What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
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Trump’s Monsters’ Playbook: Lies, Fear, and the Cult of Dehumanization
“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
America Chose Wealth Over Well-Being: How Billionaires Rewrote the American Dream
Yesterday, Congress certified the electoral vote count making a billionaire president again, starting after he’s sworn in on January 20th.
What Will Be the Impact of Social Media Plunging Us Further into a Post-Truth Crisis?
Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg (wearing a $900,000 watch) announced yesterday morning that across their over-7-billion-user-strong social media empire — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp — they’ll be dialing back on fact-checking. They’re also preparing to promote more “political” content (among other changes that support those two moves, like no longe…
The Rise of Trump’s Thugs?
One of the most common characteristics of rule by an authoritarian who’s taken over a democracy is his use of unofficial civilian paramilitary groups and militia gangs to terrorize or even kill his political opponents.
Killer CEOs: How Climate Change Became Big Oil’s Biggest Crime
Public Citizen would like you to know that there are killers among us.
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Saturday Report 1/11/25 - Greedy insurer interrupts cancer surgery with shocking mid-procedure call...
— The fossil fuel industry is apparently paying off Republicans — in a practice legalized by Republicans on the Supreme Court — to make sure Congress never passes legislation to hold them accountable for all the death and destruction they’ve caused by lying about climate change for the past 50 years.
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Recommended Reading
Thom Hartmann also writes four additional separate Substack newsletters. Each has both a free and paid subscription option. Below are links to one free newsletter from each Substack from the past week, plus another Substack newsletter of note that I read and recommend:
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HUNTER IN A FARMER’S WORLD
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