#TodaysBeauty is the two humpbacks who came cruising past Lime Kiln Lighthouse today.
Also, the sunset was beautiful again on Dec. 14. 2024 marks ten years after Sandy Hook. I pushed the listening-station button in honor of Jessica Rekos and her classmates again.
Since @elonmusk and his redoubtable hired hands seem determined to obscure what happened on Jan. 6 and why Twitter executives were scrambling on Jan. 7, it seems essential to point out that Twitter in fact played a central role in Trump’s coup attempt: specifically, this tweet.
That tweet has played a central role in the federal prosecutions that have followed.
One of the strange aspects of the whole Twitter Files pseudo-drama is that it really demonstrates something that's just established reality for longtime newsroom people: Namely, opinion writers/editorialists/columnists are NOT reporters, who have much tougher standards to meet.
Columnists/editorialists can be ex-reporters, but many if not most are not. Reporters, as a matter of passing fact-checking/copy-editing muster, must not only have confirmation of their facts in hand, but have to consider counter-evidence as well.
Reporters, if they're ethical, won't simply examine an intentionally limited dataset and draw conclusions about the entire dataset based on their narrow window. But that's what @bariweiss, @mtaibbi and @elonmusk are trying to foist on the rest of us.
"I look in the backyard and that man is walking away from my husband, and my husband is on the ground,” the woman says “He has come over like four times confronting my husband because he thought he was a Democrat." journal-news.com/crime/court-do…
This case concerns me because I monitor developing trends in domestic terrorism. I have been particularly concerned about the rise in rhetoric in extremist circles about unleashing lethal violence on their neighbors. revealnews.org/article/domest…
Remember the guy in Idaho who asked Charlie Kirk, 'When do we get to use the guns? When are we going to start shooting people?' dailykos.com/stories/2021/1…
The most popular right-wing talk host is ginning up his audience of millions to react violently to any Democratic victories Tuesday. Especially in Pennsylvania. A key part of this involves fomenting conspiracism. It’s a classic authoritarian blueprint.
Tucker and his cohorts, including his sidekick Glenn Greenwald, sneer at anyone who reads certified election results as legitimate or thinks denunciations of stochastic terrorism or hate speech are anything other than liberal “censorship.”
The segment with Greenwald is remarkable. Tucker and Glenn are a perfect fit: "sneering condescension laden with random lies and smears, riddled with the right-wing persecution complex, tacked onto a framework of Carlson’s trademark projection."
What she was doing in this segment, incidentally, was baldly lying about a family whose home was invaded by Minuteman Project figure Shawna Forde and her gang. All 3 were shot; the father and a 9-year-old daughter died. crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/…