Notices by Shoq 🌿 (shoq@mastodon.social), page 14

DJT: Trump Media shares halted after sudden stock plunge

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/15/trump-media-shares-halted-after-sudden-djt-stock-plunge.html

Rare comet [not seen in 80,000 years, may be visible tonight in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Here’s how to see it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/rare-comet-visible-from-tri-state-area/

Public Notice: When I’m the dictator for a day, anyone that puts @FrankLuntz on television for any reason will face torture so extreme, they will be beg to be executed. There will be no further warnings in this matter.

Anyone who thinks one election can solve even the biggest things wrong with this country, is painfully uninformed about just how entrenched those things are. And since the biggest villains own or control our narrative machines, we discuss none of it. We gripe about the symptoms of a disease, and reward pundits who do so artfully, but we almost never discuss the actual disease.

How do we find consensus for social change, with so many uneducated, uninformed, and uninterested people, and so many oligarchs and fascists spending billions to keep them that way?
I don’t know the answer, but from what I see of the minimal discussion of any of it, no one else does either. Color me worried for the future. Very worried.

Once again, the media treats the made-up FEMA bullshit as a “political controversy.” I am so sick of this shit. I don’t know why any of us tolerate it. We all have a death wish, perhaps?

Holy crap! White House worked some magic. Put it off until January 15th, after the election. #OctoberSurpriseFizzle

Dockworkers strike suspended, the union says

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dockworkers-strike-suspended-sources/story?id=114445386

Encouraging… but we gotta keep the pedal the metal, folks. The cost of failure is not unimaginable; it’s unacceptable.

https://mastodon.social/@politicalwire@politicalwire.com/113237522823889027

How The Media Incentivizes Right-Wing Authoritarianism

https://www.offmessage.net/p/media-incentivizes-trump-authoritarianism

Greg Sargent always gets it right. Always.

A GOP Gov’s Harsh Takedown of Trump and Vance Exposes MAGA’s Ugly Core | The New Republic

https://newrepublic.com/article/186224/ohio-governor-dewine-exposes-trump-vance-maga

Hola. Anyone watch @Maddow about how all of these outrageous things the right says are meant to distract from Harris kicking Trump’s ass all over the map? Haitians Sunday, no biological children yesterday, tomorrow something equally absurd. And the media eats it up. And we all help them feast.

How much of this should any alleged democratic society tolerate? When does outrage become rebellion, rejecting this corrupt system that the founders thought they’d prevented? When do we admit there’s a big hole in this boat and start fixing it?

https://mastodon.social/@fawfulfan/113153427114898205

My electric adjustable bed frame has arrived. I think building an Ikea store with nothing but condoms, toothpicks, and duct tape might be easier than putting this beast together. I need a drink.

Trump’s corrupt Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy has been openly ratfucking the election (who saw that coming?) for many months, yet the press is only telling us about it now, 53 days before the election.

The Kamala Harris News and Organizing Group has been redesigned by @newsmast, and it’s better than ever. Version 2.0 has new features, thousands of followers, and hundreds of quality sources & contributors from across the fediverse. Follow the debate with us!

Deets:
https://newsmast.social/@KamalaHarrisWin/113006121502900061

For a few weeks, we had fascism on the run. I believe we still do. But we have to stay vigilant and keep the press at bay. The MAGA media mafia is everywhere. And they’re determined to make as much money from Trump as they can, even if that means electing him.

The press is falling into its same old rhythms on social media. But they’ve bifurcated into two camps: Threads and Bluesky, with a tiny fraction of them keeping up appearances of hope for a brighter future by staying in the fediverse. Has anyone noticed that these things are never openly discussed in the MSM? Only major sensational stories get any play at all today. Relevance and nuance are non-starters.

In any other era, this Russian influence scandal would have been front page news for weeks

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/5/2268007/-The-Putin-Caucus-and-Its-Enablers

It’s all been said before, but @joanwestenberg distills our media crisis down to its essence. The only thing missing is “What (specifically) do we do about it?” There are several things. I’m trying to decide on the best venue to discuss them. There are several options.

https://mastodon.social/@joanwestenberg@threads.net/113080607524273205

@chrislhayes - This pod should be required listening, no matter one’s ideological stripe. Too few grok the philosophical premises on which modern democracies rely (and which are at great risk, of late.)

What Would a Fair Society Look Like?

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-would-a-fair-society-look-like-with-daniel-chandler/id1382983397?i=1000665953393