Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org

Independent journalist and media critic. Formerly seen at WaPo, Intercept, Huffpo, etc. I afflict comfortable journalists.

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2024-10-17 18:41:37

MAGA is a virus. Many people are resistant, which is good. Many of the sickest people are beyond hope, which is bad. But inevitably, there are some who could be spared or cured if properly inoculated and immunized by the media. https://presswatchers.org/2024/10/maga-is-a-virus-and-the-press-should-be-the-vaccine/

2024-10-04 18:56:05

Job numbers are through the roof. Where are all the interviews with new workers? https://presswatchers.org/2024/10/job-numbers-are-through-the-roof-where-are-all-the-interviews-with-new-workers/ New from me.

2024-07-29 20:00:57

Next time Trump says there won’t be a need to vote in 2028, the media should be ready https://presswatchers.org/2024/07/next-time-trump-says-there-wont-be-a-need-to-vote-in-2028-the-media-should-be-ready/ NEW from me.

2024-07-24 15:19:09

New: Don’t treat Trump like he has no agency https://presswatchers.org/2024/07/dont-treat-trump-like-he-has-no-agency/

2024-07-22 16:47:44

New: Trump was winning. Now maybe he’s not. That’s the news. https://presswatchers.org/2024/07/trump-was-winning-now-maybe-hes-not-thats-the-news/

2024-06-06 22:43:01

Will Lewis must go. The Washington Post publisher’s actions cast doubt on his newsroom’s credibility. https://presswatchers.org/2024/06/will-lewis-must-go-the-washington-post-publishers-actions-cast-doubt-on-his-newsrooms-credibility/

2024-06-04 20:23:11

Beware the Tory takeover of the Washington Post https://presswatchers.org/2024/06/beware-the-tory-takeover-of-the-washington-post/ NEW from me.

2024-05-29 16:42:14

The elite media has created a permission structure for low-information voters to throw up their hands and say “whatever”. https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/trump-supporters-dont-read-the-news-is-no-excuse-for-craven-political-coverage/

2024-05-29 16:01:23

NEW: ‘Trump supporters don’t read the news’ is no excuse for craven political coverage https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/trump-supporters-dont-read-the-news-is-no-excuse-for-craven-political-coverage/

2024-05-21 15:23:22

Trump's hypocritical, cowardly decision not to testify may eventually be the single most memorable element of this trial. So where are the BANNER HEADLINES???https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/trump-choosing-not-to-testify-in-his-defense-should-be-a-banner-headline/

2024-05-21 13:39:46

Where are the screaming “TRUMP WON’T TAKE THE STAND IN HIS OWN DEFENSE” headlines? Will we see any at day’s end, at least?https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/trump-choosing-not-to-testify-in-his-defense-should-be-a-banner-headline/

2024-05-07 19:06:29

Shockingly, NYT editor Joe Kahn seems to basically agree with former opinion editor James Bennet that the Times went too woke in the summer of 2020. https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

2024-05-07 18:46:13

Underappreciated element of that Joe Kahn interview: He throws Dean Baquet under the bus for succumbing to wokeism. (Which is laughable) https://presswatchers.org/?p=9461

2024-04-29 16:05:03

NEW: Biden implores journalists to ‘rise up to the seriousness of the moment’. They should listen. https://presswatchers.org/2024/04/biden-implores-journalists-to-rise-up-to-the-seriousness-of-the-moment-they-should-listen/

2024-04-16 16:24:20

NEW: Every report on Trump’s trial requires this basic explanation of the charges https://presswatchers.org/2024/04/every-report-on-trumps-trial-requires-this-basic-explanation-of-the-charges/

2024-03-01 16:48:11

The powerful people who knew better but are now bending the knee to Trump are hypocritical, craven opportunists going through a very public and newsworthy moral collapse. https://presswatchers.org/2024/03/every-new-trump-endorsement-is-a-story-of-profound-moral-collapse/ New from me.

2023-12-06 21:29:39

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@npub1c6g…2r33 I love that idea. Thank you!

2023-12-06 20:55:48

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@npub13ts…jcje Short descriptions. (Sorry, shop talk.)

2023-11-13 17:20:31

After the "vermin" debacle at the NYT, I sensed a tonal switch at WaPo, which I hope and pray will be permanent, from covering Trump as a plausible future president to covering him as a dangerous demagogue. https://presswatchers.org/2023/11/did-vermin-mark-a-turning-point-in-trump-coverage/

2023-11-12 15:00:47

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@npub1lla…2zhe thanks!!

