John Weaver, former aide to McCain and Kasich and a Lincoln Project co-founder, has been accused of sexual harassment and grooming. He confesses to some of the activity. axios.com/john-weaver-fo…
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Adam Donaghey, whose Run Hide Fight has been acquired by Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire, was arrested for raping a minor, which led to the closing of Trumpist movie company Cinestate. thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wi…
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Republican Madison County (IN) Councilman Steven Sumner has been arrested for “child seduction” and possession of child pornography. Performing sex acts on a minor under 16 for 2 years and they don’t call it rape? indianapublicradio.org/news/2020/12/m…
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Republican OC supervisor candidate John Moorlach is accused of smearing the woman who accused fellow Republican Assemblyman Bill Brough because she claimed his Chief of Staff told her not to report the rape. voiceofoc.org/2021/01/allege…
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Republican Attorney General Ed Sniffen resigned after it was revealed he abused his position of authority as a coach to begin a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. This is sexual abuse. propublica.org/article/sexual…
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Bradford County PA District Attorney Chad Michael Salsman, a Republican, was charged sexual assault, indecent assault, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, & promoting prostitution thedailybeast.com/pennsylvania-d…
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Former Senate Republican Conference digital strategist Ruben Verastigui has been arrested for Child Pornography. Complete/triggering info is here:
A former insurance lobbyist has accused Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) of sexual misconduct during a dinner they both attended in downtown Minneapolis in 2017 with corroboration from former employer talkingpointsmemo.com/news/former-lo…
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Salt Lake Country Republican Committee Chair Scott Miller responded to complaints of harassment by defaming all the women who came forward in an email sent to party leaders statewide. apnews.com/article/salt-l…
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Matt Gaetz (previously 525) is now under investigation for sex-trafficking a 17-year-old girl. This grew out of investigation of a friend Joel Greenberg, (537) nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/…
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So a GOP talking point against the infrastructure bill is that only X% is for roads and bridges. Of course, the media ask Dems to address this and they handle it beautifully pointing out that in the 21st century, the power grid and broadband ARE infrastructure.
Here's Buttigieg addressing it on FOX. This is excellent. Limiting infrastructure to roads and bridges is 20th century - now it's time to prepare for the future.
Of couse, Sanders cannot praise the bill but instead criticize it for not doing enough and then stepping all over the message, he goes on to talk about "human infrastructure." We have won the messaging on infrastructure, but I am concerned he will do his best to lose it for us.
I do not like @Politico and think no one has captured the mentality of that rag better than @CharlesPPierce who named it "Tiger Beat of the Potomac" BUT this Boehner story is worth reading. politico.com/news/magazine/…
And not so much because Boehner is calling the reactionary right and the right-wing propaganda machine out. It's worth reading because it is a cautionary tale for Democrats.
Read this paragraph and ask yourself, are there Democrats this describes? I can think of more than a few.
There is a lot that is wrong with the media. Some problems are structural. Some are economic. Some are our own damn fault. There are some things we can do.
Structurally, the media remains very much in the hands of white men. Even though we see more diversity in the public face, there is little progress where the decisions are made.
This study looks at more than the US, but then the structural problems are broader than the US.
Reading "Sisters in Hate" and this made !e think of @eminently_me5
"Everyone has “the potential for resisting false ideas,”a trio of researchers note in a paper about Spinoza’s theory, “but this potential can only be realized when the person has
(a) logical ability, (b) correct information, and (c) motivation and cognitive resources.” No one, it seems, is immune from the psychic glitch of sometimes believing that what’s wrong is right.
Among the chinks in our intellectual armor is a susceptibility to repetition. Research shows that people become more credulous of an idea the more times they encounter it. In what’s known as the illusory truth effect,