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Kids, this is how framing works.

The law is not a football game. She is not a "Trump foe." She is a prosecutor who successfully executed her duty to prosecute a criminal under the laws of her state. However, she is not Aryan, and all who aren't are subjected to racist casting by mass media, whether deliberate or not.

Trump is a convicted felon, a foe of the Constitution of the United States, and AP is shilling for him when they write crap like this.

"Convicted felon Donald Trump abuses power to attack a prosecutor who dared challenge a fascist dictator."

flipboard.com/@associatedpress

Associated Press - By BEN FINLEY · Justice Department targets New York attorney general, a Trump foe. Here's what to knowBy Associated Press - By BEN FINLEY
Day 9 of #almost70degreesnorth and #roadtomidnightsunmarathon #race day

Well, splendid weather and thankfully those wet and windy forecast were totally wrong. Against all running bibles, I went for small hike some seven hours before the HM start. Those views from #Kvaløya over #Tromsøya to #Tromsdalstinden brought so many memories back.
I saw no reason to head to the start area early and just took a bus that fitted. Despite the sunny weather it was not really warm. Single digits Celsius. Therefore I just took some photos of a buddy who did the marathon and returned to the warm ferry terminal, which I left less than ten minutes before the start.
There were no dedicated starting groups, which is strange for a run of this size. Also some narrow passages and influencers doing videos at the beginning were not ideal. I had a plan and ran accordingly to it. Took the climb over the bridge easy and ran just around 5:50 pace on the mainland. Things continued to go well also after crossing the bridge a second time. But near the southern tip of Tromsøya I started feeling losing energy. In addition I totally misjudged where the turning point is and for one kilometre my pace plummeted to well over 6:00. The PB I hoped for was in real danger. Thankfully I was able to join a well paced grupetto which carried me towards the turning point that allowed me to recover. When we paced the southern tip a second time I was quite sure to reach a new PB with 3 kilometres to go. Against my nature I created a new goal, which was to finish below 2'05 (old PB was 2'06'16), so I needed to accelerate a bit more. In the process I also passed some runners which had been ahead me all the time. The flame rouge came and I knew I had to battle for that 2'05. I felt there was something going on behind me, but didn't realise that I was sprinting against the fastest female of the marathon. I ended up in goal one second ahead of her - sorry if you are reading this. I had no idea what was going on. So that new PB is below 2'05 now.
Sadly food and drinks in goal were minimal, and I think it's mean you have to pay extra for more food and drinks there, considering the high registration fee.
Despite the PB I never got the runners high and I was freezing like hell. So I just collected my clothes and returned to the hotel asap.
Of course the #msm takes places in a great environment and offers wonderful views, but the race itself was quite average. Rather little value for money and several organisation blunders. So I wouldn't fly there to take part - only if I was in town anyway. I also heard that there are much better organised events in other Norwegian cities.

Interview: "The only effective mechanism at this point to thwart the rise of American authoritarianism or American fascism is organized labor, with a capacity to shut down the machinery of state, commerce...

"And that comes through the strike. Unfortunately, there's been a war against organized labor going all the way back to the end of World War 2."

chrishedges.substack.com/p/chr

#USPol #Fascism #msm #Trump #Project2025 .

Interview: "The only effective mechanism at this point to thwart the rise of American authoritarianism or American fascism is organized labor, with a capacity to shut down the machinery of state, commerce...

"And that comes through the strike. Unfortunately, there's been a war against organized labor going all the way back to the end of World War 2."

chrishedges.substack.com/p/chr

#USPol #Fascism #msm #Trump #Project2025 .

Interview: Trump, fascism, the collapse of US media & organized labor, Gaza, Iran...

"The only effective mechanism at this point to thwart the rise of American authoritarianism or American fascism is organized labor, with a capacity to shut down the machinery of state, commerce...

"And that comes through the strike. Unfortunately, there's been a war against organized labor going all the way back to the end of World War 2."

chrishedges.substack.com/p/chr

#USPol #Fascism #msm #Trump #Project2025 .

The Chris Hedges Report · Chris Hedges: Trump, Palestine, Iran & the Collapse of U.S. Media.By The Chris Hedges Report

Interview: Trump, fascism, the collapse of US media & organized labor, Gaza, Iran...

"The only effective mechanism at this point to thwart the rise of American authoritarianism or American fascism is organized labor, with a capacity to shut down the machinery of state, commerce...

"And that comes through the strike. Unfortunately, there's been a war against organized labor going all the way back to the end of World War 2."

chrishedges.substack.com/p/chr

#USPol #Fascism #msm #Trump #Project2025 .