2023-10-26 18:45:38

New from me: As Republicans embrace theocratic authoritarianism, the political media is tongue-tied https://presswatchers.org/2023/10/as-republicans-embrace-theocratic-authoritarianism-the-political-media-is-tongue-tied/

2023-10-13 21:59:12

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@npub1duv…q55e Better now?

2023-10-13 19:05:03

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@npub13ts…jcje THANK YOU I'm working on it

2023-10-13 19:04:14

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@npub1jkm…ndsx THANK YOU I'm working on it

2023-10-05 14:59:35

NEW! When Trump descends further and further into fascist rhetoric, the real news is not so much the particular thing he said, it’s that he said it and Republican leaders and Republicans generally still aren’t renouncing him. https://presswatchers.org/2023/10/to-amplify-trump-or-not-to-amplify-theres-actually-a-good-answer/

2023-05-06 02:47:45

RT @RottenInDenmark
She did, in fact, make it up
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/science-evidence-merits.html
https://cdn.masto.host/journahost/media_attachments/files/110/319/453/089/307/788/original/0d8050d5a17bc9b4.jpeg

2023-05-05 22:00:27

OMG the worst
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RT @npub1fdv…m2hy
HIGHLIGHT:
Grilled by E. Jean Carroll's attorney about his "Access Hollywood" line that stars can grab women "by the p----," former President Trump doubles down.
"Historically, that's true, with stars," Trump says.
Background, @lawcrimenews https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/e-jean-carroll-rape-suit/historically-thats-true-with-stars-trump-cites-last-million-years-when-defending-access-ho…
https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1654559980958220288
https://cdn.masto.host/journahost/media_attachments/files/110/318/323/446/252/153/original/95e83371087c51ca.mp4

2023-05-05 16:01:12

RT @joemcginnissjr
@npub1cl7…g330 @jayrosen_nyu With a live republican audience, won't the CNN trump townhall present like a rally, with applause and jeering in all the right places?

2023-05-05 15:09:43

Is father trolling daughter?
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RT @ClydeHaberman
Trump is credibly accused of all sorts of criminal wrongdoing, and he’s running again.
George Santos is a proven fraud, and he already plans to run for re-election.
Clarence Thomas seems beholden to a billionaire, but doesn’t resign.
We have become a society that knows no shame.
https://twitter.com/ClydeHaberman/status/1654305050737405958

2023-05-05 14:18:23

How did I miss this? Terrific, clear-eyed piece on the fiscal cliff by @NormOrnstein, who writes that “much of the press coverage reflects neither the direness of the situation nor the reality of whose actions are actually threatening default”. https://www.thebulwark.com/staying-clear-eyed-about-republican-radicalism-on-the-debt-ceiling/

2023-05-05 14:18:22

This is excellent. Highly recommended. “Directing blame for inflation away from corporations and toward government spending that temporarily boosted the working class was lucrative for the world’s wealthiest like Bezos.” https://www.levernews.com/how-pundits-inflation-myth-crushed-the-working-class/

2023-05-05 02:49:20

RT @DougJBalloon
Opinion | Why Conservatives Can’t Stop Talking About Aristotle - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/opinion/classical-education-conservative-movement.html

2023-05-05 02:49:13

RT @Will_Bunch
1. We are so understandably caught up in the present - Jordan Neely, Proud Boys, Justice Thomas, etc. - that it's easy to forget what happened on this day 53 years ago. But we should never forget May 4, 1970. It made us what we are today. A short thread because...
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2023-05-05 01:18:26

Bribery. Consciousness of guilt. Case closed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

2023-05-04 22:45:25

RT @steve_vladeck
State criminal prosecutions can be removed to federal court if and only if:
(1) The defendant is being prosecuted for acts taken under color of his federal office and has a federal defense (§ 1442); or
(2) The state court is depriving the defendant of his civil rights (§ 1443). https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1654145496095551488

2023-05-04 22:45:25

My hat is off to you
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RT @siobhan_ogrady
Covering the war in Ukraine alongside my many brave colleagues from the first day of the full-scale invasion has been the privilege of a lifetime. I am thrilled to finally be moving to Kyiv this summer!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2023/05/04/siobhn-ogrady-named-chief-ukraine-correspondent/
https://twitter.com/siobhan_ogrady/status/1654163958679339027

2023-05-04 22:17:46

Q. What would you tell a woman who argues that she has the same rights to bodily autonomy as a man?
Q. What would you tell the 10-year-old girl who was raped and then denied an abortion in Ohio? What would you tell her parents?https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/

2023-05-04 18:52:02

Ask defenders of Clarence Thomas what would be disqualifying if not this.

