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Today's New York Times covers how officials capitulate to fringe protesters. In the biz, we refer to this as โpandering.โ
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OJโs Bronco
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OJ and the Kardashians
But a story on the unaccounted Israeli hostages? Not so much.
#BringThemHomeNOW
for the Jamie Dimon's of the world: Industry titans consistently โ be it in 1930s Europe or in present-day Hungary or in Gen. Augusto Pinochetโs Chile or in Jair Bolsonaroโs Brazil โ imagine they can cut deals with autocrats or that persecution of disfavored groups will have noโฆ
'What makes a conservative a conservative on a psychological level... is their shared fear of chaos.โ Fascinating chat with writer/director Billy Ray #jenrubinsgreenroom
โYou do understand conventional framing elevates an autocrat!โ Molly Jong-Fast confronts Axios reporter for normalizing Trump. #MorningJoe
Ordinary New York grand jurors indicted him, and run-of-the-mill trial jurors will determine guilt. As Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a veteran of the Manhattan DAโs office, reminds us, โThis jury isnโt going to be forced down his throat. He will have chosen the people in this jury.โโฆ
At its most basic level, Trumpโs support of Jan. 6 criminals should demolish the notion that Trump and MAGA followers โstand with the blueโ or represent the โlaw and orderโ party. Trump called these people to the Capitol, fired them up and urged them on to the Capitol. Facingโฆ
With the presumptive Republican presidential nominee calling the convicted Jan. 6 criminals โhostagesโ and saluting their โanthem,โ plainly aligning himself with the violent insurrectionists, Lamberthโs latest lecture against the normalization of all of this could not have beenโฆ