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How will Trump live without Twitter and Facebook? Ask Alex Jones. – Vox

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How will Trump live without Twitter and Facebook? Ask Alex Jones. – Vox

One flip side to all of this: While deplatforming can reduce Trump’s overall reach, it could certainly make his remaining followers more ardent. Watching the most powerful technology companies in the world act at the same time, if not in unison, against onald Trump has, for his followers, likely bolstered his claim that tech companies were working against him — and his followers.

In this case, Holt says, “A base of voters that’s been told that there’s a global tech industry conspiracy against them will likely be more hardened in their beliefs - when they see what’s happened to Trump. “And if Trump was right about that, was he right about the election stuff?"

Which gets at what we really ought to care about when we make predictions about what happens to Trump’s reach in his post-Twitter era: What happens to the people he used to reach? Regardless of whether they follow him to a different platform, they’re still going to hear from … somebody on mainstream social media. And if it’s not Trump, who’s going to fill that void?

This is the third change of power in the White House during the social media era. 🖥

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This is the third change of power in the White House during the social media era. 🖥

While I refrain from posting anything political or commenting these days on social media, it’s interesting to read the views of my friends and colleagues on Facebook.

Some think it’s the greatest day ever. Others are horrified by the changes underway, their four years of progress undermined. Some are celebrating the new executive orders, boasting how proud they are to be an American with the new leadership in Washington. Others say, He’s Not MY President.

Rather predictable, I saw the opposite only four years ago. Whether you are heartened or saddened by today’s developments, you have to note that political fortunes are temporary and subject to change.

Whether you think it’s a time to embrace or refrain from embracing, whatever happens today is very fleeting in the grand scheme of things.

Trump Leaves Under The Cloud Of The U.S. Capitol Attack

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Trump Leaves Under The Cloud Of The U.S. Capitol Attack

Trump touted many of what he sees as his main accomplishments during his four years in office in a farewell video he released Tuesday. He named conservative judges to fill federal court vacancies, cut taxes and regulations, negotiated the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, slapped tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, built more than 400 miles of border wall, invested in the military, and sped up development of vaccines for the coronavirus.

But in the end, says presidential historian Michael Beschloss, Trump's legacy is likely to be eclipsed by what he did after he lost to Biden, culminating in the insurrection. Can The Senate Try An Ex-President? Law Can The Senate Try An Ex-President? Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together Politics Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together

"[It's] hard to think of any good he might have done that would outshine that damning verdict," Beschloss said.

After Trump lost the election, some of his allies had sought to try to help him find a way to continue his "America irst" movement by focusing on a new role as Republican kingmaker.

Instead, he dove deeply down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories about widespread election fraud, shook U.S. confidence in free and fair elections that underpin American democracy, pushed scores of half-baked court challenges, and badgered Republicans — from local officials to Pence — to overturn results.

The Other America

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r. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at Stanford. Here, he expounds on his nonviolent philosophy and methodology.

In this age of disorder and anger, I think his words are quite profound.

Women of Color Were Shut Out of Congress For Decades. Now They’re Transforming It. | FiveThirtyEight

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Women of Color Were Shut Out of Congress For Decades. Now They’re Transforming It. | FiveThirtyEight

The second is that a historic number of women of color — 49 in total, according to data collected by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University1 — will serve in the 117th Congress, including the first three Korean American women elected to Congress and the first Black women to represent Washington state and Missouri.