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Reminder: The Trumpified-Department of Homeland Security, whose spokesman is seen here echoing White House’s anti-press attack line, has been compiling a database of journalists and “media influencers,” including by “sentiment.” 🔽 biglawbusiness.com/homeland-secur…
This spokesman called that database “standard” and suggested that it’s tin-foil hat territory to question whether they would use it responsibly.
It should be added that the substance of @SpoxDHS’s statement is pure and reprehensible disinformation: The CNN story quotes a TSA official by name without a denial, in a story whose deep sourcing speaks to its clear credibility.

In case you missed it. cnn.com/2019/01/04/pol…
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Adam Klasfeld
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Serious question: What is the etymology of the phrase “racially charged”?

Trying to discover where, when and from whom the euphemism that bewitched the news industry originated.
Of course, tweeps find the answer in roughly a nanosecond.

Slate on this, h/t @MichaelHDuBose:
slate.com/news-and-polit…

The original citation, h/t @Knowledgevendor:
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The fact that this sort of crept into news copy during the Civil Rights Era with its origins mostly obscured over the next half-century kind of vindicates my thoughts here.
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The National Enquirer published sexually compromising material sent from the cell phone of the owner of a powerful news organization detested by Trump.

Do I have that right?
For those asking, I am obliquely referring to the alleged text messages of a certain billionaire going through a well-publicized divorce and owns one of the two most powerful newspapers in the nation.

And focusing on the part that matters.
The National Enquirer, whose parent company admitted to participating in a “catch-and-kill” hush-money conspiracy with the Trump campaign, is the alleged “competitor” whose values he hopes will replace those of WaPo.
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Adam Klasfeld
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On top of the changes making it easier to vote, one of the many important reforms in these bills: patching the “LLC loophole.”

If enacted, LLCs will need to disclose their beneficial ownership to the State Board of Elections, and their donations will be capped.

That’s huge. 🔽
From the Times piece, the big reform of the LLC bill appears to be transparency. Previously unaccountable shell companies will have to disclose whom they benefit.

But, as @ZephyrTeachout notes in these critiques, they appear to fall short of "closing" the loophole.
During the corruption trial of Cuomo's former "right-hand man" Joseph Percoco, evidence came in showing how the governor collected dozens of LLC donations from the energy and real estate companies tied to the scheme.

My reporting back then:

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So, when your president asks the Defense Secretary to find military facilities to hold immigrants, do still just call them Detention Facilities or are we getting close to where you call them Internment Camps?

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Homeland Security to compile database of journalists, and media influencers.........hello, What the Actual Fuck? Did I wake up transported to fucking North Korea last night and
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