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Watch “This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED” on YouTube
Watch “Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr” on YouTube
Americans Want to Be Rich
Millions of those now alarmed by surging tariffs voted for Donald Trump to return to the White House, @reihan and @CharlesFLehman write. They thought a second Trump presidency would mean fulfilling that most American of desires—the desire to get rich.
NYTimes: Producing Something This Stupid Is the Achievement of a Lifetime
******** The Political Fight of the Century
“Trump has defined his second term by demolition and deprivation. America can instead choose abundance,” @DKThomp writes:
********* What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
“In the past eight weeks, life for working-class Americans has deteriorated in real ways. And the pundits and politicians, on all sides, will watch it from a safe, comfortable distance,” Xochitl Gonzalez writes:
Research: What Explains the “Vibecession”?
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Research: What Explains the “Vibecession”?
https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-what-explains-the-vibecession
********** $$$$$$$$$$I Should Have Seen This Coming
Trumpism has replaced conservatism’s core values with just one: the raw pursuit of power. @nytdavidbrooks on how the conservative movement dies:
“In the long term, Trumpism is doomed. Power without prudence and humility invariably fails. Nations, like people, change not when times are good but in response to pain. At a moment when Trumpism seems to be devouring everything, the temptation is to believe that this time is different.
But history doesn’t stop moving. Even now, as I travel around the country, I see the forces of repair gathering in neighborhoods and communities. If you’re part of an organization that builds trust across class, you’re fighting Trumpism. If you’re a Democrat jettisoning insular faculty-lounge progressivism in favor of a Whig-like working-class abundance agenda, you’re fighting Trumpism. If you are standing up for a moral code of tolerance and pluralism that can hold America together, you’re fighting Trumpism.”