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10 Apr, 7 tweets, 4 min read
"In return [for access] @maggieNYT & NYT often normalized [Trump] in ways large & small. NYT spent years painting a false portrait of adult decision making at the WH, suggesting Trump was surrounded by a beehive of aides who plotted policy, instead of a madman setting the agenda.
"Example: In March 2020, when Trump changed his mind about America 're-opening' by Easter, @maggieNYT reported the 'decisive' U-turn came after he pored over sobering data points about the pandemic ...
"Normalizing seemed to be the goal. When @maggieNYT sat down with Trump in early 2019 for an extended Q&A, he lied nonstop and came across as utterly incoherent, yet the Times politely typed it all up as a normal White House interview ...
"One year ago, @maggieNYT's byline appeared on a deeply misguided front-page Times piece as America suffered from the government's futile pandemic response: 'Despite Pushback, Trump Suggests Testing Is No Longer an Issue.' ...
"As if his blatant lies ever should have ever been taken at face value, let alone during a deadly public health crisis. Nonetheless @maggieNYT won industry accolades for her Trump reporting." pressrun.media/p/maggie-haber… Wow @EricBoehlert: great piece on Haberman & "Access Journalism"
Every once in a while @maggieNYT, whose "access journalist" normalized the Trump Family for 5 years making her extremely complicit in their crimes against US, likes to Tweet at me that I am simply incapable of understanding her greatness
You should subscribe to @EricBoehlert's blog, his work covering the news media is uniquely insightful pressrun.media

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Mainstream media's false equivalency did great job of hiding Republican agenda from American people while tearing down Democrats. And Democratic quest for "bipartisanship" neutered Democratic leadership. But something broke in last 5 years between Trump & insurrection against US.
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After 4 full years under President Trump, we *lost* a total of 2,876,000 jobs.

After 2 months under President Biden, we *gained* a total of 1,384,000 jobs.
We are still down about 8.4 million jobs compared to right before COVID-19 hit, but certainty today's *massive* jobs numbers from February 2021 are a good sign. Image
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This is an extremely important article to read about how families can think about the risk to unvaccinated children, after most adults are vaccinate, but in the months or longer it may take until children are vaccinated.
I get the criticism & concern over both the characterization of the risks (an attempt to compare the risk of young children & vaccinated seniors), and the many children (and their relatives) who may have higher risks than the average.
Health & education leaders have all generally come around to the desperate need to open up schools, especially for younger children, due to a rigorous cost-benefit to the children (and their family), especially as teachers & adults get vaccinated.
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I am tired of mainstream media reporting all of the excuses the misogynistic, racist terrorist gives for murdering 8 people, including 6 Asian women.
Mainstream media & “public intellectuals” also obsessed w/ defending police who push the terrorist’s defenses: lying about his racism, sex addition, etc. Problem not subtlety of how @atrupar or others cover police’s remarks, but why police are spreading the terrorist’s propaganda
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I was finally persuaded by the Twitter conversation to turn on #OprahMeghanHarry, and damn this is dark and interesting.
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Second, stoked our founders got US out of this hereditary monarch situation, and nice of Oprah to finally finish them off.
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