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Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
The Times here says Senator Ron Johnson authored a report that "appeared to be little more than a rehashing six weeks before Election Day of unproven allegations that echo an active Russian disinformation campaign and have been pushed by Mr. Trump."
More: "The lack of meaningful new information and the overlap with a Russian disinformation campaign... fed charges by Democrats and Mr. Biden’s campaign that Mr. Johnson had abused his Senate powers to aid Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign — and... had aided Moscow."
"Mr. Johnson forcefully denied that his report was based on any disinformation. But he also said a claim should not be off limits merely because bad actors were amplifying it."
In a backhanded way, Fox News appears to confirm the Times' assessment that the report contains no news. As of 1:30pm the main story on its wesbite did not lead with any news from report. Instead Fox leads with an allegation that news media fail to cover the news in the report. Image

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Feb 19
American veteran, fired from FEMA, to WTOP:

“I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting. We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.”

Before you react, a few points. 1/
The man said he was a Trump voter. He was fired by a White House whose officials have assumed, and said in TV interviews, that federal employees are almost all “far left.” 2/
He was dismissed as part of a widespread purge. Yet the form email reads, “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.”

The government blames his firing on HIM.

3/
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Dec 3, 2024
The decline of rural Democrats: Just a few years ago the party could win a lot of rural counties, which made them a lot more likely to win elections.
open.substack.com/pub/steveinske…
“In 2006, Brown won a lot of rural counties, including a broad band several counties deep in Appalachia. In 2012 and 2018 he won fewer, and by 2024 he triumphed in no rural counties, none. He won only around Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Dayton.”
“Even though Missouri had become a red state in presidential elections by then, a Democrat could compete down ballot in rural areas. By 2018, this had changed. McCaskill was beaten back into three metro areas: St. Louis, Kansas City, and Columbia.”
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Nov 17, 2024
To understand the effects of social media, just read some things that people choose to post on it.

open.substack.com/pub/steveinske…
“The way to understand our fractured world is to think more deeply, which takes time. Social media demands and rewards the opposite—instant conclusions, biases, instant rage. Its corrosive influence is evident in some of the posts by its richest and most famous users.”
“Here’s another, and sadder, way the experience is manipulated: we’re given to understand that the algorithm chokes off links that recommend articles. This has been one of the most valuable functions of Twitter. Now that’s less common.”
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Sep 7, 2024
Help me out. Has Fox told their audience who Dick Cheney endorsed for president?

Much of the Fox audience voted for him in 2000 and 2004.

A website search turns up nothing. Maybe some mention on TV was not transcribed?

Seriously, I mean to be fair. Anything? Image
Many complaints about what the media “don’t cover” are just wrong. Often it turns out media did cover it. Or some that didn’t, have not confirmed the facts so they wait. Or whatever. But in this case it’s a straightforward news item involving a frequent past guest on Fox.
By way of comparison, I checked The NY Times (which many on the political left have decided to believe is pro-Trump, but that’s another story). Not a huge story, but comes up in several items. Image
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Sep 9, 2023
How could so many people believe Trump’s claims about the 2020 election after so much evidence exposed the lies? History offers an answer.
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“Nativist power faded and grew over time, but never vanished. It’s always been a culture war. At first it pitted native-born Protestants against largely Irish Catholics. In later times, nativists turned against Muslims or people of color.”
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Aug 10, 2023
A “ten-thousand-year war” — H.W. Brands’ book on the wars of the American West is a hell of a summer read.

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“Brands weaves in stories and perspectives I never knew… We first learn of the Battle of the Little Bighorn neither from the soldiers’ perspective nor from that of the coalition of warriors who confronted them, but from a young woman who saw and heard the fight.”
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