@blackbirdchi.bsky.social
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Former reporter and public relations professional. MA in journalism. Human rights, justice and fairness. Missing what I thought our country used to stand for
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We got $20 billion for Argentina though.
A whole profession based on informing the public about what’s real and not has been so reluctant to do so that 1 of 2 parties of our democratic system are able to push whatever they want with little public scrutiny. So frankly, this “united front” is little too late #brokenpress
On Tuesday, media organizations from across the political spectrum came together to fight back against recent restrictions on their coverage by the Trump administration by declining to sign the latest Pentagon press policy under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

www.poynter.org/newsletters/...
A united media stands up against the Pentagon’s press restrictions - Poynter
No major news outlet agrees to sign on to policy limiting reporting to authorized information, costing them Pentagon access. Only OAN agrees.
www.poynter.org
Remember when @cnn.com had a countdown clock a month after President Biden was inaugurated pushing for a press conference and now a duly elected lawmaker isn’t being sworn in and #brokencnn can’t be bothered about democracy
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Adelita Grijalva was elected to Congress 3 weeks ago. Republicans are refusing to swear her in because she’ll be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

The cover-up must end. @robertgarcia.house.gov is demanding Speaker Johnson swear-in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social immediately.
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Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.
Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"
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Tells me the locals have given up on it. And it’s a stunning collapse over 5 years. Over 60% drop is a cratering trajectory. And (massive grain of salt) fox news reports 90% drops in daily online readership, and we know they lost 200k in one week after Harris snub.

www.foxnews.com/media/washin...
Washington Post’s daily digital reader base shrunk during Biden years by nearly 90%, internal data reveals
New internal datas revealed that The Washington Post's daily online readership has plummeted throughout the time of the Biden administration.
www.foxnews.com
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here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
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I remember when Joe Biden traveled to 8 cities for 14 appearances in 9 days after the June debate and then did a 90 minute UN brief but the media still relentlessly hounded him. Where's that media? At a Jake Tapper book talk?
Trump had a lot of travel the last two days and he looked it today (Getty)
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Another almost-unbelievably terrible editorial in WaPo:

It conflates the "abundance-agenda" critique of NIMBY-ism and over-regulation, w corrupt MAGA war on cheapest and fastest-growing sources of energy (solar + wind).

MAGA ignorance ≠ NIMBY over-regulation

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The shadow looming over Nevada’s solar boom
The cancellation of a massive solar project is a sad commentary on America’s energy development.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.
After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."
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it wasn't enough that our cities and states already paid far more than they receive from the federal government. the people who elected trump want to steal more from us, to give to Argentina, to give to ICE, to give to billionaires. Intolerable
Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.
I wish they did a better job with election coverage
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As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.
Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."
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Hate to be a 'ruin the kicker' guy but here's the amazing kicker:

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.”
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
I blocked that account because name-calling is BS