What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days, plus recommended newsletters from across Substack
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The Transitional Oligarchy: Democracy’s Last Stand?
Oligarchy is a form of government where the richest people in a country have captured its political system (or even filled it with themselves) and use that control to direct much of the government’s efforts to increasing their own wealth and power.
Echoes of History: How Fascism Quietly Seizes Control
President Biden told the nation, “American democracy is under attack … [by the] former president of the United States…”
Are Trump’s Appointees the Trojan Horses That Could Lead to America’s Strategic Collapse?
The mainstream media is baffled: Why would Trump promote candidates to oversee critical agencies with millions of employees and multi-billion-dollar budgets who have little to no management experience and have openly expressed hostility toward the institutions they’ll oversee?
Dictators vs. Democracy: The Fight for Ukraine’s Future Is Our Own
In the last week, Russia has unleashed one of its most violent missile attacks against Ukraine, and the United States and at least one other European country have given president Zelenskyy permission to use long-range missiles to attack within Russia.
The End of Left-Leaning News? Is Progressive Journalism Being Systematically Destroyed?
Have you heard that Comcast is planning to sell MSNBC? Is Rupert Murdoch planning to buy it? Will America’s media landscape soon resemble those of Hungary and Russia?
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Saturday Report 11/23/24 - Geeky Science! Denmark to tax farts!
— Elon Musk to buy MSNBC? Yesterday, I shared with you the story of Comcast planning to spin off MSNBC from their media collection and wondered out loud who may buy it. Now we may have an indication: Mediate is reporting that Elon Musk — at the urging of Donald Trump Jr. — is interested in adding the property to his media portfolio that today includes X…
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Citizens United is Based On a Lie
Most of the corruption of our federal and state governments by big money track back to two central pillars of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision. They are: “Money is the same thing as speech” and “corporations are persons entitled to rights under the Bill of …
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Really enjoy your Sunday Round Up's,Thom, so I can read what I may have missed during the past week ! Thank You,Thom, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇲
I can't understand any thing on this microsoft stuff. sorry