“The most interesting and the most distressing thing about American news coverage right now is that we don't treat the end of democracy in America as the story. That is the story." npr.org/2021/12/23/106…
My theory about this is that in most newsrooms, reporters and editors are either specialists in foreign or domestic news, but not both. The foreign news specialists have experience covering non-democracies, but are not covering the U.S. Vice versa on the domestic news side.
Speaking solely for myself, I’ve found my years in China invaluable when reporting on American politics. The experience of covering an authoritarian state is something that forever changes how you see the U.S. And it makes you attuned to the hard reality of how power functions.
Anyway… Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄

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24 Nov
The Republican National Committee is dismissing a call for Ronna McDaniel to resign as chairwoman over her outreach to LGBTQ voters: washingtonpost.com/politics/repub…
In a statement to the Post, RNC spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said Oklahoma GOP Chairman John Bennett is “lying” about the steps the national party plans to take as part of McDaniel’s recent move to form the first-ever “RNC Pride Coalition.”
“Chairman McDaniel has made it abundantly clear that this does not mean we are advocating for any policy or RNC platform change — Chairman Bennett is lying and it is disgusting that he’d attempt to raise money off these falsehoods,” Alvarez said.
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27 May
During his ice cream stop in Ohio, a reporter asks Biden: "What's your message to Republicans who are prepared to block a Jan. 6 commission?"

Biden holds up his ice cream cone: "Eat some chocolate chocolate chip." 1/2
He then answers more fully: "I can't image anyone voting against the establishment of a commission on the greatest assault, since the Civil War, on the Capitol."

Biden then adds, lifting up his cone to the crowd of onlookers: "But at any rate, I came for ice cream." 2/2
Full video of Biden's ice cream stop, via @cspan: c-span.org/video/?512166-…
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12 May
Member after member of the House GOP conference is denying key facts about the Jan. 6 insurrection. This is a big deal.
The most astounding thing about this (and there are many) is that these lawmakers are denying a violent insurrection that took place *at their own place of work.*

They were there! Their own lives, and their own staffers’ lives, were literally in danger.
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12 May
When it’s dinnertime and I take too long to deliver, the books start dropping.
For some reason, her favorite books to drop on my head are @panphil's Out of Mao's Shadow and Locke's Second Treatise of Government.
Leaving the scene of the crime.
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10 May
An excellent fact check by @GlennKesslerWP that I somehow missed two years ago! Many of McCarthy's claims about his small business experience don't add up...
@GlennKesslerWP Whoops. *Three years ago.
Among the most eyebrow-raising of McCarthy's statements: He says he sold the business and used the profits to pay for college.

But per @GlennKesslerWP, in-state residents paid no tuition at Cal State universities at the time. And McCarthy lived at home.
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Late to this, but the news that No Labels has hired Mark Halperin is an outrage. More than a dozen women have accused Halperin of sexual misconduct. Halperin still refutes many of the accusations — so how can No Labels claim that he’s done his time and made amends? 1/x
Here are just a few of the accusations against Halperin. These are all from a single article by @oliverdarcy in 2017. money.cnn.com/2017/10/27/med… 2/x
More from the @oliverdarcy article. 3/x
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