when authoritarian dictators tell us that they see western ideas--not western militaries, not western economies, but western *ideas*--as the most existential threat to their regimes, we should see this not as paranoid rantings but cold, accurate analysis. because it's true!

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And just yesterday: Meta restricted Brazilian president's Insta accounts during the election while "recommending the profile of challenger Senator Flavio Bolsonaro." What's it going to take people to get off Meta products? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

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Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

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lol

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Current state of the WH press secretary is Fox & Friends's Ainsley Earhardt gently asking Katie Zacharia if she'd like to clean up anything she said last night on Fox's Hannity. The degree of "not ready for primetime" here can't be overstated.

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