Susan
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Writer/Messaging/MediaProducer. Nonprofits. Past = BI Worldwide, HBO Asia, WCCO TV. Executive Comms.
Home of the Honeycrisp
Joined September 2012
Good Lord, I am listening to an analysis piece on NPR that is examining what mass deportations would do to the construction industry in Texas. Where in the heck were these stories before the election??. But we got headline after headline parroting "Trump wins on the economy" tho.
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@maggieNYT These are the types of tweets that journalism profs need to screenshot for classroom discussions—illustrating how social media use by reporters who "parrot quote" falsehoods in their own feeds without adding corrective context SERVES bad faith actors & pushes inaccurate content.
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It's just becoming comical at the NYT political desk. Left excerpt:.Harris economic policies not detailed enough. Right excerpt next day:.Harris's proposals too complex. Trump's "policies" are shorter, punchier, & easier to grasp . 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️.
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@joerogan @jaketapper "but I would have had to travel to her. ". You didn't really want to do this interview, Joe.
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The Gateway Pundit, a St. Louis-based far right site run by brothers Jim and James Hoft, faces a defamation lawsuit for falsely accusing election workers of fraud, instigating threats against them. via @MO_Independent.
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@therecount @Deborah84752065 And then he ends with a condescending remark dismissing her expertise. Senator John Neely Kennedy of Louisiana is not only a terrible Senator for his state, he's an ugly, disrespectful man. And Fox News show bookers absolutely love him and gift him lots of appearances on air.
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@OBC15u Are you a fake troll account, Tom Cox, or does this account rep an authentic person?. If it's the latter, my sympathies to your wife. Who appears to be in a marriage with someone who does not respect her.
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@antifaoperative I appreciate your practice of adding screenshots of the social media posts belonging to the criminally charged on your posts. Gives added context about them.
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@ScottWalker NO ONE should be "over" January 6th, Scott Walker. Especially since the Trump-Vance campaign is demonstrating and telegraphing in multiple ways that they're planning to leverage the *tactic* of sowing unfounded distrust in the election outcome AGAIN. Shame on you for this.
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@RepPeteStauber "[Rep. Pete] Mr. Stauber voted against every screw, steel beam, and concrete pier in this bridge.". — Governor Tim Walz (MN)
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@RpsAgainstTrump There are similarly-aligned folks with similar degrees of wealth retreating to a safe space in Florida. The wealthy folks who hang at Mar-A-Lago and the other country clubs around the Palm Beach area would never hang with the MAGA folks who volunteered as foot soldiers on Jan 6.
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Jon Stewart is no longer up to the task. He is incapable of an original idea, relied on lazy tropes that appeal more to the white dudebro demographic, and most importantly, has joined the DC press corps in their inability to see the forest for the trees. A fail, @TheDailyShow.
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@jaketapper You know what would give your post relevant context, @jaketapper?.Reminding everyone how Michelle Obama *championed* the issue healthy food for children and importantly — in school lunches — and how Republicans attacked her fiercely for it. Called it "govt overreach".
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@AbigailShrier Your post is creepy. A love post to an obvious misogynist?.Ew . And, there is nothing — nothing — about any aspect or characteristic of the Trump-Vance campaign or the entire Republican Party culture that can be described as "humble".
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@kylegriffin1 Good answer by Barnicle. Dislike the general practice of our political press appeasing too many slimy anonymous commenters in DC for their content. There are times when there's *journalistic rationale* for granting anonymity, but it's overused by press for tabloidish reasons.
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@DrCasanovaBrown This woman put a million dollars worth of personal development and therapy into one post . 🙌🏼.
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@RpsAgainstTrump @MadisonMCross4 Bob Costas:."There is no cult of Joe Biden". AS IT SHOULD BE. Cultish traits displayed in a sycophantic following are warning signs.
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An example of the degree to which national newsrooms fail in terms of helping the public understand who & what is most accountable for outcomes. These caps on insulin costs are due to 117th Congress & Biden-Harris Admin priorities. 👉🏼We have weak "public governance" journalism.
Starting today, all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs. Also today, they’re cutting list prices by 70% or more - a move that’s expected to *save* them hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
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Leave it to the European press to ask more relevant questions on substance and the threats from authoritarianism compared to inane questions that focus on more superficial stuff from the U.S. political press corps . #PressConference.
