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Media Analyst at Media Matters For America. Views are my own. author page: https://www.mediamatters.org/author/reed-mcmaster

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We've had too many articles at this point about how Zoomers voted and how little of us actually voted for this to still be a thing people quibble with.

04.08.2025 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People like to write off the idea they don't care about approval because they don't plan on leaving and forget that our entire government is now singularly focused on the ego management of our increasingly senile president

03.08.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

WH comms guy posting about how good the president is at golf as his approval rating slumps from low 40s to high 30s.

03.08.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah no, she's known this for a while, she's just pretending to care atm.

She was friends with Nick Fuentes and Candace Owens for years and was totally fine with their antisemitism until they criticized Trump.

03.08.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

With how desperate Trump is to leave behind a monument to his existence it would one of the biggest insults you could give him.

01.08.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Regardless of who's fronting the bill we should tear it down while he's still alive and replant the rose garden

01.08.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're looking to get scammed it's also a great way to do that. A lot of these guys love crypto and some even have their own MLMs!

01.08.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I got a lot of reasons but specifically as a man, their advice on how to live is insultingly bad.

01.08.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘―β€β™‚οΈ

01.08.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 776    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 64
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The jobs numbers are bad so I fired the guy who does the counting

01.08.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2732    πŸ” 447    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 32

Won't even change anything either, lying about the economy doesn't change the fact people still feel it and think it sucks

01.08.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This was always going to be the problem with trading favors with Ghislaine and likely to only cause more of the victims who went public to speak out against the admin.

01.08.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Judge Orders Laura Loomer and Her Company to Pay More Than $120,000 in Attorneys' Fees Over Lawsuit Against Muslim Rights Group A federal magistrate judge in Florida ordered far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and her company Illoominate Media to pay a Muslim civil rights advocacy group nearly $125,000 in attorney’s fee...

Every one of these stories about Laura Loomer should include the fact she tried to sue CAIR after falling for a prank and lost the case miserably. She is a disingenuous person who will believe and do anything she thinks will advance her own career as a media bigot.

lawandcrime.com/awkward/fede...

01.08.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 468    πŸ” 108    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 5

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

01.08.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6082    πŸ” 1584    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 29

Just self-immolating on TV because Raju gave her a chance say she opposes something people hate.

01.08.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 286    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Sydney Sweeney Jeans Ad "Backlash" Is Mostly Fake How a handful of TikTok comments became a national controversy about eugenics, Democrats, and denim.

We're All Unpaid Actors in American Eagle's Marketing Campaign www.readtpa.com/p/the-sydney...

01.08.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 336    πŸ” 53    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 9

the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring

01.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 4356    πŸ” 1450    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 33
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Bassem Youssef to the NELK Boys: "You need to stop infantilizing yourself. ... You're 30 years old and you need to be aware of what's happening in the world and your reach and your platforms mean something, and it affects people"

31.07.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4
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The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

@jvl.bsky.social on Luke Farritor is a must

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

31.07.2025 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

That specific outrage lasted long enough that they turned Bud Light into a verb whenever they discussed another brand to get outraged at

30.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the whole thing is goofy but Republicans have spent years getting mad at advertising and we were told that these are serious concerns that it would be political malpractice to dismiss

30.07.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

ICE offering a signing bonus and student loan forgiveness is another sign of recruitment problems. Even with extremely low standards, they can't get close to the desired numbers.

That's good (fewer personnel means less cruelty) and bad (more desperation, leading to encouraging militias/vigilantes).

30.07.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1520    πŸ” 464    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 17
Fox News graphic on perks for joining ICE including:
50K max signing bonus
Student loan forgiveness
Enhanced retirement benefits

Fox News graphic on perks for joining ICE including: 50K max signing bonus Student loan forgiveness Enhanced retirement benefits

They found the only way to get Fox News to support student loan forgiveness

30.07.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vibecession but this time it's because the president keeps promising to tariff random countries because he's bored

30.07.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just look at this chyron

30.07.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 9
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Top F.D.A. Official Resigns Under Pressure

I refuse to lose sight of the fact that a far-right influencer who eventually accuses everyone of being disloyal to Trump wields enough power to pressure government officials to resign:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/h...

30.07.2025 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As like a general rule voters don't really care about these nominations, which makes Dem's self sabotaging their nominee all the more psychotic

30.07.2025 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Cowardice of Senate Democrats Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.

30.07.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6496    πŸ” 1935    πŸ’¬ 190    πŸ“Œ 195

It's really funny learning Trump has had exactly one friend in his whole life. And even funnier to learn who it was.

29.07.2025 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2522    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 10

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