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Eric Blair🔥🟧 Profile picture
Eric Blair🔥🟧
@protecttruth_
Media ownership matters. Billionaires today influence democracies via control of modern media. Out of Twitter. Find me on Bluesky.
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Jan 23 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Here's free political strategy for Senate Democrats:

The public backlash against the NIH interference yesterday is. That money goes to red states. And it is a public-facing issue. Everyone cares about cancer research.

And RFK is a weak nominee. Pharma hates him.

So... 1/d Use this issue! Defeat RFK's nomination by going on offense.

No bipartisanship, no being 'friendly' with Republican Sens. Dems will peel off none and look stupid for trying that way.
Instead, fight. As Josh says here:
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/democra…
Jan 23 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
If Democratic leaders had any courage, or political acumen, they would be screaming in support of Bishop Budde.

What she said WORKED. The media picked it up. It hurt Trump. Now he’s trying to punch back.

THIS is when Dems should engage. If they want to win and fight fascism. 1/ Instead of supporting Bishop Budde and attacking Trump,
@SenSchumer and @CoryBooker are making boomer tier YouTube videos saying “Democrats will fight for you” which are not just boring and ineffective, but also lies — because they’re not fighting! Image
Nov 4, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Yeah, don't agree here.
Isildur was a good guy.
Merrick Garland is Isildur — who refused to take affirmative steps to destroy the One Rig when he had the chance.

McConnell is Saruman — hungry for power, could have broken away, but chose to try to harness Sauron. And failed. 1/ But Saruman did great damage before he was overthrown. His avarice led to massed armies, splits in Middle Earth, a great war, death and destruction.

And at the end, nothing was the same as before. The Shire was changed, Frodo and Bilbo left.

A new world was born, a Fourth Age.
Oct 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Trump is having a Nazi rally today in NYC. Stephen Miller is replaying Nazi hits.

And the Bezos Washington Post leads with:

"Harris adopts Trump's playbook."

People, cancel those WaPo subscriptions and sub instead to indep media. We are in a fight agst billionaire oligarchs. Image My jaw is hanging open.

@brooklynmarie
Sep 22, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
You may think that “Project Liberal” is about being a liberal, a Democrat, supporting Kamala Harris.

But surprise!

No. It’s a Koch-funded effort to divide Democrats!
We can see a former director of Heritage, who wrote Project 2025, on its board.
@mehdirhasan @hc_richardson Project Liberal 🗽 @ProjectLiberal 21st Century Liberals. We like Freedom, Markets, and Democracy. Own the authoritarians — join today! The United Statesprojectliberal.orgJoined March 2023 855 Following 26.2K Followers @mehdirhasan @HC_Richardson FreedomWorks, is Heritage, is Project 2025.

What’s going on here???
Why are MAGA Republicans behind Project Liberal?

Because they want to push the idea there are extremists on “both sides.”
Same as Trump does. Jason Pye Former Senior Policy Advisor, FreedomWorks
Sep 11, 2024 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Look at this Times article today.

“What they wanted to hear was … the fine print.”

Anyone “undecided” now does not want fine print. They are just making up reasons to like Trump (everyone mentioned leans towards Trump). The Times knows this. Jeremy Peters knows this. 1/ Image Let’s break it down.

This is a heap of bullshit.

It’s not voters.
What’s happened is that **the NYT Politics desk, Sulzberger, and top editors like Patrick Healy** have decided NYT’s narrative against Kamala is “more substance.” Image
Sep 10, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I don’t like to get into individual motivations. Systemic incentives and political economy are more imp't. If Peter Baker left, he'd be replaced w/ someone similar.

For Patrick Healy I’ll make an exception.

His track record w/ @HillaryClinton suggests misogyny motivates him. 1/ @HillaryClinton On Patrick Healy, 2008.

"almost uniformly awful, and trivial, coverage of Hillary Clinton during the primary season." 2/ Image
Aug 31, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It is now a high priority for @KamalaHQ— and top Democrats like @SenSchumer and @JoeBiden—to directly criticize the New York Times.

Most normie liberal Americans who read the NYT app and listen to The Daily **do not know** NYT Politics and Opinion are biased against Dems. @KamalaHQ @SenSchumer @JoeBiden H/t @airbagmoments.
@FixMediaNow

Aug 27, 2024 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
This was written by Rich Lowry, an out-and-out rightwing propagandist from Nationalist Review.

The Times is making a CHOICE to allow Lowry, and earlier today Pat Healy, to dissemble in their pages and deceive NYT readers.

But it's not b/c the NYT "wants Trump to win." 🧵1/ It’s not that the NYT wants Trump to win, per se. It’s just the political economy of American media.

NYT wants to get lots of subscribers, and the core subscribers are comfortable rich people.

/2
Aug 17, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Terrible piece in the NYT today. It is carefully calibrated propaganda to divide the Democratic coalition on Israel.

Your older relatives will read this and be swayed. Here’s a quick breakdown of how it works: 🧵

archive.ph/z70lH It’s by James Kirchick, neocon and rightwinger, former writer for DC Examiner and the Spectator.

Yet NYT Opinion — so broken! — lists only his book on gay DC.

Most NYT readers won’t know his history and will code his bio as “liberal.” That’s BS and it’s bad and it’s on NYT. /2 Kirchick author bio
Aug 10, 2024 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Ok. There has been a fight about politics happening in private in the Democratic party for at least two years. It's now leaking out into the public.

