Alison True

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Editor, will write for food.
“The William Shawn of alt weeklies.”

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Pretty fucking revealing that these guys were planning to pounce on Biden since before the debate, huh?

Sucks to suck, i guess

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"We want to be the first law enforcement agency to have a Cybertruck" is one of the easiest ways to tell your community that they exist to subsidize your lifestyle and that you will do nothing for them in return.

Cops want Cybertrucks. They serve no practical purpose and are an irresponsibly expensive misuse of taxpayer funds that have sacrificed much more beneficial public services…but cops don’t care about the communities they serve. www.404media.co/email/746a69...

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Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/17/b...

Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Trump might literally sell out the next journalist who opposes him to be chopped up by some foreign dictator. Yet the journalists covering his campaign don't seem to care.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers' tuition that it's now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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J.D. Vance's answer to what he would have done had he been VP on January 6, 2021. (Relevant, of course, to what he'd do if he were to be VP in January 2029.) abcnews.go.com/Politics/wee...

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I’ve made a lot of jokes about the J.D. Vance sparkling water story from Hillbilly Elegy, to the extent that it probably sounds made up, but you owe it to yourself to read the real thing if you haven’t

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FINE

If it is Vance must I promote a 2018 book I published that is a fiery take down on Vance or can I just shrug my shoulders

Amazon.com: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia eBook : Catte, Elizabeth: Kindle Storewww.amazon.com What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia - Kindle edition by Catte, Elizabeth. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.

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I cannot emphasize this enough: www.thedailybeast.com/trump-litera... Biggest example of when respectable types were convinced Trump would “change” then he got untold numbers killed during a pandemic then also tried to get his Pentagon to gun down Black Lives Matter protesters who annoyed him

Trump Literally Laughed at How He Can Game the Press With His ‘New Tone’www.thedailybeast.com The president is acutely aware that if he acts in a somber fashion, the media will quickly notice and praise him for it.

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I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

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at the time of the shot trump was bragging about his plan to deport 20 million people

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Obvious statement is obvious, but difference between BBC's coverage w/ US cable news is night and day. BBC just opened top of the hour to go over Biden's press conference. Factual. Mentioned Biden's foreign policy strengths. CNN chyron: "Breaking News: Biden Mistaken Calls Harris VP Trump"

SO FAR!!!

Want to get a good rage going? Especially if you’re a Chicagoan. Read this…

Chicago Taxpayers Have Paid $35.7M to Defend Disgraced Detectivenews.wttw.com In all, it has already cost Chicago taxpayers more than $98 million to defend former Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara, investigate his conduct and resolve lawsuits that allege he violated doz...

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trump mentioning his friend ghislaine maxwell, how fuckable his daughter is, his fan letters with kim jong un, having an AC maintenance company install a UV "ultravation" unit in his guts to prevent disease, then fixing the camera with blue steel and vowing to "kill all sharks for morgan fairchild"

Now, while I am WINCING at every gaffe Overall everything Biden is saying, is solid. He's even getting his digs in. Now imagine Trump, DONALD FUCKING TRUMP, trying to answer any of this shit. It would be carnie speak.

“Bacardo remains an active member of the Chicago Police Department, earning $102,000 annually.”

NEW: Chicago taxpayers should pay $7.6 million to a man who spent 17 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of a 2001 murder, city lawyers recommended.

Pay $7.6M to Man Who Spent 17 Years in Prison After Being Wrongfullynews.wttw.com John Velez was convicted of killing 26-year-old Anthony Hueneca in Little Village. The jury did not hear evidence that Velez was actually in Cicero at the time of the shooting.

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State security service refuses to cut ties with death squads.

Chicago police rebuff watchdog’s request to reopen probe into cops’ ties to extremist Oath Keeperschicago.suntimes.com Inspector General Deborah Witzburg said officers tied to extremist groups “are dishonoring the badge.”

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“the authors of the paper admitted that making a prediction based on interviews with experts would be too hard”

There is a new genre of serious-seeming "scientific" research paper but the paper is like "we asked ChatGPT if AI could do your job and it said yes" and then news outlets cover them uncritically and they go viral www.404media.co/ai-finds-tha...

AI Finds That AI Is Great In New Garbage Research From Tony Blair Institutewww.404media.co The former Prime Minister presented research claiming AI could reduce the public sector workforce. It’s largely based on a ChatGPT-4 output.

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IMPORTANT: The website for Jonathan Mitchell's sock puppet org suing Northwestern for "bias against white men" is an open submission form asking for "evidence of race or sex preferences at any university you've been associated with." Just FYI! fasorp.org

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Important detail of this (overly generous) piece: This conspiracy theory started from NYPost and Alex Berenson. People who call themselves journalists took as assignment editor a right wing propaganda outlet and a notorious conspiracy theorist.

The eagerness to get ahead of Biden infirmities got some people out over their skis on Monday. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The Biden-Parkinson’s mini-controversy, explainedwww.washingtonpost.com One effect of Biden’s poor debate performance? New eagerness to uncover evidence of Biden’s physical failings.

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Media asking if Harris has the vision to run the country and if Vance should shave. Both sides getting scrutiny.

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Now do McConnell

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BREAKING: CPD’s probe into 8 police officers with documented ties to far-right extremist groups like the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers was “materially deficient,” according to Chicago's watchdog. But CPD refused her request to reopen the probe.

CPD Rejects Watchdog’s Demand to Reopen ‘Deficient’ Probe Into 8news.wttw.com Investigators with CPD’s Bureau of Internal Affairs did not interview anyone other than the eight officers accused of belonging to the Oath Keepers, according to a 30-page report.

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It is disorienting to see what the New York Times will cover with an active voice (that is demonstrably more accurate) and what it'll obscure with passive voice.

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Deadline approaching: Our nonprofit newsroom is #hiring a reporter who lives in the Great Lakes region to cover gun violence across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Apply by Friday, July 12! #JournalismJobs

The Trace Is Hiring a Great Lakes Reporterwww.thetrace.org The Trace is hiring a reporter who lives in the Great Lakes region to cover gun violence across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. We are looking for someone w...

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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This is exactly what happened in post-USSR 1990s-era Russian Federation. Didn't help the word "democratsiya" sounds like "shit" in Russian, but that was also just an apt description of post-Soviet life.

Like it or not, the Democratic electoral strategy of “democracy is on the ballot” may not be successful because many Americans have already lived most of their lives in a marginalized majority without a functioning democracy. It is a slogan penned by a tone deaf and privileged political class.

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But mostly "how do we do all this stuff without the US?!" has been on the strategic table now since Trump's first term, which was a HUGE wakeup call all round.

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Fun fact: this dude endorsed my opponent saying that we needed a "normal person" in office knowing virtually nothing about me except the fact that I have a funny name so uh take this as you will.

Quigley becomes first top Illinois Democrat to call on Biden to step aside for a stronger candidatet.co The Illinois congressman called on Biden to drop out of the presidential race in an interview on MSNBC Friday, hours before ABC aired an interview with Biden widely viewed as a litmus test for the pre...

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A few months before he was reelected overwhelmingly, it was widely reported that Ronald Reagan napped during cabinet meetings.

President Biden told a gathering of Democratic governors that he needed to sleep more and to work less at night, but said he was staying in the race.

Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Nightwww.nytimes.com The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.