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The Three Dumbest Republican Self-Owns on Health Care
REPUBLICANS SAY THEY DON’T HATE health care programs, but they’ve been fixated for years on ideas that pretty much scream ‘let’s abandon everyone and everything that we pretend to care about.’
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Happy Saturday! It was great to be in D.C. this week, catching up with old colleagues and getting to enjoy a snowy capital. My flight was only slightly delayed, but the D.C.-based basketball fans made it to attend the Crosstown shootout (which was a barn burner!)
Swatch’s New OpenAI-Powered Tool Lets You Design Your Own Watch… The new AI-DADA tool lets you create a unique Swatch design using AI prompts, reports Jeremy White at Wired.
Megyn Kelly’s cruelty and Trump’s racism brought MAGA discourse to new lows this week… The MAGA podcast star called for more pain to be inflicted in the U.S. military’s extralegal killings in the Caribbean, while the president called Somalis “garbage” writes Anthony Fisher at MS Now.
In his second term, Trump’s threats against media and tech companies have gotten real results… Former AFP fact-checker Arthur MacMillan joins Matthew Sheffield at “Theory of Change” to discuss how media conglomerates are worrying more about political offense than telling the full truth.
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Compliant media is another reason to break up conglomerates. Who else remembers the days when. Between 1975 and 2017, print media companies could not have a broadcasting license in the same market. We all know who thought that it was a bad idea to keep Fox Corp and News Corp from consolidating power in media markets. Hint: the same man who became president in 2017.
A band I like will occasionally have a live chat or AMA so to speak. They announce the time and tell people to put questions in the chat in advance, or during the time they are online. They, or one member, will come on for an hour to answer. Then people in the community are there at the same time and can chat with each other, too. It's basically a sub stack live but way more low key for the person answering the questions. Not sure how this works in stack. The band usually did it in Facebook. I haven't seen anyone effectively using chat in stack....