The press could tell an accurate story about how Biden's 50 yrs of legislative experience helped him pass huge infra & green energy bills through a 50-50 Senate that contributed to a robust recovery. The feedback loop of a million stories about his age leading to a million stories about polls showing that voters worry about his age was an editorial choice.

#media #biden

United Nations Secretariat Building, NYC, 2021.

You either love it or you hate it. Designed by a team of architects (including Le Corbusier) and completed in 1950, the UN Secretariat was perhaps the first important modernist "International Style" building in New York. Unlike other midtown skyscrapers, its location in the East River UN compound sets it largely apart on the skyline.

Excessively many pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335

(Click the preview to see the whole thing.)

#photography

Troll/reply guy tried to get me to back down from my unequivocal statement that there's no evidence the 2020 election was stolen, claiming it's better to "meet people halfway" if I want to convince them.

No. As a researcher and educator, I believe in providing clear, accurate information.

The "evidence" that the election was stolen is made up bullshit. To call it anything else is a disservice.

If someone claims that 2+2=5, I'm not going to try to get them to compromise that it's 4.5.

The most powerful current evidence of Big Journalism's stenographer mode: Story after story quotes the blatant bullshit that the Democrats are significantly responsible for the House Speaker fiasco because they keep voting for a Democrat, not a right-wing Republican.

This absurd framing comes from Republicans, of course. And, of course, journalists quote it because, well, that's what journalists feel obliged to do, no matter how sleazy the propaganda may be.