top of page

Down With Tyranny
feat. Howie Klein
Search


The Inevitable Mass Exodus From Musk's Fascist Social Media Site Is Now In Full Swing
BlueSky Is Reaping The Benefits I’ve lost a lot of Twitter followers since Elon Musk bought it and turned it into a neo-fascist sewer....
Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20246 min read
172 views
1 comment


Just 5% Of U.S. Adults Say They Prefer To Get Their News From Print Media
Ah... So That's How QAnon Took Hold Last week, Greg Sargent penned an insightful column for the New Republic… but probably read by fewer...
Howie Klein
May 12, 20245 min read
131 views
2 comments

Big Picture: Who's Worse-- Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, Orbán, Xi Or... Elon Musk?
Last week the Business Post published The X Files: Leaked documents reveal how staff were stripped of power to remove toxic content and I...
Howie Klein
Dec 24, 20234 min read
157 views
3 comments


Musk Bought Twitter A Year Ago-- I Think Most People Would Agree He Destroyed It
Destroying It Was His Goal From The Beginning I still use Twitter. It’s open on my desktop all day. I’ve never referred to it as “X” and...
Howie Klein
Oct 28, 20237 min read
165 views
1 comment


Twitter Is Moribund-- Is Threads The Solution?
Matt Robison is a former congressional staffer who does a podcast, Beyond Politics, with former Congressman Paul Hodes (D-NH). I saw this...
Howie Klein
Jul 10, 20236 min read
145 views
3 comments


Midnight Meme Of The Day! Welcome To Twitter Meta Tok!
by Noah Watching humans fly around from one social media app to another like bees that have ingested just the right amount of pesticide...
Noah
Jul 10, 20233 min read
153 views
1 comment


Do You Feel Guilty Posting On Twitter?
I’m still using Twitter, although I also post at Spoutible (https://spoutible.com/DownWithTyranny), Post (https://post.news/@/downwithtyr...
Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20234 min read
122 views
2 comments


Starting Today, Twitter Isn’t Really Free Anymore
I started a Spoutible account this week and I’m liking how it feels. I also post at post.news and I tried Mastodon for a while (but got...
Howie Klein
Apr 1, 20238 min read
224 views
0 comments

It Would Be A Big Mistake For Democrats To Join The GOP In Banning TikTok
I don't know anyone who uses TikTok as an organizing tool more successfully than Virginia progressive Jessica Anderson. So I asked her to...
Howie Klein
Mar 26, 20233 min read
304 views
2 comments


Midnight Meme Of The Day! Zuckerberg, et al. Step Up Their Quest For Chaos!
by Noah Yeah, what could possibly go wrong, which is precisely why social media billionaires like the total assclown depicted in the...
Noah
Jan 30, 20234 min read
101 views
1 comment

Where Does the State End and 'Industry' Begin? (Twitter Files 11 & 12)
A stunning picture of the depths of Twitter's penetration by the intelligence community.
Thomas Neuburger
Jan 10, 20234 min read
110 views
1 comment


Are Conservative Voters Dumb Enough To Fall For Russian Social Media Propaganda Again?
You Bet They Are! This morning, Bess Levin devoted her Vanity Fair column to a long list of the worst 2022 candidates— and there were so...
Howie Klein
Nov 7, 20224 min read
179 views
1 comment

Can Governments Cope With The Emergence Of Alternative Centers Of Power? Big Tech? Cryptocurrencies?
No More BitCoin? No More TikTok? Robert Manning is a think tank kind of guy-- currently at the Atlantic Council-- but worked at the State...
Howie Klein
Jul 26, 20214 min read
121 views
4 comments


Roger McNamee Has Some Free Advice For Biden-- Let's Hope He Listens
Roger McNamee is an old friend who I know because of his two bands, Flying Other Brothers and, more recently, Moonalice. He once...
Howie Klein
Jul 25, 20216 min read
133 views
1 comment


Will Another 6 Months Of Banishment From Facebook Really Hurt Señor Trumpanzee?
Bess Levin this morning at Vanity Fair: "'What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our...
Howie Klein
May 6, 20213 min read
95 views
1 comment


Digital Heresthetics
-by Haydar Khan In my previous essay, I introduced the concept of heresthetics, the art of shaping the world via the “strategy value of...
Howie Klein
Mar 25, 20214 min read
279 views
1 comment

Were Twitter And Other Social Media Monopolies Right To Shut Down Trump's Accounts? Who's Next?
Twitter seems much calmer and saner without Trump, doesn't it? And the country seems calmer without him asserting all that self-serving...
Howie Klein
Jan 25, 20217 min read
141 views
2 comments


Should People Who Use Facebook Be Allowed To Vote In Real Elections?
I spend an awful lot of time on Twitter and find "it" a good source of information. Not Twitter per se, but certain people I follow who...
Howie Klein
Nov 25, 20205 min read
178 views
1 comment
: Political News
bottom of page