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Anyone else notice?. 1) Pres. Biden is not receiving proportionate attention & credit for things that matter most, which are OUTCOMES from public governance. 2) Our culture ranks optics & superficial traits higher than governance outcomes. 3) GOP/press has NO standards for Trump.
Biden's press conference will be a key test for him. But he's no master of the big rhetorical moment
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@CarolLeonnig @realDonaldTrump @TheJusticeDept Thank you for investigating the choices and actions of the Justice Department during the Trump Admin, @CarolLeonnig . "$10M cash withdrawal drove secret probe into whether Trump took money from Egypt". Here's a free link to this reporting .
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Not sure if there's a connection, but President Biden has said repeatedly that he wants a higher corporate tax rate. More unequivocally than elected presidents have dared to say in recent times. Biden is supportive of unions. And now there seems to be a wealthy coalition. .
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@briantylercohen @sunkist111 People have to know that Jennie-O is headquartered in here Minnesota. In my hometown. Background on the turkey joke 😂.
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@therecount So, Dewayne Douglas Johnson ("The Rock") is totally cool with a second Trump Admin. (It's a binary choice. There are two applicants vying for president who have a mathematically probable chance to win). Johnson is now MORE OK with a Trump Admin than he was in 2020. Noted.
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@AVindman May I suggest — this is a good night to turn off all devices and spend our time offline. Go outside. Play a game with someone. Try a new restaurant. Clean out that closet. You know. anything else.
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@FrankLuntz Facial expressions seems more critical to you for one candidate over the other one, Frank.
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@awfulannouncing Making a horrible, unfounded accusation against someone like Aaron Rodgers did is not simply "shit talking". Pat McAfee is minimizing here. He could have shut it down in the moment with Rodgers. Working in the Attention Economy (ethically) requires a degree of responsibility.
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@StephenKing @LoneStarLeft Then why would you choose to use your platform and influence to weaken the Democratic Party presidential ticket, @StephenKing?. The *ticket* reps a set of values, an entire WH staff, a quality Cabinet, & the future slate of judicial nominee selects. THAT ⬆️ should be your focus.
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@CEOre_ What I observe. An example of how he surrounds himself only with people willing to lavish ridiculous praise and adoration on his every move. Listen to the guy saying "it was good".This clip serves as metaphor. Even his Board of Directors are spineless with him.
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It's Steve Schmidt. Longtime Republican strategist and campaign operative.
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Disagree.I'm consistent in my position in that we (the collective "we" in political arena, incl the press & social media) give disproportionate attention to show ponies over work horses. We don't know names of most effective lawmakers as well as we do effective attention-gamers.
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@AudieCornish @efgee17 Yes, the Call Her Daddy interview was well-conducted. Alexandra Cooper asked tough questions and elicited substantive answers from VP Harris. 📣 Legacy political news desks have been giving us lots of fails with their practices the last decade. Too many to list in one post.
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@Independent The author did not vote for the Democratic Party nominee in 2020. (Of course, she's free to vote for whomever). Based on the article & her explanation of her views, she's not a Democrat, despite her claiming that label for herself. PM Netanyahu would prefer a Trump Admin, too.
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This is reaching absurdity. @ChrisCameronNYT of @nytimes is reporting Pres Biden is STUTTERING. When reporters can't tell the difference between encoding/decoding neurodiversity traits that impact one's language & speech traits w/one's REASONING & IQ, then THEY are a problem
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@AlexThomp @michaelstrahan Exhibit 7,395. The public has a too low degree of literacy in civics, economics, and also news literacy, as evidenced by the framing of this ques by Strahan . We have a cultural crisis with valuing accuracy & accurate understandings. It's affecting quality of public governance.
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@jermainedupri @loveandhatela I just listened to all 2:55 of your "thoughts" Jermaine, and for the life of me, I can't figure out what you mean by your question regarding the phrase "her hands were tied"???. Do you understand the role and actual area of authority of the office of Vice President?.
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@AccountableGOP For those not connecting the dots — incl most of our political press & analysts in corporate newsrooms — these are the plans specified in #Project2025. 👉🏼Eliminate nonpartisan civil service roles to achieve a partisan, sycophantic Executive Branch without checks & balances.
