Nothing would be more poignant and gratifying than a progressive Texas media company buying the Infowars assets from a Houston bankruptcy court and using it to explicitly counterprogram garbage disinfo and continue to hammer Jones and the other grifters who do this
āWe started The Barbed Wire in part to disrupt the constant stream of conspiracies and disinformation from people like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan, and it would be a step towards justice to use the InfoWars brand to undo some of the damage theyāve caused,ā our Publisher Jeff Rotkoff said.
The auctioning off of Alex Jones' conspiracy theory-laden network has sparked some serious behind-the-scenes interest.
this is just to say that i have chatgptāed the license that was in the repository and which you were probably saving for revenue generation purposes forgive me, dawg we busy building rn canāt be bothered with legal
The thing, though, is that Iām constantly going back to this quote which years ago I stapled to the inside of my skull
āFrom 2019 to 2022, the rate of maternal mortality cases in Texas rose by 56%, compared with just 11% nationwide during the same time periodā
Just a reminder that the polices being rolled out in this national election have been rolling out in states for over 10 years (and sometimes much longer) - and many of them just flat out kill people, especially Black and brown folks, and other marginalized people. We don't have to wonder.
Yep, here are the receipts
A disturbing new report prepared exclusively for NBC News has found that the number of women in Texas who died while pregnant, during labor or soon after childbirth skyrocketed following the stateās d...
The federal minimum wage is still $7.25. The tipped minimum wage is $2.13.
There is no place without climate catastrophe because we are deeply interconnected. If we commit to not giving up on each other, we are also guaranteeing that nobody will give up on us. Our safety is in solidarity.
I think a lot about someone's quip about the heat dome over Portland that was melting rubber off power lines (paraphrased): "What a beautiful infrastructure we built for a world that no longer exists."