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And, their federal tax contributions help fund the poverty-stricken red states.
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One more comment. 😁 I got nailed for making an overly broad comment about journalists. It felt awful. But in the end, I think we all moved forward a bit. I'm now reading up on wartime journalism. bsky.app/profile/ted-...
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No worries, and sorry for being so anal. As it turns out, you got the heart of the matter right. The GOP acted to let J6ers join ICE. There was more than a kernel of truth to the original post. Keep posting! We all learn from this!
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If it was really about reducing crime, immigrants -- documented or not -- are not who they'd be abducting.
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So much winning!
No, world leaders see Trump as a child, a child who can wreck the world economy or start a nuclear holocaust. Putin and Bibi take turns leading him around by the nose.
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Halfway there. DeSantis is trying to legalize child labor, to fill the gaps left by abducted/disappeared migrants. SMFH.
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Any woman. But mostly young woman.
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Israel attacked Iran, not the other way around.
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And, thanks for pushing back and making me look again. 🌝
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Aha, I see it now. According to Snopes, Dems introduced an amendment blocking J6ers from working for ICE, and Repugs voted it down. So, yes, you are correct. www.yahoo.com/news/fact-ch...
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I read yesterday the entire Fulbright Board resigned in protest.
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...I won't spread an unsubstantiated rumor, but I will keep my antennae up for future confirmation of J6 involvement in ICE.
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Yeah, I have been looking for confirmation, but couldn't find it. However, given the platinum class treatment the J6ers have gotten, I also have a hard time believing that none of them has seized on the opportunity to cosplay warrior and push helpless people around. So...
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YES!!!
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I had to urge my relatives in Greece to stay away. ☹️☹️☹️
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Well, yes... 🫤
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Inspired by the discussion, I've resolved to study wartime journalism, so I can be better informed. I made a stab in the dark, and ordered Stuart Allan's "Reporting War: Journalism in Wartime". If you're aware of any other texts that could help, I'm open to guidance.
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😄😄😁 He lies "the end!" 😄😄😄
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The end.
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My post could have been more specific, I guess. It appears I have touched on the credibility of journalists who DO risk their lives to visit sites of violence independently of authority. I am sorry for that.
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Um, "garb", not " garbage". 😁 This seemed like a far cry from the press's relation to the military in, say, Vietnam, where, as I understand it, the press could go where they wanted. It is also a far cry from the state of affairs in Gaza, where so many journalists have lost their lives. ...
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Specifically, the NYT's Judith Miller, whose highly uncritical reporting helped prop.up the facade of lies being constructed by Cheney & al. I even recall Dan Rather being a little too excited by his ride-along, dressed in military garbage....
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The only way I could imagine this happening is that the reporter was given access by ICE, and that further access would depend on a report that cleaved to ICE's narrative.
It made me think to the opening days of the Iraq invasion, when "embedded" press were given access by the military. ...
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netting persons at their places of work, study, even in courthouses where they went to follow the prescribed process for remaining in the country lawfully. Even visiting a school, falsely claiming they had permission from parents to do a "wellness check." ....
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When I made my post, I had in mind a CNN report from a ride-along with ICE. ICE was tracking a violent criminal. He wasn't found, but another person on their "list" was found.
This narrative was at odds from what I've been reading about ICE raids: indiscriminate, ...
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Thank you for your comment. I think there were some very good comments, but yours was the first to snap my head back and make me think.
I am not a journalist, nor have I ever studied journalism. But I am an observer, old enough to recall Walter Cronkite's broadcast from Vietnam ...