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@mviser @ChrisMegerian The White House reporter for the Washington Post can choose what he wants to report & amplify to the public with his platform. He chose this.
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@HerbieZiskend46 @MallaPip @CNN Of all the wrongers in political journalism, Chris Cillizza is consistently one of the wrongiest. Mediocre man allowed to fail upwards. One of America's predominant cultural traits.
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Heard @KenDilanianNBC say on @MSNBC the old line, ". if I upset 'both sides', I've done my job".NOPE!. 👉🏼Not a metric for ethics in political journalism. If there exists ASYMMETRY in egregiousness from each side, your JOB is to help us audit the RELEVANT DIFFERENCES, not muddle.
The Robert Hur hearing is a perfect example of what American politics has become. A career public servant spends a year reaching conclusions that are inconvenient for partisans of each party. So they set about questioning his motives and ethics on national television.
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@Olivia_Beavers Thereby, Heritage Action is officially advocating for U.S. policy actions that benefit Putin, HAMAS, and Iran.
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@KenDilanianNBC You're leaving out, @KenDilanianNBC, Hur intentionally and unnecessarily put subjective characterizations into his report to fuel a negative narrative about Pres Biden because he understood our political press would obligingly PARROT them, thereby ASSISTING in the smear effort.
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@NRO I suggest the folks at National Review consult a wider variety of news sources, because you seem to be trapped on Earth 2 or something. House Republicans are blocking support for Ukraine. To Putin's delight. President Biden and Democrats support Ukraine.
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@Olivianuzzi @laxietoo Are they telegraphing their strategy to get out of this trial?. Given what we saw Jesse Watters do on Fox News, a staunch and voluntary ally of criminal defendant Trump (both Watters and his network employer), it appears this may be their strategy. Newsrooms should not assist it.
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Who can read super fast lips?.😂.Coach PJ Fleck when the refs first miscalled the QB touchdown by Minnesota Gophers when they were 4th and inches and then went for the touchdown to pull ahead of USC . Listening, Listening. NOT LISTENING 😂
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@girlsreallyrule @Truth_Wins She had valuable knowledge gained from experience as Secretary of State. Wisdom and relevant experience that was under appreciated by many. (Side note: as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton repeatedly earned "Most Admired Woman" in the Gallup poll. UNTIL she ran for president).
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@JaneMayerNYer These types of political ops would not be as effective if our largest newsrooms were adept at covering the ops AS ops. @nytimes, for example, chooses to ASSIST the op by parrot-quoting the smears in their headlines.
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@ScottWalker So now if voters vote for candidates who have policy positions they prefer, like good climate policies, affordable healthcare, housing, & education, reproductive healthcare rights, & a fair tax code, they're "indoctrinated" instead of choosing what they value?.
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@Acyn If President Biden would have ever called Haiti "Haitia", the New York Times would have written a front page headline about it and put it into high rotation on their social media feeds.
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Every op/ed I've seen from a national newsroom saying the professionally qualified Vice President Kamala Harris "should step aside" has been written by a White person. Predominantly men. She has a similar degree of qualifications (or more) than every male VP before her. It's ugly.
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@yashar @DouglasEmhoff Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff is a great, unofficial *bonus* on the ballot. He's also an excellent communicator who is personable and well-liked.
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@LACaldwellDC Just imagine if our political press sector had been focusing the public's attention onto examining Biden's GOVERNING & related outcomes with the proportionate attention governance deserves—his whole term—vs the disproportionate headlines we've rec'd on everything BUT governance.
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I scrolled a LONG time on my @nytimes app looking for *any* headline w/fair reporting—or a summary—on the style of governance, actions, and outcomes of the Biden-Harris Admin. As a veteran WH reporter, @peterbakernyt, why the LACK of fair coverage on this Admin?. Found this, tho
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@benshapiro Hey Ben, are you pretending to not understand the role and area of authority of a Vice President — as an attention-gaming tactic to delight your fans — or are you genuinely this ill-informed about the office of Vice President?.
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@JuliaDavisNews It seems as if Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov got a bit sensitive about the remarks he was getting about living his cushy TV studio life & wouldn't have the guts to go to the frontlines. So he went to a training facility to show he's brave enough to see mud in person.
