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How often do you get to say it? Progress! NPR will not air Trump live if he speaks about his indictment today, a small win for common sense. (Some might say microscopic.)

But if you click and listen to NPR's executive editor, Terry Samuel, this may be the closest we get to NPR conceding that its Trump coverage 2016 to now didn't work because it tried to use normal tools and assumptions. To me that's significant, and it almost never happens.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/03/1167856064/a-peek-behind-the-curtain-of-nprs-coverage-of-trumps-indictment

#uspol #journalism #npr
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DeSantis dismissal of Russia’s war in Ukraine as a vital US interest will invite the Kremlin’s cyber & disinformation tools to amplify his message, charge his base and further sow American division. Deliberate on #DeSantis part, I believe

#Russia #Ukraine #WWIII #news #war #PutinsWar #Putin #florida #uspol #Floridaman
#uspol #Russia #florida #floridaman #news #Ukraine #war #Putin #desantis #WWIII #PutinsWar

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THE PROBLEM WITH CONSERVATIVE THINKING

Neuroscience shows conservative thinkers typically:

are driven by an overactive limbic (fear) system, seeing threat in neutral situations;

seek "strong" leaders that share their fears & prejudices & promise to eradicate "enemies";

are afraid of the unfamilar, poor at analysis &, hence, evidence resistant.

#ConservativeThinking is ok as long as it's not running things. Education can help.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/right-and-left-the-choice-between-dumb-and-dumber,15130

#USPol #CdnPoli #UKPol #AusPol
cartoon character holding sign about conservatism

Right and Left: The choice between dumb and dumber

When it comes to thinking, progressives do it better than conservatives do.
Independent Australia
#uspol #auspol #ukpol #cdnpoli #conservativethinking

Two "He Gets Us" #Jesus ads will air during the #superbowl. The group behind the ads has given $19 million to the hate group Alliance Defending Freedom and $8 million to Answers in Genesis (Creation Museum, Ark Park). They are anti-science #ChristianNationalist who oppose LGBT and women's rights

#news #religion #hategroups #ChristianTaliban #cult #uspol

https://religiondispatches.org/behind-the-inclusive-sounding-ads-of-the-100-million-pr-blitz-for-jesus-its-the-same-old-white-conservative-fantasy/?rss=1

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it's the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasy

This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand.
Religion Dispatches
#uspol #news #religion #jesus #hategroups #superbowl #ChristianNationalist #christiantaliban #cult

Content warning: #USPol #SpeakerVote #Journalism

#uspol #journalism #speaker @nytimes

Yes agree.

And, pleeease, ppl reposting twitter links, pleeeease stop.

Post screenshots if you must, but not links.
It feeds the psychopathic parasites, &, if we click on your post, so do we.

#AusPol #UKPol #USPol #CaPol etc
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Content warning: U.S. Politics, Midterms, CO D-3, cure ballots deadline

#uspol #Boebert #Frisch #midterms #CO03

Why has the public consciousness become extra enamored with UFOs lately? And why is congress seemingly wasting its time talking about them lately?

Is it because the world feels exceptionally shitty, more and more often, to most?

A culture-wide increase in magical thinking coupled with a distrust of traditional institutions and science?

Has anyone done good skeptical analysis on this lately?

#ufo #skepticism #uspol

No replies from true believers today, please.
#uspol #UFO #skepticism

I've been enjoying my life in Brooklyn over the last 10 years, but it's been sad seeing from up close US multi-national companies squeeze the American consumer for their last dime as their "domestic" market has only become their second most important after China. #USPol
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#USPol I’m having a lot of negative feelings after the ignominious verdict in the Rittenhouse trial, and I’m not sure I’m legitimate to express them, but I sure am loosing sleep over it.
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#USPol RINO (Republican In Name Only) is a popular moniker for perceived opportunists within the Republican Party, I’m surprised Joe Manchin and Kysten Sinema didn’t make DINO (Democrat In Name Only) trend.
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#uspol It isn't surprising coming from Republicans, but it goes to show that white supremacism is alive and well in the US even without Donald Trump. It never needed him to thrive in the first place.
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#uspol This is so cartoonishly evil it is funny in a way. Both freeing kids in cage and sending $2,000 checks were promises he publicly made but didn't honor yet, while oil drilling permits probably were promises he privately made and honored first.

How can there be trust?

Drone Strikes for all who want them

2021-01-30 19:34:56


Biden days in office: 11

New oil drilling permits granted: 31

$2,000 checks sent: 0

Student loans ($10,000 each) forgiven: 0

Kids in cages reunited with parents: 0
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While I already am not happy about this debuting US administration, I am kind of relieved that one their first trending stories on Twitter is about the Air Force One livery and not some gross thing he said about immigrants, women, journalists or people with disabilities. #uspol
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#USPol prediction: Before a month has passed, Joe Biden will make an annoyed off-the-cuff remark about progressives not grateful enough to him just winning the election against Donald Trump.
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Florida's governor and fervent Trump bootlicker, Ron DeSantis, sent jackbooted thugs to the home of a scientist in an effort to silence her from speaking out on his mishandling of Covid.

This is full-on fascist dictator games. They pointed guns at her kids and confiscated her PC.

You can't make this shit up.

Link - https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665?s=20

#Covid #ScienceMatters #Science #Florida #USPol #politics #FloridaMan #pandemic #censorship
#censorship #uspol #COVID #politics #science #sciencematters #florida #floridaman #pandemic

As revolting as these agency review teams are on its own, it's kind of refreshing to see a list of people who "only" hold debatable opinions about surveillance and foreign policy instead of just self-serving white supremacist grifters, liars and provocateurs.
#SilverLining #uspol

Kevin Gosztola

2020-11-11 04:54:28


The Biden-Harris Transition Team released names of people who are on their "agency review teams," which will prepare Biden and his Cabinet for their administration.

Let's examine some of the individuals who are notable because of their backgrounds. #BidenTransition

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#uspol #SilverLining #BidenTransition

So the democrats managed to elect the first president in my life time who fought to keep schools segregated. The saddest part of that is they arent even ashamed of themselves right now.

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FUCK YOUR FEELINGS #uspol

Kathy Benjamin

2020-11-06 15:36:16


Rick Santorum on CNN literally saying "Democrats need to give Republicans, including Trump, time and space to work through their feelings about losing." #ElectionResults2020
#uspol #ElectionResults2020

The real message is "Vote Biden whether you like him or not" of course, and, without casting any specific judgment on this particular person, I will endlessly despair these common neutral voting exhortations. #USPol #Election2020

Ijeoma Oluo

2020-09-19 00:08:51


Vote.
#election2020 #uspol

Finally got around to read some of Killer Mike’s lyrics with Run The Jewels, and I have mad respect for Bernie Sanders for publicly sitting with him during his 2016 presidential run because these aren’t family-friendly at all.
#music #rap #USPol #BernieSanders
#uspol #music #rap #BernieSanders

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