Speaking as an antifascist who once parked a Ford Focus on Sand Hill Road amongst super cars and stole a few glasses of the finest bourbon from Zuck's shindig that was in the same venue as the bar some Stanford types insisted on going to because they don't need to worry about money so they disdained the nuthouse.
"The News" will remain separate, and it's probably a good thing.
You have a good community here -- I disagree with many people, but I keep coming back because they accomplished what Slashdot failed to do.
(A place where I don't have to here grown ass men talk about how they want to pour hot grits over underage film stars, where we can be the kind of anonymous that only happens when people can guess, but never know, who's three nodes or seven proxies away.)