@swearyanthony I was actually just thinking a few hours before seeing this: "if I were a #billionaire #DirtyEnergy #plutocrat and I wanted to pollute public discourse, wouldn't I want to set up various awards to give my corporate megaphone (#MurdochPress etc) a veneer of 'quality journalism'? Hmmm,I wonder what the history and funding of the Walkleys is?"

@Hey_Beth @barney @enmodo @Elowen @GreenFire

File this under the #oligarch / #plutocrat plan to get #Trump back into office.

Simply put, #NoLabels is an effort to split the #Biden vote which draws much as it's strength from #independents and #Centrists.

The financiers of No Labels are voting their checkbooks. They have little concern for American #democracy. They believe that they can control Trump. Worked well in #Germany 1932

#Election2024

the #ClarenceThomas scandal of accepting enormous gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow is a reminder of just how little mass support the Right has. Take away the rich financiers and there’s not much of a conservative movement to speak of

#plutocrat #corruption https://jacobin.com/2023/04/conservative-movement-wealthy-donors-harlan-crow-clarence-thomas/

Want to see the centre of gravity shift away from the #birdsite and onto places that are not run by a #plutocrat? Help to encourage professional culture-shapers who have dipped their toes into the #fediverse to shift their focus over here by following more of them. Even if you don't like particular journalists, artists, activists (and others for whom social media is a core part of their job), follow them now and help more of those who might still be wavering to recognise the scale and potential of spaces that are not the plaything of #billionaires.

You can always unfollow them later.

If you're looking for specific journalists, or just looking to follow a lot of them (for now), then there is a rapidly growing list here: https://www.presscheck.org/.

If you haven't seen it, here are thousands of #DaveChapelle fans booing #ElonMusk for four minutes straight, while the transphobic millionaire tries to rescue the situation by insulting his audience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoNJNuWLU1E

At one point, Chapelle asserts that Musk won't care about the boos because the basic business plan of the Afrikaans #plutocrat is "fuck Earth, I'm leaving anyway". Very true, Dave. But hardly a compliment to your new BFF.

Near the end of the clip Chapelle claims that booing doesn't achieve anything. But it does. After this incident, what are the chances that another entertainer is going to bring this guy on stage now that he's increasingly publicly aligning himself with fascists, white supremacists, reactionaries and anti-scientific conspiracy theorists? Who wants to go down with that ship?

And of course, the account that uploaded this video was banned on the bird site, and those sharing it there are getting posts removed or accounts suspended.

"Free speech absolutist"
"Comedy is now legal"

For while, Musk was the joke. But it's well past the point where we ought to laughing about this.

The #1Percent Are Many Times Worse Than the #Rainforest Wreckers ❧ #CurrentAffairs

"Let’s not permit #plutocrat-pampering pundits and #market-#greed-protecting #media to derail us from what should be the basic task of our #collective #ethical lives—to eradicate, as quickly as possible, all avoidable suffering."

#ClimateChange, #inequality, #rainforests

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/11/the-1-are-many-times-worse-than-the-rainforest-wreckers

Behold: the Elno #GOP Free Speech Bot-fest-palooza that will spin up untold fresh "the people have spoken" lies from him...

"#Republican and #Democrat follower counts on #Twitter" | FlowingData
https://flowingdata.com/2022/11/29/republican-and-democrat-follower-counts-on-twitter/

#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodous
#Democracy #BigTech #USPol #Politics #Data #algorithms #surveillance #plutocrat #fascism #PsyOp #Media

To whoever was #brainwashed by allegedly #bribed mainstream media disseminating #hypocrite #SOB #plutocrat Biill #Gates' 'altruism':
#Microsoft has invested millions in a company running a secret military #surveillance project monitoring #Palestinians, in direct violation of their fundamental rights! [1]

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/why-did-microsoft-fund-israeli-firm-surveils-west-bank-palestinians-n1072116

#Zionist lawless regime #Israel does not even respect #Palestinian #journalism