24 June 2025

The Terrible Cost of Trump's Mastery Over Our Attention

What's not on this list? The assassination of a state legislator and her husband by a MAGA goon. 

It was just 10 days ago that Melissa Anne Hortman, speaker of the House in Minnesota and her husband were shot and killed at their own home by one of Trump's many passionate supporters.
Not enough is made of the fact that the MAGA crowd regularly threatens and intimidates lawmakers and politicians who they disagree with. They are Trump's brownshirts, people without coherent arguments but with plenty of guns.

Trump is a daily reminder that his mastery of getting and keeping our attention in an information economy in which attention is the limit is at odds with a better America.



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