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After a winter of showers ... spring flowers! The super bloom is back in California this year, and it's glorious. @byaliceli, @melinamara and I traveled the state to see this silver (er, rainbow?) lining of those atmospheric rivers. But ...
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Everyone who was paying attention last year knows the main issue for A's is that City would not pay for infra. One lie after another here by Kaval about timeline. Despite a full public record of his pronouncements, reporters never challenge his dishonesty mercurynews.com/2023/04/20/q…
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Today, @SFPD arrested a fellow tech executive in connection with Bob Lee's horrific stabbing — after many prominent members of the tech community assumed his killer was poor, mentally ill and/or addicted to drugs.
From our recent conversation with media researcher Pamela Mejia:
Local TV news outlets whitewash Judge Daniel Kelly's ties to election deniers and anti-abortion extremists mediamatters.org/local-news/…
My favorite moment: Neil Cavuto awkwardly apologizing to his audience for playing a cut of Brian Kilmeade's hagiographic Fox Nation "documentary" and its over-the-top, adoring music.
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I looked into Fox's weeklong hagiographic tribute to St. Ron DeSantis ...
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Happy Election Day from me!
TV news outlets in the state have failed to scrutinize Judge Daniel Kelly's record – extreme anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ positions as well as his association with election denial groups – ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court primary mediamatters.org/local-news/…
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New: During GOP Twitter hearing, Fox News aired 28 minutes of Republicans asking questions and only 3 minutes of questions from Democrats. Unsurprisingly, Fox avoided evidence that cut against the right’s prevailing censorship narrative: mediamatters.org/fox-news/fo…
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New from moi: Fox News aired just one segment about migrant worker deaths during nearly two months of World Cup coverage mediamatters.org/fox-news/fo…
You will be shocked (shocked!) to learn that Fox News is mostly ignoring reports that right-wing crackpots are intimidating voters at ballot drop boxes in Arizona — some of them carrying guns. mediamatters.org/fox-news/fo…
What do you call a mob of angry veggies storming a Wegners? Oh wait it’s definitely a cru d’etat.
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During Pride Month, Instagram allowed accounts with tens of thousands of followers to spew targeted hate at the same LGBTQ folks the platform publicly claimed to celebrate. (Shocker.) New from
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@RollingStone let me trip in the desert and write gd near 7,000 words about it 🥰🥰🥰 rollingstone.com/culture/cul…
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new from me: Cable and broadcast news have spent just under 50 minutes combined covering Starbucks unionization efforts over the past 6 months
segments often don't mention Starbucks' violations of labor laws + workers were only quoted 38% of the time
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Read @annamerlan on the meatfluencers of the right-wing internet if you want to know why your social feeds might be filling up with acquaintances posting about the virtues of eating raw offal or spouting off about skin cancer being a psyop. vice.com/en/article/g5vp7q/w…
Most of the gun listings are advertised as “empty” cases. Dozens of examples here: imgur.com/a/ef0udT1