Fox News maven and attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro holds what's said to be a bible during a swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed ambassador to India, Sergio Gor, in the Oval Office of the White House.

The photo is by Brendan Smialowski.

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2025/nov/11/carnival-season-germany-armistice-day-photos-of-the-day-tuesday

"But a very abnormal Trump has done all three of those things in the last month, and the stories have lasted only a day or two in major news coverage.

Trump has been dropping feces on us for a decade… and now we’re used to it."

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"Or if he were normal for a decade and then pardoned someone who gave his family a huge cryptocurrency payday that looked very much like a bribe – then denied he even knew who the pardon recipient was.

If a president had done any of those things in a normal time, the news media would have gone big with the story.:

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"Imagine if Donald Trump had been a normal politician for a decade and then suddenly demolished the East Wing of the White House.

Or if he were normal for a decade and then posted a video showing a cartoon version of himself using a plane to drop feces on a crowd of Americans."

~ Mark Jacob

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https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-coverage-eases-us-into-tyranny

How news coverage eases us into tyranny

When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us

Stop the Presses
Syria gia nhập liên minh chống IS, chưa vội bình thường hóa quan hệ với Israel

Tổng thống Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa tuyên bố, nước này sẽ gia nhập liên minh quốc tế chống tổ chức khủng bố Nhà nước Hồi giáo (IS) tự xưng, nhưng sẽ không có động thái bình thường hóa quan hệ với Israel ở thời điểm này.

Vietnamnet.vn

How loud do you prefer your Fediverse audio normalized?

 

#audio #normalization #loudness #poll

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35.3%
-23 LUFS
5.9%
don't normalize
35.3%
other
23.5%
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"A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders — regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs."

~ Charlie Savage

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/white-house-boats-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.W7Fo.gIdJYpFOSgO2&smid=url-share

The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

The White House has made no legal argument explaining its bald claim that the president has wartime power to summarily kill people suspected of smuggling drugs.

The New York Times

"They’re a saber-rattling precursor to an increasingly likely attack against Venezuela, whose president Trump is eager to topple…."

"He gets to kill people on his say-so. He seems to enjoy the prospect."

"And a special bonus: The attacks devalue the lives of brown people…."

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"The attacks -- which, one needs to acknowledge right from the start, amount to extrajudicial executions, or murder -- have little or nothing to do with combatting the flow of deadly drugs from cartels into the United States. ...

So what are Trump’s real motives for attacking these boats? I think there are three obvious attractions to Trump here, that satisfy his deep needs."

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"Ever since Donald Trump began his campaign of blowing up boats off the coast of South America early last month, journalists covering the story have been too accepting of his obviously bogus rationale."

~ Dan Froomkin

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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/no-trumps-murder-spree-on-the-high?triedRedirect=true

No, Trump’s murder spree on the high seas is not about drugs

It’s about flexing his power -- and preparing to attack Venezuela.

Press Watch