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Since the major networks are not airing the Harris-Walz campaign events and the Washington Post and NY Times don't feature rally coverage in their social feeds, look to livestreams from @cspan or @NewsHour if you watch to watch them unedited. @NewsHour has a channel on @YouTube.
WATCH LIVE: Harris and Walz speak at campaign event in Las Vegas, Nevada
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@keithboykin @MsMalarkey24 It's extremely frustrating, though, that CNN is producing Jerry Springer-style shows by booking folks like Rep. Mace who are known for this kind of political theater. Is it impossible to find enough quality folks for bookings?.Then CNN should do fewer talking head "panel" shows.
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@hughhewitt Trump is the verified draft dodger. Trump is the verified liar. He's King of Falsehoods and King of Grievance. You're right. A majority of voters can see thru bull crap. Fact: U.S. has managed the best post-pandemic recovery from global inflation in the world. Context matters.
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@jayrosen_nyu Might as well have parrots ask the questions, then. No need for any journalists to be involved at all 🤷🏻♀️. Heck, that would make the political theater of TV debates even more entertaining.
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On this day of August 12, 2024, I just heard @ChrisJansing ask @chucktodd on @MSNBC if Trump can "pivot". Lord Almighty, we're caught up in a cable news groundhog day nightmare.
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@alexweprin In case anyone still had any doubts regarding Jon Stewart and how little he cares about women & demographic groups other than his own OR even has the capacity to consider them. It's a CHOICE for the @TheDailyShow to platform O'Reilly. Out of ALL the people from which to choose.
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@MattGertz It looks like the @NBCNews reporter is @DashaBurns in this photo. Did you know this woman participated in the Stop the Steal activities at the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th when you chose to platform her?.Did you ask about that day?.
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@oliverdarcy Not the primary objective. The primary objective is establishing historical record in front of the public's eyes. I'm over folks grading this hearing on some sort of *entertainment scale* type of metric. Governance as "entertainment" fuels our toxic political+news marketplace.
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@hughhewitt @rachelvscott Rachel Scott was professional because she set up her question with verified contextual evidence detailing Trump's own actions and words. The question was relevant because Republicans and Trump's supporters have been pounding on VP Harris's identity as "DEI hire" in media.
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@RepMikeGarcia I've lost count how many congressional Republicans are trying to take credit for improvements & projects in their districts when it's verifiable they voted against the funding. They must believe their audiences will buy anything they say as long as an "R" is behind their names
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@MikeSington Listening to Trump's muddled mush of lies, it's maddening we have a faction of Americans believing this guy deserves to have executive powers over public governance again. Esp after John Roberts' Supreme Court gave the president more protection to do whatever the hell he wants.
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Trends in political journalism:.Consider the indy journo efforts of @atrupar & @Acyn . If we ONLY had the written copy & sound bites of Trump selected by corporate newsrooms, we wouldn't have had *fully accurate* impressions regarding Trump's words & the themes in his messaging.
and he's done. hopefully that was the last Trump rally ever. here's how it ended.
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@RpsAgainstTrump @DianeEugenio ". seemingly becoming" the party of Trump???. Oh, dear congresswoman, the evidence shows the party is THERE.
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@RealALMartinez There are not enough of them willing to do the very difficult work for the pay. If the American owners paid high enough wages to attract only documented citizens, the prices of food would rise substantially. Consumers like cheap prices . Economics 101, my friend.
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CNN obtained slides from No Labels that are evidence the org is planfully designing messaging to hurt Pres Biden by intentionally MISREPRESENTING the Biden-Harris Admin's policy positions. Their talking points exactly parrot right-wing media messaging.
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@niceblackdude A person could need a wheelchair and still be a good president. A person's walk is one of the less relevant traits when auditing anyone's qualifications for executive public governance.
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@AuthorKimberley @nbcsnl I posted about this, too. Dana Carvey's version of Biden doesn't ring true. It's lazy. The older savvier #SNL would've used a parody of Biden to skewer our cultural ageism & make us think about US & our own perspectives. Instead, @nbcsnl is leaning-in to ageism. Juvenile.
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@JoshKraushaar Still on this theme this morning, eh Josh? Is this how you're processing grief that your party has abandoned American ideals and principles?. This theme that Republicans OWNED them?. That Republicans OWNED love of country or patriotism?.
