#pressiscomplicit — Public Fediverse posts
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Reading about Ida B. Wells' courage in the face of real and present danger to her life; thinking how most of the U.S. press truly believe themselves to be just as principled and brave, as they regurgitate whatever Trump/Musk/the GOP/techbro startups tell them, from tariffs to dire wolves to vaccines.
#PressIsComplicit #IdaBWells #Journalism
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/02/truth-is-mighty-and-will-prevail-ida-b-wells/
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Reading about Ida B. Wells' courage in the face of real and present danger to her life; thinking how most of the U.S. press truly believe themselves to be just as principled and brave, as they regurgitate whatever Trump/Musk/the GOP/techbro startups tell them, from tariffs to dire wolves to vaccines.
#PressIsComplicit #IdaBWells #Journalism
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/02/truth-is-mighty-and-will-prevail-ida-b-wells/
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Apropos everything: I *despise* Axios bullet-list style reporting where they "present both sides" without actual context. No "this is what happened, here's video, here's the law"; instead it's "these people say this, these other people say that", as if both should be weighed equally.
Fuck that shit
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Apropos everything: I *despise* Axios bullet-list style reporting where they "present both sides" without actual context. No "this is what happened, here's video, here's the law"; instead it's "these people say this, these other people say that", as if both should be weighed equally.
Fuck that shit
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CW: U.S. Politics, Associated Press
Trump's latest loyalty test: banning the Associated Press from Oval Office access with the rest of the White House Press Corps, because AP has not bend the knee (they are not misnaming the Gulf of Mexico). The rest of the "free" press of the U.S.? already licking ass.
#PressIsComplicit #USPolitics #GulfOfMexico
https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/
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Apropos the #PressIsComplicit fracas over the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post suddenly deciding that endorsing candidates goes beyond the purview of EDITORIAL BOARDS (whose entire schtick is to have oppinions), we should all perhaps rememeber:
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
Trump wants the military to "deal" with his political enemies---the "radical left lunatics", a term that includes every Democrat, from the current president to regular citizens registered with the Democratic party.
This is fascism, and the U.S. press does not report on it with any urgency, because they're willing accomplices.
#PressIsComplicit #USPolitics #2024Election #Fascism
Better link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-military-target-americans-oppose-him-1235132806/ -
CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
Trump wants the military to "deal" with his political enemies---the "radical left lunatics", a term that includes every Democrat, from the current president to regular citizens registered with the Democratic party.
This is fascism, and the U.S. press does not report on it with any urgency, because they're willing accomplices.
#PressIsComplicit #USPolitics #2024Election #Fascism
Better link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-military-target-americans-oppose-him-1235132806/ -
CW: USPol / death question
@ceracole What they report on, who they platform, and the slant on fact reporting.
Just a bit ago, CNN was doing the "Trump fiery rhetoric" as he was spewing white supremacist and fascist talking point, and declaring how he'll make himself dictator on day one.
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CW: USPol / death question
@ceracole What they report on, who they platform, and the slant on fact reporting.
Just a bit ago, CNN was doing the "Trump fiery rhetoric" as he was spewing white supremacist and fascist talking point, and declaring how he'll make himself dictator on day one.
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CW: U.S Politics
TFW you see #MitchMcConnell in the news and are disappointed it's not because he's dead.
Ah well.
As usual, the #PressIsComplicit: look at the AP characterizing Trump's rabid ranting as "fiery populism", and the shifting of the GOP from already-assholes to open fascism as "ideological transition"
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CW: U.S Politics
TFW you see #MitchMcConnell in the news and are disappointed it's not because he's dead.
Ah well.
As usual, the #PressIsComplicit: look at the AP characterizing Trump's rabid ranting as "fiery populism", and the shifting of the GOP from already-assholes to open fascism as "ideological transition"
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CW: Israel, Palestine, Western Press
#PressIsComplicit #Palestine #InternationalCourtOfJustice #SouthAfrica
(the search term for the second image is "how many journalists killed in Gaza")
Note: even the CPJ uses "war" when talking about #Israel's relentless bombing of #Gaza and the ongoing #Genocide, because they too are complicit in the Western framing of Israel as the eternal victim.
