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We're all about empowering independent voices and telling stories that corporate media can't or won't see.
Founded by @mattsheffield@mastodon.social
Epstein files show a financier obsessed with excluding women from science and tech
"No really smart women – none" https://plus.flux.community/p/epstein-files-show-a-financier-obsessed
Donald Trump has never been more unpopular than now, but Democratic leaders are so paralyzed by their obsolete view of politics that they are reluctant to capitalize on it.
https://plus.flux.community/p/donald-trump-is-more-unpopular-than
Despite condemning Trump's unauthorized attack on Iran, some congressional Democrats are talking about funding it.
This would severely undermine their moral credibility with voters and would be a political disaster as well: https://plus.flux.community/p/assenting-to-trumps-insane-iran-war
Caving to the radical right's cultural power never works, but the libertarians who call themselves centrists keep suggesting it anyway.
In the latest Theory of Change, Parker Molloy joins @mattsheffield@mastodon.social to discuss how the right polices language rather than make arguments, and why the issue is never the issue. https://plus.flux.community/p/in-trumps-america-trying-to-build
Trump’s threats against Europe are uniting the continent against the U.S.
The American president has stopped menacing Europe over Greenland, but leaders on the continent are having to retool under the realization that the U.S. is now a rogue state https://plus.flux.community/p/trumps-threats-against-europe-are
Plunging U.S. into illegal war with Iran, Donald Trump reminds us he's the true menace to our country
In his half-hearted attempts to sell war with Iran, Trump sticks to a stale authoritarian script: we are beset by evil enemies that he alone can vanquish via violent retribution https://plus.flux.community/p/plunging-us-into-illegal-war-with
Robert Kennedy’s MAHA cult is making America sicker: A new scientific establishment is attacking evidence-based medicine https://plus.flux.community/p/robert-kennedys-maha-cult-is-making
The START nuclear weapons treaty is expiring this week, but Trump doesn’t seem to care.
Even Russian president Vladimir Putin has proposed extending it for an additional year. https://plus.flux.community/p/the-start-nuclear-weapons-treaty
America is lonely by design: A meditation on how the American Dream dissolved into an isolation nightmare https://plus.flux.community/p/america-is-lonely-by-design
To derail and defeat Trumpism, we need a broader public awareness of how the president's sociopathy merges with longstanding American pathologies.
https://plus.flux.community/p/obsessed-with-dominating-iran-through
All the king’s masked and anonymous henchmen:
In the Trump administration's elevation of lawless federal agents, we can see a parallel denigration of the meaning of American citizenship https://plus.flux.community/p/all-the-kings-masked-and-anonymous
As Trump's illegal attack on Iran goes sideways, Democrats must fight further war funding
The case for Democrats opposing budgetary support for more mayhem in the Middle East (and very possibly beyond) is overwhelming https://plus.flux.community/p/as-trumps-illegal-attack-on-iran
Right-wing extremists are often perceived as mostly men, but QAnon and related conspiracy traditions are filled with numerous women who believe.
In the latest Theory of Change episode, author Noelle Cook discusses her book, "The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging"
Financially struggling Americans have no interest in participating in a political system that’s failed them
Sociologist Daniel Laurison discusses new research on why many low-income people don't vote https://plus.flux.community/p/financially-struggling-americans
James Talarico is setting an example of a liberal Christianity that is unapologetically both--while also being inclusive of non-religious and non-Christian people.
https://plus.flux.community/p/is-liberal-christianity-making-a
Eddie Dalton isn’t real, but what does that mean?
Computer-generated soul music is taking over the internet, raising questions about where humans think art lives
https://plus.flux.community/p/eddie-dalton-isnt-real-but-what-does
How you think about minds influences how you view the world
@yoginho@spore.social and @mattsheffield@mastodon.social discuss how digital computing metaphors cannot capture what biological minds are https://plus.flux.community/p/how-you-think-about-minds-influences
Culture, dating, and politics still haven’t adjusted to women’s economic independence
Porn superstar Siri Dahl on how women remade the economy and adult media, why that’s also good for men, and what straight people should learn from #LGBTQ people https://plus.flux.community/p/culture-dating-and-politics-still
Legal formalism distorted liberal politics and handed the Supreme Court to the radical right.
The Nation’s Elie Mystal joins @mattsheffield@mastodon.social to discuss how the left misunderstood that jurisprudence is inherently political--and usually conservative.
This error is the root reason that Ruth Ginsburg did not retire when she should've and why Barack Obama didn't fight harder to get his final SCOTUS nomination.
https://plus.flux.community/p/legal-formalism-distorted-liberal
Don’t trust Trump's fake interest in ‘de-escalating’ ICE tactics
Caught red-handed overseeing authoritarian horrors on Minnesota streets, the president is desperate to evade accountability — and preserve maneuvering room to keep escalating his war on blue states https://plus.flux.community/p/dont-trust-trumps-fake-interest-in
Discourse about space aliens can be fun and exciting, but it can also teach us about human science and communication.
Particle physicist
@danielwhiteson@toot.community joins
@mattsheffield@mastodon.social to discuss his new book, ‘Do Aliens Speak Physics?’
https://plus.flux.community/p/what-imagining-aliens-can-teach-us
Dobbs v. Jackson was just the beginning of the reactionary assault on women
Reproductive rights journalist Susan Rinkunas joins "Theory of Change" to discuss the right's sprawling effort to eliminate birth control, abortion pills, and women’s rights as a whole https://plus.flux.community/p/dobbs-v-jackson-was-just-the-beginning
Christian right groups launch new coalition to ban marriage equality
Reactionary religious groups plan to leverage Republican Supreme Court majority to overturn same-sex marriage rights nationwide https://plus.flux.community/p/christian-right-groups-launch-new
Don't believe the president's talk of deescalation in Minnesota — violence against citizens is the inevitable by-product of a war on blue America conducted under cover of immigration enforcement
https://plus.flux.community/p/president-trump-owns-the-state-terror
Democrats are on an election win streak despite having a badly damaged brand, what’s going on?
Americans seem like they're being contradictory, but the numbers show that fighting Donald Trump harder is the main thing voters want right now.
Democratic National Committee member David Atkins joined us on Theory of Change
https://plus.flux.community/p/democrats-are-on-an-election-win
How the sex, drugs, and rock and roll counterculture fell in love with Donald Trump and Jesus
Aaron Rabinowitz of the "Embrace the Void" podcast discusses ‘high weirdness’ and why so many of the hippies were actually just conservative anarchists https://plus.flux.community/p/how-the-sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll
AI content is here to stay, laws and norms need to change accordingly
Large Language Models are enabling the non-rich to get cognitive assistance, but they’re also enabling junk and manipulation. Political leaders everywhere have to step forward. https://plus.flux.community/p/ai-content-is-here-to-stay-laws-and
