A little dispatch from inside Donald Trump’s purple place, Truth Social, where everything looks more or less like an emptied-out Twitter: https://t.co/zPCeYhQHsh — Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) March 5, 2022 Trump’s latest ‘social media’ venture, like every Trump enterprise, remains ten pounds of manure in a three-pound sack. Because cutting corners is his hallmark, not that …
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Russian Affairs Open Thread: No News Is Putin’s News
Translation: there's a new Iron Curtain coming. https://t.co/a09jiEEK3L — Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 3, 2022 What many Republicans would consider heaven pic.twitter.com/WjFOuqAWXh — Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) March 4, 2022 Russia's media censor says it's blocked the websites of the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Deutsche Welle, and Meduza for "spreading fakes about Ukraine." …
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Know your information sources and bullshit checking
I’m going to state a couple of facts. Russian GDP in 2021 on an exchange rate basis was about 1.71 Trillion dollars Russian GDP in 2021 on a Purchasing Power Parity basis was about $2.6 Trillion dollars. Depending on how we do our calculations, Russia’s daily GDP is between $4.7 to $7.1 Billion Russia’s 2021 military …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Over-Social Media
sounds like folks need to spend less time on social media — George Jackson (@logicb4politics) February 16, 2022 There’s a defensive style of writing where you can tell someone has spent too much time on Twitter. You write a normal sentence, then ask yourself how an asshole could interpret it in bad faith and use …
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Muckrakers (Open Thread)
In the thread downstairs, there was some talk about how Democrats face a permanent media disadvantage since there’s no equivalent of Fox News that serves the left side of the political spectrum. A propaganda outlet that favors the Democratic Party probably won’t happen for a variety of reasons. But I do wonder if it would …
Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Tucker Carlson Remains A Respected ‘Source’ Among His Theoretically Responsible Media Peers
(John Deering via GoComics.com) . What’s most interesting in this paragraph is the Fox name that is not mentioned. https://t.co/DKce9WF3eX pic.twitter.com/xX2W4KcsTN — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 9, 2022 I’d repeat the famous quote about power without responsibility, but no honest sex worker deserves to be classed with Tucker Carlson. Operation ‘Pretend the GOP Isn’t …
Pull the Press Tags
Why the White House should strip Fox News of its press credentials, part infinity: DAILY BEAST: [Fox News host Jesse] Watters had urged [Turning Point USA] attendees to “go in for the kill shot” and “ambush” Fauci if they see him in public, using violent rhetoric to encourage them to confront Fauci with conspiracy theories …