"In the United States, the most popular mom content tends to be rightwing trad wife propaganda or just apolitical pushing progressive creators out of the algorithm. Kady Ruth Ashcraft explored why. Also, in a special three-part essay series, published last weekend, Robert Topinka looked at how liberals and progressives have lost the internet and what they can do to turn things around. Read more"
"Against the backdrop of Zohran Mamdani's mayoral rise is a dynamic scene of Muslim creatives and intellectuals who are helping usher in a new era for New York City. Their prominence represents a rebuke of the ugly Islamophobia that defined the period following 9/11, and is in many ways an outcrop of the mass movement for Palestinian rights forged over the last two years. Rhana Natour asked 18 Muslim New Yorkers to discuss their work and what this moment means. Read more"
"He was a mechanic in a garage that she walked past twice each day between home and work. After a while, he'd call out good morning' or good evening' and she'd wave and smile back. Then the exchanges got a little longer. (Hard day?' Looking forward to dinner?') Six months later, Mike and Tamsin exchanged numbers. Within two years, her life was wrecked."
In the United States the most popular 'mom' social content skews toward rightwing trad wife messaging or apolitical material, reducing exposure for progressive creators through algorithmic effects. Liberals and progressives have lost substantial influence online and need strategies to regain traction. London’s pie and mash shops have fallen from hundreds to roughly thirty, prompting efforts to use social media attention and protected status to preserve them. In New York, Muslim creatives and intellectuals are rising to prominence and challenging post-9/11 Islamophobia while connecting to recent Palestinian rights mobilization. One-person romance fraud inflicts severe financial and personal devastation, often without robust police response.
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