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October 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

October 7, 2025 at 2:33 AM

unbob.bsky.social

@unbob.bsky.social

I wonder if this course "correction" is part of what led to the mechh!tler post (which, of course, resulted in another course "correction")

Seems to me like a combination of honesty and reality checking might be the best policy (but clearly not what Elon wants, regardless of what he says).

September 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM

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Joanne Belknap

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Camille Zapata! She’s brilliant! Love it that a bad ass brilliant Latina is the genius behind GCN’s Dump trolling! Follow her—- @camillezapata.bsky.social

August 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM

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Mike Burdick

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August 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM

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🐸 🐱 Synastry- "We must become ungovernable"

@queersynastry.bsky.social

Humor is an awesome tool of resistance. Laughing at your enemy is very potent. They react blindly and lose control of their anger and expose more of their hypocrisy. We used to make parody songs and sing them at board of supes meetings, rallies, at their houses. Very effective.

August 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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Dan Izzo

@izzos.us

I think a big part is highlighting the double standard. A reporter asked him about it the other day and he threw it back at them for not asking that same question of Trump.

August 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM

unbob.bsky.social

@unbob.bsky.social

I think the thing that's different is that Abbott and Paxton are pushovers and Raffensperger wasn't.

August 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM

unbob.bsky.social

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The difference now is that the president is directly responsible for lying, rather than passing it off to the VP
www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no...

On Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said that success in stabilizing and democratizing Iraq would strike a major blow at the "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9-11."

And Tuesday, in an interview on ABC's "Nightline," White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said that one of the reasons Mr. Bush went to war against Saddam was because he posed a threat in "a region from which the 9-11 threat emerged."

In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney was asked whether he was surprised that more than two-thirds of Americans in a Washington Post poll would express a belief that Iraq was behind the attacks.

"No, I think it's not surprising that people make that connection," he replied.

Mr. Bush defended his No. 2.

"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11," he said. "What the vice president said was is that he has been involved with al Qaeda. ... There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties."

Despite such assertions, the administration has never proved a prewar link between Saddam and the terrorist network. Instead, officials usually stick to assertions about Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a senior bin Laden associate whom U.S. officials have accused of trying to train terrorists in the use of poison for possible attacks in Europe, running a terrorist haven in northern Iraq an area outside Saddam's control before the war and organizing an attack that killed an American aid executive in Jordan last year.

Indeed, Mr. Bush cited al-Zarqawi to back up his claim of al Qaeda ties to Saddam.

"Al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda operative, was in Baghdad," he said.

USA Today reports U.S. officials say they have some evidence suggesting a suspect in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Abdul Rahman Yasin, received money and housing in Iraq. But there is disagreement over the strength of the evidence, and the links between Yassin and al Qaeda are tenuous.

July 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM

unbob.bsky.social

@unbob.bsky.social

Thinking and people just don't go together that well - even before legacy media were destroyed and everybody got their news from T!kT*k
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...
www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_conspiracy_theories#Other_United_States_polls https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-no-saddam-links-to-9-11/ A poll reported in The Washington Post in September 2003 found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believed Saddam Hussein was probably personally involved in the attacks Distancing himself from remarks by Vice President Cheney, President Bush said Wednesday there was no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — disputing an idea held by many Americans.

"There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties," the president said. But he also said, "We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the Sept. 11" attacks.

Mr. Bush spoke with reporters after speaking with leaders of Congress about energy legislation.

The president's comment on Saddam was in line with a statement Tuesday by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said he not seen any evidence that Saddam was involved in the attacks.

Yet, a new poll found that nearly 70 percent of respondents believed the Iraqi leader probably was personally involved. Rumsfeld said, "I've not seen any indication that would lead me to believe that I could say that."

Critics have said the administration has tried to create the impression of Saddam's involvement in the attacks, without directly making such a claim, in order to boost public support for the war against Iraq

July 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM

unbob.bsky.social

@unbob.bsky.social

reality is sooooo hard www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/08/10/was-tarp-passed-under-bush-or-obama/ Was TARP Passed Under Bush or Obama?
In numerous polls, the public has voiced their displeasure at the much maligned bank bailout, but most don’t know which president signed the controversial act into law. Only a third of Americans (34%) correctly say the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was enacted by the Bush administration. Nearly half (47%) incorrectly believe TARP was passed under President Obama. Another 19% admit they do not know which president signed the bank bailout into law. Notably, there is no partisan divide on the question.Just 36% of Republicans, 35% of independents and 34% of Democrats know that the government bailout of banks and financial institutions was signed into law by former President Bush. And Democrats (46%) are just as likely as Republicans (50%) to say TARP was passed under Obama. Read More

July 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM

unbob.bsky.social

@unbob.bsky.social

And another reminder from a few days ago: www.wlrn.org/light/govern...
Republicans (and some Democrats) will hear these kindsa things and believe them and never hear the correction.