Daniel Gilmore

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Media studies and communications professor

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“NYT reporter steals story from noted liar alex berenson in order to falsely insinuate biden has parkinson’s” would be quite the 2024 remake of clinton cash, for fuck’s sake

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U.S. counties "left behind" by outsourcing and the early 21st century economy "added jobs five times faster in the first three years of the Biden administration than they did in the first three years of the Trump administration," according to a new study. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/b...

A Remarkable Comebackwww.nytimes.com “This is the kind of thing that we couldn’t have even dreamed about five or six years ago,” one expert said about changes in some American counties.

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Also: It's the scarcity of housing that makes it an attractive investment to hedge funds in the first place. A better way to own Wall Street is by building enough homes to end the shortage.

I'm a bit skeptical about this "get hedge funds out of housing and families into housing" idea. I mean, what do hedge funds and corporations do with all the housing that they own? Surely they...rent it to families? On further inspection, the Jersey City bill appears to just be anti-renter:

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Between the platform story and the Parkinson’s doctor story sure looks like the NYT is carrying somebody’s water

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Oh my god the sourcing on this might be Alex Berenson

Yoffe in the Free Press on July 7: www.thefp.com/p/why-did-pa...

shameful, desperate shit from the NYT

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Most headlines on the GOP platform abortion changes will be garbage about “softening.” Pay attention to the reaction from a top anti-abortion group: “It is important that the GOP reaffirmed its commitment to protect unborn life today through the 14th Amendment.”

THE ABORTION PLANK IS A PERSONHOOD PLANK

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As Netanyahu consolidated his personalist brand of politics, Likud eventually stopped publishing elections platforms altogether. If you vote for them, you know what you're voting for, and it's not the policy.

2024 GOP platform is a wee bit shorter than the norm www.npr.org/2024/07/08/n...

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“Why is everyone pretending like we had a normal primary?” — because we…did? The incumbent ran mostly unopposed other than a few fringier candidates? I truly don’t understand what I’m missing here…

For wherever you stand on the whole issue, I will never understand the sudden insistence that even a weak incumbent president has an expected “serious” challenger. I kinda feel like I’m going crazy watching otherwise smart people point out that absence like it’s unusual.

What has been going on the past week and a half is one of the worst instances of collective journalistic malpractice that I’ve ever seen

The NYT Parkinson's "scoop" is even worse than it seems from the headline, bc buried in paragraph 11 the reporters *know* Dr. Connard met with someone other than Biden, and on March 28, 2024 the President's Public Schedule shows Biden was in NYC the whole day

I will note that never once did WH press corp reporters get this heated during the Trump admin. They are just straight up fully on board with trying to burn this admin down and bring Trump back to power.

Sorry to share a Twitter link, but I do feel it’s necessary to see video of the press conference vultures it’s really really nuts, and completely out of line. We should continue to demand better of our mainstream media x.com/acyn/status/...

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These reporters are fucking out of control

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Free headline advice: The 2024 GOP Platform Says Fetuses Have Due Process Rights Under the Constitution

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Trump continues to benefit from the very strange norm among journalists that "if it's said in public, it's not a scandal." How much more space has the "Biden is old" story been given than Trump's promise to jail his political opponents? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...

Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunalswww.nytimes.com A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals.

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This aligns with the Project 2025 position, which Trump’s campaign staff has tried to distance him from, but which Trump’s Republican Party is also accepting in full. A complete rollback of all women’s reproductive freedom.

Meanwhile, where is the top headline in the NYT that the draft GOP platform states that fetuses have constitutional rights, amid Trump/RNC efforts to claim it "softens" the GOP abortion position?

tRuMpS mOdErAtInG oN aBoRtIoN

THE ABORTION PLANK IS A PERSONHOOD PLANK

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Yes, that too. The implied suggestion that political news media is learning into with a story like this in particular that having something like Parkinson’s actually disqualifies you from elected office is just deeply gross.

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Brian Beutler

Big loser energy from you, Brian

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Right. Either explanation certainly seems more likely than “Biden secretly has Parkinson’s and is hiding it,” especially if you have experience with a loved one having Parkinson’s and actually know what it looks like.

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that’s okay i am sure the RNC is well positioned to bail them out, it’s not like they’re directing donors to dump their money into trump’s PAC

Fun fact: they spent all of their war chest in the first quarter of the year and were down to 320k on hand, 185k owed as of the end of March. As one would expect of a party that has the upper hand.

One reason why a Parkinson’s expert might have visited the WH 8 times in 8 months is bc a big Parkinson’s bill just got passed and signed. But don’t let that little bit of fact get in the way of your shitty ableist rumor mongering, NYT

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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Reminder that the BEST-CASE SCENARIO for a Trump re-elect is that he watches reruns and farts around online while Jared, Stephen Miller, and the incompetents bumble about ineffectually. And EVEN THEN, we would lose 4 years off the clock responding to the climate crisis. Which is a death knell.

Project 2025 will double down on protections for fossil fuel industries while killing clean power initiatives, while this is going on, but the media is mostly focused elsewhere for some idiotic reason www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Temperatures 1.5C above pre-industrial era average for 12 months, data showswww.theguardian.com Copernicus Climate Change Service says results a ‘large and continuing shift’ in the climate

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Really worth watching this explainer on one of the key elements of Project 2025. For Brits, it's also worth noting the similarity with Reform UK's pledge to replace the civil service with political appointees.

You can watch John Oliver's explanation of Schedule F here. Two points: 1) Engage in ideological purges is a central strategy to the GOP's governing doctrine now. 2) There is not equivalent energy in fighting back from the center or the left. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-public...

The Public Opposes Trump's Plans to Politicize Public Servicesdonmoynihan.substack.com And John Oliver provides a Project 2025 explainer for you to share

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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The impossibility of separating Trump from Project 2025www.washingtonpost.com The Heritage Foundation’s playbook isn’t the campaign’s. But Trump’s relegation of policy to staff makes the document an important preview of a second term.

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Homeowners Associations are little laboratories of private tyranny. Bad for housing costs, bad for economic and racial integration, bad for democracy. www.businessinsider.com/abolish-hoas...

America's plague of tyrannical homeownerswww.businessinsider.com Florida is trying to crush the local dictators ruining homeowners' lives. The rest of America should follow suit.

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Do not let pundits and opinion-havers convince you that things are hopeless. They do not know: the left and the center can work together for the good of democracy and voters will reward them

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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I’ll second this. Anytime I peek over at Twitter it is like one big collective act of hyperventilating into a paper bag.

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Consumers no longer expect elevated inflation as prices have cooled back to a normal pace of increase. *US 1-YR INFLATION EXPECTATIONS FELL TO 3% IN JUNE FROM 3.2% *US 3-YR INFLATION EXPECTATIONS ROSE TO 2.9% IN JUNE AFTER 2.8% *US 5-YR INFLATION EXPECTATIONS FELL TO 2.8% IN JUNE AFTER 3%

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woah

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I am not convinced that Biden is doomed b/c of the debate in and of itself. The poll averages are no longer moving in Trump’s direction. But regardless of that, the ship will not right itself if elites are unwilling to shut up and move on.

Ed is absolutely correct about this, and “time to shit or get off the pot” is exactly the phrase I have been using in offline discussions about this