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oh, yeah. beautiful every one of you with that precious snowflake. happy tuesday, everyone. so were less than two weeks into the new year and not much has changed for 2023. im still under 7% body fat. done. kill me. still writes at a fourth grade level. and the biggest threat on earth, big monster man. take this recent piece from axios which points to the former president as, quote, the risk that trumps all others. quote a second trump term would be far more radical than the first comm...

Both journalists and AI are being assisted by a constellation of quasi-journalistic “centers” for combating disinformation, most of them foundation-funded non-profits, often connected to a college or university. Together, all that tech and all that money are building a wall of progressive orthodoxy to control what’s “true.”

As Stalin is said to have said, “It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes." | 2020 Election

As Stalin is said to have said, “It doesn’t matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes." | 2020 Election

Another war breaks out, a bipartisan effort to punish bipartisan effort, and paying Trump not to run.

Commentary What happened to the gigantic red wave that was supposed to crush the Democrats in the midterm ...

If a target is “soft,” that means it’s vulnerable. So let’s protect targets by hardening them, starting with schools.

The Facebook Empire Here’s a recent headline to ponder from the Beltway-buzzy Axios: “The sovereign state of Facebook vs. the world.”  The sovereign state of Facebook?   Did we miss something there?  Did we miss that moment when Facebook became a country and joined the United Nations?  Axios was exaggerating, of course; Facebook is not a sovereign state (although it does plan to issue its own currency).  So yes, Facebook  is huge and powerful, bidding to be a key partner in what�...

Here’s a data point deserving of attention: More Republicans than Democrats want to restrain or even break up Big Tech.  According to a new poll by Vox and Data for Progress, 70 percent of Republicans think “Big Tech’s economic power is a problem facing the U.S. economy.” At the same time, 59 percent of Democrats feel that way.   This partisan split—Republicans tougher on Tech than Democrats—is further visible on the issue of remedies: 61 percent of Republicans want to “break...

Pinkerton: In Dealing With Big Tech, the American People Need a Seat at the Table There’s an old joke: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.  That is, if you aren’t a player in the process, then you’re the one being played.  Just in the last three months, Americans have been played by Big Tech. Specifically, the Tech Lords have a) suppressed the Hunter Biden story, b) de-platformed Donald Trump, and c) mostly wiped out Parler, a “free speech” rival to Twitter.  If ...