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In the early stages of the invasion of Ukraine, the defenders had a real advantage. They began using Starlink to gain Internet access via Elon Musk’s constellation of satellites. This allowed the military to coordinate and communicate securely across...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 09:03 AM PDT
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While the mainstream media is still largely tiptoeing around exactly what we can expect from a second Trump term, Robert Reich at Inequality Media has been turning out videos that talk about it in plain language and pull no punches. There seems to be...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 06:59 AM PDT
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The NY Times has noticed the Right is winning the disinformation wars - and what they omit says why. The Headline at the Paper of Record is explicit: How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online. It’s a good read up to a point. The right wing...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 08:34 AM PDT
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Don’t you just love Mary Shelley’s classic story of hubris? But�this isn’t about Dr. Frankenstein’s creation;�it’s�about Real Science�as presented by PBS.� Its website says that PBS Eons ...
by Youffraita
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 09:55 PM PDT
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On the heels of a unanimous federal appeals court ruling that Donald Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that 68% of Republicans think Trump should have immunity for actions he took as president, such...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 12:33 PM PST
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Despite the risk of TOO MUCH INFORMATION, I’ve put together this TL;DR compendium of writings addressing the constitutional challenge now facing the country. I realize it is a lot to go through, but when the regular media treats Trump vs Biden as “the...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 10:43 AM PST
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Conservative Voices: Ross Douthat - Trump apologist; Bret Stephens - full panic mode; David Brooks.. The New York Times has a stable of regular opinion writers to present a range of views. This not unreasonable in normal times, when people may have differing opinions but still share some common values and assumptions. That is no longer the case in...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 09:13 AM PST
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A cousin sent me a link to a PBS show “Treasures of New York” featuring a look at the annual Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden. The PBS show is from 2013, but it’s an annual tradition and every year is different. The episode, hosted...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Dec 16, 2023 at 12:24 PM PST
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Like Frederick Decker, the author of this piece, I, too, rely on PBS for accurate news. Imagine my and Decker’s disappointment at seeing PBS parrot GOP lies about Social Security. With Mike Johnson’s “Cat food Commission” now engaging in more such...
by mfordx
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on Thu Nov 30, 2023 at 01:14 PM PST
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Without looking at a print edition, I’m guessing The NY Times has not gone out of its way to draw attention to this analysis from Carl Hulse. It’s the kind of reporting that makes people uncomfortable so it’s probably buried somewhere inside. I’m...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Nov 26, 2023 at 01:27 PM PST
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And I mean EVERYONE! Every f***ing member of Congress who thinks the “hordes of invaders” pouring across our southern border is more horrible should be made to sit and remember what we watched in horror as Russia brutally invaded Ukraine. Along with...
by josterberg
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on Wed Nov 22, 2023 at 12:17 AM PST
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Whoever writes the headlines at The NY Times is playing a not very subtle game. I’ve run across several articles analyzing how editorial choices can shape the news, and one of the ‘tricks’ is putting headlines on articles that don’t really capture the...
by xaxnar
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on Wed Nov 08, 2023 at 10:21 AM PST
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[Updated title 9:00pm EDT] Browsing though Eschaton, ran across this observation by Atrios: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2023 Why Start Now When Trump was president, if you watched Trump, The Live Show, you had the full uncut Trump. If you just read the NYT...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:47 PM PDT
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A friend shared a video from The Young Turks with me (Yeah — social media strikes again). He was boggled by the people being interviewed. This was from just a few days ago. Here’s a description from the YouTube video link about what was going on:...
by xaxnar
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 07:47 AM PDT
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Opposition to Ukraine Aid Becomes a Litmus Test for the Right The drama that has played out among House Republicans over the past week has highlighted a sharp decline in the party’s willingness to back continued aid for Kyiv’s fight against Russia....
by xaxnar
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on Fri Oct 06, 2023 at 06:31 AM PDT
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On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, Doug Lamborn, who first...
by republicinsanity
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on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 04:54 PM PDT
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The following historical background on forced sterilization of minority girls and women in the U.S. and beyond runs long, even without delving into the Nazis’ study of U.S. 17th-19th century policies toward indigenous people and the disabled as a basis...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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While Donald Trump is still dominating the 2024 Republican primary in national polls , signs of trouble are starting to emerge as his legal peril mounts. An NPR/PBS/Marist poll released Friday ...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 04:27 PM PDT
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David Pomerantz, executive director of the Energy and Policy Institute (a utility watchdog organization) has some unsettling news. Guess Who’s Been Paying to Block Green Energy. You Have. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we have to make...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jul 06, 2023 at 11:08 AM PDT
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Human activity is causing global heating. I think most climate change deniers know that, but greed and ideological blinders prevent them from acknowledging it. Common sense tells anyone that we cannot take hundreds of millions of years worth of carbon...
by bumper monster
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 04:48 PM PDT
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