Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Why is the publisher of the #NYTimes writing about press freedom in the #WashingtonPost ?
"How the quiet war against press freedom could come to America
Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism. US politicians could draw from their playbook."
By A.G. Sulzberger
September 5, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Read it and find out for yourself, even without a subscription.
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/3ZfmRNg
#Journalism #Media #Press #Freedom #Democracy #News #USA #Trump
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"Trump & his allies have declared their intention to increase their attacks on a #press he has long derided as “the enemy of the people.”...
A senior #Trump aide, Kash Patel, made the #threat even more explicit: “We’re going to come after you, whether it’s criminally or civilly.”...
By the end of his 1st term, Trump’s anti-press rhetoric — which contributed to a surge in anti-press sentiment in this country & around the #world — had quietly shifted into anti-press action."
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"architects of the #Republican agenda, #HeritageFoundation President Kevin Roberts, asserted that Orban’s #Hungary was “not just a model for #conservative statecraft, but the model.”
To loud applause from attendees of a Republican #political conference held in #Budapest in 2022, #Orban himself left little doubt over what his model calls for. “Dear friends: We must have our own media.”
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"There is a heavy police presence after a possible #shooting at #Apalachee High School in Barrow County, #Georgia.
This comes after reports of gunfire sent the #school into a hard lockdown. At least six ambulances could be seen by local #news helicopters. At least one medical #helicopter could be seen airlifting a patient from the scene. #Students appear to have been evacuated to the school's football stadium."
https://www.wcvb.com/article/apalachee-high-school-barrow-county-georgia/62055981
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
🐔 Trump is such a coward.🐔
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Want to be more involved in Kamala Harris' campaign?
Check out: https://go.kamalaharris.com/
You can use an easy search function to find events in you area.
#Kamala #Harris #KamalaHarris #Harris2024 #KamalaHarris2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #Democrats #USA #US #USPol #Politics
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
You can watch the whole #DNC on their own #YouTube channel with NO ads, NO #news commentary, NO interruptions:
https://www.youtube.com/@DemConvention
Day 3 of DNC here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIoAq_BHNLU
Day 2 of DNC here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBLupEL99Y
Day 1 of DNC here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5AczcbqnA
#Video #DNC2024 #Democrats #Politics #US #USPol #USA #UnitedStates
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
The #DNC #YouTube channel not only offers a single ad-free, commentary-free, interruption-free #video.
It also offers versions with:
- ASL
- Audio description
- Vertical format
- Spanish language version
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Day 1 of DNC lineup of speakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j5AczcbqnA
#KamalaHarris 2:51
#UAW guy displays his #TrumpIsAScab shirt 3:14
#HilaryClinton 3:34
#Texas rep #JasmineCrockett 4:09
President #Biden 5:08
Day 2 of DNC lineup of speakers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBLupEL99Y
#BernieSanders: 2:57:48
#JBPritzger: 3:11:00
#AngelaAlsobrooks: 3:36:15
#TammyDuckworth: 3:50:20
#DougEmhoff: 3:55:54
#MichelleObama: 4:10:45
#BarackObama: 4:32:55
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
I was once injured (not too seriously) on a #Disneyland ride, so I looked up how hard it would be to get Disney to pay my #medical bills.
#Disney is EVIL.
People die -- like the woman who died recently -- and Disney will find some way to weasel out of any responsibility.
The husband of the woman who died recently had once signed up for a free trial of Disney Plus and Disney used that to say he signed his rights away.
👀 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/15/disney-death-terms-of-service-florida/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"In #Britain, the canary has sung. This summer we have witnessed something new and unprecedented. The #billionaire owner of a #tech platform publicly confronting an elected leader and using his platform to undermine his authority and incite #violence. Britain’s 2024 summer #riots were #ElonMusk ’s trial balloon.
He got away with it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america
#SocialMedia #Disinformation #Propaganda #Lies #Twitter #Musk #Politics #US #USPol #USA #News
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"If President #Biden held a #news conference with 162 #lies, resorted to laughable fabrications, sounded as bad as #Trump did on X and scheduled so few appearances, a swarm of investigative pieces exploring his fitness and commentary asking whether he should leave the race would have ensued....
the media’s refusal to convey Trump’s unfitness amounts to misleading the #public."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/16/newsletter-harris-election/
#Journalism #Press #Media #Fail #Politics #US #USPol #USA #News #TrumpLies #TrumpDelusional
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"Trump’s nonsense is also meant to sow the seeds of doubt if the #election does not go his way...As my Post colleague Philip Bump wrote, “the point isn’t to increase Trump’s credibility. It’s to erode everyone else’s. That way, when they accurately report the results in #November, Trump can remind his supporters to reject them if necessary.”
#Trump might be conditioning voters for another #StopTheSteal But then again, he might be just losing it."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/16/newsletter-harris-election/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
" #Trump seems unable to handle #reality. His opponent is beating him by multiple metrics, especially crowd size. In response, he posted several obvious #lies on Truth Social, claiming that “nobody was there” & that #photos & #video of Vice President #KamalaHarris ’s crowds were AI-generated (our own reporters were eyewitnesses to the event)...
George Conway said on #MSNBC, “He has completely lost it. This post is, beyond question, #delusional.""
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/16/newsletter-harris-election/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"Had the #media been conscientiously covering #Trump, the public would understand these #bizarre outings as part of his noticeable #CognitiveDecline. Trump’s sporadic appearances on the trail alone should be grist for the cable #news shows. When they do discuss his mental state, it is often in the context of horserace #politics.
(...How about asking hard questions about how a party can stand behind someone in an alternative reality?)"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/16/newsletter-harris-election/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on #Jan6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it,” Posobiec told the cheering crowd. Steve Bannon added an “Amen.”
AT #CPAC 2024, to loud cheers from the crowd, Jack #Posobiec announced that #Republicans plan to replace American #democracy with #ChristianNationalism, aka #Christofascism (see video).
Video: https://rumble.com/v4evwih-jack-posobiec-we-didnt-get-all-the-way-there-on-january-6th.html
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"Vote on... you have to vote on November 5th. After that, you don't have to worry about #voting anymore. I don't care because we're going to fix the…
the country will be fixed & we won't even need your #vote anymore"
https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingrahams-question-about-future-elections-leads-bizarre-response-donald-trump
When #Trump says, "I don't care because we're going to fix the..."
I have to wonder if he was going to say, "fix the vote".
Fix it how?
WHY WON'T PEOPLE NEED TO VOTE ANYMORE?
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#GOP #Politics #Project2025 #USA #Election2024 #2024Election #Meme
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
Hubby just sent me this.
#Meme #CatLadies #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Election2024 #KamalaHarris #Harris #Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #Vote #VoteBlue
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"Trump argues, but that just means more oceanfront property! Win-win!
Believe it or not, #Trump is #wrong again. If you have a defined area of land that’s surrounded by water, an increase in the height of the water means that it covers more land. The result is less land touching the ocean, not more."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/does-donald-trump-understand-how-ocean-works/
Zhi Zhu 🕸️
"There was no shortage of false claims and exaggerations offered by former president #DonaldTrump during his conversation with #ElonMusk on Monday night. Working feverishly, fact-checkers might be able to publish a delineation of all of them shortly before the heat death of the universe.
But there was one claim that seemed as though it deserved its own special place in the spotlight."
- @pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/does-donald-trump-understand-how-ocean-works/
#Trump #Lies #TrumpLies #Humor #Politics #ClimateChange #Environment #News
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