"Watters had repeatedly portrayed the supposed vandals as America-hating leftists bent on destroying the country, devoting several segments to the story in increasingly explicit terms"
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Zachary Pleat
Профиль VivelyResearch at Media Matters for America, currently focusing on economic misinformation. All posts are my own views but are backed by the Commissariat. https://www.mediamatters.org/author/zachary-pleat
American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 32% from its 2024 highs and 22% over the last year alone
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
It's not just that our university presidents have failed to engage in loud, public collective action to oppose the existential assault on our institutions. It's worse. They've been actively complicit. A total moral failure. A total collective action failure. Adverse selection in authoritarian times.
Dominique BakerSo no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
theres a million things like this, the caribbean boat murders for example. these ghouls need to be punished but it needs to be immediate, public and to the fullest extent or else it will all happen again
the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this
Kyle GriffinFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Despite the Trump administration claiming that tariffs would revitalize American manufacturing, they have instead been a source of manufacturing job losses, rising prices, and surging bankruptcies on main streets across the country. https://ampr.gs/4aXT4hk
When you ask states to reduce payment errors—but only count overpayments and underpayments as errors—guess what happens? States reject applicants they're unsure about because wrongful denials don't count against them. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible
The timing/sequencing issues with the SNAP cost shift are only one of the worst aspects of the policy design. The second worst aspect is the incentive to drop eligible participants. The first worst aspect is that whole states are going to drop out of the program entirely.
Katie BerghThis is key: Chair Boozman says this gives "additional time to strengthen administration of SNAP benefits and reduce payment error rates." It does not. The cost shift would still be based on error rates for this fiscal year — so the window to make progress has largely closed.
Fox spent over nine hours relitigating Fauci's handling of the pandemic, and only seconds on current crises like Measles, Cyclospora, Ebola and cuts to Medicare.
It takes years to build an institution, a very short time to break it, and years more to rebuild it.
Natalie KorachNew: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
next thing you'll tell me is he hired a bunch of his cabinet based on watching them on fox news
Steve Benen- RFK Jr’s cooking show - Duffy’s reality show - Noem’s endless videos - DHS enforcement/deportation clips Team Trump too often looks less like an executive branch and more like a theater troupe that’s principally focused on putting on a good show. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
Aaron RuparHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
it's not encouraging to have a Fed chair who is openly pushing political propaganda. The inflation rate was moving towards the Fed's 2.0% target until Trump's tariffs and wars kicked in. That is a fact that Warsh must know.
Aaron RuparWarsh has a bad case of Biden derangement syndrome
I had exactly this thought about Salam about 15 years ago and it's been the same ever since. He moves in their social circles, talks in their cadences, attends their events, and is genial to them in person, so he gets no pushback whatsoever for enabling & defending moral horrors.
Ned ResnikoffSeeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...
You can see why Ross Douthat would want to leave the New York Times to go work for a network that bases stories on lies printed in the New York Post that they then have to retract.
Raw StoryCBS News ran a claim that "thousands of 9/11 victims' families" want Mamdani banned. The petition organizer told a journalist she has no actual list and the 300 figure was just an estimate. CBS News has since corrected its coverage
This is a 1938-level story from Nazi Germany
Gabe Ortíz“‘Should I keep paying my mortgage?’ Haitian families confront impossible choices around #TPS. As Haitian TPS nears an end, families are asking who will care for their children, whether to sell their homes and whether they can survive what comes next.” haitiantimes.com/2026/07/27/h...
When Sen. Ashley Moody was the Florida AG, her office approved the diversion of $10m of taxpayer money--intended to expand Medicaid--to go to two PACs instead. One of those PACs was controlled by the governor and his chief of staff. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
Thank you, guy sitting in a stolen Supreme Court seat.
Josh GersteinJUST IN: Justice Neil Gorsuch tells @RonaldReagan civility conference US democracy is 'very fragile' & 'facing some tough times.' 'We are all in it together, and if we don't stay all in it together, it will crumble,' Gorsuch says, urging students to study history 'warts and all'
Every person this administration wrongly deported should be granted asylum and a path to citizenship. Won’t even begin to right wrongs like this. But it’s a place to start.
Gillian BrockellPeople who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.