Historian Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny, is urging people and the media to understand and acknowledge that what’s hap ...

This long post by Mike Brock at Techdirt does a great job in laying out the many reasons why we should be concerned about Elon Mus ...

This long post by Mike Brock at Techdirt does a great job in laying out the many reasons why we should be concerned about Elon Musk’s power grab. Here’s just part of the section about all of the ...

I really appreciate Heather Cox Richardson’s daily newsletter for providing historical context to what’s happening rig ...

Hey, everyone. I just wanted to update you on what’s been happening here at KDO HQ. As you might have noticed (and if my inb ...

This is a great piece by Jamelle Bouie, which lays out in plain language what Musk and Trump are doing to the federal government, ...

New Tron movie coming, music by Nine Inch Nails. “Tron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking ...

It’s a couple of days old by now, but this Bluesky thread by Abe Newman (“someone who spent a decade studying how ce ...

It’s a couple of days old by now, but this Bluesky thread by Abe Newman (“someone who spent a decade studying how centralized ...

In her latest installment of Letters From an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson writes about the ongoing coup of the US go ...

The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup. The U.S. president has no authority to cut programs created and funded by Congress, ...

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