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Trying to make sense of things.
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Heads, I Win; Tails, You Cheat: Trump has already cast doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election hundreds of times, essentially setting up a no-lose future for himself: Either he wins, or the election will be "rigged." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Pattern of Sowing Election Doubt Intensifies in 2024www.nytimes.com A false, familiar claim by the former president — that the contest in which he’s participating is “rigged” — has reached a fever pitch in this cycle.
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Dov Waxman, a professor of Israel studies at UCLA, said that Mr. Trump and other Republicans “are presenting themselves as committed to fighting antisemitism, but they’re actually mainstreaming some of the most antisemitic ideas in circulation today.” www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/u...
How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israelwww.nytimes.com Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.
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Just landed on a Wikipedia page with information that was obviously incorrect and followed the citation link which directed me to ChatGPT generated news garbage. Wikipedia has long been almost impossibly resilient, but LLMs are really reallllly going to strain this resource
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People are avoiding the news or watching news that avoids what’s important. And that’s bad for democracy.
A national poll asked Americans if they had heard of Trump's various legal issues, throwing some fake ones into the mix. On none of the six real ones, from MAL documents to E. Jean Carroll, did a majority of Republicans indicate awareness.
Analysis | Most Republicans aren’t aware of Trump’s various legal issueswww.washingtonpost.com New polling from YouGov shows that there is no legal issue Trump faces for which a majority of Republicans indicate awareness.
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Dinner conversations like this are one of the many fun things about being married to @eroston.bsky.social "How was your day, honey?" "Oh, fine. I’m writing a story about snow drought." "Snow what?" "Drought." "🤯" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Trump directly pressured officials to overturn the results of the 2020 election in over 30 phone calls or meetings, according to a detailed analysis of the indictments. He kept asking, even as officials repeatedly rejected his requests. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump’s Pattern of Pressure to Overturn the 2020 Electionwww.nytimes.com Donald J. Trump pressured state and federal government officials to overturn results of the 2020 election in more than 30 phone calls or meetings, according to The Times’s analysis of the <a href="h...
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It's time for my Top 10* list of books I read this year. This year, in a word, Thrillers! In two words: Thrillers and fascism! Buckle your seatbelts. (* not 10) Link to prior lists for the 💙📚👀 curious: www.ericroston.com/booklists/
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We organized Republican responses to Trump's federal indictment into six categories, from least to most extreme. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/16/us/republican-trump-indictment-response.html
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