Oh I do recall him mucking about with Google and Apple and Meta, but with how fickle that man is, that's hardly a point for anti big-tech

Even if his cabinet pick is anti big-tech and pro consumer, the administration couldn't be further from that (super buds with Palantir and their fix for health care is... A trump website)

Right, only took me almost twenty years too

Good lord that comment section

Egan, who was driving a taxi, pulled up next to Alex at a stoplight and, according to an arrest affidavit, said something to the effect of: “Are you even a U.S. citizen? This is Trump's America now! I'm a Marine and I took an oath to protect this country from people like you!”

Yeah still too early to tell isn't it

If I'm not mistaken, I've heard stories about it being prohibitively difficult to vote (long lines, inadequate staffing & # of locations, banning vote-by-car, a COVID response) in urban areas. Can't imagine a lot of those barriers exist in more rural areas.

On the topic of American welfare programs, season 3 of The Uncertain Hour has some really good history and current coverage of issues with the system

The individual skits, monologues, and musical sets are usually up on YouTube within 24hrs after it airs

Best Scooby Doo adaptation is the Venture Bros episode with the gang, and I will die on that hill

My wife and I constantly lament how we were born a few decades too late. For everything

Good luck!

Yeah, I recall someone from the BBC saying something similar when it came to covering Brexit. It would take their producers days to find a credible, coherent voice that was pro-Brexit, while the anti-Brexit folks were basically lined up to voice their reasoning. That dichotomy was never revealed to listeners and caused some strife amongst the news team as it seemed disingenuous to present both sides as equal