Van Jones: Five Black Officers Who Beat Black Memphian Tyre Nichols Might’ve Been Motivated by Racism
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Based in North Carolina, Stacey Matthews is a former liberal and a 16+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars.
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"We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing 'the' labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses."...
"Those circumstances highlighted in that letter [from Mike Pence's lawyer Greg Jacob] sound remarkably similar to the situation with President Joe Biden," MSNBC's Chris Hayes suggested after the Pence classified document news broke....
“In November, President Biden’s lawyers found less than a dozen documents in an office he used in Washington and turned them over to the National archives. That’s about it," MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace said Thursday....
"Attorneys for the coalition [of news outlets] said in the motion filed Wednesday that 'the public and press have standing to assert their rights of access to court records and proceedings'," the Associated Press reported....
“we do not abide by the woke notion that discrimination should be overlooked if applied in a politically popular manner or against a politically unpopular demographic” ...
"#BREAKING Rep. @ByronDonalds admits on @thereidout that @SpeakerMcCarthy is kicking me, @RepAdamSchiff, and @Ilhan off our committees purely out of vengeance," Swalwell tweeted Tuesday....
"The 'terrifyingly ordinary' nature of football’s violence disproportionately affects Black men," an article in the magazine suggested after the collapse of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin....
"Here, the office for Democrat and House Intel Committee chief Adam Schiff asks Twitter to ban journalist Paul Sperry," independent journalist Matt Taibbi reported along with a screengrab of the request....
“I've done some dumb things, and I'll do dumb things again. I've done some dumb things as senator, and I've done some dumb things as a lawyer. Ladies and gentlemen, I've been dumb,” then-Sen. Joe Biden said during his failed 1988 presidential campaign over allegations...
"CBP reports 233,740 migrant encounters, the highest November ever recorded, and a large increase over last November (174,845)," Fox News border crisis reporter Bill Melugin tweeted....
"A review of DeSantis’s public positions on the vaccines shows a full reversal that has unfolded gradually since 2021, seizing on the shots’ waning efficacy against new virus variants and portraying evolving scientific advice as deliberate deceit," the Washington Post reported....
Not only is there no record of "Uncle Frank" winning the Purple Heart in WWII, but "[t]he president’s father died in 2002; his uncle died in 1999."...
"Collins was reminded of the company’s journalistic guidelines that bar reporters from expressing their personal views on topics they are assigned to cover"...
"Today, we came into WaPo’s so-called town hall with questions about recent layoffs and the future of the company. Our publisher dropped a bombshell on us by announcing more layoffs and then walking out, refusing to answer any of our questions," the WaPo Guild...
"But the [senior U.S.] official said Russia has treated Whelan differently because he is an accused spy, and that the Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none," NBC News originally reported....
"I’m sorry that this simple statement of decency [to leave Ted Cruz alone] was so controversial for some. I don’t use the day of someone’s death as an occasion to trash them, nor do I use the day of a serious family issue." - Prolific...
"To sum up: DeSantis is not a fun and convivial dude. He prefers to keep his earbuds in. His 'Step away from the vehicle' vibes are strong." - former NY Times "reporter" Mark Leibovich, writing in The Atlantic....
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