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Magazine journalist/author/former newspaper reporter/J-school prof. Political press/legacy media criticism. Proud father of LiLi Our media is broken.

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Reported fatalities in New Orleans as vehicle apparently slams into Bourbon Street crowd A vehicle reportedly ran into people on New Orleans' famed Bourbon Street early on New Year's Day, causing injuries and possible deaths.

Simply horrific -- very early and sketchy reports of a "mass casualty event" in New Orleans' French Quarter, car plowing into a crowd of people and as many as 10 dead

You can already stop the *2025 jokes*, people. What a wretched way to start the year www.cbsnews.com/news/new-orl...

01.01.2025 11:38 πŸ‘ 140 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

Meanwhile, CNN -- after 24 hours of its top journalists boozing it up around the globe -- is too hungover to cover this. It finally flashed a headline at like 6:35, then went back to talking head blather. Seems like this is a huge breaking story

01.01.2025 11:45 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Wait--WTF?

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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

03.12.2024 06:22 πŸ‘ 49862 πŸ” 7965 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 7

Too bad. Womp womp.

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Vince McMahon and WWE accused of allowing 'rampant' sexual exploitation of young boys by announcer in new lawsuit β€œDefendants were fully aware of the systemic and pervasive abuse and did nothing to prevent or stop it,” the law firm representing the claimants said.

The suit accuses McMahon and his wife, Linda McMahon, and WWE and its parent company, TKO Holdings, of allowing the "open, rampant abuse" of so-called "ring boys" as young as 12 who acted as assistants to ringside announcer Melvin Phillips Jr. in the 1980s and 1990s.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

20.11.2024 02:35 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Republicans want to cut $30 billion from SNAP, because nothing says β€œsave the children” like starving them.

18.11.2024 21:13 πŸ‘ 18886 πŸ” 6151 πŸ’¬ 943 πŸ“Œ 319

Not watching MSNBC or any other outlet that normalizes this administration whatsoever. Not participating in the bullsht.

18.11.2024 20:44 πŸ‘ 42029 πŸ” 5016 πŸ’¬ 2098 πŸ“Œ 437

Elon Musk admits Trump’s economic plans will collapse the U.S. economy β€” he then goes on to say: β€œthat it's necessary for Americans to experience some temporary hardship"…

These words were actually spoken by a β€˜foreign agent’ who just happens to be the β€˜world’s richest man.’

Remember that.

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Thanks for noticing.

17.11.2024 23:05 πŸ‘ 164953 πŸ” 15294 πŸ’¬ 6554 πŸ“Œ 1370

Joe and Mika re-connecting with Trump is truly equivalent to normalizing him. There is no event or circumstance that could ever, ever qualify as a sound, legitimate reason to normalize a fascist monster like Trump. Never. American patriots must never give Trump an audience. Traitor Trump should…

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Erick Erickson: GOP should block RFK Jr.’s confirmation Conservative radio host Erick Erickson said Republicans in the Senate should block Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as Health and Human Services secretary because his worldview does not ali…

There are not many Magas more disgusting than Erick Erickson. But this is personal for him. He has a very sick wife, and RFK Jr. runs counter to her survival. Otherwise, be sure Erickson would be the first to confirm RFK if he could. thehill.com/blogs/blog-b...

18.11.2024 22:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same.

18.11.2024 20:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚ He’s so close

18.11.2024 19:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Or that Trump’s cabinet is filled with sex abusers.

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No one should be surprised that the β€œfree speech” crowd turned out to be the hush-money crowd.

18.11.2024 19:06 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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When Nikki Haley is mocking you for being a fraud and a sellout, that’s when you know it’s really bad because she’s an expert.

18.11.2024 18:53 πŸ‘ 38450 πŸ” 6532 πŸ’¬ 2151 πŸ“Œ 462

You helped build this Washington Post.

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The whole thing was a giant grift for Comer. Two years, millions of dollars, hundreds of subpoenas, hours of hearings, all so James Comer can make money off a book.

17.11.2024 23:44 πŸ‘ 8869 πŸ” 1602 πŸ’¬ 1000 πŸ“Œ 124

Wow. Just noticed we’ve crossed 300,000 followers on Bluesky. Thank you for joining us here and for this incredible new pro-democracy community you are creating. Let’s keep building!

18.11.2024 00:14 πŸ‘ 22831 πŸ” 2460 πŸ’¬ 943 πŸ“Œ 122

If you're a Veteran and you get your healthcare from the VA, please make appointments with your PCP and specialists before January 20th, and make sure to update all your vaccines and order your meds.

17.11.2024 23:17 πŸ‘ 32437 πŸ” 8936 πŸ’¬ 708 πŸ“Œ 320
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Free speech is a beautiful thing, but when a billionaire thinks his voice is more valuable than yours and steps on your opinion using their vast wealth it creates an inequality that we really need to address.

17.11.2024 03:27 πŸ‘ 34695 πŸ” 6120 πŸ’¬ 1019 πŸ“Œ 251

I’ve seen enough to make a call: Bluesky is going to be a legit competitor to Twitter.

Sweet.

17.11.2024 01:59 πŸ‘ 99554 πŸ” 7005 πŸ’¬ 2492 πŸ“Œ 335

There is something deeply amusing about musklings coming here and realizing there’s no algorithm to boost their rage bait, which was their main advantage.

17.11.2024 13:29 πŸ‘ 48805 πŸ” 4630 πŸ’¬ 841 πŸ“Œ 185
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BRENNAN: Do you think experience is necessary?

JIM HIMES: How far we have come that on a major news show the question we're examining is, 'is experience necessary for one of the most powerful positions in the land?' Of course it's necessary!...how is this what we're focusing on?

17.11.2024 16:12 πŸ‘ 15593 πŸ” 2975 πŸ’¬ 540 πŸ“Œ 196

Thank you!! You too!

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15.11.2024 18:37 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

πŸ˜‚ Yeah, look at all the power "wokeness"--which is just caring about human rights, injustice, decency, compassion and tolerance--is grabbing.

Up next: is Nazism really all that bad?

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Elon Musk's xAI raising up to $6 billion to purchase 100,000 Nvidia chips for Memphis data center Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is raising up to $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation, according to CNBC's David Faber.

And this will be where AI will go completely off the rails…and unleash evil of a different kind. Perhaps the greatest national security threat in history.

www.cnbc.com/2024/11/15/e...

16.11.2024 02:49 πŸ‘ 592 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 11

We've now reached the "cover for child rape in exchange for earthly power" phase of Mike Johnson's Christianity.

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