2023-05-04 18:48:30

RT @EandPCartoons
Drew Sheneman, Tribune Content Agency
https://cdn.masto.host/journahost/media_attachments/files/110/311/906/352/553/006/original/7bcd37cf30a79f16.jpeg

2023-05-04 17:21:59

RT @npub1cl7…g330
Can you imagine being a reporter and getting a call from "people familiar with Tucker Carlson's thinking" (i.e., Tucker Carlson) and not interrogating him about his racist fuckery, but just taking dictation thank you very much sir?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/05/04/tucker-carlson-future-2024-gop-debate/

2023-05-04 17:11:56

"I’m not here to change your mind about Assange the person, but if you care about press freedom, it’s important you change your mind about Assange the legal case," writes @trevortimm. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/04/julian-assange-us-justice-department-wikileaks?CMP=share_btn_tw

2023-05-04 16:11:37

RT @KsKM3
@npub1cl7…g330 Kaitlan Collins of the Daily Caller will never do any such thing.
We are doomed, Dan. I know we aren’t supposed to say it, but with Licht running CNN, things will only get worse.

2023-05-04 16:04:26

RT @SawyerHackett
Clarence Thomas disclosed $1,200 in free car tires he received in 2002.
But he didn’t disclose:
- half a million dollar vacations
- trips on private jets, yachts
- a billionaire buying his mother’s home
- $150,000 in tuition payments for his adoptive son https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus
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2023-05-04 14:51:55

"Does anyone think there is a Black man alive in this country who could walk up to a nonviolent white person, in public, choke him to death in full view of other passengers and on video, and then just walk away after a brief chat with the police?" via @ElieNYC
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RT @thenation
Everything about Neely’s death is a symptom of our collective rot—from the way we treat poverty as a crime to the way we treat soldiers as weapons that can be sto…
https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1654129503814434816

2023-05-04 03:46:27

RT @TweetBenMax
that exchange >
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2023-05-04 02:10:52

RT @npub1cl7…g330
Q. You had Michael Cohen pay a porn star $130,000 to keep quiet about having had sex with you. Did you have sex with her? Would you have paid her off even if you weren’t running for president? How and when did you decide to call the payments legal fees? https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/

2023-05-04 01:04:37

RT @CREWcrew
BREAKING: Emails show Herschel Walker solicited hundreds of thousands of dollars for his own business from a billionaire donor, with the donor believing he was giving to Walker's campaign. https://www.thedailybeast.com/emails-reveal-jaw-dropping-herschel-walker-money-scandal

2023-05-03 23:48:30

Q. You had Michael Cohen pay a porn star $130,000 to keep quiet about having had sex with you. Did you have sex with her? Would you have paid her off even if you weren’t running for president? How and when did you decide to call the payments legal fees? https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/

2023-05-03 21:55:01

Q, Do you think the Dominion voting machines were rigged? (h/t @OopsITweetedAgn)
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RT @npub1cl7…g330
Q. You still say you won the 2020 election, and that it was rigged. That’s a lie. You have zero – zero – evidence to support it. Why do you keep saying this when you know it’s not true? https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/ https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653853989409116162
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653866636057640961

2023-05-03 21:04:51

Q. You still say you won the 2020 election, and that it was rigged. That’s a lie. You have zero – zero – evidence to support it. Why do you keep saying this when you know it’s not true? https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/
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RT @npub1cl7…g330
Q. What were you doing for more than three hours that afternoon, instead of telling rioters to leave the Capitol or doing anything to help …
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653853989409116162

2023-05-03 20:55:27

Q. There’s a considerable amount of evidence that you raped E. Jean Carroll. Do you still maintain that you did not? Why wouldn’t you tell that to the jury? https://presswatchers.org/2023/05/heres-how-cnn-can-reduce-the-harm-of-giving-trump-the-microphone/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1653864562574217221

2023-05-03 19:27:54

“I firmly believe in centering people and their experiences within the heart of journalism, " @nvavery said. https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/2023/05/03/nicole-avery-nichols-detroit-free-press-editor/70179445007/

