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Merrick Garland sees the big picture
Let's hope he stays true to his vision.
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The J6 coup failed because the clock ran out. The GOP now has plenty of time to get it right
From quiet proceduralism to violent insurrection and back again.
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Lies are bad. A press corps enabling liars is worse
Propaganda works when reporters fear telling the truth.
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The United States government was caught spying on American journalists. Does anyone care?
Increasing evidence of the apparatus of the state being levied against reporters should surely lead to outcry from sensible people.
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The insurrection never ended
The Republicans are reviving American apartheid.
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In politics, a lie is true if no one opposes it. That's why Democrats struggle. They must create ‘an infrastructure of democracy’
There’s no alternative for people vulnerable to propaganda.
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When will President Joe Biden stop pissing on migrants?
But the responsibility doesn’t just rest on the shoulders of the government. Americans need to demand it.
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Revelations by the House Select Committee risk drawing attention away from GOP legislators who aided and abetted a failed coup
January 6 was one part of a coup attempt planned out in the open. Its procedural component was widely reported in the weeks beforehand.
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Why do the storytellers whitewash Fox even when Fox becomes the story?
Three Fox hosts contacted Mark Meadows during the 1/6 insurrection. Jeremy Littau thinks that should change how the press does news.
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Will the Democrats learn? When you think you're winning against bullshit, you’re actually losing
On covid, the Republicans are swiftboating Biden.
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The president’s low approval is democracy working. Voters are holding him accountable
The problem is a Republican Party that's not promising to do more to fight the covid pandemic. It's promising to do less.
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Cheney hints at criminal charges for Trump in panel vote to hold Mark Meadows in contempt
But perhaps the biggest news was that the vote was televised.