Hours before airing, 60-minutes redacted its coverage of U.S. treatment of “detained” immigrants. They forgot to cancel it on streaming services to Canada though, and some quick-thinking Canadian filmed his TV and posted it online. Within an hour it was popping up — then getting redacted — across the internet. Watch what they try to hide.
Fascists scrub and revise history. What we don’t know, we have to rediscover. Librarians and archivists are the quiet heroes of liberty, securing records we would otherwise lose. The internet is particularly easy to edit, but scrubbing it is a whole lot harder. The Internet Archive (AKA the Wayback Machine) has been quietly documenting the web for decades. Donate Today.
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Are you about to see racist Aunt Mary again? If you’re still trying to figure out how to navigate a MAGA relative (or six) check out our tips on being open about your beliefs in healthy, boundary-respecting ways. If you think it doesn’t matter — it does. MAGA is quiet quitting!
We’re all hungry for hope, and malign actors are meeting that need with a proliferation of fake feel-good tales. False hope is more dangerous than no hope at all, so I only share stories I can verify — and that keeps getting harder. Today we offer a year-end wrap up of hopeful real stories. If you need a boost, click through!
A few months ago nationwide demonstrations made Sinclair and Nexstar un-cancel Kimmel. Now CBS cancelled a 60-minutes documentary on illegal deportation of immigrants hours before it was scheduled to air. Pushback is still organizing, but you know who keeps on going through every scandal? PBS, despite the funding cuts.
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While endlessly relitigating past elections hurts us, it’s also important to engage in genuine, fact-based analysis of losses. The DNC did just that, promising to release the report…then decided not to release it. With conspiracy theories swirling and distrust rampant, transparency is more important than ever.
Email DNC Chair Ken Martin, demanding he release the report.