2023-05-03 16:40:38

Seriously! @joanwalsh is exactly right. The @nytimes got suckered for a "scoop". (Makes you wonder by whom.) https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tucker-carlson-fox/?custno=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%205.2.2023&utm_term=daily

2023-05-03 14:12:39

Two foundations basically subsidize Facebook here. Virtually no support from readers.
"Fact checking" as currently practiced is a sad joke. https://presswatchers.org/category/fact-checking-2/
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2023-05-03 13:25:24

RT @npub1cl7…g330
They should, however, hire me to do an hour on the weekends. We could call it “Public Editor“. https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653539043961864192

2023-05-03 02:23:25

RT @fdwilkinson
Not buying this explanation either. https://twitter.com/nytmike/status/1653575579671699458

2023-05-03 02:00:33

Must be a white nationalist. All else negotiable.
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RT @npub1cl7…g330
Top priority for Republican voters: Hurting the Black, brown, gay, trans, and women. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2024-presidential-primary-trump-v-trump-fatigue-poll-2023-05-01/
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653429833173483520
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2023-05-02 20:47:03

RT @melico24
I can totally visualize Dowd swanning in from her 3 hour liquid lunch to complain that the youngs are too lazy, meanwhile she's been writing the same column over and over again for 20+ years. https://twitter.com/powellnyt/status/1652363902968029185

2023-05-02 20:42:36

Well done, @chucktodd, you must feel so proud.
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RT @EricKleefeld
Following the absurd decision by Meet The Press to host a Fox News-created presidential candidate, Sean Hannity praised the guy for going into “enemy territory,” and the ersatz candidate himself said on Fox that he’d gone onto “the other side’s home turf.” https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-host-sean-hannity-praises-vivek-ramaswamy-infiltrating-enemy-territory-…
https://twitter.com/EricKleefeld/status/1653499396808495108

2023-05-02 20:12:45

Evil corporations don't corrupt Washington and stop reforms by giving a few bucks to a campaign. They do it by hiring former officials who are still friendly with the current ones.
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RT @ddayen
Well this looks bad for USTR: FOIA requests show several communications & meetings between Big Tech revolving door hires and top officials, including Ambassador Katherine Tai
https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/USTR%20REPORT.pdf
https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1653489232290418688

2023-05-02 19:43:17

"And so it begins. Another hideous election season in which cable TV networks potentially legitimize a liar and criminal."
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RT @TUSK81
.@MSignorile: "The announcement comes at a time when CNN’s new CEO, Chris Licht, has been moving the network to the right under the guise of trying to just 'report the news' ... by banishing anchors, commentators, and segments that are too anti-Trump." https://signorile.substack.com/p/should-cnn-hold-a-to…
https://twitter.com/TUSK81/status/1653395916618104835

2023-05-02 19:31:22

I would very much like to think that someone high up at the NYT read this piece of mine and called the DC buro and said: Hey, guys, c'mon, get a grip. https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/
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RT @npub1cl7…g330
Finally! NYT writes about how Dems can end the hostage crisis without giving the hostage-takers what they want. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/us/debt-limit-discharge-petition.htm…
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1653433133973348358

2023-05-02 18:18:59

Are any of your local officials unhinged MAGA types? For an article I'm working on. Email me froomkin@presswatchers.org.

2023-05-02 16:46:28

RT @TUSK81
“House Republicans are refusing to let the government keep paying its bills unless the Biden admin rolls back some of its signature achievements.”
A GOP default “could permanently damage the dollar’s status as the de facto global currency.” https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

2023-05-02 16:46:26

RT @ruthbenghiat
My latest: The Republicans have crashed a national economy before to facilitate right-wing rule: Chile, 1970-1973. Take the GOP's current economic warfare threats seriously. https://lucid.substack.com/p/republicans-have-crashed-a-national
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2023-05-02 16:16:53

Finally! NYT writes about how Dems can end the hostage crisis without giving the hostage-takers what they want. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/us/debt-limit-discharge-petition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/us/politics/debt-limit-us-constitution.html?smid=tw-share

2023-05-01 23:42:55

What an extraordinary and depressing article by @mideastXmidwest. So what if he killed an American journalist. That was almost 5 years ago! Tech companies (and @semafor) are abjecting themselves for MBS's money. https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/1/23702451/silicon-valley-saudi-money-khashoggi

