Marko Bajlovic
@marko.tech
pragmatic, progressive, multidisciplinary creative, data scientist & full stack dev. occasional avid beach goer. always learning. 🔗 https://marko.tech 🏠https://startyparty.dev
So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
nytimes.com
“Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the Constitution of the United States which the AustrianAmerican logician, mathematician, & analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit America's republican structure to be legally turned into a dictatorship”
Gödel's Loophole - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
This political cartoon by American artist Ron Cobb in 1975 is still relevant today 51 years later.
Solid historical write up of the last 2 decades of making websites davidpoblador.com/deep-dives/w...
The Descent — What Happened to the Frontend While You Weren't Watching
The last time you wrote one it was a <button> and an FTP upload — spare twenty minutes and get up to speed on everything the web did while you looked away.
davidpoblador.com
As the only U.S. president to seek to overturn an election result, Trump has spent years undermining confidence in American elections. Now, he is using the powers of the presidency to advance an agenda rooted in the same debunked election conspiracy theories. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms
Here’s how President Trump is using the powers of his office to try to reshape the rules governing the midterms and future elections.
nytimes.com
Since 1945, U.S armed forces have been deployed abroad for conflicts 211 times in 67 countries - and counting
America wasn't founded to accommodate oligarchs — it was founded to escape them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S25...
Oligarchy is worse than you think
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
youtube.com
Corporate sponsors lining up to "celebrate" America's 250th while buying access and goodwill in the same breath; this is what regulatory capture utterly looks like when it's dressed up in red, white, and blue. Pay to play isn't the exception anymore: it's the operating system.
The corporations using America’s 250th birthday to buy influence
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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startyparty has a new feed! Lexicons (long form articles/posts on the ATProto standard.site lexicons. Now live as of 3.46. Clicking the author or tag dives deeper into that topic or their recent articles.
"...the government should never be hosting sporting events because uh there's more room for corruption and we already have a corrupted government and so that's my thoughts on it is that the government is supposed to protect us not entertain us... "
Reagan's 1987 repeal of the Fairness Doctrine didn't just change TV news — it broke it. Removing the legal requirement for balanced coverage opened the floodgates for partisan cable networks, opinion-as-news, and talk radio rage machines. We're still living in that wreckage today.
Fairness doctrine - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
"News Grouped" got a full redesign in 3.43.0. Headlines now show associated sources, with a counter that expands to reveal all publishers. Click any logo to open the article. Feed is paginated now too.
