Especially since the vast majority of the crap he was criticizing originated not from independent work performed by journalists themselves but from the endless sea of garbage promoted by Republican Party officeholders and operatives who serve as their forever confidential sources.

At this point, perhaps we should pause and reflect upon the fact that Trump won the 2024 presidential election by 9/10th of one percent of the total voting age citizenry of this country.

They’re all following in the footsteps of Fox News and its fixation on a reactionary audience segment that advertisers believe spends more on their products than its larger, non-reactionary segment does.

Finally seem to have cured the bug that has had 70s on 7 programming timing out after every song for months, by downloading the latest version of the app on my Apple TV, and opening it directly in the App Store app.

Groan.

What a maroon.

For reference, my source:

protectdemocracy.org/work/authori...

Thanks for the clarification.

What we are experiencing is creeping authoritarianism, in which incremental changes some have referred to in the past as “salami tactics” are used to undermine all of the underpinnings of democratic government, slicing them away methodically with (in this case) mostly quasi-legal modifications. Yes?

No, he did not instruct the media that they needed to promote his accomplishments.

Biden did repeatedly express frustration with coverage he perceived as sensationalist, negative narratives rather than the accomplishments of his administration.

And it was his right to do so.

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For those not yet informed about the Anthropic copyright lawsuit settlement:

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Seems like we’ve already waited forever for Alan Dershowitz to make good on his promise.

For all the obvious reasons that have been discussed in the context of other cases, a commutation is far more likely than a pardon.

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