Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[Chicks]

Treasury secretary's deplorable trophy wife. Typical for Trump administration.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/22/politi...ram/index.html

[donquixote99]

An article about ANTIFA, puffing a new handbook about it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...harlottesville

Good basic primer from an alternative source, if all your info comes from right-wing media.....

[Chicks]

McConnell doubts Trump can save his presidency.

Hope you're right, Mitch!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/u...ell-trump.html

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

An article about ANTIFA, puffing a new handbook about it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...harlottesville

Good basic primer from an alternative source, if all your info comes from right-wing media.....

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley...cist-quotient/

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Pio1980

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/bagley...cist-quotient/

Cool cartoon! Really appreciated the appearance of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe.

[Pio1980]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/u...ell-trump.html

[Chicks]

Study: Trump supporter's alarming reliance on fake news. Idiots.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-in-1-chart/

While we observe highly partisan and clickbait news sites on both sides of the partisan divide, especially on Facebook, on the right these sites received amplification and legitimation through an attention backbone that tied the most extreme conspiracy sites like Truthfeed, Infowars, through the likes of Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse, to bridging sites like the Daily Caller and Breitbart that legitimated and normalized the paranoid style that came to typify the right-wing ecosystem in the 2016 election. This attention backbone relied heavily on social media.

[Chicks]

James Clapper: Trump unfit for office. F'ing GOP congressmen need to get the dangerous idiot out of the presidency.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/23/politi...ntv/index.html

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Study: Trump supporter's alarming reliance on fake news. Idiots.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-in-1-chart/

While we observe highly partisan and clickbait news sites on both sides of the partisan divide, especially on Facebook, on the right these sites received amplification and legitimation through an attention backbone that tied the most extreme conspiracy sites like Truthfeed, Infowars, through the likes of Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse, to bridging sites like the Daily Caller and Breitbart that legitimated and normalized the paranoid style that came to typify the right-wing ecosystem in the 2016 election. This attention backbone relied heavily on social media.

Important research here. I am struck by the qualitative difference in the media diet of Democrats vs. Republicans. A LOT more crap in the Republican media diet! Brietbart #1 in online cites by "Trump supporters."

But I haven't seen, in this research, a discussion of the impact of bots. A lot of the cites by "Trump supporters" may be generated by bots, not by real human beings. That could distort these findings.

See the original research report, here:
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/h...pdf?sequence=5

The first takeaway is support, with $, reliable mainstream media--the best counter to crap media (under current law). Second takeaway IMHO is tho thing hard about current law. New technology/media may require new laws. Are bots 'free speech?'

[Chicks]

White supremacists loved Trump's hate filled speech last night. I'm sure our resident bigots did too.

http://gizmodo.com/white-supremacist...-in-1798336898