I had a really excellent conversation w/ Quinta about rumoring after Hurricane Helene (and as Milton approached), where I got to weave in research from my dissertation on disaster volunteerism (from the early 2010s) w/ our more recent work documenting how rumors and disinformation take shape online.
Yes. This. The man is deranged. Networks (and cable channels) don't have licenses. He swore an oath to "take care that the laws are faithfully executed" and he's spewing legal nonsense. UNFIT FOR OFFICE
The US media have utterly failed to communicate to the public what “mass deportation” would really mean: concentration camps, massive economic disruption, and inevitably, mass murder. It would quite literally destroy the United States.
It's bad that some "Autoworkers for Trump" at JD Vance's rally weren't actually autoworkers. It's worse that Trump's plans would cancel huge numbers of manufacturing jobs just like those. I took a closer look at some of Vance's claims about this. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1869...
Trump's agenda would cancel huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in the heartland, and JD Vance just got caught dissembling wildly about this. Democrats should put them on the defensive.
dems: burning billions of tons of fossil fuels is heating the ocean and will cause freak weather events to become normal events gop: that’s insane (freak weather events become normal events) gop: the democrats have a secret hurricane spawning machine
NEW: Rudy Giuliani asks a judge not to let Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss try to collect $2 million that Donald Trump allegedly owes Giuliani in legal fees until after the November election, to avoid unflattering headlines for Trump storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
n the wake of DeSantis' administration ordering TV stations to remove a pro-choice ad or face potential jail time, FCC Chairwoman @jrosenworcel.bsky.social has a statement reiterating the First Amendment rights of broadcasters to air political speech, even if a governor doesn't like it.
MSNBC recently acquired Errol Morris’s documentary “Separated,” a likely Oscar contender examining the Trump administration’s family separation policy, but it won’t air until a month after — in part because NBC bosses don’t want to offend Trump, Oliver Darcy reported Monday.
New report from Oliver Darcy comes 2 days after the film's director suggested politics played a role in scheduling his film
1/ PSA: It’s possible that in Nov., thousands of by-mail ballots could be rejected for counting, due to various factors that can be prevented. That’s an outcome that we can start working to avoid now. Here are things to pay attention to, to ensure your ballot is counted...
Friggin' foreign workers taking American jobs! Our friend in Ashville got his power restored by "5 trucks and line workers from Quebec."