DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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The Trump administration's cybersecurity policies are indistinguishable from a foreign attack.
In many ways they're worse, given they're wrapped in layers of phony operational efficiency.
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) (where I first got my start as a reporter covering tech and telecom 25 years ago) just got bored, gave up, and let the site collapse and decay, with zero regard for years of archived writing or a close community that had developed over decades
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it's curious how our consolidated corporate media and brunchlord pundit class' only consistent solution for Democrats' problems is to be more right wing
funny how that works
U.S. journalism and punditry completely ignores the fact that the U.S. electorate belief system --including their belief of what Democrats stand for -- is shaped predominately by a massive right wing propaganda network across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable news, and the internet.
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It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
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