Terry Maloney
@terrymmason.bsky.social
Cook, gardener, book lover and all round objectionist
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OPINION: The Senate has a shrinking window to protect press freedom
Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.
#PressAct #FreePress #PressFreedom
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.
#PressAct #FreePress #PressFreedom
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The Senate has a shrinking window to protect press freedom
Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:52 PM
OPINION: The Senate has a shrinking window to protect press freedom
Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.
#PressAct #FreePress #PressFreedom
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Senators should make passing the Press Act a top priority before the session ends.
#PressAct #FreePress #PressFreedom
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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History Professor Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social ), author of "Democracy Awakening" and the newsletter Letters from an American, looks to the past to help understand the present and future in an interview with WBUR's "On Point."
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
Historian Heather Cox Richardson makes sense of politics today by looking to the past
The political rehabilitation of William McKinley. A cabinet of TV stars. Heather Cox Richardson says she didn't have those things on her 2024 bingo card. The famed historian joins us to draw from the past to make sense of the future.
wbur.fm
December 6, 2024 at 5:12 PM
History Professor Heather Cox Richardson (@hcrichardson.bsky.social ), author of "Democracy Awakening" and the newsletter Letters from an American, looks to the past to help understand the present and future in an interview with WBUR's "On Point."
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
https://wbur.fm/3OBhIbZ
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Military disability payments are well deserved. There is a massive glut at the moment because Burn Pit veterans are retiring, and the burn pits caused all kinds of issues, for me as well. And we have no idea what it WILL do to us when we are older. Cont…
December 3, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Military disability payments are well deserved. There is a massive glut at the moment because Burn Pit veterans are retiring, and the burn pits caused all kinds of issues, for me as well. And we have no idea what it WILL do to us when we are older. Cont…
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"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan
In 2024, we have a new post-election lie – Trump didn’t just win, Republicans say, but he won big. He won a landslide. That’s false
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:33 PM
"Trump won the crucial blue wall states... by 231,000 votes? So if just 116,000 voters across those three swing states – or 0.7% of the total – had switched from Trump to Harris, it is the vice-president who would have won the electoral college … and the presidency" - me for the Guardian:
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trump is not invulnerable.
BREAKING: Gaetz withdraws from consideration for attorney general.
November 21, 2024 at 5:30 PM
trump is not invulnerable.
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"Under heavy pressure from the right, and with the help of Elon Musk, the leading tech platforms opened the floodgates for propaganda to spread unchecked. The result was a flood of lies and distortions...that led to possibly the most misinformed electorate we’ve ever seen."
Opinion | The Right Triumphed Over Social Media and Helped Elect Trump
Under heavy pressure from the right, and with the help of Elon Musk, the leading social media platforms opened the floodgates for propaganda.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:40 PM
"Under heavy pressure from the right, and with the help of Elon Musk, the leading tech platforms opened the floodgates for propaganda to spread unchecked. The result was a flood of lies and distortions...that led to possibly the most misinformed electorate we’ve ever seen."