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Atty Gen Barr just blamed the riots on “Antifa” and “far left radicals.”

Is there any evidence of this at all?
I have seen people blaming far right agitators. I have seen no actual reporting on this. The mayors and Governor in MN blamed outsiders but didn’t describe them. What in the world is this based on?
I’ve seen many tweets and reports on this but literally nothing with any kind of confirmed information on the motivations of anyone actually arrested or seen committing violence. Lots of speculation, no real evidence.
Contrast with the anti-lockdown protests, where many participants were ID’d as Three Percenters etc, and organizing was done by known RW groups.
I am not surprised that Twitter is filled with speculation and unfounded assertions.

But the Attorney General of the US?
Here some reporting from the good people of @MPRnews: mprnews.org/story/2020/05/…
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A thread about media, and "news literacy." One of the things I think about all the time is how little we know directly. You know about your family and friends, your work and the people you do it with. Your circle of direct observation, large or small, is limited.
For everything else, we rely on media (plural of medium, a method of transmission). With very few exceptions, everything we argue about or celebrate On Here is something we know about only because somebody else told us. We're all passing on what we've learned from others.
What divides us, though, is the sources we trust for our information. *You* don't believe that 5G causes COVID-19 because the sources you trust tell you that it doesn't. Others believe it because the sources they trust tell them it does.
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Peter Sagal
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As profound a violation of the Constitution as he has ever committed, perhaps the most egregious. If there is a core idea to the Constitution, it is that a duly elected House of Congress has authority to govern *even if you don't like them.*
Long time readers will note that I've been saying for a while that Article 2 of his impeachment was far more important than Article 1. This is why.
A number of people often suggest this is somehow the Democrat's fault, that they should somehow "force" the President to honor its subpoenas, through inherent contempt or fines. @RepAdamSchiff addressed that here:

npr.org/2020/02/06/803…
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Since he brought it up, here are the stories on the Trump WH that have won the noble Pulitzer Prize for Journalism (links available on each citation page):

The @nytimes, for its exhaustive investigation into decades of fraud and lies at the Trump Org:

pulitzer.org/winners/david-…
The @WSJ, for its uncovering of the illegal hush money payments the President made to the porn star with whom he had an affair, prior to the election:

pulitzer.org/winners/staff-…
The Arizona Republic and USA Today TV, for their examination of the realities of Mr Trump's "big beautiful" border wall:

pulitzer.org/winners/staffs…
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