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 (DIR) Post #B7NDGDcJW8X3V35Tbk by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       This headline from the NY Times is exactly the kind of "both sides" bullshit that Big Journalism continues to do -- ALWAYS to the benefit of Trump and his party. The headline implies that Democrats also tried to take over the 250th anniversary events for their own partisan purposes. They did not.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7NDGkZyxpH7jNFa3U by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Moreover, the story repeats that framing and then completely refutes it. Trump took over what Congress explicitly designed to be a NON-partisan celebration and turned it into the cheer-for-the-dictatorship crap it became. Democrats did not respond in a partisan way, as the story eventually notes.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7NDH8hbH9d4Xx00GG by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       The Democrats were working to bring the celebration what it had originally been designed to be: a nonpartisan collection of events. But the Times editors want casual readers to believe it was business-as-usual political combat. They undermined the excellent reporting that went into this story.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7NDmQ8aVAKvb9XR1k by samiamsam@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor Dems don't show up, don't protest, don't say a fucking wordand yetBOTHSIDES*head desk*
       
 (DIR) Post #B7NEQJrRG0ctiOXfm4 by bascule@mas.to
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       @dangillmor the “partisan battle” is wherher or not it should be partisan, though I don’t think that’s what they were implying!
       
 (DIR) Post #B7NMgpTMIE6k1Vf7r6 by PamelaBarroway@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor OMFG 🤬
       
 (DIR) Post #B7NNWgODJBHyuYyugq by SteveFoerster@vivaldi.net
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       @dangillmor The New York Times is a longitudinal study of the pervasiveness of Gell-Mann Amnesia.
       
 (DIR) Post #B7Nlgs9MprpzBKQedU by SebastianBlanco@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor balance is a hell of a drug.