And it says something about Biden -- and about lessons Harris should learn from his admin. THREAD: 1/ Yesterday, David Remnick at the New Yorker pub'd an excellent interview w/ Nancy Pelosi.

The line relevant to us: "Pelosi dropped her calculated reserve. “I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation,” she admitted." 2/

newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Aug 5, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Look I’m a broken record — a broken record store on this — but

ANTONIN SCALIA MADE UP A NEW 2ND AMENDMENT IN 2008 while TAKING BRIBES FROM PRO-GUN BILLIONAIRES.

And the fake Scalia 2nd Amendment deceives hundreds of millions of Americans. Scalia has kids’ blood on his hands. I’ll go to my f’ing grave saying this and hopefully that’s not a literal statement.

The corrupt Supreme Court is at the root of our extremist gun violence problem in America.
Jul 19, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is a GREAT stream. Please watch. She is NOT ride-or-die with the current candidate.

High points of what AOC says:

- We need a PLAN. A legal plan.
- "If you think the folks doing this default to Kamala, you're mistaken" A fight coming.
- We're all on the same team. 1/2 "I can also tell you I have stood up in rooms with all of these people and said.. 'game out your actual plan to me. game it out. What are the risks of this going to the Supreme Court?...and they do not have an answer. No one has responded to me."
Jul 17, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The NY Times is killing us.
Right now, its Opinion links:

-Chris Christie: GOP
-Pat Healy: Mr "But Her Emails"
-Stephens: Right-winger
-"Nihilism of Young men": rightwing talking pt
-Continetti: AEI/F Beacon writer
-KS Anderson: GOP pollster

IT'S ALL RIGHTWING CRAP! 🤮🤮 NYT Opinion screenshot described in post Opinion A photo illustration of a white dove carrying a green sprig in its beak and standing on a ballot box that reads, “Vote.” Chris Christie: Will Trump Meet the Moment? 6 MIN READ Patrick Healy PATRICK HEALY Nikki Haley, What Happened to Your Principled Stand? 2 MIN READ Bret Stephens BRET STEPHENS The Secret of Trump’s Resurrection 4 MIN READ Michelle Goldberg MICHELLE GOLDBERG The Trump Shooter and the Growing Nihilism of Young Men 4 MIN READ MATTHEW CONTINETTI Why Trump Picked J.D. Vance 5 MIN READ An illustration that includes ... Honestly, this is a political crisis.

The biggest paper in the country, the paper of record, the one that the governing class reads:

It's a rightwing paper! What is Dems' strategy to deal with this??
Jul 1, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve been saying that Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer are a problem for a long time.

Dunn and Bauer are stuck in a version of American politics from 2005. They don’t have enough fight in them.

They need to go. Image nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/…
Jun 22, 2024 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Oh, lord.

We're back to popularism.
The idea will not die that all that matters is polling, and 'kitchen-table' issues—not values.

"As Dmitri Melhorn, Hoffman’s top political adviser, puts it, the problem with much of the current polling apparatus.."
1/
 nymag.com/intelligencer/… Mehlhorn: “The polling industry, prior to Blueprint [their new centrist polling shop], at least, was dominated by people whose revenue streams came largely from small progressive issue-advocacy groups,...
Jun 15, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
If you’re upset about Dems not doing much on the fascism front, here’s someone who bears great responsibility but gets little coverage:

Bob Bauer.

Biden’s head lawyer, in practice.
Bauer recommended Garland as AG, and it’s Bauer who argued the WH should leave Garland alone. 1/2
Image Bauer has more pull with Biden and DOJ on legal matters than any other single person today. Many DOJ lawyers were taught by Bauer and look up to him.

But Bauer is a key architect of the failed “norms will save us” strategy.

ABC last year:

abcnews.go.com/US/bidens-whit…
Jun 13, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Everyone should realize John Roberts is the most impactful Republican politician of his generation, and so this June's decisions are designed for the media.

Roberts' goal now is for the court to not seem radical.

His plan is to gut the govt in 2025, AFTER the Nov election. “What the majority is really doing: delaying a merits decision past Nov so that (1) if Trump wins, his administration will revoke mifepristone’s FDA approvals and reanimate the Comstock Act to effect a nationwide abortion ban, or …”
Jun 11, 2024 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
This is happening now --

I'm live tweeting some of Raskin's amazing statement — he's talking about Bush v. Gore and how that was the original sin that brought us MAGA today. ‼️
1/n Raskin and then AOC speaking now.
First witness: Sheldon Whitehouse. 2/n Image
May 29, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Vivek Ramaswamy is buying up Buzzfeed and trying to turn it into a conservative propaganda shop. Same as rightwingers did for CNN, Newsweek, Twitter, TikTok, NY Post, WSJ, talk radio, and the Baltimore Sun.

The right understands their power critically depends on media. 1/2 Meanwhile D party leaders fart around with no media strategy, failing to care about media ownership changes, failing to have a policy to boost press independence, failing to even prioritize FCC nominations.

The clearest example of this failure is CAP shuttering ThinkProgress.
May 21, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Brian's right. It's đź’Ż a dodge.

Politics is about moving public opinion. What politicians say MATTERS. Study after study in political science shows that "elite signaling" — politicians talking and holding hearings — changes public opinion.

Want to win in Nov?
Hold hearings. I'm a broken record, but:

Just look at Senate Watergate.