2023-05-01 23:21:28

RT @petercalloway
Note that nobody is taking about criminal charges for this corporation that stole from its working-class employees. I’ve represented dozens, maybe hundreds of poor people who have spent time—sometimes weeks or months—in a cage for stealing necessity items. https://twitter.com/sfchronicle/status/1653142691222306821

2023-05-01 21:15:40

Why did @VaughnHillyard cover up for Trump by keeping this secret? The corporate media is Trump’s biggest fan.
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RT @charlottetklein
New: back in March aboard his campaign plane, Trump got so irritated with @VaughnHillyard's questions about the Manhattan DA's case that he grabbed the NBC reporter's phones and chucked them aside
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/trump-2024-gaggle
https://twitter.com/charlottetklein/status/1653139781537218560

2023-05-01 21:15:40

RT @carolrosenberg
“The appropriate remedy would be to release Mr. Zubaydah immediately and accord him an enforceable right to compensation and other reparations, in accordance with international law,” the group said in an opinion. via @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/us/politics/un-gitmo-abu-zubaydah.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2023-05-01 19:25:33

Trump will be "taking questions from New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who plan to vote in the 2024 GOP presidential primary".
If @CNN allows Trump to control this in a way that the questions will be softballs, they will lose respect and viewership.
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RT @oliverdarcy
CNN says Trump will participate in a CNN town hall next week, marking his first appearance on the news network in years. http://www.cnn.com/2023/05/01/pol…
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1653110636010692629

2023-05-01 18:42:26

"NewsGuard has identified 49 news and information sites that appear to be almost entirely written by artificial intelligence software. A new generation of content farms is on the way." https://www.newsguardtech.com/special-reports/newsbots-ai-generated-news-websites-proliferating/

2023-05-01 17:29:57

This was actually a pretty brave story for WaPo to publish.
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RT @npub1cl7…g330
Tl;dr: Fox gets Republicans so terrified that they shoot whoever. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/30/americans-gun-violence-strangers-crime/
https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/1652859127163437058

2023-05-01 03:57:47

She can't possibly be this stupid. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-full-transcript-04-30-2023/
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RT @npub17qm…pur3
During interview with Ro Khanna, Margaret Brennan carries water for Republicans by blaming Biden for not negotiating with Kevin McCarthy over paying the US government's bills https://t.co/7PfK93dAWs
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1652691588915646466
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2023-05-01 03:51:19

RT @joke2power
@margbrennan shows how msm's protocol of "both sides are to blame" savvy journalism warps our public debate & rewards GOP hostage takers & bad actors like McCarthy
@NewhouseSU
@CJR @Cronkite_ASU @MedillSchool @AnnenbergPenn @merrillcollege
@npub1cl7…g330 @jayrosen_nyu @Sulliview https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1652691588915646466

2023-05-01 02:15:13

Tl;dr: Fox gets Republicans so terrified that they shoot whoever. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/30/americans-gun-violence-strangers-crime/

2023-04-30 02:23:52

A hero
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RT @washingtonpost
LeRoy Carhart, a former Air Force surgeon who later became one of the country’s few specialists in late-term abortions, died at a hospice in Bellevue, Neb. He was 81. https://wapo.st/3oSm057
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1652363889777029127

2023-04-30 01:04:07

RT @crampell
The fact that the public doesn't overwhelmingly recognize default would be a crisis is a failure of media coverage to date

2023-04-29 17:27:14

.⁦@harrispolitico⁩ effectively if unwittingly makes the point that elite political reporters are smug and clueless. Also asserts that @politico’s “influence hinges on intellectual expertise rather than intimacy.” 1/2 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/29/trump-years-weakened-media-00094304

2023-04-29 01:48:30

“our Supreme Court does not exist in the constitutional order as much as it looms over it,” writes ⁦@jbouie⁩ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/opinion/john-roberts-clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html

2023-04-28 21:37:37

It would be nice if "cashing in" made you "unqualified for public service".
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RT @LeverNews
NEW: Former Obama spokesperson Ben LaBolt earned millions working for Facebook, Instacart, and Union Pacific before joining the Biden White House.
https://www.levernews.com/how-bidens-new-communications-director-made-his-millions/
https://twitter.com/LeverNews/status/1652058039317409793

2023-04-28 18:27:35

RT #[0]
NEW: NC Supreme Court reverses earlier rulings, rejects judicial limits on partisan gerrymandering. Decision could also scuttle, for now, #SCOTUS showdown on independent state legislature theory. Story w/@ZachMontellaro @allymutnick https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/28/north-carolina-supreme-court-clears-way-for-partisan-gerrymandering-00094433

