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upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... I thought they held a nation together?

Yes. Finally cancelled my news subscription.

and then there's The Hill, which converted its Op/Ed pages into a lazy shithole where shitty people with undisclosed financial conflicts of interests provide false gravitas for unpopular, usually anti-democratic ideas

This is b-grade college paper slop that wouldn’t have made it past the newsworthy test at my school. Embarrassing.

I used to work in comms for an environmental research institute and would pitch editorials to NYT and we would almost never get published because it’s so competitive. And then they use their real estate for this absolute fucking garbage….

I have 25 years of writing experience about consumer rights and corporate power and could write absolute bangers for them, but they'd never publish me because sometimes I say fuck on the internet (and I grew up poor)

…and they probably don’t give a fuck about consumer rights, and actively avoid challenges to corporate power.

Contrarian Troll Farm is my new folk-punk band name

Will the oompah be light or heavy handed for the pit?

depends, our accordion player likes to be in the pit and improvise