Vaguely related side note: Thanks so much for making the Master Plan podcast series @davidsirota! I recommend and link to it constantly. This kind of political history is so essential to understanding the crises liberal democracies find themselves in. But few people under 50 have any memory of a time when democratic institutions weren't sidelined in favour of corporations.

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"We took it for granted because we stopped listening, we started confining ourselves to bubbles. Which is why I tweeted yesterday about the move off of X, into BlueSky and other platforms, only limits our ability to listen, learn, understand and ingratiate ourselves to others."

#DeanPhillips, Democrat Congressman, 2024

https://www.levernews.com/the-democrat-who-tried-to-warn-us-with-rep-dean_phillips/

Way to miss the point. Yes, *politicians* need to be on X, or anywhere their constituents might be.

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I don't often strongly disagree with Lever journalists, but I have to take issue with presenting Occupy Wall St as a counterpart of the Tea Party;

https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_9069_93a6dc63-3e91-4c9a-9e9b-0b7ee45674cc&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F9069%2Ffeed-rss.xml

The two couldn't have been more different.

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