
Heidi Reichinnek defends political sharpening as a tool for robust debate, contrasting it with right‑wing populism and emphasizing content differences.
#UFOs:
@lastweektonight (#HBO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRdhoYqCAQg
@JohnOliver explains why we need honest inquiry into #UFO sightings, and why those inquiries should be #data-driven, #factbased, and – crucially – boring as f-ck.
“What would be amazing instead of the Post finding every negative issue relating to President Trump they would describe the successes of his presidency… energy independence, protected borders, soaring employment, decreasing unemployment, miniscule inflation, low gas prices, fair and honest tariffs, no wars, no banking problems, 401K’s growing rapidly and on and on. Is there a journalist on the Post staff that has the courage to cover Trump in a fair and balanced way? Probably not” – The current top comment on the New York Post article “Trump campaign attack ad uses stock images from Ukraine to depict Americans suffering under Biden,” posted Thursday. The article correctly points out that two of the B-rolls used in the Trump 2024 campaign’s “Mourning in America” ad – a title stolen from a 2020 Lincoln Project spot ripping Trump’s failure to manage the COVID-19 pandemic – were stock footage filmed by Ukrainian production crews, the first being a 2021 clip of a couple […]