News “stories,” such as they are, often consist of an introductory paragraph or two, followed by a long string of screen-shot tweets under a generic headline that contains the words “Twitter reacts to” or something similar. This is not journalism. … It’s just copying stuff down. There’s no storytelling, no background, and very little context. Why should anyone bother even reading it instead of reading, well, Twitter?
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Incumbent Republicans find themselves between a rock and a hard place. They go along with Trump’s demands or stand up for decency and democracy... and risk being booted out of office by extremist constituents he’s weaponized against them. Trump has turned their desire for “safe” seats against them, making those seats anything but safe.
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Bee Gees never wanted to be known as a disco act. They just happened to be experimenting with R&B at the same time disco hit, and their association with the movement was sealed when they contributed five songs to what became, at the time, the top-selling record of all time: the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, disco’s musical bible. It was so enormous that it overwhelmed just about everything else about the Bee Gees’ success.
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Happy New Year to all my readers and everyone else on this spinning globe we share. May it be everything 2020 wasn’t, and more than we even imagine 2021 can be.
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Our problem is that we’d still rather spin our wheels with scapegoating and conspiracy theories than work together. Because we don’t trust each other. We’ve forgotten how to look for that spark of commonality in one another’s human eyes, and we’ve chosen instead to focus on how we’re different, and why we’re (supposedly) a threat to one another. Recognizing that spark won’t solve every problem. It’s just a beginning, and there will be a lot of work involved. But beginning is better than never trying.
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The corporate elite that ran the GOP pre-Trump went along because they had a political gun to their head. But the moment Trump started firing blanks by losing the election, the old guard was more than willing to seize power directly once again. Enter Mitch McConnell, their leader, to do their bidding.
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