@cdarwin@c.imA new report from the grassroots organization #RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not:
publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats’ 2024 presidential campaign.
While the Democratic Party’s official postmortem assessment was pulled from public release earlier this month, RootsAction’s
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@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaDawn Foster will speak on 'Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presenta…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Broken Promise to Confront Corporate Power (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/opinion/trump-antitrust-corporations-consumers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p37#a251125p37
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"
#kleptocracy
Legacy Media…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizzaTalking about #neomutt today. Hopefully, it'll be easier to read than it was to write :)
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/cli_neomutt
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioAs @… and others point out, we can be fairly confident that companies do things in the •general spirit• of these accusations, albeit not quite as cartoonishly as the Reddit post described.
We can and should fight this kind of corporate behavior, and the concentration of power that foments it. We also shouldn’t lean on that dubious Reddit post as any kind of smoking gun.
https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg/115848857710186158
@cdarwin@c.imWhat we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…
@laurentperrinet@neuromatch.socialFood for thought:
“Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed—and why it matters.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
This compelling perspective shows how openness alone fails to challenge AI’s power concentration.
As r…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comEven In a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power (Matt Stoller/BIG)
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-populist-moment-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p58#a251211p58
@pre@boing.worldRun Zack Run!
Glad to see lots of people liking and sharing the Green Party England&Wales broadcast this week. It's striking.
Hope it's happening in the corporate spaces too, though presumably the capitalist leaders there suppress it with their algorithms.
Zack is in general doing such a great job of speaking my mind really it's unreal.
All the other leaders just seem dazed and confused, trying hard to maintain the status quo, ensure that capital power persists and they don't offend their corporate donors.
Or worse, just blaming the poor and the helpless and threatening that hurting people will solve the problems England and Wales face (it won't).
Here's hoping it has some impact and the Green Party make huge progress because the country seems likely to just get worse and worse under any of the other party's policies and positions.
#green #greenParty #zackPolanski
@cdarwin@c.imKatie Porter here.
Trump has no problem creating chaos and pain for Americans until he gets his way.
Democrats need to use our power
– just like we did last week on Election Day
– to send a clear message:
𝗪𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘂𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧.
I’ve spent my career protecting people and taking on Wall Street’s corporate greed.
I know what it takes to fight, and to win
– and as California…