Israel has killed over 21 times as many people as Hamas did, and no one mentions how out of proportion that is.
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections, Rachel Powell
Both Trump and Biden are making January 6 a central part of their campaign, and here comes #CNN, making insurrectionists into sympathetic figures--because the #PressIsComplicit. We even get the diner!
The fucking "mom of eight" chose to storm the U.S. Capitol and participate in a motherfucking insurrection, Donie. Perhaps lead with that, you asshole.
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections, Rachel Powell
Both Trump and Biden are making January 6 a central part of their campaign, and here comes #CNN, making insurrectionists into sympathetic figures--because the #PressIsComplicit. We even get the diner!
The fucking "mom of eight" chose to storm the U.S. Capitol and participate in a motherfucking insurrection, Donie. Perhaps lead with that, you asshole.
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CW: Israel, Gaza, AP
The #AssociatedPress continues showing the true colors of the 'free press'.
Fact: Israel declares a safe zone in Northern Gaza, then bombs that zone, killing 12, most of them children.
The #AP's tweet:
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CW: Israel, Gaza, AP
The #AssociatedPress continues showing the true colors of the 'free press'.
Fact: Israel declares a safe zone in Northern Gaza, then bombs that zone, killing 12, most of them children.
The #AP's tweet:
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
I said in another thread that the #PressIsComplicit, (CNN's coverage of the #Genocide of #Palestine being carried out by #Israel), when along comes the #AssociatedPress to prove my point, this time with the absolutely naked fascism-enabling "both sides" tweet about the #January6 #Insurrection attempt by Trump supporting MAGAts.
This headline? Complicity. The last line of the piece? a fig-leaf for "neutral" reporting.
#AP
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-january-6-anniversary-speech-campaign-0777d1f89342fac32bcc230d0d854043 -
CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
I said in another thread that the #PressIsComplicit, (CNN's coverage of the #Genocide of #Palestine being carried out by #Israel), when along comes the #AssociatedPress to prove my point, this time with the absolutely naked fascism-enabling "both sides" tweet about the #January6 #Insurrection attempt by Trump supporting MAGAts.
This headline? Complicity. The last line of the piece? a fig-leaf for "neutral" reporting.
#AP
https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-january-6-anniversary-speech-campaign-0777d1f89342fac32bcc230d0d854043 -
CW: Israel, Palestine, CNN
While #CNN is not the worst of the MSM outlets doing this, this reporting at The Interceptor shows how much the #PressIsComplicit in fostering both Islamophobia and antisemitism through the unrelenting Zionist lens of their reporting.
It's bad when newsmedia goes full "both sides", but it's even worse when their so-called 'reporting' is vetted by one of the parties being reported on like this.
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/
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CW: Israel, Palestine, CNN
While #CNN is not the worst of the MSM outlets doing this, this reporting at The Interceptor shows how much the #PressIsComplicit in fostering both Islamophobia and antisemitism through the unrelenting Zionist lens of their reporting.
It's bad when newsmedia goes full "both sides", but it's even worse when their so-called 'reporting' is vetted by one of the parties being reported on like this.
https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/
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CW: Israel, Palestine, guns
#Islamophobia is on the rise as the #PressIsComplicit in furthering Netanhahu's #Israel genocidal designs on #Palestine with their coverage slanted always to paint all innocents in #Gaza as less than humans or as active and willing accomplices to Hamas.
The intersection with #GunViolence in the U.S. is immediately evident.
https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-imam-shooting-mosque-804cd13a6847a4df93c09ae57049ea3f
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CW: Israel, Palestine, guns
#Islamophobia is on the rise as the #PressIsComplicit in furthering Netanhahu's #Israel genocidal designs on #Palestine with their coverage slanted always to paint all innocents in #Gaza as less than humans or as active and willing accomplices to Hamas.
