Michael Gauger

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...

ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Baby boy born to brain-dead Georgia mother remains hospitalized nearly 6 months later, family says Adriana Smith's pregnancy made national headlines when she was declared brain dead but placed on life support to let her fetus grow. Now her family is sharing an update on the condition of her infant ...

This remains one of the most disturbing stories of the year. A 1st trimester fetus incubated in a dead woman's body against the will of her family until a very early term birth when the corpse could no longer sustain life.
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Did Hegseth think think Pentagon reporters wouldn't talk with their sources before they left the building? Or that they wouldn't have strong sourcing just because they left?

This is not a legitimate Supreme Court. This is a court that wants to lock in white-supremacist, right-wing rule.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Spoke at a Conference Designed to Convert Jews and Hasten End Times Last week, US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee spoke at a Christian Zionist church in Jerusalem, whose unambiguous purpose is to convert Israeli Jews to belief in Jesus in order to bring about the E...

Contemplate how terrifying this is.

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CIA Assassination Plots: The Church Committee Report 50 Years Later Washington D.C., November 20, 2025 - Fifty years ago today, a special Senate Committee led by Idaho Senator Frank Church lifted the veil of secrecy on the clandestine efforts of the Central Intelligen...

The CIA has the OK to undertake covert ops in Venezuela.

The FBI is spying on immigration activists.

DHS is spying on almost all of us.

It's a good time for @nsarchive.bsky.social to highlight the Church Committee report, which investigated intel abuses.

Who's going to be the next Frank Church?

The Supreme Court deciding it's entitled to its own facts is every bit as corrosive to democratic society as the breakdown of shared facts/reality caused by media fragmentation and negative partisanship

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

And now we wait for the other shoe to drop.

Johnson is a hard-core, devoted 9-11 truther (every "argument" as far as I can tell is exactly the same as it was 24 years ago)

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

‘Colorblind jurisprudence for thee, not for me* ‘

*when “me” is white people

Sen Ron Johnson 9/11 Truther

Senator Ron Johnson went on a conspiracy show to promote 9/11 Truther-type nonsense.

This is a sitting U.S. Senator.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

Click your heels together and think happy thoughts.

At every level of courts, it’s always too late to stop a Republican gerrymander & always too late to implement anti-gerrymander rulings that will benefit Democrats & democrats. It’s been this way in Wisconsin & nationwide for at least two decades now.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett are bad-faith actors who abuse SCOTUS power to support Republican policies, Republican billionaires, and Republican political power in defiance of law.

They won’t stop until we expand the court.

To average Americans these rulings come out of the blue, because there's no oral argument and less focus on the shadow docket. And when the Court fails to explain its emergency rulings, they undermine their own legitimacy because they appear to be acting in an unprincipled way.

Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

Renaming the Institute for Peace after yourself as you defend extrajudicial executions and prepare for war in Venezuela is really leaning into the mad dictator shtick.

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It is simply impossible to believe on this record that this would have been the lineup (or a stay issued at all) if the district court had found a racial gerrymander in a large blue state.

The main institutions of the Federal Government—White House, Supreme Court and Congress—are in complete shambles.

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Also, the TX-18 seat opening is pure authoritarianism:

Again, any system in which these discrepancies exist simply is not a democracy.

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

We can't continue like this, where the rules, norms, media coverage, etc. are entirely different for one party than the other.

Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”

NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.

"It's bad," Smith says.

Read here:
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An attack on any journalist’s rights is an attack on all.

The only way to put an end to Trump's multipronged assault on press freedom is for every news outlet to fight back at every opportunity.

We urge other news outlets to follow the @nytimes.com's lead.

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