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As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index.
The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe.
#journalism #democracy #freepress
rsf.org/en/index
Americans don't do history.
That's why we don't need a Department of Education anymore. Knowing facts is boring. Watching TikTok videos is more fun.
The Logic of Destruction
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
LEAK: Confidential document reveals Germany's ambassador to the United States is warning that the incoming Trump administration will strip U.S. law enforcement and the media of their independence, and assign “co-governing power” to big tech companies.
According to the briefing document,…
Everything stated in this post is a provable fact.
You are entitled to your own opinion.
You are not entitled to your own facts.
Looking at YOU, 2020 election-deniers.
Post by John Nichols: Harris is now winning a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump in 2016 or 2020. Trump 2016: 46.1% Trump 2020: 46.8% Harris 2024: 48.4% Trump didn’t win a “landslide” in 2024. In fact, his victory margin is one of the smallest in US history.
This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.
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Finally, there’s Pete Hegseth, the former Bear Stearns banker and head of the Republican-friendly political action committee Vets for Freedom, whose way through Princeton was paid by the anti-gay Family Research Council. While a student, he started the Princeton Tory, a conservative school paper funded with thousands of dollars from national right-wing groups, including the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Leadership Institute, and YAF. Hegseth used the Tory‘s pages to attack “atheist public schools” while advocating spanking and “a return of the acceptability of the ‘homemaker’ vocation.” He also called the National Organization for Women “a radical, leftist, feminist organization” and, for a would-be Army civil affairs officer, did a really poor job of predicting success in Iraq in late 2002: "I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation…the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there."
Here's something I wrote about our next defense secretary back in 2010, when my knees and my heart hurt a lot less www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
13.11.2024 00:23 — 👍 279 🔁 77 💬 12 📌 4What mandate? What's so painful is the dude barely won - again. Sigh.
21.11.2024 23:39 — 👍 322 🔁 115 💬 8 📌 3PCE inflation has fallen to 2.1%—nearly at its 2% target—and incomes are up nearly $4,000.
The economy has grown 12.6% under President Biden—more than any presidential term this century.
16 million jobs created and the lowest unemployment in 50 years.
🚨 Do not let Trump take any credit for this.
