Much of the media is constricted by an overwhelming conformism shaped by partisanship and Twitter slogans detached from the lives of the working class and journalistic inquiry. Glenn is bound by principle rather than what’s popular in his social cohort.
Expect a lot of sniping from the reporters behind discredited Russiagate hysteria, hype mindless identity politics, aggregate partisan horse race journalism & whose beliefs are uniformly identical to whatever is popular on Twitter. The conformist mob hates principled dissent.
Glenn was censored over a minor media criticism piece about the unprecedented effort to suppress Biden docs, TI has done virtually no original investigations on Biden during the general election and the issues Glenn cites have been rampant and getting worse year after year.
Here's the column that was too spicy for TI to run. It's not that different from a recent column about Hunter Biden in the NYT. It raises perfectly reasonable questions about the press and its baldly partisan conduct. Judge for yourself: greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-j…
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The easy grift in the Trump era is jumping any number of liberal bandwagons -- Russiagate, MeToo, identity pol, scapegoating police for every problem in society, claiming America is Nazi Germany -- positions that get you foundation gigs, TV invites and millions of followers.
Anyone on the left who slows down and says hey, maybe these issues are more complicated than a simple political slogan, and any of these claims require evidence and careful reporting, gets shadow banned from professional life. Responsible reporting is a career loser.
Kansas State Rep. Stan Frownfelter, the incumbent senior Democrat defeated by @Aaron4KS37 in the primary, voted to criminalize second trimester abortions, also voted for resolutions supporting the Keystone XL & calling on Congress to remove EPA's power to act on climate change.
Frownfelter's pitch to voters was to reelect him because he is "one of the largest fundraisers for the Kansas Democratic Party." Its true, he raised nearly $50,000 -- almost entirely from corporate PACs representing real estate, utilities, construction, etc.
But his disclosures show little money going to other Democrats. The Kansas Ethics Commission says politicians may not spend campaign funds on personal use. Frownfelter's campaign purchased a $2k laptop, spends around $2k a year on Frownfelter's personal internet & phone bills.
Republicans are using the coronavirus crisis to win long-desired bank deregulation, raising potential for bank failures. We obtained letters showing the deregulation push. interc.pt/2LbrvVx
Regulators have already lifted risk taking rules on "community banks" ie banks w/less than $10b in assets in response to Covid-19. But small banks helped drive the last financial crisis. There's much attention on big banks but nearly 500 community banks failed in the last crisis.
Community banks have a far better reputation than Wall Street banks, making them a convenient talking point for deregulation, but the rapid deregulation of small banks will heighten risk taking at a time when a wave of defaults could drive a new tsunami of small bank failures.
Bipartisan group of lawmakers now joining the push to literally bailout corporate lobbyists using cover of 'it's only for local chambers of commerce.' fitzpatrick.house.gov/media-center/p…
A defining aspect of our democracy is that the vast majority of corporate money shaping policymaking and elections comes from 501c(6) trade groups, which allow corporations to pool their collective money together (like a union but for businesses instead of workers) for influence.
So of course now Speaker Pelosi, joined by dozens of House Democrats and Republicans, are now clamoring the bailout the Gucci loafer-clad U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Restaurant Association, the American Petroleum Institute and other corporate 501c6 lobby groups.
We obtained audio of RNC officials, conservative operatives discussing a plan to recruit police & retired military as "poll watchers" to challenge the registration status of people on election day: theintercept.com/2020/04/11/rep…
“You get some [Navy] Seals in those polls and they’re going to say, ‘No, no, this is what it says. This is how we’re going to play this show'” -- Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of "True the Vote" soundcloud.com/the-intercept/…
Here's an R.N.C. official promising to get the party to "devote significant resources" into recruiting police and military as Republican poll watchers, citing the end of the 1982 consent decree that barred the GOP from similar voter intimidation efforts soundcloud.com/the-intercept/…
There was a bipartisan leadership agreement to pass the the CARES Act, the unprecedented $2 trillion+ bailout, w/ *no recorded vote* so @theintercept is going to reconstruct the record. Help us contact every House lawmaker and let us know where they stand. interc.pt/39Yq8TM
It's hard to imagine a more massive law in American history than the CARES Act, up there w/ TARP, the Affordable Care Act, the Bush & Trump tax cuts. This measure could have been passed via remote voting or by proxy, but Pelosi & McCarthy cut a deal to have no recorded vote.
So far @AOC is the only House Dem we know of on the record opposing the bailout. But we don't have a firm answer for dozens and dozens of other lawmakers. Where does Rep. Jim Jordan stand? Rep. Louie Gohmert? What about the others? Contact me or @aidachavez, DMs open.