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Author: Stacey Matthews

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Stacey Matthews

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.

Last month, Yahoo News ripped the lid off of a government surveillance program run by a division of the USPS. The program monitors, scans, and collects information on social media postings considered "inflammatory" enough to pass along to other government agencies. It includes posts promoting the coordination and planning of upcoming political demonstrations.

It's never a good idea for an elected official to reveal themselves as a Useful Idiot, especially when it comes to their country and/or its allies defending themselves from terrorist attacks. That's exactly what happened earlier this week when a Wisconsin Democratic congressman defended Rep. Ilhan Omar by insinuating that criticism of her anti-Semitic stance on Israel defending itself against Hamas attacks was based on racism.

We're at a point and time where trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low. It's been on the decline for well over a decade now. After four years of one fake news story after another about President Trump and a year of being gaslit about so-called "peaceful" Antifa/Black Lives Matter riots, Republican mistrust of the media has driven the percentages down even further.