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CORPORATE MEDIA HAS LOST MOST OF ITS CREDIBILITY
It has virtually no interest in protecting us from fascism. Mogul-curated news product is just not going to cut it anymore. Mary Trump writes: “While Donald’s rhetoric in the closing weeks of the campaign becomes increasingly violent and fascistic, the corporate media … Continue reading
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DIDN’T TRUMP’S APRON REMIND YOU OF RIVER PHOENIX’S DUTCH BOY ROUTINE
in My Own Private Idaho? I thought so. Maybe Vance will put on his own flouncy cover-up.
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TRUMP GOBSMACKED THAT A WEALTHY WHITE MAN FACED ACCOUNTABILITY
He babbled out his incredulity that Harvey Weinstein was, as it were, “schlonged.” Presidential timber all the way.
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VANCE SHOULD BE ASKED WHETHER HE BELIEVES AMERICAN WOMEN SHOULD HAVE THE FRANCHISE
His Sugar Daddy, ultra weird and malevolent Peter Thiel, doesn’t believe that they should. And , as we know, Vance always tailors his opinions to ape those of the wealthy, powerful men he gloms on to.
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GROWNG UP IN THE 1960S AND ’70S
We were told that Naziism could never happen again, and certainly never here in America. We were told incorrectly.
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SOME OF MY FAVORITE READS
Check out on the new Shepherd.com platform–“an indie book platform built for readers by readers”–my own little biographical tip sheet.
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GIVE ME A BREAK
NO, Brett Baier is not a real journalist. Matt Gertz at Media Matters for America exposes Baier for what he is, an unprincipled Fox Propaganda operative.
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AMERICA WANTS TO BECOME A TRUE DEMOCRACY
Tim Walz is absolutely right to call for the abolition of the anti-democracy electoral college, and Americans support his decision, so that should mollify overly-poll-conscious Democrats.
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CORPORATE NEWS REPORTERS COME UP WITH ONE EXCUSE AFTER ANOTHER
–each one more lame than the last—about why they keep shielding Trump from scrutiny. The New York Times buries one shocking revelation about Trump after another –reporter Jonathan Weisman claims that’s OK because Times readers are Harris voters. Huh? Jamison … Continue reading
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DID MURDOCH’S HARPER DO ANY EDITING OR FACT CHECKING ON GORSUCH’S SLIMEY, SEDITIOUS POLEMIC?
Ankush Khardori reviews it in for Politico, writing that Gorsuch’s tome is: “riddled with glaring factual omissions and analytic errors that seriously call into question its reliability and rigor. In its essence, the book is standard conservative political propaganda — an … Continue reading
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