10 million new small business applications as part of the effort to revitalize the national (and world) economy as part of the recovery from the COVID pandemic.
No note on the coordinated effort to generate inflation and a recession. @AliVelshi@business
With debt reduction of $1.7 trillion, and enormous debt expansion under the 45th administration, @potus gains a moment of unanimity about protecting Social Security and Medicare.
Leverages the balloon incident to express a more aggressive posture in supporting Ukraine and limiting China's encroachment on the democratic international order.
It took me a few days to realize it, but what we are seeing on Twitter is an example of 'counter-convergence'. It is happening across media platforms (& the US economy), and I've seen miniature versions of it for a few years. /1 #thread#CCV@esglaude@AOC@nhannahjones
Convergence is the way media scholars described the emergence, and coordination, of multiple media twenty years ago. Harry Potter was a major example of this pattern where books, films, & architecture 'converged' for global profit. /2 #CCV
This specific pattern became a dominant feature of the world economy after 2009. The rise of Netflix, Facebook, Google, SpaceX, Uber/Lyft, and Twitter all leveraged convergence alongside thousands of conglomerates struggling to keep up. /3 #CCV