2023-04-28 15:18:55

Wage growth is worrying. Obscene corporate profits are just interesting.
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2023-04-28 15:01:06

As one WaPo commenter put it: "I am sick and tired of articles that seem to absolve the Republicans of their own idiocy and then blame the Democrats for not protecting us from the harm caused by Republicans." https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

2023-04-28 02:20:15

RT @mattizcoop
Great from Jeff Stein
Jack Teixeira and Me, by @SpyTalker
https://open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/p/jack-teixeira-and-me?r=ge9kg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2023-04-28 02:02:30

RT @moorehn
Oh my God Matt Y g l e s i a s has joined Bluesky and he is getting absolutely brutally cyberbullied and shoved off the site. People are demanding accountability for his Takes, it's amazing. He's already asking for a block button

2023-04-28 01:09:50

*snicker*
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RT @dancow
Bluesky is out of its honeymoon phase and is now in its bullying phase
https://twitter.com/dancow/status/1651746483924762625
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2023-04-27 23:12:41

Thread
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RT @RonFilipkowski
NOT. READY. FOR. PRIME. TIME.
Desantis melts down today outside the protective bubble of his carefully controlled, scripted FL events.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1651659041246945310
https://cdn.masto.host/journahost/media_attachments/files/110/273/308/919/220/498/original/25fd2bf6f954276b.mp4

2023-04-27 21:55:14

RT @AkbarSAhmed
NEW: Top House Democrats are hosting a DCCC fundraiser tonight with dozens of defense industry executives--raising $$$ from arms dealers ahead of a budget battle in which protecting Pentagon spending could mean accepting devastating welfare cuts.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democrats-fundraising-defense_n_644ac627e4b03c1b88cc1c9a

2023-04-27 21:33:33

Extremist Republicans have been enabled by media coverage that treats what is essentially a hostage crisis created exclusively by one side as a normal, two-sided partisan squabble https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

2023-04-27 21:33:33

Pure garbage
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RT @samstein
NEW -- Biden team underestimated McCarthy, figured he couldn't get a debt bill passed. And now, they're gonna have to adjust
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/27/white-house-regroups-mccarthy-debt-ceiling-success-00094273
via @adamcancryn @sarahnferris @Olivia_Beavers
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1651689404153442305

2023-04-27 20:26:57

Guess what this article is NOT about? That's right: "new recession fears". Just another click-baity Biden-economy scare headline from the Bezos Post... https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/27/recession-gdp-slow-economy/ 1/2
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2023-04-27 20:26:56

Any oral history archivists out there, with a few minutes to answer some questions? froomkin@presswatchers.org. Thanks!

2023-04-27 20:00:18

The nation is not “barreling toward default,” nor is it “careening,” or even “drifting” there. It is being pushed there by Republicans. Please read and share: https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/

2023-04-27 19:36:12

Republicans threaten to tank economy. Media blames Biden. https://presswatchers.org/2023/04/republicans-threaten-to-tank-economy-media-blames-biden/ NEW from me.

2023-04-27 14:16:15

Illinois Republicans use online portal to tell fake news sites what to publish while Washington Republicans still make WaPo and NYT take dictation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/27/republican-campaigns-local-news-lumen/

2023-04-27 13:51:32

RT @FixMediaNow
Hey #[0] help us make sense why in a 217-215 vote to push America towards a catastrophe @Santos4Congress casting what could be considered a deciding vote” to pass the legislation is not a part of the conversation? He +the GOP cheated to win.
@marceelias @ElieNYC @espiers

2023-04-27 12:14:48

Channeling Chris Christie, fer crissakes. https://politi.co/3HiFPJk

2023-04-26 23:33:13

RT @SIfill_
The goal for those unconcerned w/the poisoning of the American mind is to be freed of what for them are the unbearable expectations of decency, self-control & consideration in their word & deeds.They see as “fearless” those who demand the right to remain entitled,cruel infants. https://twitter.com/randpaul/status/1651003348097572865

2023-04-26 22:01:05

College Board lied to journalists and its own advisory group about censoring AP African-American Studies curriculum to placate racists, according to secret, now unearthed emails. Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/college-board-african-american-studies-ap-course-ron-desantis-florida-emails-817262f4?st=woc4uch85kkp9rf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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