The Chris Hedges Report · Chris Hedges: Trump, Palestine, Iran & the Collapse of U.S. Media.By The Chris Hedges Report
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@mike_k@mstdn.social I've posted on this in recent weeks when Guardian or ABC ran an earlier article on this, saying i don't understand... & i still do not understand. Both articles explicitly state that this bullshit applies when idiots um users of search engines, do searches whilst logged into said se. What kind of moron logs into a s/e? 😮🙄🤦‍♀️ Ergo, afaict, anyone with more than half a dozen functioning neurons needs to simply... do what i expect they're already doing, & keep searching for their whatevs... not logged into a se. MSM & commentators have been losing their minds about this, but iirc nobody seems to be making the same simple observation as me... why? 🤔🤷

#AusPol #SearchEngines #AgeVerification #beatup #hysterical #MSM #clickbait

In an email from The Guardian, I read the following which struck a chord. I wanted to share it with you. In it Patrick Cummins writes:

"Recently the Labor MP Andrew Leigh told me that, on current trends, our country is one generation away from being as unequal as the United States.

This should be a huge worry for us.

As Jim Chalmers said in a recent speech: “So much of the democratic world is vulnerable because governments are not always meeting the aspirations of working people.”

The treasurer would not ever say it, but we all know who he is talking about. Donald Trump is the cautionary tale of what happens when too much wealth gathers in too few hands.

We might be decades away from that, but we need to start charting a different course now – not least because the high cost of living and unaffordable housing mean that even reasonably good incomes deliver a lower standard of living than we are used to.

We cannot rely on governments of any party to pursue the kind of policies that might address the vulnerability Chalmers referred to – including his own.

Defining and encouraging that new course requires the kind of independent journalism that speaks honestly about power, inequality and the forces shaping our country – journalism like ours at the Guardian. Thank you for supporting it.

Danielle Wood, the head of the Productivity Commission, said after completing a report into economic mobility in Australia that “we shouldn’t take the ‘fair go’ for granted”.

I couldn’t agree more.

Yet we have already seen this year how vested interests are prepared to viciously oppose even small policy changes that would take us in a better direction.

Take Labor’s proposal to make Australians with more than $3m in super pay a bit more tax.

There was a period through May and June when, every day, the Australian and the Australian Financial Review competed with ever more outrageous claims about what would happen were we to trim incredibly generous tax concessions for the richest 0.5% of savers.

It would “make Australia uninvestable”, they said, “destroy entrepreneurship” and “force farmers to sell their land”.

Yet it only took two phone calls – to the lead authors of the last two major inquiries into the retirement system – to expose these claims as hysterical.

Any journalist could have made these calls. So why didn’t they?

It is obvious that this campaign has been driven by a narrow group of powerful vested interests who are outraged they may have to pay 1-2% more in tax each year."

#BREAKING

The #British have officially decoupled their nuclear arsenal from the #UnitedStates and joined with #France under the #NorthwoodDecalration.

Officials cite the fact that "the United States is no longer seen as quite a reliable defense partner.”

It's blog posts like this that make me strongly encourage you to bookmark the @ianwelsh blog.

You won't hear it from our #MSM #CapitalistPropaganda machine.

ianwelsh.net/the-us-uk-special

So, will News Corp, Seven and other platforms for neo-Nazis and promoters of antisemitic theories be censored? Jillian Segal’s extraordinary proposal to personally censor media outlets would mean Australia’s most right-wing broadcasters and magazines would be ‘assisted’ to avoid antisemitism.

Again #GeorgeGalloway is cutting through the noise precisely. It's not just #PinkFloyd, @rogerwaters, @macklemore, #Lowkey, #MIA, #Kneecap...
youtu.be/LXRlJ0U2pGE

There are millions of artists taking a stand against #genocide in @palestine being muted by #MSM. But not even the #BBC could #censor all of us, successfully. Just like #BobVylan at #Glastonbury delivered the message #FREE #FreePalestine and #death #death2theIDF live on stage and telly.

It's #zioNAZI @israel against #humanity #HumanRights #civilization and in effect #WeThePeoples. So, it's natural that #FreeArtists support @bdsmovement, #FFC and @intifada not #ethniccleansing. What a surprise for #cokeheads like Starmer, Merz & Macron, isn't it?

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@GottaLaff
The press needs to close ranks on these bullshit attacks against them when they ask reasonable questions. Every damn reporter in the room should simply keep repeating the same question, and the pukes can either answer it, or end the presser, at which point the headline is "Hegseth cancels press conference, attacks reporters, when asked simple question..."