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Social Self-Defense Has Begun

The changes by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp, could have far-reaching and dire effects.

Donald Trump’s election is a morale booster for far-right politicians like Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Giorgia Meloni. Having pioneered many of the destructive, reactionary ideas associated with Trumpism, they’re now aspiring to global hegemony.

Yarvin serves exactly one purpose, and that is to spread the idea that this country would be better served by a dictatorship of capital, spearheaded by tech elites and their allies in government.

Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a joint investigation reveals.

Sometimes “all natural” is far better, but other times nature tries to kill us. We need health policy guided by data that recognizes the harms of both sugary drinks and infectious threats. Americans shouldn’t have to choose.

“This executive order is essentially a Trojan horse for embryonic and fetal personhood,” says Kulsoom Ijaz, senior staff attorney at Pregnancy Justice. “They are smuggling this ideology into federal policy.”

If America is going to survive this, communicating strategically isn’t just a job for politicians and professional commentators. Defeating Trump’s fire-hose strategy must be on your to-do list, too.

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