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Apparently a book about the toxic work environment at Facebook came out last week, but zuck and co sued to prevent the author from promoting it. Would be a damn shame if people bought it and read it anyway

Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir nytimes.com/2025/03/12/technol

Meta executives have called claims in a newly released book by Sarah Wynn-Williams false or wildly exaggerated.
The New York Times · Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing MemoirBy Mike Isaac

"No modern president has ever tried to unilaterally shut down a federal department."

This framing - "no modern president" or the very common "in modern times" - is an infuriating normalization of things that have *never* happened in the whole history of America.

#nytimes #normalization #ItNeverHappened #education

nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/poli

Linda McMahon, the education secretary, would be instructed to dismantle her department under the planned order.
The New York Times · Trump Is Said to Be Preparing Executive Order That Aims to Eliminate Education Dept.By Michael C. Bender

'The US Geological Service has adopted "Gulf of America." #Apple and #Google Maps also call it by that name when searched by users in the US...

The Pentagon has dislodged #NPR, #nytimes, NBC, #CNN, #wapo, Politico, the Hill, and the War Zone...

Trump had filed lawsuits against ABC #News & #Facebook; their parent companies recently settled his suits by each paying $Millions to his future presidential library. And CBS/Paramount, appears poised to settle another lawsuit..'
npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-52935

The American people are not stupid, they know that #oligarchy has broken our political system. However, #oligarch owned #CorporateMedia has been very effective at distracting the people from this core problem. As you can see here, the difference between parties is not the main story, but #NYTimes can’t resist presenting the information along partisan lines.

88% of us think that our political system is broken. 59% of us think it has been broken for decades. Let’s put that in context.

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You can't refer to Israel's mass slaughter of Palestinians as "genocide" in a paid advertisement in the #NYTimes, because “various international bodies, human rights organizations, and governments have differing views on the situation," and therefore "factual accuracy and adherence to legal standards" demands silencing those who disagree with the Times' position.

theguardian.com/media/2025/jan

The Guardian · Quaker group pulls NYT ad over paper’s refusal to let it call Israel’s Gaza bombing ‘genocide’By Michael Sainato

'The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.'

This is what we're up against.

I'd give you a 'free' link to the #NYTimes article, but they're not letting me login right now.