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    There’s Nothing More Patriotic Than Dissent. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You Otherwise

    07:47
  • Prof. Eddie Glaude praises ‘No Kings’ protests: ‘We are the salvation this country needs’

    05:44
  • ‘Joyous’ No Kings protests was a ‘spectacular way to push back against would-be autocrats’

    10:41
  • How Trump uses public displays of propaganda to wield power

    10:11
  • Sounding the Alarm: Supreme Court hears case to gut the Voting Rights Act

    11:37
  • Kasparov’s warning: All signs indicate Trump will not give up power voluntarily

    06:45
  • ‘An unhinged disgrace’: Hakeem Jeffries fires back at WH Press Secretary

    07:55
  • Velshi: This is how single, small acts of courage become many, and many become unstoppable

    05:05
  • Newsrooms send a united message to Hegseth: We won’t be censored

    11:43
  • ICE ramps up its aggressive tactics, and brutality is the point

    11:15
  • Velshi Banned Book Club: “Feed” by M.T. Anderson

    11:50
  • ‘A coup is happening’: A new warning against Trump’s authoritarian slide

    09:53
  • Trump’s ‘radical left’ lie is about enabling an authoritarian slide

    09:34
  • Oregon AG: ‘It’s a very dangerous time here in America’

    10:07
  • Federalism is the core principle of the U.S. government. Trump is undermining it.

    11:17
  • Rev. Al Sharpton: SCOTUS voting rights case ‘will have a ripple effect’ across the U.S.

    10:30
  • Velshi Banned Book Club: Filmmaker Alex Gibney on the frightening relevance of Orwell’s warnings

    10:05
  • Chicago mayor: ‘It’s incumbent to…push back fiercely against this tyrant’

    08:01
  • Inside the think tank speech that foretold Trump’s obsession with The Insurrection Act

    10:27
  • Caught on camera: ICE tactics intensify despite disturbing videos surfacing across the U.S.

    11:47

Would scrapping Twitter benefit American Democracy?

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It's been almost one month to the day since Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Musk made swift changes at the tech company– firing nearly half its staff before having Donald Trump and several other controversial figures reinstated on the platform. Roger McNamee, who was an early investor in Facebook and Google, and was an adviser to Mark Zuckerberg believes Musk’s impact as CEO will be felt way beyond spheres on the internet: "We have essentially turned over the biggest communication systems in our country-- effectively the places where Democracy takes place-- to a handful of billionaires whose personal politics and personal ambitions are at odds with Democracy." 

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