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"While women are being forced out of the workforce, children are going hungry, and people are being rounded up by ICE in warrantless raids, white male pain continues to be a Page 1 story. Farmers and ranchers make up less than 2 percent of the total population in America, but they dominate our cultural and political mythology."
#NewYorkTimes #Trump #Republicans #heartland #Iowa #farmers #gender #race
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Noting Steve Bannon's recent high-profile media interview in The Economist, Denny Carter underscores the choice of media outlets to high-profile white men like Bannon as they pontificate about Trump and political matters:
"For some reason, Bannon, a podcaster, lands interviews in which he lays out a grand plan for the future of the US and the world at large – plans he's devised from his bunker while scrolling online."
"The nature of lies in MAGA-world has changed, too. We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."
~ Liz Dye
And the media's response?
#Trump #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #media #sanewashing
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-tylenol-autism-lawsuit-texas
"The federal agencies that survived Elon Musk’s wrecking ball are now captured by the echo chamber of his social media platform, with cabinet secretaries staring furiously into a digital funhouse mirror to divine the will of the most internet-addled members of the MAGA base. ...
The shit was supposed to be a weapon … but today it’s the stream that carries the GOP forward."
#Trump #Republicans #ConspiracyTheories #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #media #sanewashing
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"In his latest interview about somehow dictating America's future from behind a microphone, Bannon was dead certain that Trump would be president come 2029, using typically verbose language to describe the addled god-king as a 'vehicle of divine providence' and an 'instrument of divine will.'"
Noting that right-wing New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently claimed tht Trump's coverup of the Jeffrey Epstein case file doesn’t bear hallmarks of state secrecy so much as desperation of guilty men, Brian Beutler writes,
"Douthat frequently seems both caught off guard and pained by the depravities of his coalition partners—in denial until some dark truth is revealed, at which point he acquiesces, and moves on to the next."
#Trump #NewYorkTimes #Epstein
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/you-dont-under-any-circumstances
"What he omitted [in his commentary on Trump and the Epstein case], or hasn’t pieced together, is that the biggest, most revelatory twist in the Epstein saga is ongoing: Republicans have effectively dissolved the U.S. House of Representatives."
In other words, it's long since time that the media — New York Times leading the way — speak truth about what's going on right now.
#Trump #NewYorkTimes #Epstein #Republicans #coverup #HouseofRepresentatives #MikeJohnson
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Tressie McMillan Cottom comments on the Nazi tattoo of "working class" Democratic candidate in Maine, Graham Platner, to look at how the media and centrists want to define "working class":
"'Working class' has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."
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