Taylor LorenzThis is great news Mehdi is a fantastic journalist https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/28/mehdi-hasan-new-site-zeteo-msnbc/
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Waldo JaquithClarence Thomas twice spoke at the Koch brothers’ annual fundraising retreat. A sitting Supreme Court justice is actually fundraising for a partisan organization that routinely brings cases before the Supreme Court, which he routinely rules in favor of. Naturally he has not disclosed this. https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-koch-brothers-donor-events-scotus
Jay Rosen"Not the odds, but the stakes."
That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in 2024 election coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for our democracy— given what's possible in this election. Not the odds, but the stakes.
Here is an example of stakes commentary. Its analysis is both plausible and terrifying.
https://newrepublic.com/article/174535/people-arent-facing-horrors-new-trump-term-bring
Vehicles are built to transport people safely from point A to point B. Assault rifles are built to kill people. Which requires a license to own or operate?
https://abcnews.go.com/US/5-dead-texas-shooting-suspect-armed-ar-15/story?id=98957271
The debt limit sprains the both sides brain.
Read Dan Froomkin:
"Extremist Republicans have been enabled by media coverage that tries to split the difference, and treats what is essentially a hostage crisis created exclusively by one side as a normal, two-sided partisan squabble. Indeed, our top political reporters now insist that the onus is on Biden to solve the problem."
https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/
Joaquin CastroTwo years ago, Trump incited a deadly mob and left everyone at the Capitol for dead, including members of his own party who continue to repeat his election lies.
The former president and his co-conspirators must be held accountable. My full statement as we remember January 6:
Mr Spock 🖖Two years ago today. An insurrection on the Capitol. Two years later. Those insurrectionists are still trying to destroy America. None of them have faced any consequences and are freely going about their chaos causing business.
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Nitasha Tikuis mastadon a safe space to say i called it in 2016 ??? the fact that interviewers never fact-check elon musk. and other assorted observations about tech billionaires and tech press' increasing inability to keep their pronouncements in check https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nitashatiku/ground-control-to-silicon-valley
