God’s ear.”
Me too, Sharon 🙏🏻
Truth has a liberal bias.
And Liberalism has a bias toward truth.
Actually, it only seems that way to our "conservative" friends because they have been raised to build their entire lives on a foundation of lies and misinformation - on all the things they have been taught "must certainly be true," none of which are ACTUALLY true. It probably started when the founders of "Christian Fundamentalism" decided that the King James Bible had to be taken literally (as they interpreted it) was inerrant and "truer than science." It's a relatively short hop from "The Bible says whatever I tell you it says," to "Truth is whatever I tell you it is."
Very well said! The white Christian National fundamentalism is based on the Okd Testament along with the extra hate and bigotry they “just made up” themselves. The old testament is history and stories of the Jewish and Muslim religion back to Abraham. Both religions originated from the offspring of Abraham.
The whole concept was about dominance of neighboring countries, dominance of men over women, killing your neighbors and taking their property and then most prominent, their herds of animals kept for milk and food.
The exact story today of Hegseth and Netanyahu….
Christ came along 2000 years ago and said NO, that is not what God wants, he wants you to love and help your neighbors. They crucified the messenger.
Today’s True Christians are telling the WCN, project 2025 cabal, Netanyahu supporters, no you do not steal their land, their oil, obliterate their cities and kill little children !!! You love and help.
Then from trumps own mouth the cities and rights of the people are threatened with death and devastation…starting with California cities.
God, through the Old Testament Prophets, appointed Israel to be "a light to the nations." From that time until our own day, Israel has absolutely refused to do so, instead seeking to keep God as their own tribal deity and believing that God's love and blessings are reserved only for themselves.
The nation of Israel has not been deserted by God, but its leaders, under Netanyahu and his cabal or Orthodox rabbis have deserted God by ignoring their own history and Prophets. The Kingdom of Solomon which they're trying to reclaim only lasted 40 years. A united nation of Israel did not exist after that time until 1947, nearly 3,000 years later. Clearly God had a reason for this. A modern kingdom of Solomon would fare no better.
The nation of Israel has a great deal to offer the world, but instead, is totally focused on violently taking as much as they can get from their neighbors who are also God's beloved children and "Children of Abraham."
Thank you. I had never mentally connected the time from King Solomon to the establishment of Israel in 1947. Guess, in essence, the nation of Israel wondered in the desert for 3,000 years.
After 2028, we have some Trust Busting to do. We are going to have to make the Oligarchy simply unconstitutional. We will need wealth taxes. We are going to have to amend The Constitution in multiple places to shore up our democracy so that this cannot happen again.
The only way that can happen is to have a blue tsunami in the midterms! Please vote true Blue!!!
Whatever happened to our anti-trust laws? This is way bigger than the AT&T of the 1980s. They were forced to split up big time. This just shows another example of more laws the trump regime ignores at will. If we can take over the house and Senate we are going to expect a lot more from them than what we have been getting!
I don’t see the Republicans acknowledging any laws, much less the antitrust laws.
They don't acknowledge The Constitution
Spot on 👍
Remember....that two faced son of a bitch Gavin (i love billionaires coz it's a big tent) Newsome allowed this to happen.
THAT IS A DAMN LIE!!!!!
haha
What happened to anti-trust? Republicans got in offices from Senate, house, Supreme Court and the useless “department of Justice”.
TH AT is why we have major rapid INFLATION. Competition completely eliminated with very few in any industry totally establishing prices to us the consumer based on the profits they want for their owners.
Deranged Don wants to keep our country ignorant with government-operated news stations, sick by cutting healthcare, poor by raising taxes, and stupid by cutting education. The United States will become another Russia or North Korea if we don’t stop the GOP Guardians Of Pedophiles. We can defeat them. 💙💙💙
Donald J. Trump is Criminally Insane and Mentally Deranged and always has been for his entire miserable useless existence!!!!
The worst is it works. Drown people in fake news after condemning all news that is not. People get hypnotized by wartalk and muscle flexing. They believe the chilling remarks about sacrifying cities is "just a thing he says" etc. People who can joke about an execution that goes horribly wrong have changed into nazi characters from a book or movie. Racism is more vicious than it has been for a while at least. I won't react often but I follow you (almost) every step of the way. Even George Orwell did not see everything coming, a dictator who claims to know everything about everybody and everything thanks to AI, o sorry SI (Musk was grinning from ear to ear when he blurted that out) is one step further than O. The connection Israel-America has become one of the most unsettling things ever and you, Brian, and your serious colleague news gatherers will probably be illegal in the New World...
So all the more Keep Up The Good Fight! Love from Holland where Rutte believes he is now the King of the World, he keeps up his "faith in Trump" tho we believe being secretary general of NATO has gone to his head.
100% Brian. It's sad times.
I'm so disgusted with the Trump machine. They have gobbled up all the major media outlets.
We have the truth on our side. That's all that matters
Yes, but we Democrats and other like-minded citizens, have been bringing Facts to a Feelings Fight.
Frankly, even when things straighten out, I will still primarily use Independent Journalism. Substack is a Godsend. And I always know for fact that I am getting the truth.
Is this not a monopoly? Is that not illegal? Can the next administration break it up like Ma Bell was in 1984???? I am genuinely seeking an answer.
They are rising, temporarily, just as climate instability is on its way to smack us hard - they will be useless when they finally realize they can’t do anything.. no control just totally helpless… let’s just hope as the oceans warm undercutting the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers and ice shelves and that they don’t break away… most coastal cities won’t be able to survive the surge of rising sea levels.
And I’m not even getting into the extreme heat, droughts, state sized wildfires, monster storms like we’ve never seen before… just a few minor things to worry about. You know how these morons love science.
When right wing talk radio took over AM radio - and subsequently their 'sister' FM stations if you know how radio frequency licensing works in the US - I genuinely became worried. It lowest common denominator, cheap but ubiquitous media they took over first, then print consolidation takeover, then cable news. Now there's no longer a Town Square anyone can rely on... nor a white house, sadly! #EndTrumpsFascistRegime Edit: Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvndiG-y2dc
I was in the newspaper business years ago, and I saw all the small independent newspapers being gobbled up by big corporations, one by one.
I’m right there with you on this. See my note to Brian in Comments.
Nuance and complexity and careful listening has a liberal bias.