1. Tucker Carlson is OUTRAGED that anyone would suggest that his son Buckley Carlson got his job as Communications Director for Jim Banks on anything other than PURE MERIT

Let's look at the facts

In 1955, Richard Hofstadter argued that 'pseudo-conservatives…believe themselves to be conservatives & employ the rhetoric of conservatism…[yet] Their political reactions express rather a profound if largely unconscious hatred of our society & its ways.' nytimes.com/2022/10/23/us/…

The shooter’s gun jammed and 16-year-old Taniya Gholston made it out from Central Visual Performing Arts school. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

J. Michael Luttig, who's been known for years as perhaps the most conservative Republican judge in US, has joined a coalition fighting against a far-right Repub election-law challenge that critics say has the potential to end U.S. democracy as we know it. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

If we didn't believe that what Americans care about has a great deal to do with what we report and how, we wouldn't have become journalists. And yet, when it comes to voter concerns, too many in the profession want to pretend that what we cover and how has nothing to do with it.

Amanda Berry Smith was born enslaved in 1837, acquired an education, preached her beliefs, traveled the world, & established an orphanage in Illinois in 1899 that became a school. She traveled to England (with her daughter), India, & Liberia & published an autobiography in 1883.

'Concern' for Black communities and crime during campaign season is seldom about Black communities but using Black communities to justify regressive, carceral policies.

If you've ever wondered if you would have been the kind of person to speak out against anti-Jewish hatred in the '30s and '40s, you don't need to wonder today. Vicious antisemitism is out in the open. Here's your moment to say something. When are you speaking up against it?

Today on the 405 in Los Angeles. We are waiting adidas.

“Time for media to treat elections as more important than sports.”

Our piece by co-founder Brian Hansbury, calling for pro-democracy media, in Salon today. Much more in article. Please read and retweet. Excerpts in thread: /1

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In this horrifying clip, Donald Trump proposes throwing reporters in jail, where they'll be raped until they give up their sources.

His crowd laughed.

Students of propaganda: mini-case study on the art of *redirection*. Note how Elon Musk shifted the narrative away from his stance on Ukraine, which prompted my tweet (I'll fund Ukraine for free I guess but I also support Putin) to opposition to fossil fuels 1/

Ida Bae Wells 'Authoritarianism and subverting elections aren’t theoretical ideas. They’ve become strategies for Republicans.

And it’s time for the media to unequivocally and unapologetically condemn both.'
~Brian Klaas

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Join Ida Bae Wells and Rashad Robinson on 10/25 as they discuss how THE 1619 PROJECT has become a catalyst for America’s most recent wave of challenges and bans, and how ColorOfChange is fighting back. RSVP for this FREE hybrid event here: eventbrite.com/e/democracy-fr…

If you're a journalist trying to figure out, join the Center for Journalism & Democracy Nov. 15 Howard University for our Democracy Summit where we'll learn from democracy experts, historians and journalists. Summit is free. And Center for Journalism & Democracy's offering a limited number of travel stipends

This.

Critical thread as we head into the midterms. American journalism is not doing enough to protect democracy, but there is still time.

Our thinking on pro-democracy coverage, which we talk about in this @salon piece, has been informed by the work of Jay Rosen, Jennifer Reitman, Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org, Jeff Jarvis, Victor Pickard, Perry Bacon Jr., Elizabeth Spiers, Monika Bauerlein, Ida Bae Wells and others.

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“Citizens inherit not just the glory of their nation but its wrongs, too.”

Finally finished this book from Ida Bae Wells. Read it or listen to the podcast to feel what a powerful act of love this work is.