Aaron S. Veenstra

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FAU Journalism Prof and UFF-FAU Steward, political communication & digital media // The Press and Democratic Backsliding from Lexington Books, LXFANDF30 for 30% off // he/him

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I am being forced to use Teams and now I understand people who just want to burn it all down.

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Anna O Law

And whether it is "constitutional" or not, there's every reason to think the Court will rule any attempt to rein it in out of bounds. So regardless of what might hypothetically pass, the other branches will probably need to defy the Court to make it happen.

Seeing "OK but it's unconstitutional" on what is plainly campaign communication that wouldn't pass the current Congress anyway (maaaaybe the ethics stuff, but nothing else). But even that overlooks that "constitutional" doesn't mean anything anymore. Cong/pres will have to defy Court on any changes.

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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**Publication Alert!** "An Ideology by Any Other Name," from me & sky-free Chris Johnston in Political Behavior. We investigate ideological identities in the U.S. beyond 'liberal' and 'conservative.' VoR: doi.org/10.1007/s111... Free to read: rdcu.be/dNDiD A brief summary thread:

An Ideology by Any Other Name - Political Behaviordoi.org The terms ‘liberal’ and ‘conservative’ are prominent features of political discourse in the United States, and many citizens choose to identify with one of these ideological labels. Yet, many citizens...

This conveniently ignores the recent update to Murc’s Law: In American politics, only Joe Biden has agency.

"but the polls" "but nobody has ever won with" blah blah blah, there's time, and nobody in modern history has ever had to run against such a deranged view of what America will become. It's winnable. Pack up the pity party; off to work we go.

Anyone who didn’t expect this probably shouldn’t be commenting on American public opinion.

"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

So I was preparing for student questions and I wondered why George Wallace was shot- and basically the guy didn’t really want to shoot Wallace, but it was too hard to get to Nixon so he just begrudgingly decided he was fated to shoot Wallace.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)

This is the Daily Dot; it's all the clickbait section.

Something that tends to get lost in all this is that Donald Trump is the most deeply hated politician in modern American history.

I think the phenomenon I've really seen is how many regular people had the reaction of wishing a former president had had his brains blown out on live TV. Not freaks or radicals, someone's mom.

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A thread on today’s “ remarkably one-sided “The Morning” newsletter by Michael C. Bender. /1 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/b...

J.D. Vance’s Chancewww.nytimes.com Why Donald Trump tapped Vance to be his successor.

In case you're wondering how local media is prioritizing the day's big national stories – newspapers generally giving less prominence to the classified docs dismissal than TV stations are:

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One takeaway from all the 🤷‍♀️polling🤷‍♀️ out today: Down ballot Dems absolutely can win & need every possible resource at their disposal. FWIW, we’re hearing this from Run for Something state & local candidates about their voter contact efforts too. Folks are 💯% fired up for them!

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Trump’s new VP nominee, in 2016.

Congratulations to all the gullible totebaggers who made this possible eight years ago.

Radio Mambí in Miami this morning was surprisingly light on the shooting – it's the lead news story but folded into the convention opening. Two talk segments on it in four hours, one obliquely blaming Biden for giving Trump bad Secret Service, and another saying Biden was bad to connect to Jan 6.

And the bad Secret Service segment turns almost immediately into a bad Copa América security segment-qua-ad for the Republican candidate for Miami-Dade sheriff.

We'll see if the afternoon news/talk block is any different, but the morning block is just another day and really just another year – the main, every hour Biden story is that he doesn't care about oppressed Cubans.

I'm old enough to remember people saying the New York guilty verdict was bad because it wasn't as open and shut as the other cases.

In all seriousness: the very idea that someone can take highly classified documents, store them in a public place, defy any number of requests, subpoenas, etc., and then face NO CONSEQUENCES AT ALL is genuinely shocking, and should terrify anyone who cares about national security.

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Joel Sievert

Major traffic jam because everybody who's anybody wants to get to Buldopt.

Another one for the "we should be thinking about media more as an effect than a cause" file.

The former Republican congressman who defines morning coverage on the supposedly Democratic-aligned cable news channel was reportedly taken off the air this morning out of fear he, his wife, or his guests would say something to offend the MAGAs. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

‘Morning Joe’ pulled from air Monday because of Trump shooting | CNN Businessedition.cnn.com MSNBC will not air “Morning Joe,” its celebrated politics roundtable program, on Monday, opting to instead air continued breaking news coverage of the attempted assassination of former President Donal...

#Journalism

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

Bookmarking this for the replies, which smoothly move into other totally speculative explanations. Good example for class of rationalizing new information into existing belief preferences.

A lot of progressive accounts are spreading this claim and it is not true. I have verified the FEC records myself. They match the alleged gunman's street address.

Who could've guessed that international football – famously focused on getting things right ahead of maximizing profit – holding a major match in Miami – famously not a thin facade covering a mass of corruption and bullshit – might collapse into chaos, theft, and heat stroke?

#Journalism

oh man I missed this fucking gem just casually platforms (unchallenged in headline and synopsis) the authoritarian lie that the people opposing authoritarianism are the ones responsible for violence

["Wonder Years" opening intensifies]

WTF are you smoking, BBC?

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spent my whole life seeing, among other things, "liberal hunting license" bumper stickers. a "fun" little "joke" about killing my loved ones.

Well I'm given to understand that today & for a VERY limited time, our nation's political violence party is shocked—shocked!—to learn that we currently live in a world of normalized political violence, and would like very much to know who is to blame. Full Essay: www.the-reframe.com/gambling-in-...

Gambling In Casablancawww.the-reframe.com Being blamed for a world of political violence by the people who force us to live in it, and are now shocked-shocked!—by it. Navigating the daily trauma of living in a bully's paradise.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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compare and contrast - Trump is a convicted felon who was also found liable for sexual assault www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/u..., the other statement is a classic subjective political attack www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/u...; NYT treats them as the same ("painted")

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In this defensive New Yorker reaction to Joe Biden (finally) criticizing the press that has been criticizing him, Jay Caspian Kang shares an important insight about the falling power of the press, but I come to a different conclusion... 1/ www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Joe Biden’s Cynical Turn Against the Presswww.newyorker.com After a wave of intense scrutiny, the President and his campaign have begun to target the media, and many of his supporters have followed suit.

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Seth Masket

I was in Perth a couple weeks ago, and a Korean friend who lives there told me the region's public transportation is terrible. It was better than all but maybe five or six American cities!