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Mike.Escapee

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John Gramlich@johngramlich.bsky.social · last mo.

"Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate Donald Trump." (via @cnn.com)

I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
Andreas Lindh@andreaslindh.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ex Pearl Jam drummer David Abbruzzese on Elon Musk and the gutting of USAID. "Fascism survives by turning corpses into math. It sells death as tradeoffs, budget lines, acceptable loss. People who would never step over a dying child on a sidewalk will vote for that spreadsheet every two years."

Elon Musk dared people to name a single person who died because he gutted USAID. Nicholas Kristof answered with names: children, ages, villages, even a five-month-old baby. He dragged the dead out of spreadsheet fog and back into the room. Musk responded with a profanity-laced tantrum, furious that the bodies refused to stay offstage. Fascism survives by turning corpses into math. It sells death as tradeoffs, budget lines, acceptable loss. People who would never step over a dying child on a sidewalk will vote for that spreadsheet every two years. The spell breaks when the dead arrive one by one with names and faces, so the strongman does the cheapest thing he has. He attacks the witness. If these estimates hold, Elon Musk helped push millions of human beings, including children, into the kill zone. This is mass death on a historic scale. It belongs in history books beside some of the most repulsive names mankind has produced. Of course he cannot handle names. Names carry funerals, villages, children, and the full human weight of what he did. They pin the crime to the body."