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After California Sen. Kamala Harris announced she was suspending her campaign for the Democratic nomination and dropping out of the 2020 race for president, many took to Twitter to express sadness and disappointment. It hasn’t been just supporters of...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Dec 04, 2019 at 09:43 AM PST
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Hats off to the Washington Post for suggesting that Donald Trump may now be implicated in the Ukraine controversy, and for pitching the differing “values” of Rep’s and Dem’s as the driving force for why they differ on impeachment. Question, is it a...
by leafhopper77
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on Thu Nov 14, 2019 at 05:27 AM PST
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Our nation’s history has always been a ball and chain around our collective id, but mostly because we have pretended not to feel its weight. As the thorough 1619 Project documented, there is so much of America’s ugly past that is written in to our laws...
by MaryAEnglish
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on Mon Sep 16, 2019 at 09:12 AM PDT
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I don’t understand this. Watching CNN with Biana Kieler (sp?), speaking with David Gergen, Samantha Vinograd, and a Mr. Naftali about trump not wanting to go to the G7 meeting. And BK asks, “why has he no interest in going: is he scared, is he...
by The Pirate
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on Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 04:35 PM PDT
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How could anyone not be affected by Beato O’Rourke’s response to the El Paso terrorist attack? I truly felt his anguish, pain, horror — and especially his honest, heart-felt exasperation with our mainstream news media. We have witnessed their...
by WRY1
6 comments
on Mon Aug 05, 2019 at 01:19 PM PDT
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Even though the various hosts have made tuning in to – even if just a clip online - the Annual Press Club Dinner worth the time, it’s been a guilty pleasure. The reality is that I think the tradition can feel insufferable. It has that whiff of the...
by MaryAEnglish
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on Sat Jul 20, 2019 at 09:15 AM PDT
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Here’s a riddle: if two people happened to share the exact same ethnicity, and they both knew they were born in the same country, if one were to say to the other ‘Go back to where you came from’, this would be racist.
What will the GOP talking-point...
by dwconroy2012
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on Fri Jul 19, 2019 at 07:50 AM PDT
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Recent trends in the media industry haven’t done much to advance meaningful dialogue on matters of public interest. They have, however, changed how Americans relate to each other, accelerating an online culture war that threatens to tear us apart.
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by Corey Goldstone
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on Tue Jul 09, 2019 at 10:31 AM PDT
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As our system and institutions — from our free elections to our two-party system — continue to brace against the battering rams of corruption and evil men, the accelerating breakdown of the ...
by MaryAEnglish
37 comments
on Tue May 28, 2019 at 06:30 AM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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Anyone who has read my posts, knows that I have been critical of the American media for their many failings, all of which have been well documented on this website. I think in general the American media is lazy and incompetent and is more interested...
by Slideman
70 comments
on Mon Mar 18, 2019 at 07:38 AM PDT
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For the last few years or so, it seems that Democrats and the mainstream media have finally caught on to the importance of the black vote. Though this has been long overdue, it is right on time for ...
by Kelly Macias
92 comments
on Mon Jan 21, 2019 at 04:00 PM PST
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The media is never going to learn. Jon Favreau, Obama’s former speechwriter, clearly demonstrated this in one tweet. The media rushes to normalize and praise this “president,” but a short time later, it’s the same old Trump.
You see the problem...
by First Amendment
23 comments
on Fri Dec 07, 2018 at 01:56 PM PST
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Hello All,
I was pleased to see this story on the TV at the Gym with this banner from CNN. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see a news channels actually report facts and go after Donnie Dotard. I didn’t have my phone at the gym and rushed...
by Slideman
15 comments
on Tue Oct 23, 2018 at 06:48 AM PDT
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Aaron M. Schlossberg is finally paying for what’s proving to be a lengthy history of unapologetic, unabashed bigotry and xenophobia.
On Wednesday, the Twitter Detective Agency quickly identified the 42-year-old New York attorney as the screeching...
by Jessica Sutherland
362 comments
on Thu May 17, 2018 at 03:42 PM PDT
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Michael Avenatti plays the media like a virtuoso plays the piano. A bit of evidence dropped here, a cryptic tweet dropped there, each holding out promise for the next mini-bombshell, keeping reporters and public alike riveted. This guy and his...
by KM Wehrstein
238 comments
on Tue May 15, 2018 at 05:39 AM PDT
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Actor, comedian and left-leaning Kathy Griffin got on Twitter Sunday afternoon to defend fellow comedian after Michelle Wolf roasted and smashed a bulk of the low-hanging fruit from the Trump administration tree during the White House Correspondents...
by Leslie Salzillo
197 comments
on Mon May 07, 2018 at 10:07 PM PDT
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Every time I mention Venezuela and Hugo Chavez to my friends whether on the Right or the Left they all scoff. If there is one thing most of them agree on is that Hugo Chavez was terrible and that Nicolas Maduro is corrupt. That is what the supposedly...
by Egberto Willies
110 comments
on Wed Apr 25, 2018 at 12:20 PM PDT
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Freedom of the press is an essential, load-bearing thread in the American fabric, but under Donald Trump, it’s in ever-increasing danger. Reporters Without Borders released its annual freedom of the press rankings today, and these United States...
by Jessica Sutherland
37 comments
on Wed Apr 25, 2018 at 10:43 AM PDT
with 58 Recommends
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I think our mainstream media is guilty of fear mongering by not disputing Donald Trump’s ridiculous proposition that if the North Koreans are allowed to have nukes and delivery systems, they may attack us.
Trump - constrained in domestic policy but...
by boblite
2 comments
on Thu Mar 15, 2018 at 03:47 PM PDT
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Before I get to the nuts and bolts of my question---did Russian moles interfere in the 2008 Democratic primary—first a little background. Putin came to power riding a wave of pro-Slavic ethnic nationalism (if such a thing as ethnic nationalism...
by McCamy Taylor
12 comments
on Sun Mar 11, 2018 at 11:30 AM PDT
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