Seth Abramson's piece today is long but well worth reading in full. His thesis:
"Media lied to voters about the cause of President Biden’s subpar debate performance. The lie—described here in full—is unforgivable, and was intended to chill discussion of Trump’s cognitive decline."
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/we-now-know-what-really-happened
"Just 120 days ago, Joe Biden had a full cognitive work-up which showed no abnormal results. Major media had access to this report beginning on March 1 and pretended it did not. …
Major media is seeing its worst audience figures ever, and it’s bleeding money, and it’s experiencing scandal after scandal over bad hires (of both executives and on-air talent) and is angry over Americans quickly dissolving faith in corporate journalism."
"It feels constantly showed up by independent journalists and social media voices, and is angry at Team Biden in particular because it hasn’t given media the free content Trump did (not by being transparent, as the Trump White House was anything but, but rather by being so exponentially more corrupt and incompetent than the Biden White House that free major-media material emanated from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue almost daily)."
"While Trump's threats are happening out in the open — plain as day for everyone to see — they continue to receive relatively little attention from the press. Most outlets on Tuesday did not even bother to cover Trump threatening to jail Zuckerberg. It's a sign of how normalized his authoritarian-like behavior has become."
~ Oliver Darcy
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/172058013292072befc9e607b/raw
"The New York Times joined the tabloid New York Post in noting that visitor logs showed that Dr. Kevin Cannard, an expert on Parkinson’s disease, visited the White House eight times between July 2023 and March 2024."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
In this morning’s Talking Points Memo, David Kurtz observed that “much of political journalism is divorced from policy and the substance of politics.” It’s all about a horse race, he wrote, while complex questions, competing public interests, and the history of an issue get distilled to “whether it’s good or bad politically.”
This is unacceptable: "In that stunning decision, the six right-wing justices—three of whom Trump himself appointed—declared that a president is immune from prosecution for crimes committed as part of his “official duties.”
This astonishing decision overturned the bedrock principle of the United States of America: that no one is above the law. But to be clear, the court did not give this power to Biden."
William Lindsey 
Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