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HOUSE OF CARDS
The GOP, Fox Propaganda and the rest of the fascist media, together with the legacy corporate media, thought they could use Biden’s vastly-exaggerated cognitive decline as a decoy to distract America from Trump’s insanity, senility and treason.
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CUNY JOURNALISM PROFESSOR JEFF JARVIS REMINDS THE CORPORATE MEDIA
how thoroughly its journalist malpractice has rendered it almost irrelevant. “What ‘press’? The broken and vindictive Times? The newly Murdochian Post? Hedge-fund newspaper husks? Rudderless CNN or NPR? Murdoch’s fascist media?” By contrast, Harris “can choose many ways to communicate … Continue reading
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MUSK AND TRUMP’S OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANCE
They each wage a pitched battle, a war of wills against reality. Everything they say is an assault on truth and reality. Two of a kind, two very disturbed people.
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ELON MUSK’S COMMITTMENT TO APOCALYPSE
Musk is either one of the stupidest people alive, or simply one of the most deceitful, but certainly he is one of the most committed to terminating human existence. He tells us that nuclear power is the safest form of … Continue reading
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WELL, THAT’S ONE KIND OF DISTINCTION
“I have never seen an industry slower to learn from its stupid mistakes than the American news business,” Lawrence O’Donnell said tonight. But are they mistakes? Or giving the moguls what they demand. “Most of the questions were terrible,” O’Donnell … Continue reading
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VANCE’S MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE AND AUCTIONEERING FAST TALK
harmonize with overwrought and obviously over stimulated windbag Donald Trump’s retailing all his greatest lowlights from his bunker in that moth eaten hangout for international spies in Palm Beach. Trump gives a rally disguised as a press conference and the … Continue reading
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DEMS NEED TO CALL OUT THE CORPORATE MEDIA FOR CO-PILOTING THE SWIFTBOAT ONCE AGAIN
At Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall writes: “The WaPo was probably the worst culprit, with this headline: ‘Tim Walz’s military record, National Guard departure get new scrutiny.’ It happily launders the Vance attack line without self-awareness or historical understanding of … Continue reading
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THE SAME OLD HUSTLE ON “AFFORDABLE” HOUSING
The new supersized developments approved by the usual suspects: Gov. Hochul, Mayor Adams, and alleged progressives like State Senator Hoylman, NYC Council Member Bottcher, et. al.– must include about one-quarter income-restricted housing—”though these “’restrictions’ could allow incomes well above the median … Continue reading
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HARRIS SHOULD CONTRAST AND COMPARE
1.the actual catastrophe of hundreds of thousands of Americans who died needlessly from COVID because Trump not only bungled, but actively sabotaged the national response. TO: 2. the gloom-and-doom scenarios Trump claimed would play out if Biden was elected in … Continue reading
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NEW YORK CITY FRAME OF MIND
Here basic rights, services, and amenities are treated not as something to which its citizens (all of whom pay taxes of one kind or another) are entitled, as a right as residents, and as a return on their contributions, but as … Continue reading
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