Donald Trump is the first American presidential candidate to explicitly threaten the democratic system on which a free press depends. That ought to be the campaign issue that dwarves all the rest

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Dan Froomkin (PressWatchers.org) Peter Baker Well, more and more ppl are waking up to the fact that NYT is subtly pro-GOP. And yes, that sure does undermine the authority of NYT reporting.

Anyone else—anyone—who stole national security documents as Trump did would have been tried, convicted and would be serving a multi year sentence in prison right now. Anyone else. It’s a scandal that he is not.

.The Washington Post and Aaron Blake just ran a quiz about Trump's VP pick, treating a fascist ticket like a game. The folks at WaPo know Trump attempted a coup, right? And that he raped someone?

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Sharing a platform with the 'alternative facts' lady is just gross.

The reason TV anchors and reporters were so shocked on election night 2016 is they'd seen the earlier exit poll showing Trump lost. Then after Trump got that secret poll data which means Putin also had it, 77k votes distributed strategically among WI, MI, PA gave Trump the EV win

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The 'violence' and 'chaos' are brought to you by the police and counter-protesters. So why is the MSM constantly blaming everything on the protesters?

Trump will unleash genocide here at home, making it harder to near impossible to help Palestinians. Dictatorships take away all rights.

Jack Shafer POLITICO Jack, you're adopting a 'the politicians made me do it' argument to excuse under-informing Americans. It is a straw man to say that because politicians do x, journalists don't have a responsibility to make threats to democracy clear with prominence and frequency.

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If Elon is useful in any way, it’s by illuminating how much of your journey into ethno-fascism just leads you into sounding like a very boring Republican.

I'll just add a couple of things to look for: Watch his mobility, his gait, and his physical appearance - dementia eventually impacts these. The 'falling asleep in court' is significant. Also - see whether he again references his cognition - Trump likes to get ahead of negatives…

We wrote our Pro-Democracy Election Coverage Guidelines for folks like Jack Shafer who, inexplicably, believe the role of journalism in a democratic society is to work just a dash of seriousness about the fascist threat in amongst the incessant polls and false equivalence.

When I was an undergrad there, some anti-apartheid activist students built a small 'shanty town' on the same green as this protest.

Student Laura Ingraham & her evil friends tried to tear it down one night with sledge hammers, injuring some kids they didn't know were inside.

no. anyone who votes for Trump or doesn't vote for Biden is complicit in the crime of turning America into a dictatorship

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