Confession: I flubbed Putin & Zelensky names yesterday myself & I am far younger than Biden with a PhD in Poli Sci. F*uck your syllable & syntax death watch, all of ye. #NYT#WaPo#msnbc#cnn etcetera
I was wondering why headlines were saying Nancy #Pelosi is on the anti-#Biden bandwagon...it's because she's NOT! Pelosi strikes back at the #NYT on tv, while publicly supporting Biden's run. She says "I don’t know what’s happened in New York Times that they make up news.”
So when the former #Speaker calls out a major non-FOX media company, you know they've really hit rock bottom
Plus we've got #WaPo completely lying about Ted #Lieu
#TimothySnyder's expertise re: how #fascism work really helps understand what's happening with the #NYT, #CNN, #WaPo. It comes down to fear. If #journalists (and I'm tempted to use scare quotes but won't) submit ahead of time, they won't get hurt. The threat of violence looms large and instead of confronting that, the #media is hiding from it and bringing about the very thing they are most afraid of (because hiding won't work).
#WaPo publishes a story about a house Democrat saying on a call that #Biden should step down, but that Democrat wasn't even on that call. The #Media is making this shit up
I canceled my #NYT and #WaPo subscriptions a while back, which was at once an easy and hard decision. Bothsidesing issues in the news sections and journalistic malfeasance in the opinion sections made it easy; hard were the handful of informative, investigative stories to which I now only have access if gifted articles. Anyway, I don't know what their front pages look like today, but if #Project2025 is not a front page article, perhaps it's time to cancel yours?
Trump had
27 documents in his office,
Of those
6 Top Secret
18 Secret
3 Confidential
75 documents in a storage room
Of those
11 Top Secret
36 Secret
28 Confidential
@flexghost Naaaah, it's more click-y and chaos-y fun to speculate about Biden's mental fitness.
Assholes who continue boosting #NYT#Wapo and the rest of the #DemocracyKiller#NaziCunts will be unfollowed and blocked, no exceptions. Learn, fuckbags.
#Trump says battery powered planes can’t fly in cloudy weather, inflation is 30%. Revelations about shocking Trump rapes and sexual assaults w J. Epstein. WaPo leads w 2 front page stories on #Biden’s debate meltdown, pressure to withdraw. One on Trump—on his strategy to lie low because of firestorm over Biden. NOTHING on these Trump scandals. Nothing. Journalistic malpractice to the max. Sleepwalking to autocracy. New slogan for the Post: Democracy dies in negligence.
@GottaLaff I think Orenstein mostly has it correct, except that the failure by #WaPo to focus on Trump is intentional, not negligent. Bezos fired editors who want to engage in journalism and brought in Murdoch hacks to run the paper. They suppressed the Alito flag story for three years - that is not negligence
@stonekettle. I am really struggling to understand this. Does the #media think it will be spared by its gross malfeasance and sycophancy? If nothing else, #CNN, the #NYT, #WaPo et al. should understand the principle of "self-interest rightly understood." If they can't bring themselves to protect the public (devastating and malicious as that is), surely they should think about protecting themselves!
So, the last few days the general public has seen conclusive evidence of what many already knew. CNN and the New York Times are corrupt organizations using their power and influence to get Trump elected.
Going forward temper everything from these media organizations with the sure knowledge that they are not neutral arbiters of the news, but rather sophisticated political influence operations.
@mastodonmigration Agree - these media companies are propaganda generators. I would add #WaPo to this list as well as any tv station owned by #Sinclair broadcasting.
Wow, a #WaPo#GiftLink is now a gift of subscribers' social network details, not a benefit of having paid for a subscription. And we learn about this from the Free for All reader comment column.
When creating a gift link: "Anyone can access your gift article - no account required"? But buried at the end of the learn more link: "Gift article recipients will need to register for a Washington Post account.” Meaning the Post can determine (monetize?) gift givers’ social network. Sleazy.
This is quite funny: about every 6 days somewhere in the world celebrates #independence from #British rule! The most universal holiday!
Gary #Younge writes: "Britain doesn't have an independence day; it simply looks askance as most of the rest of the world celebrates independence from it."
This article is misleading and emboldens pandemic deniers and minimizers.
It's incorrect to say there was no science to support distancing rules.
The science absolutely shows us that increasing physical distance is associated with decreasing risk.
The nuance that is dangerously not conveyed here is that while distancing helps, 6-feet alone often isn't enough because COVID is airborne, so we need layered measures like masks and clean air too.
@randahl He will have to go do something in another country whose people are not astronomically stupid, bigoted, misinformed #Republicans or #hillbillies or #ChristianNutjobs or #Fundie fuckheads. Because #America stupidly wrings its hands and considers this dumpster-fire the 'other side' of politics as usual. Because our lazy fucking #CorporateMedia#NYT#ABC#NBC#CNN#CBS#Wapo needs clicks and ratings and the come-back of its duped audience so he's #untouchable now.
“A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in #Newsmax ..in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during #Trump admin. The investment bolstered a key conservative media outlet at a time when #Qatar was facing intense diplomatic pressure from its neighbors & seeking allies in US” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/qatar-newsmax-investment/
#Gaza / The U.S. and Israel have a ‘major credibility problem’
[…] intolerable — it’s a blight on the consciousness of humanity. This kind of thing can’t happen in the modern day and age,” one White House adviser told my colleagues. “It’s the humanitarian situation that has tipped us over the line into open confrontation with the Israelis.”
#US / Biden Administration Scrutinizes Israel's Compliance with Laws of War Amid Gaza Crisis
A group of 17 Democratic senators, including Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin and Elizabeth Warren, stated the current "excessively burdensome restrictions" on aid delivery make Israel's assurances inconsistent with #Biden's compliance criteria. Withholding future arms transfers is a potential punitive measure.
#Palestine / Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 during Blinken visit
Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank are widely viewed as a violation of international law, which prohibits the transfer of civilian populations to territories seized through military force. Despite this legal standing, the Israeli government has continued to expand its control over Palestinian lands in the West Bank through various mechanisms, including land appropriation orders.
[…] “If the Israelis annex this area near Maale Adumim, it will be a catastrophe for Palestinians who live in the south, […] Palestinian traders, especially in the south, will be cut off, and it will become impossible to have any independent Palestinian ways of life.”