DAGR Weekly Reader W2-MAY
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“The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people, so will survive this moment.” ~Bruce Springsteen, Manchester, UK Concert, May 2025
The Man Who Coined The Insult Trump Hates Most
Joanna Coles and Samantha Bee sit down with the man who gave Donald Trump the insult that got under his skin decades: "Short-fingered vulgarian." Kurt Andersen, who edited Spy magazine in the 80s, dishes on how he went toe-to-toe with Trump when he was just a property developer.
The Daily Beast, May 15, 2025, 28 min video.
Why The Revelator Banned AI Articles and Art
Artificial intelligence consumes too much energy and water and produces too much pollution for any ethical person or organization who cares about the planet to use it. So, The Revelator decided not to use it and not to accept articles written with it. Ethics at work, aka putting money where mouth is!
Editorial, John R. Platt, The Revelator, May 13, 2025
America’s Long Coup: How the GOP Rigged, Lied, and Stole Its Way Into the White House
The numbers are in. The evidence is overwhelming. And the silence is deadly. It’s time Democrats started calling this what it is: a decades-long criminal conspiracy to seize power by any means.
Thom Hartmann, The Hartmann Report, May 13, 2025
The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Where do these fringe ideas come from? Several sources, all aligned. Here’s one of the main sources … Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
By McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, May 16, 2025
America’s Impact on the Global Thermostat
While the world tries desperately to turn it down, the US under Trump is dialing up the global temperature. And it looks to have already exceeded the goal set in Paris back when. What’s to be done?
Robert Hunziker, Counter-Punch, May 16, 2025