How about you call up the president and have him reverse the tariffs.

I don’t know who this Jack person is but it seems like you know a lot about someone you don’t want to know anything about. Also have never heard of “truth broker” but that sounds like something to avoid as much as an “influencer”. Do people wear this title willingly?

But I would agree that a lot of once-respectable or thought-to-have-been-respectable outlets have been twisting headlines for clicks. The New Republic is one that I subscribe to for what I thought was valuable reporting but every day it’s just full of narrative-enforcing click bait, similar to what you’ve described. Time to unsub.

The greater problem is that responsible journalism has a hard time staying in business when it competes with 15 seconds of rage bait. Our attention spans are minuscule and we don’t want or are unable to pay for anything that promotes authenticity. Nervermind “the algorithm” pushing salacious content over informative content and how you have little control over what you take in.

And it’s just going to get worse as time goes on. John Stewart and Amanpour were talking a bit about this on Monday’s show.

Holy ever living fuck - this is some of the worst click bait I’ve ever read.

Karoline later shared another quote that read, “What a privilege it is to have your bed taken up by a small human who thinks it’s the safest place in the world to be,” and wrote “crying” over it.

She’s fucking “crying” at the thought of her child sleeping in a safe place. She’s “crying” about the privilege of being a mother.

There is nothing at all in this article about her crying about burnout. This entire article is about her having a good time then quoting some completely random psychologist making assumptions about the stress someone must live with in this position (no fucking doi).

Jesus. This article is like getting through a recipe blog. The first third (at leas, I didn’t make it further) is about the author’s knowledge of pennies.

I can only assume, as a person with a functioning brain who has lived on planet earth for nearly 50 years, that the pennies are not in fact trash but perfectly legal tender. I was hoping to find a line in this story to contradict its initial bold claim but…

The initial draft of the story I filed for a popular New York City–based publication was 20,000 words long. (Sadly, all of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor, whose No. 1 passion in life was removing 13,000 perfect words from my first drafts; I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic—though, if you happen to know William, I would thank you not to send him a gift link to this article.) And what I learned was that there was no sane reason why.

This article should be title: Journalism is Trash.

You Should Know:
OP’s account is only 2 hours old and the claim they have made on ‘YouShouldKnow’ is wrong.
This post should be removed for misinformation.

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-supermajority-vote-in-us-government-3322045
When Is a Supermajority Vote Required?
By far, most measures considered by the U.S. Congress as part of the legislative process require only a simple majority vote for passage. However, some actions, like impeaching presidents or amending the Constitution, are considered so important that they require a supermajority vote.

• Impeaching
• Expelling a Member of Congress
• Overriding a Veto
• Suspending the Rules
• Ending a Filibuster
• Amending the Constitution
• Calling a Constitutional Convention
• Ratifying an Amendment
• Ratifying a Treaty
• Postponing a Treaty
• Repatriating Rebels
• Removing a President from Office

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States
Government shutdowns in the United States
The US Government has shut down 11 times in the past 45 years for a total of 132 days.
Seven times for six days or less.
Once for 21 days under Bill Clinton in 1995-96 (total of 27 days under Clinton).
Once for 16 days under Barack Obama in 2013.
Three times for a total of 79 days under Donal Trump (so far).

https://www.britannica.com/science/US-abortion-rights-by-state-2236312
U.S. Abortion Rights by State
Legal with no gestation limit or Legal before viability: 23 states
Full ban: 13 states

Disappointing that the linked article doesn’t include a photo of the tattoo. When a report lacks important relevant information, the reader has a choice to take it for its word or seek out supporting facts. So, when I searched for Planter Nazi Tattoo, there are plenty of articles taking the opposing tone - in that he knew what the tattoo was.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/10/21/2349761/-Not-one-diary-or-mention-about-Graham-Platner-s-Nazi-tattoo-Really This sounds more like he has been aware of what the tattoo represented and he hasn’t really cared about it until now. Which I personally find much more believable. Good on him for getting it covered up but, ehhh. Maybe don’t believe every word a politician exhales.

I don’t know this person or anything about Maine. I don’t really care either. But journalism needs to be held accountable. I expect more from PBS / AP.

Cool. Can we also get moving on Ranked Choice Voting?

Sorry, but that makes no sense at all. Why go through all that trouble when they’ve already accomplished the end goal you’ve outlined?

Other than general assumptions and track-record and being a business that sells user data, is there any actual evidence or clear and present ways that Meta could do harm to the Fediverse / its users?

All I’ve read is that it seems suspicious and we shouldn’t trust them. I totally agree with that but I’d like someone to give some examples of what they could do as a member of the network. I’ve read how they could post advertising – how would that work?

I ask because, like the previous comment, the idea of following people from other, more popular, federated platforms from the comfort and security of “open source” (?) platforms is appealing. At the same time, if this is leaving me and my platform vulnerable to something specific, I’d like to either proceed with caution or not proceed at all.

The biggest loss for me when leaving Twitter was losing access to so much happening in my community and local news and government organizations. They’re all still posting on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram and not moving to the open social web. More and more are moving to Threads though so it would be nice to maintain / regain exposure.

I can’t get over how this “limited government” party has gone from supporting parental rights and promoting family values to becoming fascists.

To be clear, there’s a ton of good to be said about preventing kids from using social media. Still, this should be up to the parents and, imo, all parents should limit or restrict it.

Isn’t this same as the cigarette and alcohol ban for minors, I hear you ask? No. Alcohol and cigarettes can be purchased from a shop. The government isn’t explicitly telling parents the kids can’t consume them, it’s banning the sale to minors. Social media and cell phones aren’t really something a 14 year old can get at a store or happen upon at a party. So, if smoking was legal and the parent restricted their 14 year old from smoking, it wouldn’t be too difficult for the kid to get a pack of their own. Social media is different. And shouldn’t involve government restrictions. Because, how the F is the government going to oversee and reprimand this?