You wouldn’t know from reading this New York Times story about Trump punishing the University of Pennsylvania for trans athletes that there are no trans athletes on women’s teams at the University of Pennsylvania because the New York Times didn’t find that detail worth including
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NYT is not a reputable news source. It should be ignored utterly.
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Or – since it is still widely regarded with reverence – attended to with its lack of integrity always in mind. That this or that person says or writes something good or bad there still matters.
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You be you. I’m treating it with every bit the same amount of attention I would to OANN. That being none.
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I get it, and I’m not blaming you. I mostly ignore it too, but if someone like say, James Carville, writes a ridiculous piece (like the one in which he recommends that Dems just sit back and watch the GOP implode) that gets people in many other places talking about it, I’ll still go there and read it. But yeah, I suppose that click does constitute unwarranted support.
I have a very smart and goodhearted friend who says they stay informed by reading it every morning. I’ve tried to recommend other sources, but no, they’re good, and even a bit smug about “staying far more informed than most people are.” < heavy sigh >
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This might be a good time to point out that one can read publications like the NYT, WSJ, and WaPo online for free and without logging in via one’s local public library. (Libraries are good at protecting the privacy of their patrons.)
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I mean, but also, they’re probably not wrong either.
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not sure what this means for us. i get my local news from wplg and regard all the people that present the “news” well. at least locally, there does not seem to be a strong side, left or right, yet not maddeningly “bothsider”…
abc nightly with David Muir is tolerable, but where will our local get their national newsfeed? CNN? i won’t watch that. Sinclair? dog help me, that will be tooo much.
i won’t miss the abc/disney/espn programming that mandates a sportsball match preempt the news, as if sportsball was more important than the multiple destructions to the country and world.
i have no idea where this goes, or why, but the timing is sus…
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Ah fuck. You’re right. Dammit.
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Meanwhile, there’s this guy:
I know it’s preaching to the choir, but surprisingly succinct and plainly spoken.
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Right? I think it might instead be because they’re crying alone more than ever.
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The solution to American Unhappyness is clearly to annex Finland instead of Canada or Greenland.
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I’m from Chicago so I’m already used to cold, dark winters. Could Finland annex us instead?
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Even in that article, they can’t stop themselves from hedging:
I understood that the only dispute was whether Humphrey’s Executor was valid law
No, actually, that is not in dispute. Humphrey’s Executor is absolutely valid law. It has never been overturned. Now, will the current SCOTUS uphold it if and when a case reaches them? I don’t know. Neither does the author. But right now, Humphrey’s Executor is absolutely still valid law.
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NY Times again, with a piece that basically says, “Tramp’s defiance of courts will somehow be stopped as he keeps losing in court,” without addressing at all, far as I can tell, what happens if he, well, continues to defy court orders. Seems like THAT’S become the important “Constitutional crisis” issue, not whether courts will tell him to stop this or that illegal activity.
J. Michael Luttig was appointed by President George H.W. Bush and served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1991 to 2006.
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If Mr. Trump continues to attempt to usurp the authority of the courts, the battle will be joined, and it will be up to the Supreme Court, Congress and the American people to step forward and say: Enough.
I’ve seen no indication that Congress has any interest in this fight. Including most Democrats. The Supreme Court has no enforcement powers. And the American people elected this asshole in the first place, and most of the people who voted for him still support him.
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And so, I suppose, a de facto king he soon shall be.