Marcela Garcia at Boston Globe:
"In the race to be the most anti-immigrant Republican presidential candidate, it looks like there is no low Ron DeSantis of Florida won’t sink to"
People who house a family member who is undocumented, clergy who minister to those without legal status, mothers who drive their undocumented child, parents who hire an undocumented nanny or housekeeper — they would all be criminalized.
Laughably, The New York Times attempts to make the indictment good for Trump, bad for Biden, by
@msignorile
This is evergreen -- "Then there was The New York Times, once again playing into Trump’s hands via access journalism"
https://signorile.substack.com/p/laughably-the-times-attempts-to-make
"Unless there is an industry-wide change in how to cover a dangerous group of authoritarian liars, the press will once again inadvertently aid and abet the very forces trying to destroy the democracy that protects the freedoms that allow them to do their job."
Smart read on the atrocious state of reporting in the elite media world covering #uspol #fediverse https://open.substack.com/pub/messagebox/p/the-press-is-already-fumbling-the?r=ehofp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
House Committee Budgets Swell as GOP Plans Road Shows Across US
Use taxpayer $$$ for poilitical stunts to reward donors. So GOP:
"it also has a direct payoff for Republicans, allowing them to reward major donors with publicity and exposure for their businesses"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/politics/house-republicans-budget-travel-campaign.html
The NY Times continues to normalize extremists, none more dangerous than Florida's radical-right governor.
Journalistic business as usual -- in the face of existential threats to our democracy -- runs deep and wide in the Times' political coverage. And it is clear that the Times' top executives want it that way.
Excellent from Perry Bacon Jr:
There is only one way to rein in Republican judges: Shaming them
"America’s judiciary is dominated by conservatives issuing an endless stream of rulings that help corporations, the rich and the bigoted while hurting working-class people, women and minorities in particular."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/19/republican-judges-politicians-shame-them/
The NYT Is Repeating One of Its Most Notorious Mistakes
The paper’s anti-trans coverage parallels its failings over gay rights and AIDS. But the Times appears determined not to learn from its own history
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-times-trans-coverage-gay-rights-history/
DALLAS (AP) — Justice Department officials in Washington have taken over the corruption investigation into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, removing the case from the hands of the federal prosecutors in Texas who'd long been leading the probe.
No one covers the corporate impunity beat like @juddlegum.
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UPDATE: On February 1, the @CollegeBoard issued a press release claiming it had IRONCLAD PROOF that revisions to the AP African American Studies course were not influenced by Florida.
THAT PRESS RELEASE HAS NOW BEEN DELETED FROM ITS WEBSITE
https://popular.info/p/update-college-board-scrubs-website
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1626212830054879232
The College Board, the organization that produces Advanced Placement (AP) courses for high school students, recently deleted a statement defending its revisions to the new AP African American Studies course from its website. The statement, which was posted to the College Board website to combat a flurry of criticism, contained numerous false and misleading statements. The College Board has subsequently changed its narrative but is still defending the revisions, which appear to be politically motivated.
I signed the New York Times letter about the paper's anti-trans coverage. Wholeheartedly.
As a journalist who has covered the Christian right for decades, and has covered their assaults on LGBTQ people and trans people in particular, I've found the NYT's acquiescence to/bothsidesing of their hateful anti-trans propaganda maddening and intolerable.
Murshed Zaheed
Dan Gillmor
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org
Sarah Posner