The intersection with #GunViolence in the U.S. is immediately evident.
https://apnews.com/article/new-jersey-imam-shooting-mosque-804cd13a6847a4df93c09ae57049ea3f
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
And of course, now we get the "probably unrelated, nothing to see here, folks" from the cops, faithfully reported to by MSM.
Also evident, the blatant #Racism that sees Black men murdered by cops for existing, and white men, armed to their teeth, who break into and destroy public offices, taken to hospitals for mental health evaluations.
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
And of course, now we get the "probably unrelated, nothing to see here, folks" from the cops, faithfully reported to by MSM.
Also evident, the blatant #Racism that sees Black men murdered by cops for existing, and white men, armed to their teeth, who break into and destroy public offices, taken to hospitals for mental health evaluations.
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@NathanBurgoine "the abled and disabled are the same people at two different times"
This is not new information, but the #PressIsComplicit in continuing the myth that no, only people born with a disability are disabled, or that only a rare catastrophe will move an abled person into the disabled ranks--meanwhile, millions become chronically ill and immunocopromised and disabled, every day.
The link, because it matters:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/tom-scocca-medical-mystery-essay.html
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@JuliusGoat with the perfect example of how the #PressIsComplicit in our current slide towards fascism:
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
So, Colorado's supreme court ruled that an insurrectionist can't be in the presidential ballot, so, the GOP whined to the judges in their pockets over at #SCOTUS
But now, so has the Maine Secretary of State:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html
Please note that putting "Trump denies all wrongdoing" in that piece is journalistic malfeasance.
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
So, Colorado's supreme court ruled that an insurrectionist can't be in the presidential ballot, so, the GOP whined to the judges in their pockets over at #SCOTUS
But now, so has the Maine Secretary of State:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/28/politics/trump-maine-14th-amendment-ballot/index.html
Please note that putting "Trump denies all wrongdoing" in that piece is journalistic malfeasance.
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Could it be all the breathless news reports about how shoplifting is bankrupting corporations and how we need to spend more billions on cops and less on libraries, or nah?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/organized-retail-crime-trade-group-half-of-all-missing-merchandise/
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@Mollysdailykiss Someone on twitter mentioned that health insurance in the U.S. is denying COVID claims, so it's understandable that people who can't afford to pay for care out of pocket will lie (which will skew historical records, but it's not like any of the people behind for-profit-care-denial give a fuck about that).
What is interesting is the press complicity in the erasure of COVID from public life.
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@Mollysdailykiss Someone on twitter mentioned that health insurance in the U.S. is denying COVID claims, so it's understandable that people who can't afford to pay for care out of pocket will lie (which will skew historical records, but it's not like any of the people behind for-profit-care-denial give a fuck about that).
What is interesting is the press complicity in the erasure of COVID from public life.
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
Even when they aim for actual reporting, the NYT provides cover for Trump.
You'll notice they never actually say that Trump is lying as they report on his lies, and they subtly put Democrats concerns on the same footing as Trump's lies.
#USPolitics #2024Election #PressIsComplicit
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
Even when they aim for actual reporting, the NYT provides cover for Trump.
You'll notice they never actually say that Trump is lying as they report on his lies, and they subtly put Democrats concerns on the same footing as Trump's lies.
#USPolitics #2024Election #PressIsComplicit
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Some motherfucker at The Atlantic actually approved this piece.
After this asshole pitched it.
The #PressIsComplicit with systems of endless exploitation; so long as mass media is owned by the wealthy, they will always be spreading propaganda in their favor and against the public.
All the known media names are not just a business, they are a weapon.
Those with money have more, those with little work harder for less, and carry the blame for daring to want something.
How dare we.
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Some motherfucker at The Atlantic actually approved this piece.
After this asshole pitched it.
The #PressIsComplicit with systems of endless exploitation; so long as mass media is owned by the wealthy, they will always be spreading propaganda in their favor and against the public.
