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In the Trump era, everyone from comedians to pundits have claimed that “nothing matters”. MSNBC anchor Ari Melber runs through an exhaustive list of times when Trump has been defeated or stopped by facts and reporting. “In a democracy, things matter when we make them matter.”
Why CNN Fired Hill; Tech To Labor's Rescue; The Need For a Black Press; Regulating AI; News or Nonstop Lies?; Pretzels and Politics; NPR's Restless Temps
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted a doctored video clip from Infowars in which they sped up Jim Acosta's hand movement in an effort to discredit a reputable journalist. She should be forced to resign for this.
Tech Giants and ICE; Eco-tage in EU; Suing Trump; Net Neutrality in Cali; A Question of Balance; Scamming the Women's March
It also seems almost impossible that the United States intelligence agencies don’t have most, or all, of the information available to the Turkish authorities.
“For the record, I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia,” Trump tweeted. A Fox News account proves him wrong.
Maybe inside the kingdom’s bubble, the Saudi royal family didn’t understand that we’d care. Maybe they listened to President Donald Trump ramble on about how the press is the enemy of the people, and assumed we all thought that. We don’t.
What happens when the adults in the room are scarier than the crying baby? Who’s responsible for the last 17 years of American wars that have convulsed the planet? Babies? Teenagers? Grown men acting like babies? Let’s face it: perfectly sober adults
Conservative Confusion; Social Media's Long March; They Got Algorithm; How to Hack an Election; The Macedonian Connection; Bye, Voice
Trump Boots Reporter; Tronc Stomps; Sinclair Slime; Facebook's Wrist Slap; Con Game; Too Late for Lopate?; Watching the Watchers
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