1) Ruther Bader Ginsburg lived an incredible and accomplished life that deserves to be celebrated. May she Rest In Peace.
2) Since I already know this will be a topic of dishonesty in the press: The Garland Rule from McConnell was that the Senate shouldn’t vote on a nominee during an election year when the POTUS is a different party. Many people have left that qualifier out.
3) This is going to get ugly. There will be a nominee and I feel terrible for that person because it’s rather clear that there will be a coordinated effort to destroy them regardless how impeccable their record.
4) If the press participates in the effort mentioned in 3, which feels inevitable at this point, then a large portion of the country will permanently view them as the hostile opposition. And they will not be incorrect for doing so.
5) Worth noting that ironically McConnell cited Joe Biden to justify not voting on Garland in 2016.
Best outcome is probably for Trump to nominate someone now and wait until after an election when direction is clear to hold a vote.
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It's incredible that almost the entire media adopted and regularly used a nickname for this law ("Don't Say Gay") that was used by critics to intentionally mislead regarding the content of the law while the settlement just restates that the law should be followed as written.
I pointed out repeatedly at the time that media outlets were misleading their readers by suggesting the law bans discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity instead of classroom instruction related to those subjects....
If you want to understand how Hamas propaganda is created on here and spreads, let me show a perfect example.
21 year old Mia Schem was taken hostage by Hamas on 10/7. She had her arm blown off. She was released as part of the ceasefire exchange.
While she was still in Hamas captivity, they had her film a hostage video in October.
Then, right before her release, they had her film another video under gunpoint where she said she was treated “very good” and people in Gaza were “very kind” to her.
The main anti-Israel propaganda accounts on here then promoted that video for millions of views suggesting Hamas was treating the hostages very well.
A perfect example of how ignorant reporters create false narratives that get exploited in this media environment.
Yesterday there was a lot of outrage over a CNN report from @NatashaBertrand which claimed almost a majority of the bombs Israel was using in Gaza were “dumb bombs”
The implication of most of the article, which was widely cited to support the idea that Israel was doing something irresponsible, was that Israel’s choice of unguided munitions was similar 2 indiscriminate targeting.
Although they did add 1 paragraph that undermined the premise
But what Bertrand failed to do was add any context as to whether that rate of “dumb bombs” was appropriate or consistent with other military actions.
When ABC News looked at that, they found it was a “historically high level of precision weapons” being used.
As some detestable people spent yesterday dismissing reports of extensive rapes on 10/7 based on the lack of direct testimony from the murdered rape victims, here is just some of the other evidence that has been reported on in recent weeks:
“Israel submitted to the UN unequivocal evidence of rape incidents, including gang rape and traces of semen found in bodies of young Israeli women who were murdered.”
The most insightful thing you can read about the current coverage of this conflict was actually written back in 2014 by former AP reporter and editor Matti Friedman. Almost everything he wrote is still reflected in what you see today and I would urge everyone to read it.
I’m going to highlight a few of the key points in this thread.
“The key to understanding the strange nature of the response is thus to be found in the practice of journalism, and specifically in a severe malfunction that is occurring in that profession—my profession—here in Israel."
This is key and why news organizations almost completely ignored the Palestinian poll from last weekend:
“If you follow mainstream coverage, you will find nearly no real analysis of Palestinian society or ideologies, profiles of armed Palestinian groups, or investigation of Palestinian government. Palestinians are not taken seriously as agents of their own fate.”
Please watch this video of one of the music festival survivors recounting part of what she saw that day. I've seen dozens of these interviews with survivors.
Keep that in mind in the context of watching despicable people on here constantly try to deny or diminish what Hamas did that day.
Here is another survivor describing the hell he and his friends went through. They actually managed to take out some of the terrorists with their jeep as they tried to escape.
Here is another survivor who was shot in the arm and the leg describing what he witnessed.
You will notice they all tell the same story. Just Hamas terrorists murdering everyone they could find.