W was opposed to creation of DHS. Dems/public drove the issue.

I mean you can reason that way about literally everything 2021-24 but some was good and some was bad.

Subject matter expertise is often quoted in legacy outlets but it never informs its reporters doing access journalism.

When reporters use "critics say..." I call it "generic attribution." Legacy political reporters do this constantly as part of their both-sidesing neutrality theater performances. I don't know how editors ever embraced it, because it's only a small step from just inventing sources.

Nah. That was actually pretty important that they *did* do that. You don’t preserve democracy by advertising you violated the rules of democracy.

This was @henryporter.bsky.social's thesis from a few years back

Back on Bluesky because this is where the law professors are: if you aren’t laying the intellectual groundwork to narrow the pardon power what are you even doing with your life?

CBS employee inventing fake democrats to be mad at instead of the actual villains, totally on brand

We need to replace physics with evolution as the paradigmatic science up and down our pedagogy. “Is MAGA ‘fascism?’” is precisely the same sort of question as “are dogs the same species as wolves?” It’s nothing at all like categorical lines in classical mechanics.

Why is educational attainment so predictive of partisan alignment? We’ve been moving that direction for a while. What happens at college has something to do with resentments of non-college voters. Thread on The Hard Hat Riots…

I missed that. Thank you!

Yup

We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party. Hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content.

Whatever happens, never ask the question “What if the issue driving education polarization is education, specifically the way we organize education after high school?”

Is that the real scandal?

C’mon, man,
A. Parties aren’t “brands”
B. It’s not “destroying” anything

Scammy emails are a problem, but Mothership has been blocked from most Dem clients, & what they’re doing appears to not be easy to shut down. I want Dems to bleed them dry, but it’s not the party, it’s feeding off the party…

You all see how these news companies and TV channels are bowing to Trump? What can be done? Well, here’s a message more Democrats need to get into their heads.

Spread the word 👇

The story is certainly more complex. Having newspapers aligned with the parties that served their readers mattered tremendously in the lead up, see Hearst’s platform in running for governor. But universal public education seems to be a baseline ingredient for big positive sum politics.

The Cult of SCOTUS is created by law professors and journalists who gain status along with the Court. After WW2 the media became non-partisan and needed non-partisan protagonists. At the same time law schools and law faculty exploded.

The New Deal coalition was possible with an all white electorate and universal public education sufficient to be a prosperous good citizen. Universities are a successful treatment for racism and training after high school is now needed by all but they failed to keep up with these needs.

The op-ed page wasn’t invented until the 1970s. People like Will Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Mike Royko had columns in the news section.

This kind of thing will never hit home with voters as long as humanities professors throw a public shit fit when the Secretary of Education says parents expect college to prepare their children for a career.

We need serious local news outlets, doing original reporting, subsidized by and aligned with the Democratic Party. Hyperlocal with lots of youth sports and WeRateDogs-type content.

Clearly.

The White House is way too small and it's impossible for Dems to do anything about it without getting trashed in the media so this is good.

Lol. I was just googling pics of her after seeing a Seth Meyers bit.

Law schools have a hack gap problem.

Indeed
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I know people think that Dems are doing nothing but once again it just isn't true. Part II.

(Good that @gregsargent.bsky.social is on this; you would think from some accounts around here that Dems are trying hard to downplay the scandal).

There’s a fair amount of Howard Zinn thinking between Hunter and the interviewer that’s not great.