All the known media names are not just a business, they are a weapon.
Those with money have more, those with little work harder for less, and carry the blame for daring to want something.
How dare we.
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CW: Kissinger
Worth a very careful reading.
"seemed smart"
"didn't shut up"
"had family"Well done, Mr President (though it seems there was decades-old personal beef behind it)
On the other hand #PressIsComplicit every day. Look at that PBS headline, notice the carefully disdainful "online critics"--not, you know, ~serious~ political analysts/historians/IMPORTANT PEOPLE.
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CW: Israel, Palestine, Islamophobia
NPR reporting on how the FBI basically stopped tracking crimes against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S., but they can't help themselves from complicity by going on about how "it's complicated", rather than admit that, just like with police violence, gun violence, and anti-trans/anti-queer violence, the government doesn't want to know--because it doesn't want the public to know.
#Palestine #Islamophobia #AntiArabViolence #PressIsComplicit
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CW: Israel, Palestine, Islamophobia
NPR reporting on how the FBI basically stopped tracking crimes against Arabs and Muslims in the U.S., but they can't help themselves from complicity by going on about how "it's complicated", rather than admit that, just like with police violence, gun violence, and anti-trans/anti-queer violence, the government doesn't want to know--because it doesn't want the public to know.
#Palestine #Islamophobia #AntiArabViolence #PressIsComplicit
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CW: MomsForLiberty, FL libraries
Two people are behind hundreds of thousands of dollars spent removing books from school libraries in Florida, then fighting legal challenges to those bans, then returning the books to the shelves.
Note the slanted coverage by the Pensacola Journal, by the by.
#Librarians #BookBans #MomsForLiberty #Florida #PressIsComplicit
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I want to note that when, in a seven person board, five vote one way, one the other way, and the last one abstains, that's not a "split vote". That is a very clear majority. The slanted framing here is very clear, regardless of the facts: most of the people in East Hamilton would rather the board let the #Librarians do their job unimpeded--that's the "guardrail" Beckwith bemoans is missing.
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I want to note that when, in a seven person board, five vote one way, one the other way, and the last one abstains, that's not a "split vote". That is a very clear majority. The slanted framing here is very clear, regardless of the facts: most of the people in East Hamilton would rather the board let the #Librarians do their job unimpeded--that's the "guardrail" Beckwith bemoans is missing.
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CW: Israel/Palestine, genocide: keep calling your reps
The U.S. seems to have "brokered" a "pause" on Israel's government relentless bombing of #Palestine.
ETA: got a gift link; please note: it's not a war when one side has all the power (financial, political, military) while the other side endures for decades. #PressIsComplicit
Keep calling your reps; the U.S. has a lot of power to force Israel to stop this #Genocide.
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CW: Israel/Palestine, genocide: keep calling your reps
The U.S. seems to have "brokered" a "pause" on Israel's government relentless bombing of #Palestine.
ETA: got a gift link; please note: it's not a war when one side has all the power (financial, political, military) while the other side endures for decades. #PressIsComplicit
Keep calling your reps; the U.S. has a lot of power to force Israel to stop this #Genocide.
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
The U.S. #PressIsComplicit in cleaning up Trump's record on everything from abortion to gun violence; the same outlets, the same editors, in many cases the same reporters who cheered him on to the White House in 2016, then were "horrified" by him during his administration, are now right there, cheering him on again.
Then they'll bemoan that trust in the media is so low.
https://popular.info/p/how-trump-plays-the-media-on-abortion
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CW: U.S Politics, 2024 elections
The U.S. #PressIsComplicit in cleaning up Trump's record on everything from abortion to gun violence; the same outlets, the same editors, in many cases the same reporters who cheered him on to the White House in 2016, then were "horrified" by him during his administration, are now right there, cheering him on again.
Then they'll bemoan that trust in the media is so low.
https://popular.info/p/how-trump-plays-the-media-on-abortion
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There's barely any coverage today on the arraignment of 61 people on *felony* RICO charges over being present--or near--a protest to #StopCopCity
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CW: U.S. Politics, Trump dictatorship
Mark Jacob on twitter:
"WaPo’s headline is: “Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term.”
