Notices by Dan Gillmor (dangillmor@mastodon.social), page 2

I want to share your article, but if you embed posts from Twitter I won't do it.

Criminal Trump nominates monstrous Gaetz to oversee criminal justice in America.

The Washington Post calls Gaetz an "outspoken" ally of Trump, and the NY Times calls naming him attorney general a "provocative" move.

Now THAT is how you normalize the criminals in charge of the next U.S. government.

Please spend your news dollars on real journalism, not the pathetic drivel these organizations are feeding you.

One cheer for the @guardian for its decision to quit posting on Twitter.

It would be two cheers if the Guardian told its journalists to stop using -- and thereby supporting -- Musk's toxic business. Nope.

And it would be three cheers if the Guardian stopped embedding Twitter posts in its articles. No such luck there, either.

One out of three is better than zero.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

Reminder that it's all corruption, all the time in Trump world.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/dogecoin-surges-20percent-after-trump-announces-a-department-of-government-efficiency-doge.html

Also a reminder that journalists NEVER put the individual examples in context. They never show how wide and deep the corruption goes.

This dereliction will get worse as we head into a regime that will make the last Trump administration -- by far the most corrupt in American history -- seem like a paragon of honesty.

Topics in the latest edition of my "Cornerstone of democracy" newsletter include:

-- Sending in the subservient clowns
-- Going to get uglier
-- Our new fascist reality
-- Don't give dictators more powers, OK, Congress?

I curate to save you time. Please subscribe (it's free), and let other folks know about it.

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-13-2024/

"Marco Rubio is less a hardliner than a thin and insubstantial slice of soap. What he is mostly is servile, soft. At least in these positions that seems to be what Trump wants – people who’ve already been broken in."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/first-hints

The cryptocurrency bros are ecstatic because the U.S. government is going to let them do anything they please.

The greatest heist of all time is under way, and I guarantee that regular folks are not the ones doing the stealing -- they are, sad to say, willing (if ignorant) victims.

As Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) observes, corporate America is so thoroughly corrupt that the Trump regime will have infinite targets to prosecute/punish -- but of course the targets will never be Trump's corrupt allies.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/12/the-enemy-of-your-enemy/

Just in case you didn't realize that Axios leans strongly toward the right wing politically, see this headline:

"Inside House Dems' 11th-hour plot to sabotage Trump's agenda"

Wake the hell up -- bird flu is real and it's coming. The only question is how virulent and deadly this one is. Worst case, it makes covid, which killed several hundred million people, look like the mildest of colds.

The world's governments are hopelessly incapable -- at the moment -- of dealing with this.

https://fortune.com/well/2024/11/08/bird-flu-human-spreadsafeguard-people-livestock/

Topics in the latest edition of my "Cornerstone of democracy" newsletter include:

-- Worst case: as bad as you imagine
-- Best case: some guardrails remain
-- Who will lead the fight to restore national honor?
-- Worry, prepare, act

I curate to save you time. Please subscribe (it's free), and let other folks know about it.

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-8-2024/

Topics in the latest edition of my "Cornerstone of democracy" newsletter include:

-- Worst case: as bad as you imagine
-- Best case: some guardrails remain
-- Who will lead the fight to restore national honor?
-- Worry, prepare, act

I curate to save you time. Please subscribe (it's free), and let other folks know about it.

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-8-2024/

Democrats are years behind Republicans in understanding the media as it actually works. Twenty years ago they were way ahead. They'd better get to work, pronto.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/democrats-need-to-compete-in-the-new-media-landscape-or-keep-paying-the-price

The lamest form of "journalism" is two reporters/commentators having a conversation that adds absolutely nothing to anyone's understanding of what is going on.

It's also one of the most common forms, because it's WAY cheaper than doing actual journalism.

Whatever else you read today, don't miss this from Ken White:

https://www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it-moves

Excerpt from my latest "Cornerstone of Democracy" newsletter:

We are veering into catastrophic times – into a violent, corrupt, extremist era that renders our nation unrecognizable, all too quickly, and throws the entire world into destructive chaos.

If we are facing such a nightmare, journalists will have a simple, if agonizing, choice: Acquiesce to the regime. Or join the resistance.

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-november-6-2024/

It's important to note that California voters said no to a ballot measure banning slavery.

Seriously.

Like you, I've been absorbing the news today. As I write this, it looks more and more possible that the American experiment will end in January.

I'll be back tomorrow, but right now I just want to wait and see.

PS: To all the journalists who barely deigned to notice the likelihood that the next president would be an outright fascist – and did nothing to stop him – you have my contempt.

Reprehensible even for Zuckerberg's lawless operators:

"Meta illegally harvested sensitive data including on sexual orientation from nearly a million South Korean Facebook users and shared it with advertisers, Seoul's data watchdog said Tuesday."

https://www.manilatimes.net/2024/11/05/business/foreign-business/south-korea-fines-meta-for-illegal-collection-of-user-data/1997712

Mozilla's elimination of its advocacy group -- which worked for the open web against the monopolists and cartels -- is a terrible move, but not totally surprising. I speculate that Google has informed Mozilla that its massive financial subsidy will be dropping or ending.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/5/24289124/mozilla-foundation-layoffs-advocacy-global-programs