You can’t understand this without looking at the larger project of people involved in the Meme Wars of the last decade — It’s been quite a few weeks over at Twitter, where Elon Musk has been busy replatforming big chunks of the alt-right and deplatforming reputable journalists and leftwing accounts, along with handing selective access to Twitter’s internal data to a claque of iconoclastic anti-woke writers. In part one of this post…

The latest in an ongoing battle to control the narrative about democracy in America — If you are a “very online person” or even just a somewhat online person, you’ve probably heard something about “The Twitter Files” in the last ten days or so. I tried to stay away, I really did. But while there’s very little to the stories tweet-threads that have been published…

There’s been a surge in youth voting since 2018, and if it continues it’s going to upend next week’s US election — According to a new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School, 40% of 18–29 year olds say they are definitely going to vote in the mid-terms. That is on track to match or maybe even surpass the record level of turnout from young people in 2018. …

追逐疯狂的梦想，我们可能成为的大型科技皇帝正在加快任何形式的健康民主的破坏 - 五年前，当Facebook击中了20亿全球用户时，没有人想象我们会开始在过去的时态提及该公司曾经很重要的事情，现在的估值低于大型盒子商店Home Depot。betway娱乐官网也没有人认为Twitter…

Support for Trumpism, like support for Nazism, is built on a edifice of self-deception, as former GOP campaign guru Tim Miller’s new book makes clear — If you’ve ever wondered how so many professional Republicans, people who work in politics on a daily basis, have justified their support for Donald Trump and the larger miasma of manipulation, prejudice, lying, cruelty and incompetence that is Trumpism, make time for Tim Miller’s book Why We Did It.

Door-knocking is the best way to earn votes, but for all their vaunted tech savvy, Democrats’ core tools and voter data are a mess — Sunday I spent the afternoon walking the hills of ex-urban Woodbury, NY, about an hour north of New York City, knocking on doors with about 30 other volunteers from my local Indivisible group, NYCD16-Indivisible, along with a smattering of other grassroots activists from Westchester county. …

在堪萨斯州，爱达荷州，密歇根州，宾夕法尼亚州和华盛顿，长期的共和党办公室持有人和商业领袖正在将国家置于政党之上。- 这些终身共和党人有什么共同点？堪萨斯州比尔·格雷夫斯（Bill Graves）和迈克·海登（Mike Hayden）的前州长。爱达荷州的前州长菲尔·巴特（Phil Batt），前检察长，爱达荷州最高法院大法官吉姆·琼斯（Jim Jones）和前国务卿本·伊苏萨（Ben Ysursa）。前宾夕法尼亚州议员和州最高法院法官桑德拉·舒尔茨（Sandra Schultz）…

现在是时候人为地限制内容的供应来支撑工资率，我们在为农民的大萧条期间所做的方式筹集了付费率了 - 2020年，只有184,000名艺术家将歌曲上传到Spotify平台，赚了超过1,000美元。这是音乐平台上超过300万艺术家的更大宇宙。Spotify是付费最低的流媒体网站之一，提供约1/3的每人一分钱…

并非所有由小捐助者提供支持的民选官员都是民粹主义的煽动者。- 如果金钱是母亲的政治牛奶，那么互联网就是每个政治家最好的朋友。在2000年，可以说这是上次互联网前选举，只有777,000人（所有成年美国人中有四分之一）向联邦候选人，PACS或党派委员会提供了200美元或更多的资金。在…