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#PressIsComplicit (and has been for decades, if not longer, because those who own big media are wealthy fuckers themselves, whose interests will always align with the most conservative politicians--the ones who will protect corporate/wealthy bottom lines)
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CW: Islamophobia, white stochastic terrorism
A white Christian terrorist murdered Dr Talat Jehan Khan, and the #PressIsComplicit
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CW: ACAB, racism, Jackson MS
Cop car runs over a Black man.
His mother reports him missing to the cops after he doesn't return home.
The cops--who know the identity of the man that was killed--never tell her he's dead.
Months later, the city buries him in an unmarked grave/pauper's field.
Now they want her to pay them to recover his remains.
MSM report highlights the victim's record.You can't reform this.
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CW: U.S. Politics, House Speaker
The GOP shitshow in one tweet.
(missing from the tweet: the press will report that yes, indeed, Democrats are at fault--somehow, because it's always Democrats' fault)
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CW: U.S. Politics, House Speaker, press complicity
If you want to know how broken political journalism and analysis are, just check out this man's tweet.
After a long thread on Jordan's complicity with Trump before, during, and after January 6, 2021, he finds the traitorous fascist "fascinating"
Not dangerous, not willing to destroy what's left of democracy in the U.S.
"fascinating"
To these journalists, politics is a fucking horse race without consequences
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CW: U.S. Politics, House Speaker
One has to love seeing the so-called "free press" faithfully reporting on McCarthy blaming Democrats for House Republicans' inability to function, without contextualizing how Republicans fuck over any and all attempts to govern by Democrats when the latter's majority is thin. But then, why would they: no matter who's in charge, all fuck ups are by Democrats, all successes are by Republicans, because the #PressIsComplicit
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4253620-mccarthy-speakership-chaos-4-percent-conference/
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CW: U.S. Politics, House Speaker, George Santos
It's all kinds of symbolic that one of the votes that may give Jim Jordan--who famously let students under his charge be sexually abused--the Speakership, comes from a man who copied Trump's "lie about everything to everyone while committing obvious crimes" strategy, and has just been charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, identity theft, and more.
"Embattled"
#GeorgeSantos #USPolitics #ElectedCriminals #PressIsComplicit
https://www.npr.org/ny-republican-congressman-george-santos-faces-new-felony-charges
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CW: U.S. Politics, McConnell, shutdown
There is no such thing as a "liberal press".
They are all businesses, which exist to create profit for their owners--not their workers--and as such, are conservative in nature, because conservatism is all about enshrining the superiority of the wealthy and insulating them from the poor, and of any consequences from their crimes against humanity and the world.
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CW: U.S. Politics, Iowa
Remember when the whole "they can't ban abortion, it would be unconstitutional" refrain was the response when people tried to raise the alarm about #AbortionBans? Then Dobbs came along and gee, no one remembers how they ridiculed our legitimate fears.
Watch it happen again and the #PressIsComplicit again. #MarriageEquality
Learning from the VERY FUCKING RECENT past? of course not, that's for chumps.
https://www.axios.com/local/des-moines/2023/03/01/iowa-republicans-propose-banning-gay-marriage
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The Washington Post falls for the #Christofascist framing that this is about "giving parents more power over what books their children have access to", without ever saying which parents are getting this power, and which parents' rights are being infringed upon (let alone the right of children to make up their own damned minds).
This laziness makes the press complicit in the slide to #Christofascism
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CW: Nebraska, trans and abortion ban
@CharleneTeglia I am so, so sorry.
I only hope Nebraskans can pull themselves off the #Fascist slide before it becomes, well, Florida.
Or North Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Tennessee, and I'm sure I'm missing a few--that the press is not daily ringing the alarm is an indictment on capitalist owned MSM.
We are so fucked right now, it's hard to see how we stave fascism off.