This 100%. To not care about politics means to not care about how the entity with a monopoly on violence wants to take your money against your will and allocate it. If you don’t care about that, then you and I are not going to get along.

Definitionally not journalistic malpractice because words have meanings. Carry on.

Defederation is stupid and should never be done, not even for instances with Nazi communities. Just let the users decide to block those communities themselves.