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Civil Discourse – What Happens When The Government Loses Its Credibility – The Comey Prosecution – Joyce Vance
What Happens When The Government Loses Its Credibility – The Comey Prosecution By Joyce Vance, Nov 17, 2025 This is one of those long posts we occasionally have when a judge files a highly significant order. My apologies for starting the week off like this, but it’s a significant decision in a very important case.…
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The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. – The Washington Post
The Fact Checker rose in an era of false claims. Falsehoods are now winning. Longtime Fact Checker Glenn Kessler takes stock as he departs The Washington Post. July 31, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EDT, Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT, 9 min Analysis by Glenn Kessler When 400 fact-checkers from around the world gathered in Rio…
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The week American journalism died | Salon.com
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pay our respects to the dearly departed: journalism.Journalism was dearly, and it has departed. I’ve been here for a while and I haven’t seen it move a muscle. Source: The week American journalism died | Salon.com
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Talking to science deniers and sceptics is not hopeless | Nature
Fears of backfire effects are overblown, and advice to listen and interact still stands. By Lee McIntyre, 5 August 2021 I was at the March for Science in Boston, Massachusetts, on 22 April 2017, as were many scientists. About 70,000 of us descended on the Boston Common, a famous park in the city. We were…
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‘Not Sitting Quietly Anymore’: How Librarians Are Fighting Trump | Broadly
“In a political climate where truth is dismissed, it can be difficult to figure out where politics end and moral, or even professional, imperatives begin.” Though some people may think the job involves more shushing than rallying, many librarians consider “making America read again” to be a radical political proposition. Source: ‘Not Sitting Quietly Anymore’:…
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These are the American people Trump calls enemies of the American people – The Washington Post
#FreePress #Journalism #Journalists #NotOurEnemies #Media The Post newsroom is filled with people of all backgrounds, from the military to delivering pizzas. Source: These are the American people Trump calls enemies of the American people – The Washington Post
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‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston – The Washington Post
#GoScience #Resistance #Facts #Truth The demonstration was a small-scale version of a much larger March for Science planned in April. Source: ‘We did not start this fight’: In Trump era’s dawn, scientists rally in Boston – The Washington Post
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Covering politics in a “post-truth” America | Brookings Institution
In a new Brookings Essay, Politico editor Susan Glasser chronicles how political reporting has changed over the course of her career and reflects on the state of independent journalism after the 2016 election. Source: Covering politics in a “post-truth” America | Brookings Institution
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Introducing This Is Fake, Slate’s tool for stopping fake news on Facebook.
Wonderful idea, whose time is perhaps just right (though I wish we’d had this *before* the election).. hopefully, this can be cloned and re-coded for all the major browsers… Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Medioimages/Photodisc. “How It Works Once you install the extension, as you scroll through your Facebook feed, stories that Slate has…
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Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America | Teen Vogue
Donald Trump is gas lighting America and deliberately undermining the very foundation of our freedom https://t.co/M00m2yjuly by @laurenduca pic.twitter.com/TE8Ekr9Vdr — Teen Vogue (@TeenVogue) December 10, 2016 That thing where Teen Vogue’s coverage of Trump is more critical and hard hitting than the New York Times’. https://t.co/v6FvvEVcCO — Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) December 10, 2016 “To gas…