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So Steve Schmidt & Dean Phillips faction is smelling an opportunity to stoke divisions in the Dem voting bloc & are fueling this Pass the Torch op. It's NOT organic. 📣*any* division in voting bloc ranging from Liz Cheney to Sen Sanders gives an Electoral College win to Trump
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@bresreports @LeaderMcConnell President Biden, + Senate Democrats & Republicans have put on the table the most significant border security legislation that we've seen in years. Some Senate Republicans & House Rs are blocking it because using the issue for political content supersedes actual problem-solving.
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@JoshKraushaar Republicans never owned patriotism. And now, Republicans don't even understand what it is. Republicans confuse nativism & sycophancy with patriotism.
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@osuphantom @maxberger Classic oversimplification by Max Berger that gives voters not-quite-accurate impressions. Which is *one* of the bad things that happens regularly on political Twitter.
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Why Don't Americans Recognize that Inflation is Down & Incomes Are Up?. (Maybe because the press doesn't report economic news adeptly). ". the reality is that inflation has been falling fast, and people’s incomes after inflation have been rising rapidly".
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@kyledcheney Unsurprised. Judge Aileen Cannon has demonstrated through multiple decisions of hers that she is assisting this criminal defendant in his desires to delay the trial. (So has the Supreme Court).
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@JaneMayerNYer This article is about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's new law clerk, Crystal Clanton, who used to work for Charlie Kirk's far right org that was created to appeal to young Republicans called Turning Point USA. Excerpt:
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Hey, CNN, .Could you show us you don't care about expanding your appeal & reach with women and marginalized communities?. CNN: .Sure! We're platforming Bill Maher — for that aggrieved male audience who sits home Friday nights.
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@TheDailyShow First episode for this version of @TheDailyShow:. Our writers have no original concepts.
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@KaivanShroff Gross . Her WAPO writing is also shallow and her immaturity shows when she opines about public governance. It's obvious she's been here for 5 mins, but somehow has overly confident thoughts—far beyond her wisdom or professional experience—and gets paid for them.
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@timjacobwise Hey @timjacobwise,.I grew up with a similar background to Gov Walz in rural Minnesota (he grew up in Nebraska) . We make fun of our bland food heritage all the time! . My household was a "meat & potatoes" home with salt & pepper for seasonings and cinnamon for desserts 😂.
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@grace_panetta Yes.No amount of "different messaging" or policy-tweaking by Dems can overcome the cultural traits in the audiences who find Trump and what MAGA sells as attractive. Added harm: corporate newsrooms *disproportionately* featuring public opinions in headlines over topical expertise.
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@davidplouffe @KellyannePolls Asking you a yes-or-no question, @davidplouffe . Is a person's reputation for staying rooted in facts and not intentionally misleading others a criteria for you in choosing guests?. If your answer is yes, that means YOU are vouching for this person's credibility regarding that?.
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@atrupar Cite your sources for the claim "nobody" wants the Biden-Harris ticket, @abbydphillip. That's a strong statement to make as an analysis. Are the folks who participated in the NH primary and voluntarily did the "write in" part of your "nobody" group?.
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@DecodingFoxNews @sandralhanlon Everything the Trump family does is fake or superficial cos play to try and disguise the reality that ALL they really care about is their personal profits and benefiting themselves.
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@BidensWins This, for example, would be worthy of headlines & analysis from @NYTimes & @washingtonpost & @politico . IF they wanted to help us compare and contrast things of SUBSTANCE – like policy positions and the types of *entire administrations* that are repped on the presidential ticket.
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@JohnJHarwood Appreciate that @politico has the guts to put this on record, because WE all see this in the .NYT headlines and story angles. ". Times falling short in a make-or-break moment for American democracy. often blurring the asymmetries. " [between President Biden & Trump]
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@brianstelter @DianeEugenio Donald Trump has said these people "need their heads examined" (his words) if they don't vote for him:.—Catholics.—Blacks .—Jewish people . No other politician has stoked animosity against groups of people as a TACTIC more than Trump, @BretBaier . Like Harris said, you KNOW it.
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@RpsAgainstTrump I know Taylor Swift is wise enough to not take advice from Brian Kilmeade regarding her brand OR her personal principles.
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