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The Senate is restricting freedom of the press during the impeachment trial, from electronics bans to magnetometers to press pens (AKA First Amendment zones): rollcall.com/news/congress/… Please follow @rcfp & ask @RoyBlunt @amyklobuchar to reverse these unprecedented restrictions.
Reporters felt the impact of the Senate’s new restrictions on #PressFreedom at the @uscapitol today: apnews.com/dd945e7c4c8206… It is outrageous that @CapitolPolice interupted interviews, but maybe even more so that the US Senators involved didn’t push back. More on this tomorrow.
Letter from @ACLU @EFF @Public_Citizen @NiskanenCenter @CREWcrew @OpenTheGov & more falling on the Senate to rescind restrictions on press access & let @cspan position its cameras: s3.amazonaws.com/demandprogress… #opengov
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Alex Howard
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Journalism schools should teach this article as a egregious example of false equivalence in an age of asymmetric polarization. The reporter & editors do not provide sufficient context nor verification to inform the public, rendering “both sides” the same. nytimes.com/2019/12/13/us/…
Compare to @isaacstanbecker’s piece, focused on the social media bubble of illiberalism surrounding the impeachment hearings, which accurately reports on the dynamic of facts vs partisan distraction, deflection, & furor washingtonpost.com/politics/fact-… False equivalency masks this dynamic
I'd flag this to a public editor, if the Times had one. (Sadly, @sulliview has left the building.)
The @NYTimes did neither itself nor the public favors by reporting out the dynamics of impeachment this way. Making "both sides" equivalent in this debate implicitly favors the GOP.
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Alex Howard
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In a statement that could have been issued by Stalin or Mussolini, the President of the United States called journalism “an evil propaganda machine” with “false, biased & evil” reporting. The catalyst? A leaked @NYTimes town hall that debated his racism: pressthink.org/2019/08/bad-he…
Hard to start a Sunday morning with a new low in authoritarian rhetoric from a American President instead of a message of peace, grace, kindness, charity, or love.
Sadly, this what is what unhinged, unchecked, pathological narcissism & anti-social personality disorder looks like.
When a debate at a town hall with the journalists of a newspaper of record focuses on the question of *how* to report on Trump’s well-documented racism: nytimes.com/interactive/20… instead of *if* he is a racist, the jig is up. He knows it. So he attacks the @nytimes’ credibility.
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Alex Howard
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I’m back at the @uscapitol, this time for a Congressional Transparency Caucus event on tools for Congressional staff: transparencycaucus.info/2019/05/21/sav… Impressive line up of speakers & organizations. Thanks to @RepMikeQuigley for hosting & championing #opengov! #CivicTech
First up: Michael Horowitz, the inspector general (@JusticeOIG) of @TheJusticeDept, talking about oversight.gov, which brings together IG reports from across US government. @OversightGov tweets out every new report when it’s posted. Goal: inform the public! #opengov
1 million hits/year for @OversightGov, Horowitz says. Enhancements are planned. Public will see thousands of recommendations that have not been implemented & would result in cost savings, he explains, & a IG vacancies dashboard. Cc @POGOBlog pogo.org/database/inspe… #opengov
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Citizens for Ethics
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BREAKING: Following CREW records requests, US Fish and Wildlife Service said it will investigate allegations that Donald Trump Jr. may have illegally killed a rare sheep during a recent trip to Mongolia and imported parts of the animal back to the US.
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The American people deserve to know the full cost to taxpayers of Don Jr.'s hunting trip, whether the State Department coordinated logistics, and whether he got special treatment for the license to bring the sheep back.

Here are our requests:
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Clarification: the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued a statement saying that they were "in the process of reviewing" the allegations about Don Jr.'s hunting trip.
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#Thread

1.
 #TulsiGabbard is the de-facto leader of the emerging leftwing sovereign populist movement in the United States.
I suspect this is by design.
In due time, DNC and RNC will be dissolved and replaced by a #PatriotParty.
She will be one of the leaders.
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🍑Impeachment🍑

On 3/4 Nadler announced an inv’n into “the alleged O of J, public corruption, & other abuses of power by Trump, his assocs & members of his Adm.”

8/8, “This is formal impeachment proceedings.”

8/5, In late fall, we will decide to report articles of impeachment.
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